| 05th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
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| 20160034955 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SHARING INFORMATION IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Sharing information in an online social network, comprising data mining by analyzing a first user profile and a plurality of other user profiles for finding shared interests among the users of said profiles; selecting from the found shared interests a set of shared interests; displaying at the graphical user interface of the first user the profile of at least one of the other users sharing said set of selected shared interests; and displaying at the graphical user interface a list of the shared interests from the selected set. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034956 | PRESENTING TARGETING CRITERIA OPTIONS FOR INCLUSION IN TARGETING CRITERIA ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT ITEMS - An online system allows content items to be targeted based on interests associated with users. When the online system receives a request to specify targeting criteria associated with a content item, the online system provides an interface to specify targeting criteria. As the online system receives input specifying an interest for inclusion in targeting criteria, the online system retrieves stored interests associated with online system users. Each interest stored by the online system is associated with a type. For example, a type associated with a stored interest indicates whether the interest is from a set of user-generated keywords, from a set of semantic topics mapped from the keywords, or from a set of manually curated broad categories. To avoid confusion from overlap in the types of interests, the online system applies rules to stored interests matching at least a portion of the input to select a set of interests. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034957 | Generating Advertisements for Search Results Associated With Entities Based on Aggregated Entity Bids - Techniques include receiving a search query, identifying access mechanisms (AMs) specifying states of software applications based on the query, selecting first and second subsets of the AMs, generating search results based on the first subset, and determining whether an AM included in the second subset is associated with a highest total advertisement (ad) bid price and/or number among AMs of the second subset. An AM may be associated with one or more ad bid prices and/or numbers via one or more advertisers each associating the AM with an ad bid price when the AM references an entity specified by the advertisers. The techniques include, in the event an AM of the second subset is associated with the highest total ad bid price and/or number, generating an advertised search result based on the AM and transmitting the search results and the advertised search result, and otherwise, transmitting only the search results. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034958 | Generating Advertisements For Search Results That Are Associated With Entities - Techniques include receiving a search query from a user device, identifying access mechanisms based on the search query, each access mechanism specifying a state of an application, and selecting first and second subsets of the access mechanisms. The techniques include generating search results based on the first subset. The techniques also include determining whether an access mechanism included in the second subset is associated with an advertisement bid price. In some examples, an advertiser may associate an access mechanism with an advertisement bid price if the access mechanism references an entity specified by the advertiser. The techniques include, in the event an access mechanism included in the second subset is associated with an advertisement bid price, generating an advertised search result based on the access mechanism, and transmitting the search results and the advertised search result to the user device, and otherwise, transmitting the search results to the user device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034959 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVING CONTENT TO MERCHANDISING COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS BASED ON EXTERNAL EVENTS - Described herein are systems and methods configured for serving content to one or more merchandising communication systems based on one or more external events. A merchandising communication system may be included at a retail environment and/or other locations. Content may include display information configured to be displayed on display units of the merchandising communication systems responsive to occurrence and/or non-occurrence of one or more user specified events. Users may provide entry and/or selection of parameter values for one or more content communication parameters to facilitate selective serving of content to individual merchandising communication system and/or sets of merchandising communication systems based on external events. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034960 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVING CONTENT TO MERCHANDISING COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Described herein are systems and methods configured for serving content to one or more merchandising communication systems. A merchandising communication system may be included at a retail environment and/or other locations. Content may include display information configured to be displayed on display units of the merchandising communication systems. Users may provide entry and/or selection of parameter values for one or more content communication parameters to facilitate selective serving of content to individual merchandising communication system and/or sets of merchandising communication systems. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034961 | DELIVERING GEO-CONTEXT INFORMATION TO A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON PREDICTED MOBILE DEVICE LOCATIONS - A server communicates with a mobile device to deliver a mobile application to the mobile device. Software instructions of the mobile application are executed on the mobile device. Then, responsive to operations of the software instructions on the mobile device, the mobile device sends messages comprising location data such as GPS data or other location point attributes. The server receives the location data describing the location of the mobile device and performs logic and computations to determine predicted location points, which are in turn used to determine predicted regions or areas surrounding the predicted location points. The server selects geo-specific notifications (e.g., advertisements, coupons, etc.) based at least in part on the predicted region, and transmits the geo-specific notifications electronically through the network to the mobile device. The notifications are determined based on geo-specific predictions, geo-specific rules, geo-specific triggers, geo-specific user data, geo-specific promotional data, and/or geo-specific context data. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034962 | Customized Content Delivery Based On Geographic Area - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing customized content to users based on their location. In one embodiment, for each of one or more content providers, a customized content delivery function receives information from the content provider defining a number of geographic shapes selecting corresponding geographic areas. Preferably, each of the geographic shapes overlaps at least one other of the geographic shapes and is assigned an importance level. For each geographic shape, the content provider defines one or more tags for the geographic shape and assigns a weight to each of the one or more tags. Thereafter, when a request is received from a requestor, one or more content items are selected for delivery to the requestor based on the geographic shapes, the tags and corresponding weights for the geographic shapes, and the location of the requestor. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034963 | Advertising Product, and a System and Method for Implementing the Advertising Product - A method. The method is implemented at least in part by a computing device. The method includes receiving, at the computing device, an offer to procure a paid placement advertisement in an advertising campaign, wherein the advertising campaign comprises a free inclusive portion and a paid placement portion. The method also includes evaluating the offer, wherein the evaluating is performed by the computing device. The method further includes allocating available paid placement advertisements based on the evaluated offer, wherein the allocating is performed by the computing device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034964 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERACTIVE ADVERTISEMENTS - Systems and methods are presented for providing interactive advertisements. In sonic embodiments, a method is presented. The method may include receiving, at a first advertising space, an indication that a first mobile device of a user is interacting with the first advertising space, the first advertising space displaying an advertisement. In response to the indication, the method may include transmitting information related to the advertisement from the first advertising space to the first mobile device. The method may also include receiving, at a second advertising space in a location geographically distinct from the first advertising space, the information related to the advertisement from a second mobile device; and displaying the advertisement at the second advertising space based on the information received at the second advertising space about the advertisement. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034965 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND DISPLAYING AT LEAST ONE PECULIAR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT FILE TO ONE OR MORE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT - An internet multimedia content file system for providing a business enterprise an automatic login system of the user of the business enterprise internet, collecting data on the users and transmitting to users appropriate multimedia content files soliciting the purchase of a product or service at the appropriate moment via the user wireless communication equipment. The business enterprise mentioned is in particular the consumer product industry and any other industries that supply products and/or services, for example a store, a department store chain, a restaurant, a beauty center. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034966 | DRIVING BEHAVIORS, OPINIONS, AND PERSPECTIVES BASED ON CONSUMER DATA - A method includes receiving an input identifying a target audience segment (e.g., reflecting a behavior, perspective, or opinion an advertiser would like to influence/increase). The method further includes identifying a first attribute measured by a measurement system, where the first attribute is determined to correlate to users tracked by the measurement system and that belong to the target audience segment, which reflects the behavior that the advertiser wants to influence/increase. The method further includes identifying a second attribute that corresponds to the first attribute, where a messaging action directed to the first attribute, the second attribute, or a combination thereof is available at one or more digital networks. The digital networks may require payment for message delivery or may allow such messaging for free. The method further includes initiating the messaging action aimed at driving behavior directed to the first attribute, the second attribute, or a combination thereof. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034967 | NOTIFYING A USER OF AN INSTANT MESSAGING (IM) SERVICE ABOUT A MODIFICATION MADE TO AN OPPORTUNITY - Notifying a user of an instant message (IM) service about a modification made to an opportunity includes receiving at least one modification to an opportunity stored in a customer relationship management (CRM) system, the opportunity representing a complex record structure in the CRM system, identifying a first user associated with the modification made to the opportunity stored in the CRM system, determining, from a list of users associated with the opportunity, a second user associated with the first user through an IM service, and sending an alert to the second user on the IM service, the alert indicating to the second user the modification made to the opportunity by the first user. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034968 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING TARGET USER, AND NETWORK SERVER - A method for determining a target user, includes: for any target service, acquiring historical data of multiple behavior objects that belong to a same service type as the target service; establishing a correspondence between user identifiers of different users and behavior object identifiers of different behavior objects of the same type; based on multiple established correspondences, constructing a data model that includes a user identifier and a behavior object identifier; using a value update rule to obtain, by means of calculation, a value of a probability that a user corresponding to each user identifier becomes a target user of the target service; and further using the value of the probability to select a target user of the target service, which can not only determine a target user group in a relatively open manner, but also effectively improve accuracy of and efficiency in determining a target user. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034969 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A CLIENT DEVICE WITH PARTICULARIZED INFORMATION WITHOUT EMPLOYING UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS - Method of providing a client device with particularized information in respect of a group of persons to which a user of the client device belongs, without employing a unique identifier with respect to the user or the client device, comprising: receiving by at least one server from the client device a request for first information from at least one network resource; receiving by the at least one server from the client device a user profile in respect of the user of the client device, the user profile including no unique identifier with respect to the user or the client device; and sending by the at least one server to the client device second information particularized in respect of the group of persons to which the user of the client device belongs, the second information being based at least in part on the user profile. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034970 | USER-GENERATED QUICK RECOMMENDATIONS IN A MEDIA RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a recommendation system comprises receiving an indication that a first user has knowledge of a first media item, and receiving an indication that a second user has expressed interest in the first media item, wherein the first user and the second user are associated. The first user is prompted to recommend the first media item to the second user, based on the first user's knowledge of the media item and the second user's indication of interest in the media item. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034971 | MONETIZING FINANCIAL BROKERAGE DATA - Method and systems for monetizing financial brokerage accounts are disclosed. One aspect for certain embodiments includes mining data from financial brokerage accounts and providing to the customer an unlimited number of free trades for an unlimited period of time and not advertising to the customer on items or services that are identical or similar to items or services already purchased by the customer. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034972 | GENERATING AND USING AD SERVING GUARANTEES IN AN ONLINE ADVERTISING NETWORK - An ad serving system accepts a request for one or more ads, determines a set of eligible ads from among ads having a guaranteed serving reservation and ads with uncommitted serving. This may be done using information from the accepted request, wherein the set of eligible ads may include at least one ad having a guaranteed serving reservation and at least one ad with uncommitted serving. A set of ads to serve is determined from the set of eligible ads using an arbitration process, and the determined set of ads is served. Ad serving guarantees may be generated and/or desired ad serving guarantees may be checked using an inventory test and/or a price test. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034973 | Systems and Methods for Providing Real-Time Marketing Campaigns - Systems and methods for providing real-time marketing campaigns are disclosed. One disclosed method includes steps of identifying, by a marketing system, a target product for a marketing campaign; executing a real time capture system to requesting and receiving, by a real-time capture system, user comment information from one or more social media sites; determining, by a sentiment engine, sentiments associated with the user comment information about the target product; and identifying, by the marketing system, one or more features of the target product associated with the sentiments and a target population for the marketing campaign based on the user comment information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034974 | METHOD, A SYSTEM AND A MOBILE APP FOR PROVIDING AN INFLUENCER WITH AN OFFER TO ENDORSE A BRAND'S PRODUCT OR SERVICE - An advertising system for providing an influencer with an offer to endorse a brand's product or service is also disclosed. The advertising system is selectively in operative communication with one or more influencers and one or more brands. The advertising system comprises of an influencer data repository configured to store the data relating to a plurality of registered influencers and a brand data repository configured to store the data relating to a plurality of brand's offering product or service for endorsement. The advertising system further comprises of an advertising engine, selectively in operative communication with influencer data repository, configured to select an influencer to endorse at least one product or service offered by a brand and formulate an offer for the selected influencer to endorse at least one product or service. The advertising engine is further configured to notify the selected influencer of the offer and provide the selected influencer to endorse the product or service upon a successful approval from the influencer. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034975 | REFERRING CONTENT USING A FOOD ITEM - A food item transforming system comprising a processor coupled to a memory is provided. The processor is configured to associate, in the memory, an identifier with a source of content pertaining to at least one of a drawing, a contest, a game, a coupon, and an advertisement. Additionally, the processor is configured to generate a computer-readable code that encodes at least the identifier, print the computer-readable code to a physical medium, and insert the physical medium into a food item, thereby transforming the food item into an information carrier. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034976 | ADVERTISEMENT PRESENTATION - Scroll input received with regard to content within a content layer (e.g., email content displayed through an email inbox content layer of an email application) may be used as a trigger to reveal an advertisement layer or portion thereof, where the advertisement layer is under the content layer. For example, as a user scrolls towards the end of the email content, display of the email inbox content layer may be contracted and display of an advertisement layer may be expanded. In this way, one or more advertisement layers, comprising advertisements, may be displayed based upon scroll input. In an example, an advertisement may be revealed (e.g., gradually as the user scrolls towards the end of content) such that the advertisement does not occlude or visually block the content. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDED SEARCH WITHIN MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - Disclosed is a system and method for integrating search capabilities with message composition functionality. The present disclosure provides an intersection between messaging and search by enabling a user to search for content from differing entities and resources from within the body of a message compose window. The disclosed systems and methods enable a user, from within a messaging application or platform, to perform a search for content, view the results, and select and embed the desired result within the message in a rich format. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034978 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING MERCHANT-SUPPLIED INFORMATION WITH A FIXED REFERENCE POINT IN A VIRTUAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLD - A system, method and apparatus are provided for associating interactive virtual advertisements and/or merchant-supplied commercial information with one or more reference points plotted within a geolocated, three-dimensional, virtual world stored in a computer-readable database. In some embodiments, this virtual world comprises panoramic images aligned using Google® Photo Sphere technology within applications such as Google® Maps Business View. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034979 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE DELIVERY OF CREATIVES - A method of creating and delivering an on-demand audio asset for inclusion in a creative is described. The method includes the steps of accessing a central processing environment, requesting at least one recording of at least a portion of an audio transmission generated from a communication device, generating at least one audio asset, adding the audio asset to a pool of related assets stored in a vault connected to the central processing environment, selecting the generated audio asset and at least one other related asset from the pool of related assets to form a creative, then requesting delivery of the creative to another communication device, and finally delivering the creative to the other communication device. The method is performed in part by a creative composition engine, which is also described. The engine includes a central processing environment having a processor, a digital recorder and a digital asset storage vault. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034980 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO EVALUATE THE CONDITION OF CLIENT EQUIPMENT AND ACCURATELY ASSESS THE PRICE AND EXTENT OF REPAIRS - Method and system for evaluating the condition of client equipment and accurately assess the price and extend of repairs. The method includes extracting necessary information from a client device and subsequently evaluating the information automatically. Further, the method includes categorizing the client device based on the extracted information. Furthermore, the method includes evaluating the price of the client device buy back condition based on the categorization. Moreover, the method includes assessing current condition of the client device and predicting the best buy back price for the client device in response to the assessment. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034981 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMER CHECKOUT - Disclosed is a system and method for directing a customer to one of a plurality of checkout lanes in a retail store. The system includes a checkout lane selection module that is in communication with each of the plurality of checkout lanes. The checkout lane selection module is part of a computing device, such as a server, that may be resident in the retail store, or remote from the retail store. The checkout lane selection module receives lane status information from each of the plurality of checkout lanes. And the checkout lane selection module receives customer information from a customer profile and from the customer's shopping basket. The checkout lane selection module provides the customer a preferred lane selection, and/or details about each checkout lane so that the customer can make an informed choice about which checkout lane to use. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034982 | Business Methods for Providing an Off-Label Medical Use Portal - An off-label medical use portal, including a centralized database encoded on a computer readable-medium, a collecting mechanism for collecting information regarding off-label medical use, a peer-review mechanism for vetting collected information, and an access mechanism for providing access to unvetted and vetted information in electronic communication with the centralized database. A method of using the off-label medical use portal by submitting publications about off-label medical use to the portal, peer-reviewing the publications, and providing access to non-peer-reviewed and peer-reviewed information and publications to interested individuals. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034983 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT - Embodiments of methods and systems for incorporating user generated content into a web page are disclosed. In particular, embodiments of such systems and methods may incorporate user generated content into a web page such that the user generated content can be consumed by indexers associated with search engines in association with that web page. Additionally, embodiments may also provide a mechanism by which user generated content may be received and included in a web page when that web page is rendered. Using embodiments as disclosed herein user generated content may be exposed to a search engine indexer in a web page while still providing a mechanism for incorporating the freshest user generated content in such a web page. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034984 | REPORT GENERATION APPARATUS, REPORT GENERATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A report generation apparatus includes a user information storage unit that stores therein user identification information for identifying a user and regional information on a region where the user is located, so as to associated with each other; a regional information obtaining part that receives user identification information and obtains regional information associated with the received user identification information from the user information storage part; and a generator that obtains device management information relating to usage of a device and generates a report using the obtained device management information and the obtained regional information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034985 | CUSTOMER CHECK RETRIEVAL - Various systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for retrieving a customer check. One example method may comprise generating a list of items included on at least one open check. The example method may further comprise receiving from a customer a selection of an item from the list, wherein the item is included on a check associated with the customer. The example method may further comprise identifying the check associated with the customer based at least in part on the selected item. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are also provided. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTH CARE MEDICAL CODING - A system and method for electronic medical coding comprising the steps of: compiling electronic medical records for a service provider, where the medical records are related to treatment and procedures performed for a plurality of patients; storing the electronic medical records on a database on a network; scanning the database for key words associated with treatments for a target patient; generating billing codes associated with key words; and tabulating billing codes for a target patient. The method according to the present invention may further include a step of generating a billing statement for the target patient and transmitting a billing statement to a third party payer. The third party payer may be an insurance provider, Medicare or Medicaid. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034987 | System and method for timekeeping entry and work in progress reports - The present invention consists of an Improved Time Entry and Recording System and Method, which greatly enhances the features and abilities of such systems in the marketplace. Most notably, it allows the user thereof to create and generate and edit Work in Progress Reports, which may greatly optimize the profitability of any professional firm, and in particular a law firm, by keeping close tabs on all billing entities. In particular, the user may run and directly edit WIP reports and all data found therein in real time. Automatic flagging and comments on every field are provided, as well as user created and defined billing fields. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034988 | MERCHANDISING COMMUNICATION AND INVENTORYING SYSTEM - Provided herein are display systems and units, including those configured for dynamic communication, inventorying, and monitoring environmental conditions in a physical location, such as in retail settings. Also included herein are methods for dynamically displaying product information in a physical location, such as a retail setting. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MULTI-PARTY DYNAMIC BARTERING NETWORK - A method is disclosed of generating a computer-based, multi-party dynamic bartering network. The method includes: receiving, at a computer server, user supply information and user demand information from multiple parties over a computer network; generating multi-party barter loop options, using one or more processors, in response to a search request by a searching user, by analyzing the user supply information and user demand information; proposing multi-party barter loop options to the searching user over the computer network; receiving confirmation of the searching user joining a multi-party barter loop from the proposed multi-party barter loop options; and facilitating execution of the multi-party barter loop. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURELY RETRIEVING PRIVATE DATA FROM CUSTOMER MOBILE DEVICE - A method and system for handling private user data in transactions between mobile devices and destination websites for e-commerce or other electronic transactions involving private user data. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and system for facilitating a secure transaction without requiring a user to login into the e-commerce website with a user name and password while allowing the user to maintain control over their personal information. In place of the traditional user login (e.g., user name and password) the login by the present invention occurs automatically by setting up a secure data channel between the e-commerce website and the mobile computing device utilizing an exchange server. The secure data channel may be created by exchanging private encryption keys (e.g., symmetric keys) between the destination website and the mobile computing device through the use of a secure data message exchange. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF NONCOMPLIANT MERCHANTS - A method for assessing merchant likelihood of noncompliance includes: storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry including data related to a payment transaction including transaction data, an account identifier, and a merchant identifier; identifying a first set of transaction data entries that include a specific merchant identifier associated with a merchant noncompliant with a rule or regulation; identifying a set of account identifiers from the transaction data entries in the first set; identifying a second set of transaction data entries that include account identifiers from the set of account identifiers; identifying a set of merchant identifiers from the transaction data entries in the second set; and calculating, for each merchant identifier in the set, a score indicative of a likelihood that an associated merchant is noncompliant with the rule or regulation based on the transaction data included in each of their transaction data entries in the second set. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034992 | MOBILE COMMERCE FRAMEWORK - A subscription-based system for providing commerce information for one or more mobile devices for one or more merchants. Some techniques employed feature a subscription-based method for presenting commercial resources to a mobile device. The method involves receiving mobile device user information relating to a geographic location to locate one or more merchants within a subscription-based shopping network, and receiving mobile device user information relating to a merchant type within the subscription-based shopping network. The method also involves receiving, from a database over a communication network, information for one or more merchants associated with the mobile device user information for the geographic location and the merchant type, and presenting the associated merchant information on the mobile device. The associated merchant information can include a merchant name and address, a merchant telephone number, a merchant advertisement, a merchant coupon, or a merchant product or service offering to subscribers of the shopping network. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034993 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ALLOCATE THE TIME OF USERS TO ONLINE ACTIVITIES - A system and method configured to present tasks from bidders to users of a mobile application, based on matching the currently available of time periods offered by the users with the expected time periods required to perform the tasks, matching the core requirements of the tasks with the profiles of the users, prioritizing matched tasks based at least on degrees of matching between the optional requirements of the tasks with the profiles of the users. The mobile application presents content of tasks selected by the end users, monitor user engagement in the time periods during the users performing the selected tasks, collect and report data for the bidders of the user selected tasks, and process payments from the bidders to the users for the completion of the user selected tasks. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034994 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF APPLYING THIRD PARTY DONATIONS TO A DONEE MERCHANT ORDER - The present disclosure relates to methods of and systems for applying third party donations to an order placed by a donee. Donation data including a total donation amount is received from a donor. At least one order from a preexisting set of orders is selected to which at least a portion of the total donation amount is to be applied, the selecting being based on selection criteria. The portion of the total donation amount is applied to the selected at least one order. A residual donation amount may be determined as the difference of the total donation amount and the portion of the total donation amount applied. The donor and/or donee may be notified of the donation and residual donation amount. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034995 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED INDENTIFICATION AND ENGAGEMENT OF SERVICE PROVIDERS - The current document is directed to methods and systems that identify projects for which service consumers desire service provision and identify available candidate service providers that best match various project parameters and service-provision criteria determined by the automated system. Information describing the identified candidate service providers is presented to the service consumers by the systems to allow service consumers in order to facilitate their selection of service providers and scheduling of service provision. In one described implementation, service providers are matched to stock-keeping-unit (“SKU”) identifiers and location or locations. Service providers identified in the initial SKU-and-location-based matching process are then scored and ranked according to additional criteria and constraints, with information describing the highest-ranked service candidate providers provided to service consumers for selection and scheduling. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034996 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS USING BEACONS - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating real estate transactions using beacons. One or more beacons at a property that is offered for sale by a seller may communicate with a user device of one or more potential buyers of the property when the user devices are at the property and in proximity to the beacons. The beacons may provide property information to the potential buyer and/or may receive buyer information from the user device. The buyer information may be provided to an agent device of a real estate agent at the property or to a seller device and may be processed to determine whether additional property information will be provided to the potential buyer. The property information may include marketing documentation, a survey, or seller's disclosure. The buyer information may include documents showing loan pre-qualification or contact information for the potential buyer. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034997 | EVOLUTIONARY CONTENT DETERMINATION AND MANAGEMENT - A visual refinement interface enables users to adjust and/or refine search results by selecting results that match a user's interest, and displaying subsequent results that are closer to the selected items. Multiple result sets can be displayed concurrently such that the user can maintain context for the results. Further, the user can quickly go back to modify an earlier selection without having to navigate to a previous page, for example, and a single modification can cause several subsequent result sets to automatically change such that the user can quickly view dozens of new results, for example, simply by selecting at least one different result from a displayed result set. Prior result sets can be modified, such as by reducing the size or adjusting the placement of the sets, such that the user can easily determine the current set and the relatedness to previous results sets. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034998 | SMARTPHONE SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SOUND- OR LIGHT-EMITTING VEHICLE ACCESSORY PRODUCT MODELS - A mobile device software app facilitates a user's identification of a product suitable for various vehicle types and operating environments. The app configures a sensor in the device to sample ambient sound or light in the vicinity of the vehicle, calculates an intensity level value for the sample, compares the value to a list of specification intensity values corresponding to vehicle accessory products, and generates a list of products having intensity values greater than that of the sampled sound or light. The app optionally provides for user selection of a product and for viewing product literature. Users can also access detailed technical installation information, listen to sound samples, and locate product vendors. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034999 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTION, FILTERING OR PRESENTATION OF AVAILABLE SALES OUTLETS - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for the filtering, selection and presentation of vendors accounting for both user characteristics and vendor characteristics, such that the systems and methods may be used by both customer and vendor alike to better match customer needs with the resource-constrained vendors with whom a successful sale has a higher probability of occurring. Embodiments may include filtering, selecting and/or presenting vendors to a user sorted by the probability that the particular vendor will possess the characteristics that appeal to a particular customer and therefore result in a large probability of sale and suppress presentation of those vendors that are unlikely to be selected by the customer since their characteristics are less consistent with those needed by the customer and, therefore, are unlikely to result in a sale. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035000 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INSTANT STYLIST - A system and method for providing an instant stylist is provided. In example embodiments, a trigger to initiate generation of a product combination is received from a user device. The trigger may include a user preference of a user operating the user device. Style data is accessed. The style data provides guidelines indicating compatible attributes of item combinations derived from source data. Based on the user preference and the style data, the product combination is generated by matching attributes of products using the guidelines indicating the compatible attributes of item combinations. The product combination is output in a results user interface. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035001 | INTELLIGENT FUEL PURCHASING RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods for providing information to aid users make fuel purchasing decisions and facilitating fuel purchases at fuel providers. A user checks-in to a vehicle with a user account. The user is provided with recommended fuel provider locations based on information such as vehicle information, user account information, traffic information, user information, traffic information, fuel provider information, etc. User checks-in to a fuel provider location based on a connection to a device at the fuel provider location. A payment provider may receive a fuel purchase request authorizing a payment from the user account and processes the payment. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035002 | SERVICE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING POST BY ASSOCIATING APPSTORE WITH TIMELINE - Exemplary embodiments provide a computer-implemented method of enabling a recommendation of a software to a user from a software marketplace based on activities of the user's friend of an internet-based social network who is related to the first user within the confines of the social network, said user maintaining an internet-based social network account, the method comprising: receiving, from the first user, a selection of an interface associated with the software marketplace, generating, by a computer-implemented recommendation system, a list of recommended software based on the internet-based social network into which the first user is logged into, sending the list of the of recommended software to the first user, wherein the computer-implemented recommendation system retrieves the information of the user's friend and assigns a weight to a post not displayed based on an attribute thereof. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035003 | SYSTEM FOR CONCURRENT OPTIMIZATION OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND CUSTOMER VALUE - A computer-implemented system and method to provide options on products to enhance customers' experience. A computer-implemented system is operated that delivers to a customer an option to utilize up to n of m selected products, where m and n are whole numbers and n is less than or equal to m. Information is recorded in a data store, pertaining to said option. In addition, a system is operated to define each of the n chosen products, whereby after each of the n chosen products is defined, the customer can utilize said chosen product. The information pertaining to said defined products is recorded in a data store. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035004 | CUSTOMIZING CONTENT DELIVERY FROM A BRAND PAGE TO A USER IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - A social networking system user's interaction with a brand page may be tailored to match the user's interests. Content providers or page administrators of a brand page associate keywords with content posted to the brand page. A keyword may define a characteristic of a social networking system user to receive the content or may describe a characteristic of the content. The keywords are compared to a user profile of a user requesting the brand page and content posted to the brand page is selected for presentation to the user based on the user profile and the keywords. For example, content is presented to a user having a characteristic defined by criteria keyword. The selected content posted to the brand page is presented to the user requesting the brand page. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035005 | ONLINE CART AND SHOPPING LIST SHARING - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media providing shared online shopping lists and/or carts among users are disclosed. The method includes receiving a primary virtual shopping cart containing related items generated by a first user. A database entry for the primary shopping cart is created and correlated with a shopping cart identifier in response to a user request. The database entry includes one or more keywords associated with the first user of the primary virtual shopping cart. A query is received from a second user, and a list of primary virtual shopping carts is provided to the second user based on relevancy to the query. In response to a request by the second user, the contents of a selected primary virtual shopping cart is duplicated in a secondary virtual shopping cart associated with the second user. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035006 | STREAMLINED ONLINE CHECKOUT - Methods and systems for facilitating online checkout with a beacon are described. A user may be automatically logged into a service provider site without inputting a user name, password, or other identifying information. A user's information may be automatically transmitted during checkout so that the user is not required to provide user name, password, billing information, or shipping address information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035007 | USING A USER WISHLIST TO AUTOMATE THE ACQUISITION AND RENDERING OF A CONTENT ITEM - A wishlist of content items is associated with a user. The wishlist can include entries which identify individual content items that are deemed to be of interest to the user. A user's progress in consuming a current content item is monitored. From monitoring the user's progress, an event trigger can be detected. The event trigger can correspond to a condition or event that is indicative of the user ending, or alternatively nearing ending his or her consumption of the current content item. In response to detecting the event trigger, a computing device of the user on which the current content item is being consumed obtains a next content item. The next content item can be identified by one of the entries of the wishlist. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035008 | Allowing a Customer to Select Vehicle Services Prior to Visiting a Service Center - A customer is allowed to select vehicle services prior to visiting a service center. A customer can access a website or mobile application to provide input identifying a vehicle to be serviced. A number of possible services that can be performed on the identified vehicle can then be presented including, in some cases, an estimated cost for such services. The customer may then select one or more services to be performed. In response, the website or mobile application can generate a purchase order that the customer can present to a technician once arriving at the service center thereby allowing the technician to commence work immediately on the vehicle. A vehicle may also be automatically enrolled in a warranty program. The actions required to comply with the warranty program as well as estimated dates when the actions should be performed can be automatically determined. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035009 | System and Method for Providing On-Demand Service Advertising - A system and method for providing on-demand service advertising, wherein a customer can select a particular service derived from a display of service categories. A selected category is chosen from the service categories to reveal specific services from which the particular service can be selected. Once selected, location data for available employees is displayed to the customer, wherein the customer can select a specific employee for the particular service. The specific employee can choose to accept or decline a service request from the customer. If the service request is accepted, a job accepted notification is sent to the customer and the specific employee begins the job. A job commencement notification and a job completion notification are sent to the customer upon start and finish of the job respectively. The customer can then provide an employee rating for the specific employee, and the specific employee a customer rating for the customer. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035010 | BINDING DIGITAL ASSETS TO A CONSUMER ORDER - A customer order is process by software which provides a unique identification code to a customer, receives a unique digital image from the customer, and receives data from the customer corresponding to a customer order for a product fabricated is to resemble the unique digital image. The software associates the identification code with either the digital image or the customer order when providing the unique identification code, and receives an association of the identification code with the other of the digital image and the customer order later. The association can be derived from either input from the customer using a digital communication method or information identifying a computer of the user. Finally, the software later associates the unique digital image to the customer order using the unique identification code. The code enables the digital image and the order to be received at different times, using different sending methods. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDOOR NAVIGATION AND INFORMATION PUSH USING LED LIGHTING DEVICES - The present disclosure provides an indoor navigation and information push system and method using LED lighting devices. The indoor navigation and information push system includes three LED lighting devices, each with a built-in Wi-Fi module and an information storage and navigation server configured to wirelessly communicate with LED lighting devices, store and transmit promotion data and product information. The information storage and navigation server and the LED lighting devices form an indoor wireless network. The indoor navigation and information push system further includes a user terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with the LED lighting devices and sends service requests to or receives data from the LED lighting devices. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035012 | ELECTRONIC SHELF SYSTEM WITH MOBILE DEVICE INTERACTIVITY AND PRINTED PLASTIC DISPLAY - The technology described herein includes an automated, customer-based retail display system with mobile device interactivity and a printed plastic display. In some embodiments, a system is described including an electronic shelf display strip that extends along the front edge of existing store shelves. The electronic shelf display strip can be printed on a plastic backplane and designed to fit in standard store shelf pricing areas. The printed electronic display on plastic is low cost and protected from damage as opposed to glass based screens used in prior art electronic shelf labels. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035013 | VEHICLE TRANSACTION PROCESSING - A vehicle pulls up to a fuel pump and a customer within the vehicle utilizes interfaces available within the vehicle to initiate a fuel transaction within the vehicle and to activate the fuel pump for dispensing fuel. The customer then exits the vehicle dispenses fuel and returns to the vehicle without interacting with the existing fuel pump interface and when the customer re-inserts the pump hose into a holster of the fuel pump, the fuel transaction is completed on behalf of the customer. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035014 | DATABASE DRIVEN COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROVIDING REAL-TIME UPDATABLE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES TO TRACK REAL-TIME VALUE OF MEDIA AIRINGS - In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to database driven computer systems providing real-time updatable graphical user interfaces to track real-time value of media airings, including: a specifically programmed server; a database accessible by the server, where the server includes a plurality of modules configured to perform: electronically and periodically obtaining media data, web tracking transaction data, call center transaction data, and fulfillment transaction data; associating, in real time, media data records of airings of creatives to fulfillment transaction records by matching records among database tables having media data, web tracking transaction data, call center transaction data, and fulfillment transaction data; continuously calculating, in real-time, a current value of a particular airing of a particular creative; and displaying a graphical user interface, including real-time updated look-up items, outputting one or more real-time report based at least on the continuously calculating the current value of the particular airing. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035015 | ELECTRONIC PALETTE SYSTEM FOR STUDENTS - A system for generating design sample palettes over a network includes a database storing design products related to a plurality of categories of commercial products from a plurality of manufacturers. Interface circuitry displays the plurality of categories of commercial products and filtering criteria on a user interface and a sample palette server in operative communication with the database and the interface circuitry receives a user selection of one or more filtering criteria specifying one or more requested design features and updates the user interface to display a subset of the design products sharing at least one feature in common with the requested design features. Palette generating circuitry receives a second selection of a plurality of design products from the displayed subset of design products and generates a graphical representation of a sample palette including graphical images of the plurality of design products on the user interface. Authorization circuitry receives a user request to order samples of the plurality of design products in the sample palette and determines whether the user's account is authorized to order design product samples from the plurality of manufacturers. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035016 | METHOD FOR EXPERIENCING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT IN A VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT - A method for experiencing of multi-dimensional content in a virtual reality environment over a communications network is disclosed. The method includes generating a 3D avatar of a consumer based on a consumer's profile, generating a 3D virtual reality graphical environment including the avatar of the consumer, receiving a selection from the consumer of multi-dimensional content for experiencing and a predefined time for playing said multi-dimensional content, transmitting an invitation to invitee consumers to experience the multi-dimensional content, generating a virtual location in the multi-dimensional virtual reality graphical environment for playing said multi-dimensional content at the predetermined time in the virtual location in the multi-dimensional virtual reality graphical environment, for the avatars of the consumer and any invitee consumers present at the location at the predetermined time. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035017 | MINI STORAGE SYSTEM USING DISTRIBUTED PEER STORAGE SPACE - The present invention generally relates renting self-storage. Specifically the system provides a way to manage transactions and facilitate the use of distributed storage space that is available in varying amounts in houses, attics, lofts, garages, closets, offices, and crawl spaces, etc. in the surrounding region. A coordinating server connects storage clients with storage providers who can meet their storage needs, tracks containers, sends notifications, and manages requests for transfer of containers. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035018 | System and Method for Displaying Items for Bid - A system and method for displaying items for bid at a silent auction including, a display device, having at least one display face, for exhibiting a panel having advertising indicia relating to an item offered for bid at the silent auction, and a code on the panel that corresponds to the item offered for bid, such that the code may be entered by a bidder at a remote location relative to the display device for bidding on the item. The system further including a support member for suspending the display device at a first distance from the support member, and at a second distance from a flooring surface of a venue at which the silent auction is being held; and means for removably and rotatably suspending the display device from the support member. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035019 | Electronic Marketplace Platform for Expiring Inventory - It is desirable to provide an e-commerce marketplace platform that can create a more responsive and more engaging user experience. Accordingly, the present disclosure introduces a technique to provide an e-commerce marketplace platform that can create a more responsive and more engaging user experience. In some embodiments, the marketplace platform can provide a real-time bidding service for the customers to purchase merchandise, which can be particularly advantageous when applied to the sales of expiring or perishable goods or services. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035020 | MULTIPLE OPTION AUCTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention relates generally to a method and system for conducting online auctions. It has particular application in conducting business over a network of computers such as the Internet, for establishing materials or service supply or sales contracts, agreements for allocation of resources, etc. In particular, the invention relates to the use of multiple options within an online auction scenario. In one form, the invention provides a method for conducting an online auction event to establish a contract, the event conducted between a controlling party and at least two parties from a prescribed panel of qualified competing bidding parties, each competing bidding party operating a bidding computer, the online auction event including at least two alternative contract options potentially acceptable to said controlling party, the online auction event conducted by receiving bids from respective bidding computers, automatically comparing, during the online auction event, the respective bids and the respective contract options involving those bids, and selecting from said alternative contract options to award the contract on the basis of the comparisons. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035021 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING AN ACCOUNT - A method and system for verifying an account used by a user to open or lock a service account through an electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device sends an open or lock request for an identification account and the service account to a cloud server via the Internet. The cloud server comparisons the sent identification account and the service account with the identification account and the service account in a database stored on the cloud server. The cloud server sends the open or lock request to a service provider if the comparison results indicate a matching result. The service provider opens or locks the service account corresponding to the identification account. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035022 | MULTI-PURPOSE, MULTI-TENANT KIOSK - In certain embodiments, a kiosk deployed at a customer location communicates a plurality of financial products available for provisioning by the kiosk and, for each financial product, one or more vendors that offers the financial product. The kiosk provisions a selected one of the financial products in response to input from a user. The input indicates the selected financial product and a selected one of the vendors. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035023 | FINANCIAL-SERVICE STRUCTURED CONTENT MANAGER - An interconnect financial web can identify connections between individual entities (e.g., individuals and/or businesses) supported by financial objects. Many financial objects can be tracked, such that the web can represent an entity's financial standing. An interface can allow a reviewer to submit a request that identifies a first entity. A representation of the first entity can be located within the web, and financial objects and/or other entities connected to the first entity can be identified. A representation of these connections can be presented to the reviewer. This representation can be interactive, such that the reviewer can request additional detail about one of the related entities and/or financial objects. The reviewer can thus explore financial circumstances surrounding an entity of interest. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035024 | Initial Margining Using Decayed Scenarios - A margin requirement is determined for a financial product. A present value of the financial position is obtained, and scenario projected values of the financial position at a future date are calculated for a plurality of loss risk scenarios in accordance with a plurality of scenario curves representative of the plurality of loss risk scenarios, respectively. An initial margin requirement is determined based on the obtained present value and the calculated scenario projected values. Each scenario curve of the plurality of scenario curves is configured to forecast the respective loss risk scenario of the plurality of loss risk scenarios as if looking forward from the future date. In some cases, when the financial position includes a swaption that expires before the future date, the swaption is converted to a seasoned swap if the swaption resides in-the-money. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035025 | Process for Creating a Social Network through Which Private Securities Transactions Using General Solicitations are Electronically Created and Settled in Compliance with the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 - The present invention is a process for creating a social network through which private securities transactions using general solicitation are electronically created and settled in compliance with the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 whereby data regarding the securities industry is uploaded, stored, aggregated, processed and circulated, general solicitations regarding private offerings of securities are electronically disseminated and private securities transactions are electronically documented, authorized and settled. The present invention introduces a novel and useful process whereby technology is used to serve as a functional surrogate in the role traditionally played by broker-dealers in the creation of private securities transactions, increase the accessibility of private securities offerings using general solicitation, lower transactions costs and risks associated with the documentation, authorization and settlement of private securities transactions, facilitate compliance with federal securities laws and improve electronic channels of communication between investors, issuers, broker-dealers and other participants in the private securities industry. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035026 | ONLINE TRADING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for online trading. Embodiments of the disclosure may retrieve transaction data indicating trading activities associated with a first user and estimate a winning probability of a future trade to be made by the first user based on the transaction data. Some embodiments may also present the winning probability to a second user and receive a following order from the second user to follow the future trade of the first user. In addition, some embodiments may associate the following order with the first user and detect a triggering order placed by the first user. The triggering order may include a trading characteristic associated with the winning probability. Moreover, some embodiments may execute the following order in synchronization with execution of the triggering order. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035027 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING SYNCHRONIZED TRADES IN MULTIPLE EXCHANGES - A financial trading system that includes a trading server, multiple financial exchanges, and multiple servers with each server associated with and co-located at an exchange and comprising a high accuracy clock. The trading server divides a large transaction order into multiple smaller transaction orders and combines each smaller transaction order with a transaction execution time. The trading server sends a financial trade instruction based on each combined smaller transaction order and transaction execution time to each co-located server. When the high accuracy clock on each server reaches the transaction execution time, all the servers submit their smaller transaction orders to the respective financial exchanges substantially simultaneously. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035028 | Method For Facilitating Futures Trading Of Synthetic Benchmark Corporate Bonds - A method of creating and trading on an exchange a futures contract linked to the yield of synthetic corporate debt instruments. The terms of the contract are such that it provides for a cash payment from one party to another based on the yield of a synthetically created corporate bond benchmark upon expiration of the futures contract. The synthetic corporate bond benchmark terms may include a combination of yield, credit rating, maturity, industry, currency or some other economically significant variable such terms being defined prior to the standardized contract being available for trading. Corporate synthetic benchmarks are valued by assigning traded corporate debt securities to the defined risk category and calculating the resultant yield. The contract may also reference two or more synthetic benchmarks. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035029 | COMMODITIES RANKING AND BIDDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system, method, and apparatus allowing commodity providers to identify and potentially acquire commodity consumers is described. Specially, the system, method, and apparatus comprises at least one communication component that receives commodity pricing offers from one or more commodity providers and user offers from one or more commodity users. The system, method, and apparatus further provides for a matching assessment component configured to assess each commodity provider's commodity pricing offer and the user's offer based at least partially on the commodity pricing offers and the user's offer to determine whether there is a match of offers. The system, method, and apparatus may also comprise a rank bidding component that allows commodity providers to bid for a higher rank in the offers presented to a user. The system, method, and apparatus may also comprise a facilitation component for facilitating a benefit to an entity based at least partially on the assessment. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035030 | Graphical Display with Integrated Recent Period Zoom and Historical Period Context Data - A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plurality of axis regions forms a continuous non-linear scale. The graphical interface also displays the data series in relation to the plurality of axis regions, and the data series is plotted in relation to each axis region based on a scale resolution corresponding to each respective axis region. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035031 | User Interface for an Electronic Trading System - A user interface for an electronic trading exchange is provided which allows a remote trader to view in real time bid orders, offer orders, and trades for an item, and optionally one or more sources of contextual data. Individual traders place orders on remote client terminals, and this information is routed to a transaction server. The transaction server receives order information from the remote terminals, matches a bid for an item to an offer for an item responsive to the bid corresponding with the offer, and communicates outstanding bid and offer information, and additional information (such as trades and contextual data) back to the client terminals. Each client terminal displays all of the outstanding bids and offers for an item, allowing the trader to view trends in orders for an item. A priority view is provided in which orders are displayed as tokens at locations corresponding to the values of the orders. The size of the tokens reflects the quantity of the orders. An alternate view positions order icons at a location which reflects the value and quantity of the order. Additionally, contextual data for the item is also displayed to allow the trader to consider as much information as possible while making transaction decisions. A pit panel view is also provided in which traders connected to the pit are represented by icons, and are displayed corresponding to an activity level of the trader. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035032 | DETERMINING AN ASSET RECOMMENDATION - Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments for determining an asset recommendation. An embodiment operates by iteratively removing asset categories from an asset category allocation and determining an asset to recommend based on one or more remaining asset categories in the asset category allocation. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035033 | Liquidation Cost Calculation - A set of estimated allocations N | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035034 | High Volume Capital Investment Aggregation System and Method - A network based system for presenting subscribers of a crowdfunding platform with an aggregation of entrepreneurial project funding opportunities derived from various sources and delivering to subscribers social media content associated with the entrepreneurial project funding opportunity and award notifications based on the level of subscriber contribution. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035035 | TRANSACTION EFFECTS - A method comprising creating and storing, in computer memory, a financial graph having nodes and edges, wherein the nodes include first nodes representing assets and second nodes representing any one or more of accounts in which one or more of the assets are held, individuals who own one or more of the assets, or legal entities who own one or more of the assets; obtaining, from an asset custodian data source, asset transaction data associated with one or more of the assets represented by the first nodes of the financial graph; transforming the asset transaction data into one or more stored transaction objects, wherein each transaction object is associated with a plurality of transaction effect objects; wherein each of the plurality of transaction effect objects is associated with a particular edge in the financial graph and represents one of a credit to an account type associated with the particular edge and a debit from an account type associated with the particular edge. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035036 | USER SPECIFIC PURCHASING GUIDE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - There is provided systems and method for a user specific purchasing guide. The methods include receive user specific financial information corresponding to a user, receive item specific pricing information corresponding to an item selected by the user, and determine user specific purchase recommendations for the item using the user specific financial information, the item specific pricing information, and general price predictors, wherein the user specific recommendations include at least a time and price to purchase the item. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035037 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING UNINSURED MOTOR VEHICLES - A video sequence can be continuously acquired at a predetermined frame rate and resolution by an image capturing unit installed at a location. A video frame can be extracted from the video sequence when a vehicle is detected at an optimal position for license plate recognition by detecting a blob corresponding to the vehicle and a virtual line on an image plane. The video frame can be pruned to eliminate a false positive and multiple frames with respect to a similar vehicle before transmitting the frame via a network. A license plate detection/localization can be performed on the extracted video frame to identify a sub-region with respect to the video frame that are most likely to contain a license plate. A license plate recognition operation can be performed and an overall confidence assigned to the license plate recognition result. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035038 | CLAIM PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING CLAIMS - A claims processing system for processing an insurance claim for a housing property loss insured by an insurer including a controller, a memory in communication with the controller, the memory including instructions that cause the controller to: receive a claim, the claim including claim parameters including an anticipated lease term, a location related to an insured loss, a loss value, and a number of people to be housed; identify a pool of acceptable housing accommodations matching within a range for each of the claim parameters; select a housing accommodation from the pool of acceptable housing accommodations; receive a vendor invoice from a vendor providing the selected housing accommodation including: an amount due, a retail rate, and a discounted rate; and receive confirmation of receipt of payment from the insurer corresponding to the amount due and a portion of the difference between the retail rate and the discounted rate. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING SERVICES TO CUSTOMERS - The present subject matter discloses system and method for recommending one or more services to customers. At first, the customers and service providers gets registered with the system. Further, customer-activities and entity-activities of one or more entities present in a network of the customer may be monitored. Further, the customer-activities and entity-activities may be processed for determining a current-stage information and life-event associated with the customer. The current-stage information may include behavioral pattern, life-style, liabilities, location, purchasing capability, and assets of the customer. Based on the life-event, one or more future-actions may be determined by the system. Further, the system recommends at least one service of the plurality of services to the customer based on the current-stage information and the one or more future-actions. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035040 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING AND OPTIMIZING HEALTHCARE SAVINGS OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS VIA ALTERNATIVE ENGAGEMENT CHANNELS - A system and method is provided for determining healthcare savings opportunities for individuals and the likelihood of achieving those savings via alternative engagement channels (or modalities) to optimize clinical (outreach) coaching opportunities. A potential cost savings associated with a targeted change (or coaching opportunity) of a customer may be determined. First and second probabilities of achieving a goal (that corresponds to the targeted change) when first and second modalities are used, respectively, to engage the customer to assist the customer in achieving the goal may be determined. A first score associated with the first modality and the goal may be determined based on the potential cost savings and the first probability. A second score associated with the second modality and the goal may be determined based on the potential cost savings and the second probability. Either the first modality or the second modality is selected as a selected modality based on a comparison of the first score and the second score for use in engaging the customer to assist the customer in achieving the goal. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035041 | AUTOMATED SOCIAL SECURITY ELIGIBILITY TRANSMITTAL SYSTEM FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES OR MENTAL ILLNESS WHO HAVE BEEN PLACED ON A WAITING LIST FOR LICENSED TREATMENT BY THE STATE - A computerized system and method for determining eligibility for social security disability insurance benefits (SSDI) through a computer network who have been placed on a waiting list for medical treatment. The network provides access to State waiting list databases containing information relating to persons wanting to receive treatment for developmental disabilities and/or mental illness from a State licensed care facility and Federal Social Security records containing information relating to person's status of SSDI benefits and parental/marital information relating to person's eligibility of SSDI benefits. The system and method is programmed to automatically determine who is potentially eligible for SSDI benefits and determine those who are eligible for SSDI benefits based on the information identified within the State and Federal databases. Moreover, the computerized system and method may also automatically identify lump sum payments paid out on behalf of at least one person who want to receive treatment for disabilities and/or mental illness from a State licensed care facility, yet have been placed on a waiting list. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035042 | MOBILE DEVICE DISTANCE TRACKING - In an example, the present invention provides a method for capturing vehicle mileage information. The method includes initiating an application program configured on the mobile wireless device without any user input required to start tracking a drive. The method includes initiating movement of the mobile wireless device. The method includes using a mapping module to track a start point of a route for the mobile wireless device. The method includes moving the mobile wireless device from the start point through one or more legs. The method includes using algorithms or traffic data to identify one or more of the legs as a route or drive. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035043 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system according to the invention is an information processing system including one or more information processing devices and includes a specifying unit. The specifying unit specifies a cost price of merchandise corresponding to service identification information using first information in which each of a plurality of pieces of apparatus identification information identifying a plurality of electronic apparatuses is associated with the cost price of the merchandise for providing a service linked to the corresponding electronic apparatus, and second information in which the pieces of apparatus identification information identifying the electronic apparatuses that are available to customers are associated at least with the service identification information identifying the service. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035044 | ACCOUNT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and an apparatus for account processing are disclosed. The method includes splitting a master account into a plurality of sub-accounts, wherein a sum of balances of the plurality of sub-accounts is equal to a balance of the master account; and sending sub-account information of the master account to an application system upon receiving an accounting operation request for the master account from the application system, the sub-account information being used by the application system to perform an accounting operation on a sub-account of the master account. Since the embodiments of the present disclosure split a master account into a plurality of sub-accounts, an application system may perform an accounting operation on multiple sub-accounts of the master account concurrently to improve the efficiency of performing the accounting operations on the master account. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035045 | IDENTIFYING OCCUPATION OF A PROFESSIONAL USING PROFILE AND SOCIAL DATA - Systems and methods are disclosed that determines an occupation for a member of a social networking site based on information obtained from a profile of that member. The obtained information may include employment information, such as a job title, skills that the member has identified as possessing, endorsements by other members of the identified skills, and information about the endorsers of the endorsements. The disclosed systems and methods may determine one or more probabilities for various occupations that the member may have, and may further adjust those probabilities based on the obtained information. The systems and methods may additionally provide a list of members that have a given occupation based on the corresponding occupation probability of the given occupation. The systems and methods may also provide a list of organizations (i.e., employers) where it was determined that it was unlikely that the organization has any members with the given occupation. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035046 | INFLUENCER SCORE - A method and system are shown for identifying the most influential members of a social network. The social networking system receives a request to rank a plurality of members of a social networking system based on the influence held by each of the plurality of members. For a respective member in the plurality of members of the social networking system, the social networking system analyzes member interactions of the respective member on the social networking system and generates an influencer score for the respective member based on the analysis of member interactions through the social networking system. The social networking system orders two or more members in the plurality of members of the social networking system based on the influencer scores associated with the two or more members. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035047 | Managing Energy Meter Usage Feedback - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing energy meter usage feedback are provided herein. A method includes detecting information generated by a prepaid energy meter that has been authorized for a given user; processing the detected information to determine an amount of energy consumption associated with the prepaid energy meter; generating a code based on said processing comprising encrypting (i) the determined amount of energy consumption, (ii) an identifier corresponding to the prepaid energy meter, and (iii) authentication information for the given user authorized to to use the prepaid energy meter; outputting the generated code for transmission to an energy provider associated with the prepaid energy meter; decrypting a recharge code for the prepaid energy meter received in response to validation of the generated code by the energy provider associated with the prepaid energy meter; and enabling a remote recharge operation of the prepaid energy meter based on said decrypting. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035048 | COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING WELLSITE TASKS - A collaborative system and method for performing wellsite tasks for performing oilfield operations is provided. The system includes a universal bank to store wellsite materials and wellsite instructions, a tag to identify the new wellsite materials, a mobile unit carried by an operator at the wellsite, and a universal bank. The mobile unit is connectable to the universal bank via a wellsite communication link, and includes a wellsite input and a wellsite receiver. The universal bank is connectable to universal resources via a universal communication link, and includes a universal receiver to receive the new wellsite materials from the universal bank. The universal bank includes a universal input to upload universal materials and validated wellsite instructions to the universal bank based on the input wellsite materials whereby wellsite materials and wellsite instructions are selectively accessible by the operator. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035049 | Apparatus for Power Theft Detection on an Electrical Power Grid - An apparatus reducing power theft on a micro power grid includes a server connected to the micro power grid, the server including a processor, data repository and software executing on the processor from a non-transitory medium the software enabling collection over time of bi-directional current data from smart distribution nodes connected to identified segments of the micro power grid and from smart meters distributed to one or more client demarcation points on the identified segments, processing of the bi-directional current data to determine power theft event frequency and power theft current information, assigning of a class to the individual ones of identified segments according to results of processing, and resetting of the number of packet transmission hop counts between the smart distribution nodes on identified segments and resetting the time period interval between subsequent power theft check routines for each identified segment based upon the classification data. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE MANAGEMENT BASED ON DEVICE POWER INFORMATION AND PRICING SCHEMES - A device management method of a server and an apparatus for managing a device based on power information and pricing schemes are provided. The method includes receiving information used for creating device power control information that is used for changing a power mode between alternating current (AC) power and direct current (DC) power to incur a minimum price, calculating a plurality of times a device is capable of operating with DC power, based on a plurality of operating rates of at least one component of the device obtained from the received information, creating first device power control information based on a battery available time selected from the calculated plurality of times by a predetermined policy, and controlling the device according to the created first device power control information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VALIDATING AN APPRAISAL REPORT AND PROVIDING AN APPRAISAL SCORE - A computer-based method for validating an appraisal report includes receiving appraisal data for a property, receiving property data for the property, verifying the appraisal data meets an appraisal guideline, providing a list of appraisal items that are present in the appraisal data, providing a medium discrepancy amount and a high discrepancy amount for the list of appraisal items, calculating a difference amount between the appraisal data and the property data for each appraisal item, and comparing the difference amount to the medium discrepancy amount and the high discrepancy amount. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035052 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING ENERGY USAGE - Systems and methods are disclosed for improving energy efficiency by determining a home composite load signature and energy saving based on predetermined weather factors and a prior success history of the message with predetermined group members; capturing feedback on messages to consumers to see if at least a change has occurred since a communication, wherein the feedback includes a user action taken with respect to the message; and presenting to the user cost savings between the user's existing appliance and a substitute appliance. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035053 | WEB BASED ELECTRONIC AND PAPERLESS REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION AND CLOSING SYSTEM - A real estate transaction system is provided. A host server is in communication with at least one network data server. The host server is configured to receive real estate transaction data associated with a real estate transaction and receive user data associated with a plurality of users associated with the real estate transaction. The host server is configured to create at least one document package corresponding to a plurality of electronic real estate transaction documents based at least in part on the real estate transaction data and user data, determine accessibility of each of the plurality of electronic real estate transaction documents for each of the plurality of users based at least in part on the real estate transaction data and user data and track modifications made to the plurality of electronic real estate transaction documents by at least one of plurality of users throughout the real estate transaction. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160035054 | Systems and Methods for Managing Real Estate Titles and Permissions - Methods and systems for managing real estate titles and permissions include using a key to identify titles and/or permissions. The key is preferably operable to control operations of electronic devices within geographic boundaries, with the geographic boundaries preferably being defined by a geofence and/or IP-based addressing. In certain embodiments, a system is linked to real property records to assign the key to the owner of record. Like other property rights, this virtual right-to-control electronic devices while located in a certain space may be sold outright, leased, rented, partitioned or otherwise conveyed to others. | 2016-02-04 |
