08th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150051899 | CORRECTING N-GRAM PROBABILITIES BY PAGE VIEW INFORMATION - Methods and a system for calculating N-gram probabilities in a language model. A method includes counting N-grams in each page of a plurality of pages or in each document of a plurality of documents to obtain respective N-gram counts therefor. The method further includes applying weights to the respective N-gram counts based on at least one of view counts and rankings to obtain weighted respective N-gram counts. The view counts and the rankings are determined with respect to the plurality of pages or the plurality of documents. The method also includes merging the weighted respective N-gram counts to obtain merged weighted respective N-gram counts for the plurality of pages or the plurality of documents. The method additionally includes calculating a respective probability for each of the N-grams based on the merged weighted respective N-gram counts. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051900 | UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF DEEP PATTERNS FOR SEMANTIC PARSING - Using exemplary sentences, usage patterns and thematic roles ascribed in VerbNet to generate “deep pattern trees” for the exemplary sentences. Then, when an arbitrary natural language subject sentence is input, these deep pattern trees can be matched to the natural language subject sentence in order to assign thematic roles to at least some of the “grammatical portions” of the natural language subject sentence. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051901 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING PREDICTED WORDS FOR TEXTUAL INPUT - A computer-implemented method for use in an electronic device includes obtaining a set of candidate words without character-based input. A display of the electronic device displays a first virtual keyboard that presents a first subset of the candidate words and information identifying a plurality of categories associated with the candidate words. The first subset of the candidate words is associated with a first one of the categories. A first input indicative of at least one of a selection of a second one of the categories is received, and a second subset of candidate words is identified based on the received input. The display of the electronic device displays a second virtual keyboard presenting the second subset of the candidate words. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051902 | CORRECTING N-GRAM PROBABILITIES BY PAGE VIEW INFORMATION - Methods and a system for calculating N-gram probabilities in a language model. A method includes counting N-grams in each page of a plurality of pages or in each document of a plurality of documents to obtain respective N-gram counts therefor. The method further includes applying weights to the respective N-gram counts based on at least one of view counts and rankings to obtain weighted respective N-gram counts. The view counts and the rankings are determined with respect to the plurality of pages or the plurality of documents. The method also includes merging the weighted respective N-gram counts to obtain merged weighted respective N-gram counts for the plurality of pages or the plurality of documents. The method additionally includes calculating a respective probability for each of the N-grams based on the merged weighted respective N-gram counts. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051903 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD - There is provided an information processing device including an input unit to which words are input, an analysis unit configured to analyze meanings of the respective words, an image generation unit configured to generate single images corresponding to the respective words, and a display control unit configured to control the images generated by the image generation unit to be displayed on a display unit. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051904 | AUDIO DECODING DEVICE, AUDIO CODING DEVICE, AUDIO DECODING METHOD, AUDIO CODING METHOD, AUDIO DECODING PROGRAM, AND AUDIO CODING PROGRAM - An objective of the present invention is to correct a temporal envelope shape of a decoded signal with a small information volume and to reduce perceptible distortions. An audio decoding device which decodes a coded audio signal and outputs an audio signal comprises: a coded series analysis unit that analyzes a coded series which contains the coded audio signal; an audio decoding unit that receives from the coded series analysis unit the coded series which contains the coded audio signal and decodes same, obtaining an audio signal; a temporal envelope shape establishment unit that receives information from the coded series analysis unit and/or the audio decoding unit, and, on the basis of the information, establishes a temporal envelope shape of the decoded audio signal; and a temporal envelope correction unit that, on the basis of the temporal envelope shape which is established with the temporal envelope shape establishment unit, corrects the temporal envelope shape of the decoded audio signal and outputs same. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051905 | Adaptive High-Pass Post-Filter - In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of speech processing included receiving a coded audio signal having coding noise. The method further includes generating a decoded audio signal from the coded audio signal, and determining a pitch corresponding to the fundamental frequency of the audio signal. The method also includes determining the minimum allowable pitch and determining if the pitch of the audio signal is less than the minimum allowable pitch. If the pitch of the audio signal is less than the minimum allowable pitch, applying an adaptive high pass filter on the decoded audio signal to lower the coding noise at frequencies below the fundamental frequency. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051906 | Hierarchical Active Voice Detection - One or more audio signals are processed using a multi-stage (hierarchical) voice and/or signal activity detector (VAD/SAD). A first stage is capable of reducing the workload bandwidth by employing an inexpensive VAD/SAD processor. One or more subsequent stages may further process the audio signals from the first stage. Other implementations may include a first stage that also performs continuity preservation between last blocks of audio signal and the first blocks of audio after it is detected that relevant audio signals are resumed. In yet other implementations, the first stage may extract features from audio signals when they are presented in their coded domain, and possibly with little or no decoding of the audio signal. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051907 | VECTOR QUANTIZER - Vector Quantizer and method therein for efficient vector quantization, e.g. in a transform audio codec. The method comprises comparing an input target vector s with a plurality of centroids, each centroid representing a respective class of codevectors in a codebook. Further, a starting point for a search related to the input target vector in the codebook is determined, based on the result of the comparison. The codevectors in the codebook are sorted according to a distortion measure reflecting the distance between each codevector and the centroids of the classes. The Vector Quantizer and method enables that the class of codevectors comprising the most probable candidate codevectors in regard of the input vector. s may be searched first. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051908 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES RELATED TO TEXT CAPTION ERROR CORRECTION - Systems and methods related to providing error correction in a text caption are disclosed. A method may comprise displaying a text caption including one or more blocks of text on each of a first device and a second device remote from the first device. The method may also include generating another block of text and replacing a block of text of the text caption with the another block of text. Furthermore, the method may include displaying the text caption on the second device having the block of text of the first text caption replaced by the another block of text. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051909 | PATTERN RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD - Provided is a pattern recognition apparatus for creating multiple systems and combining the multiple systems to improve the recognition performance, including a discriminative training unit for constructing model parameters of a second or subsequent system based on an output tendency of a previously-constructed model so as to be different from the output tendency of the previously-constructed model. Accordingly, when multiple systems are combined, the recognition performance can be improved without trials-and-errors. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051910 | Unsupervised Clustering of Dialogs Extracted from Released Application Logs - A natural language understanding system performs automatic unsupervised clustering of dialog data from a natural language dialog application. A log parser automatically extracts structured dialog data from application logs. A dialog generalizing module generalizes the extracted dialog data to generalization identifier vectors. A data clustering module automatically clusters the dialog data based on the generalization identifier vectors using an unsupervised density-based clustering algorithm without a predefined number of clusters and without a predefined distance threshold in an iterative approach based on a hierarchical ordering of the generalization. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051911 | METHOD FOR DIVIDING LETTER SEQUENCES INTO PRONUNCIATION UNITS, METHOD FOR REPRESENTING TONES OF LETTER SEQUENCES USING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING VIDEO DATA REPRESENTING THE TONES OF LETTER SEQUENCES - Disclosed is a method for dividing pronunciation units which includes the steps of: extracting voice-intensity maxima and minima in voice waveforms of letter sequences; forming a group by grouping the extracted maxima together; dividing the letter sequences into pronunciation units around the points nearest to either side of the group from among minima on both sides of the group, voice start points, and voice end points. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051912 | Method for Segmenting Videos and Audios into Clips Using Speaker Recognition - A method for segmenting video and audio into clips using speaker recognition is provided to segment audio according to speaker audio, and to make audio clips correspond to the audio and video signals to generate audio and video clips. The method instantly trains an independent speaker model by increasing an unknown speaker source audio signal, and the speaker recognition result is applied to determine the audio and video clips. Independent speaker clips of source audio are determined according to the speaker model and the speaker model is renewed according the independent speaker clips of source audio. This method segments audio by the speaker model without waiting for complete speaker feature audio signals to be collected. The method is also able to segment the audio and video into clips based on the recognition result of speaker audio, and can be used to segment TV audio and video into clips. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051913 | UNLOCK METHOD USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING SAME - The present description relates to an unlock method and to a terminal for performing same, the unlock method being performed by a terminal that provides a lock function, the unlock method comprising: a step of displaying a voice input screen on a lock screen of the terminal; a step of taking, as an input, voice from a user; a step of performing natural language processing on the voice to acquire an object constituting the voice; a step of determining whether or not the object contains a passphrase for unlocking; and a step of unlocking the terminal or maintaining the terminal in the locked state depending on the result of the determination of whether the object contains the passphrase. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051914 | DYNAMIC DECODING OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CARD READER AND PORTABLE DEVICE - The proposed technology generally relates the field of data transmission, in particular it relates to decoding an encoded data signal received at an audio interface of a portable electronic device, wherein the encoded data signal is encoded with an encoding scheme having an adjustable encoder clock frequency. The proposed method comprises pre-processing the received encoded data signal; scanning the received encoded data signal for a known start sequence and when a known start sequence is successfully detected then calculating an actual frequency based on the detected start sequence; interpreting, a data block succeeding the start sequence using the assessed actual frequency; and assessing whether to request adjustment of the adjustable encoder clock frequency based on the scanning and/or the interpretation. The proposed technology relates to a method performed in a portable communications device well as a corresponding device and computer program. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051915 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOCATING PAYMENTS ACROSS MULTIPLE HEALTHCARE ACCOUNTS - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating account payment posting transactions. A computer-implemented method may include receiving, from a computer associated with a healthcare provider, a healthcare payment transaction for a patient, wherein the healthcare payment transaction comprises an identifier for a guarantor of the patient and a total payment amount. The method may also include determining, based at least in part on the guarantor identifier, one or more open medical accounts for the guarantor, the one or more open medical accounts having respective outstanding balances. Furthermore, the method may include comparing the total payment amount with the respective outstanding balances and generating, based at least in part on the comparison, an account payment posting transaction. The account payment posting transaction may indicate respective amounts, of the total payment amount, to be allocated to the one or more open medical accounts. Additionally, the method may include transmitting the account payment posting transaction to the computer associated with the healthcare provider | 2015-02-19 |
20150051916 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM TO DETERMINE AND INDICATE THE TIME FEASIBILITY OF A CLINICAL PATHWAY, ENABLING WORKFLOW ADJUSTMENTS - When scheduling a clinical procedure such as a surgery, a clinician enters a deadline (i.e., a date of surgery or other procedure) and desired clinical procedures to be performed in advance thereof (e.g., lab tests, pathology tests, medical record review, etc.). A feasibility algorithm is executed and analyzes median pathway step completion times for a clinical pathway or workflow that is executed to satisfy the clinician's work order. A probability of completion of the clinical pathway by the specified deadline is also provided to the clinician. If the probability of completion is low (e.g., if the requested test results are unlikely to be ready by the scheduled surgery), then the clinician is prompted to adjust one or more of the surgery date and the clinical pathway steps to be completed thereby. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051917 | HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A PERSONALIZED CARE PLAN FOR A USER - A healthcare system for creating a personalized care plan for a user comprises a processor and a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium contains instructions for execution by the processor. The instructions cause the processor to perform the steps of receiving life goal information defined by a user, said life goal information indicating the user's life goals, mapping the received life goal information into care plan goals categories including two or more categories, and defining a care plan including a care plan schedule for the care plan goals categories onto which the received life goal information has been mapped, said schedule includes, per care plan goals category, one or more care plan content elements representing elements of the care plan. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051918 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING CUSTOMIZED MEDICAL INFORMATION - A computer-based method for presenting customized medical information, including: storing, in at least one memory element of at least one computer, computer readable instructions; and executing, using at least one processor for the at least one computer, the computer readable instructions to: receive an input identifying a patient; access electronic medical-related records (EMRRs) for the patient; formulate, based on data in the EMRRs, a query requesting information/input from the patient; transmit the query for display on a first graphical user interface (GUI) device; receive, in response to the query, an input providing the information/input; generate a video including at least one video segment related to the information/input; and transmit the video for display on the first GUI device or on a second GUI device. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051919 | SERVER DEVICE, DATA LINKING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a server device including a data retaining unit configured to retain at least data of each individual, without retaining information that identifies a specific individual, and a data registration unit configured to acquire at least data of each individual from another system retaining at least information that identifies a specific individual and the data of each individual, and register the data of each individual in the data retaining unit. The data registration unit acquires data from the another system using a linking ID for making a linkage with the another system, and registers the data in the data retaining unit. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051920 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HUB, OFFICE, AND LABORATORY - Systems and methods of the invention relate to maintaining validation of information communicated from a physician to a laboratory for performance of a test. A hub component is configured to manage data streams between an office environment and a laboratory environment. The order request can be communicated to the laboratory while maintaining particular information supplied by a physician at the office environment. Once a test result is complete and received by the hub component, the hub component can communicate the test result to the office environment. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051921 | SUPERIMPOSED VERIFIED PHOTO WITH ORDER OR REQUEST - Systems and methods of the invention relate to aggregating digital data for a patient during an examination at a private physician office environment, wherein the digital data is associated with a data file for the patient. A physician can utilize a device to capture an image of a patient or a portion of a patient, wherein the image relates to a condition or an area of medical concern based on the physician's opinion. In particular, the image can be superimposed onto a generic human body shape such that a precise location of the area of medical concern is identified by a marker and further the image. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051922 | PATIENT TEST DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system is disclosed for receiving patient test data from a point of care computer, identifying additional required data missing from the patient test data according to electronic health record provider requirements, transmitting an indication to the point of care computer of the additional required data to be input by an operator of the point of care computer; receiving operator input data from the operator; and adding the input data to the patient test data to store complete patient test data. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051923 | Integrated Electronic Health Care Coordination System with Touch Screen Tablets and Smartphones - A patient care coordination system that includes a plurality of hand-held computers in communication with a cloud computing network or a remote server that has an accessible database of all patients and the health care information of each. The cloud computing network or remote server synchronizes, in real time, patient health care information input in any one of the plurality of hand-held computers with all the others of the plurality of hand-held computers that are each able to download and view the patient health care information in the database in a user friendly graphic user interface. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051924 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND MAINTAINING ELIGIBILITY FOR INVESTORS IN A CROP REINSURANCE COMPANY - An investment opportunity is designed to tie eligibility of investment to a series of relationships. The series of relationships requires, first, that an approved insurance provider enter a contractual agreement with a reinsurer and, second, that an agent of the approved insurance provider sell an insurance policy to an individual for crop insurance and places that policy with the approved insurance provider that has a contractual agreement with the reinsurer. Once this occurs, the agent and the purchaser of the crop insurance policy are each eligible investors in the reinsurance company. They are each allowed to invest up to some maximum amount wherein that maximum is dictated by the number acres insured under the crop insurance policy. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051925 | Open Date Ticketing Method and System - A method and system for selling seat tickets to one or more events in an event series, such as a season of home sporting games or concert series. The method includes setting aside groups of assignable seats to the events, offering open date ticket packages comprising open date tickets redeemable for tickets to the assignable seats, and accepting payment from purchasers in exchange for the ticket packages. The method further includes establishing a redemption deadline for an elected event before which a selected number of open date tickets in a ticket packages may be redeemed for a selected number of tickets to assigned seats chosen from the assignable seats at the elected event, with the selected number ranging between one ticket and all remaining open date tickets in the ticket package, and redeeming the selected number of open date tickets for the selected number of assigned seat tickets. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051926 | Method And System For Managing Parking Spaces In The Context Of Automated Vehicle Rental, And Vehicle Rental Facility - The invention relates to a method ( | 2015-02-19 |
20150051927 | DYNAMIC IN FLIGHT SEAT MANAGEMENT - A system and a method for dynamic in flight seat management of an aircraft are provided. The system comprises an on board memory unit for storing the current booking status of the seats of the aircraft. Furthermore, the system comprises an output unit for providing the current booking status to a user and an input unit for receiving requests from a user to change the booking status. Therein, the system is adapted to change the booking status in real-time during the flight. In this way, passengers can book a time-limited upgrade during the flight. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051928 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE DISTRIBUTION AND ACCESS CONTROL FOR PURCHASED EVENT TICKETS - A system and methods for providing variable distribution and access control for purchased event tickets are described. In one embodiment, a network-based system receives an order for electronic tickets purchased by a buyer, receives one or more recipients other than the buyer for one or more of the electronic tickets, receives delivery options for the recipients from the buyer, receives delivery information for the recipients from the buyer, and delivers electronic ticket information to the recipients. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051929 | AD HOC REPORTING WITH SMART LISTS - Technologies are generally described for a list designer pane for customizing data lists in an enterprise management application (EMA). An EMA may include tools for managing complex business data. An example tool for managing business data enables the creation of a smart data list which includes customized data records to enable efficient data management and analysis. The EMA provides a list designer pane to facilitate user creation and customization of the new data list. The list designer pane enables selection of data tables and fields to include in a new list, enables creation of relationships between fields and tables included in the new list, and enables filtering of data included in the new list based on user defined criteria. The new list can be created from an existing data list as a template, and can also be created from a blank template. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051930 | APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SALES SUPPORT SYSTEM - An application development sales support system for a mechanism in which IT vendors and other entities provide system development environments as services by means of cloud computing environments for providing support in providing suitable business materials at suitable timings in accordance with development statuses of clients utilizing the development environments as sales activities. The application development sales support system includes: a development status extracting unit for acquiring information of development statuses related to developments of application programs by the clients using the development environment from the development environment and recording them on a development status recording device; and an evaluation/analysis unit for outputting information related to corresponding specific sales instructions based on information of the development statuses of the clients recorded on the development status recording device when pieces of information match previously set rules. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051931 | System and Method for Providing Asset Accountability Information - Disclosed herein are systems and related methods for providing real-time accountability, including both location and function, for mobile assets such as individuals and equipment associated with various companies or other organizations. A Personnel Accountability Logic (PAL) system in accordance with the disclosed principles uniquely provides for the accounting of personnel and/or equipment location and designated functionality using a publicly available communications network, such as a computer network like the Internet or even a telecommunications network like mobile telephone communications networks. By providing accountability information in real-time across existing publicly available communications networks, a system or method in accordance with the disclosed principles is not hindered by the expense and maintenance of a private, dedicated communications network, nor is its use limited to any one particular company or other organization. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051932 | CONCURRENCY-BASED PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A project management system is presented. The project management system leverages the concurrency of progress of at least two disciplines within a project as a performance metric with respect to management of the project. The concurrency of progress is defined as a degree to which two or more discipline's activities are concurrent with respect to completion. The project management system (1) produces a forecasted progress of multiple disciplines within a construction project based on the actual progress of the disciplines, (2) analyzes the concurrency between at least two disciplines based on the forecasted progress to identify any undesirable concurrency characteristics that may lead to a potential problem, and (3) generates a recommendation to change at least one attribute of the disciplines as a measure to avoid the undesirable concurrency characteristics. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051933 | ASYNCHRONOUS FEED OF TAGGED CONTENT BASED ON TIME CRITERIA - In one example, an asynchronous feed of tagged content based on time criteria includes tagging content into content segments and tagging the content with a duration. The method also includes scheduling consumption of the content segments using a schedule at least one user and providing the content segments through an asynchronous feed. Additionally, a computing device for an asynchronous feed of tagged content based on time criteria is provided. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051934 | ASYNCHRONOUS FEED OF TAGGED CONTENT BASED ON TIME CRITERIA - In one example, an asynchronous feed of tagged content based on time criteria includes tagging content into content segments and tagging the content with a duration. The method also includes scheduling consumption of the content segments using a schedule at least one user and providing the content segments through an asynchronous feed. Additionally, a computing device for an asynchronous feed of tagged content based on time criteria is provided. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051935 | SCHEDULING FOR SERVICE PROJECTS VIA NEGOTIATION - Assignment scheduling for service projects, in one aspect, may comprise preparing input parameter data for servicing a client service request; generating a schedule for servicing the client service request by executing an optimization algorithm with the input parameter data; determining whether the schedule is acceptable by the client; and repeating automatically the preparing, the generating, the transmitting and the determining until it is determined that the schedule is acceptable by the client, wherein each iteration automatically prepares different input parameter data for inputting to the optimization algorithm and generates a different schedule based on the different input parameter data. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051936 | RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION PRODUCTS - Disclosure is a resource planning system and method for classification products. The system comprises an input module and a planning module. The input module is used to receive wafer information, manufacturing process information, classification product information and order information. The wafer information comprises a wafer purchasing cost and a wafer inventory cost; the manufacturing process information comprises a production distribution and a production cost for the manufacturing process; the classification product information comprises a classification product inventory cost; the order information comprises a sale amount of customer orders and a penalty cost by unmet orders. The planning module calculates a profit by deducting the wafer purchasing cost, the production cost, the wafer inventory cost, the classification product inventory cost and the penalty cost from the sale amount. The profit gets the maximum value by planning resource allocation of each module. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051937 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFSET MANAGEMENT - A system and method for managing offset project data is provided. The system includes a device which maintains the project data. Project data includes data regarding offset requirements. Transaction data can be associated with the project which can help satisfy at least a portion of the project offset requirements. Transaction data also includes causality and incrementality data for proving a transaction. Proving a transaction can be based on communications accumulated and stored at the device. To help with the communications data gathering, messaging accounts can be provided at the device that are associated with the transactions. When communicating, parties to the transaction can CC or copy the provided account as a way of automatically storing the communications. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051938 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING FUEL MIX, FUEL ALLOCATION AND SCHEDULING OF GENERATOR RESOURCES - Embodiments of the invention provide systems, methods, and apparatus for receiving input information including at least one of generator parameters, energy output requirements, fuel cost, fuel availability, and a maintenance schedule; creating a resource model based on the input information wherein creating the resource model includes linearizing a quadratic objective function and linearizing a quadratic gas constraints function; generating an optimized operating schedule, fuel mix, and allocation plan from the resource model based on the input information; and controlling the generator resources to optimally meet energy output requirements using the operating schedule fuel mix, and allocation plan. Numerous other aspects are provided. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051939 | PRODUCTION PROJECT PROPOSAL DETERMINATION METHOD, PRODUCTION PROJECT PROPOSAL DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A production plan planning method having: receiving, by a computer, an order including production time information on a product in a received order condition as received order information; searching, by the computer, the production schedule information storage part for production schedule information on the product stored in the received order information; allocating, by the computer, production schedule information on each process for the at least one first component to the retrieved production schedule information; and controlling, by the computer, the allocated production schedule information on the each process to take over the production time information, the third step comprising allocating production schedule information satisfying the production time information included in the received order condition of the received order information to the each process, the fourth step comprising controlling the respective allocated processes to sequentially take over production time information on a first process of the product. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051940 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN AND ANALYSIS - Systems and methods for supply chain design and analysis to optimize costs associated with a supply chain are described. According to an embodiment, the supply chain management system comprises a data extraction module, an analysis module, and a presentation module coupled to a processor. The data extraction module obtains supply chain data from one or more data sources. The analysis module analyzes a plurality of parameters and at least one future state map to ascertain at least one business scenario. Further, the analysis module identifies flow constraints in the at least one business scenario based on a flow analysis. Further, the analysis module selects decision parameters from amongst the plurality of parameters based on the flow constraints and a simulation feedback. Further, the analysis module simulates at least one experimental design based on the decision parameters. Furthermore, the presentation module generates, a plurality of maps based on visual analytics. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051941 | SHIPPER/RECEIVER FLEET OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for providing a graphical interface and application for managing assets and products in and between shipper/receiver facilities such as a plant, a port, a warehouse, or a lot. Embodiments of the invention provide a shipper/receiver management software application configured to manage assets and products pro-actively by maximizing visibility of the shipper/receiver facility and by providing selectable options to a user to improve operations across the shipper/receiver facility and between shipper/receiver facilities. Aspects can be directed toward fleet and individual asset optimization according to various constraints and values, including orders, availability, revenues, costs, and others. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051942 | SMART CLOUD WORKLOAD BALANCER - A method and system for dynamically optimizing workload of a cloud computing system. The cloud computing system is configured into an operative status by defining a virtual machine (VM) topology representing a respective virtual machine assignment for each physical server of the cloud computing system. An objects database (ODB) stores: business policies, a respective software cost per software application in one or more software license pools, and a power cost of the cloud computing system. It is determined that the cloud computing system does not perform optimally with respect to a total cost of the cloud computing system, which is a sum of the respective software cost and the power cost. The workload of the cloud computing system is distributed pursuant to a new VM topology that has a minimum total cost of the cloud computing system pursuant to the business policies stored in the ODB. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051943 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATING DEVICE DATA WITH CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - A method of integrating device data into a customer relationship management (CRM) application comprises retrieving configuration data of the CRM application from a data storage device; retrieving device data associated with one or more devices from a device management system; and generating user-selectable options of a workflow configuration for the retrieved device data, the user-selectable workflow configuration options based on the retrieved configuration data of the CRM application. The method also comprises creating the workflow configuration based on user selections of the user-selectable options; and processing device data from the device management system according to the workflow configuration for the retrieved device data. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051944 | Conveyance Planning Using Dartboard Network - A processor constructs a shortest forest of paths between a set of destination nodes and a set of source nodes, each path passing through a same number of intermediate nodes. The processor selects a set of node-independent paths from the shortest forest of paths such that no two node-independent paths pass through a same node other than a source node or a destination node of the node-independent paths. The processor uses the node-independent paths to schedule movement of items from at least one source node in the set of source nodes to at least one destination node in the set of destination nodes. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051945 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL FUTURE INTERACTION RISKS BETWEEN A CLIENT AND A PROVIDER - A method for identifying potential future interaction risks between a client and a provider using a computer server is disclosed. Transactions between the client and the provider are conducted in association with one or more communication platforms and the method includes storing client data on the computer server received from a variety of data sources including client claims data, and storing agent data on the computer server received from a variety of data sources. The method further includes obtaining feedback data related to at least one of the client, the agent, and one of the transactions and analyzing the data to identify potential future transactional problems. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051946 | WEIGHTING SENTIMENT INFORMATION - Weighting sentiment information includes capturing sentiment information of a post from an electronic source, categorizing the post into categories based on the sentiment information, and assigning a weight to the post based on an interest attribute. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051947 | Systems and Methods for Transaction-Based Profiling of Customer Behavior - A system and method is provided for updating customer profiles based on current information on merchant transactions performed by the customers. The customer profiles, which include data fields for customer attributes, are stored in a profile data base. The customer profiles may be updated when a batch of merchant-customer transaction reports in a given time period becomes available. The information in the batch of merchant-customer transaction reports, which may be supplemented with additional known information on the merchants and/or customers, is sorted by customer account number. The customer profiles then are updated, one customer account number at time, using the sorted information. Profiling models which relate transaction types or characteristics to customer attributes are used to assign updated values to the customer attribute data fields. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051948 | BEHAVIORAL ATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS METHOD AND DEVICE - Provided is a technology for extracting a user behavior pattern from history data accumulating personal behaviors, and enabling exhaustive and efficient analysis of a user behavior tendency or features from various aspects, such as location and time, using the pattern. A behavioral characteristics analysis device according to the present invention expresses a behavior pattern by scene vectors describing behaviors of a set of persons as scene values in each time band, extracts a life pattern included in all of the set of persons by clustering the scene vectors, and performs classification based on to which life pattern each person belongs (see FIG. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051949 | DEMAND-BASED MATCHING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide devices, systems, and methods of using location-based virtual audience feedback to estimate interest in an attraction at one or more venues. Certain embodiments provide devices, systems, and methods of using location-based virtual audience feedback and/or other audience data to estimate interest in a plurality of attractions or other items of interest at a particular venue. Some embodiments relate to matching techniques that use virtual feedback to estimate demand for a match. Examples of matches include a match between an attraction and a venue, a candidate for a government position and a constituency, a player and a sports team, a film and a theater, and a retail good and a shelf location. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051950 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND PREDICTING CONSUMER BEHAVIOR - Method of analyzing and predicting consumer behavior includes receiving a plurality of consumer answers to a plurality of questions, each answer having a unique consumer identity, each question corresponding to: a lifestyle attitude sector having a plurality segments; a consumer mindset sector having segments; a product preference sector having segments; an influencer sector having segments; and a need state sector having segments. The method further includes assigning a value to each user answer, creating a composite value associating the consumer identity with a particular lifestyle attitude segment, consumer mindset segment, product preference segment, influencer segment, and need state segment, and comparing the composite value with a plurality of product values each associated with a respective plurality of products in a product database. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051951 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING ONLINE SURVEYS AND SURVEY CREATORS - A system can include a question repository to store multiple sets of questions, each set of questions including questions that may have a superficial, semantic, or open-ended modifier portion. A survey management module can allow a user to select a set of questions from the question repository for an online survey. A benchmarking module can group questions by semantic modifier options and provide an analysis based on information about the survey-creator and other survey-creators. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051952 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUERY INPUT VIA TELEPHONY DEVICES - Providers of goods and services may desire human input regarding the products that they offer. A vocal query service provides a mechanism to present queries to human respondents. A human respondent may be presented with information and subsequently queried as to their opinion. The respondents receiving the query may be selected based upon profiles containing demographic information, interest information, desired contact time, and the like. Prospective respondents may be contacted via a personal telephone at a time of their choosing and may choose whether or not to respond. During the query, should a respondent require assistance, the respondent may be contact a customer service agent. Query respondents may be motivated to participate, as the query is designed to appeal to respondent's interest and is presented at a convenient time. The query service may also increase the customer service agents to expand the query to additional human respondents in near-real time. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051953 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GEOLOCATION MAPPING OF INDOOR LOCATIONS USING PAYMENT DATA - A method for mapping merchant boundaries includes: storing, in a transaction database, a plurality of transaction data entries, wherein each transaction data entry includes data related to a payment transaction including at least a merchant identifier, a consumer identifier, and a transaction time and/or date; identifying, in the transaction database, a subset of transaction data entries, wherein each transaction data entry in the subset of transaction data entries includes a common merchant identifier; receiving, for each transaction data entry in the identified subset of transaction data entries, a geographic location of a mobile communication device associated with the respective included consumer identifier temporally proximal to the respective included transaction time and/or date; and generating, by a processing device, a boundary map for a merchant associated with the common merchant identifier based on the geographic locations received for each transaction data entry in the identified subset of transaction data entries. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051954 | CUSTOMER SATISFACTION MONITORING SYSTEM - A monitoring system for monitoring user assessment information at a predetermined location in real time is disclosed. The system includes user input means positioned at the location to capture the user assessment information and data storage means to store the user assessment information where the user assessment information also includes time and location information identifying the time and location of the capturing of the user assessment information. The system further includes data processing means to process the user assessment information in combination with other related user assessment information captured at different times to generate summary information. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051955 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC PRICE MATCHING - When a consumer selects and checks out merchandise at a point of sale of a merchant, price matching is automatically performed for the selected merchandise and the merchant has the opportunity to price match competitors' prices. The price of the merchandise is automatically adjusted based on the merchant's price matching policy. Thus, the customer may receive the benefit of price matching automatically during the checkout process. Further, prices offered at the merchant and at the competitors are continuously monitored for a period of time after purchase. When lower prices are found during the period of time, the purchase price is automatically adjusted and the amount difference between the purchase price and the lower price is automatically refunded to the customer's payment account. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051956 | SIMPLE PRICING BY PRICE-DIFFERENCE REGULARIZATION - A method and system for determining an optimized price schedule that controls the simplicity of a price schedule while maintaining efficiency in terms of welfare. A welfare function and a simplicity metric representing a simplicity of price schedules are determined. A full objective, corresponding to a comparison of the welfare with respect to the simplicity of each price schedule is determined and an optimized price schedule, representing the schedule having the highest computed full objective, is output. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051957 | MEASURING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE VALUE - A disclosed method includes determining a customer experience value (CXV) of an entity by a server computer. The CXV may be determined by calculating a customer acquisition value of the entity, calculating a customer retention value of the entity, and calculating an operation efficiency value of the entity. The customer acquisition value may be based on at least one of a measure of acquisition performance of the entity or a measure of operational performance of the entity. The customer retention value may be based on at least one of a measure of customer retention or a measure of service quality. The operation efficiency value may be based on at least one of a measure of operating costs of the entity or a measure of strategic costs of the entity. The method includes using, by a customer relationship management application, the determined CXV to indicate a measure of customer satisfaction. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051958 | Apparatus and Method for Providing A Computer-Implemented Portable Environment for In-Class Educator Observation - A computer-implemented, portable environment for in-class educator observation allows an observer to easily capture and date-stamp the observer's in-class observations of educator performance, and then to easily align such observations to template standards of an observation template, all in a way that allows the observer to focus on capturing details about the educator performance rather than on the data-gathering process. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051959 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing device including an association unit configured to associate content of which a first post destination is designated by a first user with a predetermined advertisement, and a transmission control unit configured to transmit the content associated with the predetermined advertisement by the association unit to the first post destination as affiliate content, and when the affiliate content is reproduced in the first post destination and then a second post destination is designated by a second user, to transmit a duplicate of the affiliate content of which the second post destination has been designated to the second post destination. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051960 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBING COUPONS WITH FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS - A system for linking coupons to financial accounts using a mobile device that includes a financial institution database that stores an account of an account holder, a communication interface of a financial institution that receives, via a network, coupon data associated with one or more discounts from a mobile device of the account holder, a linking processor that associates the coupon data with the account of the account holder, an authorization network interface that receives transaction data relating to transactions associated with the account of the account holder, a comparison processor of a financial institution that determines compares the coupon data with the transaction data to determine whether a qualifying transaction has occurred, and a discount processor of a financial institution that provides a credit to an account holder when a qualifying transaction has occurred. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051961 | Idea Collection and Tracking System Based on Investing Game - A system and a method are disclosed for collecting and tracking ideas. A description of an idea is received by an innovation system from an idea owner. The innovation system sends the description of the idea to multiple investors. Requests to support the idea are received by the innovation system from the investors. The requests to support the idea include an investment amount. After the aggregate investment amount from every investor is greater than a threshold, the innovation system approves the idea. The innovation system then rewards the investors that supported an approved idea. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051962 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR COUPON DISTRIBUTION - A method and a system for distributing coupons for buying articles enabling a first user to provide a second user with an entitlement to a coupon, enabling the second user to obtain the coupon providing a price reduction for buying an article, and, upon the purchase of the article using the coupon, providing a commission to the first user. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051963 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Information related to a privilege is caused to be presented so as to increase the probability that a user purchases a transaction target. An information processing apparatus detects a predetermined operation of a user which is defined as an operation where purchase motivation for a transaction target is higher than that of an operation to display transaction target information related to the transaction target and which is other than an operation of a user which is necessary to purchase in a transaction site where the transaction target can be purchased. When the predetermined operation is detected, the information processing apparatus causes privilege information related to a privilege which is given to the user to be presented on condition that the user purchases the transaction target targeted by the detected operation. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051964 | PROVIDING OFFERS FOR LOCAL DISCOUNTED GOODS AND SERVICES - A method and data processing system provide offers for discounted goods or services. The method includes generating a list of offers for discounted goods or services. The method includes generating an identification of at least one of a current number of selections of an offer or a number of remaining selections available for the offer. The method includes sending, for a selection of the offer by a user, at least a unique identifier for the offer to the user without requesting payment from the user for the selection of the offer and updating the current number of selections or the number of remaining selections available. The method includes sending a notification of the selection and the unique identifier for the selected offer to a seller of the discounted goods or services. Additionally, the method includes requesting payment from the seller for the selection of the offer by the user. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051965 | MEDIA CONTENT MANAGEMENT - In one example embodiment, a system includes a first device configured to transmit a request for temporary user rights to media content; and a server configured to: receive the request from the first device, transmit, to a second device having full user rights to the media content, a notification that the server will issue the temporary user rights to the media content to a user account authenticated on the first device, receive, from the second device, an approval to issue the temporary user rights to the media content to the user account authenticated on the first device, issue the temporary user rights to the user account authenticated on the first device, and temporarily revoke the full user rights to the media content from a user account authenticated on the second device. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051966 | ADVERTISING AND FULFILLMENT SYSTEM - A method is provided for a method of purchasing goods online, which allows end users to receive money in return for browsing the internet and making purchases. According to the features of the invention, the end user enters a profile into YOUniverse, which is uploaded to the database. The user then logs in to search for items and the advertisement search results are specific to the end user's profile. The user controls the amount of information in their profile; however, more information yields better advertisement results and more money. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051967 | MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASURMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Media monitoring and measurement systems and methods are disclosed. Some embodiments of the present invention provide a media measurement system and method that utilizes audience data to enhance content identifications. Some embodiments analyze media player log data to enhance content identification. Other embodiments of the present invention analyze sample sequence data to enhance content identifications. Other embodiments analyze sequence data to enhance content identification and/or to establish channel identification. Yet other embodiments provide a system and method in which sample construction and selection parameters are adjusted based upon identification results. Yet other embodiments provide a method in which play-altering activity of an audience member is deduced from content offset values of identifications corresponding to captured samples. Yet other embodiments provide a monitoring and measurement system in which a media monitoring device is adapted to receive a wireless or non-wireless audio signal from a media player, the audio signal also being received wirelessly by headphones of a user of the monitoring device. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051968 | Integrated Architecture for Performing Online Advertising Allocations - An improved architecture including system and methods for online advertising placement that provide possibly defaulting advertisement tags the opportunity to serve an advertisement ahead of a lower value tag that is guaranteed to fill, resulting in higher CPMs (i.e., Cost Per Mille) for web publishers. The system and methods are configured to deterministically render an advertisement impression from a list of possibly defaulting advertisements in a JavaScript-enabled web browser. The knowledge of the complete outcome of such an “ad chain” at render-time significantly reduces complexity and latency in the supporting ad server. The system and method centers around a novel JavaScript approach to detect when an advertisement has been loaded but not defaulted. Additionally, the system and methods integrate the network and RTB demand channels by looking at all demand sources simultaneously and selecting the buyer from within the user's browser, and address predictive pricing to further enhance the online advertising placement process. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051969 | ADVERTISEMENTS IN VIEW - A technique is provided to determine whether a region within a web page is viewable to a user through a browser window. Often, browsers will only show part of a web page at given time, creating a difficulty in establishing whether a region of the web page, which may be an advertisement for example, is in view. This is addressed by providing one or more test features within the region, rendering the web page, monitoring a behavioural characteristic of the test features and determining whether the region is in view based on the monitored behavioural characteristic, wherein the behavioural characteristic varies according to whether the test feature is currently being displayed. One example of a behavioural characteristic is a frame progression rate. Browsers will typically redraw elements of a web page at a higher rate if they are currently in view through the browser window, and this characteristic can therefore be used to determine whether the test feature, and thus the region, is in view. The present invention finds particular utility where the region contains an advertisement, as it allows an advertiser to discover whether the advertisement has been seen by users. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051970 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING FRAUDULENT ADVERTISEMENTS IN PAY-PER-CALL ADVERTISING - A method includes monitoring electronic network advertisements for policed advertising content via a fraud monitor, retrieving a pay-per-call advertisement of an advertiser via the fraud monitor based on the monitoring, analyzing the pay-per-call advertisement via the fraud monitor to confirm it as a suspect pay-per-call advertisement, establishing a fraud-detection telephone call via an advertisement telephone number of the suspect pay-per-call advertisement from a control telephone number of the fraud monitor and in response thereto connecting the fraud-detection telephone call to a target telephone number of the advertiser via a connection provider, and tracking and storing fraud-detection telephone call information, including the advertisement telephone number, the control telephone number, a publisher reference associated with the suspect pay-per-call advertisement, and the target telephone number, via the fraud monitor, of a telephone connection between the control telephone number and the target telephone number. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051971 | CLICK QUALITY CLASSIFICATION AND DELIVERY - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet flow associated with a click-through from an end user node destined for an advertiser server; extracting information from the packet flow; analyzing the extracted information to determine one or more characteristics of the packet flow; and classifying the packet flow based on the determined one or more characteristics; modifying the packet flow to include classification information to provide classification information indicating a quality level of the click-through. The packet flow may include a hypertext transfer protocol GET request. Modifying the packet flow may include adding a tag with classification information that indicates a likelihood of fraudulent click behavior associated with the packet flow. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051972 | ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL SYSTEM - Advertising networks in accordance with embodiments of the invention present offers to users that execute an installation package. One embodiment of the invention a computing device, including a processor and a memory connected to the processor and configured to store install software comprising a client application, wherein the install software configures the processor to execute the client application to obtain target information including data descriptive of the computing device, transmit a request for a set of target offers, where the request includes the target information, obtain a list of target offers identifying at least one installation package that modifies the computing device, and display the list of target offers. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051973 | CONTEXTUAL-BANDIT APPROACH TO PERSONALIZED NEWS ARTICLE RECOMMENDATION - Methods and apparatus for performing computer-implemented personalized recommendations are disclosed. User information pertaining to a plurality of features of a plurality of users may be obtained. In addition, item information pertaining to a plurality of features of the plurality of items may be obtained. A plurality of sets of coefficients of a linear model may be obtained based at least in part on the user information and/or the item information such that each of the plurality of sets of coefficients corresponds to a different one of a plurality of items, where each of the plurality of sets of coefficients includes a plurality of coefficients, each of the plurality of coefficients corresponding to one of the plurality of features. In addition, at least one of the plurality of coefficients may be shared among the plurality of sets of coefficients for the plurality of items. Each of a plurality of scores for a user may be calculated using the linear model based at least in part upon a corresponding one of the plurality of sets of coefficients associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of items, where each of the plurality of scores indicates a level of interest in a corresponding one of a plurality of items. A plurality of confidence intervals may be ascertained, each of the plurality of confidence intervals indicating a range representing a level of confidence in a corresponding one of the plurality of scores associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of items. One of the plurality of items for which a sum of a corresponding one of the plurality of scores and a corresponding one of the plurality of confidence intervals is highest may be recommended. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051974 | RECOMMENDATION OF NETWORK OBJECT INFORMATION TO USER - Recommending network object information to a user includes, for each of a plurality of network objects, a respective plurality of behavior frequencies by the user is determined; a network object among the plurality of network objects that is of interest to the user is identified, the identification being based at least in part on the respective plurality of behavior frequencies that corresponds to each of the plurality of network objects; and additional information relating to the identified network object is provided to the user. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051975 | GEOLOCATION CONVERSIONS BASED ON PRODUCT OR SERVICE AVAILABILITY - Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to using position information to provide advertisements. More specifically, wireless network access point data may be used to identify the position of a mobile device in an indoor space, which, in turn, may be used to identify products within the vicinity of the identified position. Based on the identified products, a server may send advertisements of the same or related products available at other locations to the mobile device. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051976 | Mobile Device Detection and Identification - Systems, methods and computer-readable media for detecting a mobile device and identifying a user of the device are provided. A wireless signature or other unique identifier of a device may be detected. User information for the device may be obtained from a secondary source independent of the mobile device. Once a user is identified, user information may be retrieved and the user identity and user information may be associated with a mobile device. When the mobile device is then detected at a later time (e.g., after the information has been associated with the device), one or more offers may be generated based on the associated information and/or the location of the device at the time it is detected. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051977 | CREDIT PREAUTHORIZATION ON USER DEVICE DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - There is provided systems and method for credit preauthorization on user device detection. The methods include receiving merchant information and user information, wherein the user information is received after a user device corresponding to the user information is determined to be in a geographic area corresponding to the merchant information, determining a credit preauthorization amount based on the user information, and transmitting the credit preauthorization amount to a merchant device corresponding to the merchant information. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051978 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PROMOTION OF A SOCIAL EVENT IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes determining a score for at least one parameter associated with an event and a user and applying to the score a filter associated with the at least one parameter to determine whether the score falls within a range defined by the filter. The method also includes displaying the event to the user if the score falls within the range defined by the filter and hiding the event from the user if the score falls outside of the range defined by the filter. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051979 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PERSONALIZING ONLINE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS - Personalized electronic content is generated for display on a user computer. The content is generated by first matching a targeted user online identifier to one of a plurality of user online identifiers associated with a master ID in a database. Using online user behavior associated with the user online identifiers of the master ID, a preliminary set of personalized electronic content is generated. A set of content usage parameters is applied to the preliminary set of personalized electronic content to define the personalized electronic content, which is then transmitted and displayed on a user computer. The personalized electronic content may comprise targeted advertisement utilized to populate a webpage or an email template defined by an online marketing campaign. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051980 | PRICING ADVERTISEMENTS PRESENTED BY A CLIENT DEVICE IN A LIMITED FUNCTIONALITY STATE - A social networking system prices advertisements presented to a user of a social networking system via a client device in a state that provides the user with limited functionality by applying discount factors to bid amounts associated with advertisements selected for presentation. A discount factor is based on the likelihood of the user viewing or interacting with an advertisement via the social networking system presented while the client device is in the state providing the user with limited functionality. This likelihood is determined based on information including a history of user interaction with the client device and contextual information indicating whether the client device is in use. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051981 | SELECTING ADVERTISEMENTS FOR PRESENTATION BY A CLIENT DEVICE IN A LIMITED FUNCTIONALITY STATE - A social networking system selects advertisements for presentation to a user while a client device used by the user is in a state that provides limited functionality to the user, such as a locked state. Based on objectives associated with various advertisements, the social networking system determines interactions associated with advertisements and selects advertisements associated with interactions capable of being performed while the client device is in the state that provides limited functionality to the user or associated with no interaction. The social networking system sends the advertisements to the client device for display to the user while the client device is in the state of limited functionality. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051982 | APPLICATION AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND MANAGING A DATABASE CONTAINING MAILING ADDRESSES - An apparatus and method for capturing pictures and corresponding information and storing the picture and information in an accessible database. An interface, specifically a map overlay enable one to access information in the database based on geographic preferences. From the interface, direct mailings can be sent from a remote location. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051983 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING ADVERTISING EXPENSE IN MULTI-SCREEN SERVICE SYSTEM - A method for calculating an advertisement expense for a multi-screen system comprising a host terminal and at least one sharer terminal includes obtaining device information on the host terminal and the at least one sharer terminal, determining each calculation method for advertisement expenses for the host terminal and the at least one sharer terminal, based on device information, and calculating each advertisement expense for the host terminal and at least one sharer terminal, according to the respective calculation method, and obtaining a total advertisement expense for the multi-screen system by summing up each advertisement expense. Other embodiments including a method for processing advertising expenses at a host terminal and a server for calculating an advertisement expenses for a multi-screen system are also disclosed. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051984 | Value-Based Content Distribution - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a sponsor value that was used to select a content item for presentation in the first presentation position. The sponsor value can be determined based on a current bid associated with the content item and one or more previous bids that were previously associated with the content item. A first lower value of the sponsor value that will result in the content item being presented at a different presentation position of the resource is identified. A price to be charged for presentation of the content item is determined based on a bid value corresponding to the sponsor value and a difference in performance of the content item at the first presentation position and the different presentation position. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051985 | VALUE-BASED CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a content item request specifying that at least two presentation positions are available for presentation of content items. Current bids specifying amounts that two or more content sponsors are willing to pay to provide a content item in response to the content item request are identified. For each of the two or more content sponsors, a sponsor value is determined based, at least in part, on the current bid received for the content sponsor and one or more previous bids that were previously received for the content sponsor. At least one content sponsor is selected to provide a content item based at least in part on the sponsor values. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051986 | System Architecture and Methods for Facilitating Client-Side Real-Time Auctions of Advertising Inventory - System architecture and methods for enabling a client-side real-time auction of advertising inventory that works in conjunction with ad serving technologies. The method according to some embodiments of the present invention comprise: (i) an end-user visiting a web page wherein multiple advertisements are displayed, (ii) for each ad unit on the page, multiple parallel requests are sent from the end-user's browser client to multiple real-time bidders who respond with a bid & advertisement for each unit, (iii) the bids are compared within the end-user's browser and the winning bid is sent to an ad serving system to be compared with other statically priced advertisements and exchange demand to determine the winning advertisements that will be displayed to the end-user and (iv) data is aggregated for each bid and price limits are set based on the aggregations. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051987 | ADVERTISEMENT SELECTION AND PRICING BASED ON ADVERTISEMENT TYPE AND PLACEMENT - An online system selects advertisements for presentation in various advertisement slots to maximize the total value to the online system for advertisement presentation. Candidate advertisements for presentation to a user are identified and types of advertisements are associated with various advertisement slots. For example, types of advertisements are associated with advertisement slots based on values for presenting various types of advertisements in different advertisement slots and one or more ad placement rules. Candidate advertisements having an advertisement type associated with each advertisement slot are identified, and an expected value of various placements of the candidate advertisements having a type corresponding to advertisement slots is determined. Based on the expected values, a placement of candidate advertisements in advertisement slots is selected and presented to a user. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051988 | DETECTING MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES BASED ON SHARED ACCOUNT CHARACTERISTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - There is provided systems and method for detecting marketing opportunities based on shared account characteristics. The methods include receiving an account characteristic corresponding to an account of a user, determining at least a second account sharing the account characteristic, and associating the account of the user with the at least second account to form an account cluster corresponding to the account characteristic. The methods may further include transmitting at least one of an advertisement, a coupon, and a sale offer to the account of the user and the at least second account. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051989 | ADVERTISEMENT SCHEME FOR USE WITH INTERACTIVE CONTENT - A method for use in advertising includes initiating playing of interactive content, suspending playing of the interactive content, displaying an advertisement, and resuming playing of the interactive content. A computer program product includes a medium embodying a computer program for causing a computer to perform these operations, and a system for use in advertising includes a display and a processing system configured to perform these operations. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051990 | System for sale and automatic delivery of products in movie theaters during a film screening - The invention is the system for sale and automatic delivery of products in movie theaters during a film screening. The invention allows movie theaters' visitors to see information about, choose, order, pay and after that have automatically delivered directly to their seat in movie theater auditorium different products, such as drinks, popcorn and snacks. The key advantage given by the invention is movie theaters' visitors possibility to have these products bought and delivered during the film screening, without a need to interrupt a movie and go to concession stand. Embodiments of the invention are carried out as a complex of means for ordering and payment for products and also means for automatic delivery of ordered products. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051991 | INTERACTIVE FOOD AND DRINK ORDERING SYSTEM - An interactive food and/or drink ordering system, in which a computer controlled projector is mounted above a surface such that a menu of food and/or drink selection options is projected onto some or all of the surface. The selection options are selectable by a user operating an interface device connected to the computer, such as a wireless track pad. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051992 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS EMPLOYING TIME AND/OR LOCATION DATA FOR USE IN TRANSACTIONS - A method includes obtaining data from a portable electronic device in which the data regards information obtained using the portable electronic regarding the transaction, and information obtained using the portable electronic regarding at least one of a physical location of the portable electronic device when obtaining the information regarding the transaction and the time of the day when obtaining the information regarding the transaction, and processing the transaction based on the data regarding the information regarding the transaction and the at least one of the information regarding the physical location of the portable electronic device when obtaining the information regarding the transaction and the time of the day when obtaining the information regarding the transaction. The method may be employed in a point-of-sale transaction for the purchase of products at checkout. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051993 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION BASED HANDS-FREE PAYMENT - Certain aspects of a method and system for location based hands-free payment may include a network that comprises a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of point of sale devices. A first mobile device may determine its location coordinates and communicate them to a selected point of sale device. An authorization to execute a payment transaction may be triggered on the first mobile device when it is within a defined proximity of the selected point of sale device. In another embodiment of the invention, a first point of sale device may determine the location coordinates of a selected mobile device and trigger a notification based on a generated geo-fence when the selected mobile device is within a defined proximity of the first point of sale device. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051994 | Indoor Location Mapping and Wayfinding System - An Indoor location mapping and wayfinding system for mapping waypoints on an interactive mapping system that can function both indoors and outdoors based on user selections and location. It can include a shopping system that allows users to pre-select items for purchase, maps the items on an indoor map of the store, and provides a route to the user for the collection of the selected items. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051995 | Charitable Exchange for Sale and Liquidation of Products and Services - A method of selling a product for charity in a communications network includes providing a website communicatively connected to the communications network, receiving an offer of the product for discount from a seller device, via the website over the communications network, receiving a request for the product from a charitable device, via the website over the communications network, receiving a purchase order for the product from a contributor device, via the website over the communications network, transacting purchase of the product for discount by the contributor device, via the website over the communications network, and scheduling supply of the product of the step of transacting purchase to the charitable device, via the website over the communications network. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOMAIN NAME QUERY METRICS - A system and method for providing users an assessment tool for determining the level of demand for domain names. The assessment tool is configured to receive, by a server communicatively coupled to a network, a request from a requester. The request is used to identify a domain name and determine whether the domain name is registered. When the domain name is not registered, a search metric for the domain name is determined and a first user interface listing the domain name and the search metric is displayed. The first user interface enables the requester to purchase the domain name. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051997 | DYNAMIC PRICING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Dynamic pricing can be used in, for example, second price auctions for internet advertising. A safety margin is subtracted from a bid to generate a modified bid. Upon notice that the modified bid is successful, a total margin is determined The total margin is a difference between the modified bid and a winning bid. Use of dynamic pricing enables an advertiser to win more often than if a fixed margin greater than the safety margin is used. | 2015-02-19 |
20150051998 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING BAND CONFIGURATIONS - The disclosed embodiments relate to and the presentation thereof in a computer interface. Particularly, some embodiments facilitate the selection of combinations by a user. The combination may be, e.g., an engagement and a wedding ring. In some embodiments, an event-triggering architecture in the interface facilitates the selective updating of interface elements in a manner paralleling the desired process path traversed by the user. | 2015-02-19 |