| 09th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
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| 20160063527 | GENERATING CUSTOMER LISTS USING INTERPOLATED DATA DERIVED FROM SEVERE WEATHER INCIDENT DATA - A method of generating a list of targeted customers for a sales representative within a territory affected by a severe weather incident is provided using severe weather incident data, such as hailstone size, retrieved from a first database and customer data retrieved from a second database. The customer data and severe weather incident data are displayed onto a map viewable by a user and a targeted customer list is generated based on at least one user-selected parameter and the intersection of customer data points with weather data points. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063528 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL COUPONS - An approach for providing contextually relevant digital coupons on a user device is disclosed. A selection platform initiates a request for a digital coupon based on a first movement sensed at a device. A coupon category based on the request is determined and the digital coupon is selected. The selected digital coupon is then delivered to the device based on the request. Further, another or subsequent movement sensed at the device initiates another request for another digital coupon. The another digital coupon is selected from the determined coupon category. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063529 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE OFFER DETERMINATION - The optimization system monitors a mobile phone user's behavior in response to an offer for a reward and determines a good level for a product promotion. The determination may be made based upon the user's current response, past response patterns to various reward levels or a correlation between a user's behavior and the behavior corresponding to a class of users. The system can determine an offer level that maximizes the return on the profit or revenue from a potential purchase for which the offer applies. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063530 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSACTING BUSINESS OVER A GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SUCH AS THE INTERNET - A business model/process is described for conducting business transactions over the Internet, allowing buyers to reduce the price of the selected product/service based on the buyer's performance during a collateral activity. Sellers offer the product/service within a specified price range, and buyers accept the offer, in exchange for the opportunity to close the transaction at the lowest price offered by achieving a high score or performance rating during the collateral activity. The ultimate price is within the agreed upon range, but is determined based upon the buyer's performance and scaled to the performance at the collateral activity. The price may change throughout performance of the collateral activity, and the available price at any given time may be displayed or otherwise made available to the buyer. The price change may be continuous, at intervals, in response to certain events, etc. The activity may be a video game, electronic board game, sports bet, card game, or any other activity, and may be performed against the seller, a pre-programmed software opponent, a computer opponent, another buyer competing for the same or a different product, a player participating as a player only and not as a buyer, or anyone or anything else. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063531 | Providing prepaid subscribers with pre-disclosed discounted rates for a variety of service providers - A system and method for providing a prepaid subscription to discounted rates on select contracted service providers. The method comprises subscribing of the new website visitor to a prepaid contracted service membership; accessing to various contracted service providers and their contact information near current location; accessing to reviews and current customer ratings of contracted service providers; contacting and visiting contracted service providers; confirming validity of subscriber membership and receiving of discounted rates on applicable services. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ELECTRONICALLY INCENTIVIZING HEALTHY FOOD PURCHASING - In a health promotion system, a receipt relating to a purchase of food is received. The contents of the receipt are compared with wellness incentive and/or disincentive data. A user's incentive account is updated based on a result of the comparison of the receipt with the incentive/disincentive data. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063533 | METHOD OF DELIVERING AN ADVERTISING MESSAGE - A computer implemented method and system for delivering an advertising message to a user is disclosed. A media file containing an advertisement with an advertising message is output to a media playing device, user input responsive to a request for a predetermined user input related to the advertising message is received, and a predetermined action is taken if the received user input matches the predetermined user input, thereby confirming that the user has internalized the advertising message. The predetermined action may include skipping the commercial, crediting the user with rewards, or other predetermined action. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063534 | Customer Exercise Reward Method And Shopping Cart For Same - A customer exercise reward method includes measuring work done by a customer and pushing a shopping cart through a store. At a check out location in the store, a customer reward is determined proportional to the work done. An amount due by the customer to the store for items brought by the customer from item locations in the store to the check out location is determined. At least a portion of the customer reward is redeemed by reducing the amount due. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063535 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND WARNING METHOD OF SCREENING APPLICATIONS EXECUTABLE - In a warning method of screening applications executable executed by an electronic device, at least one executable file of an application is screened and compared with advertisement features in an advertisement feature library. The application is determined whether to include one or more advertisements. When the application includes one or more advertisements, a sign is marked on an icon of the application which is displayed on a display device of the electronic device. When receiving an instruction to execute the application which includes one or more advertisement, a warning massage is outputted to request for confirmation to execute the application. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063536 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING USER PROFILES - A method and system construct user profiles. The method includes collecting user associated metadata for a plurality of user profiles, distributing the user profiles into one or more user groups, receiving a request for content from one or more user profiles, transmitting the content to the one or more user profiles, recording the response of the one or more use profiles, and updating the user groups. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063537 | UPDATING PROMOTIONS PROVIDED TO SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPS - A device is configured to select a social media group to target with a promotion for an item. The device may generate the promotion. The promotion may indicate an offer for the item and indicate that the offer will change after a particular period of time. The device may provide the promotion to the social media group via a social media website. The device may determine an updated offer for the promotion based on at least one of a quantity of items sold during the particular period of time or a review of the item posted on the social media website by a member of the social media group. The device may update the promotion provided to the social media group, via the social media website, to indicate the updated offer after the particular period of time expires. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063538 | MARKETING PLATFORM THAT DETERMINES ADVERTISEMENTS AND MARKETING CHANNELS FOR THE ADVERTISEMENTS - A device receives user information associated with users of user devices, and receives marketing information associated with products and services. The marketing information includes information associated with advertisements for the products and the services. The device generates user profiles, associated with the users, based on the user information and the marketing information, and groups the user profiles based on the user information to create user segments. The device generates scores for the advertisements based on the marketing information, and correlates the advertisements with users of the user segments based on the scores for the advertisements. The device determines marketing channels for the advertisements based on the marketing information and the correlated user segments, and causes the advertisements to be provided to user devices associated with the users of the correlated user segments, via the determined marketing channels. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063539 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ASSOCIATE TRANSACTIONS WITH MEDIA IMPRESSIONS - Methods and apparatus to associate transactions with media impressions are disclosed. An example method includes transmitting a request for commercial transaction information to a database proprietor, the request including an identifier corresponding to a media impression associated with media presented via a computing device; receiving the commercial transaction information in response to the request, the commercial transaction information comprising data associated with a commercial transaction conducted using an account accessed by the computing device; and associating the media impression with the commercial transaction. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063540 | METHOD FOR REVENUE GENERATION AND REVENUE SHARING FROM A MOBILE APPLICATION - A method to share revenue from advertisements in a mobile application comprises receiving a first indication wirelessly over the Internet from the mobile application of a user denoting a viewing of an advertisement, attributing the viewing to the user of the mobile application, tracking a first revenue generated based on the viewing of the advertisement, identifying an advertiser whose advertisement has been viewed by the user, associating a payment obligation to the advertiser with the first revenue, and determining the first revenue to be shared with the user at a first predetermined rate. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063541 | METHOD FOR DETECTING BRAND COUNTERFEIT WEBSITES BASED ON WEBPAGE ICON MATCHING - The invention relates to a website icon matching-based detection method for brand counterfeit websites. The website icon matching-based detection method for the brand counterfeit websites comprises the following steps: (1) collecting icons of websites which have been counterfeited by greater than a set threshold value, and acquiring webpage icons of the websites to establish a brand icon image set BrandSet; (2) extracting webpage icons of the websites based on a plurality of webpage uniform resource locators (URL) of to-be-detected websites to establish a to-be-detected image set DetectSet; (3) matching images in the BrandSet with those in the DetectSet, and determining whether the two sets include matched images; (4) finding the webpage URLs associated with the matched images, and determining whether the webpage URLs associated with the matched images have right of use for the associated brand icons; and (5) identifying the webpage URLs without right of use for the brand icon in step (4) as brand counterfeit websites. The disclosed method of detecting counterfeit websites by right of webpage icon has not previously been utilized. The disclosed method is easy to implement, has high detection rate, and is easy to popularize. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063542 | PROVIDING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A PRODUCT - As provided herein, information associated with a first product may be provided to a device using an identifier that corresponds to the device and that is received from a different device. For example, a selection associated with the first product may be received (e.g., by a server) from the different device. A request for the identifier may be provided (e.g., by the server) to the different device. The identifier may be received (e.g., by the server) from the different device, and information associated with the first product may be provided (e.g., by the server) to the second device using the identifier. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063543 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A MANAGED BRANDED MARKETPLACE - The present disclosure provides methods and systems for managing an online marketplace platform for branded marketing content. The methods and systems include a receiving module configured to receive one or more of branded marketing content by a plurality of branded marketing content providers, a displaying module configured to display one or more of branded marketing content by a respective set of the plurality of branded marketing content providers, and a contracting module to enable contracting a deal between the first of one or more of branded content providers with the advertiser. The displaying module enables selection of the set of one or more of branded marketing content to present to the advertiser. The advertiser and the one or more of branded content providers strikes a deal on meeting of pre-defined conditions. The advertiser may request based on a predefined criteria and a pre-defined one or more formats. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063544 | MARKETING PLATFORM THAT DETERMINES A TARGET USER SEGMENT BASED ON THIRD PARTY INFORMATION - A device receives user information associated with users of user devices of a network, and receives marketing information associated with advertisements for products and/or services. The device creates user profiles, associated with the users, based on the user information, and groups the user profiles, based on the user information, to create a user segment. The device receives third party user information relating to third party users associated with third party user devices of a third party network, and associates the third party user information with the user segment. The device identifies, based on the association, a target user segment that includes a particular user associated with a particular user device. The device determines an advertisement based on a user profile associated with the particular user and based on the marketing information, and causes the advertisement to be provided to the particular user device, via the service provider network. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063545 | REAL-TIME FINANCIAL SYSTEM ADS SHARING SYSTEM - A method, system, and computer readable medium for automatically selecting target consumers and delivering business-initiated messages to the selected target consumers, as well as automatically selecting target businesses and delivering consumer-initiated messages to the selected target businesses. In particular, financial management applications used by the businesses and consumers are employed in targeting and delivering the business-initiated messages and consumer-initiated messages. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063546 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING TIMELY AND TARGETED OFFERS - A method for making a timely and targeted offer by an entity to an audience of potential acceptors is provided. The method involves retrieving information including purchasing and payment activity information attributable to the audience having a transaction, date and time identifier; retrieving information including website browsing information attributable to the audience having a website, date and time identifier for one or more websites visited by the audience; correlating the information to generate one or more predictive behavioral models; identifying time and date patterns associated with activities and characteristics attributable to the audience; and conveying to the entity the time and date patterns associated with the activities and characteristics attributable to the audience, to enable the entity to make a timely and targeted offer to the audience. A system for making a timely and targeted offer by an entity to an audience of potential acceptors is also provided. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063547 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING TARGETED OFFERS - A method for making a targeted offer by an entity to an audience of potential acceptors using a media streaming service is provided. The method includes retrieving information including purchasing and payment activity information attributable to the audience of potential acceptors; retrieving information including social media information indicative of one or more media listening or viewing patterns, interests or preferences of the audience of potential acceptors; correlating the information to generate one or more predictive behavioral models; identifying activities and characteristics attributable to the audience of potential acceptors; and conveying to the entity the activities and characteristics attributable to the audience of potential acceptors, to enable the entity to make a targeted offer to the audience of potential acceptors. A system for making a targeted offer by an entity to an audience of potential acceptors is also provided. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063548 | Selecting Alternative Content Based on Content Presented to a User of an Online System - An online system allows an advertiser to specify an advertisement (“ad”) request including information describing multiple products, where one of the products was previously presented to a user of the online system to be presented with the ad request. The additional products included in the ad request are selected based on a measure of their relevance to the product included in the ad request. An advertiser provides the online system with an identity of the user and the product previously presented to the user. The one or more additional products may be specified by the advertiser, may be selected by the online system from a product catalog of the advertiser, or may be selected based on their relevance scores with the product previously presented to the user. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063549 | PROVIDING ADDITIONAL DIGITAL CONTENT OR ADVERTISING BASED ON ANALYSIS OF SPECIFIC INTEREST IN THE DIGITAL CONTENT BEING VIEWED - Systems and methods are described to provide additional relevant content to a viewer of digital media such as a webpage. A webpage being viewed is divided into regions and in each region, statistics are compiled on pertinent words and phrases. Statistically significant words and phrases are compared with semantically similar words and phrases in the additional content. Where there is a significant match between the viewed content and available additional content, the additional content is provided to the user. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063550 | CONTENT PRESENTATION BASED ON TRANSACTION HISTORY - Apparatuses, system, methods, and computer program products are presented for presenting content based on transaction data. A selection module selects a user for an offer in response to the user's financial transaction data satisfying a transaction metric associated with the offer. A location module determines a target location for an offer based on a user's financial transaction data. A location module monitors location data from one or more sensors for a user relative to a target location. An offer module dynamically provides an offer to a user in response to monitored location data from one or more sensors satisfying a target location. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063551 | THREE DIMENSIONAL PROXIMITY RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to provide proximity recommendations are provided. In example embodiments, data representing prioritized recommendations for a user is received. The data representing the prioritized recommendations is used to generated a composite visual representation by embedding select prioritized recommendations into a visual representation. The composite visual representation presents a higher prioritized recommendation in a more spatially prominent manner than a lower prioritized recommendation. The composite visual representation is then presented to the user. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063552 | PROVIDING A MODIFIED CONTENT ITEM TO A USER - Methods and systems for generating a content item associated with search results and, based on a subsequent return to the search results, providing the content item in a modified manner. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063553 | Apparatus, System and Method for a Commercial Content Provider Controller for Controlling Ad Content Provided with Web Page and Search Results - An Internet-based Commercial Content Provider Controller (CCPC) system and method that allows individual users to select and modify the commercial content provider, control the commercial content (ads) layout and choice of the commercial content provided with the Web page or as part of the search engine results delivered to such users by various Websites and search engines. The CCPC establishes and provide user with selection options and control over the CCPs and ad formats as part of the registration process or as a plugin for the browser, and further allows to replace ads appearing in the Web page results and search engine results by reference to the ad pattern database of commonly used ad pattern for Web sites that include commercial content, ad content providers and search engines in different regions and replacing the ads with those that correspond to user's preferences and CCP choices concerning ad content. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063554 | DIMENSIONAL TRANSLATOR - A dimensional translator may automatically translate a dimension from an entity to a different dimension of another entity. The dimensional translator may do so by comparing attributes of the input dimension (the dimension to be translated) to attributes of a target data structure. An attribute may include, for example, hierarchy of a data structure, relationships of a data structure, a keyword associated with a data structure, and a data value associated with the data structure. The dimensional translator may automatically determine how a target entity would categorize the item. In particular, a Universal Product Code dimension of an item provided by an entity may be translated into a data structure of a target entity such as a retailer in order to determine how an item identified by the UPC will be categorized by the retailer. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063555 | ADVERTISEMENT PLATFORM DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - This specification discloses an advertisement platform device and an operating method thereof. That is, an advertisement effect can be greatly promoted by providing an advertisement, which is desired by a user, at time instants desired by the user for desired times by using advertisement subscription information registered from a terminal device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063556 | TRIGGERING IMMERSIVE ADVERTISEMENTS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - The invention generally relates to systems and methods for advertising, and, more particularly, to systems and methods for triggering immersive advertising in a virtual universe. In an embodiment, a method includes: obtaining tolerance data about a user who triggers a virtual universe advertisement (VU-ad) in a virtual universe (VU); and presenting a variation of the VU-ad to the user based upon the tolerance data. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063557 | ADVERTISING TARGETING BASED ON IMAGE-DERIVED METRICS - Advertising targeting metrics for individuals can be derived from images associated with those individuals. Such advertising targeting metrics can include physical attributes, as well as preferences based on prior activity, or history. Public images associated with specific user identities can be processed and advertising targeting metrics can be derived therefrom to more accurately tailor the advertisements displayed to the individuals associated with those user identities. Additionally, non-public images can be likewise processed, either remotely or, for greater privacy, locally if so allowed by the user. Advertisers can then utilize the greater breath of advertising targeting metrics that can be derived from images to more accurately target advertisements to specific groups. In doing so, advertisers can submit their own images of exemplary targeted users, and the targeting metrics for those advertisers' advertisements can be automatically derived from the submitted images utilizing equivalent algorithms. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063558 | SHORT DISTANCE USER RECOGNITION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION USING SAME - Disclosed are a system for identifying a user at a close range and an information providing system and method using the same, and more particularly to a close-range user identification system and an information providing system and method using the same, in which at least one user located at a close range visible to a client's naked eyes is searched and identified through a network or close-range communication directing, and opened information of the at least one identified user or a location-based advertisement is given to the at least one searched user. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063559 | Method and Apparatus for Mobile Link to Advertising Content - A method and apparatus for accessing advertising content from a mobile device provides for establishing a link to a content server using location coordinates from a GPS receiver in the mobile device and a brief, simple code, for example composed of only two alpha and/or numeric characters displayed in a billboard advertisement and associated with the content server. Entering the code enables a link to the content server to obtain additional content for download to the mobile device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063560 | ACCELERATING ENGAGEMENT OF POTENTIAL BUYERS BASED ON BIG DATA ANALYTICS - A machine may be configured to accelerate the engagement of a user in a buying cycle. For example, the machine determines a level of engagement of particular member of a social networking service (SNS) with a seller entity that offers a product or service for sale. The machine selects an item of digital content that is determined to have a high likelihood of increasing the level of engagement of the particular member. The machine identifies an optimal communication channel for presenting the item of digital content to the particular member. The machine determines an optimal time to present the item of digital content to the particular member. The machine causes a display of a particular device associated with the particular member to present the item of digital content in a user interface of the particular device via the optimal communication channel at the optimal time. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063561 | Method and Apparatus for Biometric Advertisement Feedback Collection and Utilization - A system includes a processor configured to deliver an initial advertisement to a vehicle occupant. The processor is also configured to receive subconscious physiological feedback from one or more vehicle sensors in response to the initial advertisement being played to the occupant. Further, the processor is configured to evaluate the received feedback to determine a user response to the initial advertisement and select a next advertisement for delivery based on the results of the evaluation. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063562 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT DATA TO A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - A mobile computing device includes a processor, a display coupled to the processor, a memory coupled to the processor and configured to store user-specific data, and a location-determining circuit configured to determine the location of the portable electronic device. The processor is configured to provide advertisement data on the display based upon the location of the portable electronic device and the user-specific data. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063563 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROSS-SELLING - A scan and link system prompts salespersons or cashiers to recommend a certain product to a customer which is associated with, or complimentary to, a product that the customer wants to buy. The scan and link system and method improves customer attention and commercial profitability. Each time a product is scanned by a salesperson, scan and link software loaded on the cash register checks a database of associated or complimentary products and displays information on the cash register display via one or more advice pop-ups. The salesperson or cashier can suggest that the customer purchase the associated or complimentary products. The database of associated or complimentary products can be generated by the store owner, and/or by experts working in the specific industry of the user. Administration tools allow the user to change the position of the advice pop-up on the display, to hide it, or adjust its display frequency. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063564 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFERING A WARRANTY OVER A DISTRIBUTED DATA NETWORK - An automated system for making an offer over a distributed data network comprises a first processor and a second processor in communication over the distributed data network. The first processor receives purchase information related to a purchase being made by a consumer. There is an offer engine on the second processor. The offer engine associates the goods and services available for purchase by the consumer with a warranty and additional goods and services. A computer program executed by the first processor triggers the offer engine to make an offer to the consumer based on the goods and services being purchased when the purchase is being made by the consumer | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063565 | MARKETING PLATFORM THAT DETERMINES ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THIRD PARTY USERS - A device receives user information associated with users of user devices of a network, and receives marketing information associated with products or services. The device generates user profiles, associated with the users, based on the user information, and receives information relating to a third party user. The third party user is associated with a third party user device, the third party user device is associated with a third party network, and the third party network is different than the network. The device determines, based on the information relating to the third party user and the user profiles, a third party user profile for the third party user, and determines an advertisement to provide to the third party user device based on the third party user profile and the marketing information. The device causes the advertisement to be provided to the third party user device, via the third party network. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063566 | AUTOMATED LISTS - Categories of items are dynamically generated by analyzing purchasing habits across multiple customers. Product categories showing affinity one with another are grouped together and offered to customers as a bundle. Particular items within bundled categories are selected by analyzing purchasing habits with respect to various customer demographic profile habits. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063567 | MARKETING PLATFORM THAT IDENTIFIES PARTICULAR USER ATTRIBUTES FOR MARKETING PURPOSES - A device receives user information associated with users of user devices, and receives marketing information associated with advertisements for products or services. The device generates user profiles, associated with the users, based on the user information, and determines one or more particular attributes associated with at least one of the advertisements. The device identifies a particular user profile, of the user profiles, that includes the one or more particular attributes. The particular user profile is associated with a particular user, and the particular user is associated with a particular user device. The device determines a particular advertisement to provide to the particular user device based on the particular user profile and the marketing information, and causes the particular advertisement to be provided to the particular user device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063568 | USER MODIFICATION OF CHARACTERISTICS USED FOR CONTENT SELECTION BY AN ONLINE SYSTEM - Advertisement content presented to a user of an online system is presented along with an option allowing the user to view one or more reasons for presentation of the advertisement content to the user. If the user selects the option, based on targeting criteria associated with the advertisement content and characteristics associated with the user, the online system selects one or more characteristics of the user satisfying the targeting criteria and presents a description to the user identifying the selected one or more characteristics satisfying the targeting criteria. The online system may apply one or more rules based on user perception of characteristics when selecting the one or more characteristics included in the description. An option for the user to prevent use of the selected one or more characteristics when the online system subsequently selects advertisement content for the user is also presented with the description. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063569 | OFFERS BASED ON PERSONAL METRICS - Systems and methods for presenting offers based on personal metrics are provided. A user uses a mobile device or a wearable device with sensors to measure various personal metrics. The user uses the device to track activity, sleep, vital signs, and any other personal metrics. A service provider receives the personal metric data and other personal metric information. The service provider receives offers, such as coupons and voucher deals, for products and/or services from merchants. The service provider then presents offers to the user based on personal metric information of the user and other information, such as sleep patterns, hours slept, activity levels, distance traveled, measured heart rates, time of day, and/or location. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063570 | Interactive and intuitive marketing system and method for acquisition of personal data, dissemination of personalized content and social network promotion - An intuitive and interactive marketing system and method for the acquisition of personal data via a loyalty kiosk and associated non-transitory computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon situated within a business environment to secure phone numbers and customer data for use in SMS/text marketing campaigns and related data mining and to permit automation of personalized marketing to customers as a function of input data and historical activities. The system and method further provide dissemination of marketing campaigns through social network interfaces and data/status updates of the market campaign based on business designated triggers. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063571 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN AMOUNT OF TIME AN OBJECT IS WORN - Systems and methods for verifying the eligibility of players attempting to participate in gaming events are disclosed. Communication objects having RFID tags and closed electrical circuits are individually assigned to and worn by players within a gaming player verification system, which can be administered by a casino desk, hotel concierge, or other operating entity. These RFID tags are adapted to communicate with associated player tracking units attached to gaming machines and other devices via radio frequency waves, and each communication object is adapted to alter its communication pattern in response to any break of its closed electrical circuit. Bracelets, wristwatches or collars can be used as communication objects, such that the removal of such an object from a player cannot be accomplished without breaking the closed electrical circuit contained therein, thereby disabling or de-authenticating the device. Communication objects, such as bracelets, may further include patterns, colors, designs, or other markings to indicate a player status. A computer server having a player verification program and database may also be used. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063572 | CONTROLLING EFFECTIVENESS OF ONLINE VIDEO ADVERTISEMENT CAMPAIGN - The disclosure provides technology for managing the placement of advertisements. An ad insertion platform contains one or more lists that allow the ad insertion platform to filter advertisement placements and manage placing advertisement opportunities to the appropriate buyers. The disclosure also provides a database and monitoring software to allow faster querying and management of data for the real time bidding system. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063573 | Real-Time Bidding System and Methods Thereof for Achieving Optimum Cost Per Engagement - Systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing an online advertising campaign both before the campaign begins, and dynamically during the campaign. Optimizations are performed comparatively between a plurality of MPs (Media Properties) based on their relative cost-per-engagement. Comparisons are performed by first stack ranking MP inventory including any of sites, feeds, and verticals, based on cost per engagement. Once ranked, scores are assigned to the targeted inventory and a mean score is determined. Then, the inventory is rated as high, normal, or low impact based on their scores compared with the mean and a standard deviation for all scores. Higher impact sites with scores at least a standard deviation above the mean are initially favored, and the MP targeting strategy is dynamically adjusted during the campaign based on periodically re-evaluating the MP rankings, frequencies of engagement, and campaign progress relative to fulfillment in an allotted run time. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063574 | OPTIMIZING ONLINE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN ALLOCATIONS - A method of optimizing online advertising campaign allocations is disclosed. It is determined that an auction for a set of advertising slots has been triggered. It is identified that the advertising campaigns are configured to bid on the set of advertising slots. A ranking score for each of the advertising campaigns is determined. The ranking scores are adjusted for each cost-per-click advertising campaign of the set of advertising campaigns by an adjustment factor specific to a context of the auction. The set of advertising slots is allocated to the winners of the auction. The winners of the auction are communicated for integration into a content page. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063575 | CONTENT ACQUISITION AND CONVERSION SYSTEM - The technologies presented herein relate to a centralized system for generating media content in response to a job request, particularly for transmission over radio waves. A plurality of individuals can subscribe to the centralized system to review the job request, and based thereon, can provide one or more submissions for potential incorporation into media desired by the job requester. The job requester can review the one or more submissions received from the individuals, and can select the submission(s) meeting their needs. The centralized system can be operated by a radio station, while the individuals subscribe to the centralized server as freelancers, and accordingly, an individual only gets paid if their submission is selected for use by the job requester. The individuals can contribute to various portions of the media content; for example, the individuals can have skillsets which include for example, writing, musical, voice, and production. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063576 | MEDIA GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHODS OF PERFORMING THE SAME RELATED APPLICATIONS - A media management system including a content analysis unit that analyzes the information on the media output to identify the data structure of the information and compares the information structure to known information structures, a template analysis unit that reformats the information to a similar file structure if the structure of the information is substantially similar to a known information structure, creates a new information structure based on the structure of the file information if the structure of the information is not substantially similar to a known information structure, and a media production unit that generates a media product based on the structured information. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063577 | HANDLING OF REAL-TIME ADVERTISEMENT WITH CONTENT PREFETCHING - A method includes prefetching advertisement items from one or more advertisement sources over a network to an advertisement cache of a user terminal. In response to an indication that a content item is expected to be consumed by the user terminal, a request for an advertisement item to be presented in association with the content item is sent from the user terminal over the network. An instruction to present a selected advertisement item is received in the user terminal in response to the request. If the selected advertisement item is available in the advertisement cache, the selected advertisement item is retrieved from the advertisement cache, and the retrieved advertisement item is presented in association with the content item. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063578 | Systems and Methods to Bypass Online Advertisement Blockers - Some embodiments provide an adblocking bypass system for ensuring that advertisements are loaded and presented on a user device running one or more adblockers. The adblocking bypass system is comprised of a bypass loader and a bypass proxy. The bypass loader is a component that is embedded within content publisher content. When the content publisher content is downloaded and parsed by a user device, the bypass loader executes by detecting the presence of any adblocker on the user device. If found, the bypass loader forwards any blocked advertisement calls to the bypass proxy. The bypass proxy retrieves the requested advertisements and returns them to the bypass loader which then reintroduces the advertisements in final content presentation or rendering. The bypass proxy may also modify the content publisher content by replacing any blocked advertisement calls embedded within the content with calls to the bypass proxy. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063579 | Method of Charitable Giving - A charitable giving method is disclosed that uses a social media platform to bring together individuals, businesses, and charitable causes. The use of the social media platform incentivizes individuals and businesses to increase their financial support to charitable causes. The individuals register certain demographic and psychographic information on the social media platform, and that information is used by the businesses and charitable causes in conjunction with directing charitable giving. The individuals and businesses gain recognition for their charitable donations through a visual representation on the charitable social media platform as well as on other social media platforms where the information is shared. The charitable causes receive an increase in donations and promotion of their charitable missions. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063580 | System, apparatus, and method for template-based adaptive review - A system for template-based adaptive review includes an adaptive review server, further including a processor, a non-transitory memory, an input/output, a review engine, and a review template store; and an adaptive review device, further including a processor, a non-transitory memory, an input/output, a review controller, and a review store; such that the adaptive review device can retrieve a list of review templates from the review template store, and a user can select and fill out the review template by providing check box, dropdown list, text and numeric user inputs to a set of review sentences associated with the review template, whereby a user review is completed. Also disclosed is a method for template-based adaptive review, including selecting a review template, selecting a review sentence, viewing the review sentence, providing user input, and repeating until all review sentences have been selected, whereby the review is completed. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063581 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CONSUMERS AND INDIVIDUALS HAVING MARKETABLE PUBLIC RECOGNITION - Systems and methods are disclosed for processing transactions and associated dated. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method for processing information associated with transactions involving a product, wherein the product may comprise an experience, a physical product, and/or a digital product. Moreover, illustrative methods may include performing processing associated with a plurality of subroutines, such as a first subroutine for handling an experience, a second subroutine for handling a physical and/or a digital product, and/or one more additional subroutines associated with fulfillment. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063582 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ALLIED PRODUCTS - The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product, comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy, and determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group, creating product specifications based on the determined attributes and storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063583 | SHIPPING ALLIANCE - A system and method for a shipping alliance application are described. The system accesses orders from an online marketplace application. A group of buyers based on unfulfilled orders of buyers within a buyer predefined distance of each other is identified. A group of sellers based on unfulfilled orders of sellers within a seller predefined distance of each other is identified. A buyer local entity associated with the group of buyers is identified. A seller local entity associated with the group of sellers is identified. The system generates a request to a common seller of the group buyers to combine items from the unfulfilled orders into a single flat fee shipment to the buyer local entity, or a request to group of buyers to ship items from the unfulfilled orders to the seller local entity. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063584 | E-Commerce Systems and Methods - The invention is in general directed to methods and processes for generating revenue via an electronic commerce website. The invention is also directed to methods of processing product orders and selling product related to protocols, workflows, or other applications. The invention also contemplates methods for selling products, which include previously ordered products, related products, substitute products, and equivalent products, including but not limited to equivalent protocol products, matched reagent sets, kits, and biomodules for practicing said protocols and equivalent protocols. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND MANAGING REMOTELY PLACED ORDERS - A system for enabling the remote ordering of products, primarily for use in a multi-vendor system, is disclosed. Orders are placed remotely, such as through wireless devices connected to a central server. The central server, in turn, is in communication (wireless or otherwise) with a server located at one or more venues within the organization operating the system. The one or more venues provide products or services available for ordering through the system. Where multiple venues are involved, the system is designed to handle differences in the product or service availability at those different venues, and provides for an ability to make corrections to orders that may be or may become necessary on account of those differences. The system provides for multiple options through which users can pay for and receive orders, and also provides methods for synchronizing the remote ordering system with pre-existing, conventional methods of ordering and product/service order fulfillment. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063586 | ONLINE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE SALE AND PURCHASE OF ITEMS - A computer implemented method is provided for facilitating the online selling and purchasing of items, comprising: receiving in a facilitator a post from a seller having an item to sell; providing the seller's post to a broker who is accessing the facilitator; receiving in the facilitator a first purchase request from a first buyer who learned about the item from the broker, the first purchase request including an identification code provided by the broker; receiving in the facilitator payment information, less any discount offered by the broker, from the first buyer; upon receipt in the facilitator of an indication that the first buyer has received the item from the seller, providing the seller with the purchase price, less any commission offered by the seller and less the discount; and providing the broker with the commission, less the discount. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063587 | ELECTRONIC GARMENT PATTERN DISTRIBUTION - The present disclosure describes techniques for managing patterns for electronic garments or “framework garments.” One example method includes presenting one or more representations each associated with a corresponding pattern for use with a framework garment; receiving a selection of a particular representation from the one or more representations, the particular representation corresponding to a particular pattern; and in response to receiving the selection of the particular representation, causing the particular pattern to be uploaded to the framework garment. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063588 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL FITTING ROOMS OR HYBRID STORES - Disclosed are a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for digital inventories. An application interface module receives a request message from a user device at a physical store location linked to an online marketplace. The request message indicates a request to determine availability of a target item at the physical store location. The user device is linked to a user. In response to the request message, a database management module accesses inventory data of the online marketplace. An inventory engine determines whether the target item is available at the physical store location. Based on a determination that the target item is not available at the target store, a graphics processing module generates a digital representation of the user and the target item for display within a user interface rendered on the user device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063589 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SMART PHOTOGRAPHY - A method and a system for smart photography are disclosed. The system may include a retrieval module comprising one or more processors configured to determine a description of the item from the identity of the item. The system may include a sensor configured to capture an image including an image of the item. The system may include an image processing module comprising the one or more processors configured to identify the image of the item in the captured image using the description of the item and configured to generate from the captured image a generated image comprising the image of the item and an identification indicator of the image of the item. The image may be identified based on comparing the image with descriptions of other identified items. Optionally, the system may include an identification device configured to determine an identity of an item. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063590 | DYNAMIC TAXONOMY GENERATION WITH DEMAND-BASED PRODUCT GROUPS - A method of extending an existing product taxonomy for an inventory of products. The existing product taxonomy can include pages having a hierarchical tree structure. The method can include determining a first set of keywords. The first set of keywords can be a prediction of keywords searched above a predetermined threshold during a predetermined time period of one or more external search engines. The method also can include generating dynamic product groups based on the first set of keywords. The method further can include generating a relation graph of the dynamic product groups. The relation graph can include relation links between the dynamic product groups. The method also can include linking the dynamic product groups to pages in the existing product taxonomy to generate an extended product taxonomy. The extended product taxonomy can include the existing product taxonomy, the dynamic product groups, and the relation links of the relation graph between the dynamic product groups. The method further can include presenting to a user information about the dynamic product groups. Other embodiments are provided. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063591 | VEHICLE WASH PACKAGE SELECTION CONFIRMATION SYSTEM - A vehicle wash system includes a wash package selection zone where a vehicle operator is presented with a plurality of different vehicle wash packages. Each of the vehicle wash packages has an associated unique color identifier. The system includes a controller configured to receive a selection from the vehicle operator of one of the plurality of different vehicle wash packages. The system includes a vehicle treatment zone, including at least one illumination element associated therewith. The at least one illumination element is in communication with the controller. The controller is configured to emit light from the at least one illumination element in a color that corresponds to the color identifier of the vehicle package selected by the vehicle operator. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063592 | PROVIDING A SIMULATION OF WEARING ITEMS SUCH AS GARMENTS AND/OR ACCESSORIES - A user may simulate wearing real-wearable items, such as virtual garments and accessories. A virtual-outfitting interface may be provided for presentation to the user. An item-search/selection portion within the virtual-outfitting interface may be provided. The item-search/selection portion may depict one or more virtual-wearable items corresponding to one or more real-wearable items. The user may be allowed to select at least one virtual-wearable item from the item-search/selection portion. A main display portion within the virtual-outfitting interface may be provided. The main display portion may include a composite video feed that incorporates a video feed of the user and the selected at least one virtual-wearable item such that the user appears to be wearing the selected at least one virtual-wearable item in the main display portion. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063593 | MEDIA INTUITIVE ONLINE SHOPPING SYSTEM - A media intuitive online shopping system includes an electronic device and a server connected to the electronic device. When the electronic device plays a program of videos and photos, an object to be purchased is selected from an image of the program by an input device of the server. The server is caused to compare and identify a merchant from a database and to display information of the identified merchant via the electronic device. A user is allowed to enter a webpage of the merchant using the input device to select a desired object (product) to perform an online product transaction. As such, in an image of a program being watched, a desired object can be selected and purchased. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063594 | DATA REFINING ENGINE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - Price and product attributes from webpages are imported, indexed, analyzed, and made available to be searched in close-to realtime, allowing search for price changes specific to products on individual webpages and for products across all webpages as well as to identify longitudinal correlations between price changes and product attributes. Users may search the data and set alerts. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063595 | Automatically Pre-Customizing Product Recommendations for Purchase - An example system includes a configuration engine and a product builder. The configuration engine is executable to retrieve a template based on a product selection selecting a product and to provide the template to a user for display via a configurator. The configuration engine is further executable by the one or more computing devices to receive customization data including one or more of configuration data for configuring a template associated with the product and asset data describing one or more digital assets for the template. The product builder is executable to build a user-customized version of the product using the template and the customization data and to automatically pre-build one or more customized product recommendations in association with the user-customized version of the product based on the customization data and one or more templates associated with one or more customizable product recommendations. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063596 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING READING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON LINGUISTIC DIFFICULTY - System and method of automatically generating recommendation digital content works to reader based on the reading difficulty thereof, and more specifically linguistic difficulty. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the reading difficulty level of each reference digital content work or candidate recommendation digital content work is graded through an automated process by using a difficulty model. The difficulty model can be established through a machine learning process and correlates reading difficulty with a plurality of attributes, including linguistic attributes and/or reader behavior attributes. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063597 | Product Recommendation Based On Geographic Location And User Activities - Example systems and methods for recommendation based on geographic location and user activities are described. In one implementation, a method may receive geographic information associated with a user. The method may also retrieve a circumstance parameter associated with the geographic information and identify one or more items based on the graphic information and the circumstance parameter. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063598 | SOCIAL GIFTING - A system and method for a social gifting application are described. The system accesses social network data of contacts of a social network of a user from a social network service provider, and marketplace data of the contacts and the user from a marketplace application. A gift event is identified based on the social network data of a contact of the user. A gift recipient is identified from the gift event. A gift profile of the gift recipient is generated based on the social network data of the gift recipient. The system accesses gift parameters of the user and product availability from the marketplace application and generates a gift suggestion based on the gift event of the gift recipient, the gift profile of the gift recipient, and gift parameters of the user. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063599 | MATCHING A PRODUCT WITH OTHER PRODUCTS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for matching a product with other products. A purchase history module can maintain a purchase history (e.g., a collection of digital receipts) for each of a merchant's customers. The purchase histories can be searched to identify (or recommend) one or more products that are compatible with another product. In one aspect, a search identifying a product is sent from a mobile device to the purchase history module. The purchase history module identifies one or more other products compatible with the product. An indication of the one or more products is returned back to the mobile device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063600 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYING A PLURALITY OF INTERCHANGEABLE ITEMS FOR PURCHASE - A computer-implemented method, system, and software product for simultaneously displaying, via a display device, a plurality of product images based on received user selections to allow the user to visualize the appearance of plural products in combination, where at least some of the product images were captured by an image capture device and present products arranged in a non-virtual space. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063601 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a first extracting unit and a creating unit. The first extracting unit compares a first list of a product or service created for a customer before purchase and a second list of a product or service purchased by the customer, and guesses and extracts a product or service which the customer has a potential desire to purchase. The creating unit creates a third list including the extracted product or service. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PRODUCT PLACEMENT - A product seller site distributes on a pay for placement basis placed product with purchased product when the purchased product is delivered, where the placed product is associated with the purchased product by at least one specific characteristic. For example, the owner of a product funds an account and supplies product samples to be distributed to customers purchasing similar products. Further, the product owners bid or pay a fee to place their product with the customer. When the customer purchases a product, a search engine determines which products from a database of products available for placement meet the search criteria and offers to distribute the placement product with the purchased product. The search criteria comprise matching the purchased product with similar products to be placed with the purchased product and finding the highest bidder or fee from the group of matching placement products. The account associated with the matching placement product is debited when the matching placement product is distributed to the customer. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063603 | RE-RANKING ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON IMAGE FEATURE DATA - An apparatus and method to adjust item recommendations are disclosed herein. A first image attribute of a query image is compared to a second image attribute of each of a plurality of inventory images of a plurality of inventory items to identify the inventory items similar to the query image. Item recommendations comprising the identified inventory items in a first listing order are provided for display at a remote device. A second listing order of the identified inventory items is determined based on a user preference for a particular one of the identified inventory items. At least the second listing order is provided to the remote device for re-display of the item recommendations in accordance with the second listing order. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063604 | DRIVE THROUGH GROCERY PICKUP - Embodiments of a computer-implemented method and system pertaining to drive through grocery pickup are described. In one example, a computer-implemented method receives geographic information about a user. The geographic information indicates that the user is within a predetermined area associated with the physical store. The method also determines whether there is a pending remotely placed order for a user account associated with the user in a database associated with the physical store. In response to a determination that there is the pending remotely placed order for the user account associated with the user in the database, the method transmits order information to a computing device of the physical store. The order information includes one or more items in the pending remotely placed order. The method also determines a current location of the user. The method further causes a delivery of the one or more items to the current location. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063605 | MANUFACTURING ADAPTIVE ORDER LOAD FOR COMPLEX CONFIGURE TO ORDER PRODUCTS - A method selectively modifies an existing production order based on a change request. An order configuration module (OCM) receives order specifications for a second order that replaces and/or modifies a first order, while the first order is being fulfilled. The OCM generates hash tag pairs respectively associated with various characteristics of the orders. For each hash tag pair, the OCM compares a first hash tag associated with the first order with a second hash tag associated with the second order, using an established pattern. If the hash tags match, the OCM includes within a second production order, an unchanged production specification corresponding to the first hash tag. If a match does not occur, the OCM initiates an order reload, which provides, within the second production order, new production specifications that are associated with the second hash tag. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063606 | CUSTOMER LOCATING AND DELIVERY - Various systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for locating a patron and delivering an order. One example method may comprise detecting a mobile device of a customer at an establishment. The example method may further comprise determining a location of the mobile device of the customer within the establishment. The example method may further comprise linking the determined location to an order placed by the customer. The example method may further comprise enabling delivery of the order to the customer at the determined location. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are also provided. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063607 | MANUFACTURING ADAPTIVE ORDER LOAD FOR COMPLEX CONFIGURE TO ORDER PRODUCTS - A data processing system (DPS) and a computer program product selectively modifies an existing production order based on a change request. An order configuration module (OCM) receives order specifications for a second order that replaces and/or modifies a first order, while the first order is being fulfilled. The OCM generates hash tag pairs respectively associated with various characteristics of the orders. For each hash tag pair, the OCM compares a first hash tag associated with the first order with a second hash tag associated with the second order, using an established pattern. If the hash tags match, the OCM includes within a second production order, an unchanged production specification corresponding to the first hash tag. If a match does not occur, the OCM initiates an order reload, which provides, within the second production order, new production specifications that are associated with the second hash tag. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063608 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS BASED ON A REPLY MESSAGE - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for electronic transactions based on a reply message. In the context of a computer executed method, the method includes receiving a message, from a sender device, including a reply to buy (RTB) identifier associated with a promotion and a RTB validation code. The method also includes authenticating, using a promotion and marketing service host, the RTB validation code, associating the message from the sender with a recipient identifier, and causing the transmission of a purchase order message to the recipient device based on the RTB identifier. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063609 | In-Store Navigation Without Electronic Positioning - A shopping list is received from the user and locations of items in the list are obtained. A route visiting the locations of the items is generated and a corresponding ordering of items is also generated. Directions to a next item in the shopping list are provided in response to detecting checking off or scanning of a previous item. In response to detecting scanning of an item out of order or an item not in the shopping list, a new route is generated originated at the item and passing by the locations of items of the shopping list that have not been checked off or scanned. Routes may be generated according to a route optimization algorithm. The directions to items in a list may be provided on a user's mobile device without use of an electronic locating means such as GPS, beacons, or the like. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063610 | Real-Time Congestion Avoidance In A Retail Environment - A shopping list may be ordered in order to guide a shopper through a store in an efficient manner. Congestion in the store may be identified, such as using security camera footage. The shopping list may be reordered in order to avoid congested areas in the store. Expected areas of congestion may be determined based on velocities and maneuverability of other shoppers. Maneuverability of other shoppers may be estimated by analyzing video data and determining attributes of the other shoppers, such as whether they are pushing a cart or have children. The shopping list may be presented with directions to the locations of items within the store and may be periodically reordered throughout the shopper's visit responsive to detected congestion. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063611 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS INCLUDING DATA MIGRATION AMONG COMPUTING PLATFORMS, E.G. THROUGH USE OF STEGANOGRAPHIC SCREEN ENCODING - An illustrative implementation of the technology includes three primary components: a desktop application, a mobile phone application, and connections to retailer inventory and pricing APIs (e.g., for Walmart and/or Best Buy). The experience begins with the consumer going to an online retailer's website (e.g., Amazon) to search for a product. The desktop application automatically searches for product matches using the APIs of affiliated retailers. If matches and near-matches of the product are found, the product name, model, price, and local availability at affiliate locations is shown. With a mobile phone camera-scan of the product page, relevant information is transferred to the consumer's phone. From there, the consumer can interact with the options on the mobile phone to be directed to the nearby brick and mortar store of choice carrying that product at the price they want. Along the way, the retailer can present offers and additional product information directly to the consumer. A great variety of other technologies and arrangements are also detailed. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063612 | IDENTIFICATION AND CALLER OPTIONS RELATING TO CUSTOM RINGBACK AUDIO - Custom ringback audio, and metadata associated with the ringback audio, may be transmitted to a caller device. The caller device may playback the custom ringback audio during a ringback portion the call and may provide, via a graphical call interface, information based on the received metadata. The information may include, for example, a title of a song corresponding to the custom ringback audio. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063613 | PROVIDING A VIRTUAL SHOPPING ENVIRONMENT FOR AN ITEM - Techniques for providing a virtual item shopping environment are presented herein. A dimension module may be configured to determine one or more dimensions of a person near a display. A selection module may be configured to select one or more items from a database based on the determined dimensions. A display module configured to present the one or more items on the display. In other embodiments, the selection module may further be configured to receive a selection from the person via a user interface. The selection may indicate one of the presented items. In another embodiment, the display module may be configured to display a live real-time video of the person wearing the selected item. The live real-time video may include video of the person with an overlaid image of the selected item. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063614 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MATCHING IMAGES WITH VIEWING ENVIRONMENT - A system and methods are provided for matching images with viewing environment. A method includes accessing ( | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063615 | Marketing Products in Dynamic Content - Marketing products includes implementing a purchase interface to be displayed with the dynamic content in a display screen of the display device, the purchase interface including a region associated with a product presented in the dynamic content; determining whether the region is selected; and initiating a task associated with purchasing the product based at least in part on the determining. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063616 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMPLETING PRE-ARRANGED TRANSACTIONS - Techniques for completing pre-arranged transactions which improve customer service. An example method includes receiving a signal from a beacon by a mobile communication device, sending a first message containing an identifier by the mobile communication device, and receiving a second message containing information for completing the transaction by the mobile communication device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063617 | Occupancy Monitoring For A Remote Short Term Housing Rental. - The present invention involves a remote monitoring system, consisting of a wireless door sensor, a wireless motion sensor, and a Wi-Fi main panel, all installed at a short term housing rental to constantly monitor and inform the owner of the daily rental status; Occupied vs. Vacant, and the Wi-Fi main panel communicating with the owner smart phone through the internet. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063618 | INTERCEPTION OF DIGITAL INTERACTION TO DRIVE DESIRED OUTCOMES - Method, system and computer program product for transaction evaluation based on a potential impact of the potential transaction on defined plans. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving at a financial analysis computer system specified interactions intercepted when a person uses a client computing device to identify a potential transaction, and the analysis computer system processing these interactions for determining a potential impact of said transaction on one or more defined goals of the person. Before the person commits to the transaction, the analysis computer system generates a client guidance signal based on this determining, and sends the client guidance signal to the client computing device to instruct that device to convey guidance to the specified about the transaction. The specified interactions received at the financial analysis computer system data may identify a transaction context and activity of the person. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063619 | DEVICE-ENABLED SERVICE HANDOFF AND COLLABORATION - Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, devices, methods, and software for device-enabled service handoff and collaboration. One embodiment is a method that includes presenting, on a first device, data with regard to a transaction session initiated on a second device, the first device collaborating in performance of the transaction session via a network. The method further includes transmitting, from the first device, a request for a third device to collaboratively join the transaction session in response to command input received by the first device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063620 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FACILITATING PAYDAY LOANS - A loan facilitation system and method facilitates payday loan transactions by establishing a loan access account at a loan facilitation server. The loan facilitation server communicates with a loan operator server and a financial institution server to manage funds in a pooled account at the financial institution. The funds being cleared funds and associated with one or more loan access accounts, which are associated with customer accounts of a payday loan operator. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063621 | BRIDGED WEEKLY FX FUTURES PRODUCT - A bridged weekly FX futures contract may include a series of weekly futures contracts extending over a specified time period, such as about 5 years. The series of contracts may be bridged such that long and short positions may be delivered into the next subsequent weekly contract of the same type. Upon delivery, a pass-through payment may be made from a long position to a short position, or vice versa, and may be contingent upon the relationship of spot and 1-week forward exchange rate values. The final contract in the series of weekly expiring FX futures contracts may result in an actual delivery of one currency vs. an equivalent amount of the opposite currency of the associated futures contract. By doing so, the bridged weekly FX futures contracts may allow a trader to maintain exposure in a desired currency pair over an extended or nearly perpetual period of time. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063622 | APPARATUS, DATA BASE SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TRADING FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS - An apparatus ( | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063623 | Methods and Apparatus for Determining and Displaying the Constituent Components of a Trading Strategy - Certain embodiments provide a method for defining, via a trading interface implemented by a trading device, a trading strategy including a first contract associated with a first tradeable object and a second contract associated with a second tradeable object. The example method also includes receiving, by the trading device, market data provided by the electronic exchange, the market update includes price and quantity information related to the first and second tradeable objects. The example method also includes determining, by the trading device, that at least one of a first price and a first quantity associated with the first contract is implied based on at least one of a second price and a second quantity associated with the second contract. The example method also includes receiving, via the trading interface implemented by the trading device, a selection input corresponding to the trading strategy listed in the trading interface, and displaying, via the trading interface implemented by the trading device, a strategy indicator arranged to identify the trading strategy in the trading interface, wherein the strategy indicator is generated in response to the received selection input; and displaying, via the trading interface implemented by the trading device, an implied indicator arranged to identify the first contract and configured to reflect a link between at least the first contract and the selected trading strategy. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063624 | AUTOMATED ENERGY BROKERING - A facility for automated energy brokering on behalf of an energy customer of the first energy supplier is described. The facility analyzes at least one bill issued to the energy customer on behalf of the first energy provider to determine terms of a current energy purchase arrangement of the energy customer. The facility obtains pricing information for a plurality of second energy suppliers each different from the first energy supplier. The facility identifies one of the second energy suppliers is more favorable to the energy customer than the first energy supplier. The facility enables the consolidation of a group of energy customers to obtain additional savings from energy suppliers. The facility also enables energy bills to be audited for errors. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063625 | AUTOMATED ENERGY BROKERING - A facility for automated energy brokering on behalf of an energy customer of the first energy supplier is described. The facility analyzes at least one bill issued to the energy customer on behalf of the first energy provider to determine terms of a current energy purchase arrangement of the energy customer. The facility obtains pricing information for a plurality of second energy suppliers each different from the first energy supplier. The facility identifies one of the second energy suppliers is more favorable to the energy customer than the first energy supplier. The facility enables the consolidation of a group of energy customers to obtain additional savings from energy suppliers. The facility also enables energy bills to be audited for errors. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063626 | AUTOMATED ENERGY BROKERING - A facility for automated energy brokering on behalf of an energy customer of the first energy supplier is described. The facility analyzes at least one bill issued to the energy customer on behalf of the first energy provider to determine terms of a current energy purchase arrangement of the energy customer. The facility obtains pricing information for a plurality of second energy suppliers each different from the first energy supplier. The facility identifies one of the second energy suppliers is more favorable to the energy customer than the first energy supplier. The facility enables the consolidation of a group of energy customers to obtain additional savings from energy suppliers. The facility also enables energy bills to be audited for errors. | 2016-03-03 |
