10th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 76 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150066557 | System and Method for Tracking and Managing Mobile Resources - A system and method for tracking mobile resources that displays tracking data in a graphical display. The system receives tracking data and characteristic tag data about a mobile resource from a tracking device, which is stored in a server or sent directly to a reporting device. The reporting device creates a graphical display indicating, e.g., how long a resource has been at various locations and displays this information on a display device. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066558 | CONTEXT AWARE COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEM - A context aware command and control system includes a control system, such as a train control system or a mobile land forces command centre, a mobile device server and a mobile device application resident on a mobile device of the users of the resources being controlled. The control system receives information from the mobile devices such as, in the case of the public transportation application, boarding station, destination station, journey, purchased ticket, location of passenger, passenger with special need information, bus arrival and departure information, and social events information. The control system also receives information such as weather forecast, delays affecting resource delivery, notice of an expected special event with unknown timing parameters, e.g., a sporting event. The train control system analyzes the collected information in combination with historical data to adjust timing and configuration of resource availability in the network. The command and control system also provides data to the mobile application through the mobile server such as, in the case of the transportation application, passenger traffic load, delays, ticketing, train schedules, train traffic, system recommendations and system closure information. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066559 | College Planning System, Method and Article - A computer-implemented college and career planning system is provided comprising a dynamic graphical user interface customized based upon user personal profile data and/or user system use data; an interface engine comprising a processor for matching post-secondary education institution content with a user based upon user supplied search terms, the user personal profile data and/or the user system use data; meta-knowledge rule bases for storing rules for filtering system data for a user; long-term memory editorial for being matched to users based upon the meta-knowledge rule base, user personal profile and user system use; moderated forums for user-to-user communications organized by topic; feedback forums for providing feedback regarding the editorial content, the editorial topics evolving based upon system use; a toolbox comprising worksheets configured for accepting user input data; and a module for vetting the editorial content prior to making the editorial content available for matching. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066560 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTI-VENDOR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SOFTWARE DEFINED CLOUDS THROUGH ABSTRACTED CONTROL PLANES - Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066561 | VEHICLE YARD PLANNER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method includes receiving yard data at a yard planner system from a plurality of workstations and a plurality of sensors within a vehicle yard, wherein the yard data includes information regarding movement of vehicles and resources in relation to the vehicle yard. The system and method may also include using the yard planner system to form an initial yard plan based on the yard data, monitoring the yard data over time with the yard planner system, and updating the initial yard plan to form an updated yard plan based on changing yard data over time. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066562 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATING - The present disclosure provides methods and systems for computer-based construction estimation. An electronic image is obtained wherein a placard is shown in the electronic image. A scaling factor is determined using the a priori known geometry of the placard. One or more measurements may be calculated of a structure in the electronic image using the calculated scaling factor. A system is described for implementing the method. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066563 | DEFINING TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS IN A TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer program products are defined that provide for managing a technical project. In particular, embodiments provide for an end-to-end project delivery tool that includes planning, defining the requirements, designing, building, approving and providing communication/reporting of the technical project. The technical project management delivery tool herein described automates the capture of data and other functionality, such as identification of technical requirements, design infrastructure, build workflows and the like, to add increased efficiency as it relates to the design and build phases of a technical project. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066564 | MANAGING MEDIA REPLENISHMENT - A method of managing media replenishment for a media terminal is described. The method comprises: calculating an amount of media required for the media terminal; receiving from the media terminal an indication of media items deposited at that media terminal that have a condition fulfilling a condition criterion; and adjusting the calculated amount of media required based on the indication of media items that fulfill the condition criterion. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066565 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AN INVENTORY OF COMPONENT PARTS - A method for managing a company's inventory of component parts used in a manufacturing process includes receiving a request for a recommended inventory level for a component part, accessing data corresponding to the component part, calculating a first recommended inventory level for the component part based on the data, providing, to a user, the first recommended inventory level for the component part and a predefined subset of the data comprising a usage pattern of the component part for a defined preceding period of time, receiving, from the user, a second recommended inventory level for the component part, and adjusting a current inventory level of the component part based on the second recommended inventory level. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066566 | BALANCING SUPPLY AND DEMAND USING DEMAND-SHAPING ACTIONS - A method for balancing supply and demand for a product using demand-shaping action includes identifying an imbalance between supply and demand for a given product. A customer choice model is generated based on collected historical sales data pertaining to the given product and at least one product similar to the given product. The customer choice model is configured to estimate, for a given customer or group of customers, a likelihood of effecting a substitution between each product pair of the given product and the at least one product similar to the given product, for each of one or more available demand shaping actions. One or more of the available demand shaping actions are automatically selected to minimize an estimate of revenue shortfall or inventory holding costs resulting from the identified imbalance between supply and demand. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066567 | NEWS MINING FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING - A system may include a record generator to receive a plurality of documents associated with a plurality of suppliers and provide supplier-specific data records based thereon. The record generator may include an event classifier configured to execute a supplier-independent, event-based classification of each document, to thereby obtain event-classified documents. The record generator may include a supplier query generator configured to query the plurality of documents to obtain potential supplier matches from the plurality of suppliers, and a supplier match analyzer configured to analyze each potential supplier match of the potential supplier matches, to thereby obtain supplier matches. The record generator may include a supplier relevance analyzer configured to relate, for each event-classified document, any supplier identified therein to at least one event of the event-classified document, to thereby obtain supplier-event relationships. Thus, the record generator may provide supplier-specific data records, based on the supplier event relationship. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066568 | SERVICE AND LOCATION SELECTION IN THE CLOUD - Techniques are disclosed for selecting one or more services and locations for performing a user-requested operation on a file. A user interface can be used to search for files by name, date, content, location, and/or other parameters. The search results can be derived from information stored in a local cache and presented as a list from which the user can select files and perform operations on the selection. The cache can include historical information about each service and location, including a previously observed monetary cost to perform the operation and/or a previously observed amount of time used to perform the operation. A weighted value associated with any given service can be computed based on the historical information in the local cache, the age of the historical information and a cost criterion. The list of services can be ordered by the weighted value. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066569 | BALANCING SUPPLY AND DEMAND USING DEMAND-SHAPING ACTIONS - A method for balancing supply and demand for a product using demand-shaping action includes identifying an imbalance between supply and demand for a given product. A customer choice model is generated based on collected historical sales data pertaining to the given product and at least one product similar to the given product. The customer choice model is configured to estimate, for a given customer or group of customers, a likelihood of effecting a substitution between each product pair of the given product and the at least one product similar to the given product, for each of one or more available demand shaping actions. One or more of the available demand shaping actions are automatically selected to minimize an estimate of revenue shortfall or inventory holding costs resulting from the identified imbalance between supply and demand. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066570 | SYSTEM FOR SELF-MANAGED INVENTORY, SUPPLY CHAIN DYNAMIC SKU PERFORMANCE AND OPTIMIZATION - A self-managed inventory, supply chain dynamic SKU performance and optimization system may be provided. Service trigger generation may monitor the inventory status and direct when service should occur at a dealer location based on market demand. Demand based service may generate a service trigger when the dealer's inventory level reaches a service threshold. Enhanced SKU depth optimization may be employed to provide SKU depth recommendations based upon how product is moving in the market place to ensure that demand based service is reaching a service trigger at a desired service interval. Enhanced SKU depth optimization may be combined with at least one service trigger including a demand trigger to create demand based service, a route trigger to create enhanced route service, and an order trigger to create enhanced order service. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066571 | HIGH-LOAD BUSINESS PROCESS SCALABILITY - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing high-load business process scalability in cloud-based infrastructures. One process includes operations for receiving a message at a first computer node executing a first business process instance. A second business process instance associated with the message is identified. The message is sent to a messaging queue for retrieval by the second business process instance if the second business process instance is not located at the first computer node. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066572 | IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT - A computer-implemented process for an endpoint for automated fulfillment, includes: in an Automatic Fulfillment (AF) server: creating an endpoint on the AF server; selecting supported commands; and for each command, defining required and optional parameters and endpoint type specific implementation details; and in a Compliance Manager (CM): running discovery to find new endpoint and create metadata for it in the CM; for each command to be automated, filling in mappings for at least all required parameters; and enabling the command; enabling the endpoint; binding the endpoint to a business source; and ensuring that the business source uses a fulfillment process that uses the AF server. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066573 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PROCESS PLAYER FOR USE WITH A BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGN ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for providing a process player for use with a business process design environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a user can select, configure, and play an instance of a business process being developed in the design environment. During play of a selected business process instance the user can configure and play interactive activities of the selected instance. For example, the user can walk through an instance of the business process, while impersonating different users or roles in its interactive activities. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066574 | BUSINESS OPERATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF GENERATING PROCESSING RELATED TO A BUSINESS OPERATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A business operation processing system holds business operation flow model management information in which a business operation flow model indicating an order of elements that are executed in a business operation of the type is registered, and merchandise business operation flow processing management information in which an article of merchandise, a merchandise configuration indicating whether the article of merchandise is prerequisite merchandise or optional merchandise, and a merchandise business operation flow are registered. The merchandise business operation flow processing management information having registered therein a business operation processing relation between business operation processing of the optional merchandise and the optional merchandise. Business operation processing of the optional merchandise business operation flow is executed in a manner determined by its relation to business operation processing of the prerequisite merchandise that is registered as the business operation processing relation. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066575 | ENTERPRISE RISK ASSESSMENT - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for assessing risk in an enterprise. A server may receive risk scores indicating an asset's risk level across various risk vectors. The server may aggregate the risk scores and assess score ranges for each risk vector. For each risk vector, the server may then segregate the risk scores based on their rank amongst the other risk scores within the range (e.g., top 10%, bottom 60%, and the like). Next, the server may apply a grading rubric to assign grades for each percentage (e.g., top 10% is an F grade, bottom 60% is an A grade and the like) assign grade points (e.g., an F grade is a 0.0, an A grade is a 4.0, and the like). By calculating a grade point average, the server may be able to provide a uniform system of assessing and evaluating risk across all assets in the enterprise. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066576 | Collaborative Audit Management System - A method includes recording audit results from an audit being conducted on a computer searchable storage device, recording supporting documentation on the computer searchable storage device, searching the storage device for similar prior audits to reveal fraud patterns utilizing a database search engine, and correlating the fraud patterns with the audit being conducted. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066577 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING, MANAGING AND MONITORING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RISK - A method for information technology and information asset risk assessment of a business relationship between a client and a third party. The method includes establishing a database. The database includes a plurality of IT information risk factors stored in the database are associated with certain risks the client may be exposed to based on an action the client follows or based upon who the client uses as their third party provider. The database is configured to receive IT risk information. The IT risk information is associate with the plurality of IT information risk factors. The database is also configured to receive updated risk information for storage thereon. The method includes receiving risk information corresponding to the subset of relationship risk factors. The method continues with generating a relationship risk score. The relationship risk score is determined in response to evaluating the subset of relationship risk factors using the IT risk | 2015-03-05 |
20150066578 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH-RELATED RISK AND READINESS FOR WELLNESS AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMING - A computer-implemented system and method are provided as an organizational risk and readiness assessment tool (ORA) for assessing organizational health-related risks and readiness for wellness and disease management programming. Survey data is collected for an organization, such as environmental survey data, leadership survey data and health culture survey data. The survey data may include binary survey data and scalar survey data. A scoring engine generates one or more readiness scores for the organization by applying at least one scoring algorithm to the survey data to generate one or more risk and/or readiness scores for the organization. The risk and/or readiness scores may relate to the environment, leadership perceptions, and health culture of the organization. Overall risk and readiness scores may also be generated. Report data generated for the organization enables graphic display of one or more of the organization's risk and readiness scores generated by the scoring engine, for example, including a color-coded display of the organization's environmental, leadership, health culture and overall readiness scores. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066579 | Method of and Apparatus for Determining Worth of a Displayed Component - A method comprising determining a value indicative of worth of a component. The component is configured for display in an online browsing window. The determining is in dependence at least on the occurrence of a predetermined at least one user interaction relating to the component and a predefined event following the predetermined at least one user interaction. The predetermined at least one user interaction may comprise a predetermined sequence of user interactions. The the component may occupy one of plurality of possible positions in the online browsing window. The value may be determined in dependence on the potential value or actual value of the event. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066580 | CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computer system for sharing, via a first computing device, customer relationship management opportunity data between a customer relationship management application and an instant messaging application, wherein the customer relationship management opportunity data is associated with an opportunity. At least a portion of the customer relationship management opportunity data is provided to an instant messaging application client executed by a second computing device, the instant messaging application client associated with the instant messaging application, wherein at least the portion of the customer relationship management opportunity data is provided for user access at the second computing device via the instant messaging application client. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066581 | DEVICE FOR INCREASING SELF-SERVICE ADOPTION - A device is configured to receive customer information associated with a set of customers and determine a set of self-service customers, of the set of customers, based on the customer information. The set of self-service customers may be associated with a likelihood, of participating in future self-service transactions, that is greater than a first threshold. The device is configured to determine attribute information associated with the set of self-service customers and identify a set of target customers, of the set of customers, based on the attribute information. The set of target customers may be associated with a likelihood, of participating in future self-service transactions, that is less than a second threshold. The device is configured to determine target information based on identifying the set of target customers, and to provide the target information. The target information may include information that identifies the set of target customers. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066582 | Methods, Systems, and Graphical User Interfaces for Customer Relationship Management - A method is performed at an electronic device with a display. The method includes displaying a first graphical user interface for customer relationship management that includes a first region corresponding to a first sales phase and a second region corresponding to a second sales phase. The first sales phase is associated with a first progress threshold and the second sales phase is associated with a second progress threshold. The device displays a first representation of a first sales opportunity within the first region, the first representation being associated with a first progress metric of the first sales phase. The device displays a first indication of the first progress metric with respect to the first progress threshold. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066583 | CONTENT DISCOVERY WITH FRIEND AND ANALYTIC DATA - A user may have difficulty making a decision about content such as whether to watch a particular content or determining whether the content is something in which the user will be interested. Disclosed are implementations directed to reengage a user in response to an abandonment event and/or provide analytic data to inform a user's decision regarding consumption of content. Analytic data may be provided to the user to help the user make a decision about what content to consume based on, for example, an abandonment rate or other user metrics that indicate interest or disinterest in certain content. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066584 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING AN UNDERSTANDING OF A BUSINESS SEGMENT - A method for acquiring an understanding a business segment is provided. The method comprises: storing in an electronic storage device a database of information in which the information is generated from at least four linked data sources including a firmographics data source, a risk data source, a transaction behavior data source, and an attitudinal data source; accessing information in the database concerning the business segment; and assembling the information concerning the business segment. The information from one or more of the linked data sources is summarized to a link, at least some of the information is integrated by data fusion, and at least some of the integrated information is imputed via the link to the business segment. The method also provides the assembled information to a user that has been granted access to the database. A system for acquiring an understanding of a business segment is also provided. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066585 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A RISK OF AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE OF AN AUDIENCE - A method for determining a risk of an emotional response of an audience to at least one publication is described. Additionally, a computing device for determining a risk of an emotional response of an audience to at least one publication is described. Moreover, a computer-readable storage device having processor-executable instructions embodied thereon, for determining a risk of an emotional response of an audience to at least one publication, is described. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066586 | EVALUATION CALCULATING DEVICE, EVALUATION CALCULATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A delivery device according to the present invention includes a storing unit and a calculating unit. The storing unit stores a number of views a webpage concerning a commercial product and a number of behaviors which result in profitable behavior which leads a profit of a provider who provides the webpage by the user who accesses the webpage in a memory unit for every commercial product. The calculating unit calculates an evaluation value of the commercial product based on the number of views the webpage concerning the commercial product and the number of behaviors of the webpage stored in the memory unit. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066587 | CONTENT SITE VISITOR PROCESSING SYSTEM - A visitor processing system can include features for providing a fully configurable visitor model. The visitor processing system may also provide the ability to see the results of this visitor model in a real time or near real time. This level of configurability can be beneficial when a goal is to reduce a visitor set to a highly targeted visitor segment. This rich configurability can include the ability to set and manipulate a number of attributes and rules for a visitor. By allowing marketing users to configure attributes regarding their content sites' visitors, the visitor processing system can enable marketing users to obtain real-time (or near real-time) reports on these visitors. These reports can provide a highly desirable capability to filter a live and/or historic stream of visitors on the specified attributes, resulting in precisely targeted reporting on a highly segmented and highly targeted segment of visitors. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066588 | METHOD FOR REDESIGNING ONE OR MORE PRODUCT OR PROCESS PARAMETERS OF A MANUFACTURED ARTICLE - Method for redesigning one or more product or process parameters of a first manufactured article, to provide different product or process parameters of a second, transformed, manufactured article, comprising: (a) associating a unique identifier with individual first manufactured articles, or with groups thereof; (b) capturing and recording product data and/or process data relating to the first manufactured articles; (c) soliciting and recording consumer feedback relating: to in-use performance of the first manufactured articles; (d) correlating consumer feedback with product data and/or process data of a specific, individual, first manufactured article by means of the unique identifier; (e) determining different product or process parameters for a second manufactured article; and (f) applying one or more different product or process parameters to the first manufactured articles to transform them into second manufactured articles, the second manufactured articles being better adapted to meet consumer needs than the first manufactured article. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066589 | USER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE AND METHOD - A user behavior analysis (UBA) method, and a related device and system are provided. The method is applied to a UBA system including at least one UBA cloud server. The method includes: receiving, by a UBA cloud server, a network content identifier reported by a first UBA subnode, where the network content identifier cannot be identified by the first UBA subnode; acquiring network content corresponding to the network content identifier; extracting a keyword from the network content; updating a behavior knowledge base by using the extracted keyword; and delivering, by the UBA cloud server, the updated behavior knowledge base or updated content of the behavior knowledge base to a UBA subnode set, where the UBA subnode set at least includes the first UBA subnode and a second UBA subnode. The UBA cloud server and the UBA subnodes are associated with a telecommunication network. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066590 | OPTIMIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT - Methods for optimizing social media are disclosed. Such methods may include identifying at least one keyword utilized for at least one webpage, identifying social media correspondence referencing the at least one keyword, analyzing content collected from the social media to determine a frequency of references to the at least one keyword and generating at least one report including information based on the analysis. The report may include recommendations for optimizing social media by, for example, increasing visibility by using high-performing keywords. Systems for performing the methods are also disclosed. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066591 | STATE-MACHINE PROGRESSION FOR AGGREGATE INFORMATION SOURCES - A method of analyzing Internet-based communication sessions may include detecting interactions during a communication session and detecting an associated characteristic. The method may also include identifying other communication sessions that are also associated with the characteristic and accessing a group profile of the other communications sessions. The group profile may be assigned a first group profile state in a state-machine-based progression of group profile states and have a group lead score. The method may additionally include associating the communication session with the group profile, adjusting the group lead score based on the communication session to cross a threshold value, and moving to a second group profile state. The method may further include authorizing devices associated with the group profile access to additional data after moving to the second group profile state. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066592 | METHODS OF SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - In various embodiments, a method of semiconductor manufacturing is provided. The method may include: gathering information impacting production of semiconductor goods via a computer network platform; gathering information from a social networking platform via an interface of the computer network platform to the social networking platform; modelling at least one agent of a manufacturing entity in carrying out its tasks to manufacture semiconductor goods; and determining manufacturing capacity of the manufacturing entity as a function of at least the gathered information impacting the production of semiconductor goods, the gathered information from the social networking platform and the modelled agent. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066593 | DETERMINING A PRECISION FACTOR FOR A CONTENT SELECTION PARAMETER VALUE - Systems and methods for content selection with precision controls include receiving device identifier data from multiple sources. A machine learning model may be applied to the device identifier data and content selection parameter values may be predicted. Percentiles for the predicted content selection parameter values may be analyzed to determine precision factors for the predicted content selection parameter values. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066594 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING ONE OR MORE EFFECTS OF RANKINGS ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR - Exemplary systems, methods and computer-accessible mediums can be provided which can receive information related to a consumer(s), and determine the search behavior of the consumer(s) based on the information and using a consumer search model that is based on heterogeneous preferences and a search cost model of a second consumer(s). | 2015-03-05 |
20150066595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TENANT OPTIMIZED SERVICE CATALOG - Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066596 | BEHAVIOR PRICING ANALYTICS - A method for systematically determining a pricing strategy based on one or more of a business insight, a price perception model and a surprise model. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066597 | PROFIT-BASED LAYOUT DETERMINATION FOR WEBPAGE IMPLEMENTATION - Systems and methods for automatic generation and efficient exploration of a large number of webpage layouts to discover a layout with superior empirical performance. A set of variants are displayed to visitors in accordance with a display probability distribution. Data related to visitors' interactions to the variants are collected and processed to evaluate their respective profit-related performances. The display probability distribution may be dynamically adjusted based on the profit-based evaluation. A profit brought by a webpage layout may be ascribed to a number of revenue sources. These difference revenues may be tracked and summed together to yield a profit assessment for a layout variant. Profit performance of a layout variant may be calculated using a Gaussian with NΓ | 2015-03-05 |
20150066598 | PREDICTING SERVICE DELIVERY COSTS UNDER BUSINESS CHANGES - A method for predicting service delivery costs for a changed business requirement including detecting an infrastructure change corresponding to the changed business requirement affecting a computer server, deriving a service delivery workload change of the computer server from the infrastructure change, and determining a service delivery cost of the computer server based on the service delivery workload change. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066599 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERIODIC DIAGNOSTICS OF TENANT EVENT STREAMS - Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066600 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC FORECASTING OF TENANT SOFTWARE DEFINED CLOUD PROCESS - Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ENTERPRISE MAXIMIZATION SOLUTIONS BASED ON SOFTWARE DEFINED CLOUD USAGE ANALYTICS - Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066602 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UTILIZING QUALITATIVE RATINGS TO EVALUATE MEETINGS - A method and electronic device for rating a meeting using qualitative data includes providing a processor, a memory, a network interface and a user interface in operable communication with the processor, and the electronic device is programmed with software including a calendar. The electronic device is programmed to perform the steps of, scheduling a meeting including a list of attendees, after scheduling the meeting, displaying a set of evaluation criteria on the user interface, including displaying a slider bar for each criterion, the slider bar being labeled with indicia having a value. Next the method includes displaying a sliding indicator on each slider bar, and enabling a user to select a value on each slider bar. Summing the selected values for each slider bar to determining an aggregate value and the aggregate value is used to rate the meeting using qualitative data. Output is provided in a dashboard format. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ANALYSE SKILL OF CONTACT CENTER EMPLOYEES FROM THE BEHAVIOR DISPLAYED DURING INTERACTIONS WITH CUSTOMERS USING COMPUTER SOFTWARE - A method including the steps of storing a first set of data related to an interaction between a customer and a contact center employee in a computer memory; storing a second set of data regarding an outcome of the interaction in the computer memory; using a computer processor to analyze the first set of data related to the interaction; and using a computer processor to link the second set of data regarding the outcome to the first set of data in the computer memory. The method may further include using a computer processor to determine a score for the contact center employee based on the outcome of the interaction. The method may further include displaying the score for the contact center employee on a computer display. An apparatus comprising the computer processor, the computer memory, and/or the computer display may be used to implement one or more methods above. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066604 | FARE PAYMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Provided are a fare payment method and apparatus thereof, for paying fares by authorizing card transaction by allowing a plurality of terminals to share card transaction history information. The fare payment method includes receiving information on a connection to one selected as a main terminal among a plurality of terminals connected to one another through a network, and outputting a signal in response to a transaction request from a card user to the card user based on information on a card transaction history received from the main terminal when a communication between the main terminal and a center computer in charge of a card transaction authorization process is interrupted. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066605 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TOLL PAYMENT SERVICE - A method for providing a toll payment service, the method includes establishing, by a renter, a toll payment account with a vehicle operator via a third-party entity, providing, to the renter, a toll payment service option, and determining whether the renter has accepted the toll payment service option. Responsive to a determination that the renter has accepted the toll payment service option, adding toll-usage credit to the toll payment account of the renter for an amount based upon anticipated needs of the renter prior to toll usage. The toll-usage credit from the toll payment account is utilized for paying one or more toll authorities for toll usage. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORDERING A TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE - Systems and methods for ordering a transportation vehicle are disclosed. A method includes receiving an order request from a kiosk at a kiosk location. The order request is transmitted to a computing device of a transportation vehicle. A response from the computing device is received indicating acceptance of the order request. A vehicle location of the transportation vehicle is identified and transmitted to the kiosk. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066607 | CITY PARKING SERVICES WITH AREA BASED LOYALTY PROGRAMS - Apparatus and methods related providing city services, such as parking, are described. Methods and apparatus for providing parking rewards programs are described. The methods and apparatus can include maintaining accounts for participants in the rewards program, tracking purchases of parking and other participant activities and determining parking awards based upon the activities. The parking rewards programs can be used to incentivize behaviors that balance the use of the parking space commodity according to the needs of different stakeholders, such as the city, residents, merchants and visitors. For example, parking awards and the criteria used for earning awards can be used to encourage particular behaviors while a parking space is being utilized, such as shopping, the use of public transportation or efficient trip planning. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066608 | ENHANCEMENTS TO METERLESS REMOTE PARKING MONITORING SYSTEMS - A remote meterless parking monitoring system including a plurality of individual parking spaces, a plurality of vehicle detector/RFID units for monitoring the status of the individual parking spaces; at least one Gateway device responsive to the plurality of vehicle detector/RFID units; a Command and Control Server for employing numerous security provisions at least including encryption of data, Virtual Privacy Networks, firewalls and authenticated connections and responsive to data from said Cellular gateway via the internet; and the Command and Control Server uses the status of each space and the ID from the motorist's RFID tag to cross reference data according to a Policy database and identifying the motorist through a Motorist Database including information about the motorist's mailing address, vehicle payment account balance or other information. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066609 | PERSONALIZED INCENTIVE SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS - Automation systems and methods of use thereof are generally disclosed. The systems may control devices, and may monitor use of a utility and provide feedback related to the utility usage. More particularly, the present disclosure includes systems including personalized incentives to encourage responsible usage of a utility. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066610 | SYSTEM FOR ADMINISTERING AN INCENTIVE AWARD - A method for administering an incentive award system in which a bank issues a credit or debit card account to a participant and sets up an interest bearing account for the participant to receive the incentive award. Specific merchants are designated who have agreed to make awards of a specified amount to the participant. After sale of goods to the participant and charging the sales to the credit or debit card account, an award amount is determined based on the charges, which is sent to the issuing bank to be credited to the participant account. In preferred embodiments, the participant account has time restrictions against withdrawal of funds. In other embodiments, the award amount is determined by an oversight organization that calculates the mount of the award as a percentage of the transaction, which may be lower for non-merchant brands. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066611 | Consolidated Merchant Programs System - The present invention discloses a consolidated merchant programs system comprising at least a merchant node operated by a merchant; at least a mobile consumer node operated by a consumer; a server having a user interface to provide an online platform for the merchant to launch one or more merchant programs through the merchant node; a merchant code generated by the server based on the merchant program; a primary consumer code generated by the server and assigned to the consumer as an identity of the consumer; the primary consumer code is downloaded to the consumer node upon signing up for a consumer account on the system; and a secondary consumer code containing data of the merchant program enrolled by the consumer and the identity of the consumer; the secondary consumer code is generated through capturing the primary consumer code by the merchant node and sending the primary consumer code and merchant code by the merchant node to the server for processing to generate the secondary consumer code or through capturing the merchant code by the consumer node and sending the merchant code and primary consumer code to the server by the consumer node for processing to generate the secondary consumer code; wherein the secondary consumer code is downloaded to the consumer node upon approval of enrollment of the consumer in the merchant program for participating in a consumer activity of the merchant program. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING WITH STUDENTS PORTFOLIOS - The system and method allows a user to share a portfolio with entities external to the learning management system, e.g. an employer, a potential employer, another learning institution, alumni, friends, family, any party interested in learning about the student's achievements. A portfolio may store all of the materials a user has worked on for one or more courses. Portfolios may also include user progress toward achieving standards at a granular level, such as academic competencies. System users may be able to search for portfolios based on one or more competencies to identify users that are qualified in a particular field or skillset. Through the portfolio web site, a user can share portions of the portfolios with other users via a URL. The URL or internet address may be specific to a student or provide general access to student portfolios. The entity may need to supply credentials, including a username, password, or PKI to access the portfolio associated with the URL or internet address. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066613 | INTERNET-BASED PLATFORM AND MOBILE WEB-BASED PLATFORM COMBINING ONLINE AND OFFLINE GAMING, ADVERTISING, MOBILE AND WEARABLE DIGITAL CURRENCY TOKENS, AND COMMERCE PROVIDING FREE GAMES, FREE PRODUCTS, AND FREE SERVICES FREE OF INTERCHANGE FEES - Provided are computer implemented methods for combining online and offline gaming, advertising, and commerce and providing free games, free products, and free services. The method may commence with receiving a buying request associated with a product from a user. The method may continue with providing an incentive to the user to play a game and receiving an indication that the user intends to play the game. In response to the indication, a payment amount associated with the game may be transferred from a user account. The payment amount associated with the game may constitute a predetermined portion of a payment amount associated with the product. The method may include receiving results of the game played by the user. Based on the results of the game, the user may be selectively provided with a discount for the product. The discount may be equal to the payment amount associated with the game. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066614 | PROMOTION WITH FRIENDS - Exemplary methods and apparatuses facilitate a promotion for users of a social networking system by receiving a promotional identifier from a user device of a first user in the social networking system and entering the first user into the promotion. Selection of a second user for participation in the promotion is received from the first user. In response to receiving an indication that the second user has completed an action within the social networking system, the likelihood of the first user winning an award or the quality of the award is increased. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066615 | Method for syndicating posts on a social network site - A method for syndicating promotional posts on a social network site is disclosed. This method may allow individual influencers on the social network site to be paid for allowing advertisers to add promotional posts to their social network feeds. The method may allow advertisers to select particular boards or categories and approve particular promotional posts. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066616 | Systems, Computer-Implemented Methods, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Media for Social Request Routing and Reward Distribution - Systems, computer-implemented methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for social request routing and reward distribution. In a computer-implemented method according to one embodiment of the invention: a request is created, the request is routed between one or more users of one or more social networks, the request is fulfilled, rewardable users are rewarded based on the request's successful forwarding path(s). The invention may be used to fulfill requests that require cooperation between potentially unacquainted individuals. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066617 | COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system is provided that includes a website server configured to implement an e-commerce website and to interact with buyer web-enabled devices and seller web-enabled devices and is further configured to: transmit instructions to a payment server for payment of a review payment to be made to a buyer for writing a review of a purchased product/service; transmit instructions to a payment server for payment of a review payment to be made to a buyer for each review written by another buyer in the buyer's network; charge a fixed fee to a seller for each purchase order of the seller's products/services; and/or transmit instructions to a payment server for payment of a seller referral payment to be made to a seller for each purchase order from another seller in the seller's network. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066618 | Method and system for providing discounts to consumers - A method is disclosed for issuing rewards to consumers. An embodiment of an inventive method includes presenting product advertisements for reward products to consumers. Consumers view product advertisements and select the reward eligible products they want to purchase. Consumers find those products on store shelves and place them in their shopping cart. After checkout, consumers take a digital photo of their selected reward eligible products. The consumer then sends the digital photo, with their contact information to a remote web server. After the digital photo has been authenticated, rewards shall be issued to consumers contact information and/or credentials by an administrator. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066619 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING POTENTIAL DISCOUNTS TO CUSTOMERS - A system and method for providing a discount to a customer are disclosed. The system and method include receiving at the processor from a merchant a selection of a particular opportunity for a discount from a plurality of opportunities for a discount; determining by the processor a plurality of discount prices and a number of product for discount at each of the plurality of discount prices based on the opportunity received from the merchant, the quantity of products and the average yield price; receiving from a customer a request for a purchase of a product for processing through an electronic payment system; providing by the processor at the second terminal the opportunity for a discount to the customer; receiving by the processor through the second terminal an input from the customer based on the opportunity for a discount; crediting the customer with the discount through the electronic payment system. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066620 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SMART PAYMENT INSTRUMENT SELECTION - A method and apparatus is provided for constructing and using a smart wallet, i.e. a repository of payment instruments, such as, for example, credit cards, with automatic selection when making a purchase in an online environment. In one embodiment of the invention, the wallet service first finds the intersection of acceptable instruments between a merchant and a user. For example, the invention matches a list of user held credit cards against a list of acceptable credit cards at a merchant. The wallet service then intelligently selects, or at least ranks in order, the payment instruments based on value to the customer. The ranking can take into account: a) cash back rates; b) mileage rates for the specific potential purchase; and c) temporal discounts such as shipping or coupon discounts for the specific product type; etc. The act of automatically making a selection of a payment instrument, such as a credit card, in an online environment is analogous to what a human does when buying things at a store. The advantage is that an automatic system can integrate all the discount notices and coupons that are typically mailed to a cardholder. The system preferably presumes that a smart wallet is given information about a transaction, and has collected information about the payment instruments. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066621 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS TO CUSTOMERS - A method and apparatus for providing targeted advertisements are provided herein. During operation a system will determine a shopper's intent based on the shopper's attire (i.e., what the shopper is wearing and/or carrying). Specific advertisements will be sent to the shopper based on the shopper's attire. Because advertisements will be provided to shoppers based on the shopper's attire, shoppers will be more likely to receive an advertisement better tailored to their current needs. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066622 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE COUPON AND MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for providing a mobile coupon in a mobile electronic device is provided. The method includes collecting information about the mobile coupon including a domain to which the mobile coupon is applicable, from a mobile coupon image including the mobile coupon, determining whether the domain to which the mobile coupon is applicable is identical with a domain of a web site accessed by the mobile electronic device and outputting, when the domain to which the mobile coupon is applicable is identical with a domain of a web site accessed by the mobile electronic device, the information about the mobile coupon. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066623 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING FLEXIBLE INCENTIVE REWARDS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a financial account with incentives. In one implementation, a method is provided that includes receiving a selection of at least one identified merchant from a customer, the customer being associated with the financial account. The method also includes providing a first incentive to the financial account for one or more purchases made with the financial account at a merchant other than the identified merchant. Further, the method may include providing a second incentive to the financial account for one or more purchases made at the identified merchant with the financial account, wherein the first incentive is different than the second incentive. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066624 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL MEDIA ECOSYSTEM COOPERATIVE MARKETPLACE - A method and system for providing a social media ecosystem cooperative marketplace. To participate in the social media ecosystem cooperative marketplace, a sharing discount percentage is requested from participating social media merchants. The sharing discount percentage is used to provide lower purchase prices for plural goods and services provided to social media purchasers in the social media ecosystem cooperative marketplace and to support the social media ecosystem cooperative marketplace itself on a global scale for social media purchasers and social media merchants. Social media purchasers are searched for with social media index values and with social commerce connections. Social media purchasers are paid to view advertising or complete surveys for the social media merchants. The social media ecosystem cooperative marketplace is provided on a cloud communications network for mobile and non-mobile devices. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066625 | INCENTIVES FOR ACKNOWLEDGING PRODUCT ADVERTISING WITHIN MEDIA CONTENT - A cloud-based service provides incentives for users of devices such as game consoles, personal computers, smartphones, and the like to explicitly acknowledge product placements within media content by offering rewards to the users that may be obtained by performing certain user actions as the media content is being consumed and rendered on the device. The user actions may comprise clicking a button or performing a gesture to an input device, for example, at particular times in the media content presentation in which a branded product is shown, mentioned, or used. A client component on the device captures the user actions as signals which are sent to the service which compares the signals against known reward criteria. If reward criteria are met by the user actions, the service can provide either digital or physical rewards to the user. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066626 | Predicting Success Rates for Online Search Terms Based on Offline Advertising - Techniques for predicting success rates for online search terms based on offline advertising are described herein. The techniques enable marketers to determine appropriate values for online search terms based on their predicted success rates. By so doing, marketers may decide whether to pay online search engines for preferences of their website in response to a search using these online search terms. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS AND/OR PROVIDING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING BASED ON ADVERTISEMENTS - The system and method described herein may use various natural language models to deliver targeted advertisements and/or provide natural language processing based on advertisements. In one implementation, an advertisement associated with a product or service may be provided for presentation to a user. A natural language utterance of the user may be received. The natural language utterance may be interpreted based on the advertisement and, responsive to the existence of a pronoun in the natural language utterance, a determination of whether the pronoun refers to one or more of the product or service or a provider of the product or service may be effectuated. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066628 | CREATING AND EVALUATING CHANGES TO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS OF AN ADVERTISER - Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for evaluating changes to one or more advertising campaigns of an advertiser. In one aspect, advertising campaign modification data, specifying advertising campaign changes, is received from a campaign modification data source. A queue of changes based on the advertising campaign modification data is generated, and the changes from the queue are evaluated. It is determined whether to apply the changes to the advertising campaign based on results of the evaluating step and rule data specifying advertising campaign performance metrics and predefined performance metric values. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066629 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR ENHANCING FORM SIGNUP YIELDS ON WEBSITES - Systems, methods, and media for enhancing form signup yields on websites are provided herein. Methods may include generating a floating callout tab at a location on a webpage, generating a message frame proximate the floating callout tab in response to selection of the callout tab, the message frame comprising a message configured to entice selection of the message frame or callout tab by an end user of the webpage, generating a modal window in response to selection of the message frame or callout tab, the modal window configured to allow the end user to input information into the form provided. The methods also include tracking these steps, analyzing the information generated from the events and optimizing future events. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066630 | CONTENT SELECTION WITH PRECISION CONTROLS - Systems and methods for content selection with precision controls include receiving a content selection parameter value and a degree of precision specified by a content provider. A content selection parameter value for a device identifier may be predicted using a predictive model. A precision factor may be associated with the predicted content selection parameter value. Content from the provider may be selected based on a comparison between the predicted selection parameter value and precision factor for the device identifier and the selection parameter value and degree of precision specified by the content provider. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066631 | SCALABLY CALCULATING STATISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH ACTION PERFORMANCES - A method for scalably calculating statistics associated with action performances includes obtaining action performance data for one or more entities, where the action performance data comprises at least a number of times each of the one or more entities performed an action during one or more time segments, wherein the action satisfies a user specified criteria. The method also includes generating, based on the obtained action performance data, a data structure including one or more values that are organized according to a number of time segments that have elapsed between an action performance and a most recent previous action performance. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066632 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR IMPROVING TARGETED ADVERTISING - Described are computer-based systems, computer-implemented methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for improving the targeting of advertising in a publishing platform by utilizing payment card transaction data in concert with publisher data. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066633 | DYNAMIC TELEPHONE NUMBER ASSIGNMENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for dynamic telephone number assignment. A method includes: providing a content item to a user device, the content item including a control for initiating a call to a content sponsor associated with the content item; assigning a telephone number from a pool to the content item; receiving a control interaction indication; facilitating a connection between the user and the content sponsor based on the interaction; storing an association between a user identifier, the telephone number, and a content sponsor identifier such that future calls from the user to the telephone number can be routed to the content sponsor, even after the telephone number has been returned to the pool; and linking a content item impression with the connection such that a report can be generated that shows an effectiveness of the content item impression. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066634 | SYSTEM, A METHOD AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR OPTIMALLY COMMUNICATING BASED ON USER'S HISTORICAL INTERACTIONS AND PERFORMANCE DATA - Provided is a system for communication, including: a non-transitory processor configured to: (a) determine a group of messages including a plurality of optional messages for a user in response to obtaining of user identification information identifying the user; (b) obtain performance information for each one of plurality of optional messages; (c) obtain historical interactions data pertaining to interactions which are included in a series of user interactions, where at least one of the interactions of the series includes communication of digital media over a network connection to the user; and (d) select an elect message out of the plurality of optional messages based on the historical interactions data and on the performance information; and a communication interface operable and configured to transmit information of the elect message over a communication channel. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066635 | Method and process for registration, creation and management of campaigns and advertisements in a network system - The presented invention is a method for an advertising sponsor user, using a client computer, or mobile device to be able to register, login and create zip code related local sponsor advertisements, with small advertisements for creating interest in the offers, that link to bigger advertisements with an embedded shopping cart. When a user creates the advertisements, they can upload their images, and create their type for the offers in the same interface form and the advertisements are instantly created and able to be published immediately throughout a network. Utilizing zip codes allows the system to use an intelligent smart decision engine, to make decisions of where advertisements and campaigns should be displayed as related to registered users locations. Also past performance and past advertisement information is utilized by the present invention to make appraisal value judgments as to the value of advertisements for sale, and campaign values for sale. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066636 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ATTRIBUTING AND COMPENSATING ACQUISITION OF INFLUENTIAL USERS IN A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - Systems and methods are provided for determining which users of an application are particularly influential, and for compensating acquisition of the influential users accordingly. User influence is determined by tracking user interactions, and by determining a number of unique interactions and duplicate interactions to generate a social influence score for the users. Credit is provided to one or more parties attributed with acquiring the user, and the amount of credit is based on the social influence score for the user. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066637 | Real-Time Mobile Multi-Media Content Management System For Marketing, Communication and Engagement - A real-time mobile multi-media content management and communications system for marketing and engagement. The system comprises a processor, a storage and instructions for a multi-media user interface module, a multi-media content collection module, and a multi-media templating module, a communications module, where the modules provide a user with real-time multi-media content management to market and engage third parties. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066638 | Collecting Information Regarding Consumer Click-Through Traffic - A method and system for providing the centralized collection of click-through traffic information. The method includes receiving a DNS query for a domain name at a third party auditing service from a requesting computing resource. The domain name is configured to include click-through information as a subdomain, and wherein a URL associated with the domain name provides content. The click-through information is parsed from the domain name without establishing a connection between said third party auditing server and any web server providing the content. An IP address for the web server associated with the domain name is sent to the requesting computing resource. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066639 | BIDDING FOR ADVERTISING IMPRESSION IN AN ONLINE EXCHANGE USING ONE OR MORE MULTIPLE QUALITY MEASUREMENTS - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to bid for an advertising impression. Within an advertising exchange, an advertising bidding impression campaign to bid for the advertising impression is initialized. A desired impression quality rank is selected and a bid against the desired rank is accepted. An actual impression quality rank for an actual advertising impression in an advertising impression inventory is determined. Based on the bid and the actual impression quality rank, the actual advertising impression is awarded to the bidder. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066640 | COMMUNICATING DEVICE DATA PRIOR TO CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENT - A power transmitting device may include at least one processor circuit. The at least one processor circuit may be configured to receive messages, such as advertising messages and/or scan response messages, from one or more power receiving devices. The messages may include device specific data that pertains to the corresponding power receiving devices that transmitted the messages. The device specific data may include, for example, data pertaining to the hardware, firmware, charging state, and/or device state of the corresponding power receiving device. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to select one of the power receiving devices based at least in part on the device specific data contained in the messages. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to initiate a connection to the selected one of the power receiving devices, such as a connection for wireless power transfer. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066641 | ENHANCED CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT USING ADVANCED COMMUNICATION EXCHANGE SERVICES - Various embodiments of systems and methods for enhancing consumer engagement using advanced communication exchange services are described herein. The method involves receiving by a consumer device an address book entry from an enterprise device. The consumer device is enabled with enhanced address book capability provided by any advanced communication exchange systems. Further, in an aspect, the received address book entry is activated to enable the enterprise device to push business information to the consumer device. In another aspect, selecting the address book entry invokes the advanced communication services supported by the enterprise device. By accessing one or more of the advanced communication services, business information from the enterprise device is received via the selected communication exchange service. in an aspect, the received business information is customized based on online presence information of the consumer device. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066642 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING TARGETED MESSAGES BASED ON USAGE OF A DOCUMENT ACCESSED WITHIN AN INTERNET BROWSER - A computer implemented method and apparatus for enabling targeted messages based on usage of a document accessed within an Internet browser, wherein the document is not a webpage. The method comprises accessing a document within a browser on a device using an application associated with the document; and recording, by the application, usage behavior data during usage of the document accessed within the browser. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066643 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATION PANEL, AND METHOD AND SERVER FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATION ITEM - A method and device which provide a recommendation to a user based on the type of device are provided. The device includes: a user input which is configured to receive a user touch input, a communicator which is configured to transmit a recommendation item request including identification information of the device to a server in response to the user touch input and receive at least one recommendation item selected based on the identification information of the device from the server; a display which is configured to display a recommendation panel including the received at least one recommendation item; and a controller which is configured to control the communicator to receive the at least one recommendation item and control the display to display the recommendation panel. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066644 | AUTOMATED TARGETING OF INFORMATION TO AN APPLICATION USER BASED ON RETARGETING AND UTILIZING EMAIL MARKETING - In one example implementation, behavioral data describing past actions including products viewed and purchases made by users while visiting applications is compiled. The behavioral data is segmented into clusters of behavior factors according to statistically related actions of the users. An electronic address for the user is received from a computer of the user. The electronic address is then processed for user data profiling the user. A match between the user data profiling the user and one of the clusters of behavior factors is computed. Targeted information is generated based on the match. The targeted information is provided to the computer of the user for presentation. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066645 | Enhancing Marketing Funnel Conversion Through Intelligent Social Tagging and Attribution - An embodiment of the invention provides a method and system for enhancing marketing funnel conversion through intelligent social tagging and attribution. A processor identifies search terms entered into a search engine and websites visited in response to web searches for the search terms. A compiler extracts consumer annotations from the websites visited, wherein the consumer annotations are generated by individuals who previously visited the websites and reviewed products on the websites. The compiler also extracts product specifications from the websites visited, wherein the product specifications are created by a seller and/or manufacturer of a product. The search terms, the websites visited, the extracted consumer annotations, and the product specifications are saved in an electronic database. An access controller permits access to the search terms, the websites visited, the extracted consumer annotations, and the product specifications to potential consumers. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066646 | SPARK SATELLITE CLUSTERS TO HADOOP DATA STORES - An advertising and data analysis platform may need to mine through vast amounts of data to come up with insights into advertising effectiveness, and measure and improve the effectiveness of advertising reach. Distributed network data analytics may be applied to ad matching/targeting, such that an in-memory cluster computing environment may be used with advertising data. For example, HADOOP may be utilized for distributed processing of the vast amounts of data and the HADOOP distributed file system (HDFS) is used for organizing communications and storage of that data. Satellite clusters or nodes may be generated that also utilize HDFS. For example, a SPARK or SHARK satellite cluster may be arranged to further utilize the HDFS of the HADOOP clusters. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066647 | Application Performance Improvements In Radio Networks - A method includes sending a request to a user indicating options to modify a quality of experience for one or more application flows between a radio network and a mobile node used by the user. The request indicates the user should select one of the following: declining an option to upgrade an existing service to a new service able to support the one or more application flows with a higher quality of experience than supported by the existing service; or accepting an option to upgrade the existing service to the new service. In response to receiving an indication the user selected the option to upgrade the existing service, performing one or more actions to upgrade the existing service to the new service. The option to upgrade the existing service can include an option of receiving advertisements for the new service or paying extra for the new service. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066648 | RECOMMENDATION OF MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON GEOLOCATION AND VENUE - Content items, such as e-books, audio files, video files, etc., may be recommended to a user based on the user's presence at a geolocation or venue. Geolocation is the geospatial location of the user, while a venue is a designated area for an activity, such as a concert hall, aircraft, waiting room, etc. The recommendations may be of content items relating to the geolocation or venue, or they may be content items being accessed by others who are, or have been, in approximately the same geolocation or venue. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066649 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING TOURISTIC PATHS - Systems and methods provide touristic routes to users. For example, a user at a client device may request a touristic route between an initial and a final destination. A server uses the initial and final destinations to determine a shortest route. The server then defines an envelope around the route in order to identify points of interest. The identified points of interest are ranked and filtered, in order to select the most relevant points of interest. Once the points of interest are selected, the server determines a final route between the initial destination, the points of interest, and the final route. This information is then transmitted to the client device and displayed to the user. The server may also identify and transmit content associated with the final route and/or the points of interest, including, but not limited to, photos, videos, hyperlinks, and advertisements. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066650 | Method and Apparatus for Advertisements in Mobile Content Distribution Systems - An approach is provided for optimally matching advertisements to content items for targeted consumers using the content distribution characteristics. A distribution processor determines one or more distribution characteristics of one or more first content items that are distributed among one or more devices. The distribution processor then processes and/or facilitates processing of the one or more distribution characteristics to cause, at least in part, a selection of one or more second content items. In one scenario, the one or more second content items may include advertisements. From there, the distribution processor processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more first content items to cause, at least in part, an embedding of the one or more second content items in the one or more first content items. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066651 | Method and System for Secure Mobile Payment Processing and Data Analytics - A method for processing payment transactions includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including at least a combined identifier and at least two payment account identifiers; receiving an authorization request for a payment transaction originating from a point of sale device, wherein the authorization request includes at least a combined identification; identifying a specific consumer profile where the included combined identifier corresponds to the combined identification; transmitting at least the at least two payment account identifiers included in the specific consumer profile to the point of sale device; receiving an indication of one of the at least two payment account identifiers from the point of salve device; updating the authorization request to include at least the indicated one of the at least two payment account identifiers; and transmitting the updated authorization request. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066652 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CROSS-PLATFORM ALLOCATION OF THIRD-PARTY CONTENT - A system and method for allocating third-party content impressions among online media formats is provided. An allocation system normalizes the number of impressions of each format so that the durations of each format may be determined so that the expected revenue of the impressions on each format is approximately equal. The allocation system assigns an optimal number of third-party content impressions to a user based on the amount of content the user consumes. The allocation system determines the probabilities of third-party contents of differing durations and formats being served to the user as a function of the user's preferred format and of an optimal amount of third-party contents to be viewed by the user. The allocation system determines whether a given third-party content should be served as a function of the probability. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066653 | STRUCTURED INFORMATIONAL LINK ANNOTATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium. A method includes: for each of a plurality of content items in an inventory of content items: identifying an entity associated with the content item and a plurality of page types for a vertical associated with a product or service described in the content item; locating a plurality of informational pages associated with the entity; classifying each informational page based on the page types; identifying queries associated with the entity, wherein a query is used as a selection criteria for delivering one or more content items associated with the entity; for each informational page of the plurality of informational pages determining relevant queries from the identified queries; and storing in a data structure an association between the content item, data associated with the relevant queries and associated informational pages. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066654 | TECHNIQUES FOR FACILITATING CONTENT RETARGETING - Techniques for facilitating retargeting of content are described. According to various embodiments, a user specification of a first set of content items and a second set of content items may be received. Moreover, a user specification of flow logic information may be received. The flow logic information may specify a user trigger action, and an instruction that a second content item in the second set is only to be displayed to a particular user after it is determined that the particular user has performed the user trigger action on the first content item. Thereafter, it may be determined that the particular user has performed the user trigger action on the first content item, and the second content item may be displayed to the particular user, based on the flow logic information. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066655 | NON-MONTARY COMPENSATION SCHEME FOR DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT-FREE DIGITAL AUDIO FILE TRANSMISSIONS - The present disclosure relates generally to the field of digital audio file downloading, and more particularly to digital rights management-free digital audio file downloading. A computing device receives a request for a digital audio file from a user, wherein the digital audio file is protected by intellectual property rights. The computing device requests that a digital advertisement having a viewing threshold be transmitted to the user for viewing. The computing device requests monetary credit for satisfaction of the viewing threshold from an owner, licensee, and/or assignee of the digital advertisement. The computing device credits an account associated with an owner, licensee, and/or assignee of the intellectual property rights with a monetary amount no greater than the requested monetary credit. The computing device services the request. | 2015-03-05 |
20150066656 | TIME-TRIGGERED ADVERTISEMENT REPLACEMENT - A system to place online advertisements on a first page includes a display output to render a primary advertisement on at least a portion of a first web page and a timer to measure a first predetermined period of time that the first web page is displayed. The system includes an advertisement controller, coupled to the display output and the timer, to switch the primary advertisement to display a secondary advertisement on the portion of the first web page. The advertisement controller is further responsive to a request to recall the primary advertisement after the switching has occurred and to switch the secondary advertisement with the primary advertisement. | 2015-03-05 |