12th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 66 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150081376 | CUSTOMIZATION OF EVENT MANAGEMENT AND INCIDENT MANAGEMENT POLICIES - A method includes analyzing, by a computer device, data associated with tickets generated in a managed environment. The method also includes generating, by the computer device, a suggested rule change based on the analyzing. The method further includes receiving, by the computer device, an acceptance or denial of the suggested rule change. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081377 | DYNAMIC PRICING FOR FINANCIAL PRODUCTS - An aspect of product pricing includes classifying customers into groups based on shared, predefined characteristics and financial transactions, and identifying services rendered and available but not rendered. For each customer, a risk associated with a service is estimated; availability and prices of the service by third parties are determined; a price for the service set by the entity is compared with the prices set by the third parties; and a demand for the service of the entity is estimated as a function of the availability and prices of the service by the third parties. For each customer, a probability that the customer will purchase the service is estimated based on the demand, and a price for the service that is customized for the customer is calculated, as a function of the risk, the demand, and the probability of purchase, and in view of a target profit and/or target revenue. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081378 | TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMIT UPDATE ALARM - Embodiments relate to a transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) update alarm. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data is accessed, along with economic data from an external data source. A TRDL alarm analytics model is applied to the customer data and the economic data to predict a number of transactions in a specified time period that are expected to exceed a TRDL. The TRDL alarm analytics model takes into account a payment transaction pattern associated with the customer. A threshold value is compared to the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL. An increase in the TRDL is requested to be applied at least during the specified time period based on the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL being greater than the threshold value. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081379 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING SAFETY PROTOCOLS - A system for monitoring the impact of lack of safeguards and procedures and for converting that into a metric of risk for any industrial facility or transportation of the same substances or products. A user interface allows access to a database containing safety documents for all safeguard's and procedures. The user interface also interfaces with a safety calculation module that calculates the risk level for specific potential consequences if specific safety procedures are not implemented and if specific safeguards become unavailable in any way. The calculation module calculates risk on a per scenario basis using a risk performance indicator, (RPI), metric. This metric is calculated as the difference between projected risk and tolerable risk. A total risk for an area of a facility can be calculated by summing all risk performance indicator metrics for all scenarios in that area. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081380 | COMPLEMENT SELF SERVICE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WITH CLEANSED AND ENRICHED CUSTOMER DATA - According to some embodiments, a method of self-service business intelligence and an apparatus are provided to receive a first plurality of data records at a client device executing a self-service business intelligence application. A request to a master data service to lookup the first plurality of data records is sent via an intermediary database. A second plurality of data records comprising a cleansed and consolidated version of the first plurality of data records is received. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081381 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING TIME - A system and method for recording time. The system may consist of a software extension. The extension may record the time a user is on a device, software, or application. The user may use the extension to redeem vouchers or trade with other members of the community. The method may consist of a user logging into a plugin or extension. The extension may record a user's activity, including time spent on the device, software, or application. The time recorded may then be exchanged for vouchers, which the user may redeem or trade with other members. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081382 | CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP ACCOUNT AUGMENTATION BASED ON WIRELESS DETECTION OF MOBILE DEVICES, WITH PERSONALIZED MESSAGING - A customer relationship system includes a local computing system located on-premises of a public accommodation and a remote computing system that communicates with the local computing system. The local computing system includes or interfaces with a wireless access point that provides a wireless communications network to the public accommodation. The local computing system validates that a target wireless communication device associated with a target MAC address or hardware identifier of the one or more identified MAC addresses or hardware identifiers is present at the public accommodation by matching an on-premises characteristic of the detected beacon frames transmitted by wireless communication devices. The remote computing system augments a visit counter based upon a message received from the local computing system, and transmits a personalized message to the wireless communication device in which the personalized message is programmatically modified based upon a value of the visit counter. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081383 | GENERATING MULTIPLY CONSTRAINED GLOBALLY OPTIMIZED REQUESTS SUBJECT TO STATE OF ENVIRONMENT FOR PROPOSAL PACKAGES - A method, system and computer program product for determining an optimized set of sales events for a company. The method including the steps of determining a sales event is in an area supported by the company; extracting sales event parameters regarding the sales event; extracting data regarding a state of an environment surrounding a party offering the sales event; determining a probability of the extracted data regarding a state of the environment surrounding the party and assigning weights to the extracted data will affect the awarding of the sales event to the company; and based on the determined probabilities, mapping the sales event parameters to industry solution ontology based on the probabilities of extracted data of the state of the environment surrounding the party that will affect the sales event from being awarded to the company by the party. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081384 | DETERMINING LIKELIHOOD OF AN INDIVIDUAL CONSUMER ENROLLING IN A BEHAVIOR-BASED ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM - Described herein are various examples of techniques that may be implemented in some embodiments to determine a score indicative of a likelihood of a consumer enrolling in a behavior-based energy efficiency program. The score may be determined based at least in part on prior energy consumption of the consumer. The prior energy consumption of the consumer may be compared to characteristics of energy consumption that were previously determined to be associated with consumers who previously enrolled in an energy efficiency program and consumers who did not previously enroll. Based on the comparison, a score may be determined that the consumer will or will not enroll, or scores of the consumer enrolling and not enrolling may be determined. Based on the score(s), a prediction may be made of whether the consumer will enroll in an energy efficiency program. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081385 | System and Method for Determining Political Representation - A computer-implemented method for determining representation by political figures. The method can include compiling a list of political issues, receiving preferences of a plurality of voters for at least one issue in the list of political issues, determining a stance of a political figure for the at least one issue, and determining if the stance of the political figure matches a preference of the plurality of voters for the at least one issue. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081386 | MEDIATION DEVICE, MEDIATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mediation device according to the present application includes a task reception unit, a deliverable reception unit, a calculation unit, and a measures unit. The task reception unit receives work including one or more dummy questions from an order terminal used by an orderer. The deliverable reception unit receives deliverables of the work including answers to the dummy question from a plurality of acceptor terminals used by a plurality of acceptors. The calculation unit calculates some answer state of the dummy question included in the deliverables received by a second reception unit. The measures unit executes predetermined measures according to the answer state calculated by a calculation unit. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081387 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING INFLUENCERS FROM PAYMENT DATA - A method for identifying a trendsetting consumer includes: storing transaction entries, each entry including a consumer identifier, transaction date, and transaction characteristics each having a characteristic value; receiving two trend identifiers, each trend identifier including a trend date and transaction characteristic value and is associated with a specific trend; identifying a trending consumer where a first transaction entry includes a transaction date corresponding to the trend date and a transaction characteristics having a characteristic value corresponding to the transaction characteristic value of one of the two identified trends, a second transaction entry includes a transaction date corresponding to the trend date and a transaction characteristics having a characteristic value corresponding to the transaction characteristic value of another one of the two identified trends, and the first and second transaction entries include a common consumer identifier associated with the trending consumer; and associating the trending consumer with the specific trends. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081388 | CUSTOMER SELECTION FOR SERVICE OFFERINGS - An aspect of customer selection processes includes classifying, by a computer processor, customers of an entity into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics among the customers. For each of the groups: services rendered for corresponding customers are identified; for each of the services rendered, a risk relationship and a reward relationship between each of the corresponding customers and the service is determined; and for each of the services rendered, a score that defines a combination of the risk relationship and the reward relationship is calculated. For each of the services rendered by the entity, the corresponding score is applied to a candidate customer having a set of characteristics matching the characteristics of one of the groups, and the service is offered to the candidate customer as a function of the score. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081389 | METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT IDENTIFY MARKET SEGMENTS AND THAT FACILITATE TARGETED INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION - The current document is directed to automated market-segment-discovery methods and systems that may be incorporated within, or used in combination with, various types of analysis and optimization automated systems for automated discovery of market segments for subsequent use in targeted marketing and information distribution. In one implementation, a log of visitor records collected by an analysis and/or optimization system is processed to generate a segment-discovery tree. Construction of the segment-discovery tree produces a set of candidate market-segment-defining rules. Various different techniques and metrics can be applied to produce a set of market-segment-defining rules from these candidate rules. The market-segment-defining rules can then be exported to marketing systems or subsystems to facilitate targeted marketing and information distribution. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081390 | CUSTOMER SELECTION FOR SERVICE OFFERINGS - An aspect of customer selection processes includes classifying, by a computer processor, customers of an entity into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics among the customers. For each of the groups: services rendered for corresponding customers are identified; for each of the services rendered, a risk relationship and a reward relationship between each of the corresponding customers and the service is determined; and for each of the services rendered, a score that defines a combination of the risk relationship and the reward relationship is calculated. For each of the services rendered by the entity, the corresponding score is applied to a candidate customer having a set of characteristics matching the characteristics of one of the groups, and the service is offered to the candidate customer as a function of the score. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081391 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES - An aspect of product recommendation processes includes classifying customers into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics and common financial transaction activities conducted. For each service offered, the product recommendation processes include estimating a cost of recommendation of the service; and estimating, for each of the customers in a group, a transaction risk of providing the service. For each group, the product recommendation processes include: identifying services available that are not rendered; estimating, based on economic health data associated with the corresponding customers, a probability of an acceptance by the corresponding customers of an offer for available services; estimating a profit based on historical profit data acquired from results of rendering the service to the customers of the group; and selecting a subset of the available services to offer the customers as a function of the cost of recommendation, the transaction risk, the probability of acceptance, and estimated profit. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081392 | COMPETITOR PREDICTION TOOL - A method of generating fuel price data for a retail fuel site. The method comprises receiving relationship data indicating a relationship between the retail fuel site and a competitor retail fuel site and receiving fuel price data for the competitor retail fuel site. The fuel price data for the competitor retail fuel site is processed to generate estimated fuel price data for the competitor retail fuel site and the fuel price data for the retail fuel site is generated based upon the relationship data and the estimated fuel price data. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081393 | PRODUCT PROMOTION OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM - A system that determines promotional pricing for a product and for an objective function receives a non-linear time-dependent optimization problem for the product, where the non-linear problem includes a demand model and a plurality of constraints, and the constraints include a price ladder that includes a plurality of time periods and a non-promotional price for the product at each time period. For each of the time periods, the system determines a change in the objective function when the price at that time period includes a promotional price and all other prices on the price ladder are set to the non-promotional price to generate coefficients. The system determines a maximum value of the coefficients at each time period, and generates an approximate Mixed Integer Programming (“MIP”) problem based on the coefficients. The system determines a Linear Programming (“LP”) relaxation of the MIP problem, and solves the LP relaxation. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081394 | GENERATION OF COST-PER-BRAKING EVENT VALUES - Systems and techniques are described for generating cost values for a plurality of braking events of an aircraft, where each cost value is based on an expected wear of the wheel-and-brake assembly of the aircraft during the respective braking event. The systems and techniques may take into account data representative of conditions during the respective braking event of the aircraft to generate the cost values. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081395 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONTROL DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS IN A VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE - A system providing a marketplace wherein professional goods and creators of the professional goods are organized and ranked to allow a user of the system. The system is configured to allow the creators to control access to their goods made available to consumers via the marketplace. The consumers may use the access to determine a value of goods and directly compensate one or more of the creators for an increased level of access, which may include one or more incentives to gain additional access, for instance, if the consumer shares the good. The system is configured to generate a suggested payment price based on value rating and highest payment data associated with each of the goods, which may be based on feedback from one or more of the consumers. The goods and the creators are organized and ranked by assigning a variable weight to value metrics based on the feedback from the consumers or other action or behavior of the consumer detected by the system. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE WITH AUTOMATED SOCIAL DISCOVERY - A system, process and method for automatically collecting, collating and transforming data into useful formats and displaying or otherwise outputting the transformed data into useable information. The system provides outputs that are useful in optimizing the enterprise performance of a business. The system, process and method are grounded in an established logical framework for systematically classifying areas of business concerns. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081397 | DETERMINING THE PERFORMANCE OF A CONTENT NETWORK - Systems and methods for determining the performance of a content network include determining a differential performance for the network. A first performance metric for the content network may be determined for content auctions that the content network won. A second performance metric may also be determined that represents a performance metric based on predicted auction results that disregard the participation of the content network in the auctions. A differential performance metric for the content network may also be determined based on the difference between the first and second performance metrics. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081398 | DETERMINING A PERFORMANCE TARGET SETTING - A method for setting a performance target in an outcome driven business model. The method includes receiving historical data, comprising industry performance data, for the outcome driven business model and performance target settings, including a forecasting horizon and confidence level. The method includes calculating, for a plurality of forecasting methods and the forecasting horizon, a function associated with a probability of an industry benchmark performance meeting a threshold value. The method includes determining, based on the function for each of the plurality of forecasting methods, a best forecasting method of the plurality of forecasting methods at the forecasting horizon and the confidence level. The method includes calculating, based on the historical data and the forecasting horizon, using the best forecasting method, a forecast benchmark value. The method includes setting a performance target based on the forecast benchmark value, the confidence level, and the function for the determined best forecasting method. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081399 | VEHICLE INDEPENDENT EMPLOYEE/DRIVER TRACKING AND REPORTING - A computer system and method for storing and processing GPS data for a plurality of drivers and vehicles to provide activity reports for fleets of driver and vehicles. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081400 | Watching ARM - Improving operation stability and system availability of the IT systems at low costs is a primary objective of IT department of any customer. Implementing a one stop solution to monitor the system availability, to identify critical incidents in the systems before it becomes service impacting, to have a consolidated configuration management database, to measure the application performance on a business perspective, to have IT operations dashboard to provide statistics for capacity management and to provide detailed analysis by means of trending is a critical success factor in improving the system availability and operation stability of IT systems. Watching Application and Resource Management (ARM) is a comprehensive tool based solution to monitor and address the major areas of business requirements from IT systems and brings out visibility to realize the Operational Stability and System Availability. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081401 | CONTENT PROVIDER, A METHOD FOR DESIGNATING CONTENT COMPLIES WITH A STANDARD AND A SYSTEM FOR SHARING CONTENT - A system for sharing resources, a content provider and a method for indicating content complies with a recognized standard is provided herein. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) receiving content from a member of a community of users, (2) receiving a designation input from the member that indicates the content aligns with a recognized standard associated with the community and the content; and (3) providing, for the community, the content with the recognized standard designated by the input. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081402 | CORPORATE AND ENTERTAINMENT MANAGEMENT INTERACTIVE SYSTEM USING A COMPUTER NETWORK - A system, method, and apparatus is provided for computerized management of a method of corporate, business or sports management by a remote party comprising relating a current database of an entity. For instance, in sports management substantially real time management is possible. Data of a player together with a historical database related to that player and decisions can be transmitted. This is communicated between a central database processing resource and at least one remote party. A remote party is permitted to access the database and access designated data from the database, and input and output data. Voting and other management of the player, team, or business is possible in substantially real time or near real time by the remote party. A remote user can vote on financial compensation for a player, a coach or a team and/or for a bonus for a player, team or game. Similarly hiring and firing decisions can be made. Shareholders, fans or customers of an entertainment business such as sports can be more interactively involved in all aspects of management and ownership duties and thus be more thoroughly entertained. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081403 | Multi-protocol Electronic Tolling System for Nation-wide Use - A system is disclosed for assessing roadway toll charges across a plurality of tolling agencies, for example a nation-wide system that allows use of a multi-protocol RFID tag that is recognized in a plurality of states having different tag protocols in their electronic tolling systems. In an embodiment, each tolling agency sets aside numbers associated with the national system. Where a tag is read that is not identified as part of the national system, the local agency processes the tag transaction. There a tag is read that is identified as part of the national system, regardless of which tolling agency reads it, the transaction information is sent to a national customer service center for processing. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081404 | DRIVER BEHAVIOR ENHANCEMENT USING SCORING, RECOGNITION AND REDEEMABLE REWARDS - A method for improving the driving behavior of a driver includes the step of receiving a request to establish a goal from a first user, such as a parent. A request to establish a non-monetary reward from the first user is received. The driving behavior of a second user, such as a teen, is monitored over time. The driving behavior of the second user is compared to the goal. Based upon the comparison, is may be indicated that the second user has met the goal and can receive the non-monetary reward. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081405 | FINANCIAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND INCENTIVE SYSTEM FOR FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIORS - Embodiments of the invention provide financial health assessment and incentive systems for financially responsible behaviors. The methods, apparatus and computer program products provide for receiving a financial behavior set associated with a customer, identifying a difference between the financial behavior set associated with the customer and a second financial behavior set, and providing to the customer an incentive to make an alteration to a financial behavior. In some example implementations, financial behaviors exhibited by or otherwise attributable to individuals who are socially affiliated with the customer via a social network are observed and associated with the customer. In some example implementations, advertisements for goods and/or services that are potentially attractive to the customer are directed to the customer in response to identifying a difference between the financial behavior set associated with the customer and the second financial behavior set. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081406 | DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A distribution device includes a distribution unit which distributes a control program for controlling content to be displayed on a user terminal, to the user terminal. The control program is a display program to be executed in the user terminal, and controls the user terminal to execute a sound playback procedure for playing back a sound when content is included in an area specified by the display program for displaying the content, a viewable area acquisition procedure for acquiring the area specified by the display program in the content as a viewable area, a display area determination procedure for determining whether a display area where a video is displayed corresponding to the content is positioned in the viewable area, and a video playback procedure for stopping playback of the sound and starting playback of the video, when determined that the display area is positioned in the viewable area. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081407 | BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS USING TRUST BASED INSTRUMENT - The embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for trust based transactions between entities. The method comprises the step of inviting one or more entities to register on the ET platform, allowing one more issuing entities to set campaign and/or contract, distributing and activating TrustSwaptions to receiving entities, allowing the receiving entities to redeem the TrustSwaptions, and measuring the campaign progress and evaluating ROI from the campaign. The TrustSwaptions are negotiable instruments which grant ownership of the instruments without the obligation to enter into an underlying trade and allow the entities to transact among each other. The ET platform can capture specific transaction patterns exhibited by entities to establish and build Social Bonafide score trustworthiness/morality quotient of the entities. Further, a system for transactions that use the trust-based negotiable instruments between entities or group of entities is also disclosed. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081408 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING PROMOTIONAL OFFERS - Through an interface of a platform, promotional offers are provided from merchants. Each promotional offer pertains to a rebate, purchase credit, reward, price discount, or other consumer offering. Association information is also automatically obtained from a social network application to identify for a first user which other platform users are members of the first user's social group. Each other user is a member of the first user's social group through the social network application, independently of use of such promotional offers. A first promotional offer is provided by the platform from a first merchant to a client device of the first user. The first promotional offer is provided or the rebate amount, purchase credit amount, reward, price discount amount, or other consumer offering of the provided first promotional offer is determined, selected or applied, based on a measure of a purchasing or platform usage activity of the other users. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081409 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER WITH REWARD - A server according to an embodiment allows a user to more comfortably enjoy communication with other users. This server executes a reward granting program including a user identification module that identifies, in response to a request from a terminal device of one user, one or a plurality of users from among the plurality of users based on present locations of the plurality of users, a user information transmission module that transmits information on the identified users to the terminal device of the one user, a first execution module that receives, from the terminal device of the one user, a request for execution of greeting transmission by the one user on another user selected by the one user from among the identified users and executes the greeting transmission, a second execution module that receives, from a terminal device of the other user, a request for execution of greeting reply to the one user by the other user for whom the greeting transmission is executed and executes the greeting reply, and a reward granting module that grants points to the one user and the other user in accordance with execution of the greeting reply to the one user by the other user. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081410 | CREATING AN AFFINITY RELATIONSHIP - Embodiments of the invention receive an expression of interest for a benefactor from a user, propose creation of an affinity program associated with the benefactor to the user, and create an affinity program associated with the benefactor. Creating includes determining at least one triggering action for triggering a donation to the benefactor, determining at least one potential participant for the affinity program, and inviting the at least one potential participant to join the affinity program. Creating the affinity may also include proposing the affinity program to the benefactor and negotiating contractual terms on behalf of a program administrator, such as, by using an artificial intelligence engine. In some embodiments, creating the affinity also includes, in response to determining the number of expressions of interest from unique users surpasses a predetermined threshold, initiating the affinity program by inviting at least one of the unique users to join the program. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081411 | Enhanced Automatic Savings Program - A computer implemented system and method are disclosed of processing a financial transaction that includes determining an automatic savings amount and rewards amount payments. The system may comprises a checking account, a savings account, an account of a merchant, and one or more computer systems including a communication interface, processor, and memory storing computer-executable instructions. The rewards amount may be calculated based on various techniques. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081412 | E-BOOK PROVISION SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, E-BOOK PROVISION SYSTEM, E-BOOK TRANSMISSION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an electronic book providing server configured to enable, when a user desires to view an electronic book, the user to view the electronic book earlier than in the related art. A purchase probability prediction unit predicts an electronic book to be purchased with high probability, and predicts a user terminal to be used to view the electronic book when the electronic book is purchased. An electronic book transmission unit transmits a file of the electronic book which is predicted to be purchased with high probability and for which a transmission request has not been received, to the user terminal, in a state in which viewing of at least a part of contents of the electronic book is restricted before the electronic book is purchased and in which the at least a part is allowed to be viewed after the electronic book is purchased. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081413 | DEMAND AND SUPPLY ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM - A supply and demand adjustment system capable of making supply and demand adjustment of energy while changing an incentive to consumers. The supply and demand adjustment system includes: a supply and demand adjustment device; supply and demand arbitration terminals; and a supply and demand arbitration device. The supply and demand arbitration device determines an incentive target value, makes a request to each of the consumers to reduce usage of the energy within a range of the incentive target value, summarizes a reducible energy amount responsive to this request and given from each of the consumers in replies through the supply and demand arbitration terminals, and transmits the summarized amount to the supply and demand adjustment device. The supply and demand adjustment device and the supply and demand arbitration device make the supply and demand adjustment dynamically while changing the incentive target value. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081414 | LOTTERY PROMOTION - The present invention relates to a lottery promotional method. The method involves the step of receiving, with a server, confirmation of a ticket purchaser being at a geographic location to qualify for a promotional offer offered in conjunction with a lottery ticket purchase. The geographic location may include either a display or a reseller store. The server may receive a QR code to qualify for the promotional offer. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081415 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A PROMOTIONAL REWARD PROGRAM - Methods and apparatus for implementing promotional reward programs are provided. One or more images of a proof of purchase are transmitted to a remote location by a mobile device. If it is determined that the one or more images meet predetermined criteria and if the transmission is eligible for a reward, the reward is instantly transmitted to the mobile device. According to another embodiment, one or more images of an item identifier provided on one or more products or displays or a text message containing the item identifier are transmitted to a promotional reward program managing apparatus by a mobile device. If it is determined that the one or more images of the item identifier or a text message containing the item identifier meet predetermined criteria and if the transmission is eligible for a reward, the reward is instantly transmitted to the consumer through the mobile device or through a loyalty program account number. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081416 | Merchandise Kiosk and Web-Store System and Method - A method of selling products includes displaying web-store information related to a web-store on a consumer-operated kiosk at a location. The method may further include displaying product information with the web-store, in which the product information corresponds to products related to the location of the consumer-operated kiosk and available for purchase by a consumer from the web-store. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE MARKETING WITH ONLINE BRAND ENGAGEMENT ADVERTISING - A system and method for collaborative marketing with online brand engagement advertising is provided and includes receiving specification data for brand engagement advertising campaigns from a sponsor. The specification data includes data indicating a brand engagement advertising activity and a group incentive. A server stores the specification data and provides access to the specification data to users. The server receives a selection of a designated brand engagement advertising campaign and monitors performance of the brand engagement advertising activities. The server generates a notification of a group incentive for a group of users based on the monitored performance of the designated brand engagement advertising activities associated with the designated brand engagement advertising campaign. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081418 | PLATFORMS AND SOFTWARE FOR JUST-IN-TIME MARKETING OF ATTRACTIONS - A platform comprising an enterprise application, a mobile application and a server application configured for attractions to deliver timely marketing, advertising and promotions messages to targeted individuals. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081419 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING DYNAMIC LINK TRACKING - The present application presents an improved approach for dynamically generating tracking links. In some embodiments, the present invention allows for the defining of tracking link templates allowing a user to specify parameters usable by a tracking service. One or more post parameters and one or more custom parameters may be defined. SRM posts may then be created by a user through an SRM interface, and a tracking URL be automatically created by reading in the post parameters and one or more user-inputted custom parameters. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081420 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ONLINE CONTENT ITEMS - A computer-implemented method for identifying relationships between online content items uses a computing device including a processor and a memory. The method includes identifying a first content item and identifying a plurality of occurrence results for the first content item. Each occurrence result of the plurality of occurrence results includes an indicator that the first content item was retrieved along with a list of other content items based on an online activity of at least one user device. The method also includes computing a number of co-occurrence events involving the first content item and a second content item from the plurality of occurrence results. Each co-occurrence event includes an indicator that both first content item and second content item were retrieved together in an occurrence result. The method further includes computing a relationship value between first content item and second content item using at least the number of co-occurrence events. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081421 | ADVERTISING UNIT VIEW AREA - A system may generate a view area based on a field of view of an advertising unit, a sight distance from the advertising unit and a view direction associated with the advertising unit; identify a set of road segments that fall within the view area of the advertising unit; and associate the advertising unit as being viewable to mobile subscribers of a network service provider traversing the identified set of road segments. The system may further receive a request for a report including information regarding an audience available to the advertising unit over a period of time; query a data warehouse for aggregate subscriber data associated with locations of the set of road segments over the period of time; and generate the report regarding the audience for the ad unit over the period of time based on the retrieved aggregate subscriber data. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081422 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - A service providing apparatus includes a plan receiving unit, a calculating unit, and a service providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content planned by a content creator. The calculating unit calculates the number of predicted views that is a predicted value of the number of times at which the content is viewed by a user. The service providing unit presents the number of predicted views calculated by the calculating unit and the plan information received by the plan receiving unit, and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement on the content. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081423 | Method and System for Tracking User Engagement on Multiple Third-Party Sites - A system for multichannel marketing includes a redirect link that takes the place of an ordinary link to a landing page in an advertisement or interest page. A consumer activating the link is redirected momentarily to a server maintained by a marketing services provider. A cookie on the consumer's device is used to link data about this consumer to other data about the consumer that is maintained by the marketing services provider. The consumer data is held in an area where no personally identifiable information (PII) is maintained. The system allows a marketer to better track multichannel marketing efforts and to analyze the results of multichannel marketing without comprising the privacy of consumers. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081424 | ITEM BUNDLE DETERMINATION USING TRANSACTION DATA - A method includes obtaining transaction data for two or more items, determining valuations for the two or more items, grouping the two or more items into one or more bundles, wherein each bundle comprises a different combination of the two or more items, estimating a joint distribution of valuations for the two or more items in each of the one or more bundles based on the transaction data for the two or more items, and estimating expected profits for each of the one or more bundles over a range of bundle prices from the joint distribution. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081425 | MULTIPLE-ENTITY TEMPORAL BUDGET OPTIMIZATION IN ONLINE ADVERTISING - Temporal budget optimization in online advertising, comprising: receiving a user selection of a time period in the future and of a joint budget for M online ad entities, wherein M≧2; forecasting, based on historical data associated with the M online ad entities, a future ROI function of each of the M online ad entities, wherein the future ROI function provides revenue as a function of cost; computing individual budgets for the M online ad entities by finding M points to serve as the individual budgets, each of the M points being a certain cost in the future ROI function of a different one of the M online ad entities, such that: the M points have approximately equal derivatives, and a sum of the costs at the M points is approximately equal to the joint budget; and during the time period: tracking a spending of the individual budgets, to determine remaining individual budgets, periodically updating the future ROI functions based on newly-accumulated historical data associated with the M online ad entities, and periodically adjusting, in an online advertising platform, a spending pace of the remaining individual budgets, wherein the adjusting is based on the updated future ROI functions. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081426 | DETERMINING AND COMMUNICATING EXCESS ADVERTISER DEMAND INFORMATION TO USERS, SUCH AS PUBLISHERS PARTICIPATING IN, OR EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN, AN ADVERTISING NETWORK - Excess advertiser demand may be determined and information regarding the determined excess advertiser demand may be communicated to a user, such as a publisher. The advertising network might be an online advertising network that serves ads relevant to content. Excess advertiser demand in an advertising network might be determined by (a) estimating or determining unspent advertiser budgets, (b) aggregating the unspent advertiser budgets, and (c) determining advertiser desired concept opportunities using the aggregated unspent advertiser budget. Information regarding the determined excess advertiser demand might be communicated toward a client device for presentation to a user by forwarding the determined advertiser desired concept opportunities to the client device for presentation. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081427 | SYSTEM FOR REGULATING ACCESS TO AND DISTRIBUTING CONTENT IN A NETWORK - There is provided a system for regulating access and managing distribution of content in a network, such as the Internet. The system includes communication gateways, installed at a subscriber site, internet control points, installed remotely, and various network elements installed throughout the network. The communication gateways and network elements operate in conjunction with the internet control points to restrict or allow access to specified Internet sites and to manage efficient distribution of content such as music, video, games, broadband data, real-time audio and voice applications, and software to subscribers. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081428 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCT-CATEGORIZED MARKETING AND SHOPPING - A system and method for improved efficiency in the marketing and purchase of products within a marketplace. At least one category of information associated with a group of products is defined, and at least one product-specific categorization is identified within each category of information. At least one product-specific categorization is associated with a particular product selected from the group of products, and the product-specific categorization associated with the particular product is communicated to a potential customer to assist in a purchasing decision. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081429 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING AUDIENCE DATA WITH A SOCIAL MEDIA SITE - Disclosed is an improved approach for implementing a system, method, and computer program product for integrating with a social media site, which can be used to create and configure a custom audience on the social media site. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS FROM SUBSCRIBERS OF DIRECTORY SERVICES - Disclosed are systems, computer-readable medium and a method for delivering advertisements to user devices. The method includes storing first data associated with online and physical activity of plurality of customers, storing second data associated with current status of plurality of advertisers, matching a customer with an advertiser based on analysis of the first data and the second data and delivering an advertisement to a device associated with the matched customers online and physical activity. The on-line and physical activity is captured by a plurality of devices including a mobile device via a plurality of sensors. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081431 | POSTERIOR PROBABILITY CALCULATING APPARATUS, POSTERIOR PROBABILITY CALCULATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A posterior probability calculating apparatus that calculates the posterior probability in a short time includes a user information storage unit, a prior probability calculating unit, a likelihood calculating unit, an accepting unit, a posterior probability calculating unit, and an output unit. The user information storage unit stores user information that associates a user attribute and log information. The prior probability calculating unit calculates the prior probability that a user has a certain user attribute. The likelihood calculating unit calculates the likelihood that a user with a certain user attribute has performed a certain event. The accepting unit accepts calculation target information. The posterior probability calculating unit calculates the posterior probability that a user who has performed an event included in log information included in the accepted calculation target information has a user attribute included in the calculation target information. The output unit outputs information regarding the posterior probability. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081432 | TARGETED VENDOR OFFERS FOR TRAVELERS - A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium target payment cardholders with offers based on their propensity to travel. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081433 | SELECTION AND COMMUNICATION OF A PRODUCT PROMOTION - A disclosed method stores identities of a plurality of products offered for sale in a product database. Each identity is correlated to historical information detailing consumers' interest in the product. The method also receives a shopping request signal from an electronic computing device operated by a first consumer shopping for at least one of the products offered for sale. The method further maintains a shopping cart for the first consumer such that one or more of the products offered for sale can be cataloged for the first consumer until purchase. Additionally, the method may transmit a product promotion signal to the electronic computing device over a network. The product promotion signal contains data associated with a first product. The method also selects the first product for inclusion in the promotion signal in response to the historical information stored in the product database. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081434 | CUSTOMIZED USER INTERACTION - The present disclosure relates generally to a method of interacting with customers in customized ways, such as by targeting them with relevant advertisements on media, such as OOH media. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081435 | Targeted Advertisement Delivery - A system and method for controlling targeted offers for presentation to a consumer. A profile generator generates a user profile associated with a consumer, the user profile including a plurality of targeting parameters. The user profile is transmitted to at least one delivery platform configured to determine online advertising content relating to a product sold by a retailer that is to be displayed to the consumer, based on the user profile parameters. The system stores transaction data identifying attributes of a plurality of past purchases by a consumer at a respective plurality of different retailers, wherein the transaction data includes data identifying attributes of a purchase transaction by the consumer for the product or a similar product. The user profile is updated with at least one parameter identifying characteristics of the purchased product. The updated user profile is transmitted to the at least one delivery platform, whereby the deliver platform is configured to exclude online advertising content relating to the purchased product that is to be displayed to the consumer, based on the at least one parameter in the updated user profile. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081436 | Method and System for Determining a Next Best Offer - A method and system for determining a next best offer utilizes a data layer, two consumer data hubs, and a decision engine. The data layer includes numerous sources of consumer data, such as transaction data, past campaign response data, demographic data, predictive or propensity data, and real-time data such as website clickstreams. Separate consumer data hubs are used for data records that include personally identifiable information (PII) and those that do not. By using separate data hubs in this manner, online anonymous data may be used for targeting marketing, but this data may be maintained separately from PII data in order to ensure that the privacy of the consumer is protected. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081437 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENTS - A system for managing customer engagements of a client is provided. The system includes an event tracker configured to track at least one of transactional data and customer profile data of a plurality of customers of the client and a customizable rule engine configured to dynamically generate one or more customized rules using parameters associated with at least one of the transactional data and the customer profile data. The system also includes a customer event management module coupled to the event tracker and to the customizable rule engine, wherein the customer event management module is configured to analyze the transactional data and the d customer profile data for each customer to select one or more applicable rules and to apply the selected rules to generate one or more customized offers for the respective customer. The system further includes a customer engagement module configured to execute instructions for transmitting the one or more customized offers to the respective customer. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081438 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING CONSUMER DIGITAL BODY LANGUAGE - The present application presents an improved approach for tracking consumer digital body language. A campaign is assigned to social posts by specifying one or more campaign tags and a tracking URL template. Posts associated with a campaign are created by entering post details and parameters and automatically retrieving the campaign tags. The parameters and template may be used to form a tracking URL to be published with the post. When a consumer clicks on a URL associated with a published post, the tracking URL is read and parsed, so that the tracking information may be read and stored for analysis. In addition, digital body language may be stored for the consumer. The consumer will then be redirected to the destination URL. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081439 | SYSTEM FOR EXPANDING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for offering products or services to existing customers of a merchant based on the likelihood that the customer will purchase additional products or services of the merchant, wherein a computing device monitors data that is indicative of a customer's personal circumstances and a processor analyzes changes in the data and correlates the changes to opportunities for the merchant to offer products or services to the customer. A computing device then receives an indication that the customer is proximate in time to a change in data that correlates to an opportunity for the merchant to offer products or services to the customer and communicates the offers for the correlated products or services to the customer. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081440 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING DOMAIN NAME AND DIRECTORY RECOMMENDATIONS - A system receives an indication that an entity has obtained a first domain name. The system receives an indication as to an industry type associated with a website associated with the first domain name. Based on the received industry type, a set of keywords is selected which are related to products and/or services. An entity selection of one or more keywords from the set is received. Using the keyword selections, a keyword directory is identified and associated domain names identifying a product or service is identified. A domain recommendation is generated based at least in part on the identified domain names, wherein the respective second level domains include the identity of the entity. The domain recommendation is transmitted to the entity terminal. At least partly in response to an indication that the entity obtained the first recommended domain name, the first recommended domain name is included the identified keyword directory. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081441 | Dynamic Determination of Number of Served Media Content - Various embodiments pertain to serving a number of advertisements in view of browser information and a user's interaction with the web page containing the advertisements. In at least some embodiments, information regarding the size of a browser user interface in which a browser renders the web page, visibility of the browser user interface, or status of the browser can be obtained and utilized to determine a number of slots available for advertisements. For example, if a browser is being used to render a web page on a screen of a mobile device, fewer advertisements can be served compared to when the same web page is rendered by a browser on a desktop monitor. In some embodiments, page script can be used to obtain information regarding the size of a browser user interface, visibility of the browser user interface, or status of the browser. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081442 | USE OF PERSONAL PREFERENCES TO CONTROL PRESENTATION OF ADVERTISEMENTS - A software-based system and method for management and display of advertisements based on personal preference information. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081443 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING - An advertisement sharing system transmits by a processor an advertisement to a first user device based on a criterion for transmitting the advertisement. A request is received from the first user device to share the advertisement with a second user device. A reference to the advertisement and/or advertisement is transmitted to the second user device. A request is received from the second user device to retrieve the advertisement related to the reference to the advertisement and/or advertisement. Whether or not to transmit the advertisement to the second user device is determined based on the request from the second user device and the criterion for transmitting the advertisement. The advertisement is transmitted to the second user device based on the determination. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081444 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile communications device comprising a location sensing system, producing a location output; a memory, storing a set of locations and associated events; a telecommunications device, communicating event and location information between a remote system and said memory; and a processor, processing said location output in conjunction with said stored locations and associated events in said memory, to determine a priority thereof. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081445 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GEOLOCATION OF A NETWORK USER - A database correlating the geographic locations of users of a network to the network address through which the users access the network is maintained and used to infer the geographic location of other users of the network that access the website through the same IP addresses. An Internet website operator may generate such a database from home or business address information self-reported by users of the website. If a plurality of users that access a website through the same IP address have self-reported information as to their geographic location to a website operator, that information collectively provides information as to the likely geographic location and the geographic diversity of other users that access the network through that IP address. Accordingly, such information is used to infer the extent to which a given IP address is likely to correlate to any particular geographic area and the particular area. Additionally, a website operator that has information indicative of the veracity of the self-reported location information may use that information to rate the likelihood that the self-reported location information for a given user is truthful and then use that rating to provide an even more accurate rating of the likelihood that an inferred location of a user is in a given location. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081446 | ANONYMOUS DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION - Methods and systems for anonymous digital identification are disclosed and may include detecting the presence of a first communication device associated with a first set of content that is distinguishable from an identifier associated with the first communication device, detecting the presence of a second communication device associated with a second set of content that is distinguishable from an identifier associated with the second communication device, and in response to a determination that the devices are geographically proximate to one another, providing matched content to at least one of the first and second devices. The matched content may be based at least in part on the first set of content, the second set of content, and a shared or complementary interest associated with the first and second devices. The interest may have been previously expressed by a user of the first or second devices. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081447 | TRACK DATA POINT-OF-SALE PLATFORM - In various embodiments, the present invention is directed to a computer-implemented method for a track data point-of-sale platform. The computer-implemented method comprises receiving a transaction request by a processor configured to process point-of sale transactions. The transaction request comprises at least one parameter associated with a payment instrument configured for use in the point-of-sale transaction. The computer-implemented method further comprises identifying, by the processor, a transaction request type characterized by an identifier in at least one parameter associated with the payment instrument. The computer-implemented method further comprises processing, by the processor, the transaction request, according to the transaction request type. The computer-implemented method further comprises generating, by the processor, a response to the transaction request. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081448 | NON-INTRUSIVE ADVERTISEMENT MANAGEMENT - Architecture that advertisements enables advertisements related to user intent to be pre-staged on a z-axis, out of view of an application content layer in the x-y axis until triggered for partial or entire presentation in the content layer. The advertisement content architecture utilizes a modular, device-specific approach based upon the z-axis of the device(s) with which the user is interacting. Advertisement content is targeted (personalized) based on the user's personal preferences gathered via personal data, search history, and personal cloud data. The advertisement content and metadata are combined in a visually interesting z-axis presentation across multiple user devices. Advertisement content is mapped to the consumer decision journey to produce the desired advertisement at the right time. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081449 | Selecting Content Items For Presentation To A Social Networking System User In A Newsfeed - To increase the likelihood of a user viewing content items previously identified for presentation but not viewed by the user, a social networking system accesses a view state associated with the user that identifies content items provided to the user and provided content items viewed by the user. Based on the view state, content items previously provided to the user but not viewed by the user are identified. Additional content items whose state has changed since presentation of the content items to the user are also identified. Content items previously presented to the user but not viewed with at least a threshold relevance to the user are ranked along with the additional content items. Based on the ranking, content items are selected for presentation to the user. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081450 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORK AND E-COMMERCE SUPPORTING USER GOALS - A system and method that creates a list of life goals for each individual user based on user-specific inputs including desires, geography, demographics, interests, community, relationships, lifestyle, and personal background, and matches the user to pertinent information including friends, other users, and merchants that have similar interests, experiences, or services to facilitate the desired accomplishment of user fulfilling their life goals. System and method provides merchant opportunities for user to act on, purchase, sign up for or participate in activities and products related to the user's life goals. System and method enables users to share their experiences, recommendations, opinions, photographs, and videos of the life goals they have achieved or are working to achieve in a social network environment where other users benefit from each other's experience and may support each other in the fulfillment of life goals. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081451 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING CLOUD BASED MARKETING INTEGRATION WITH EXTERNAL CONTENT - Disclosed is an approach for implementing an improved system, method, and computer program product for a marketing automation product, where an external content service is integrated with the marketing automation tool. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081452 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA PLACEMENT - A system and method are provided that are configured to provide interactive multimedia placement. The system includes a user device configured to receive an input from a user through a user interface, and a display configured to receive a modified media file and a combinable media, and display the modified media file and the combinable media, wherein the input is processed by identifying a media file of the user and the combinable media, modifying the media file to produce the modified media file such that the modified media file is configured to be integrated with the combinable media, and transmitting the modified media file and the combinable media. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081453 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT MESSAGE GENERATION - Personalized messages are generated from a message template with high throughput by transforming data sources of the message template to key-value data structures that are stored in-memory and performing data look-ups using the in-memory key-value data structures. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081454 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - A service providing apparatus includes a request receiving unit and a service providing unit. The request receiving unit receives, from an advertiser having the right to display an advertisement on content, a resale request to resell a right to be resold to other advertisers. When the resale request is received by the request receiving unit, the service providing unit provides a resale service for reselling the right to be resold. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081455 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - A service providing apparatus includes a calculating unit, a plan receiving unit, and a service providing unit. The calculating unit calculates an evaluation value for a content creator that creates content. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of the content planned by the content creator. The service providing unit presents the evaluation value calculated by the calculating unit and the plan information received by the plan receiving unit, and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement on the content. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081456 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - A service providing apparatus has a plan receiving unit and a service providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives advertising space information relating to an advertising space set to content by a content creator who creates the content and a targeting condition set to the advertising space by the content creator. The service providing unit provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in the advertising space for each targeting condition on the basis of the advertising space information received by the receiving unit. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081457 | Systems and Methods for Distributed Commerce, Shoppable Advertisements and Loyalty Rewards - A distributed commerce system includes a distributed commerce server that enables a shopper (or user) to directly add one or more products, services, coupons or special offers to an electronic shopping basket, or to a cloud shopping list, over a data network from within one or more merchant systems (without the need to leave a specific web-page or functionality within the merchant system). The shopper can also purchase in-store, create and manage e-commerce and in-store commerce accounts, and earn rewards when one or more purchases have been made. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081458 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CONSUMER TRANSACTION-BASED INVESTMENTS - The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for controlling investment funds, and more particularly to systems and methods for real-time projections based on consumer transactions. In one embodiment, an investment fund management system may include a consumer communication device configured to create a payment gateway with a Point of Sales (POS) terminal. The system further includes a portfolio server accessible over a data network. The consumer communication device is configured to execute a process including the steps of intercepting a transaction through the payment gateway; computing an expected return based on the investment of a transaction amount from said transaction; and providing the expected return to the consumer communication device. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081459 | MOBILE POINT-OF-SALE - A mobile point-of-sale system includes a cart frame and a battery housed in the cart frame. The cart frame includes a front having a bottom, a back having a bottom edge and a bottom. The bottom includes a pair of upper flanges and a lower housing. The pair of upper flanges have components for receiving wheels for supporting the cart frame and the lower housing includes at least one aperture for venting heat from the battery that is supported by the lower housing. At least a portion of the lower housing and the battery are located below the pair of upper flanges and are located below the bottom edges of the front and the back. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081460 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING AUTHENTICATION AND APPROVAL USING ONE BUTTON DIFFERENT BARCODE - The present invention relates to a system and method for one button-based heterogeneous barcode integration authentication/approval which is capable of providing a one-button integration authentication/approval service for a heterogeneous barcode with existing barcode authentication affiliated stores infrastructures utilized as they are, and exchanging barcodes of existing gift certificates, coupons, pre-paid cards, credit cards, etc. possessed by a user for heterogeneous barcodes through a gateway operator server. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081461 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR A PERSONAL POINT OF SALE DEVICE - Logic to register a personal point of sale (POS) device. Logic may communicate with the registration processor to establish a secure communication channel. Logic may access a basic input output system to obtain platform information. Logic may transmit the platform information to the registration processor to identify a certification associated with the device. Logic may communicate with a payment instrument via a card reader. Logic may transmit an encrypted message from the card reader to the registration processor to bind the payment instrument to the device. Logic may receive a communication from the device comprising platform information. Logic may perform a security protocol to establish a secure communication channel with the device. Logic may determine an existence of the certification for the device in the database based upon the platform information. And logic may register the platform in response to locating the certification of the platform. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081462 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE NORMATIVE INTERMEDIATION OF PAYMENTS PROCESSING PERIPHERALS - Systems and methods for secure virtualized intermediated configuration and control of payment processing peripheral devices, as may be embodied in a SNIPP system, are provided. Such systems and methods enable the request of purchaser payment information from payment processing peripheral device(s) on behalf of a POS system and the aggregation and association of that purchaser payment information with a corresponding purchase transaction received from the POS system. The purchase transaction and the payment transaction are aggregated and thereby associated; and the resulting aggregated payment transaction is submitted to an electronic payments processing facility that responds with a confirmation indicating ‘acceptance’ or ‘denial’ of the payment transaction. The confirmation is relayed to the POS system and possibly to the payment processing peripheral device(s) such that it may be displayed to the purchaser and/or an attendant. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081463 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FUNDRAISING AND CHARITABLE GIVING AT A POINT OF SALE - A system and method for fundraising and charitable giving at a point of sale is disclosed. In one example of a method for fundraising and charitable giving at a point of sale includes the steps of: a customer selecting a product from a store shelf; the customer removing a fundraising tag from the product; the customer completing the information on the fundraising tag, which can include designating an organization to benefit from the fundraising; and a retailer processing the fundraising tag after receiving the completed tag from the customer at the point of sale. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081464 | SMART SOCIAL GIFTING - In a method for utilizing social networking services of a user to perform online retail services, a processor retrieves a set of contacts, wherein the set of contacts includes a first group of contacts of a first networking service and a second group of contacts of a second networking service, wherein each contact in the set of contacts has a corresponding link to information about that contact. A processor receives a request for an action to be executed, wherein the request includes gifting information, wherein the gifting information specifies a required relationship between the user and the one or more contact of the set of contacts. A processor determines the one or more contacts that have the required relationship with the user, as specified by the gifting information. A processor causes the action to be executed based on the determined one or more contacts. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081465 | FITNESS, HEALTH AND WELLNESS SOCIAL E-COMMERCE PLATFORM - The present invention relates to a fitness health and wellness social e-commerce platform that provides an e-commerce platform that operates as a social network in which the interaction between fitness enthusiasts is what drives revenue into the e-commerce components. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081466 | NOTIFICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, NOTIFICATION CONTROL DEVICE, NOTIFICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To reduce bothers related to back-in-stock notification of an item. Arrival notice request receiving means of a notification control system receives from a user a request for an arrival notice of an item. In a case where the item arrives, arrival notifying means notifies the arrival to the user whose arrival notice request has been received. Stock determining means determines whether or not the item is in stock in the case where the user whose arrival notice request has been received accesses an item page of the item after the item arrives. Back-in-stock notification control means controls back-in-stock notification of the item to the user whose arrival notice request has been received, based on the result of the determination by the stock determining means. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081467 | USER-DRIVEN REVERSE AUCTIONS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for providing user-driven reverse auctions are provided. The systems and methods enable a user to request bids for products or services, receive bids in response to the offers, and manage the bids. The methods provide receiving, at a computing device, a request from a user for an offer for products or services, the request including search criteria; identifying, via the computing device, at least one merchant of said products or services based on the search criteria; sending the request to the at least one merchant and receiving one or more bids from the at least one merchant; and presenting, via a computing device, the one or more bids to the user. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081468 | MEASURING SHIRT - A measuring garment may be provided. The measuring garment may include at least one measurement marking for determining a measurement for a desired garment dimension. The measuring garment may be used to convey calculate and subsequently convey measurement info to a garment company for producing or providing fitted garments. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081469 | ASSISTING BUYING DECISIONS USING CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS - A method, system, and computer program product for assisting buying decisions using customer behavior analysis are provided in the illustrative embodiments. Product information comprising a set of product attributes is received about a grouping of products. Customer behavior information about a behavior of a customer is received from which a set of customer buying behavior factors is extracted. A customer buying behavior factor comprises an inferred preference of the customer for buying a product from the grouping of products. A weight is assigned to a customer buying behavior factor. A set of weighted customer buying behavior factors is mapped to a subset of the product attributes. At least one product is selected from the grouping of products such that the at least one product includes a subset of product attributes, and an overall weighted score of the at least one product exceeds a threshold. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081470 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT IN COMMUNICATIONS SHARING A WEBPAGE - An apparatus and methods are provided for personalizing messages that are sent to a recipient when a user of a website wishes to “share” a particular webpage or content thereof with the recipient. The apparatus and methods, which are founded on non-transitory computer readable media, involve using information available about the recipient as well as information about a product or service displayed on the webpage to identify supplemental content to include in the message to the recipient regarding the shared webpage. The recipient's prior browsing and purchasing histories with the website, as well as the purchasing tendencies of other customers, may be particularly helpful in identifying relevant supplemental content. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081471 | PERSONAL RECOMMENDATION SCHEME - A system may include a similarity measurement processing unit configured to determine a plurality of similar users that are similar to a user based on similarity values including calculating the similarity values for pairs of users based on an importance vector and differences between rated items. The importance vector may include importance values corresponding to a plurality of items, and each importance value may represent a similarity importance of a corresponding item. Each similarity value may represent a level of similarity between the user and another user. Also, the system may include a rating processor configured to estimate a rating value of an unrated item for potential recommendation based on recommendations from the plurality of similar users, and provide a recommendation for the item based on the rating value. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081472 | Computational Size Selection For Off The Shelf Garments - Computational systems may be provided to assist with compression garment recommendations. A measurement of a person's body part may be received, and a compression expected to be applied may be computed. The expected compression may be based upon an arm measurement and upon a known relationship between a size of the garment, such as a stretched circumference, and the compression applied to an object that stretches the garment to that circumference. Graphs and formulas may be used to represent physical properties of a compression garment by assigning compression levels for ranges of relevant circumferences for a multitude of points along a limb. Information about needs of a patient, patient's condition, compression sensitivity, desired compression class, or desired use may be considered as part of a computational analysis to assist in fitting garments. The disclosed recommendation systems may assist clinicians, patients, consumers, or other users in selecting suitable off-the-shelf compression garments. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081473 | SMART SOCIAL GIFTING - In a method for utilizing social networking services of a user to perform online retail services, a processor retrieves a set of contacts, wherein the set of contacts includes a first group of contacts of a first networking service and a second group of contacts of a second networking service, wherein each contact in the set of contacts has a corresponding link to information about that contact. A processor receives a request for an action to be executed, wherein the request includes gifting information, wherein the gifting information specifies a required relationship between the user and the one or more contact of the set of contacts. A processor determines the one or more contacts that have the required relationship with the user, as specified by the gifting information. A processor causes the action to be executed based on the determined one or more contacts. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081474 | WIRELESS BEACON AND METHODS - One variation of a method for distributing notifications to a mobile computing device, includes: receiving a unique identifier broadcast wirelessly from a wireless beacon arranged within a physical space; receiving authorization to communicate with the wireless beacon based on the unique identifier; identifying a product arranged within the physical space proximal the wireless beacon; projecting a level of interest in the product by a user affiliated with the mobile computing device based on communication between the mobile computing device and the wireless beacon during a period of time; and in response to the level of interest in the product exceeding a threshold value, presenting, on the mobile computing device, a product ordering option for ordering a unit of the product. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081475 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AUTHENTICATED ITEMS - A system for tracking an authenticated item is provided. The system includes an authentication device affixed to the item. An item registration system receives authentication device data from the authentication device and associated item data and stores the authentication device data and the associated item data. An owner registration system receives owner registration data after a buyer has acquired the item. A buyer verification system receives the authentication device data, the associated item data and the owner registration data and stores buyer verified data if the associated item data correlates to the owner registration data, such as if the external tag number or event data entered by the owner matches external tag number or event data for the item. | 2015-03-19 |