17th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150112705 | DYNAMIC ANALYSIS AND DYNAMIC SCREENING - Systems and methods for screening and monitoring of cancer, such as prostate cancer, are described. These systems and methods are suitable for selecting appropriate medical actions for screening, diagnosis, or treatment of prostate cancer and for interpreting the results of those medical actions. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112706 | System and Methods for Personal health Analytics Technical Field - Disclosed is a system and method for providing personalized health information. The disclosed systems and methods provide for analyzing self-reported data relating to personal health information in order to predict a health condition. The systems and methods disclosed provide personalized interpretations of medical knowledge in light of the growing collection of personal health information that is publicly and privately available. Accordingly, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for personalized information intermediation to help individuals to navigate the growing selection of personal health products and services, and to contribute to health care system efficiencies by improving individual health knowledge. In some embodiments, the systems and methods disclosed provide fertility prediction encompassing a predicted date of ovulation and fertility window. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112707 | INTERACTIVE RESPIRATORY DEVICE USAGE TRACKING SYSTEM - An inhaler use monitoring system includes a tracker module adaptable to be secured to a variety of inhalers and having an activation sensor for sensing use of the inhaler, an internal memory for storing inhaler data, and a communications component for forwarding the stored usage data to a processor for analyzing the data. The system then provides the user with incentives, e.g., redeemable award points, for usage of the inhaler in a desired manner. The tracking module can accommodate both controller and rescue inhalers. Optionally, the system may also collect lung function data, e.g., from a spirometer, and can then process all of controller inhaler data, rescue inhaler data and lung function data, to generate alerts and other messages e.g., redeemable award points | 2015-04-23 |
20150112708 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MERGING AND ANALYZING HEALTHCARE DATA - Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided according to example embodiments of the present invention to provide for extracting and standardizing data from dictated notes systems to provide a manageable format for search and analysis in clinical research and monitoring applications. Further embodiments provide for classifying data extracted from distinct dictated notes systems and identifying contextual relationships between the multiple datasets to generate a superset of data for research and clinical applications. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises extracting exam data from a dictation system; separating the extracted dataset into two or more files; standardizing variable names within the extracted dataset; importing the extracted dataset files into a database table; separating the imported data table into a primary table and a series of related tables; flattening the records within the related tables; linking the primary table records to the flattened related table records; and generating a final data table of exam records. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112709 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING LAY USERS TO OBTAIN RELEVANT, PERSONALIZED HEALTH RELATED INFORMATION - The invention features methods, systems, and computer programs for generating a customized set of possible medical conditions, thereby providing access to medical information relevant to the user's state of health. The methods and systems involve at least some of the following steps: receiving a list of symptoms specified in terms selected from a first language set; translating the list of symptoms into a translated list of symptoms specified in terms selected from a second language set; using the translated list of symptoms to generate possible medical conditions, the possible medical conditions described in terms of the second language set; and translating the possible medical conditions into descriptions that are specified in terms selected from the first language set. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112710 | CLINICAL PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS SYSTEM - Predictive models are built for the estimation of adverse health likelihood by identifying candidate model risk variables, constructing a model form for an outcome likelihood model that estimates the likelihood of an adverse outcome type using a group of risk variables selected from the set of candidate model risk variables and by classifying each selected risk variable into either a baseline group or a dynamic group. Additionally, predictive models are built by constructing separate baseline and dynamic outcome likelihood model forms and by fitting the constructed model forms to a training data set to produce final models to be used as scoring functions that compute a baseline outcome likelihood and a dynamic outcome likelihood for patient data that is not represented in the training data set. The predictive models can be used with alerting and attribution algorithms to predict the likelihood of an adverse outcome for individuals receiving care. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112711 | HEALTHCARE ACCOUNTS RECEIVEABLE DATA VALUATOR - A healthcare accounts receivable valuation data consolidator (valuator or valuation engine) receives and/or fetches data and uses the data to predict and share the valuation of claims submitted by a healthcare provider (e.g., hospital, doctor, dentist, lab, durable medical equipment provider, etc.) on behalf of a claimant (e.g., patient), wherein the claimant has a payer (e.g., insurance company, government program, etc.). The valuator established or generates and shares the predicted valuation between entities. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112712 | HEALTHCARE SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD - In general, according to an embodiment, a healthcare support apparatus includes the following units. The calculation unit obtains a luminance value of a first color and a luminance value of a second color from a skin image of a subject, converts the luminance values into absorbances, and calculates a hemoglobin content from the absorbances. The accumulation unit accumulates a first history of the hemoglobin content and a second history of a living event of the subject. The living behavior identification unit determines a significance of a tendency of the hemoglobin content based on the first history and identifies a living behavior corresponding to the significance based on the second history. The output unit outputs information indicating the living behavior. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112713 | PRESENTING PATIENT INFORMATION BY BODY SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for sorting and presenting a patient's medical information by body system. A selection of a body system filter directed to a body system is received, and the patient's medical information is accessed. The selected body system filter is applied to the patient's medical information to generate a set of body-system specific patient information. The body-system specific patient information is presented on a body system view user interface. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112714 | Method and System for Pay-Per-Use Prescription Validation - A business model for facilitating the deployment of prescription validation systems into pharmacies is installed in pharmacies for little or no up-front cost to the pharmacy. Instead, the pharmacy is charged on a per use basis, that is, charged every time a prescription is validated in the system. In this way, the system vendor obtains payment on a subscription-like basis. Up-front costs at the pharmacy are avoided. Moreover, risks to a pharmacy concerning maintenance and slow productivity are avoided, or shifted onto the system owner, who is able to assess those risks. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112715 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ENHANCED DISTRIBUTION OF PHARMACEUTICALS IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES - A system and related methods of enhanced distribution of pharmaceuticals in long-term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a system includes one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines each positioned in a long-term care facility remote from a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server and in communication therewith, and long-term care facility pharmacy management computer programs associated with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server to enhance use of the one or more of pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines. The long-term care facility management computer programs include a patient prescription receiver and a medication dispensing apparatus administrator and are configured and operable to transmit dispensing instructions to the one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines when no drug conflicts exist to thereby initiate packaging and dispensing of one or more disposable patient dosing packages. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112716 | INDIVIDUALIZED HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Method and system for providing individualized healthcare to a patient having a chronic disease over the Internet are disclosed. The system includes at least a computer server for executing application programs where the computer server includes storage means for storing patient information in at least a database server and means for communicating with at least a patient computer and a medical provider computer. The system further includes means for providing individualized web pages for interacting with the patient, means for monitoring signs and symptoms of the chronic disease using inputs provided by the patient, and means for administrating an individualized treatment of the chronic disease according to the signs and symptoms provided by the patient. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112717 | REAL TIME UPDATES FOR HEALTHCARE PATIENTS - A system and method for providing real-time updates about the treatment and status of a healthcare patient to healthcare providers and family of the patient is provided. The present invention may include a plurality of portable computers. When treatment is being performed or a status update for a patient is desirable, the healthcare provider may send the information using a portable computer. Other healthcare providers and family may receive the information as a live update. The information may then be stored on a database. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112718 | BIO-SAMPLE COLLECTION KITS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING BIOMARKER DATA FOR USE IN DETERMINING AN INSURANCE SCORE - The present disclosure generally relates to bio-sample, such as a dried blood spot (DBS) sample, a breath sample, an endothelial sample, saliva sample, etc., collection kits and identity authenticating mechanisms for the sample donors. The present disclosure further relates to systems and methods for generating biomarker data using bio-sample analysis information and authenticating information. The biomarker data may be used to determine an insurance score. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112719 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a document image obtaining unit, an attribute information obtaining unit, and a document-with-coded-image generating unit. The document image obtaining unit obtains a document image by scanning a document arranged in a specific format. The attribute information obtaining unit obtains attribute information on the document from character information written in a location specified based on the format of the document. The document-with-coded-image generating unit generates a document with coded image including a coded image based on the attribute information and document information that indicates contents of the document. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112720 | STANDARDIZED ELECTRONIC TWO-WAY DATA TRANSFER HEALTHCARE FORM SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and methods of transferring patient medical data between two or more healthcare facilities using disparate electronic medical record systems. The novel system and methods use a selectively populated standardized electronic two-way data transfer healthcare form to securely transfer medical data between the incompatible electronic medical records systems. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112721 | Medical Transitional Care Patient Management System and Associated Business Method - The present invention pertains to novel medical post-discharge patient management system and associated business method that provides a means to track patients health after post-discharge using a program that employees a plurality of mathematical algorithms and software instructions for analyzing data that results in developing customized individual care plans that incorporate all of the unique co-morbidities of each patient. The system and software components includes an individual care plan (“ICP”) engine which receives data regarding the patient, their contact information and co-morbidities and uses the data to construct custom individualized care plans for each patient, based on their unique case mix of morbidities. The system software also includes IVR engine the works in conjunction with the ICP engine to contact patients using outbound interactive voice response, email and text messaging to ask the questions in the patients' CallPaths. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112722 | MEDICAL CONDITION TRACKING AND ANALYSIS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for medical tracking and analysis. A data module receives subjective and objective data associated with a medical condition for a patient. A trend module determines a trend for the medical condition associated with the patient over a period of time based on the subjective and objective data. A factor module identifies one or more factors that affect the medical condition and calculates one or more weighted values for the one or more factors based on the trend. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112723 | Specialty Medication Management and Referral Tracking System - Disclosed herein is a prescription referral management and tracking system and methods. The system combines the creation of the prior authorization, creation of the specialty medication referral, transmission of an e-prescription to a pharmacy, and creation of patient financial assistance forms into a single data entry session. The system is simple in form and design, eliminating complicated form storage and retrieval systems based on different classes of specialty drugs. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112724 | IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH RECORD USING DESTINATION ADDRESS - A method for providing a user with the ability to access and collect records associated with the user in a secure and private manner includes associating access information with the user for the user to use to access a server storing files comprising records associated with the user in a computer readable storage medium, providing the user with a user interface on a computing device to remotely access the records stored on the server, receiving at the server the files comprising records associated with the user from a service provider associated with the user, receiving at the server a request from the user made through the user interface of the computing device for access to the files, wherein the access information is associated with the request, and sending the user a file containing the records associated with user from the server to the computing device in response to the request. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112725 | POPULATION HEALTH SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - Methods, systems, computer storage media, and graphical user interfaces for population health management are disclosed. The population health management system may allow for cross-continuum tracking and subsequent interactions with transactional systems, providers, and/or patients. The population health management system may include utilizing clinically relevant algorithms to populate registries to enable healthcare providers to better facilitate care for a population of patients. The population health management system may consolidate and provide comprehensive condition-specific and/or patient situation specific information that is accessible and updatable across venues. The population health management system may create cross venue antibiograms based on medications information and susceptibility results which can be filtered for selected demographics. The population health management system may be utilized to provide multiple medication options including dosing, generic alternatives, cost, availability, and susceptibility information. Inappropriate trends may be flagged and monitored and medication stewards may be alerted or notified to intervene. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112726 | INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR GENERATION AND RETENTION OF MEDICAL RECORDS - A system for populating patient records by use of evidence-based relational database, which compares the medical practitioners diagnoses to predetermined responses, to produce accurate patient chart notes and the integration of stored and generated data into clinical and administrative medical record keeping and billing. Episodic encounters are developed into cases for a specific patient under the care of a practitioner. The subjective symptoms from the patient and the objective observations of the care provider concurrent with the episode are used to form a diagnosis which presents a treatment regimen from an evidence-based relational database and populates medical and administrative templates. Patient history and updated information are retained in the database. “Best practice” treatment plans are continuality placed in the relational database from practice guides and experts in the field. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112727 | MANAGING A RISK OF A LIABILITY THAT IS INCURRED IF AN INSURER DENIES COVERAGE FOR TREATING AN INSURED FOR A CONDITION - An embodiment of a risk-management method includes determining a risk that an insurer will deny coverage for treating an insured for a condition, and calculating, in response to a determined risk, a fee for taking an action if the insurer denies coverage for treating the insured. Such an embodiment may aid in managing a risk of a liability that may be incurred if an insurer under a medical insurance policy denies coverage for treating an insured under the policy. Examples of such liability include money owing to a physician or other provider that treated the insured, interest on the money owing, late fees and other penalties, and a downgrading of the credit of the insured or of a party financially responsible for the insured. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112728 | MANAGING A RISK OF A LIABILITY THAT IS INCURRED IF ONE OR MORE INSURERS DENIES COVERAGE FOR TREATING ONE OR MORE INSURED FOR ONE OR MORE CONDITIONS - An embodiment of a risk-management method includes determining a risk that one or more insurers will deny coverage for treating one or more insured for one or more conditions, and calculating, in response to a determined risk, a fee for taking a respective action for each instance of at least one of the one or more insurers denying coverage for treating at least one of the one or more insured. Such an embodiment may aid in managing a risk of a liability that may be incurred if one or more insurers under one or more medical insurance policies deny coverage for treating one or more insured under the one or more polices. An example of such liability includes money owing to one or more physicians or other treatment providers that treated the one or more insured (or, from a treatment provider's perspective, the inability to collect such money owing). | 2015-04-23 |
20150112729 | GENERATING A DESCRIPTION OF, AND AN OFFER TO TRANSFER OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO ACQUIRE, AN ASSET THAT INCLUDES AT LEAST ONE COVERAGE DENIAL CONTRACT - An embodiment of a method includes generating a description of an asset that includes at least one coverage-denial contract, and generating an offer to transfer, or a solicitation of an offer to acquire, the asset. The asset may also include one or more instruments other than the at least one coverage-denial contract. Such an embodiment may allow a party to a coverage-denial contract to diversify its risk, or to recoup at least a portion of the fee it paid under the contract. An example of a coverage-denial contract includes a party paying a fee (e.g., an insurance premium) for another party to take an action (e.g., pay money to, or on behalf of, the party) if an insurer under another contract denies coverage for treating an insured under the other contract. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112730 | ASSESSING RISK USING VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION - A method includes receiving first sensor data representing information collected, during a first time period, by a sensor located on or in a vehicle configured to sense an environment external to the vehicle, storing the data in a memory, processing the data to determine a first set of one or more characteristics of the external environment, and determining, based on the first set of characteristics, a first risk indicator representing a risk of loss during the first time period. The method also includes receiving second sensor data representing information collected, during a second time period, by the sensor, storing the data in the memory, and processing the data to determine a second set of one or more characteristics of the external environment. The method also includes determining, based on the second set of characteristics, a second risk indicator representing a risk of loss during the second time period. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112731 | RISK ASSESSMENT FOR AN AUTOMATED VEHICLE - A method, implemented in an electronic processing system that includes a memory and one or more processors, includes receiving, at the electronic processing system, operational data indicative of when a vehicle is driven according to an automated control mode in which an automated driving system of the vehicle is active, storing the received operational data in the memory, and determining, via the one or more processors and based on the stored operational data, a risk indicator representing a risk of loss associated with the vehicle. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112732 | IDENTIFYING A USER AS PART OF A HOUSEHOLD - Various aspects of the subject technology relate to a system configured to store preferences in a file that is accessible to other applications on a computing device. The preferences stored in the file may include application use preferences that specify an application to be launched and the conditions in which the application is to be launched. The system further includes features for protecting the preferences in the file from modification by unauthorized parties or applications. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112733 | In-vehicle insurance applications, Methods and systems for automatically collecting insurance risk related data - The applications, methods and systems of the present disclosure provide selective and automatic data collection for insurance risk determination purposes. In particular, an insurance application may be stored in a vehicle computing system memory and may be executed by a vehicle computing system processor to collect and store vehicle operation related data. An in-vehicle computing device may transmit the collected data to a remote server via a wireless communication network. Alternatively, the in-vehicle computing device may transmit the collected data to a mobile telephone via a wireless communication network. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112734 | PARAMETRIC DRAW-DOWN SYSTEM FOR RISK SHARING OF CRITICALILLNESS RISKS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF - Proposed are a parametric, event-driven critical illness insurance system based on a resource-pooling system ( | 2015-04-23 |
20150112735 | PARAMETRIC SYSTEM FOR RISK SHARING OF CRITICAL ILLNESS RISKS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF - Proposed are a parametric, event-driven critical illness insurance system based on a resource-pooling system ( | 2015-04-23 |
20150112736 | Systems and Methods for Third Party Satellite Radio Activation and Management - System and methods for management of third party satellite radio activation/deactivation by a vehicle rental service company, wherein satellite radio services may be provided in a rental car when requested by a customer. The systems and methods will enable activation of a satellite radio shortly before or at the start of the rental period, and activation may be altered by the vehicle rental service company in the event that the rental period is shortened or extended, or if the vehicle is exchanged. The systems and methods deactivate the satellite radio service at the end of the rental period. The systems and methods may also be used to activate or deactivate other equipment or services made available via a vehicle rental service company in response to a customer request. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112737 | ENTERPRISE ACCESS TO SURVEY TOOLS - A system includes an enterprise repository configured to store at least one list of users associated with an organization and at least one list of surveys associated with the organization, an invitation module configured to allow an inviting user associated with the organization to designate at least one invitee to become associated with the organization and monitor acceptance by the invitee, a management module configured to associate the invitee with the organization in the list of users upon invitation acceptance, the management module to monitor the list of users to ensure a number of users on the list does not exceed a predetermined number of granted licenses, and a data repository, the data repository configured to store data received from the surveys generated by the users associated with the organization, wherein at least one user associated with the data repository has access rights to the data received through surveys. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112738 | RESERVING VENUE FOR CALENDAR EVENT - Provided is a system for reserving a venue for a calendar event. The system may comprise a processor and a database. The processor may be configured to receive an invitation to the calendar event from an event organizer, gather data about the event, and define event requirements based on the data. Based on the event requirements and a permission of the organizer, the processor determines suitable venues. The suitable venues are ranked based on information on the organizer, invitees, event data, and venue data, and optimal venues are identified. A predefined number of optimal venues is sent to the organizer. The organizer selects a venue from the presented options and provides payment information. The processor reserves the selected venue and collects a payment using the payment information. The database stores at least available venues, the data about the calendar event, event requirements, suitable venues, optimal venues, and the selected venue. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112739 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONETIZATION OF APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES IN COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method and system for monetization of an application is provided. The method includes identifying one or more monetizing event in the application. Further, the method includes modifying one or more trigger points in the application based on the identified monetizing event. Each trigger point is associated with a rule for monetizing the application in response to an activation of the trigger point. Furthermore, the method includes building an application package including the modified trigger points. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112740 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE-BASED CONTROL AND MONITORING OF A BUSINESS PROCESS - A system for monitoring and controlling a business process involving a plurality of workstations or/and computerized services, the system comprising apparatus for receiving messages exchanged between the plurality of workstations or computerized services and having content, and for deriving from the content of the messages, monitoring information regarding the single business process. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112741 | REAL TIME MAP RENDERING WITH DATA CLUSTERING AND EXPANSION AND OVERLAY - Systems and methods are provided for the organization, management, and graphical display of multiple logically related entities. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide the real-time display of status and location information for a fleet of tracked vehicles. In some embodiments, the systems and methods permit the automatic clustering of assets based on a user's view of an underlying map. In some embodiments, the assets are vehicles that are a part of a managed fleet. In some embodiments, the assets are logically arranged into clusters of like assets. In some embodiments, the clusters provide graphical indications of status or class information of their underlying assets. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY ALLOCATING TASKS - Systems and methods of allocating tasks to servicers are disclosed. The systems and methods select one of the servicers and one of the tasks based on selection criteria. The systems and methods then determine whether the selected task may be allocated to the selected servicer. If the selected task may be allocated to the selected servicer, the systems and methods allocate the task accordingly. If the selected task may not be allocated to the selected servicer, the systems and methods select another one of the servicers and another one of the tasks. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112743 | SOCIAL ANALYTICS MARKETPLACE PLATFORM - An analytics platform includes a user interface providing access to the analytics platform for multiple users, a project management tool including a project definer and a task definer that makes project management resources available to a requestor user, an effectiveness rating tool providing an analytics effectiveness index for analytics provider users, and an auction management tool. The auction management tool allows the requestor user to specify an analytic task for auction, specify auction parameters and weighting of the auction parameters, and provide the specified analytic task for auctioning to ones of the users, the specified analytic task having been defined in the task definer and related to a project defined in the project definer. The auction management tool receives bids on the specified analytic task from analytics provider users; and provides received bids to the requestor user with scoring for each bid based on the parameters and the parameter weighting. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING CREDIT AND DEBT COLLECTION - A system and method for enhancing assignment of debtor accounts to a plurality of collection parties is presented. The preferred embodiment is capable of optimizing the way by which individual performance entities are assigned to collect on actionable individual debtor accounts by a creditor. An analysis solution uses algorithms to analyze gathered data and to provide a score to each collection party based upon the traits of the individual collection parties, debtor accounts, creditor, externally acquired data, and constraints upon all of the parties involved. The system and method are also capable of enhancing an individual borrower's credit score depending on the risk involved with providing credit to that particular borrower based upon the collectability upon default. One embodiment of the invention would include a risk analysis and compliance assessment system for supply entities to evaluate potential performance entities or other entities. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112745 | GEOLOCATION BASED WORK DATA ON A MOBILE DEVICE USING A DATABASE SYSTEM - Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for displaying work items according to detected user locations, schedules, and other information. For example, a user's location may be detected by a user device, and work items may be selected for display on the user device. The user may be affiliated with a business organization and the work items may identify business records of the business organization that have associated addresses nearby the user's location and that may be accommodated by the user's schedule. Certain priorities can govern which work items are provided. The work items may be organized as cards of an information deck. The user may interact with and share the cards. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112746 | Information Management Method and Terminal - An information management method and terminal, and relates to the field of communications technologies, which resolves a problem that, if there are many to-do events on a current day, too much display space is occupied when the terminal displays all the to-do events on the current day, and a user cannot view the to-do events in an easy way. Specific steps may include: receiving information about a to-do event; receiving first display information and second display information; and displaying the information about the to-do event according to the first display information and the second display information. The method is applicable to a to-do event reminder. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112747 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCENTIVIZING REAL-WORLD INTERACTIONS FOR ONLINE USERS - Introduced herein is a method and system that enhances the number of real world meetings between online friends of social networking sites (SNS). The method and system is configured to work in perfect alignment with one or more SNS. The method and system provides an incentive for users who are connected on the SNS to meet in the real world. The incentive is provided through a dynamic meeting platform system that allows third party sponsors to work with SNS to reward users for real-world meetings. By increasing the frequency of meeting between the users, the method and system creates greater alignment between the online social life and conduct and the real-world social life and conduct, increasing the quality of life for the users. Further, such greater alignment helps expand the growth of SNS. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112748 | Automated Multi-Media Conference Call System and Method - Methods having corresponding systems and computer-readable media comprise: accessing calendaring information associated with a smart teleconference meeting, the calendaring information including a time of the meeting, a meeting location, identities of meeting invitees, and contact information for the meeting invitees; transmitting the calendaring information from a meeting coordinator to a conferencing system configured to contact meeting participants and join them to the meeting; contacting the meeting invitees with the conferencing system conferencing system and joining them to the meeting; generating a roster of the meeting participants based on the calendaring information; tracking a participation status of the meeting participants; and updating the roster to reflect the participation status of the meeting participants. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112749 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING ACTIONABLE MESSAGES OF AN INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION PLATFORM - According to one embodiment, a sender can compose an actionable message in an integrated communication and collaboration platform. The actionable message includes an action to be performed by a recipient. The action can be a task or a meeting event that requires the recipient to do something. The sender can specify in an actionable message a due date by which the action to be performed, a reply-by date by which the recipient has to acknowledge (e.g., accept, decline), and an optional duration that estimate amount of time to perform such an action. If the action is an event, the sender can also specify recipient(s) who must attend, recipient(s) who should attend, and optional FYI recipient(s) who only receive the message as an FYI message. When the actionable message is received by the recipient, the message is displayed in a dedicated folder separated from the regular messages without an action. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112750 | SUPPLY NETWORK OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES - The present disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented method for designing a supply chain for multiple objectives based on a supply chain model. The method comprises defining a plurality of objectives for the supply chain model. The supply chain model includes a plurality of edges connecting one or more demands with one or more supplies. The method further includes selecting a first one of the plurality of objectives and at least a second one of the plurality of objectives and configuring, using a controller, the supply chain model for the first objective. The method further comprises identifying, using the controller, a subset of the plurality of edges based on the supply chain model configured for the first objective and relationships between the plurality of edges and the at least second objective. The method further comprises operating the supply chain according to the identified subset of the plurality of edges. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112751 | ENERGY STORAGE - A method of controlling storage of electrical energy by charging and discharging an energy storage device in response to pricing data indicative of future prices of electrical energy over time and energy losses caused by charging and discharging the energy storage device comprises detecting alternating candidate charging and discharging occasions with respect to the pricing data by selecting a next occurrence of a locally minimum price in the pricing data as a candidate charging occasion or a next occurrence of a locally maximum price in the pricing data as a candidate discharging occasion; validating a candidate charging or discharging occasion if the price difference between that candidate charging or discharging occasion and another later price in the pricing data is at least sufficient to compensate for the energy losses caused by charging and discharging the energy storage device; and charging and discharging the energy storage device at the validated charging and discharging occasions, respectively. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112752 | DETERMINING THE USER-SPECIFIC RELEVANCE OF APPLICATIONS - The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for determining the user-specific relevance of various applications and displaying a graphical representation of these relevance values. The method may receive information from one or more applications installed on a device. This information may include importance parameters, importance parameter values, urgency parameters, and urgency parameter values associated with each application. A composite importance value and a composite urgency value may be determined for each application. A relevance value may be determined for each application based on the composite importance value and composite urgency value. A graphical representation of the relevance of each application may be displayed on the device. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112753 | SOCIAL CONTENT FILTER TO ENHANCE SENTIMENT ANALYSIS - Techniques are disclosed for filtering and analyzing social network content so that consumer sentiment can be gauged more accurately and efficiently. In certain embodiments social network content can be filtered so that individual content items can be identified as comprising neutral, sentiment bearing, spam or foreign language content. Such filtering can be performed by marking certain features that are indicative of a particular type of content, and then using machine learning systems to classify individual content items based on the marked features. A portion of the filtered content, such as only the items containing sentiment bearing content, can then be subjected to sentiment analysis. The results of this sentiment analysis can be presented to a social network campaign manager via a sentiment browser interface, optionally with the underlying filtered content. This allows the campaign manager to easily view the results of the sentiment analysis with the filtered social network content. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112754 | USER INTENT TRACKING STREAMS - Systems, methods and media are proposed for user intent tracking streams. One example embodiment relates to a system that comprises an identification module to identify a plurality of aspects of contextual or personal information relating to a user, and an analysis module to analyze the plurality of aspects of contextual or personal information to identify user intent or a likelihood relating to a pre-determined action. The system further comprises a correlation module to correlate the user intent or likelihood with at least a sub-set of the analyzed aspects of contextual or personal information to identify an intent tracking stream for the user, the intent tracking stream based on the correlated sub-set, and a tracking module to track the intent tracking stream as a user identifier or a predictor of the pre-determined action. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112755 | Automated Identification and Evaluation of Business Opportunity Prospects - Embodiments identify and evaluate business opportunity prospects in an automated fashion. An engine receives one or more inputs used to identify business opportunities. These input(s) can comprise recent events gathered from external sources, for example feeds from news websites, and/or publicly-available business information (e.g. compiled by third parties). Other inputs can comprise information from internal sources, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERM) and/or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications. Still other inputs can comprise personalized user preferences, for example an industry and/or territory assigned to a particular user. From these input(s), the engine automatically generates a business lead, together with a score reflecting a strength of that lead. To this existing lead information (e.g. score, lead name, lead contact information, etc.), a user can manually add further information, for example monetary value and/or an closing date, in order to create a deal pipeline for visualization. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112756 | Automated Software Tools for Improving Sales - A sales application is described that includes multiple automated sales tools that can be combined to help improve sales within a sales team. A deal finder sales tool is described to help identify sales opportunities. A deal playbook sales tool is also described to help structure the sales opportunity into a sales play by recommending products to sale in conjunction and also constructing a sales team. An influencer sales tool is also described to help identify business relationships that can be utilized to influence members of the sales team. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112757 | INSIGHT MARKET - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of belief signals from a plurality of parties, where each belief signal indicates a piece of information that a party providing the belief signal believes to be true. A request for an insight is received from an interested party. An insight is determined by evaluating, by a computer processor, a subset of the belief signals. Payment is received from the interested party for the insight. The parties who provided the subset of belief of signals are compensated out of the payment, based on their contribution to the determining the insight. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112758 | ENHANCED DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS - A method and corresponding apparatus that is configured to receive data from a mobile operator, process the data by, at least, anonymizing and aggregating the data to identify at least one market opportunity within a predefined market footprint, and generate a report that highlights the at least one market opportunity. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112759 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED FOOD LIFE SERVICE - A method and apparatus for providing a customized food life service is provided. The method includes: sensing a wireless frequency identification tag attached to food to receive data; processing and storing the received data; analyzing and modeling the stored data; and providing food management information based on the analyzing and modeling result. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112760 | Website Visitor to Phone Call Tracking System - A website visitor tracking method includes receiving a request from a user device to view a webpage. With this request a unique visitor ID is assigned. A unique phone number is assigned to this visitor session. Returning the webpage to the website visitor, including the unique phone number to the user device. When a phone call is placed and received from this unique phone number the call and the visitor session can be associated together along with all other historical website visits of the visitor. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112761 | CENTRALIZED CUSTOMER CONTACT DATABASE - According to some embodiments, a method receives a request for contact information associated with a customer. The method determines a plurality of contact values associated with the customer. The plurality of contact values include a first set of contact values that a first line of business associates with the customer and a second set of contact values that a second line of business associates with the customer. The method determines priority information associated with each contact value. In response to the request for contact information, the method communicates one or more of the contact values. For each contact value being communicated, the method communicates at least some of the priority information associated with the each contact value being communicated. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112762 | OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCT ASSORTMENTS - A system analyzes past sales data to identify those product assortments that may lead to the largest sales volume for the product category. The system estimates an incremental sales volume increase associated with each of one or more product assortments. The system may further identify which assortment will result in the largest sales volume for the product category, and may generate a ranking of the one or more assortments based on their associated incremental sales volume increase. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112763 | REAL TIME ENERGY CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT OF APPLIANCES, DEVICES, AND EQUIPMENT USED IN HIGH-TOUCH AND ON-DEMAND SERVICES AND OPERATIONS - An embodiment models and predicts energy consumption and provides recurring and realistic opportunities to reduce energy consumption throughout the work day or process cycle using user interfaces to convey positive and negative feedback in a controlled manner; and user experiences that reward positive changes with increased positive feedback and reduced negative feedback. Energy consumption of categories of appliances, devices, and equipment is considered a random variable. Using archived energy data, business data, and other related data, statistical modeling is used to create inverse cumulative probability distribution functions. An energy budget (consumption prediction) is computed so that it meets a probability p of the budget being exceeded during a given interval. When the budget is exceeded the feedback is negative, otherwise feedback is positive. Each budget is computed as the value b of the random variable such that the probability that the random variable will be less than or equal to b is 1−p. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112764 | Automated Evaluation of Transaction Plays - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises generating, using a computer, recommendations of a first group of products of a plurality of products based on past transactions between a plurality of persons and a plurality of entities for the plurality of products, relationships between the persons, relationships between the entities, and relationships between the persons and the entities; generating, using the computer, a score for each recommendation of the plurality of recommendations; and generating, using the computer, a first success indicator of a first selected recommendation based on the score associated with the first selected recommendation. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112765 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING RECRUITING INTENT - Techniques for identifying members of a social network service that exhibit recruiting intent are described. According to various embodiments, a set of members of an online social network service that self-identify as recruiters may be identified. The set of members that self-identify as recruiters may then be clustered into a group of engaged recruiters and a second group of non-engaged recruiters, and the group of engaged recruiters may be categorized as members exhibiting recruiting intent. Behavioral log data associated with the members exhibiting recruiting intent may then be accessed and classified as recruiting intent signature data. Thereafter, prediction modeling may be performed based on the recruiting intent signature data and a prediction model, to identify members of the online social network service that are associated with behavioral log data matching the recruiting intent signature data. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112766 | Method and Apparatus for Rapid Metrological Calibration, Intervention Assignment, Evaluation, Forecasting and Reinforcement - An improved method and apparatus for automated metrology, intervention assignment, evaluation, and forecasting is disclosed. The embodiments include innovative algorithms for stakeholder management, item generation, feedback, and progress tracking. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING NETWORK MOBILITY EVENTS TO BUILD ADVERTISING DEMOGRAPHICS - An example method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a mobility event message for a first user equipment; determining demographic information for a first subscriber associated with the first user equipment; determining a location of the first subscriber in relation to a first network domain; identifying one or more advertising domains in relation to the location of the first subscriber based on the first network domain; determining a modeling function based on the mobility event message and the location of the first subscriber in relation to the identified advertising domains; updating, based on the modeling function, one or more demographic models for each of the identified one or more advertising domains using the demographic information for the first subscriber; and following the updating, calculating demographic information for all subscribers for each of the updated one or more demographic models for the identified advertising domains. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112768 | INFORMATION GATHERING AND PRICE FORECASTING FOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT SALES - A method for predicting sale prices for heavy equipment products includes presenting, to each of a plurality of users, an indication of a first set of pricing metric data items relating to a market value of a first product and an indication of pricing metric data items for each of a corresponding set of products for the user, receiving, from each user, a forecast price for the first product and a respective estimated price for each of the corresponding set of products for the user, determining a respective forecast rating for each user based on an accuracy assessment of the respective estimated prices received from the forecasting user in view of sale prices of the corresponding set of products for the user, and determining a price prediction for the first product based on the forecast price received from each user weighted according to the respective forecast rating for the user. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112769 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A WORKSITE - A computer-implemented method for managing a worksite is described. The method involves generating event objects comprising event information with respect to the worksite, processing said event objects to generate state objects describing states with respect to the worksite, processing said state objects to generate situation objects defining situations in the worksite; and process said situation objects to generate worksite impact objects estimating impacts on the worksite. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112770 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING AND MANAGING PROJECT PERFORMANCE USING COMMUNICATION - A method of improving project outcome by using communication to assess a project, and improving the project outcome. A method of evaluating project performance based on the communication environment and communication objects used by identifying the desired characteristics of the project, selecting characterizations of the communication environment and communication objects to be Measurable Communication Actions (MCAs), establishing a baseline of planned communication (P COM) expressed in terms of the MCAs, taking measurements throughout the course of the project to assess the actual values for the MCAs and obtaining Actual Communication (A COM), comparing the A COM against the P COM and deriving a communication variance (COM V), and tracking COM V against the desired characteristics of the project. Methods of evaluating training programs and communications with jurors, evaluating and improving leadership development programs, acquisition programs research, development and technology evaluation programs, and knowledge creation, knowledge discovery and knowledge sharing programs. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112771 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ENHANCING PERFORMANCE OF AN ENTERPRISE COMPUTER SYSTEM - An enterprise analysis system method and program product. A system is disclosed having: a system for overlaying a cognitive framework onto an existing organizational structure of an enterprise to identify both operational and behavioral data; a system for characterizing the operational and behavioral data within an ontology that provides a semantic naming convention; and a system for analyzing the integration of operational and behavioral data to identify patterns. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112772 | INTERFACE AND METHODS FOR TRACKING AND ANALYZING POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND INTERESTS - Systems, processes, user interfaces, and computer readable media are described for scoring political entities on one or more political issues. In one example, the scoring is based on text data and political contribution data associated with the political entity. For example, a process may access or determine text data and financial contribution data associated with a political entity and then score the political entity to provide a measure of the political entity's ideology or position on one or more issues. Various graphical elements and interactive user interfaces can be generated based on various information derived therefrom. Users may search various political entities to view political entity scores, text data, financial data, issues, and the like, as well as enter their own political scores and/or issues to assist in identifying political entities. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112773 | FACILITATING ENVIRONMENT VIEWS EMPLOYING CROWD SOURCED INFORMATION - Facilitation of environment views employing crowd sourced information is provided. For example, an apparatus can determine a location of an environment of interest at a first defined time, and identify recording components proximate to the location substantially at the first defined time. The recording components can be communicatively coupleable to the apparatus. The apparatus can also request information from identified recording components, wherein the information is recorded by the recording components substantially at the first defined time, and stored at the recording components. The apparatus can receive the information from the identified recording components, and generate information indicative of a representation of an aspect of the environment substantially at the first defined time based on aggregating the received information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112774 | Providing Offers and Associated Location Information - Provided is a process, including: obtaining a coupon issued by a merchant, the coupon being redeemable in-store, at a physical location of the merchant; obtaining one or more merchant location identifiers, the coupon only being redeemable at one or more merchant locations identified by the one or more merchant location identifiers; sending the coupon and the merchant location identifiers to publishers for presentation to consumers by the publishers on user devices of the consumers; and receiving indications from the user devices of the consumers that the consumers interacted with the coupon, the indications indicating a consumer selection of an in-store redemption option. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112775 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INTERFACING SOFTWARE ENGINES - A system, method and computer program product for interfacing a decision engine and a marketing engine in order to provide vendor-related data in response to decision-related data is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system and method may include providing a decision engine on a user-accessible network; interfacing a marketing engine with the decision engine on the network; receiving a plurality of user inputs with the decision engine; processing decision-related data with the decision engine in accordance with the plurality of user inputs; sharing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; processing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; and transmitting vendor-related data via the network. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112776 | PROMOTION MANAGEMENT METHODS AND APPARATUS - A system, method, and apparatus for managing promotions are disclosed. An example method includes receiving in a server an indication of a sale of a promotional item from a sales terminal, the promotional item being specified by a promoter for a promotional competition to be carried out by a group of sales associates, the indication including an identifier of a sales associate who sold the promotional item, determining a quantity of the promotional items sold based on the received indication and a previous quantity of the promotional items sold by the sales associate, determining relationships among the group of sales associates based on the quantity of promotional items sold by the sales associates, and sending to a computer system of the promoter information indicative of the quantity of promotional items sold respectively by the sales associates and information indicative of the determined relationship among the group of sales associates. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112777 | MARKETPLACE SYSTEM - A method includes receiving a request for a pass of a type of pass from a first customer. The method includes, based on an availability of a pass of the requested type, enabling the first customer to purchase the pass of the requested type either (i) from a set of available passes of the requested type or (ii) from a second customer. The method includes enabling a mobile device associated with the first customer to be used to present the purchased pass. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112778 | OFFER SHARING - Aspects of the present invention describe an offer service that incentivizes people to share offer invitations with other people. An offer invitation gives a person an opportunity to subscribe to a customized offer with an incentive (e.g., a discount on a good or service) provided by a vendor. The offer invitation can take many forms. In one aspect, the offer invitation is a digital communication (e.g., a text, email, social post) that provides some details and provides a means to subscribe to the offer. The offer invitation can be passed between users that each receives a different offer upon subscribing to the offer. A user may receive a different sharing incentive based on the sharing mechanism he uses to share a user invitation. For example, a user may receive a larger incentive when he shares an offer invitation through his social network than when he shares via email. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112779 | APPLICATION OF BENEFITS TO EXISTING CARDS BASED ON CLASSIFICATION IN PREFERRED REWARDS PROGRAM - Embodiments of the invention are directed to apparatus, methods, and computer program products for using a preferred rewards program. In some embodiments, the apparatus is configured to receive information associated with a user's financial institution account on the last day of a current month, wherein the information comprises a monthly asset balance; determine an average asset balance based on generating an average monthly asset balance for at least two months prior to the current month; categorize the user, based on the average asset balance, to determine which of a plurality of status levels is applicable to the user, wherein the plurality of status levels is based on an asset balance range; identify an existing payment card associated with the user; and apply a benefit associated with the categorized status level to the user's existing payment card. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112780 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING OF A REAL-TIME REBATE AT TRANSACTION AUTHORIZATION - A method for initiating a rebate for a payment transaction funded using a reward account includes: storing account data entries, each entry including an account identifier and reward balance; receiving an authorization request for a transaction involving a merchant, the request including payment information and a transaction amount; calculating a transaction reward value based on the transaction amount and a conversion rule; identifying a reduction amount, wherein the amount is a lesser of the transaction reward value and the reward balance included in a data entry where the account identifier corresponds to the payment information; updating the reward balance included in the data entry based on the identified reduction amount; calculating a rebate amount based on the transaction reward value and reduction amount, and the conversion rule; and transmitting a rebate request for the rebate amount from an account of the merchant to an account corresponding to the payment information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112781 | Method and System for Processing of a Real-Time Rebate at Transaction Authorization - Systems and methods for processing payment transactions involving reward accounts are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving an authorization request for a payment transaction involving a reward account. The authorization request includes at least a transaction amount. The method also includes determining, based on the reward preference, whether the payment transaction is eligible for a reward rebate and transmitting a request for the reward rebate when the payment transaction is eligible. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112782 | Methods and Systems for Unified Vault and Rewards within Real Money Applications - A virtual vault is generated and displayed for a user of a real-money application and is defined to hold in trust real-money rewards for the user. Each real-money reward is redeemable for real-world monetary value within the real-money application. The virtual vault includes respective reward graphics for the real-money rewards for the user. Upon selection of a reward graphic by the user, a determination is made as to whether or not the user is qualified to receive a real-money reward corresponding to the selected reward graphic. If the user is qualified to receive the real-money reward, the user is credited with a real-world monetary value specified by the real-money reward. Or, if the user is not qualified to receive the real-money reward, the user is notified of one or more actions required by the user in order to qualify for receipt of the real-money reward. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112783 | Methods and Systems for Cross-Platform Promotion with Real Money Applications - A notification regarding a real-money application is transmitted to a user of a second application when the user is executing the second application. The notification conveys a reward available to the user within the second application in exchange for performing a required action in the real-money application. Upon selection of a control object by the user, the real-money application is executed with reference to the user so as to provide the user with an interface to perform the required action in the real-money application. Upon determining that the user completed the required action in the real-money application, a status of the user is updated in the second application to provide the user with the reward in the second application corresponding to completion of the required action in the real-money application. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112784 | NETWORK OF TAGS - Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating product or service information to a potential purchaser. A product or item describing a service are scanned to obtain both a product or service code and an advertisement promotion code provided by a vendor/retailer or manufacturer of the product or service using a smartphone of a first user. A barcode is generated on the smartphone by combining the product or service code and the advertisement promotion code with information from the smartphone associated with the product or service and with an advertiser code that uniquely identifies the first user. The barcode is communicated to a communication device of a second user that is the potential purchaser of the product or service. When the communication device is presented to a point of sale (POS) terminal, the terminal scans the barcode, decodes the barcode, and compensates the first user according to the advertisement promotion code. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112785 | INITIATING A PROMOTIONAL BENEFIT BY USER-ACTIONABLE LINK - An advertisement, including a description of a promotion and a link, are included in a shipment of a sales item to a buyer from an online shopping site. The promotion is crafted to entice the buyer to respond to the link and trigger a further shopping opportunity based on the initial purchase. Upon responding to the link, the buyer is presented with a further promotion that includes the most recent consideration of buying incentives which are based on knowledge of selling considerations such as inventory and the marketplace that a seller may use to generate enticing content in the promotion. The seller may also take advantage of knowledge about the shopping and purchasing history of the buyer at the online shopping site in tailoring the promotion. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112786 | WIRELESS ELECTRONIC COUPONING TECHNIQUE - An electronic couponing technique includes transferring coupon information, which may include a coupon ID (identification) to a first portable terminal and storing same therein. The portable terminal displays a representation of the transferred coupon information on a display thereof. The stored coupon information may be transferred from the portable terminal to another terminal for redemption. The stored coupon information may also be transferred from the portable terminal to another portable terminal. Various schemes may be used to transfer the coupon information including a Bluetooth low-range radio link or an optical bar code scanner scanning an optical bar code or an infrared link or a wireless link from the portable terminal. The Internet or wireless LAN (Local Area Network) may also be used in transferring the coupon information to and from the various terminals. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112787 | Amateur Athletics Performance-Based Loyalty Rewards Program and Related Systems, Methods, and Apparatus - Loyalty rewards systems and methods. Some methods comprise activities such as gathering performance statistics regarding amateur athletes. These methods comprise gathering sponsorship deals associated with the amateur athletes. These methods comprise assigning loyalty reward points to consumers based on the performance statistics and verifying that the sponsor honored the sponsorship. Methods can comprise facilitating a creation of a fantasy amateur athletic team wherein the assigning of the points is further based on a performance statistic associated with the team. Some methods comprise assigning further sponsorship loyalty reward points based on changes in the performance statistics. Methods can comprise providing a template to amateur athletic leagues through which the amateur athletic leagues are granted access to participate in the methods. If desired, sponsors and/or the amateur athletes can be granted access to participate in the method through the template and/or invitations to amateur athletic performances can be sent to social networks. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112788 | TARGETED ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING CUSTOMER INFORMATION AND LOCATION INFORMATION THROUGH POINT REWARD SERVICE - The advertisement system of the present invention includes a customer terminal for registering a customer in a point reward server as a member based on segment information and transmitting location information in real-time, a member store terminal for registering a member store in the point reward server as a member based on a service or a product, and awarding and notifying points to the point reward server so as to be managed, an advertiser terminal for requesting an advertisement on-line, and the point reward server for registering the members, managing the points, receiving the request for the advertisement, placing a target advertisement, sharing an advertisement profit with the member store and the customer at a predetermined ratio. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112789 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING VALUE OF CONSUMER OFFERS - A method and system for determining an optimal combination of value offers from a plurality of value offers available to a consumer having selected a group of products or services for purchase. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112790 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SAVING DEAL OFFERS TO BE APPLIED AT A POINT-OF-SALE (POS) OF A RETAIL STORE - A system and method of saving deal offers to be applied at a point-of-sale (POS) of a retail store may include receiving, by a mobile device via a communications network, multiple advertisements inclusive of selectable deal offers of products being sold at the retail store for a user to select. Responsive to a user selecting to view an advertisement of a product on the mobile device, the deal offer of the product to be presented to the POS to be applied to a cost of the product may be automatically stored. Responsive to a check out request at the mobile device, data inclusive of the deal offer to be presented to the POS to apply the deal offer to the cost of the product to which the deal offer is associated may be generated. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112791 | MOBILE USER, ACTIVITY AND APPLICATION PROFILING - Methods and systems for user, activity and application profiling for a mobile device are provided. According to one embodiment, activity stream data is received by an activity monitoring module running on a mobile device. The activity stream data includes information regarding usage of one or more applications installed on the mobile device. The activity stream data is provided by the activity monitoring module to a central server that collects activity stream data from multiple mobile devices, including the mobile device. The collected activity stream data is processed by the central server in conjunction with auxiliary data to create derived mobile user activity profiles for users of the mobile devices. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112792 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INFORMATION FOR CUSTOMIZED CONTENT PROVISION SERVICE - The present invention relates to a system and method for providing user information for a customized content provision service which enables a content distributor to collect action plans of the past, present, and future established by users and to use the collected action plans during a search for a target user. According to the present invention, there is no need to collect personal information on the users to predict the future actions of the users. Therefore, the invention is effective at protecting the privacy of the users and improving the accuracy and reliability of the customized content provision service. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112793 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING MONETIZING BRAND INTEGRATION WITHIN ONLINE CONTENT - Monetizing brand integration within online content may be facilitated. Parameter values for parameters describing characteristics of online content, access points, and/or producers may be obtained. The user may define search queries specifying parameter values of one or more parameters. In response to the user defined search query, the system may identify online content and/or access points having parameter values that satisfy the user defined search queries. The user may specify tasks for the identified content and/or access points. The user identified tasks may be related to brand integration. The system may effectuate presentation of the user specified tasks to producers that generate a portion of the identified online content and/or access points. Performance of the user specified tasks may be evaluated to determine an outcome. The outcome may include a quantity of a desired result and/or action. The system may distribute compensation to one or more producers based on the outcome. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112794 | System And Process For Cloud Based Conversion Tracking - A system and process are provided for a cloud based conversion tracking due to multimedia content files, including advertisements, where the multimedia content provider is not required to modify the provider's website to achieve the conversion tracking, which occurred by the user at client side clicking on a multimedia content file and causing an action considered as a conversion by the provider of the multimedia content. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112795 | EFFICIENT BUDGET PACING - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate efficient budget pacing. According to various embodiments, a plurality of advertising request opportunities may be received at a communications interface during a time interval divided into a plurality of time periods. The time periods may include a designated time period, and a pacing rate for the designated time period may be determined. Each of the advertising request opportunities may be capable of being purchased to present a respective online advertisement. The pacing rate may designate a portion of the advertising request opportunities received during the designated time period on which to bid. One or more instructions may be transmitted to place a plurality of bids on selected ones of the advertising request opportunities received during the designated time period in accordance with the pacing rate. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112796 | DETERMINING USER ENGAGEMENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for determining user engagement levels during a presentation of content. The system first collects data associated with a user session at a client device. Next, the system predicts a user engagement level during the user session by applying an engagement predicting rule to the data. The system can predicts respective user engagement levels for various segments of the presentation by applying one or more engagement predicting rules to the data. The system then presents invitational content based on the user engagement level. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112797 | Phenotypic Integrated Social Search Database and Method - The present invention provides methods, databases and devices for establishing the first integration of social behavior with biological phenotypic measurements. In one embodiment, a method for correlating data from a sample database and a survey database is provided. The method comprises obtaining a sample comprising biological molecules from an individual, simultaneously obtaining survey data from the individual, storing the survey data in the survey database, analyzing the sample of biological molecules to determine the composition of biological molecules, storing the data from the composition in the sample database, and correlating the data from the sample database to the data from the survey database. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112798 | ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an AD processing method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring, by a terminal, system information and/or current access network information of the terminal; sending, by the terminal to a plugin server, an AD plugin request message that includes the system information and/or the current access network information of the terminal, so that the plugin server acquires, according to the system information and/or the current access network information, AD plugin information that matches the terminal; and receiving, by the terminal, the AD plugin information that is sent by the plugin server and matches the terminal, and choosing to download an AD plugin according to the AD plugin information. In the embodiments, it is implemented that traffic and time are saved for a user, and expenses may further be reduced for the user. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112799 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFERING PERSONALIZED FLASH SALES EXPERIENCE TO A USER - A method, system and computer program are configured to provide a personal flash sale experience for a user. The method, system and computer program involve maintaining a plurality of flash sales of items including inactive flash sales and flash sales to be broadcasted to a plurality of users, selecting for a user one or more inactive flash sales from the plurality of flash sales of items according to a user's exposure level to items, sales performance of items and/or user's preferences, activating the selected one or more flash sales, and providing to a user a combination of flash sales including the broadcasted flash sales and the selected one or more flash sales. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112800 | TARGETED ADVERTISING USING VEHICLE INFORMATION - A method, implemented in an electronic processing system that includes a memory and one or more processors, includes receiving, at the electronic processing system, vehicle data indicative of one or both of (i) a location or route of a vehicle and (ii) operation of the vehicle, storing the received vehicle data in the memory, determining, via the one or more processors and based on the stored vehicle data, a habit or preference of a driver of the vehicle, and causing an advertisement to be selected based on the determined habit or preference. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112801 | MULTIPLE PERSONA BASED MODELING - Matrix factorization techniques may be employed to identify different tastes based on user history information for a user profile and to provide item recommendations for the various tastes. An item model may be generated that includes item vectors, each item vector representing an item from a catalog of items. An item vector from the item model may be identified for each of a number of items identified in information for a user profile. The item vectors may be grouped into different clusters, and a taste vector may be generated for each cluster based on item vectors in each cluster. Each taste vector may be used to select item recommendations that may be combined in a set of recommendations provided for presentation to one or more users associated with the user profile. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112802 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING TARGETED MESSAGES BASED ON TRACKED TRANSACTION DATA - A card (e.g., a payment card such as a credit card, debit card, gift card, or any other electroncially readable card) of a user is electronically read at an automated teller machine (ATM), to determine card data identifying an account of the user. Based on the card data, a promotional message is automatically selected (e.g., by a computer processor) from a database comprising a plurality of promotional messages. The selected promotional message is targeted to the user. The selected promotional message is outputted to the user at the ATM. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112803 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TARGETED CONTENT PLACEMENT - A method for providing one way trust via a third party advertisement presenter includes creating one or more advertisement campaigns which are delivered though a third party advertisement presenter's cookies, mapping the third party advertisement presenter's cookies to a demand side platform's cookies, providing the corresponding third party advertisement presenter's cookies via the demand side platform's cookies if the websites accessed by the individual include advertising space the demand side platform is bidding on, and delivering the one or more advertisement campaigns to the individual through the corresponding third party advertisement presenter's cookies. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112804 | METHOD FOR PRESENTING SALES INFORMATION AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING THE SAME - A method for presenting sales information on a display device to a user who is shopping at a first store includes executing a first operation on a processor coupled to the display device to determine an item to promote to a user, executing a second operation on the processor to acquire first price information about a price of the item that is on sale at the first store, executing a third operation on the processor to acquire second price information about a price of the item that is on sale at a second store, generating a discount information for the item that is on sale at the first store based on the first price information and the second price information, and controlling the display device to display the generated discount information. | 2015-04-23 |