17th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130103566 | Out of Band Credit Control - Systems and method for mediating risks associated with orders in an electronic trading system are provided. A front end component includes a plurality of trading engines that receive orders from traders. A back-end component includes a match system. The system includes a credit control module, which may be located at the back-end (e.g., clearinghouse), front end, a combination thereof, or other location that communicates with the plurality of trading engines. The credit control may monitor aggregate risk parameters for the trading engines and requests credits from trading engines. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103567 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POOLING COMPUTING SERVER RESOURCES - A method and system for pooling computing resources is provided. In an embodiment a system comprises a plurality of quotation servers connected to a quotation engine. The quotation is also connected to a clearing server. The quotation engine receives data representing quotations from different servers. The quotation engine also receives data representing actual trades from the clearing server. The quotation engine is configured to perform operations on the quotations and the actual trades in a fashion that deletes certain quotations to reduce consumption of computing resources on the quotation engine and thereby increase efficiency of processing of the quotes to arrive at a final quotation. The system also relieves processing burden on the quotation servers by shifting the processing to the quotation engine. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103568 | System and Method for Chart Pattern Recognition and Analysis in an Electronic Trading Environment - A system and method are provided for chart pattern recognition and analysis. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided to enable a trader to select a portion of a chart to be used in the chart pattern analysis. The pattern of the selected portion of the chart could then be used to find one or more similar chart patterns in a user-defined timeframe, such as any future time period or a time period in the past. When a reoccurring chart pattern is found in any future time period, an alert signal can be generated to alert a user of a possibility of the chart pattern reoccurrence. Alternatively, chart pattern matches can be found in a time period in the past, and a set of studies can be applied to the found matches to generate a set of reoccurring indicator values. The reoccurring indicator values can be used in combination with the chart pattern to detect any similar chart patterns in the future. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103569 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING IN MAKING STRUCTURED REFERENCE CREDIT DECISIONS - A structured reference credit decision device includes a database configured to store information related to applicants, potential customers, referencers, potential referencers, lenders, and other third parties, a fetch data component coupled with the database, the fetch data component configured to receive input application information, fetch relevant information from the database, based on the application information, related to a subject applicant of the input application information and at least one referencer, and generate a plurality of linked data packages based on the fetched information, and an evaluation device coupled with the fetch data component, the evaluation engine configure to apply credit outcome models to the plurality of linked data packages and generate a recommendation relative to the subject applicant or application. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103570 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CREDIT QUALITY INDEX - Electronic modeling of long-term historical financial credit performance of a consumer is described. A plurality of historical time periods originating from an observation point in time occurring in the past are established and a plurality of past credit performance snapshots for a sample consumer population are obtained. A credit risk management computer system computes a credit quality index for each of the past credit performance snapshots of the sample population and for a recent credit performance snapshot of the consumer. An overall credit quality index for the sample population spanning the plurality of historical time periods is likewise computed and a prediction of an overall credit quality index for the consumer spanning the plurality of historical time periods is made. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103571 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION AND REPORTING OF CREDIT USE AND IMPACT ON CREDIT SCORE - Disclosed is a system and method for the automated generation and display of an electronic, graphical representation of the effect of a consumer's credit card usage as a percentage of credit limit on such consumer's credit score. The presentation may show each credit card account with a graphical view of the level of usage on each of a user's card accounts and further shows in which category that usage level falls. The levels of credit usage are classified for each card account into qualitative categories. Each category is designed to communicate to the consumer the statistical association between the usage level on that account and credit scores. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103572 | Systems and Methods For Facilitating Debt Reduction - Systems and methods for facilitating debt reduction are disclosed. A method includes automatically determining that an incentive participant has successfully completed an incentive activity, automatically determining the debt account for which the outstanding balance will be reduced as a result of the successful completion of the incentive activity by the incentive participant, automatically determining a debt reduction amount greater than an amount of money to be actually paid to the debt owner or debt collector as a result of the incentive participant successfully completing the incentive activity, and automatically facilitating the reduction of the outstanding balance of the debt account by the debt reduction amount. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103573 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDUCATIONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING - A method of managing loans is provided. The method includes electronically importing a loan portfolio of a user. A plurality of repayment options for the loan portfolio are then displayed to the user. The user is then able to provide input indicative of the choosing of one of the repayment options. The choices made by the user are then able to be automatically implemented. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103574 | Payment Delegation Transaction Processing - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for processing payment delegate transactions are provided. A transaction message associated with a payment instrument of a customer may be received by a payment processing service from a merchant. The payment processing service may determine when the payment instrument is not a payment delegate. When the payment instrument is not a payment delegate, the payment processing service may communicate a response to the merchant processor. When the payment instrument is a payment delegate, a message may be communicated to a funding source gateway and/or an indication that the payment instrument is a payment delegate may be communicated to at least one memory. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103575 | PRINTING FOR-PAY CONTENT - In one embodiment, an email communication is received via a network. The email communication includes a content identifier identifying for-pay content hosted at a provider computing system, a sender identifier identifying a sender of the communication, and a printer identifier identifying a network-connected printer. The sender identifier is compared to a database that associates sender identifiers with payment subscriptions authorizing printing of the content. Responsive to receipt of data indicating the sender identifier is associated with a payment subscription, the content is obtained from the provider system, rasterized, and sent to the printer for printing. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103576 | TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for managing a transaction includes receiving merchant information. Then a merchant account may be established with the merchant information. Consumer information may also be received whereby a consumer account may be established. The consumer and merchant may then be associated. Payment instructions may be received and the merchant account may be credited in the amount from the payment instructions. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103577 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - Systems, methods and computer-readable media for optimizing financial transactions are disclosed. Candidate source and target financial accounts may be respectively identified based on source and target identifiers. Respective candidate source payment networks configured to access each candidate source financial account and respective candidate target payment networks configured to access each candidate target financial account may be identified. Based at least in part on an analysis of one or more rules, a set of transaction options may be generated. Each transaction option may be associated with a particular combination of source and target financial accounts and payment networks and may further be associated with one or more transaction characteristics. Respective transaction options information associated with one or more of the transaction options may be transmitted and potentially presented to a financial transaction requestor. The requestor may be provided with a capability to indicate a selection of a transaction option for processing of a financial transaction. In other scenarios, an analysis of a set of transaction options may be performed based on a complete financial transaction request that includes a transaction amount. An indication of whether the financial transaction is executable may be transmitted, potentially for presentation to a financial transaction requestor. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103578 | ENHANCED CUSTOMER INTERACTION CHANNEL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A computer-implemented method, a server, and a computer use an enhanced customer interaction channel based on a predetermined payment key associated with a specific company and location. The predetermined payment key uniquely identifies the specific company and location and enables the enhanced customer interaction channel based on existing payment processing systems. The specific company may use the enhanced customer interaction channel to reach customers who were previously unknown to the specific company for a variety of purposes such as rewards, coupons, offers, product information, and the like. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103579 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND DISBURSING ELECTRONIC GRATUITIES - The present invention relates to systems and methods for collecting and disbursing electronic gratuities. According to one embodiment, a device for submitting gratuities by credit card is provided at a place of business or other appropriate location. A method of using this device is disclosed, whereby consumers pay a predetermined or adjustable gratuity amount by inserting a credit card into the device. According to another embodiment, technological infrastructure is provided to transmit encrypted payment information such that the acquiring bank of the device provider obtains authorization for gratuity transactions conducted using the device. The acquiring bank is thus enabled to credit the device provider's merchant account or disbursal accounts with electronic gratuity payments less acquisition fees. According to another embodiment, a method of disbursing gratuity shares to employees of the business is provided, wherein processing fees are collected by the device provider. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HOUSEHOLD CASH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - To address the challenges of managing the cash flow of a household, the present solution provides for an efficient and automated cash flow management tool. In an industrialized market where households incur and manage dozens of bills and expenses, the systems and methods of the Cash Flow Management system (“CFM”) of the present solution enables households to seamlessly and efficiently plan their budget, pay their bills, enforce their expense budget, save for custom planned goals and realize their financial plans all from one account. The methodology of the CFM allows a household to holistically plan, execute, manage and track in real-time their cash flow across pay, spend and save sub-accounts within the same financial or bank account. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103581 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SINGLE NUMBER PAN VIRTUAL/PHYSICAL CARD - A credit/debit card that can be utilized as a virtual card or as a physical card. The system provides a single PAN (Primary Account Number) for both the virtual and the physical card so that they represent a single account. The customer can elect one of the card formats. When one format is selected, the other format is inactive. In one embodiment, the customer can toggle back and forth between formats. To distinguish between the types of card, each card has modulated non-PAN data. For example, the expiration date on each card may be modified so that uses of the card will be recognized as coming from one format or the other. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103582 | Wireless electronic check deposit scanning and cashing machine with web-based online account cash management computer application system - Wireless Electronic Check Deposit Scanning and Cashing Machine (also known and referred to as WEDS) Web-based Online account cash Management computer application System (also known and referred to as OMS virtual/live teller)—collectively invented integrated as “WEDS.OMS” System. Method and Apparatus for Depositing and Cashing Ordinary paper and/or substitute checks and money orders online Wirelessly from home/office computer, laptop, Internet enabled mobile phone, pda (personal digital assistant) and/or any Internet enabled device. WEDS enables verification and transmittal of image, OMS is the navigation tool used to set commands and process requests, integrated with WEDS, working collectively as WEDS.OMS System. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103583 | Universal Cash Account - According to one embodiment, an apparatus may include a memory and a processor. The memory may be operable to store a cash account associated with a cash value and a user. The processor may be operable to receive a request from the user to pay an amount from the cash account. The processor may determine, in response to the request, whether the amount exceeds the cash value associated with the cash account. The processor may then decrease the cash value associated with the cash account by the amount if the amount does not exceed the cash value of the cash account. The processor may then send a notification that includes the decreased cash value associated with the cash account. The apparatus may be associated with an enterprise and the enterprise may exclusively process the request. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103584 | PAYMENT SERVICE THAT PROVIDES OPTION TO AUTHENTICATE WITH EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION SERVICE - A system and associated methods are disclosed for enabling users to use social media account information to make payments to merchants. A payment service receives a user's identifier in response to a user authentication request sent over a network to an authentication service of a social media site. The user authentication request includes social media login credentials of the user and is associated with a payment page of a merchant that has an account with the payment service. The payment service receives the user identifier when the authentication service validates the social media login credentials. Based at least in part on the user identifier, the payment service retrieves payment information obtained by a previous payment transaction of the user from its database. The payment service provides the user with an option to use the retrieved payment information to make a payment to the merchant. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103585 | Fueling Environment Wireless Architecture - A method and system for transmitting data between devices within a fueling environment comprising a wireless mesh network wherein the devices are configured to communicate via the wireless mesh network. A wireless communication device is connected to each device, and a middleware executed by the wireless communication device handles communications between the devices and the wireless mesh network. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103586 | SPENDING VEHICLES FOR PAYMENTS - A system and method for associating payments with spending vehicles so that an individual who is entitled to receive periodic or special payments such as social security checks receives in place of the payment a spending vehicle such as a discount card, rebate, or coupon for use with purchases of the sponsor's products or services. Sponsors include companies and organizations interested in offering purchase incentives to their customers. An individual who wishes to receive a spending vehicle rather than the regular payment selects the spending vehicle he or she would like to receive. The individual then assigns his or her right to receive the payment to a third party. The third party then arranges to give a spending vehicle to the individual and to transfer the individual's payment to the sponsor of the spending vehicle. The third party may take a portion of the payment as compensation for the service. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103587 | SECURE AND PORTABLE PAYMENT SYSTEM - Payment systems are provided that utilize a portable device, and in particular, payment systems that utilize a first portable device that belongs to a seller and a second portable device that belongs to a buyer, but do not utilize a point of sale (POS) device. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103588 | PROCESSING PAYMENTS AT A MANAGEMENT SERVER WITH A USER SELECTED PAYMENT METHOD - A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103589 | PROVIDING LICENSED CONTENT TO A USER - When a user requests licensed content, a dynamic licensing mechanism automatically requests and receives licenses for the licensed content when one or more criterion in a licensing policy is satisfied by license information relating to the content, without the user providing any further input to acquire the licenses. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103590 | METHODS, SERVER, MERCHANT DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SETTING UP COMMUNICATION - It is presented a security server arranged to set up communication between a merchant device and a customer payment application. The security server comprises: a receiver arranged to receive a first message comprising a customer identifier, an application identifier and a security token; a determiner arranged to determine whether the merchant device is authorised; a transmitter arranged to send a second message to the merchant device, the second message indicating that the merchant device is authorised to effect payment; and a channel establisher arranged to set up a secure channel between the merchant device and the customer payment application in a secure element being adapted to be comprised in a mobile communication terminal, wherein all communication between the merchant device and the customer payment application is controlled by the security server. Corresponding methods, merchant device, computer programs and computer program products are also presented. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103591 | AUTHENTICATION - The user's SIM 20 is adapted to store a seed for generating an authentication code which is usable to authenticate a transaction. The mobile telecommunications device 1 has a processor including means operable to obtain the seed from the SIM, to calculate the authentication code and to generate a transaction message for enabling the transaction with the entity, the transaction message including the authentication code. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103592 | Interactive Licensing Of Media With Negotiation And Dynamic Pricing Guidance - Embodiments are directed towards providing method for negotiating a license to a media item by a customer for a commercial use, including maintaining by a digital media licensing server a catalog of media items that are available to be licensed, and a database of records. Receiving a designation of a media item from the catalog, providing a customer interface that enables a customer to specify an offer to license the selected media item; receiving an offer, electronically providing to a plurality of rights holders in the media item information about the offer, receiving from rights holders at least one counteroffer price, determining a collaborative counteroffer price, and providing the collaborative counteroffer price to the customer. Additional embodiments are directed toward a method for making recommendations for alternative media items to license. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103593 | SYSTEMS, COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER PROGRAM TO GENERATE A COLLECTIVE HERD WARRANTY - Systems, computer readable medium having computer program, and related computer implemented methods are provided to aggregate a plurality of customized livestock warranty products so that each of the plurality of customized livestock warranty products is provided to different owners of different herds of a plurality of herds and so that a collective livestock risk product is produced for collective risk management. Embodiments of the present invention advantageously incentivize disease event disclosure by facilitating the purchase of individual warranty products by livestock producers that cover the full value of the producers' losses, yet also incentivize producers to enforce rigorous bio-security measures. Beneficially, the individual warranty products can be provided as part of a collective product for collective reinsurance and collective management of federal indemnity for catastrophic disease events. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103594 | PROVIDING eFOLIOS - Providing an electronic itemized list of purchases made by a user, in one aspect, may include receiving data associated with the user and one or more purchases made by the user, storing the data in an itemized purchase database, enabling access to the data, and providing an itemized list of purchases based on the data in accordance with one or more query criteria. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103595 | SEARCHING REAL ESTATE USING SPATIAL EXCLUSION CONDITIONS - Automated valuation model with customizable neighborhood determination, including spatial exclusion conditions. A map image is displayed corresponding to a geographical area, and then user input accommodates definition of a particularly defined geographic area to provide custom identification of a neighborhood to be subject to automated valuation. Once the defined geographic area is established, the automated valuation model is applied to property data corresponding to properties within the defined geographic area. A subject property and corresponding properties within the defined geographic area are then displayed on a map image, preferably with articulation of the defined geographic area as the neighborhood of interest. The neighborhood may be defined by, among other criteria, inclusion within a user-defined shape, as well as exclusion of a user-defined shape from a displayed geographic area. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103596 | DENOMINATED AUTHENTICATING ROYALTY COLLECTION AND ENFORCEMENT PROCESS - A denominated authenticating royalty collection and enforcement system and process. The invention includes a data generation process including creation and assignment of a plurality of product category values. A process is provided to manufacture anti-fraud tags for merchandise. One or more merchandise vendors for the merchandise are licensed under the process. Royalties are collected from the licensed merchandise vendors. The process includes the steps of supplying secure tags and authenticating the supply of the secure tags. Additionally, a procedure is provided for the public, licensees, licensor and others to visually authenticate that an appropriate royalty has been paid for a particular product or products. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103597 | EVALUATING APPRAISALS BY COMPARING THEIR COMPARABLE SALES WITH COMPARABLE SALES SELECTED BY A MODEL - Automatically rating appraisal quality and evaluating comparables listed on the appraisal. A comparable selection model selects control comparables using transaction data and property characteristics relative to a subject from a database. An evaluation model compares the control comparables to the listed comparables to generate a quality rating for the appraisal based on category scores that result from an appraisal evaluation over a set of categories. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103598 | DIGITAL DOCUMENT COMPLIANCE SYSTEM - A system for ensuring digital real estate listing documents comply with certain standards is disclosed. The system may include three processors. The first processor may receive affirmations from an agent that documents have been collected. Each of the affirmations may refer to a different document. The documents may include a real estate listing contract and related documents. The first processor may also store a record of the affirmations and upload the documents. The second processor may display the documents to a compliance officer and receive affirmations from the compliance officer that documents include characteristics required by standards. The second processor may also store a record of the new affirmations. If the new affirmations are not complete, then the processor may transmit a notification. If the affirmations are complete, then the processor may transmit an approval. The third processor may display the notification or the approval to the agent. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103599 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CERTIFICATION OF A NOTICE WRITTEN ON A SPACE DEDICATED TO THE PROVISION OF OPINIONS - The subject of the present invention is a method for certifying an opinion relating to a product or service written by an author, user of a terminal, on a server managing a space dedicated to the expression of opinions, the terminal and the server being integrated into a network, characterized in that the method involves a certification system and comprises:
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20130103600 | Visualization Tools for Reviewing Credibility and Stateful Hierarchical Access to Credibility - Some embodiments provide a credibility system including an interface portal for presenting a holistic view of entity credibility. To provide the holistic view, the credibility system aggregates credibility data from multiple data sources. The aggregated credibility data is processed and ordered to present different dimensions of entity credibility, with each dimension graphically presented in the interface portal through an interactive credibility module. In some embodiments, the credibility data associated with each credibility module is processed to produce at least one value that quantifiably represents the credibility data. In some embodiments, the credibility data associated with each credibility module is hierarchically ordered to present the credibility data in a drill-down fashion with each hierarchical layer presenting more detailed credibility data for better understanding the credibility data presented in the preceding layer. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A SECURE ONLINE SEARCH - One embodiment of the invention relates to a computer implemented method and system for recruiting individuals using an online search community. The method includes creating at least one microsite associated with a firm using provided online tools; creating at least one profile for a position associated with the at least one microsite; creating an anonymous ID for at least one recruit; blocking access to at least one micro site based on information provided by at least one of the firm and the at least one recruit; enabling the at least one recruit to access the at least one profile position; enabling the at least one recruit to communicate with at least one microsite; enabling the at least one recruit to disclose selected identifying information; and enabling the firm to review the at least one recruit's disclosed identifying information. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103602 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BENEFIT PLAN COST ESTIMATION - A computer-based method and system to enable a benefit plan sponsor to design a plurality of benefit plans to be offered to a given participant population and for determining the cost of sponsoring the plans for the participant population by predicting utilization for each of the plans based upon historical utilization data for the population, projected plan selections based upon presumed participant objectives, and/or survey or historical data from a sample of the given population or from preexisting statistical samples exhibiting analogous demographic characteristics to the given participant population relating to expected benefit utilization and plan preference criteria. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103603 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING - A system and method of making a charitable donation on a mobile device includes reading a code with the mobile device and requesting code related content in response to reading the code. The code related content is received from a server, the code related content comprising at least one short code associated with a charitable organization. In some embodiments, additional content may be provided to provide incentive to the user to make a donation. At least one of a SMS or MMS message is sent using the short code to make a donation to the charitable organization. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103604 | Currency System for Giving - In one aspect, a method for implementing a currency system for giving includes: receiving a donation to a donor-advised fund; converting, by a computing system, the donation to an intermediate currency different than a currency of the donation; receiving, at the computing system, instruction designating a gift for distribution to a recipient organization, the gift including at least a portion of the donation in the intermediate currency; and transferring, from the computing system, the gift to the recipient organization. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103605 | EFFICIENTLY DELIVERING AND DISPLAYING A HEATED FOOD PRODUCT - Aspects for delivering and displaying warm food products are disclosed. In one aspect, a disclosed method includes determining a threshold delivery time for delivering such products after production, and ascertaining a peak period corresponding to a sale of those products at a delivery location. The method further includes loading the warm food products onto a heat-insulated container at a production source, and scheduling a delivery of those products in the heat-insulated container. A heat-insulated display case is also provided, which includes a housing compartment coupled to a display door that includes a window. Here, a seal between the display door and the housing compartment in a closed position is configured to maintain an optimal ambient temperature range within the housing compartment. In a further aspect, another disclosed method includes receiving warm food products from a production source, and loading those products onto a heat-insulated display case. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103606 | System and Method for Delivery Transporter Tracking and Recipient Notification - In a computer implemented method of delivery tracking, a tracking identifier corresponding to a planned delivery of an item is received. The tracking identifier is validated based on a manifest associated with a transporter. A signal representing a location of the planned delivery of the item is sent to a mobile device of a planned recipient of the item. The location of the planned delivery of the item is displayed on a map at the mobile device based on the signal. A status and a location of the transporter are sent to the mobile device of the planned recipient. The location of the transporter is displayed on the map based on a status determination that the transporter is en route. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103607 | Determination of Projected Carrier Assignment - A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product determine carrier selection based on variable volumetric weight and variable completion times. A product is identified for production. The product for production has a variable weight and a variable dimension based on components included in the product for production. A projected volumetric weight of the product for production is determined. A projected completion time of the product for production is determined. A projected carrier assignment of the product for production is then determined in response to determining the projected volumetric weight of the product for production and determining the projected completion time of the product for production. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103608 | Location Determination and Map Building - The present disclosure involves a method comprising: determining a location of a user inside a facility; accessing an information map of the facility based on at least one of: electronic scans of items in the facility made by the user and a planogram; and offering a service based on the information map and the location of the user. The present disclosure also involves an electronic device comprising: an interface for receiving an input from a user and communicating an output to the user; a transceiver for electronically communicating with external devices; a computer processor for executing instructions; and a memory storage for storing the instructions, the memory storage further comprising a program module for: constructing a map of a facility in response to purchases made by the user; and offering a service in response to a location of the user and a shopping history of the user. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103609 | ESTIMATING A USER'S INTEREST IN AN ITEM - For users in a set of users, corresponding measures of inferred interest in an item are determined. For a particular user, a particular measure of inferred interest in the item is determined. The particular measure of inferred interest and the measures of inferred interest corresponding to the users in the set of users are used to determine an estimate of the particular user's interest in the item. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103610 | METHOD OF DAILY RECONCILIATION OF PARTICIPANT BENEFITS FOR A DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN - A method and software for daily reconciling and monitoring of a defined benefit plan including plan assets and plan benefit liabilities. A data processor receives a daily plan asset value and automatically tracks a difference between the plan asset value and allowed benefit values for participants of the defined benefit plan. The method further includes automatic posting of the difference to a side account with the data processor. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103611 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADMINISTERING THE HEDGING OF AN EMPLOYEE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN USING SWAPS - A method and system for administering the hedging of an employee deferred compensation plan, e.g., which employs hedging of NQDC plan liabilities using total return swaps and/or put and call options and/or forwards, for tax purposes. A plan coordinator coordinates a transfer of information between an employer/plan sponsor, a plan administrator that communicates with the employees/plan participants, and a balance sheet provider. The plan coordinator receives and reconciles data and then calculates and modifies relevant information for tax purposes and use in reports that are provided to the plan sponsor and balance sheet provider. Calculations and modifications for tax purposes allow the plan sponsor to reap tax benefits from the NQDC plan swap hedge. The reports include an upcoming transactions report, which indicates new compensation deferrals, reallocations of previously deferred compensation among specified indices, and withdrawals. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103612 | Method and System for Using a Bayesian Belief Network to Ensure Data Integrity - The present invention relates to a method and system for assessing the risks and/or exposures associated with financial transactions using various statistical and probabilistic techniques. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method and system for identifying plausible sources of error in data used as input to financial risk assessment systems using Bayesian belief networks as a normative diagnostic tool to model relationships between and among inputs/outputs of the risk assessment system and other external factors. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103613 | DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PRICING FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS - Some demonstrative embodiments include methods, devices and systems of pricing financial instruments. In one embodiment, a pricing module may be configured to receive first input data corresponding to at least one parameter defining a first option on an underlying asset and second input data corresponding to at least one current market condition relating to said underlying asset, and, based on said first and second input data, to determine a price of the first option according to a volatility smile satisfying a first criterion relating to a sum of a first correction corresponding to the first option and a second correction corresponding to a second option representing a position opposite to a position of a the first option and having substantially a same absolute delta value as the first option, wherein the first correction relates to a difference between a theoretical price of the first option and the price of the first option according to the volatility smile, and wherein the second correction relates to a difference between a theoretical price of the second option and the price of the second option according to the volatility smile. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ALLOCATING DIVIDENDS TO CLASSES OF STOCK SHARES AND SUB-CLASSES OF THE STOCK SHARES - A system and a method for allocating dividends to stock shares are provided. The method includes creating a sub-class of a first stock share class. The method further includes allocating a first percentage of a total dividend amount to a first plurality of stock shares in the first stock share class. The method further includes allocating a second percentage of the total dividend amount to the second plurality of stock shares in the sub-class of the first stock share class. The method further includes storing the first percentage of the total dividend and the second percentage of the total dividend in a memory device. The method further includes buying-back stock shares in the first stock share class or sub-class of the first stock share class. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103615 | PROJECT ECONOMICS ANALYSIS TOOL - The present invention is applicable in the field of corporate finance, corporate capital investments, economics, math, risk analysis, simulation, decision analysis, and business statistics, and relates to the modeling and valuation of investment decisions under uncertainty and risk within all companies, allowing these firms to properly identify, assess, quantify, value, diversify, and hedge their corporate capital investment decisions and their associated risks | 2013-04-25 |
20130103616 | Computing Predicted Data According to Weighted Peak Preservation and Time Distance Biasing - A value corresponding to an adjustable control element is received. Predicted data is computed from seasonal data, where the computing is according to applying preservation of peaks in the seasonal data and applying time distance biasing in which more recent data points in the seasonal data are weighted higher than less recent data points. Relative weighting of the peak preservation and the time distance biasing is based on the received value corresponding to the adjustable control element. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103617 | Computer-Implemented Systems And Methods For Forecasting And Estimation Using Grid Regression - Systems and methods are provided for estimating a value for a target variable. A plurality of known entities are assigned to cells of a grid, where the known entities are assigned to the cells based upon attribute data. A determination is made as to whether each cell has at least a threshold number of assigned known entities. When one of the cells contains fewer than the threshold number of known entities, cells are combined to form a super cell. A model is generated for each cell and super cell based upon target variable values for known entities assigned to that cell or super cell. Data for a target entity is received, and the target entity is assigned to one the cells. One of the models is selected based upon the cell assignment, and an estimate is generated for the target variable for the target entity using the selected model. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103618 | DECISION MAKING WITH ANALYTICALLY COMBINED SPLIT CONDITIONS - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with decision making with analytically combined split conditions are provided. In one embodiment, a method for classifying data is provided. An input data sample is received for classification as belonging to one of two possible classes. The input data sample includes a set of attribute values. The method includes evaluating the set of attribute values with a tree function that defines a decision boundary of a classification tree. The tree function classifies an input data sample as belonging to one of the two possible classes based, at least in part, on the attribute values of the input data sample. In another embodiment parameters of the tree function are derived by applying a gradient descent parameter update rule to the training data samples. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103619 | COMPOSITE PRODUCTION RULES - A method for forming and using a composite production rule may include compiling, by a computer system, a decision table or a decision tree to generate a composite production rule. The method may also include generating the composite production rule and selecting, by the computer system, an algorithm for compiling the composite production rule. The method may additionally include compiling, by the computer system, the composite production rule into an executable program based on pattern matching of the selected algorithm. The method may further include executing, by the computer system, the composite production rule to provide an output based on the composite production rule. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103620 | FEATURE VECTOR CLASSIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a feature vector classification device which includes an initial condition setting unit; a variable calculating unit configured to receive a training vector and to calculate an error and a weight according to setting of the initial condition setting unit; a loop deciding unit configured to determine whether re-calculation is required, based on a comparison result between the calculated error and an error threshold; and a hyperplane generating unit configured to generate a hyperplane when an end signal is received from the loop deciding unit. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103621 | INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER PROVIDING TIME TO TARGET STATE - The current application is directed to intelligent controllers that continuously, periodically, or intermittently calculate and display the time remaining until a control task is projected to be completed by the intelligent controller. In general, the intelligent controller employs multiple different models for the time behavior of one or more parameters or characteristics within a region or volume affected by one or more devices, systems, or other entities controlled by the intelligent controller. The intelligent controller collects data, over time, from which the models are constructed and uses the models to predict the time remaining until one or more characteristics or parameters of the region or volume reaches one or more specified values as a result of intelligent controller control of one or more devices, systems, or other entities. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103622 | AUTOMATED CONTROL-SCHEDULE ACQUISITION WITHIN AN INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER - The current application is directed to intelligent controllers that initially aggressively learn, and then continue, in a steady-state mode, to monitor, learn, and modify one or more control schedules that specify a desired operational behavior of a device, machine, system, or organization controlled by the intelligent controller. An intelligent controller generally acquires one or more initial control schedules through schedule-creation and schedule-modification interfaces or by accessing a default control schedule stored locally or remotely in a memory or mass-storage device. The intelligent controller then proceeds to learn, over time, a desired operational behavior for the device, machine, system, or organization controlled by the intelligent controller based on immediate-control inputs, schedule-modification inputs, and previous and current control schedules, encoding the desired operational behavior in one or more control schedules and/or sub-schedules. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103623 | Computer-Implemented Systems and Methods for Detection of Sentiment in Writing - Systems and methods are provided for the detection of sentiment in writing. A plurality of texts is received from a larger collection of writing samples with a computer system. A set of seed words from the plurality of texts are labeled as being of positive sentiment or of negative sentiment with the computer system. The set of seed words is expanded in size with the computer system to provide an expanded set of seed words. Intensity values are assigned to words of the expanded set of seed words. Each of the words of the expanded set of seed words is assigned three intensity values: a value corresponding to the strength of the word's association with a positive polarity class, a value corresponding to the strength of the word's association with a negative polarity class, and a value corresponding to the strength of the word's association with a neutral polarity class. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103624 | Method and system for estimating response to token instance of interest - Estimating a response to a token instance of interest, including the steps of: receiving token instances to which a user was exposed, receiving a total response of the user to the token instances; receiving attention levels of the user in the token instances; selecting the token instance of interest from among the token instances based on the attention level; and estimating the response to the token instance of interest from the total response. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103625 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: evaluation information extracting means extracting evaluation information from evaluation of every user for an item; preference information creating means for creating preference information indicating a preference of every user on the basis of the evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extracting means and an item characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the item; space creating means for creating a space in which the user is located, according to the preference information; and display control means for controlling display of the user located in the space, according to the space created by the space creating means and the preference information. The apparatus may be applied to, for example, an image display apparatus which displays server images for providing a variety of items and information. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEURAL LEARNING OF NATURAL MULTI-SPIKE TRAINS IN SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure support a technique for neural learning of natural multi-spike trains in spiking neural networks. A synaptic weight can be adapted depending on a resource associated with the synapse, which can be depleted by weight change and can recover over time. In one aspect of the present disclosure, the weight adaptation may depend on a time since the last significant weight change. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103627 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE PROPERTIES OF CRUDE OILS BY THE APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS - A method for predicting the properties of crude oils by the application of neural networks articulated in phases and characterized by determining the T | 2013-04-25 |
20130103628 | USER ACTIVITY DASHBOARD FOR DEPICTING BEHAVIORS AND TUNING PERSONALIZED CONTENT GUIDANCE - User activity dashboards and methods for tuning recommendation models are provided herein. Exemplary methods may include exposing, to an end user device, a current preference model used by a recommendation engine to provide recommendations to the end user, receiving a modification to the current preference model, generating a modified preference model with the modification, and applying the modified preference model to generate recommendations for the end user that are more relevant than the recommendations provided using the current preference model. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103629 | Automated Entity Identification for Efficient Profiling in an Event Probability Prediction System - A computer-implemented method and system for automated entity identification for efficient profiling in an event probability prediction system. A first subset of entities belonging to one or more entity classes is defined. At least one historical profile is constructed for each entity in the subset of entities based on a set of possible outcomes of transaction behavior of each entity in the first subset of entities. Based on the historical profiles, a second subset of entities having transaction behavior associated with a transaction is selected, the transaction behavior being predictive of at least one targeted outcome from the set of possible outcomes. The first subset of entities is redefined with the second subset of entities. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103630 | FUZZY INFERENCE METHODS, AND APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS USING SUCH INFERENCE APPARATUS - A health monitoring system for complex networked apparatus includes a number of neuro-fuzzy inference apparatuses feeding inference results into a data fusion hierarchy. At each level in the hierarchy, fuzzy inference is applied to generate a desired output signal by processing selected input signals in accordance with a knowledge base defining fuzzy membership functions and fuzzy inference rules defined in advance. The knowledge base includes alternative definitions of membership functions and/or inference rules. The apparatus selects which definition to use according to environmental or other conditions, and predetermined selection criteria. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103631 | PROCEDURAL CONSTRAINT ENGINE FOR PRODUCT CONFIGURATION - Various systems and methods for integrating procedural logic with a stateless constraint engine are disclosed. One method involves accessing a first set of values generated by a stateless constraint engine based upon a first set of inputs and then accessing a second set of values generated by the stateless constraint engine subsequent to the first set of values and based upon a second set of inputs. The second set of values is validated based upon a procedural constraint. The procedural constraint can include a precondition and a postcondition. The precondition is dependent upon at least one value from the first set of values, and the postcondition is dependent upon at least one value from the second set of values. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103632 | COMPOSITE PRODUCTION RULES - A method for forming and using a composite production rule may include compiling, by a computer system, a decision table or a decision tree to generate a composite production rule. The method may also include generating the composite production rule and selecting, by the computer system, an algorithm for compiling the composite production rule. The method may additionally include compiling, by the computer system, the composite production rule into an executable program based on pattern matching of the selected algorithm. The method may further include executing, by the computer system, the composite production rule to provide an output based on the composite production rule. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATING GELATIN SILVER PAPER - A system and method for dating gelatin silver photographic paper is provided. The system and method includes providing a database management system having temporal physical characteristic profiles. Each temporal physical characteristic profile consists of a pulp composition percentage characteristic; a fiber composition characteristic; a thickness characteristic; and an optical brightening agent composition. The system implements a program of instructions to determine a, probable date range for each temporal physical characteristic profile and also determines a physical characteristic profile associated with the gelatin silver photograph. Dating the photograph is accomplished by the system determining the closest match between the temporal physical characteristic profile and the physical characteristic profile associated with the gelatin silver photograph. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103634 | RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A recommendation system is disclosed that in one aspect offers item recommendations to users based on one or more items known to be liked by the users. An item may be recommended to a user if a similarity indicator for the item, established by determining how much more likely than expected the user will like the item based on the user liking another item, exceeds a predetermined threshold. Multiple items may be recommended to a user based on relative similarity indicators. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103635 | RULE CORRELATION TO RULES INPUT ATTRIBUTES ACCORDING TO DISPARATE DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for visualizing rule input attributes with a rule according to disparate rule attribute distributions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for visualizing rule input attributes with a rule according to disparate rule attribute distributions has been provided. The method includes identifying in response to a selection of a rule for viewing in a rule viewer an input for the selected rule and determining an attribute for the input. However, attributes present in a guard for the selected rule can be excluded. The method also can include computing a global distribution of the attribute irrespective of the identified input and a specific distribution for the identified input. Thereafter, the attribute can be flagged as being correlated with the selected rule when it is determined that a sufficient disparity exists between the global distribution and the specific distribution. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103636 | RULE CORRELATION TO RULES INPUT ATTRIBUTES ACCORDING TO DISPARATE DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for visualizing rule input attributes with a rule according to disparate rule attribute distributions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for visualizing rule input attributes with a rule according to disparate rule attribute distributions has been provided. The method includes identifying in response to a selection of a rule for viewing in a rule viewer an input for the selected rule and determining an attribute for the input. However, attributes present in a guard for the selected rule can be excluded. The method also can include computing a global distribution of the attribute irrespective of the identified input and a specific distribution for the identified input. The attribute can be flagged as being correlated with the selected rule when it is determined that a sufficient disparity exists between the global distribution and the specific distribution. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103637 | SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF FOR DETECTION OF USER DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - A system and method for detecting implicit information related to a user are disclosed. The system comprises a network interface for accessing one or more data sources; a plurality of agents for collecting textual content from the one or more data sources; a processing unit for extracting explicit demographic information related to the user and generating implicit demographic information related to the user respective of the explicit demographic information; and a data warehouse connected to the processing unit for storing the generated implicit demographic information. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103638 | COMPUTING A HIERARCHICAL PATTERN QUERY FROM ANOTHER HIERARCHICAL PATTERN QUERY - A method analyzes event patterns in multi-dimensional data and based on this analysis of the event patterns computes a hierarchical event pattern query from another hierarchical event pattern query. The method executes the hierarchical event pattern query on the multi-dimensional data. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103639 | CREATING WEB APPLICATIONS USING CLOUD-BASED FRICTION-FREE DATABASES WITHOUT REQUIRING WEB HOSTING KNOWLEDGE - Creating web application using cloud-based friction-free databases without web hosting knowledge. User credentials are received at a web application service for initiating a web application task via client software. The user credentials are analyzed to determine whether to grant the user permission to initiate the requested web application task. The web application task is initiated when the permission is granted. Data associated with the initiated web application task is received at the web application service for analysis of the data to host and render a web application based solely on received data provided without basis of web hosting knowledge. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103640 | ENTITLEMENT MANAGEMENT IN AN ON-DEMAND SYSTEM - Methods and systems are provided for on-demand entitlement management. One exemplary method involves a server obtaining entitlement definition information for an entitlement offered by a provider system, receiving user entitlement configuration information corresponding to the entitlement for a customer of the provider system, and creating one or more entitlement objects for the customer in a database based on the entitlement definition information and the user entitlement configuration information, wherein the entitlement definition information includes metadata defining a structure of the one or more entitlement objects. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103641 | MONITORING ENTITLEMENT USAGE IN AN ON-DEMAND SYSTEM - Methods and systems are provided for on-demand entitlement monitoring. One exemplary method involves an on-demand application server obtaining, from a database, usage information for a resource associated with an entitlement offered by a resource provider to a user of a client device and generating a graphical representation of usage of the resource by the user based at least in part on the usage information obtained from the database. In exemplary embodiments, the on-demand application server provides the graphical representation to the resource provider for integration into a graphical user interface display associated with a virtual application provided to the client device over a network. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103642 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING METADATA FILE - The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for updating a metadata file. The method include: sending a message to a server on a network side to request a metadata file corresponding to media presentation; receiving a metadata file returned by the server according to the message that requests the metadata file corresponding to the media presentation, where the metadata file includes information about duration of a part of described media presentation; determining update time of the metadata file according to the information about the duration of the part of described media presentation; and sending a request for updating the metadata file to the server according to the update time. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103643 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data receiving part receives data transmitted from a plurality of measuring devices. A time determining part distinguishes management time from date and time of the data. The record generating part stores data of the same management time which are received during a predetermined acceptance time, in the same record. When un-arrived data belonging to the same management time exists at the end of the acceptance time, arrival of the un-arrived data is waited for during a predetermined wait time. Even if the data is arrived with some delay, arrival-delayed data can be stored in the same record. Thus, the missing data occurrence frequency can be suppressed. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103644 | WRITABLE SNAPSHOTS - Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for providing writable snapshot functionality for file systems. Pointer-based snapshots can be taken of an active version of the file system resulting in either (1) a read-only snapshot image and a new active version of the file system resulting from a read-only snapshot operation; or (2) a read-only snapshot image and two new active versions of the file system resulting from a writable snapshot operation. The two active file systems generated from writable snapshot operations are each independently and concurrently writable. Various techniques are also presented for handling multiple, concurrently active file systems. For example, novel techniques are described for allowing snapshot restore, compaction, and other functionality to operate in an environment having multiple read-only and writable versions of the file system. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103645 | Method and Device for Inputting Data in Multimedia Service Database on Embedded Device - The present invention discloses a method and a device for inputting data in a multimedia service database on an embedded device. The method includes: when multimedia file scanning is performed, storing generated directory information of a multimedia file in a random access memory database (RAM-DB), and performing a RAM-DB to backup database (BAK-DB) data backup operation in a scanning process; and if an interruption occurs in the scanning process, and when the scanning continues after the scanning interruption ends, copying data in the BAK-DB to the RAM-DB, and continuing to scan, according to existing data in the RAM-DB, a multimedia file that is not scanned. In the present invention, two database files RAM-DB and BAK-DB are configured in a multimedia service system. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103646 | EFFICIENT USE OF MIRRORED STORAGE CLOUDS - For distributing data requests between data centers, a cost reduction module selects a data center from a plurality of data centers to fulfill a data operation request corresponding to mirrored data stored at the plurality of data centers. The selection is based on data center cooling efficiency factors comprising a data storage device efficiency percentage. A response module sends the data operation request to the selected data center. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVING FILES - A system and method for retrieving objects stored on a storage medium, the method comprises receiving a request from a first client for a first object; populating a queue with the request for the first object; retrieving the first object from the storage medium; and sending the object to the first client. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING A DATASET OF IMAGE TILES - System and method for storing a dataset of image tiles. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103649 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POINT-IN-TIME VOLUMES - Methods and apparatus for point-in-time volumes are provided. A relationship is enabled between a source volume and point-in-time volume. Copying a data chunk to the point-in-time volume before a write operation modifies the data chunk on the source volume dynamically creates the point-in-time volume. The point-in-time volume can be accessed in read/write mode as a general purpose data storage volume. Other embodiments comprising additional features, such as a forced migration process, are also provided. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103650 | STORAGE ARRAY SNAPSHOTS FOR LOGGED ACCESS REPLICATION IN A CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for storage snapshots for logged access replication using a data protection appliance in a continuous data protection system having a splitter. In one embodiment, out of band data transfer reduces disruption on the replica site while accessing an image. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103651 | TELEMETRY FILE HASH AND CONFLICT DETECTION - In one embodiment, a server may identify an executable file using a hash identifier. The server | 2013-04-25 |
20130103652 | METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM FOR SPECIFICATION VERIFICATION - A method, program, and system for specification verification. The method includes the steps of: (a) retaining a plurality of documents as groups of abstract documents that display values capable of indicating each metadata; (b) separating the group of abstract documents based on an input condition of an operation; (c) adding a new abstract document by using, based on an output condition, at least one the operation within a group of the operations; (d) separating the abstract documents according to overlapping ranges designated by the metadata; (e) unifying the abstract documents according to overlapping ranges designated by the metadata; (f) repeating the steps (b) to (e) until a termination condition is satisfied; and (g) verifying whether an incomplete abstract document exists when the termination condition is satisfied. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE LOADING OF DATA SUBMISSIONS - A system and method for detecting changes in data records based on summary values calculated on input data and existing data in a database is provided. An input data record including indicative data and financial data may be received. The indicative data may be normalized. A summary value may be calculated based on the normalized data to determine if any differences between the input record and existing data exist. If an existing summary value corresponding to the input record does not exist, the calculated summary value and financial data may be stored. If an existing summary value corresponding to the input record exists, the calculated summary value and the existing summary value may be compared to determine if they are equivalent. The calculated summary value and financial data may be stored if the summary values are not equivalent. The financial data may be stored if the summary values are equivalent. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103654 | GLOBAL DICTIONARIES USING UNIVERSAL PRIMITIVES - Embodiments are directed towards managing data storage and queries within a database system using global dictionaries with universal primitives (UNIPs) to represent non-numeric data within a mixed numeric/non-numeric environment. Common data types are managed within a same global dictionary through dictionaries that are globally used within the database system. At least non-numeric data within mixed data fields may be stored using a UNIP to identify the stored non-numeric data. The UNIP may take advantage of the IEEE-754 standard for floating point data representation by setting a first field within the UNIP to 0x7ff (HEX) to indicate that the data is non-numeric (NaN) and using remaining bits to store typed data, such as a date or unique indirect reference (e.g. a sequence number or file offset to larger piece of data). The UNIP may then replace the data within the database and be used during operations performed on the data. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103655 | MULTI-LEVEL DATABASE COMPRESSION - Embodiments of the invention relate to a multi-level database compression technique to compress table data objects stored in pages. A compact dictionary structure is encoded that represents frequent values of data at any level of granularity. More than one level of compression is provided, wherein input to a finer level of granularity is an output of a coarser level of granularity. Based upon the encoded dictionary structure, a compression technique is applied to a stored page to compress each row on the page. Similarly, a de-compression technique may be applied to decompress the compressed data, utilizing the same dictionary structures at each level of granularity. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103656 | EVENT IDENTIFICATION - A method of identifying an event associated with consumption of a utility comprising the steps of: generating a utility consumption profile from utility consumption data, the utility consumption data comprising a plurality of utility consumption values measured at a corresponding plurality of measurement points; wherein generating the utility consumption profile comprises the step of determining a gradient of rate of change of utility consumption between consecutive measurement points; identifying measurement points at which a change in gradient exceeds a predetermined threshold; and storing in the utility consumption profile the utility consumption value at measurement points where the threshold is exceeded; and identifying an event within the utility consumption profile that matches the profile of an event stored in a database of utility consumption profiles. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103657 | TIME-SERIES DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is a time-series management device capable of filtering time-series data having a possibility of matching a specified search pattern and reading in the data from a storage device when performing a time-series analysis. A data accumulation unit ( | 2013-04-25 |
20130103658 | TIME SERIES DATA MAPPING INTO A KEY-VALUE DATABASE - A method for storing time series data in a key-value database includes receiving time series data relating to the occurrence of an event. An addressing scheme that defines attributes for inclusion in keys for the event is analyzed. The attributes include time granularity attributes of different sizes. The method generates a key corresponding to the time series data based on the analyzing of the addressing scheme including attributes specified in the addressing scheme that are related to the event and one of the attributes represents one of the plurality of time granularity attributes. The method further issues a command to the key-value database to store a record of the occurrence of the event as a value in the key-value database where stored values in the key-value database corresponding keys may be used to satisfy queries relating to the event over a range of time. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103659 | DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH MULTIVERSIONING - The subject disclosure relates to a distributed transaction management technique that ensures synchronization between participating nodes in a global or distributed database transaction. The technique leverages a commit protocol that uses local clocks at the respective participating nodes. Participants in a global transaction are configured to utilize the same commit timestamp and logical read time and can advance their respective local clocks to establish this synchronization. In one embodiment, distributed commit utilizes a modified version of two-phase commit that includes an extra phase to collect commit timestamp votes from participants. Additionally, a heartbeat mechanism can be used to establish loose synchronization between nodes. In another embodiment, a node can respond to a remote transaction request by returning a list of nodes involved in generating the result of the transaction and the types of access used by such nodes in addition to the transaction result itself. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103660 | NETWORK CONNECTED MEDIA GATEWAY FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A network traffic managing node of a local area network, such as a router or gateway, can implement a network discovery and remote access mechanism for the local area network. A catalog of a plurality of files stored in a plurality of network devices of the local area network is created at the network traffic managing node based, at least in part, on information associated with the plurality of files determined using a network discovery procedure. The catalog of the plurality of files is provide to a remote network node of a wide area network in response to receiving a message from the remote network node requesting access to the plurality of files. One or more files are provided to the remote network node in response to receiving a message from the remote network node requesting the one or more files from the catalog of the plurality of files. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PORTAL INFRASTRUCTURE TRACKING - A method and system for collecting and transmitting data across or through a firewall using HTTP and/or XML between computer systems that do not otherwise grant access to each other. A method and system for preparing data reports using data and report generation modules using HTTP and/or XML between computer systems. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103662 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR GENERATING SEARCH EXPRESSIONS FROM CONTENT, FOR APPLYING SEARCH EXPRESSIONS TO CONTENT COLLECTIONS, AND/OR FOR ANALYZING CORRESPONDING SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, storage media, and apparatuses associated with evaluating a content item are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method may include receiving, by a search expression generator operated by a computer, the content item. Additionally, the method may include generating a search expression, by the search expression generator, based on the content item, to facilitate evaluating the content item based at least in part on searching other content items using the search expression. The search expression may indicate nested juxtapositions of sub-expressions of the search expression. In other embodiments, at least one storage medium may include instructions implementing a search engine that applies the search expression to a collection of other content items. In still other embodiments, an apparatus may include a configurator adapted to organize the collection of other content items. Other embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103663 | NETWORKED MIND MAPPING TO ENHANCE BRAINSTORMING - Individual participants in a brainstorming session collectively build a mind map representing their individual contributions and joint conclusions. The participants communicate via a network, such as the Internet, to enable convenient participation from different physical locations. Information recorded by one participant instantly becomes available to the other participants in a convenient manner. Brainstorming session participants access a system of at least one server and data base through a network to access the mind map. The participants also have convenient access to resources, such as Internet search engines, as they collaborate, and they have convenient methods to record information for immediate access by the other participants. With such functionality available, an individual participant can contribute to the brainstorming session at times that are convenient to himself/herself, because it is not necessary that all participants attend a session at the same time. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103664 | Searches for Similar Documents - In an embodiment, a method is provided for searching similar documents. Here, a document is accessed and terms from a metamodel semantic network is identified. The document is analyzed to identify a number of the terms from the metamodel semantic network that are also found in the document, and to identify a frequency of occurrence in the document for each term. A search is conducted for other documents having frequencies of occurrences that are similar to the identified frequency of occurrence. These other documents have been previously analyzed using the same terms from the metamodel semantic network. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103665 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DISPLAYING A PERSONALIZED HOME SCREEN ON A DEVICE - A method for dynamically generating and displaying a home screen on a display of a user device comprises receiving a user query input by a user of the device; receiving at least one environmental variable; determining an intent of a user based in part on the at least one environmental variable and the user query; selecting at least one resource of information from a plurality of resources of information respective of at least the intent, wherein each selected resource has a representative icon; generating a new home screen comprising an at least one icon corresponding to the at least one selected resource of information; and causing the user device to replace a current home screen with the new generated home screen. | 2013-04-25 |