| 18th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 53 |
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| 20160125301 | IDENTIFYING RELEVANT CONTENT FOR DATA GATHERED FROM REAL TIME COMMUNICATIONS - Identifying relevant content for data gathered from real time communications includes obtaining conversational data from a real time communication, identifying contextual data with at least one contextual data source relevant to the real time communication, and inferring a meaning of the conversational data based on the contextual data. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125302 | AUGMENTED KNOWLEDGE BASE AND REASONING WITH UNCERTAINTIES AND/OR INCOMPLETENESS - A knowledge-based system under uncertainties and/or incompleteness, referred to as augmented knowledge base (AKB) is provided, including constructing, reasoning, analyzing and applying AKBs by creating objects in the form E→A, where A is a rule in a knowledgebase and E is a set of evidences that supports the rule A. A reasoning scheme under uncertainties and/or incompleteness is provided as augmented reasoning (AR). | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125303 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING SMART INDICATOR - The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for calculating a smart indicator. The method includes: acquiring association information of smart indices; calculating corresponding smart indices respectively according to the acquired association information of the smart indices; and obtaining the smart indicator by a weight calculation according to the smart indices and the number of devices. According to the present disclosure, a user may acquire a smartness degree of his or her home, and sense of participation of the user is improved, thereby promoting user's enthusiasm, and thus enhancing home smartness degree. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125304 | TOOL FOR MODELLING, INSTANTIATING AND/OR EXECUTING A BAYESIAN AGENT IN AN APPLICATION - According to a first aspect, the invention relates to a tool for modelling, instantiating and/or executing a Bayesian agent in an application. The tool comprises a modelling module which is adapted to enable a user to determine a template for the Bayesian agent. The template comprises a Bayesian network, which comprises nodes and/or node-level meta-data. The node-level meta-data at least defines node behaviour and/or an association of a node with a software defined sensor and/or one or more software defined actuators. Also the template comprises template-level metadata at least defining lifecycle properties for the Bayesian agent. The template is suitable to be instantiated and executed as the Bayesian agent instance. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125305 | STATISTICAL MODEL FOR SYSTEMS INCORPORATING HISTORY INFORMATION - For calculating statistical Markov model-like state transition probabilities, a method represents state transition probabilities between a plurality of statistical Markov model-like states and output probabilities associated with a plurality of previous statistical Markov model-like states. The state transition probabilities between the plurality of previous states depend on a sequence of previous states of the plurality of previous states. The output probabilities associated with each of the plurality of states depend on the sequence of previous states. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125306 | GOAL-ATTAINMENT ASSESSMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus for assessing goal attainment may include a preprocessor configured to define a goal of process, all probable final results, attributes, a process execution period, and time points of assessment, acquire or check attribute values from one or more historical process instances that match the defined goal of process, all the defined probable final results, the defined attributes, the defined process execution period, and the defined time point of assessment, and extract one or more event profiles from the attribute values of the process instances; and a likelihood calculator configured to calculate prior and posterior probabilities of an ongoing process instance based on the extracted event profiles, and calculate a probability that the ongoing process instance attains each probable final result according to each time point, using the calculated prior and posterior probabilities at the defined time point of assessment. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125307 | AIR QUALITY INFERENCE USING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - The use of data from multiple data source provides inferred air quality indices with respect to a particular pollutant for multiple areas without the addition of air quality monitor stations to those areas. Labeled air quality index data for a pollutant in a region may be obtained from one or more air quality monitor stations. Spatial features for the region may be extracted from spatially-related data for the region. The spatially-related data may include information on fixed infrastructures in the region. Likewise, temporal features for the region may be extracted from temporally-related data for the region that changes over time. A co-training based learning framework may be further applied to co-train a spatial classifier and a temporal classifier based at least on the labeled air quality index data, the spatial features for the region, and the temporal features for the region. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125308 | DATA COMPARISON METHOD - The invention concerns a method to compare two data obtained from a sensor or interface, carried out by processing means of a processing unit, the method comprising the computing of a similarity function between two feature vectors of the data to be compared, | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125309 | MIXED COUPLING BETWEEN A QUBIT AND RESONATOR - Quantum systems are provided, including a qubit and a transmission line resonator having an associated resonant wavelength. A coupling capacitor is configured to capacitively couple the qubit to the transmission line resonator. A transformer is configured to inductively couple the qubit to the transmission line resonator. A selected one of an associated capacitance of the coupling capacitor and an associated mutual inductance of the transformer is a function of a location of the qubit along the transmission line resonator. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125310 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUANTUM PROCESSING - The present disclosure provides a quantum processor realised in a semiconductor material and method to operate the quantum processor to implement adiabatic quantum computation. The quantum processor comprises a plurality of qubit elements disposed in a two-dimensional matrix arrangement. The qubits are implemented using the nuclear or electron spin of phosphorus donor atoms. Further, the processor comprises a control structure with a plurality of control members, each arranged to control a plurality of qubits disposed along a line or a column of the matrix. The control structure is controllable to perform adiabatic quantum error corrected computation. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125311 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUANTUM PROCESSING - The present disclosure provides a quantum processor realised in a semiconductor material and method to operate the quantum processor to implement error corrected quantum computation. The quantum processor comprises a plurality of qubit elements disposed in a two-dimensional matrix arrangement. The qubits are implemented using the nuclear or electron spin of phosphorus donor atoms. Further, the processor comprises a control structure with a plurality of control members, each arranged to control a plurality of qubits disposed along a line or a column of the matrix. The control structure is controllable to perform topological quantum error corrected computation. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125312 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEVICE TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH AN EXPERT - A system and method in which a device will search for and work collaboratively with an expert to respond to a request that the device is unable to respond to on its own. The expert may be one or more of, or a combination of, a human, a virtual persona, a robot or another device. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125313 | System and Methodology to Handle Misdirected Input Data During Multi Partitioned Real Time Analytics - A mechanism is provided in a stream computing platform for data stream change detection and model swapping. The mechanism builds a model for each input data stream in a stream computing platform. Each tuple of each given input data stream is tagged with a key corresponding to the given input data stream. The mechanism performs an operation on each input data stream using its corresponding model. The mechanism detects a misdirected input data stream, which is tagged with a key that does not correspond to the misdirected input data stream. The mechanism pauses the misdirected input data. stream swaps a model corresponding to the misdirected input data stream with another model corresponding to another paused input data stream. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125314 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NATIVE ADVERTISEMENT SELECTION AND FORMATTING - Provided herein is a system or method for a native advertisement selection and formatting module operable to monitor displayable content and store characteristic-related information relating to the monitored content, including keyword-related information and format-related information, utilize one or more machine learning-based algorithms, analyze the characteristic-related information relating to the monitored content, including the keyword-related information and the format-related information, and based in part on the analysis, output detailed contextual settings, and select and format native advertisements to be displayed in visual association with the displayable content, based in part on the detailed contextual settings. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125315 | System and Methodology to Handle Misdirected Input Data During Multi Partitioned Real Time Analytics - A mechanism is provided in a stream computing platform for data stream change detection and model swapping. The mechanism builds a model for each input data stream in a stream computing platform. Each tuple of each given input data stream is tagged with a key corresponding to the given input data stream. The mechanism performs an operation on each input data stream using its corresponding model. The mechanism detects a misdirected input data stream, which is tagged with a key that does not correspond to the misdirected input data stream. The mechanism pauses the misdirected input data. stream swaps a model corresponding to the misdirected input data stream with another model corresponding to another paused input data stream. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125316 | MALT: Distributed Data-Parallelism for Existing ML Applications - Systems and methods are disclosed for parallel machine learning with a cluster of N parallel machine network nodes by determining k network nodes as a subset of the N network nodes to update learning parameters, wherein k is selected to disseminate the updates across all nodes directly or indirectly and to optimize predetermined goals including freshness, balanced communication and computation ratio in the cluster; sending learning unit updates to fewer nodes to reduce communication costs with learning convergence; and sending reduced learning updates and ensuring that the nodes send/receive learning updates in a uniform fashion. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125317 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSACTION LEARNING - A system and method a method for providing for providing personalized transaction learning and tagging. The method may include tagging transactions associated with one or more financial accounts belonging to an account holder, whether the account holder be the primary, secondary, or a related account holder, such as a spouse, parent, guardian, and the like. The method may include linking all accounts belong to and/or associated with an account holder and receiving transaction data from each linked account, including, for example, transaction date, transaction time, transaction amount, merchant name, merchant location, merchant identifier, account number used in transaction, SKU-level transaction information, and/or other purchase identifiers (e.g., merchant-provided product/service name, account holder-provided product/service name, and the like). Once the system receives the transaction data, the system may query the account holder for input regarding the transaction data. The input may include tagging the transaction as belonging to a particular spending category and/or affirming or denying that the transaction belongs to a particular category. The system may receive and create categories based on account holder data, demographic data, credit data, and account holder profile data. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125318 | User-Assisted Learning in Security/Safety Monitoring System - A method includes: collecting data about a first event at a first physical space using a first electronic monitoring device that is physically located at the first physical space, enabling the collected data to be displayed at a computer-based user interface device (e.g., at a user's a smartphone that may be remotely located relative to the first electronic monitoring device), enabling the user to describe, using the computer-based user interface device, the first event represented by the collected data, and storing, in a computer-based memory, a logical association between the user's description of the first event and one or more characteristics of the collected data. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125319 | BEACON DEVICE CONFIGURATION AND MONITORING - Various embodiments each include at least one of systems, methods, devices, and software for beacon device configuration and monitoring, such as with regard to BLUETOOTH® beacon devices. One example embodiment is a method that includes receiving, by a mobile device transceiver from a beacon device, a radio signal including encoded beacon device identifying data. The method then determines, on the mobile device within a mobile device app, whether the beacon device is configured in a backend system for a facility at which the beacon device is deployed. When the beacon device has not been configured, the method includes presenting a beacon device configuration interface within which configuration options are presented and configuration input is received to form configuration data that is stored to the backend system. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125320 | GROUPING FLIGHT SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a flight search query, the flight search query identifying a plurality of flight parameters including a departure location, a destination location, and at least one date; obtaining a plurality of flight search results that satisfy the flight search query; grouping the plurality of flight search results into groups based at least in part on calculated similarity between flight search results of the plurality of flight search results, wherein the similarity is based on a combination of a plurality of features of the respective flight itineraries of the flight search results; and providing the plurality of flight search results for display in a flight search results interface including providing at least one group result of the generated groups of flight search results. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125321 | SEGMENTED AVAILABILITY CACHE - Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing requests for travel objects. A cache stores data for travel objects, where the data is segmented for possible contexts and/or possible geographical identifiers. A request identifying at least one travel object is received at a processing system. The requested travel object has a departure point, an arrival point, and a context. The requested travel object may also be associated with at least one travel solution that has a geographical identifier. Data associated with the at least one requested travel object is determined by querying the cache based on the departure point, arrival point, context, and/or geographical identifier. A reply that indicates an availability for the at least one requested travel object is generated based at least in part on the retrieved data. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125322 | DETERMINING A STATUS TO SECURE AN EVENT TICKET - There is provided systems and methods for securing an event ticket. A processing module of a server device may access a first data packet associated with a first account and a second data packet associated with a second account. A status module of the server device may determines from the first data packet a first status of the first account attempting to secure an event ticket. The status module may further determine from the second data packet a second status of the second account attempting to secure the event ticket. A device module of the server device may determine from the first data packet an identification of a client device accessing the first account. A communication module of the server device may transmit the second status of the second account to the client device. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125323 | ELECTRONIC TICKET SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - Provided is an electronic ticket system enabling easy confirmation and tracking of use statuses. Provided is a service information providing system including: a user terminal for displaying an electronic ticket on the displaying means, having displaying means for displaying information, and having a touch panel, provided overlaying the displaying means, having inputting means wherein respective contact positions of simultaneous contacting of a plurality of positions are detectable; and a stamp having a plurality of pressing portions for which simultaneous contacts to the inputting means are detectable; wherein: when, in the user terminal, there are simultaneous contacts by pressing portions of the stamp, in a state wherein an electronic ticket is displayed on the displaying means, a plurality of contact positions are detected by the inputting means, and when the detected contact positions satisfy predetermined conditions, an image is drawn indicating that the electronic ticket has been used. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125324 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that improve a user's degree of satisfaction in a seat or area for viewing an event. In step S | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125325 | SEARCH RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided are a method and a device for search recommendations, the method comprising: reception of a search term inputted by a user, acquisition of a plurality of search results related to the search term, and further acquisition of at least one merchant order form interface related to said search term; provision of a search page whereupon are further provided a plurality of search results and order form pages generated according to the order form interfaces. The search and recommendation method provided in the embodiments of the present invention obtain, on the basis of received user-inputted search terms and subsequent search, a plurality of search results related to the search terms and at least one merchant order form interface related to such search terms, thus providing users with swift and convenient order-form services, satisfying user requirements and improving user experience. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125326 | THROTTLING SOLUTIONS INTO A LEGACY INVENTORY SYSTEM DURING A SERVICE DISRUPTION - A method for improved management of an airline inventory during a service disruption is described. The method comprises receiving, at a mirror of a legacy inventory system, one or more updates from a re-accommodation system. The mirror is populated with the one or more updates. The method proceeds with communicating the one or more updates to the legacy inventory system at a controlled rate. The one or more updates communicated to the legacy inventory system are flagged as pending update. A confirmation that the one or more records are updated in the legacy inventory system is received. The confirmation indicates synchronization of the mirror and legacy inventory system. In response to the confirmation, the one or more updates are unflagged in the mirror. Statistical evaluation of the inventory is provided based on the one or more updates in the mirror. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125327 | DYNAMIC PACKAGING FOR RE-ACCOMMODATION - Methods, systems, and computer program products for building customized packages based upon a disruption impacting an itinerary. Packages may contain a travel solution and a service. The content of each package may be based up on data relating to passenger preferences, data relating to trip context, and availability data retrieved from an availability database, as well as policy-building rules. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125328 | CUSTOMIZED-ENTERPRISE-SOFTWARE INTEGRATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A third-party provider may integrate services with a customized enterprise-software tenancy via a tenant service context determined using an uncustomized data model and a tenant-customized data model from the enterprise-software provider. A difference map is generated for the tenant-customized data model with respect to the uncustomized data model, and is used to determine a mapped integrated-service data model, which facilitates integrating services with those of the enterprise-software provider. The mapped integrated-service data model is merged with the tenant-customized data model to obtain the tenant service context for the tenant. When a user provides an instruction to interact with the multi-tenant enterprise-software provider, the tenant service context is used to determine an action based on an interpretation of the instruction, and the enterprise-software provider is commanded to perform the action. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125329 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURATION-MANAGED LIFECYCLE DIAGRAMS - Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes executing an application. The method includes receiving a diagram having layout data, configuration conditions, and a plurality of business objects. The method includes populating the diagram according to the layout data, the configuration conditions, and the business objects. The method includes displaying the configured diagram. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125330 | ROLLING UPGRADE OF METRIC COLLECTION AND AGGREGATION SYSTEM - A system processes a large volume of real time hierarchical system metrics using distributed computing by stateless processes. The metrics processing system receives different types of hierarchical metrics coming from different sources and then aggregates the metrics by their hierarchy. The system is on-demand, cloud based, multi-tenant and highly available. The system makes the aggregated metrics available for reporting and policy triggers in real time. The aggregators and collectors may be upgraded to new versions with minimal loss in data. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125331 | AUTOMATED AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for autonomous record population with past agricultural treatments, including: monitoring a user device parameter of a user device for a trigger event, wherein the user device is associated with a user account; automatically initiating sensor measurement recordation with a user device in response to occurrence of the trigger event; recording a set of sensor measurements over a treatment time period; automatically identifying a past agricultural treatment based on the sensor measurements; and automatically generating a record of the past agricultural treatment for the user account, the record including: the treatment time period, an identifier for the past agricultural treatment, and a field identifier for the predefined geofence. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125332 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTIMATING LAG TIMES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE - A method of scheduling one or more virtual machines in a cloud computing infrastructure may include identifying, by a computing device, lag time data that has been collected over a period of time and that corresponds to one or more virtual machines in a cloud computing infrastructure, computing, by the computing device, a cumulative description of the identified lag time data, identifying a target performance level, determining, by the computing device, an estimated lag time that corresponds to the target performance level, and determining, by the computing device, whether to start a new virtual machine based, at least in part, on the estimated lag time. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125333 | EFFICIENT COMPUTERIZED CALCULATION OF RESOURCE REALLOCATION SCHEDULING SCHEMES - The present disclosure relates to a computer system comprising a database including, a reallocation scheduling module, the reallocation scheduling module configured to obtain an objective function including one or more integer-valued decision variables and automatically determine a proposed reallocation scheme for each of one or more items between a plurality of locations based on the objective function, wherein determining the reallocation scheme includes finding values of one or more decision variables that optimize the objective function while obeying the one or more constraints, wherein determining a proposed reallocation scheme includes solving an integer quadratic programming problem. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125334 | CONFIDENTIALITY PROTECTION FOR SURVEY RESPONDENTS - In one embodiment, the invention can be a method of protecting confidentiality in a real-time survey, the method including receiving from each of a plurality of organization respondents a real-time response to a survey topic; receiving an indication of an organizational change affecting a first member of the organization, the organizational change comprising the first member departing or joining a first department, the first department comprising a plurality of first department respondents, the plurality of first department respondents being a first subset of the plurality of organization respondents; defining a first safe group comprising a first subset of the plurality of first department respondents, the first safe group having first safe group responses to the survey topic; and providing a response report for at least the first department, the response report excluding the first safe group responses. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125335 | RESOURCE PHYSICAL POSITIONING PLANNING TOOL - A method, system and computer program product for resource physical positioning planning is provided. The method includes establishing a mapping of different computing resources and corresponding physical locations of a computing environment. Access requests that are issued to the different computing resources by different client computers communicatively coupled to the computing resources over a network disposed within the environment are monitored. Utilization of each of the computing resources by the client computing devices is computed so as to determine for a selected computing resource, one or more of the client computing devices most often requesting access to the selected computing resource. Finally, a positioning rule is applied to the selected computing resource and the one or more of the client computing devices and an optimal position is displayed for the selected computing resource according to the positioning rule. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125336 | SLABS MATCHING CONTROL METHOD OF MULTIPLE LINES IN HOT ROLLING SECTION IN STEEL PLANT FOR IMPROVING MATERIAL UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY - Slab matching method for multiple hot rolling lines comprises grouping the slabs and orders to obtain slab-order groups; based on a criterion of slab-order specification matching, determining a matching condition between the slab and the order within each of slab-order groups; quantitatively describing a mis-order slab matching problem; matching the mis-order slabs to the orders; quantitatively describing a slab re-matching problem; adjusting the matching relationships of all the slabs and the orders to form a final scheme of slab matching to be distributed to the multiple hot rolling lines to execute, and the slab matching method is completed. The present invention improves the utilization of the mis-order slabs while reducing the waste of energy caused by repeated steelmaking, reducing the consumption of the material and lowers the amount of left material and stored material and saves production cost and storage cost for the plant. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125337 | TRANSACTION DERIVED IN-BUSINESS PROBABILITY MODELING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to process, analyze, and model of large amounts of data resulting in improved functionality over a generic computer. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125338 | Planning System Using Spatial-Based Visualization Aids - A presentation, organizational and analytical system comprises includes an information database component that allows project specific ability to organize data and observations. A computer system constructs visual overlays of spatially mapped features, quantitative and qualitative attributes and produces an analytical framework where the attributes of any spatial location change in response to changes in the features of a context. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125339 | DEMAND-SUPPLY PLANNING DEVICE, DEMAND-SUPPLY PLANNING METHOD, DEMAND-SUPPLY PLANNING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A demand-supply planning device includes: a power demand predicting unit that predicts power demand; an expected rebate value predicting unit that calculates an expected profit value per unit amount of reduced power based on an occurrence probability of a demand response and a rebate value to be acquired through the demand response; and an optimal operation plan creating unit that sets an addition result of a first cost for power purchase, a second cost for power generation in power generators and storage batteries, and a multiplication result of the expected profit value and reserve power, which is an amount of power capable of being further generated by the power generators and the storage batteries after an amount of power supplied satisfying the power demand is generated, as an evaluation function and determines an operation plan of the reserve power and the power generators and the storage batteries. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125340 | SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING COST EFFECTIVENESS OF COKING SYSTEMS - A system for analyzing a coking system comprises a coking system comprising a first coke drum and a second coke drum, and a user device communicatively coupled to a hardware implemented analysis engine. The coking system configured to collect and transmit coke drum data to the hardware implemented analysis engine. The hardware implemented analysis engine is configured to: receive an estimation of an altered life span of the first coke drum relative to a design life span of the first coke drum, analyze an effect of adding an additional coke drum to the coking system based on the altered life span, and provide a result item related to the analysis to the user device. The estimation of the altered life span is based on the coke drum data. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125341 | FLOOR PLAN BASED WORKFLOW MAPPING - A system for presenting graphic depictions of a workflow in a workplace gathers information to help it automatically identify the workflow. The system presents surveys to human resources and receives responses to develop various segments of the workflow. The system resolves any gaps by using the received responses to identify additional human resources who should receive surveys. It then presents surveys to the additional human resources, receives additional responses, and uses the additional responses to complete the workflow. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125342 | DIRECTING AN INSPECTOR THROUGH AN INSPECTION - Systems and methods for creating and editing an inspection plan and directing an inspector through an inspection are provided. An exemplary system, according to one implementation, comprises a mobile computing device and a server computer. The mobile computing device is configured to communicate audible prompts to an inspector and receive audible replies from the inspector. The server computer is configured to store an inspection plan comprising a sequence of inspection steps, translate each of the inspection steps of the inspection plan into audible prompts, transmit the audible prompts to the mobile computing device, receive the audible replies from the mobile computing device, and translate the audible replies into a set of inspection results. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125343 | System and Method for Providing Secure Remote Access to Computer-Based Work - Described are various embodiments of a system and method for providing enrolled users secure remote access to computer-based work originating from distinct clients. In some embodiments, the system comprises a network-accessible computing unit having a business application operating thereon and being remotely accessible by distinct network-enabled computing devices via respective secure network connection thereto. The computing unit further has one or more data storage devices operatively associated therewith or accessible thereto to maintain a user register of enrolled users and their respective work capabilities, as well as a register of computer-based tasks to be completed for the distinct clients. The system is operable select at least one of enrolled user as suitable for performing a designated task, authorize the selected user remote access to the business application to complete the designated task; and track work done by the selected user for remuneration purposes. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125344 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF HUMAN RESOURCE FACTORS USING ELECTRONIC SOURCES AND FOOTPRINTS - A system and method for evaluating human factors by modeling their key performance indicators and defining their explanatory factors, manifestations and corresponding diverse electronic footprints in an organization's digital data. Six main human resource (HR) constructs (performance, engagement, leadership, workplace dynamics, organizational developmental support, and learning and knowledge creation) are translated into measurable electronic data. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125345 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN OPERATIONAL HEALTH SCORE - Provided herein are methodologies, systems, and devices for calculating and displaying operational health scores based on key operational metrics that are used to evaluate on-shelf-availability. The measure of successful adoption of various key operational metrics is combined to produce an overall operational health score. The operational metrics can include, for example, pick completion, items binned, bin accuracy, manual counts, and manual picks. In some embodiments, these metrics can be weighted to reflect their relative impact on operational health and on-shelf-availability. The operational health scores can be compared with a target operational health score to determine whether each particular store is above or below the desired health score value. In some exemplary embodiments, a heat map can be displayed via a GUI that includes a number of store icons or color coded pins overlaid on a geographical map to represent the operational health score of the stores. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125346 | IDENTIFYING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A MEETING FROM A MEETINGS GRAPH - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance meeting technology. In an implementation, a meetings graph may be generated for a meeting between various participants in the meeting. An effectiveness of the meeting may be identified based at least in part on a comparison of the meetings graph to a model meetings graph for a model meeting. An indication of the effectiveness of the meeting may then be communicated to at least an application for surfacing in a user interface to the application. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125347 | USER SCORES BASED ON BULK RECORD UPDATES - User scores based on bulk record updates is described. A system receives record updates submitted by a user. The system subtracts a penalty debit from a user score, which corresponds to the user, for each record which corresponds to at least one of the record updates and which is removed from purchasing availability. The system adds a full credit to the user score for each record which corresponds to at least one of the record updates and which is purchased. The system adds a partial credit to the user score for each record which corresponds to at least one of the record updates and which is yet to be purchased and which is yet to be removed from purchasing availability, wherein the partial credit is a positive value that is less than the full credit. The system enables the user to access records, based on the user score. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125348 | Motion Tracking Wearable Element and System - In certain embodiments, a system may include a wearable element having a rechargeable battery, at least one sensor circuit configured to capture movement data, and a transceiver configured to communicate the movement data. The system may further include a base unit including a docking component configured to recharge the rechargeable battery and configured to communicate with the transceiver to receive at least one of the movement data and an action determined from the movement data. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125349 | MANAGER-EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION - In one embodiment, the invention can be a method for manager-to-employee communication, the method including receiving comment data from employee devices of employees of an organization, the comment data indicating employee comments to a survey topic; receiving contact-me data from a manager device indicating contact-me requests, the contact-me requests indicating that the manager desires the employees to contact the manager directly regarding the employee comments to the survey topic; receiving contact-me response data from the employee devices indicating whether the employees will contact the manager directly; and generating a manager rating based on the saved contact-me response data. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125350 | Expert Online Matching Marketplace - A platform which enables experts to be matched with others in the same domain and creates a marketplace in which particular skills can be assessed. The platform enables all aspects from searching for and matching experts with others, to the scheduling and communication with all interested parties, to the actual assessment and all subsequent reporting and analytics. Companies can use this platform to assess potential talent for specific jobs or projects. Candidates can also use the platform to identify, engage, and schedule a skills assessment for themselves, and then promote themselves to potential companies via a score and a badge. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125351 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING POSTAL MAIL AUTOMATICALLY - The present invention provides an unmanned postal mail delivering method, including: acquiring information of a sender who delivers a postal mail to a delivery box provided in an unmanned postal office; specifying the postal mail through information on a recipient of the postal mail and an address of the unmanned postal office and sending the postal mail to the postal office; sorting the postal mail together with a plurality of other postal mails of the postal office through the address to be included in a delivery quantity which will be delivered to a unmanned postal office; delivering the postal mail to the unmanned postal office; and receiving the postal mail by the recipient through authentication of information of the recipient. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125352 | OPTIMIZATION OF PACKAGING SIZES - Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for determining sizes of packaging in a packaging suite and generating the new packaging. The packaging may be used, for example, in the shipping of items. Data may be received that describes bounding boxes corresponding to collections of items shipped to customers. The sizes of the packaging in the packaging suite may be determined based at least in part upon the data that describes the bounding boxes. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125353 | CONCURRENTLY USING MULTIPLE UNITS OF MEASURE FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with concurrently using multiple units of measure are described. In one embodiment, a method includes providing, on an electronic display, a user interface that includes a representation of at least one product by generating the user interface with a selected one of two or more units of measure for the product according to at least a context of the user interface. The context is defined according to at least a role of the user interface within an inventory management system. The two or more units of measure include a standard unit of measure and at least one transaction unit of measure. The method includes maintaining, in an electronic database that includes records of an inventory, one or more records associated with the product by maintaining the records concurrently using the two or more units of measure. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125354 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RESOURCES DISTRIBUTED AMONG RESOURCE WAREHOUSES - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for managing resources. The method includes accessing information pertaining to a first resource warehouse that is a physical warehouse, configuring a second resource warehouse corresponding to the first resource warehouse, the second resource warehouse being a virtual warehouse, adjusting an inventory available for distribution by the second resource warehouse, presenting resources being transferred into the first resource warehouse based at least in part on the adjusted inventory available for distribution of the second resource warehouse, and in the event that resources being transferred and awaiting receipt are transferred into the first resource warehouse, modifying inventory of the first resource warehouse based at least in part on the adjusted inventory available for distribution of the second resource warehouse. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125355 | Systems for Secure Tracking Code Generation, Application, and Verification - Embodiments include a computer-implemented management platform for securely generating tracking codes, and for verifiably imprinting those tracking codes onto physical articles. In an embodiment, one or more hardware processors generate tracking code(s) and send the tracking code(s) towards an automated computer-controlled production line, and which physically imprint each tracking codes onto a corresponding article, and physically verify the physical imprinting. If a tracking code was correctly imprinted on its corresponding article, one or more records are recorded in a durable storage medium, which indicate that the tracking code imprinted on an article. If a tracking code was incorrectly imprinted on its corresponding article, the factory line physically rejects the corresponding article. Embodiments also include the computer-implemented management platform securely managing those physical articles throughout their lifecycle, based on the securely-generated and verifiably-imprinted tracking codes. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125356 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING END-TO-END TRANSPORTATION AND CARE FOR ANIMALS - An end-to-end animal care solution provides transportation and care services for animals. For instance, transportation of animals to/from a pickup/dropoff location may be provided by one or more buses and grooming services, daycare services, boarding services, training services, spa services, and/or veterinary services may be provided may one or more “ranches.” This provides an easy and safe way for owners to give their pets a healthy, pleasant, and engaging experience without having to drive their pets to the actual pet care location. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125357 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING AN EVENT TO VIDEO DOCUMENTING THE EVENT - A method for linking an event to video documenting the event is disclosed. Such a method includes detecting an event, wherein the event is one of (1) completion of a delivery; and (2) access to an enclosure. The method determines a first timing associated with the event and identifies video documenting the event by correlating the first timing with a second timing associated with the video. The method automatically provides, to a user, information to enable the user to view the video. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125358 | PLATFORM FOR DELIVERY OF POST ITEMS GENERATED FROM DIGITAL ITEMS - A system and a related method for managing mappings between user handles and physical addresses are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system allows a user to provide a user handle and a physical address. The system maps user handles to physical addresses for users. Furthermore, the system offers standard digital templates for short items. A user can prepare digital items based on one of the templates and request delivery to a recipient identified by a user handle. In response, the system generates a physical item according to the filled-out template and mails the item to the recipient at the physical address according to the mapping. The system also allows a user to request delivery of a physical item to a recipient identified by a user handle and rely on a party involved in packaging or delivering the physical item to resolve the user handle into a physical address according to the mapping. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125359 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The purpose of this invention is to make a manual easier to use. This manual management device | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125360 | CANDIDATE PIPELINE BUILDER - Embodiments of the invention provide for identifying candidates for an open position. More specifically, embodiments provide for matching, comparing and sorting candidates based on skill set, job title, education, and/or other attributes described in a candidate profile with a requisition in a recruiting application. Embodiments of the present invention can build candidate pools for current or future openings without manual intervention. Embodiments can segment candidate profiles, e.g., which can be built from collected resumes, based on skill set, education, job title match, and/or other criteria. Matches can be found between these profiles and a set of requirements for a position based on one or more searches including but not limited to a keyword search, a synonym replacement search, a distance matching search, etc. Results of these searches can be weighted and combined into an ordered candidate list or pipeline presented to the recruiter or other user for review. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125361 | AUTOMATED JOB INGESTION - Techniques for ingesting job listings are described. A job ingestion module of a social network system can access a seed uniform resource locator (URL), and identify a job URL from the seed URL. Additionally, the job ingestion module can obtain job attributes from the job URL. Furthermore, the job ingestion module can validate the obtained field attributes using member data from the social network system. Moreover, the job ingestion module can generate a job listing based on the validated job attributes. Subsequently, the job ingestion module can post the generated job listing. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125362 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES OF IMPORTING AND COMPARING BENEFIT OPTIONS - Systems and processes of comparing medical benefit options obtained from different, external sources are disclosed. The processes include a method of comparing plan benefits implemented in a computing system. The method includes: obtaining plan information associated with different plans from different external sources and which are related to pre-defined categories; normalizing the plan information into a common form for each of the pre-defined categories; and generating a visual display of a plurality of selectable and dynamically changeable areas each of which is associated with a pre-defined category of a different plan and which is populated with the normalized imported plan information in a standard format in a side-by-side manner. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125363 | ATTENDANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - An attendance method and system are disclosed. A user device sends identifying information to an attendance device. The attendance device correlates the identifying information with a current time and produces an attendance record using the identifying information and the current time. The attendance device packages the attendance record into a data packet and transmits the data packet to the user device. The user device stores the data packet in a non-volatile memory of the user device. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING PRIVACY INTO CONTACT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A system for managing contact information, the system comprising a processor and a memory having executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by the processor cause the processor to retrieve data for a sales lead from a database, the data including actual contact information of the sales lead, generate first pseudo-contact information that corresponds to the actual contact information of the sales lead, provide a first agent with access to the first pseudo-contact information on a communication system, receive a communication request including the first pseudo-contact information from a client device of the first agent, and link the first pseudo contact information to the actual contact information of the sales lead to establish a communication connection between the client device of the first agent to a client device of the sales lead. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125365 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MAINTENANCE FOR A SERVICE PROVIDER - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining device diagnostic data for a group of devices that provide communication services to a plurality of customer premises of a plurality of users over a network, obtaining configuration data associated with the plurality of customer premises, obtaining quality key performance indicators associated with the communication services of the plurality of customer premises, applying linear regression to the device diagnostic data, the configuration data and the quality key performance indicators to identify a quality threshold based on a particular configuration, detecting a subset of customer premises from among the plurality of customer premises that are not satisfying the quality threshold, and analyzing a subset of the device diagnostic data that corresponds to the subset of customer premises to determine equipment associated with the subset of customer premises for maintenance. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125366 | Method and Apparatus for Interactive Vehicle Service Reception - A system includes a processor configured to retrieve an appointment from a service appointment schedule. The processor is also configured to contact a vehicle associated with the retrieved appointment and determine if the vehicle is on-site at a service location. The processor is further configured to query a current vehicle location and vehicle destination if the vehicle is not on-site. Also, the processor is configured to determine if the vehicle is en-route to the service location based on the vehicle location and destination and update the appointment schedule with an expected arrival time if the vehicle is en-route. Once the vehicle is on-site, the processor can perform numerous interactions with the vehicle to provide a highly automated customer experience. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125367 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECYCLING CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Systems and associated methods for recycling and performing other processes with consumer electronic devices are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods for identifying and evaluating an electronic device to facilitate processing (e.g., purchasing) the device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes a self-service evaluation apparatus and a cashier terminal that identifies and evaluates a device and that facilitates purchase and recycling of the device. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125368 | MONEY TRANSFER IN A FORUM USING A PAYMENT PROXY - Described is a technology for executing financial transactions, e.g., payment transfers, by enabling a sender to trigger a money transfer by specifying, in any communication message, a payment proxy having a particular syntax, the syntax including a currency indicator preceding one or more alphanumeric characters. The payment proxy having the syntax indicates an intent of the sender to transfer money to a recipient associated with that payment proxy. The technology can include systems and methods of transferring money by use of a payment proxy within the context of a forum (e.g., social networking platform, microblog, blog, application, etc.). Messages of users in the forum can be monitored to detect for any user's intent to transfer money to a recipient. For example, forum messages can be parsed to identify the syntax carried by a user input in a forum message. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125369 | MONEY TRANSFER BY USE OF A PAYMENT PROXY - Described is a technology for facilitating money transfer between a sender and a recipient by use of a payment proxy associated with the recipient. The technology enables a sender, who desires to send cash to a recipient, using an application (e.g., a payment service application, a messaging application, etc.), to specify the recipient by inputting, in a message being created using the application, one or more alphanumeric characters and a monetary currency indicator prefixing the alphanumeric characters (e.g., $alex). The monetary currency indicator operates as a tagging mechanism that indicates to a computer system, receiving the message, to treat the input(s) as a request from the sender to transfer cash, wherein detection of a specified syntax, which includes the alphanumeric character tagged by a monetary currency indicator, triggers a transfer of cash. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125370 | MONEY TRANSFER BY USE OF A SYNTAX - Described is a technology for executing financial transactions, e.g., payment transfers, by enabling a sender to trigger a money transfer by specifying, in any communication message, an input having a particular syntax, the syntax including a monetary indicator preceding one or more numeric characters. The input having the syntax indicates an intent of the sender to transfer money to a recipient. The money transfer can be implemented in the context of an instant messaging application (e.g., cross-platform chat application). For example, a sender can send a chat message to a recipient, where that chat message includes an input carrying the syntax (e.g., $10). Detection of such syntax can trigger a money transfer from the sender to the recipient. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125371 | MONEY TRANSFER USING CANONICAL URL - Described is a technology for executing financial transactions, e.g., payment transfers, by enabling a sender to trigger a money transfer by specifying a payment proxy having a particular syntax, the syntax including a monetary indicator preceding one or more alphanumeric characters. The payment proxy having the syntax indicates an intent of the sender to transfer money to a recipient associated with that payment proxy. The payment proxy can be used to transfer money within the context of a landing page. For example, a landing page in the form of a webpage can be generated to enable a recipient (e.g., “Alex”) to receive money. The webpage can have a canonical URL that includes a payment proxy of the recipient (e.g., www. . . . com/$alex). The canonical URL can direct any sender (e.g., “Bob”), who wishes to send money to the recipient, to the webpage to initiate a money transfer to the recipient. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125372 | Cargo Air Waybill Audit - The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for analyzing patterns and generating rules related to actions taken in auditing cargo air waybills. Various embodiments of the invention may receive one or more user actions applied to an air waybill and analyze the user's actions to determine if a pattern of behavior is consistent in the user's actions. When one or more patterns are determined, one or more rules may be generated based on the patterns and the actions. If a generated rule is approved by a user, the generated rule may be applied to any future air waybill sent to an accounting system for auditing. The integration of pattern analysis and rule generation may ease some or all of the burden of manually auditing thousands of air waybills daily and reduce the temporal costs of internal audit staff and the financial costs of employing an outside company to audit cargo air waybills. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125373 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCURRENT ELECTRONIC REMITTANCE AND FUNDS TRANSFER - A system and method for concurrent electronic remittance and funds transfer that allows for the simultaneous electronic transfer of funds to a service provider for payment of a liability and transmission of a standardized electronic remittance transmittal which includes details concerning the payment. When implemented in medical billing environments, the system and method is operative to transmit an electronic notice of payment for a specified amount to a service provider payee upon receipt of an electronic claim payment file from a health insurer payer. Once electronic payment is accepted by the payee, an Original Credit Transaction that immediately credits the payment into an existing bank account of the payee. At the same time, an 835 Electronic Remittance Advice which includes details about the payment is electronically transmitted to the payee, enabling the payment transaction to be automatically documented in the payee's practice management system that receives the 835. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125374 | Note Verify - A validator having multiple modes of operation is contemplated. The validator may be operable in a standard mode where notes are escrowed and subsequently directed to a secure storage area depending on validity and a note-verify mode where notes are escrowed and subsequently returned to a user regardless of validity. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125375 | BANKING SYSTEM CONTROLLED RESPONSIVE TO DATA BEARING RECORDS - An apparatus that operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records, includes at least one processor that is in operative connection with a card reader, a check acceptor, a cash dispenser and a display. The at least one processor causes the machine to operate to read card data from a user card, and to cause a determination to be made that the read card data corresponds to an authorized financial account. The at least one processor is operative to cause data to be read from a check and/or cash to be dispensed, and a financial transfer to or from the account corresponding to the value thereof. Machine instructions are output and user transaction inputs can be received through either a primary or an auxiliary touch screen display. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125376 | SECURE POINT OF SALE TERMINAL AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - Methods and systems for processing secure information are disclosed. One method includes receiving secure data from a user via an input device. The method also includes routing the secure data to a secure processor using a hardware multiplexer. The method also includes processing the secure data using the secure processor. The method also includes receiving non-secure data from the user via the input device. The method also includes routing the non-secure data to a second processor using the hardware multiplexer. The method also includes processing the non-secure data using the second processor. The method also includes altering a routing state of the hardware multiplexer using the secure processor. The routing state of the hardware multiplexer is only controlled by the secure processor. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125377 | Systems and Methods for Enrolling a User in a Membership Account - Systems and methods are provided for enrolling a user in a membership account. A payment processing request is received from a point of sale device associated with a merchant. The payment processing request includes an account number associated with a user. Based on the account number, a user account associated with the user is retrieved, where the user account includes address information for communicating with a computing device that is associated with the user. Computer-readable instructions are transmitted to the computing device based on the address information, the computer-readable instructions causing the computing device to prompt the user to enroll in a membership account associated with the merchant. A response is received from the computing device indicating consent from the user to enroll in the membership account. Based on the response, an enrollment request is transmitted to the merchant, where the enrollment request includes user information from the user account. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125378 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE SERVICES VIA A POINT-OF-SALE PORTAL ARCHITECTURE - A secure point-of-sale (POS) portal architecture for delivering multiple services is provided. According to one exemplary aspect of the architecture, a number of services offered by various parties are integrated for delivery to merchants. The parties offering the services include, for example, payment processors and merchant acquirers and other external value-added service providers. The integrated services, in turn, are offered to merchants and/or their respective customers via one or more POS devices and its supporting system infrastructure at the merchant locations. The integrated services include, for example, acceptance of multiple payment instruments, payment processing, user dialog management, sales promotion and customer support, loyalty programs, back office processing, receipt capture, employee training, risk management, dispute resolution, system security, system administration etc. Moreover, these integrated services may be customized based on a merchant's particular requirements to provide a specific environment for delivering these services. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125379 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POINT OF SALE TRANSACTIONS - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for executing a first transaction at a checkout system at substantially the same time that a second transaction is started at the checkout system. For example, a cashier can scan one or more items, adding the items to a first transaction. When all items have been added to the first transaction and a first customer is making a payment in the first transaction, the cashier can begin to add items to a second transaction, such that execution of the first transaction occurs at substantially the same time that items are added to the second transaction. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125380 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING ASSET INFORMATION - Apparatus and methods for use with a security system such as a benefit denial system may involve a containing element configured to receive an asset that may include a benefit for a user of the asset. The apparatus may include an electrical circuit operatively associated with the containing element and configured to communicate information to a receiver outside the containing element. The information may be configured to be used by the benefit denial system to provide the benefit to the user. Apparatus and methods for executing a conveyance of an interest in an asset from a first party to a second party may involve a containing element having an electrical circuit configured to communicate information corresponding to the asset to a receiver outside the containing element. An electrical circuit may be provided with means for destruction of the circuit by an asset user. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125381 | Secure Wireless Network-Based Activation for Table-Side Information and Point-of-Sale Devices - A new terminal is seamlessly and securely integrated to an existing (primary) Wi-Fi network within an operating environment at a restaurant location. The location includes a data management server (DMS) for managing the local operations of devices operating there. The device being installed at the location is auto-configured into the primary Wi-Fi network by being provided with a default Wi-Fi profile that only enables the device to be activated on an activation Wi-Fi network also available at the location. Once the device activates to the Wi-Fi activation network, it requests activation onto the primary Wi-Fi network from a cloud-based data center. The data center requests an activation password from the local DMS. The local DMS generates an activation bundle, which is then returned and eventually instantiated on the device to complete the activation. Once activated, the device updates its Wi-Fi profile to now executed on the primary Wi-Fi network. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125382 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A method, system, and apparatus for facilitating a payment transaction is disclosed. A server receives an event-setup request from an event organizer to set up an event-based payment session to obtain payments for one or more attendees of a subsequent event. In response to receiving the event set-up request: the server sets up the event-based payment session in accordance with the event-setup request; and provides a payment invitation corresponding to the payment session to each of one or more invitees of the subsequent event in accordance with the event-setup request. The server then receives from at least a first invitee of the one or more invitees, a conditional acceptance to the payment invitation, the acceptance being conditioned on one or more predefined criteria. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125383 | Image Recognition-Based Payment Requests - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for sending payment requests to one or more persons or entities based on images in which the persons or entities appear. In one example, the process may include identifying an image associated with a payment request, the identified image containing at least one recipient associated with the payment request, and wherein the payment request includes a value, analyzing the identified image to identify the at least one potential recipient of the payment request, identifying contact information associated with the at least one identified recipient of the payment request, and sending the payment request to the at least one identified recipient of the payment request via a destination associated with the identified contact information. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125384 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO COORDINATE PROCESSING OF SEPARATE COMPUTING SYSTEMS CONNECTED VIA A COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND HAVING LOCALE DEPENDENT ATTRIBUTES - A computing apparatus including: a processing system to process a predetermined type of operations using a predetermined communication protocol on a first network connecting a terminal in a first geographical region and a resource controller in a second geographical region; a communication portal to communicate using a second network; and a data store coupled with the processing system. The communication portal communicates via the second network with the mobile device to establish, in the data store, a resource correlation record associating a first resource controlled by the resource controller in the second geographical region with a second resource. The resource correlation record includes locale dependent parameters. In response to a communication initiated in the terminal for an operation of the predetermined type using the first resource, the processing system applies the second resource to the operation in accordance with the resource correlation record using at least the locale dependent parameters. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125385 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a specification unit, in a case where information related to a purchase has been acquired from a purchase processing apparatus, which specifies indirect identification information associated with communication identification information corresponding to communication with the purchase processing apparatus by using association information in which the communication identification information identifying communication and the indirect identification information indirectly showing a user are associated; and a processing unit which causes first information including the specified indirect identification information to be transmitted to a service provision apparatus providing a service in a virtual space. In a case where second information corresponding to a process for the transmitted first information has been acquired from the service provision apparatus, the processing unit causes the second information to be transmitted to the purchase processing apparatus. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125386 | MULTI-TIERED SECURE MOBILE TRANSACTIONS ENABLING PLATFORM - A system for enabling mobile transactions by service provider applications consuming wallet functions and wallet functions using services of service provider applications includes a multi-tiered electronic mobile transaction platform having a plurality of wallet functions, a plurality of service provider applications, and a plurality of interfaces through which wallet functions and service provider applications interact to enable mobile transactions. The platform also includes a personalization interface of the platform through which a service provider can configure service provider applications that consume a portion of the wallet functions and an enabling interface of the platform through which the wallet functions access the services of the service provider applications. The platform also includes a service interface of the platform through which the service provider applications consume the services of the wallet functions. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125387 | BACKGROUND OCR DURING CARD DATA ENTRY - Financial transaction card data can be entered by providing a picture of the card to a server programmed with a text recognition algorithm. The server can perform text recognition on the image at the same time that a consumer enters additional required data, such as a zip code. The server can perform as much text recognition processing as possible in the time the consumer is entering the additional data. Once the additional data is received, a signal can be provided to the server indicating that the user is now waiting for results of the text recognition process, meaning the server should provide them as quickly as possible. Once text recognition results are received, a consumer can make a selection to identify a character which the text recognition algorithm did not sufficiently identify. Based on known account number constraints, the user selection can cause multiple characters to be identified. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125388 | OFF-LINE GUIDING AND CONFIRMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MOBILE PAYMENT - The present invention discloses an offline payment guidance and confirmation device for supporting mobile payments, comprising: a display module, a storage module, a keyboard module, one or more encryption/decryption module(s), a power module, an input/output module, a main panel and a battery module, all connecting to an information processing module, wherein said one or more encryption/decryption modules can be exchangeable, and wherein said input/output module can be connected to any of the following peripheral devices by means of wired and/or wireless connections: a Quick-Response (QR) barcode reading device, a barcode reading device, a printing device, a voice recognition device, and an NFC recognition device. The present invention also discloses an offline payment guidance and confirmation method for supporting mobile payments. The present invention solves a deficiency of must maintaining both parties' devices online in the traditional dealing process, and the invention is low cost, safe and easy to use. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125389 | MOBILE DEVICE OPERATING AS A BEACON DEVICE - Various embodiments each include at least one of systems, methods, devices, and software for operating mobile devices as beacon devices. One embodiment in the form of a method includes retrieving data, from a backend system by a mobile device app that executes on a first mobile device, of an open bill associated in the backend system with a first customer account. This method further includes receiving a radio signal via a transceiver of the mobile device. The radio signal in such embodiments includes an identifier encoded therein. The method also includes transmitting the identifier encoded in the received radio signal to the backend system to associate a second customer account with the open bill in the backend system, the second customer account associated with the identifier. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125390 | INTERACTIVE INFORMATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Methods of providing information using an interactive information device ( | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125391 | BACKGROUND OCR DURING CARD DATA ENTRY - Financial transaction card data can be entered by providing a picture of the card to a server programmed with a text recognition algorithm. The server can perform text recognition on the image at the same time that a consumer enters additional required data, such as a zip code. The server can perform as much text recognition processing as possible in the time the consumer is entering the additional data. Once the additional data is received, a signal can be provided to the server indicating that the user is now waiting for results of the text recognition process, meaning the server should provide them as quickly as possible. Once text recognition results are received, a consumer can make a selection to identify a character which the text recognition algorithm did not sufficiently identify. Based on known account number constraints, the user selection can cause multiple characters to be identified. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125392 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information record medium that are controlled to generate an operation effect sound that differs for each user of a card upon an operation for electronic money are provided. A card | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125393 | VIRTUAL CARD - A method includes providing a virtual card in a memory of a mobile device, wherein the virtual card comprises user information, establishing a data connection between the mobile device and a terminal device, authenticating a user of the virtual card, and transferring a result of the authentication to the terminal device in order to activate commands of the terminal device. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125394 | MOBILE WALLET AS PROVIDER OF SERVICES CONSUMED BY SERVICE PROVIDER APPLICATIONS - A system for supporting transactions by mobile devices includes a mobile transaction platform server hosting and managing a plurality of wallet services and at least one interface by which a service provider may discover and access the wallet services to build and distribute at least one wallet service to a services ecosystem, wherein the at least one wallet service enables implementation of a mobile transaction according to a template. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125395 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS - A system or method for facilitating transaction comprising a host network comprising at least one subscriber account, the at least one subscriber account having: a first electronic wallet for performing specific transactions with a selected institution; a second electronic wallet for performing other types of transactions; and a settlement facility coupled to the host network for performing the transactions, the settlement facility operable to settle and reconcile the transactions, the settlement facility further comprises at least one processor which, on receipt of a request for transaction, determine the type of transaction and debit from the first or second electronic wallet. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125396 | CONFIRMING PHYSICAL POSSESSION OF PLASTIC NFC CARDS WITH A MOBILE DIGITAL WALLET APPLICATION - In an example embodiment, an issuer system receives payment card information from a payment processing system, wherein the payment card information is received from a payment card via a user computing device using near field communication. The issuer system generates an unpredictable number for the payment card and communicates the unpredictable number to the payment card via the payment processing system and the user computing device. The payment card calculates a cryptographic checksum based on the unpredictable number and a shared secret and communicates the checksum to the issuer system via the user computing device and payment processing system. The issuer system verifies the checksum using the shared secret and the unpredictable number. The issuer system generates a token associated with the payment card and transmits the token to the user computing device via the payment processing system for use in an online transaction. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125397 | Systems for Storing Cardholder Data and Processing Transactions - Systems and methods for storing cardholder data and processing transactions are provided. Cardholder data is received at a server computer, the cardholder data including consumer credentials to be stored and at least one data item not to be stored. A unique consumer reference token is obtained and combined with the data item not to be stored and the combination encrypted to form an encrypted token. The encrypted token is transmitted to a third party for storage and is erased from the server computer. At the time of transaction, the encrypted token is received and decrypted to yield the data item not to be stored, so that a transaction can be initiated using stored consumer credentials and the data item not to be stored. The unique consumer reference token encrypted together with the data item enables the server computer to perform validation checks on the encrypted token. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125398 | SECURELY AND INSTANTLY CONVERTING DIGITAL WALLET VALUE TO PHYSICAL GOLD BULLION - Disclosed is a system related to a software platform that implements an algorithm for facilitating an instant and secure digital value transaction within a network. The digital wallet value of user(s) is converted into a virtual currency and the consolidated pricing feed of the gold bullion counterparties are computed. Further, the converted virtual currency is matched with the consolidated pricing feed of the gold bullion counterparties and based on the matching criteria an invoice can be generated for the user to purchase the gold. The generated invoice is further confirmed or secured by performing multiple signatures from different stake holders involved in the digital value transaction. Different stakeholders involved in the transaction include a server implementing the algorithm, users interested in digital value transaction, and the network through which the transaction happens. The completed digital value transaction is published on the communication device for the user to purchase gold. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125399 | Generating a Blended FX Portfolio - Systems and methods for blending a plurality of FX forwards may include determining a signed sum of notional values associated with each of the primary currency component and the settlement currency component of each of the plurality of FX forwards for use in blending the plurality of FX forwards, each of the plurality of FX forwards having matching economics and a different associated fixed rate. A computing device may determine one or more remnant FX forwards to blend the plurality of FX forwards based, at least in part, using the determined sums of the notional values. This may reduce the gross notional and/or the total clearing line items associated with the original FX forwards. In some cases, the computing device may determine a single currency FX forward for blending the plurality of FX forwards. | 2016-05-05 |
| 20160125400 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GEO COMPONENT FRAUD DETECTION FOR CARD-PRESENT TRANSACTIONS - A method and system for evaluating a card-present payment card transaction for fraud using a computer device coupled to a database are provided. The method includes determining a home activity region for a cardholder using payment card transaction data for the cardholder, receiving a payment card transaction authorization request, and determining a payment card activity location of the received payment card transaction authorization request. The method also includes comparing the determined payment card activity location to the determined home activity region, determining if the determined payment card activity location is within the determined home activity region using a at least one of a selectable threshold and a determined threshold, and outputting a score for the received payment card transaction authorization request based on the determination of whether the payment card activity location is within the determined home activity region. | 2016-05-05 |
