19th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 46 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160132769 | FAULT-TOLERANT POWER-DRIVEN SYNTHESIS - Embodiments of the present invention relate to providing fault-tolerant power minimization in a multi-core neurosynaptic network. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method of and computer program product for fault-tolerant power-driven synthesis is provided. Power consumption of a neurosynaptic network is modeled as wire length. The neurosynaptic network comprises a plurality of neurosynaptic cores connected by a plurality of routers. At least one faulty core of the plurality of neurosynaptic cores is located. A placement blockage is modeled at the location of the at least one faulty core. A placement of the neurosynaptic cores is determined by minimizing the wire length. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132770 | EARLY GENERATION OF INDIVIDUALS TO ACCELERATE GENETIC ALGORITHMS - After beginning an evaluation of a first generation of a first plurality of candidate solutions and prior to completion of the evaluation, a system can determine a first plurality of tournament participants from the first plurality of candidate solutions The system may determine whether each of the first plurality of tournament participants have been evaluated. In response to determining each of the first plurality of tournament participants have been evaluated the system can determine a first one or more winners of the tournament and determine whether a first quantity of the first one or more winners is above a predefined threshold. In response to determining the first quantity is above a predefined threshold, the system can determine a second generation of a second plurality of candidate solutions, the second plurality of candidate solutions based, at least in part, on the first one or more winners. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132771 | Application Complexity Computation - A machine learning technique may be applied to applications hosted by an application store to extract features that can be utilized to train one or more classifiers of the applications based on their relative complexity. A processor may receive pairwise comparisons of relative complexity and feature representations for the applications to be used in training of a classifier. The processor may determine a feature set that is correlated with the pairwise comparison of relative complexity and obtain a classifier based thereupon. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132772 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENERGY EXPERT COLLABORATION FEATURES - According to various aspects, an energy management system is provided for generating a user request for information. According to one embodiment, the user selects energy management information to initiate a request for information. The system captures user context, the selected information, and determines information that is necessary to resolve the user's request. In some embodiments, the system requires explicit consent prior to sharing the necessary information with potential responders. In other embodiments, the system can require payment before proceeding. User requests can be routed to potential responders based on user context (e.g., what energy management information was being viewed, what report was being displayed, what actions the user was taking, etc.). User context can also include information on the user so a compatible responder with subject matter expertise can be identified. Generated responses can then be returned in-line in same context (e.g., report) from which the user generated the request. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132773 | Method for Automatic Near-Real-Time Prediction, Classification, and Notification of Events in Natural Language Systems - An approach is provided for automatically predicting an event occurrence based on a question from an end user presented using a near-real-time natural language processing (NLP) analysis to generate, score and rank a plurality of event occurrences based on a plurality of question context parameters extracted from the question, one or more user profile parameters for the end user, and the one or more historical questions, answers, and events having a specified spatial and/or temporal proximity to the question which are identified by an information handling system. In the approach, performed by an information handling system, a top ranked event occurrence from the ranked plurality of event occurrences is selected for inclusion in a notification message that is communicated or broadcast to the end user, as well as other users engaged with the information handling system and/or first responders in the affected area. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132774 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING A GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF A NETWORK ENTITY - A method and system for predicting the geographic location of a network entity are described. Examples include predicting the geographic location of a network entity by directing the network entity to transmit one or more data packets to a number of predetermined network identifiers, such as IP addresses, where data corresponding to each of the network identifiers is part of a geographic location prediction model. In examples, a dataset that represents transit times for the data packets transmitted from the network entity to the hosts identified by the IP addresses is determined, and a geographic location for the network entity is predicted by applying the geographic location prediction model to the dataset. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132775 | WEIGHT ADJUSTED COMPOSITE MODEL FOR FORECASTING IN ANOMALOUS ENVIRONMENTS - A method, system, and computer program product for weight adjusted composite model for forecasting in anomalous environments are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A base forecasting model and a second forecasting model are combined to form a composite model, the base forecasting model configured to forecast an event in a time series, the second forecasting model configured to represent an anomalous portion of data in the time series. A mixing algorithm is combined with the composite model to adjust a set of weights associated with the composite model. Upon identifying a future period in which the event is to be forecasted, using the mixing algorithm, a subset of the set of weights is adjusted to from a weight adjusted composite model. The weight adjusted composite model is executed to forecast the event in the future period. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132776 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHODS THEREOF - Service management methods for use in an electronic device are provided, including the steps of: providing a record including at least one first event and possible probability parameters corresponding thereto, each having a weight; collecting device status information regarding information of current status of the electronic device, user operation behavior information and event triggering information using a data collector; evaluating a first evaluation value according to the device status information regarding information of current status of the electronic device, user operation behavior information and event triggering information, the possible probability parameters and respective weights of the record; and inferring that the first event reoccurs and performing a service corresponding to the first event when the first evaluation value has exceeded a threshold value. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132777 | BELIEF DATA MODEL MANAGEMENT SERVICE - In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for providing a belief data modeling service for representing and operating belief models data. In embodiments, a belief data modeling service may be configured to perform operations comprising receiving a belief data modeling service request including an input data model representing a set of data, a set of input parameters including at least one of observational data and modeling data, and an operation to be applied to the input data model using the input parameters; and, in response to receiving the belief data modeling service request, generating an output belief data model of the set of entities by generating new states and a set of logical conditionals that constrain the states for at least a subset of the entities by applying the input operation to the input data model. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132778 | SIMULATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - A simulation apparatus according to one embodiment, including: an event receiver, a decision maker and an execution command transmitter. The event receiver receives an event showing a situation of a first monitor target simulated by a first simulator simulating at least one of motion and state change of the first monitor target from a monitor apparatus monitoring a simulation of the first simulator. The decision maker determines an action based on the event, the action to be carried out with respect to a second monitor target undergoing a simulation of at least one of motion and state change by a second simulator synchronized with the first simulator by time progress. The execution command transmitter transmits an execution command of the action determined by the decision maker to a control apparatus controlling the second simulator. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132779 | HYBRID RULE REASONING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A hybrid rule reasoning apparatus and a method thereof includes: a reasoning rule classification unit for classifying an input reasoning rule into at least one of a schema rule, an instance rule, and a mixed rule; a memory-based reasoning unit for performing reasoning by applying a schema rule to a previously stored schema triple and specifying a mixed rule into an instance rule by applying the mixed rule to the schema triple; and a disk-based distributed/parallel reasoning unit for performing reasoning by applying the instance rule specified by the memory-based reasoning unit or the instance rule classified by the reasoning rule classification unit to a previously stored instance triple. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132780 | Automatic Selection of Images for an Application - Images and/or videos may be recommended to a developer based on a classifier. The classifier may determine an application metric that may measure the likelihood that an application is successful for applications on an application store. The system may extract and/or determine features from images and/or videos associated with a training set of applications that are deemed successful. A classifier may be trained on the training set of applications to determine which features of the images and/or videos are associated with the application metric. The classifier may be applied to new and/or existing applications on the application store to generate a recommendation of which images the developer of the application should use to increase the likelihood that the application will be successful. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132781 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT RESPONSE PREDICTION - Techniques for predicting a user response to content are described. According to various embodiments, a configuration file is accessed, where the configuration file includes a user-specification of raw data accessible via external data sources and raw data encoding rules. In some embodiments, the raw data includes raw member data associated with a particular member and raw content data associated with a particular content item. Thereafter, source modules encode the raw data from the external data sources into feature vectors, based on the raw data encoding rules. An assembler module assembles one or more of the feature vectors into an assembled feature vector, based on user-specified assembly rules included in the configuration file. A prediction module performs a prediction modeling process based on the assembled feature vector and a prediction model, to predict a likelihood of the particular member performing a particular user action on the particular content item. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132782 | ESTIMATION OF A DELETED FLUID CONSUMPTION - A device for estimating a deleted fluid consumption during a deletion phase, where said device comprises: a collection module configured to collect: a) first consumption data comprising information about the consumption of fluid from n fluid meters coming from a first group, and b) second consumption data comprising information about the consumption of fluid from m fluid meters coming from a second group, a computer analysis module which is configured for calculating, as a function of the first and second consumption data weighting coefficients β | 2016-05-12 |
20160132783 | User Modelling by Domain Adaptation - A system and method of determining sets of related terms in a target domain based on a probability of co-occurrence in a source domain user model and a target domain user model of a same user, creating an adapted user model for a first user based on the sets of related terms, and merging the adapted user model with a target domain user model for the first user to form a merged user model for the first user. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132784 | MOVEABLE STORAGE - A mobile storage system is disclosed that in one aspect identifies a geographical location change of a user, such as movement from a first geographical location to a second geographical location. In response, the mobile storage system may move the user's information to a storage device associated with the second geographical location so that the user's information may be accessed by the user more efficiently. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132785 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING A QUANTUM PROCESSOR TO DETERMINE ENERGY EIGENVALUES OF A HAMILTONIAN - Systems and methods for employing macroscopic resonant tunneling operations in quantum processors are described. New modes of use for quantum processor architectures employ probe qubits to determine energy eigenvalues of a problem Hamiltonian through macroscopic resonant tunneling operations. A dedicated probe qubit design that may be added to quantum processor architectures is also described. The dedicated probe qubit enables improved performance of macroscopic resonant tunneling operations and, consequently, improved performance of the new modes of use described. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132786 | PARTITIONING DATA FOR TRAINING MACHINE-LEARNING CLASSIFIERS - Various embodiments relating to partitioning a data set for training machine-learning classifiers based on an output of a globally trained machine-learning classifier are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first machine-learning classifier may be trained on a set of training data to produce a corresponding set of output data. The set of training data may be partitioned into a plurality of subsets based on the set of output data. Each subset may correspond to a different class. A second machine-learning classifier may be trained on the set of training data using a plurality of classes corresponding to the plurality of subsets to produce, for each data object of the set of training data, a probability distribution having for each class a probability that the data object is a member of the class. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132787 | DISTRIBUTED, MULTI-MODEL, SELF-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR MACHINE LEARNING - A system is provided for multi-methodology, multi-user, self-optimizing Machine Learning as a Service for that automates and optimizes the model training process. The system uses a large-scale distributed architecture and is compatible with cloud services. The system uses a hybrid optimization technique to select between multiple machine learning approaches for a given dataset. The system can also use datasets to transferring knowledge of how one modeling methodology has previously worked over to a new problem. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132788 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING A CLASSIFIER CAPABLE OF PREDICTING PERSONALITY TYPE OF USERS - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for creating a classifier for predicting a personality type of users. The method includes receiving a first tag for messages, from a crowdsourcing platform. The first tag relates to personality type of users. Further, the messages, tagged with first tag are segregated into a training data and a testing data. Further, parameters associated with set of messages in the training data are determined based on type of messages. Further, classifiers are trained for a personality type. Further, a second tag for set of messages in testing data is predicted using trained classifiers for a combination of parameters. A performance of classifiers is determined by comparing the second tag and the first tag associated with set of messages in the testing data. A classifier is selected from classifiers, which is indicative of a best combination of parameters to predict personality type of users. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132789 | Streams of Attention Method, System, and Apparatus - A stream of attention method, system, and apparatus determines a first focus of attention by applying a probabilistic analysis to a first set of syntactical elements. The syntactical elements may be derived from external communications or from communications generated internally by a computer-implemented system. Alternatively, the syntactical elements may be determined based on their association with images accessed from an external or internal source. Actions are performed by the computer-implemented system that are expected to reduce uncertainty with respect to the focus of attention. Such actions may include posing syntactical-based interrogatives directed to external entities or internally, searching a corpus of content, and/or moving to a new location and receiving input at the new location. Syntactical or image-based information resulting from the actions form the basis for determining a second focus of attention by re-applying to the information the process applied with respect to the previous focus of attention. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132790 | ACTUALS CACHE FOR REVENUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ANALYTICS ENGINE - At a data ingestion time, a travel sessionizer captures raw event data representing a plurality of bookings made by a plurality of users for a given day, identifies a plurality of cache entries corresponding to a travel property for the given day, wherein at least one of the plurality of bookings from the raw event data is for the travel property, and updates the plurality of cache entries corresponding to the travel property for the given data to reflect the at least one booking from the raw event data. At a runtime, the travel sessionizer receives a travel analytic query corresponding to the travel property, accesses at least one of the plurality of cache entries corresponding to the travel property for the given day, and executes the travel analytic query using travel data from the at least one of the plurality of cache entries. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132791 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTED GRAPHICAL FLIGHT SEARCH - Methods and systems for real-time graphical search for airline flight itineraries that satisfy predetermined criteria (e.g., place and time) using a distributed graph processing system are disclosed. The advantages of the graphical method include: computational work is easily split across multiple processors for parallel processing; the resulting speed is appropriate for real-time personalized search; the method naturally supports multi-segment routes up to any user-specified maximum; the method easily handles constraints or freedoms on connections between flights, such as connection time or transferring to another airport in the same metropolis; and the method is efficient due to focusing only on viable flight segments. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132792 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING TRANSPORTATION TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods for facilitating transportation transactions are described. The techniques describe herein may enable users to participate in ride-sharing. Applications may be provide that present graphical user interfaces that enable a user to complete ride-sharing transactions. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132793 | Reservation System and Method - A reservation system for travel, accommodation, venue ticketing and other purposes may be accessed on-line, for example via a social networking website. A user enters their social networking identification into the reservation system, which is stored for future use. When a subsequent user makes a reservation, they also enter their social networking ID and the system retrieves a list of associated parties from the social networking website, which may be a friends or contacts list, and searches for reservations made by any of those parties which have an overlapping criterion, such as date and destination. It then sends the subsequent user the social networking ID of the overlapping party. The overlap may be used to identify parties who will be at the same destination at the same time as the subsequent user, and/or are travelling on the same flight or journey. The list of associated parties may also be used to identify parties who are listing as living at the destination to which the subsequent user is travelling and those parties social networking IDs may be sent to the subsequent user. On check-in, the system may use the list of associated parties to notify the party checking-in that one of their friends or contacts has also check-in. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132794 | Reservation System and Method - A reservation system for travel, accommodation, venue ticketing and other purposes may be accessed on-line, for example via a social networking website. A user enters their social networking identification into the reservation system, which is stored for future use. When a subsequent user makes a reservation, they also enter their social networking ID and the system retrieves a list of associated parties from the social networking website, which may be a friends or contacts list, and searches for reservations made by any of those parties which have an overlapping criterion, such as date and destination. It then sends the subsequent user the social networking ID of the overlapping party. The overlap may be used to identify parties who will be at the same destination at the same time as the subsequent user, and/or are travelling on the same flight or journey. The list of associated parties may also be used to identify parties who are listing as living at the destination to which the subsequent user is travelling and those parties social networking IDs may be sent to the subsequent user. On check-in, the system may use the list of associated parties to notify the party checking-in that one of their friends or contacts has also check-in. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132795 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING SCHEDULE INFORMATION - A method and system comprising: receiving travel request data; retrieving schedule data associated with the travel request data from the database, the schedule data being further associated with a scheduled travel time; retrieving availability data associated with the travel request data from the cache, the availability data being further associated with an available travel time; and sending the schedule data and the availability data via a computer network. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132796 | CPW method with application in an application system - The Cognitive Process Workflow (CPW) method with its grammar, syntax and semantics is a process method, a process modeling method and a workflow method applicable to different technical systems. Among others also the application of the CPW Method in a process tool, workflow tool, workflow engine, enterprise architecture framework and enterprise architecture engine. The CPW Process is represented as simple sentence with a CPW Subject, a CPW Predicate and a CPW Object. The CPW Method—with CPW Process, CPW Dialog and CPW Workflow and in addition with CPW Context Diagrams (CPW Subject Context Diagram, CPW Object Context Diagram and CPW Subject Object Context Diagram)—can be applied to the business areas of financial services (banking, assurance and financial approval), chemistry, pharmacy, medicine, transport, travel, film industry, politics, psychology, legal practice and other business areas. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132797 | BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL ANALYZER AND RUNTIME SELECTOR - In a method for determining appropriate runtime environments for execution of a process model, a computer receives a process model. The process model includes a plurality of activities, wherein two activities are linked by a relationship. The computer determines that the two activities linked by a relationship match a process pattern. The computer determines one or more runtime environments for execution of the process model, wherein each of the one or more runtime environments is capable of executing the process pattern. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132798 | SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENT ANALYSIS - According to an example, service level agreement (SLA) analysis may include receiving selection of a SLA to be analyzed. The SLA may include clauses including attributes. The SLA analysis may further include receiving selection of a grouping option for the SLA clauses, receiving selection of a sub-grouping option for the SLA clauses, and analyzing the attributes of the SLA clauses based on the selected grouping option and the selected sub-grouping option. The SLA analysis may further include receiving selection of a minimum status of the SLA, evaluating the analyzed SLA clauses based on the selected minimum status, and identifying the SLA clauses based on the analysis related to the selected grouping option and the selected sub-grouping option, and based on the evaluation related to the selected minimum status. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132799 | LIST HYGIENE TOOL - A computer-implemented method of assessing the veracity of a list of email addresses for use with an e-mail messaging campaign is described. The method comprises: receiving the list of email addresses; categorising and marking any email addresses from the received list of email addresses which are considered to have predetermined email address problems; each marked email address being assigned a category of problem; associating each marked email address with a score, wherein the score is dependent on the severity of risk associated with the assigned category; calculating a cumulative score of all of the marked email addresses; and determining, in view of the cumulative score of the marked email addresses, whether the list of email addresses is safe for use for the email messaging campaign. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132800 | Business Relationship Accessing - A computer method and system provide means for inputting, verifying and outputting business relationship data to a user. The system comprises a database of business relationships between organizations, some of which are marked as visible or hidden. The system applies an algorithm to determine which relationships to verify. A user may search for an organization according to search criteria and the system will select a set of organizations that match the criteria. Web content is displayed based on the verification and visibility status of the relationships. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132801 | GLOBAL WORK ALLOCATOR SYSTEM - An end-to-end, centralized and globally-accessible platform for work assignment input, allocation, performance and tracking is herein described. The platform is configured to improve operational and quality assurance effectiveness and efficiency through automated work allocation, performance tracking and reporting. The end-to-end approach accounts for work assignment input, work assignment allocation, work assignment processing and quality assessment and assurance of the completed work assignments. In addition, both automated and manual work assignment allocations from both an operation (i.e., work input and allocation) perspective, as well as, a quality assurance perspective are possible. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132802 | JOIN FUNCTION IN A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ANSWERS TO REQUESTS - The invention provides a computer system including a router receiving a plurality of requests, a broker and a plurality of service workers, each assigned by the broker receive to receive the request and determining an answer based on the request, the router receiving the answers from the service workers, and the router providing an output that is based on at least one of the answers. A language independent platform is provided that can deploy code online while processing requests, execute multiple commands and join their answers, and scale automatically depending on load. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132803 | INFORMATION PRESENTING METHOD AND INFORMATION PRESENTING DEVICE - An information presenting method for presenting information that supports a determination of an assignment of security officers within a security zone, the information presenting method includes: acquiring an intrusion position of an intruder and one of a position and range targeted by the intruder on a movement route model that indicates a plurality of routes within the security zone; identifying a line that separates the intrusion position from the one of the target position and the target range on the movement route model, based on a number of routes that the line crosses from among the plurality of routes; and causing a display device to display graph information in which the line is displayed as information indicating the assignment of the security officers on the movement route model. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY PLANNING MAINTENANCE OF ENTERPRISE EQUIPMENT - Systems and methods for continuously planning maintenance of enterprise equipment are provided. Draft forecasts relating to projects in an infrastructure are generated by a computer system. A first user (U | 2016-05-12 |
20160132805 | CONSTRAINTS AND CONSTRAINT SHARING IN A CATALOG SERVICE PLATFORM - A service provider system may implement an enterprise catalog service that manages software products and portfolios of software products on behalf of service provider customer organizations. Through an administrator interface of the service, a customer organization administrator may create constraints on the use of the software products, and each constraint may include one or more rules about how the products can be launched. These may include environmental constraints (specifying a region in which a product launches), restrictions on input parameter values (including the types of resource instances on which a product can be launched), quotas (controlling the number of product installations), or billing constraints. Constraints may be applied on a user-to-product arc or on a portfolio-to-product arc. Constraints may be stored as objects, and reference to those objects may be added to product or portfolio objects. Constraints may be shared across object versions, portfolios, or service provider customer accounts. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132806 | CATALOG SERVICE PLATFORM FOR DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES - A service provider system may implement an enterprise catalog service that manages catalogs or portfolios of software products (e.g., desktop applications and server products) on behalf of service provider customer organizations. Through the enterprise catalog service, an administrator in a customer organization may discover, select, and ingest products (e.g., based on their features, pricing, and terms), and may add them to catalogs or portfolios for subsequent use by end users in the organization. The administrator may apply constraints on product use and limit product access to particular end users. The products may include third party products that are made available through the enterprise catalog service and a customer's own applications. The enterprise catalog service may monitor usage of third party products and bill the customer organization. Products managed by the enterprise catalog service may be deployed through an application fulfillment platform or resource stack management platform. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132807 | Method for Managing Signing Agents - The embodied invention is a software system in a central computer that facilitates scheduling of a high volume of meetings among a wide array of individuals and companies with important secure methods for managing documents requiring a notarized signature or third party document exchange. The schedule is run from a central location where individual notaries attend signing appointments. Important convenience features are included that facilitate the volume of meetings and the accuracy needed to transfer signed legal documents to the correct authority in a timely manner. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132808 | PORTFOLIOS AND PORTFOLIO SHARING IN A CATALOG SERVICE PLATFORM - A service provider system may implement an enterprise catalog service that manages catalogs and portfolios of software products (e.g., desktop applications and server products) on behalf of service provider customer organizations. Through the service, a customer organization administrator may create a portfolio (e.g., a container) and configure the portfolio for subsequent use by end users in the organization, which may include adding products, users, permissions, and constraints on the usage of the products (individually or collectively) to the portfolio for all authorized end users or particular end users. Portfolios may be shared with other administrators by publishing them or through direct notification of sharing. A recipient of a shared portfolio may, after importing it, further restrict access to the portfolio or the use of the products therein, but cannot modify the portfolio itself. Changes made by a portfolio owner may be propagated to authorized users and to portfolio importers automatically. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132809 | IDENTIFYING AND AMALGAMATING CONDITIONAL ACTIONS IN BUSINESS PROCESSES - Methods and systems for identifying conditional actions in a business process are disclosed. In accordance with one such method, text fragments are extracted from input documents. In addition, a plurality of pairs of the text fragments that respectively include text fragments that are similar according to a pre-defined similarity standard are determined. For each pair of at least a subset of the pairs, at least one difference between the text fragments of the corresponding pair is determined. Further, at least two particular pairs of the subset of the pairs are merged in response to determining that the particular pairs have at least one of the determined differences in common. Additionally, the merged particular pairs are output to indicate the conditional actions in the business process. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132810 | APPLYING AREA OF FOCUS TO WORKFLOW AUTOMATION AND MEASURING IMPACT OF SHIFTING FOCUS ON METRICS - Approaches presented herein enable measuring an impact on performance metrics of shifting a performance focus based on an assignment of communications to a resource based on a performance area in a customer support environment. Specifically, resources, each with several performance area attributes, are assigned performance scores. A performance focus manager selects a shifting performance area of focus and assigns communications to the resources based on the selected performance area. A history manager maintains a set of feedback performance metrics in a selected performance category, including a subset of metrics establishing a baseline for the category. The feedback performance metrics may be queried to determine how a shift in performance focus impacts a performance category and if the performance metrics of the category are within a tolerance. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132811 | Influential Peers - A computer method and system provide means for identifying influential organizations in a business network. The system comprises a database of business relationships between organizations. The system applies algorithms to determine which organizations are influential to others. In response to a user searching for a product, service or organization, the system determines which product, service or organization are recorded in the database as connected to an influential organization. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132812 | MULTI-CHAT MONITORING & AUDITING SYSTEM - A multi-chat monitoring and auditing system and method are disclosed. The system and method may be used to simultaneously monitor, audit, and manage online, text-based chat interactions between a plurality of customer service representatives and a plurality of users. Chat streams are monitored through the use of flags that may be customized based on the preferences of the system operators. The system and method may also audit chat interactions through data collection and through a dashboard that aggregates and analyzes key performance indicators. A supervisor's dashboard may also be utilized to manage and oversee the chat interactions of a plurality of customer service representatives. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132813 | SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING QUALITY ASSURANCE OF WORK ASSIGNMENTS - Systems, apparatus, and computer program products provide for a comprehensive quality assurance platform for automatically assessing the quality of work performance of associates. The described quality assurance system/module that can be implemented in conjunction with the work allocation system described herein or the system can operate as a standalone quality assurance system/module. The quality assurance system provides for automated collection and tracking of quality metrics and automated quality calibrations (i.e., automated and random selection of work assignment/transactions for comparison to standards). Additionally, the quality assurance system provides for validating the quality assurance work by random sampling and quality assurance assessment of the auditor's work and an associate improvement plan, whereby quality assurance metrics may be systematically adjusted and/or sampling sizes increased for associates with quality scores that dictate a need for improvement. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132814 | CALCULATING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE BASED ON PRODUCT PERFORMANCE - A system, method and program product are provided for calculating a customer lifetime benefit (CLB) metric. A system is disclosed that includes: a communication system that provides a communication link to a plurality of CLB compatible products; an event processor that detects and processes events occurring on the plurality of CLB compatible products; a response engine that determines an appropriate action from a set of possible actions to take in response to event data detected on a CLB compatible product, wherein the set of possible actions includes triggering a corrective action on the CLB compatible product; and a lifecycle benefits analyzer that calculates a CLB metric based on operational compliance data of the CLB compatible product and resolution data resulting from corrective actions taken by the response engine. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132815 | SKILL ESTIMATION METHOD IN MACHINE-HUMAN HYBRID CROWDSOURCING - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for estimating an ability of a worker in a process for integrating work results of multiple workers for the same task includes acquiring, for each of one or more tasks, a work result of a preceding-stage worker and a work result of a succeeding-stage worker that works based on the work result of the preceding-stage worker. The method also includes estimating multiple parameters of a probability model in which an ability of the succeeding-stage worker conditioned by a quality of the work result of the preceding-stage worker is introduced as a conditioned ability parameter, based on the multiple work results obtained for each of the one or more tasks. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132816 | Unified Workforce Platform - A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions, the instructions being executable by one or more processors to perform operations including: receive information describing an issue requiring assistance by one or more service providers; generate a work activity based on the received information, the work activity including a standard format populated with at least a portion of the received information; generate a notification schedule, the notification schedule being an ordering of a subset of qualified service providers of the one or more service providers in which the subset of qualified service providers are to be notified of the work activity; and notify one or more service providers of the subset of qualified service providers of the work activity, the one or more service providers of the subset of qualified service providers selected according to the notification schedule is shown. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132817 | PROJECT STRUCTURE MAPPER - Various embodiments of systems and methods to provide a project structure map are described herein. In one aspect, a description of a project defining activities of the project is received. Insights associated with the activities are determined based on the received description and are displayed in a focus of a first circular disc on a GUI. A predefined number of nodes representing a first level of activities of the activities are displayed on the first circular disc. Upon receiving a selection of a node on the first circular disc, a predefined number of nodes representing a second level of activities associated with a first level of activity corresponding to the selected node are displayed on a second circular disc concentric to the first circular disc. Insights of the first level of activity corresponding to the selected node are displayed in the focus of the first circular disc. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132818 | Signing Agent Management Software - The embodied invention is a software system in a central computer that facilitates scheduling of a high volume of meetings among a wide array of individuals and companies with important secure methods for managing documents requiring a notarized signature or third party document exchange. The schedule is run from a central location where individual notaries attend signing appointments and closings. Important convenience features are included that facilitate the volume of meetings and the accuracy needed to transfer signed legal documents to the correct authority in a timely manner. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132819 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FILTERING AND DISPLAYING DIFFERENT SCENARIOS - Apparatus and methods for filtering and displaying different scenarios are provided. Gantt charts illustrating multiple scenarios for performing projects are generated by a computer system. The projects shown in the Gantt charts are filtered by the computer system so that only projects which exhibit differences between the multiple scenarios are displayed. The computer system may display projects with differences that exceed a threshold. Gantt charts may be displayed by computer systems along with risk matrices describing the risks involved in one or more of the projects. Risk matrices plot risk values associated with projects. Computer systems may group projects with similar risk values into bins. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132820 | ON-CALL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A scheduling apparatus comprises a server computer and a first set of instructions executable on the server computer configured to receive availability and unavailability data from one or more users. The first set of instructions are further executable to present a display to each of the one or more users of a calendar displaying a shift schedule for each of said users. The first set of instructions are further configured to receive a request from a first of the one or more users, and transmit to a second of the one or more users, a request to cover a shift from said shift schedule of said first user. The first set of instructions are further configured to receive a confirmation message from the second user to transmit to the first user reflecting that the second user will cover the first user's shift. The first set of instructions are further configured to change the display of the calendar of the first user to reflect that the second user will cover the first user's shift. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132821 | Managed Inventory - Example methods and systems are directed to a managed inventory. A database may store information regarding items owned by a user. The information regarding an item may include a quantity owned and one or more triggering events. Based on the occurrence of a triggering event, an order for the item may be placed without user intervention. Data to the database may be provided by one or more sensors. Triggering events may be defined in terms of sensor data. The triggering event may be defined by a user or through machine learning. The order may be placed using a predetermined modality or a dynamically-determined modality based on one or more criteria, such as price, shipping speed, and the urgency of the order. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132822 | System for Inventory Management - Systems and methods related to a store intelligence system can include a plurality of end-point devices associated with a product shelf configured to display product, and a plurality of hubs each positioned adjacent to one or more of the plurality of end-point devices. One or more of the plurality of end-point devices can be configured to detect and transmit inventory information to a predetermined adjacent hub of the plurality of hubs or to receive and display price information or product information from a predetermined hub of the plurality of hubs. Each of the hubs can be configured to receive inventory information from one or more of the plurality of endpoint devices, provide alerts, transmit inventory information to a network, receive price information and product information, and transmit the price information and product information to one or more of the plurality of end-point devices. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132823 | System for Inventory Management - Systems and methods related to sensor-equipped display management systems. In one aspect, the systems and methods may be utilized to calculate a number of products removed from a display management system based upon motion of one or more mechanisms within the display management system. In another aspect, the systems and methods may be utilized to detect patterns from the sensor data, which may be indicative of attempted theft of products stored within the display management system. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132824 | 3D Glasses and Related Systems - 3D glasses having an RFID tag (embedded in one or more temples) are rented to theater or other venue operators. The glasses are shipped to a venue for distribution to patrons and collected from patrons in the trays. Inventory and other measures are implemented by RFID scanning while the glasses are in the trays (e.g., upon delivery to a theater, on collection from the theater, upon inspection at the 3D rental company, etc). Data gathered from RFID scanning and inspections allows the rental company to properly allocate rental costs to various venues based on shrinkage which includes, for example, extraordinary wear of the glasses, breakage or theft, which is attributable and traceable to the specific venues. The theater or venue may also independently scan the trays upon delivery and pick-up to maintain their own records. The invention includes 3D glasses with RFID, a washing rack, and rental systems. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132825 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOGISTICS VERIFICATION - A system and method for logistics verification are disclosed. In the logistics verification system, an identification information distribution center generates a pick-up code and pick-up verification information corresponding to the pick-up code, a sign-for code and sign-for verification information corresponding to the sign-for code. A logistics terminal sends the pick-up code to the pick-up terminal, the sign-for verification information to a delivery terminal. A supply terminal provides the goods after verifying the pick-up code according to the pick-up verification information. A pick-up terminal picks up the goods at the supply terminal depending on the pick-up code. A delivery terminal transports the goods from the delivering origin to the destination and verifies the sign-for code according to the sign-for verification information. Finally, a client terminal receives the goods at the destination depending on the sign-for code. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132826 | Professional collaboration networks - A business system generating and utilizing trust linkages and professional linkages between members for the synthesis of economic value in business entities. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132827 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DESIGNING OF TASKS FOR CROWDSOURCING - According to embodiments illustrated herein, a method is provided for designing an image-analysis task. The method includes receiving one or more first target values of one or more output parameters of the image-analysis task from a requester through a GUI. Thereafter, one or more first values of one or more input parameters, associated with the image-analysis task, corresponding to the one or more first target values are determined based on the one of more first target values and a model. The model corresponds to a relationship between the one or more input parameters and the one or more output parameters. Further, the one or more first values of the one or more input parameters are presented to the requester through the GUI. The requester at least provides one or more second target values of the one or more output parameters through the GUI, based on the presentation. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132828 | REAL-TIME CONTINUOUS REALIGNMENT OF A LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTED PROJECT - A method and associated systems for real-time continuous realignment of a large-scale distributed project. A project-management system, consisting of a computer system, a data warehouse, and remote data-aggregation subsystems, receives project artifacts that describe goals, scope, contractual obligations, and other characteristics of a large-scale project. The distributed system extracts from the artifacts baseline values of benchmarks that measure project progress. Project workers located at multiple sites continuously feed the project-management system, via the data-aggregation subsystems, data describing actual progress on the project. The baseline values and actual-progress values are imported into the data warehouse in a compatible format. The data-warehouse data is then used to generate recommendations intended to resolve problems indicated by the current-progress values, which are then communicated to project managers, who implement them as action plans. The procedure repeats until benchmarks indicate that project parameters have been realigned so as to ensure desired project results. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132829 | PROGRAM AND PROJECT ASSESSMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed is a program and project assessment system. The program and project assessment system typically includes a processor, a memory, and a program and project assessment module stored in the memory. The program and project assessment system is typically configured for: receiving lagging indicator data regarding a plurality of programs; determining a cumulative program quality control score for each of a plurality of program groups; receiving current indicator data regarding the plurality of programs; determining a cumulative overall status score and a cumulative outcome completion score for each program group; receiving leading indicator data regarding the plurality of programs; determining a plurality of cumulative predictive condition scores for each program group; and providing to a user computing device an assessment interface depicting the cumulative program quality control scores, cumulative overall status scores, the cumulative outcome completion scores, and the cumulative predictive condition scores for the plurality of program groups. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132830 | MULTI-LEVEL SCORE BASED TITLE ENGINE - In response to a data input of a title text string that indicates a title of a person for a job within an organization, title scores are generated for predefined titles in proportion to strength of match to the title text string. A predefined title having the highest title score is selected as a matching title for the title text string input. A person score is generated from the title score of the matching title as a function of other title scores of the predefined titles matched to the person. An organization score is generated as a function of the person score and an occurrence frequency of the matching title associated with the organization. Classification of the matching title within a classification database is updated as a function of one or more of the organization score, the title score and the person score. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132831 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for human resource management in an organization. A graph, representative of relationships between employees, job openings, and candidates applied for the job openings, is generated. The graph is transformed to generate a graph matrix deterministic of a mapping of nodes depicted in the graph, in a predetermined dimensional space. Further, a first distance between nodes corresponding to the candidates and a node corresponding to a job opening is determined based on the graph matrix. A list of ranked candidates, based on the first distance, is presented over a display associated with a hiring manager, allowing selection of a set of candidates. Additionally, a second distance between nodes corresponding to the candidates and between each node corresponding to a candidate and each node corresponding to an employee, is determined, based on which a set of candidates for a team are selected. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132832 | GENERATING COMPANY PROFILES BASED ON MEMBER DATA - Techniques for automatically generating a company profile in a social network are described. A profile generation module can access employment data from a member profile in a social network. Additionally, the profile generation module can determine an employer based on the accessed employment data. Furthermore, the profile generation module can verify that the determined company does not have an existing entity profile in the social network. Moreover, the profile generation module can authenticate the verified employer based on member data from the social network. Subsequently, the profile generation module can generate and post the entity profile on the social network. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132833 | RESUME MANAGEMENT AND RECRUITMENT WORKFLOW SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer system and method for managing access to a resume database. For each skill or experience-related phrase in a resume, the system computes a term of experience based on an experience range associated with a contextual use of the phrase in the resume. The term of experience for a phrase that occurs multiple times in the resume is the summation of the term of experience for each occurrence of the phrase associated with a different contextual use. The system stores each phrase and the term of experience in a parsed resume. The resume database also stores job descriptions that include required phrases and a required term of experience for each required phrase. The job descriptions also store a required level of education or field of specialization, and a required salary range. A recruiter searches the resume database to find matching resumes that satisfy a job description. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132834 | PERSONALIZED JOB SEARCH - Techniques for assisting a user in conducting an online job search for online job listings are described. According to various embodiments, a user specification of a job search query including at least one user-specified job search query term is received. Values for one or more member profile attributes of the user are then accessed. Thereafter, the job search query is modified based on the accessed values for the member profile attributes of the user, the modifying comprising inserting job search query terms corresponding to the values for the member profile attributes into the job search query. Search results corresponding to job listings posted on the job search engine are then generated, based on the modified job search query. Further, one or more of the search results may be displayed, via a user interface. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132835 | Method and system for decision support in relation to geolocalization of a candidate's residence and workplace - Process for analyzing the geolocalization data of the work sites, the employees' or the candidates' place of residence (current or future) for one or several companies in order to calculate the travel time (for several modes of transportation) and the distance between each location, based on several search criteria. The invention allows one or more users to view the travel time and/or distance in relation to a worksite at the time of selection of a candidate or an employee for a given job. It may also allow an employee to find a job that matches a specific travel time. Employees could also find a home that is located within a specific travel time from their current or future place of work. Currently, the travel time cannot be included into massive calculation when decision analyses are needed for these types of choices. The present invention allows the integration of such options. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132836 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY PROCESSING EVENTS BASED ON AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF TIME CONFLICTS - Methods and apparatus for dynamically processing events based on automatic detection of time conflicts are disclosed. An example method includes accessing first time and date information from a user schedule, the user schedule including a scheduled item; sending a request for second time and date information associated with a first event; generating a visual notification that the first event conflicts with the scheduled item, based on the second time and date information and the first time and date information; receiving third time and date information from a server, the third time and date information associated with an alternate event associated with the desired transaction; receiving travel information corresponding to the third time and date information from the server; facilitating a transaction based on the alternate event and the third time and date information; and updating the user schedule to include the third time and date information. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132837 | ACTION ENCOURAGEMENT METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR ENCOURAGING USER TO MOVE TO FACILITY SUITABLE FOR SCHEDULE OR TASK - It is necessary to effectively encourage the user to take an action without making the user feel inconvenience, regardless of the charge state of the device held by the user. A way of improved the inducement of user's conduct can be to retrieve information indicating a schedule or task of the user, to retrieve charge state information indicating a device held by the user, to determine a facility to which the user is to be guided, on the basis of the information indicating the schedule or task of the user and the charge state information, and to output information indicating the determined facility. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132838 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION INTEGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS - A computational method for performing a data transformation process for use in Engineering Asset Management on an industrial scale is described, The method and associated integration environment includes a transformation engine or module to map model elements and data items from a first information system, for example a procurement and construction database that records the thousands of individual components used to construct an industrial site, to a second information system. Such as an operation and maintenance database. The method uses a model transformation user interface using hierarchically linked layers to allow users to create, view and modify the transformation specification, as well as element terms and element relationships which define a transformation specification, without having to write the underlying code that performs the transformation. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132839 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR FACILITIES MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING - The process for facilities maintenance scheduling includes storing in a database at least one operational characteristic of at least one component requiring inspection over a service lifetime. The operational characteristic of the at least one component is monitored with a sensor and the status of the operational characteristic is communicated to the database over a communication network. The database updates the operational characteristic therein based on the status received from the sensor over the communication network, and adjusts an inspection schedule for the at least one component based on the status of the operational characteristic received by the database from the sensor over the communication network. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132840 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING AND RECYCLING ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Hardware and software application systems and associated methods for obtaining information from, evaluating, and pricing mobile phones, tablet computers, laptop computers, and/or other electronic devices for recycling and/or other processing are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods associated with an electronic evaluator device that facilitates processing (e.g., purchasing at a consumer-operated kiosk) a target device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes using an app on the evaluator device to obtain information from the target device, identify the target device, evaluate the target device, price the target device, etc. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132841 | TRANSACTING ACROSS MULTIPLE TRANSACTIONAL DOMAINS - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for facilitating transactions across multiple transactional domains. For example, a first committer stores first data according to a first transactional domain (e.g., communication protocol data of a smart television) and a second committer stores second data according to a second transactional domain (e.g., communication protocol data of a mobile device). The first committer may commit to updating the first data from an old data state to a new data state (e.g., update from an unauthenticated protocol to an authenticated protocol). The first committer may instruct the second committer to perform a second commit of the second data to the new data state. If the second commit succeeds, then the first committer may utilize the new data state (e.g., utilize the authenticated protocol for communication) otherwise the first committer may utilize the old data state (e.g., utilize the unauthenticated protocol for communication). | 2016-05-12 |
20160132842 | PRESENTING PREVIOUSLY HIDDEN USER INTERFACE OPTIONS WITHIN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A system and method to associate an electronic gift certificate with a payment services account to cause presentation of the electronic gift certificate based on meeting a predetermined condition. A gift certificate is purchased on-line and associated with a recipient's payment services account by the electronic gift certificate purchaser. A graphical user interface representing the payment services account of the recipient is presented with a record of the electronic gift certificate in a hidden state within the payment services account. Determining the predetermined condition is met, unmarking the record of the electronic gift certificate and causing presentation of a gift certificate button within the user interface representing the payment services account. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132843 | MyMoney - A computer/mobile device application - A system for exchanging/transferring money between individuals or groups through a social mobile device application. Based on a mobile social media platform between known parties for personal and business monetary exchanges and payment transactions. This system will be carried out on computers or mobile devices using an online currency called MyMoney. Users will be able to transfer/pay or exchange funds via this application using the common online currency that they will buy through this application. This system's secondary purpose will be to act as a social media application where users will be able to chat with each other individually, in a group, upload videos, pictures, communicate via voice calls and video call. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132844 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING MEDIA CONTENT AND PROCESSING PAYMENTS AND/OR VOLUNTARY DATA COLLECTION - A system and method for distributing media content and processing payments have been described. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises receiving a request to view a media asset. A trailer associated with the media asset is provided for display on a remote client. An interface is provided on the remote client for receiving a request to transfer money and information to the poster of the media asset. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132845 | VEHICULAR VIOLATION FINE PAYMENT USING PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - Methods and systems read a computer readable code on a printed vehicular violation using an optical sensor of a portable computing device and access a vehicular violation database to identify a registered vehicle corresponding to data in the computer readable code. The methods and systems retrieve a vehicular violation history for the registered vehicle. The vehicular violation history is a history of vehicular violations maintained by the vehicular violation database related to the registered vehicle, and includes a payment status of fines associated with the vehicular violations. The methods and systems therefore display this vehicular violation history and display an option to pay one or more of the fines on the graphic user interface. The methods and systems then receive payment information into the graphic user interface, and process the payment of one or more of the fines through the portable computing device, using the payment information provided. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132846 | ONLINE PAYMENT PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - An online payment processing method, apparatus and system provide a simpler and less expensive online fund payment processing process. The method includes: sending a payment processing request from a merchant client to a payment request receiving server, the payment processing request carrying payment information; sending a uniform resource locator (URL) request to an open platform; processing payment by the open platform server based on the payment information obtained from the payment request receiving server and user information obtained from a user through a user client. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132847 | System, method, and computer program for conducting online banking using a computer, a mobile communication device, or a wearable mobile communication device and a human teller - The present invention relates to an online banking application for a computer or a mobile communication device that incorporates a human teller in the banking transaction using audio, video, and text communication between the customer and the banker. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132848 | REMOTE DEPOSIT CAPTURE SYSTEM WITH SECURE ELEMENT AUTHENTICATION FOR CHECK IMAGE GENERATION AND STORAGE - A check image generator application generates a remote deposit capture RDC compatible check image. The RDC compatible check image is sent from a sender mobile device to a recipient mobile device. The RDC compatible check image may pass through a server and may be encrypted. The recipient mobile device receives the RDC compatible check image and forwards it to a financial institution for deposit. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132849 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ON DEMAND MEDIA KIOSK - A method and system for transferring media on demand to a mobile computing device of a consumer is presented. A sensor in a kiosk identifies a consumer by facial recognition algorithms or identification of the mobile computing device of the consumer. An interactive display presents media that is available for download by the consumer based at least in part on the identity of the consumer. The consumer touches their mobile computing device to a short range communications interface on the kiosk which transfers the media to the mobile computing device. The media can be streamed to the kiosk from a remote content server across a network. The kiosk can process the consumer payment for the downloaded media by sending payment transactions to a payment network. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132850 | System and Method for Merchants to Charge Fees to Buyers for Credit Card and Debit Card Transactions - System and method for calculating and applying surcharges or payment type fees to payment transactions. A calculation device receives pricing and payment information for a transaction, such as a credit or debit card transaction, and calculates a surcharge or payment type fee based upon the transaction costs that will apply if the transaction is completed. The transaction costs may be estimated by the calculation device or received from a payment network. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132851 | LOCATION-BASED AUTHENTICATION OF TRANSACTIONS CONDUCTED USING MOBILE DEVICES - A transaction authentication system authenticates a transaction by determining whether a mobile device and POS device involved in the transaction are at the same location. A POS registry stores location data for POS devices. A PAN registry stores mobile device IDs corresponding to account numbers. A mobile device ID can be provided from the PAN registry in response to receiving an account number from a POS device. The mobile device ID can then be used to retrieve location information from a home location register maintained by a mobile service provider. The retrieved location data for a POS device and the retrieved location data for a mobile device are compared. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132852 | POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEM - A point-of-sale system includes a stand that supports a tablet computer. The tablet computer can run a merchant application to provide the typical functionality for a point-of-sale system. The stand can be rotatable to face either the merchant or the customer. The stand can incorporate a card reader. The tablet computer can be connected through a hub to other peripheral components, such as a controllable cash drawer, a printer and/or a bar code reader. The cash drawer can include a slidable drawer having sliding rails that are hidden from a top view of the drawer. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132853 | REMOTE AUTHENTICATION FOR POINT OF SALE MACHINE USING A MOBILE NUMBER THROUGH UNSTRUCTURED SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE DATA - Remotely authenticating an invoice amount for a sales transaction with a merchant through a mobile device of a user using a USSD session initiated by a telecom service provider. The provider receives a transaction request of at least a mobile phone number and invoice amount from a POS machine at the merchant. The provider identifies the user from the mobile number and generates a one-time purchase ID associated with the invoice and sends the purchase ID to the user through the mobile device. The provider initiates an interactive USSD session with the user through a gateway and sends a menu with transaction details and financial account list on the user's mobile device within the session including multiple financial accounts registered to the user. The provider receives a password from the user through the session and deducts the invoice amount from a user's account and transfers the funds to the merchant. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132854 | SELFCHECKOUT USING GUIDANCE - Method and apparatus for performing security checks at a self-checkout kiosk in a retail store. The customers can create lists of items for purchase as they shop. When a customer is ready to pay, his list can be divided into sub-lists. Each sub-list can include items that require the same type of security check. The customer can then be provided with the sub-lists and an instruction for each sub-list that explains how the customer should arrange the items on the sub-list for a security check. After the customer has properly arranged the items on a sub-list, the relevant security check can be performed. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132855 | COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, READING APPARATUS AND METHOD BY THE SAME - A commodity sales data processing apparatus comprises an image capturing module which photographs a commodity and output the appearance image of the commodity; an extraction module which extracts barcode information from the appearance image of the commodity output from the image capturing module; an object recognition module which performs an object recognition processing on the appearance image of the commodity output from the image capturing module; an exclusion module which excludes, if barcode information is extracted from the appearance image of the commodity by the extraction module, the appearance image of the commodity from targets of the object recognition processing by the object recognition module; a determination module which determines the commodity to be sales-registered according to the result of the object recognition processing; and a sales registration module which carries out a sales registration of the commodity determined by the determination module. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132856 | COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - A tablet terminal is possible to select any one of a plurality of docking stations on the condition that it can be detached from the docking station. The tablet terminal sends printing data of a receipt to the selected docking station. When receiving the printing data of the receipt from the tablet terminal, the docking station outputs the printing data to a printer to issue the receipt. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132857 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN ACTUAL GEOGRAHPIC LOCATION OF A PAYMENT TRANSACTION - A computer-implemented method for determining an actual geographic location of a payment transaction is provided. The method uses an actual geographic location analyzer computer device in communication with a memory. The method includes storing, in the memory, merchant data including a merchant physical address, receiving transaction data for a payment card transaction wherein the transaction data includes a merchant identifier, determining a merchant physical address associated with the merchant identifier, determining, by the actual geographic location analyzer computer device, an actual transaction location. The actual transaction location identifies where the payment card transaction was initiated. The method also includes determining, by the actual geographic location analyzer computer device, a locational difference between the merchant physical address and the actual transaction location. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132858 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFAULT PAYMENT SETTING - A consumer accesses a secure area of a transaction account website and provides their login information for retail websites. The transaction account issuer or a third party creates a script that logs in to the retail websites on behalf of the consumer and transmits transaction account information associated with the transaction account. The script sets the transaction account as the default payment method for the retail website. The transaction account information may be evergreen, such that whenever the transaction account information changes, the script updates the retail websites. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132859 | INITIATING PEER-TO-PEER TRANSACTIONS WITH A MAGNETIC STRIP CARD - The present invention provides a computer-implemented method to conduct a peer-to-peer transaction. A peer-to-peer transaction system receives a request for transaction approval from a merchant network device. The request includes user account information captured from a magnetic strip card encoded with the user account information and transaction information. The peer-to-peer transaction system determines that the transaction information is valid; transmits a request for authorization of the transaction to a user network device; receives an indication that the user authorized the transaction; transmits an approval of the transaction to a merchant network device; and conducts the transaction. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132860 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROCESSING PAYMENT USING INSTANT MESSAGE SERVICE - Disclosed is a method of processing a payment using an IMS. The method includes obtaining information on a chat room generated through an instant message application between a first user and at least one second user with respect to a payment transaction of the first user, updating a payment account of the first user and a payment account of the at least one second user in response to processing the payment transaction of the first user, and outputting a message associated with the payment transaction of the first user through the chat room. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132861 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SECURE ELEMENT FOR CONDUCTING A SECURED FINANCIAL TRANSACTION ON A DEVICE - A device and a secure element for conducting a secured financial transaction are disclosed. The device comprises a central processing unit; a communication interface for establishing a communication between the device and a financial institution related to a financial account; an interface for acquiring data relating to the financial account; the secure element for processing at least a portion of the data relating to the financial account acquired by the interface; and control logic for acquiring a purchase amount to be debited from the financial account and for obtaining a transaction authorization from the financial institution related to the financial account, the transaction authorization being based, at least partially, on data processed solely by the secure element independently of data processed by the central processing unit. A method of conducting the secured financial transaction, and a computer program product for execution by the secure element are also disclosed. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132862 | ENHANCED NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATIONS ATTACHMENT - A secure fob that enables a user to pay for an item or items without needing to present a mobile device. A secure fob may include a proximity capability to ensure that a mobile device is within a particular range, thereby eliminating the risk of fraudulent charges on a stolen fob. In such an embodiment, a fob may be disabled if the fob is not paired with the mobile device by virtue of being disconnected and/or physically separated from the mobile device. The secure fob also may include enhanced features to authorize transactions and locate the mobile device and/or the secure fob. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132863 | TEXT MESSAGE PAYMENT - A computer-implemented method of effectuating an electronic on-line payment includes receiving at a computer server system a text message from a payor containing a payment request representing a payment amount sent by a payor device operating independently of the computer server system, determining a payment amount associated with the text message and debiting a payor account for an amount corresponding to the amount of the payment request, and crediting an account of a payee that is independent of the computer server system. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132864 | PAYMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS - A payment processing apparatus and a system or a method are provided that have a location-agnostic payment code, where the user does not have to check in to the merchant's location. Further, the reliance on the network connection is reduced by caching or storing payment codes at the user's mobile device. The payment codes may have expiration and may be used once. The payment codes may be revoked or canceled if the user's mobile device is compromised or stolen. In an embodiment, the payment codes may be generated and provided to the user's mobile device when the payment application at the user's mobile device is refreshed. For example, the payment application is refreshed based on user's payment history or payment habits. In another embodiment, the payment codes may be generated and provided to the user's mobile device when the user is within a predetermined distance from a merchant. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132865 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF PAYMENT MODULES - An electronic device comprising: a near field communication (NFC) module; a magnetic stripe data transmission (MST) module; and at least one processor functionally coupled to the NFC module and the MST module, wherein the processor is configured to: select at least one of the NFC module or the MST module; and transmit payment information to an external device by using the selected module. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132866 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CREATING VIRTUAL CREDIT CARD - The present disclosure directs to method, device, system for creating virtual credit card. The method may include: acquiring a subset of real-name information from a user interface of a terminal device; searching the real-name information stored in the first server with the subset of the real-name information; upon the real-name information is found in the first server, sending the real-name user information to a second server; finding whether the real-name information associates with a credit card account stored in the second server; after finding the credit card account is stored in the second server, creating, by the second server, a virtual credit card account; and storing the virtual credit card associated with the virtual credit card account in the data storage of the first server. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132867 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPLIT PAYMENT CARD ACCOUNT TRANSACTIONS - A method includes receiving a first account indicator, where the first account indicator identifies a first financial account. The method further includes receiving a second account indicator, which identifies a second financial account. Still further, the method includes receiving a split signal, which indicates how future transactions are to be divided between the first financial account and the second financial account. The split signal may have been generated in response to interaction by an account holder with a slide-bar display element of a user interaction screen display. | 2016-05-12 |
20160132868 | SAVING MERCHANT ARTIFACTS TO A VIRTUAL WALLET - A virtual wallet system provides embedded controls to a merchant for association and display with merchant artifacts on a merchant interface. Merchant artifacts may include begin-of-purchase flow items such as coupons, and end-of-purchase flow item such as tickets. When the embedded control displayed on the merchant interface is selected by a user, a save artifact request is communicated to a virtual wallet server allowing the user to instantly save an instance of the merchant artifact to the user's corresponding virtual wallet account. | 2016-05-12 |