24th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170169372 | AUTOMATED PROJECT CYCLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON SEGMENT COMPLETION - Embodiments provide a system for managing segments of a project cycle based upon completed segments, the system comprising: a display device; a database for storing data associated with the project cycle; a processor; a memory, with the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to: access the data stored in the database to obtain information relating to the project cycle, wherein the project cycle comprises a plurality of segments; the plurality of segments having an identified order, wherein the starting time of a segment is dependent on an ending time of a previous segment occurring directly previous to the segment in the identified order; identify at least one uncompleted segment; identify an ending time associated with a most recently completed segment; adjust the starting time of the at least one uncompleted segment based upon the ending time of the most recently completed segment; and display, on the display device, the adjusted starting time of the at least one uncompleted segment. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169373 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING PERCEIVED IMPACT OF SCHEDULE DEVIATION IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT - A method for computing a metric for evaluating reliability of a transportation service includes collecting transportation data for at least a part of a transportation network. For at least one of the stops on at least one route of the network, dimensions of the metric for evaluating reliability are computed. The dimensions are selected from: a) a perceived waiting cost, b) a cost of lateness at a final destination, based on a difference between a scheduled arrival time and an actual arrival time; and c) an annoyance cost due to a missed connection at the stop. A representation of at least one of the computed dimensions is generated for at least one of the stops, for at least one of the passengers and is output. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169374 | SYSTEM AND METHOD LINKING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING AND ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING - An electronic construction collaboration system for managing a construction project is provided. The electronic construction collaboration system includes an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) sub-system including a contract engine configured to generate at least one project contract including a contract data set and ERP metadata corresponding to Building Information Modeling (BIM) metadata included in a structural object of a construction project model in a BIM sub-system and an interconnection engine configured to associatively link the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata and send the contract data set to the BIM sub-system in response to associatively linking the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169375 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING RESOURCE RESERVATIONS - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a meeting for which at least one resource has been reserved for a period of time, the meeting having been scheduled by a meeting organizer through by a calendaring system. A determination is made that a calendar event that references the meeting is not present in a calendar corresponding to the meeting organizer. The reservation for the at least one resource is canceled. The resource is available for reservation during the period of time for a different meeting. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169376 | NETWORK SERVER FOR SEGMENTING AND SCHEDULING - According to some embodiments, a communication device database may store information about a plurality of communication devices, including at least one communication address associated with each communication device, wherein each communication device is associated with a resource unit. Moreover, a network based segmentation server may access information in a resource status database, automatically assign each resource unit to a resource segment based on at least one pre-determined algorithm and information in the resource status database, and transmit information about the resource segments. A scheduling server, coupled to the segmentation server, may receive the information about the resource segments from the segmentation server, automatically schedule a series of communication events with communication devices in accordance with the resource segments, using the communication addresses, via the distributed communication network, and arrange for communication links to be established for resource units in accordance with the scheduled series of communication events. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169377 | OPTIMAL DEMAND-BASED ALLOCATION - Described herein is a framework for optimal demand-based allocation. In accordance with one aspect of the framework, trip data is extracted from vehicle operation data received from one or more vehicle data devices servicing a region of interest. Vehicle demands for multiple tiles of the region of interest and mutual travel times between neighboring tiles are estimated based at least in part on the trip data. A set of candidate tiles for allocating vehicle stations may then be determined by minimizing total travel time based on the mutual travel times and vehicle demands. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169378 | Co-opetition Index Based on Rival Behavior in Social Networks - An approach is provided that creates a co-opetition index. The co-opetition index is created by mining data from online sources that are related to competitor activities associated with a competitor of an organization. The competitor is selected from many competitors of the organization. Possible business actions are automatically identified that correspond to the competitor activities. The set of possible business actions are analyzed using a game theory analysis. The game theory analysis results in an identification of next actions that maximize a payoff to the organization. The co-opetition index is adjusted based on a classification of the next actions on a competitiveness scale. The resulting co-opetition index is then provided to a user of the system. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169379 | Systems and Methods for Acquiring and Employing Resiliency Data for Leadership Development - Provided in some embodiments are systems and methods for acquiring and employing resiliency data for leadership development. Provided in some embodiments is a method that includes acquiring a set of resiliency data for an employee, determining a resiliency score for the employee based at least in part on the set of resiliency data, determining that the employee is recommended for promotion to a leadership potion within an organization based at least in part on the resiliency score, determining a ranking of the employee relative to other employees within the organization based at least in part on the resiliency score, and serving, to a first device for display to the employee, an employee leadership review dashboard including an indication of the resiliency score for the employee, and an indication of the ranking of the employee relative to the other employees. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169380 | Method and System for Determining Quality Level of Performance Data Associated With an Enterprise - The present disclosure comprises a method for determining quality level of performance data associated with an enterprise comprising one or more domain entities. The method comprises analyzing, by a data quality assessment system, performance data, received from one or more data sources of the enterprise, using one or more quality evaluation parameters associated with the performance data. Thereafter, the data quality assessment system generates one or more events based on the analysis of the performance data. The one or more events are classified by the data quality assessment system, based on predefined event processing guidelines. Further, the data quality assessment system determines a quality index value for each of the one or more domain entities based on the one or more classified events, using the predefined event processing guidelines. Thereafter, the data quality assessment system determines the quality level of the performance data associated with the enterprise. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169381 | VIDEO CONTENT ANALYSIS USING POINT OF SALE DATA - In an embodiment, a method of performing video content analysis using transactional data is provided. The method comprises identifying and receiving the transactional data and a segment of video corresponding to a transaction, integrating the transactional data with the segment of video, and analyzing the integrated video to determine an action to take in relation to the transaction. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169382 | FOCUS AWARE PRODUCTIVITY TOOL - Techniques for managing a user's tasks based on the user's focus level. High focus time slots are identified during which the user has a high level of focus, as well as low focus time slots during which the user has a low level of focus. Tasks for completion by the user are scheduled such that the high focus time slots are allocated to tasks that require a high level of user focus, and the low focus time slots are allocated to tasks that require a low level of user focus. High focus times may be identified based on user indications and/or on biometric data describing the user's physical state. Interruption requests may also be managed based on the user's focus level. Necessary resources may be pre-loaded prior to the high focus time periods, and breaks may be automatically scheduled to maintain the user's high level of focus. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169383 | INTERACTIVE PROJECT PROGRESS TRACKING INTERFACE - Computer systems and methods are provided for updating a task component status. A first graphical user interface is displayed. The first graphical user interface includes a first task completion control with indicia of a first time range that corresponds to a first task, where the first task includes a first plurality of task components, indicia that correspond to at least one completed task component of the first plurality of task components, and indicia that correspond to at least one uncompleted task component of the first plurality of task components. A first input is detected, at a location that corresponds to the first task completion control. In response to detecting the first input, at least one operation is performed to change a status of a respective uncompleted task component. The first graphical user interface is updated using the changed status of the respective uncompleted task component. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169384 | MEASURING VIDEO ASSET VIEWING - A computer-implemented method of using channel tuning data from a video asset viewing device connected to a network to measure video asset viewing at a second-by-second level during one or more user defined lead-in periods, and then correlating that with video asset viewing during a user defined target period, for the purpose of analyzing how viewing activity during the lead-in period(s) correlates with viewing activity during the target period, thus producing longitudinal viewing metrics; all while maintaining viewer anonymity. Additionally, viewing metrics can be categorized based on user defined demographic, geographic, and histogram groupings representing the percentage of video asset viewing with the result that the analyst is able to gain detailed insight into customer viewing behavior. The lead-in video asset may be any video asset or assets. The target may be any subsequent video asset. The metrics produced are useful to service providers, advertisers, and content producers. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169385 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING ITEMS - A retail sales facility that includes a plurality of items offered for sale to remote customers further includes at least one delivery vehicle configured to carry ordered items to customer-specified delivery addresses. A corresponding control circuit receives information from remote customers regarding items to be ordered and delivered along with information specifying a delivery address and a desired timeframe for delivery of the item. The control circuit automatically uses the delivery address and the desired timeframe to present the remote customer with a corresponding delivery cost and to also present at least one suggestion regarding at least one delivery parameter that, if modified, would result in a reduced delivery cost. When the remote customer responds to the at least one suggestion, the control circuit automatically modifies the corresponding delivery cost. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169386 | SECURE SELF-CHECKOUT STATION - A self-checkout kiosk enables a patron to purchase or allocate to an account a product displayed in a vending area and carrying a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The patron exits the vending area through a security portal. The kiosk, a bill acceptor, a computer monitor and/or a mobile device enables the patron to complete a purchase or allocate transaction prior to exiting the vending area through the portal. The portal includes RFID reading antennas for marking products stolen when transferred through the portal without a transaction. Alternatively, a smart shelf keeps track of products on the smart shelf and keeps a checkout tally of removed products. If the patron does not complete a purchase or allocate transaction, or returns the product to the smart shelf within a user-defined set of time, the smart shelf will mark the product as stolen. A security system responds to products marked as stolen. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169387 | Wordless Express System and Method Thereof - A wordless express delivery system includes at least one wordless document file, which is securely affixed to an express delivery item corresponding to the wordless document file, so as to form a wordless express delivery item; and a wordless information management platform which manages the wordless document file, wherein the wordless information management platform acquires wordless information regarding to the wordless express delivery item in the wordless document file, so as to o obtain the delivery status of the wordless express delivery item, wherein there is no word marking and information of the wordless document file regarding to the express delivery item on the wordless document file, so as to eliminate the risk of disclosing the information regarding the express delivery. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169388 | ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM FOR GIFT DELIVERY TO PERSONS HAVING UNKNOWN DELIVERY ADDRESSES - An administrative system for managing order transactions to facilitate selection and delivery of items and services to persons of unknown legal identity also having an originally unknown delivery address. The system include a server configured to qualify a prospective registrant and to acquire a cell phone number or screen name of a prospective recipient; to forward to either the cell phone number, an email or screen name of a prospective recipient, a congratulatory message, including a notification to a person in possession of the acquired cell phone number or screen name; to invite the prospective recipient to enter server provided identification codes into an internet-connected site and to provide a delivery address to the server; and to effect a delivery of a selected item, optionally with a message from the originator, to the delivery address furnished by the recipient. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169389 | Filtered Peer-To-Peer Business Communication In A Distributed Computer Environment - A method for filtered peer-to-peer business communication in a distributed computer environment includes accessing offers associated with one or more offerors and requests associated with one or more requestors, each offer and each request including a set of filter components. Filter components of offers are compared with corresponding filter components of requests to determine whether one or more offers match one or more requests. A match is determined between an offer and a request if the filter components of the offer match the corresponding filter components of the request. In response, at least a matching portion of the offer and request is replicated and communicated to both the offeror associated with the offer and the requestor associated with the request to provide filtered peer-to-peer communication between the offeror and requestor. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169390 | Method for Providing Anonymous Peer Feedback for Work Teams - A method for providing anonymous feedback to members within a group utilizes a manager account and a plurality of employee accounts that are managed by a remote server. In order to avoid abuse of the anonymous feedback, the method consists of a plurality of predetermined feedback messages that are relevant to the group represented by the manager account and the employee accounts. When a desired message is selected from the predetermined feedback messages, the remote server associates the desired message with a specific employee account. The process is repeated to generate a history of received feedback messages for the specific employee account. The specific employee account is then periodically notified to view the history of received feedback messages. Additionally, the manager account can also view the history of feedback messages of the specific employee account. The identity of the sender of the desired message is concealed to promote team harmony. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169391 | MANAGEMENT OF COLLABORATIVE TEAMS - Systems and methods for dynamically creating collaborative teams and managing collaborative work of a team are generally disclosed herein. One example embodiment includes the dynamic creation of a collaborative team by creating an association between team members via a managing module. The managing module may be capable of managing, among other things, team members on a team, tasks and goals of each member of the team, as well as documentation associated with the team. In some embodiments, the managing module may use a chat or messaging protocol to manage collaborative modifications to documents of the team. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169392 | AUTOMATIC BILL OF TALENT GENERATION - A method and system comprising at least one database to store process model information comprising logical process model information and human resource dependency information. The human resource dependency information may indicate design-time dependence of process activities on respective human resource components and may comprise one or more role identifiers associated with at least some process activities and a set of role category identifiers associated with at least one of the role identifiers. The set of role category identifiers indicates a plurality of alternative role categories that are applicable to the corresponding role. The role mapping module is provided to receive user input to associate sets of role category editors with responding role identifiers. A bill generator may analyze the logical process model information and human resource dependency information in order to generate a human resource requirement bill that includes a listing of human resource roles and role categories required for performance of the process. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169393 | Method of managing user contacts and associations between the user contacts - A method of managing user contacts and associations between the user contacts that employs parent accounts that are created to enable primary users to create a parent profile. Each parent account functions as the repository for the contact information for the primary user's colleagues. The method is used to determine which of the primary user's colleagues have parent accounts of their own. The method then facilitates communication between the primary user and these colleagues. In addition to organizing contact information and facilitating communication between colleagues, the method contains multiple life-management processes that the primary user is able to employ as desired. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169394 | Skill Set and Career Assessment Tool and Method - A skill set and career assessment tool and method is set forth devised to match users with results for available positions by generation of a code enabling automatic matching via network. A list of transferrable skills is presented to a user for sorting by preference and ranking by competency. A user also prioritizes ten favored skills. After the sorting, ranking, and prioritizing the code is generated to enable automated matching with results retrievable over network and available positions and opportunities suited to the user's enjoyment as well as skill set are displayed. Additionally, skills which the user may have competency in, but not enjoy using, are usable to display “killer skills”, that is results that would lead to success but lack of fulfillment for the user. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169395 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING JOB CANDIDATES - Human resource system for collecting and analyzing survey data from reference providers identified by a job candidate for use by an employer. The system sends an electronic communication to the reference providers to request completion of survey questions and electronically receives the survey data from the reference providers, preferably through webpages. An analysis module combines the received survey data from the reference providers and generates a confidential candidate report for an employer which excludes identification of any ratings or comments by any reference providers. The system also generates customized interview probe questions for use during job interviews and coaching tactics for use after the hiring, based on the weak areas that have been identified from the completed surveys in order to assist the hiring manager to bring the new hires up to speed quickly and effectively. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169396 | TRANSPORT AND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR SAME - A transportation system between dispatchers and individual recipients includes a first transport-requirement device, a second transport-requirement device, a transport-execution device, and a data processing server. The first transport-requirement device and the second transport-requirement device respectively provides first plan information and second plan information, such information comprising start-locations of a first and a second plan, a destination-locations of the first and the second plan, and start-times of the first and the second plan. The transport-execution device provides driver information and driver confirmation of readiness. The data processing server provides carpool plans to the transport-execution device according to the driver locations. The data processing server obtains end-time of the first and the second plan according to the first and the second plan information, and generates carpool plans according to the relationship between first and the second plan information. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169397 | PERSONALIZED SCHEDULING AND NETWORKING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A personalized scheduling and networking method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium include creating a user persona profile based on user information, extracting scheduling and networking information based on event information, matching a user with events during a conference based on the extracted scheduling and networking information and the user persona profile, and creating a schedule and a route for maximizing a number of the events and networking opportunities based on matches of the matching. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ON-DEMAND TEST DRIVES - A system and method for on demand test drives that can include managing a set of vehicle and worker resources in a resource management system; monitoring user browsing patterns of a customer on an online vehicle marketplace; receiving a test drive request from the customer, the request specifying a requested vehicle and test drive location; retrieving test drive availability options from the resource management system; setting a test drive appointment for a selected test drive availability option; coordinating worker and vehicle transport to a scheduled location of the test drive appointment; and delivering vehicle information during the test drive appointment. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169399 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE PRICING - A system and method for managing a vehicle marketplace that includes managing a vehicle value data system comprising collecting vehicle value data from a set of vehicle data sources; receiving an initial vehicle pricing request; at an initial stage, generating a pricing report in response to the initial vehicle pricing request and at least partially based on analysis by the vehicle value data system; at a second stage, receiving a vehicle inspection report and updating the pricing report in response to the vehicle inspection report and analysis of the vehicle inspection report at the vehicle value data system; and providing the updated pricing report. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169400 | Automatic Classification of Aircraft Component Distress - Systems and methods for automatically identifying and classifying distress of an aircraft component are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes accessing one or more digital images captured of the aircraft component and providing the one or more digital images as an input to a multi-layer network image classification model. The method further includes generating a classification output for the one or more images from the multi-layer network image classification model and automatically classifying the distress of the aircraft component based at least in part on the classification output. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169401 | 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 enabling, e.g., a retailer to identify and evaluate a used or pre-owned consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, laptop, etc. to facilitate purchasing the device from the consumer. In some embodiments, the present technology includes an evaluator input device and an evaluator hub device that together evaluate a device and facilitate its purchase and recycling. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169402 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA RELATED TO TRANSACTIONS USING A MOBILE DEVICE - Techniques for related to retail transaction are disclosed. The techniques involve various uses allowing customers to pay for retail transaction using a mobile device, such as a cell phone. Payments for different goods or service in the transaction may be paid for using different methods of payments stored in a customer account. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169403 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ONLINE/OFFLINE SYNCHRONIZATION - Embodiments allocate and synchronize virtual currency balance of a user among multiple user devices. A user profile is maintained at a central server. The user profile stores a total virtual currency balance and a designation of multiple user devices associated with the user. The total virtual currency balance may be divided among and allocated to the multiple user devices, for example, based on usage data associated with each user device. The portion of the total virtual currency balance allocated to each user device may be stored locally at a local wallet of the corresponding user device. The local virtual currency balance on a user device may be used to purchase goods or services, such as playing a game. If the locally stored virtual currency balance of a given user device runs low, the user device may request additional virtual currency from other user devices without contacting the central server. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUB-MERCHANT FUNDING - A computer-implemented payment processing system and method is presented that includes creating a merchant account and a sub-merchant account on a payment processing platform where the merchant account is associated with a payment facilitator and the sub-merchant account is associated with a sub-merchant of the payment facilitator. The payment facilitator charges the sub-merchant a payment facilitation fee to facilitate payment processing on behalf of the sub-merchant. The merchant account and the sub-merchant account are associated with a first settlement account and a second settlement accounts held by a first financial institution and a second financial institution respectively. Subsequent to creating the merchant and sub-merchant account, the system and method processes a payment transaction for an initial amount of funds for the sub-merchant account. The payment facilitation fee is distributed into the first settlement account and the remaining funds are distributed into the second settlement account. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169405 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MONEY - A method and a device for processing electronic money realize control for payment and circulation of electronic money. The method comprises: dividing electronic money in a user account into one or more monetary units; determining a unit identifier for at least one of the one or more monetary units through encoding processing; and establishing account status information corresponding to the user account. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169406 | RECOVERY OF DECLINED TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods for facilitating a purchase are described. When a payment processor declines a transaction, an error code is sent to a merchant. The error code indicates to the merchant that the failed transaction is recoverable if the user chooses a new funding source or payment instrument. The merchant sends the user back to a payment service provider site where the user can either choose a new funding source or enter a new payment method. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169407 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR SOCIAL NETWORK PAYMENTS - The invention relates to the field of making online payments by integrating social networks and payment networks to a seamless network. In particular, the invention leverages the information in the social network to conduct financial transactions. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169408 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR SOCIAL NETWORK PAYMENTS - The invention relates to the field of making online payments by integrating social networks and payment networks to a seamless network. In particular, the invention leverages the information in the social network to conduct financial transactions. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169409 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR INTUITIVELY PROMPTING PAYMENT AMOUNT - A method and an electronic device for intuitively prompting a payment amount are disclosed. The method includes: at an electronic device, determining, when a payment amount is entered, the number of digits of the entered payment amount in real time; matching, according to a preset digit place loading rule, with a digit whose place needs to be loaded in the payment amount; and loading, to the corresponding digit in the payment amount, the place value that needs to be loaded, to intuitively indicate the place value of each digit in the payment amount. Embodiments of the present disclosure solve the disadvantages such as poor user experience caused by a lack of a place prompt for a payment amount in the related art, and in the embodiments of the present disclosure, it is unnecessary to check multiple times. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169410 | MAGNETIC HEAD PROTECTION FRAME, CARD SWIPING MODULE, AND POS MACHINE - The present invention is applicable to the field of POS machines, and provides a magnetic head protection frame used in a POS machine, a card swiping module using the magnetic head protection frame, and a POS machine using the card swiping module. The magnetic head protection frame comprises a support frame, the support frame is strip-shaped, and the support frame defines a first opening exposing the magnetic head; a circuit board is mounted on an outside surface of the support frame, the circuit board is arranged along the whole length direction of the support frame, and the circuit board avoids a position corresponding to the first opening; connecting wires are connected on the circuit board. By arranging the circuit board on the outside surface of the support frame, since the circuit board will be open-circuited or short-circuited when it is subjected to a physical attack, an alarming signal will be triggered, and thus a security processor on a main board of the POS machine can be triggered, such that information stored in electronic components in a protected area is erased or destroyed, the function of preventing user information from being stolen is achieved, and the magnetic head is protected so as to read card information safely. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169411 | VALUABLE ITEM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A valuable item management system includes first and second valuable item management devices, and a terminal device that communicates with the first and second communicates with the first and second valuable item management devices. The terminal device includes: an operation input unit that receives, from a user, an instruction relating to the first and second valuable item management devices; an acquisition unit that acquires first and second information based on the received instruction, the first information indicating a process to be performed by the first valuable item management device, the second information relating to the process performed by the first valuable item management device and indicating a process to be performed by the second valuable item management device; and a communication unit transmits the acquired first information to the first valuable item management device, and transmits the acquired second information to the second valuable item management device. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169412 | Interception of Touch Pad Events for Handling in a Secure Environment - Some examples include sending, to a secure environment, coordinates for certain touch events made to a touchscreen of an electronic device. As one example, an import address table that is accessed by an event loop of the electronic device may be modified. For instance, only those touch events that are performed within the bounds of a user interface area may be diverted to the secure environment, and all touch events outside that area may continue to be identified, such as by using operating system libraries of the electronic device. In some cases, a checksum may be generated for the import address table using a cryptographic hash function. The checksum may allow a payment application and/or a payment processing system to determine whether an unauthorized modification of the import address table is present. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169413 | Dynamic Adjustment of Item Fulfillment Times - Techniques and arrangements for dynamically adjusting activity metrics and merchant states based, in part, on how many mobile electronic devices are currently located at the merchant. For example, if a number of mobile electronic devices is greater than a history of a number of devices, then it may be determined that the merchant is busy. If the number is less than the history of the number of devices, then it may be determined that the merchant is not busy. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169414 | COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a commodity sales data processing apparatus comprises a stationary type docking station, and a portable information terminal which can be attached to and detached from the docking station freely. The information terminal reads the data attached to a commodity, registers the read data, displays the registration content, and executes, if the information terminal is attached to the docking station, a checkout processing of calculating a checkout amount based on the registration content. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169415 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA RELATED TO TRANSACTIONS USING A MOBILE DEVICE - Techniques for related to retail transaction are disclosed. The techniques involve various uses of a mobile device, such as a cell phone, in authorizing payment for a retail transaction and/or receiving and/or transmitting data to/from the mobile device. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169416 | HIDDEN WIRELESS SWIPING DEVICE AND POS MACHINE - The present invention is applicable to the field of POS machines, and provides a hidden wireless swiping device used in a POS machine and a POS machine using the hidden wireless swiping device. The hidden wireless swiping device comprises a circuit board, a wireless module, a light transmission plate configured to cover the wireless module, and an indicator light mounted on the circuit board; at least one surface of the light transmission plate is a frosted surface, and the circuit board is provided thereon with a control circuit configured to control the wireless module and the indicator light to operate. In the hidden wireless swiping device, the light transmission plate of which one surface is arranged to be a frosted surface covers on the wireless module, the indicator light is arranged on the circuit board, and the control circuit is arranged on the circuit board to control the wireless module and the indicator light to be turned on/off and to operate. When the indicator light stops operating, since one surface of the light transmission plate is the frosted surface, it is difficult to see structures in the POS machine through the light transmission plate, and thus invisibility is realized. When the wireless module needs to be used, as long as the wireless module and the indicator light are controlled by the control circuit to operate, the wireless module can be enabled to operate. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169417 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USAGE OF PAYMENT CARDS AT TRAVEL TERMINALS - A method for transmitting travel notifications to issuing entities includes: receiving travel data associated with travel plans of a consumer, the travel data including a departure date and destination location; reading at least one set of payment card details, each set of payment card details being encoded in a physical payment card or electronically transmitted by a computing device, and where the set of payment card details includes an account number associated with a transaction account; generating a data message for each set of payment card details, the data message including the travel data and the respective set of payment card details; and electronically transmitting a data signal for each generated data message, the data signal being electronically transmitted to a financial institution associated with the transaction account associated with the account number included in the set of payment card details included in the respective data message. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169418 | WIRELESS SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATION LINK TRANSMISSION OF LINE ITEM DATA IN REAL TIME - Methods for wireless payments using the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) protocol are provided. A first method includes establishing a wireless-short range communication link from a communication device to a peripheral device associated with an access device. The communication device receives item level data associated with an item being processed by the access device. The communication device displays the item level data associated with the item and transmits payment data to the access device. A second method includes establishing wireless-short range communication link to from a peripheral device associated with an access device to a communication device. The peripheral device transmits item level data associated with an item being processed by the access device, wherein the communication device displays the item level data associated with the item and receives payment data from the communication device. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169419 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SETTING DEFAULT PAYMENT MODE ADAPTIVELY - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for adaptively setting a default payment mode, applied to an Android terminal. The method includes: analyzing stored history payment behavior to acquire a payment mode adopted by the history payment behavior; acquiring a preferential payment mode according to the payment mode adopted by the history payment behavior; and setting the preferential payment mode as a default payment mode adopted by a payment behavior. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169420 | ONE-STEP PAYMENTS IN A SECURE DIGITAL PLATFORM - A digital payments platform allows users to approve and execute digital payment transactions using a mobile wallet application executing on a registered mobile device. Users initiate transactions on a website of a participating online merchant, at a point-of-sale of a participating physical merchant, or within a participating third-party mobile application. For each such payment transaction, a user receives a transaction approval request on the registered mobile device. The user can review the transaction request and approve it by performing a single action (such as a button press). | 2017-06-15 |
20170169421 | SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING CROSS CARD AUTHENTICATION USING WALLET TRANSACTION AUTHENTICATION HISTORY - A method includes performing a first transaction using a first payment account. The first transaction includes a successful authentication of a holder of the first payment account. A record is stored of the first transaction. The record indicates that the successful authentication occurred. A request is received for a second transaction using a second payment account. The indication of the successful authentication is detected in the stored record of the first transaction. The second transaction is completed without requiring authentication of the account holder. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169422 | Digital Token System for Physical Medium Digitalization and Physical Store Optimization - The present invention designs a digital token system for the digitalization of physical medium carrying information and the optimization of a physical store, and utilizes the system to digitize the physical medium carrying information such as an identity (including a card) and a financial card (including a bank card), with the employment of electronic medium throughout the manufacturing, issuing and usage process, thus reducing or avoiding the manufacturing of physical media, improving issuing and usage efficiency, and greatly enhancing privacy and security. The present invention is particularly suitable to digitalize any physical medium carrying information carried by a user. The digitalized financial card and other forms of the digital token system are applied to the optimization of a physical store, such that the physical store utilizes the information technology of the mobile Internet to optimize checkout and shopping methods, thus creating novel retail commerce methods of “offline to online (O2O)” and “offline to online+online to offline (double O2O, or 2O2O)” combining offline with online, the retail commerce methods comprising: (1) distributive checkouts; (2) cartless shopping. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169423 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STAGING SEND TRANSACTIONS - A method for performing transactions comprises receiving registration information and transaction specifications, generating a distribution profile based on the registration information, and storing the transaction specifications in the distribution profile. The distribution profile is identified based on an initiation instruction and associated user authentication data, and one of the transaction specifications in the distribution profile is identified based on the initiation instruction. Payment source status is verified and a send transaction is initiated, based on the payment source status. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169424 | DELEGATION OF TRANSACTIONS - A method of performing a transaction with a payment credential where the transaction is approved by a delegated user is described. A user and an issuer of a payment credential between them establish permitted use and an authentication option for a delegated user. The delegated user uses the payment credential to perform the transaction. Both the transaction and the authentication option used by the delegated user are provided to the issuer. The issuer then will allow the transaction if the transaction falls within the permitted use and the authentication option is valid for the delegated user. Suitable computing devices and service offerings are also described. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169425 | SELECTIVE ENCRYPTION OF TRANSACTIONAL INFORMATION FOR DIFFERENT PARTICIPANTS OF AN ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION - Transactional information regarding a transaction to be performed by a plurality of parties is obtained. For each party, respective privileges for viewing different portions of the transactional information are determined. Each party is restricted to view only the portion of the transactional information to which the party has the privilege. A plurality of unique public keys is received for the parties, each party having its corresponding unique public key. For each party, the portion of the transactional information that the party is privileged to view is encrypted. The encryption is performed using the respective unique public key corresponding to the party. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169426 | DYNAMIC SECURITY CODE AUTHORIZATION VERIFICATION SERVICE - A method includes receiving a request to verify a dynamic security code included in a transaction authorization request message. The transaction authorization request message was generated in connection with a payment account transaction. The method further includes performing a verification process with respect to the dynamic security code to generate a verification result. In addition, the transaction authorization request message may be modified by adding the verification result to the transaction authorization request message. Also, the modified transaction authorization request message may be transmitted to an issuer of a payment account designated for use in the payment account transaction. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169427 | User Positive Approval and Authentication Services (UPAAS) - The invention provides Users of Retail Payment and Identification instruments with the ability to review transaction details and approve transaction by capturing UVM in User controlled environment and Issuers of these instruments with the ability to positively authenticate Users in Issuer controlled environment. The invention accounts for real time legacy or non-legacy processing systems to provide an authorization request from POA to Issuer Host. The invention introduces two UPAAS components—User Gateway and User Application. The UPAAS User Gateway is implemented in an Issuer controlled environment enabling interface between Issuer legacy Host and UPAAS User Applications. The UPAAS User Application can be implemented on any device supporting communication protocol such as TCP/IP without any hardware changes enabling the User to login to UPAAS User Gateway, review and approve or decline a specific transaction in real time by entering UVM, such as PIN, for User authentication purposes. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169428 | SECURE PASSCODE ENTRY USER INTERFACE - Some examples include determining a traffic region of a touchscreen prior to presentation of a passcode entry interface based on determining a portion of the touchscreen receiving a number of touch events that exceeds a touch event threshold and/or based on determining a portion of the touchscreen on which was presented another user interface that received one or more touch events immediately prior to the presentation of the passcode entry interface. Based at least partially on the traffic region, a location on the touchscreen may be determined for presenting the passcode entry interface. The passcode entry interface may include buttons corresponding to character options for composing a passcode entry. The passcode entry interface may be presented at the determined location on the touchscreen with at least one of the buttons overlapping the traffic region of the touchscreen. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169429 | ENABLING AND DISABLING USER DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS BASED ON AN ACCOUNT TYPE OF THE USER DEVICE - A user device may request an account type identifier that identifies an account type associated with the user device. The user device may receive the account type identifier based on requesting the account type identifier. The user device may compare the account type identifier and a set of account type identifiers corresponding to a set of user device configurations to be enabled or disabled by the user device based on the account type identifier. The user device may enable a first subset of user device configurations, included in the set of user device configurations that are associated with the account type identifier. The user device may disable a second subset of user device configurations, included in the set of user device configurations that are not associated with the account type identifier. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169430 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATED PAYMENT TOKEN RATINGS - According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for dynamic generation of payment token ratings is provided. The method includes receiving a token request, whereby the token request includes a plurality of metadata. The method also includes analyzing the received plurality of metadata based on at least one predefined rule set. The method further includes generating a token in response to receiving the token request. The method then includes determining an assurance rating for the generated token based on the analyzed received plurality of metadata, whereby the assurance rating indicates a risk of fraud associated with the generated token. The method finally includes assigning a token rating to the generated token based on the determined assurance rating. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169431 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING BROWSER HISTORY IN ONLINE FRAUD DETECTION - A fraud detection computing device for using browser history to detect fraudulent online cardholder activity is provided. The fraud detection computing device includes one or more processors in communication with one or more memory devices. The fraud detection computing device is configured to receive, from an interchange network, an authorization request message, identify a device identifier associated with the cardholder computing device, authenticate that the device identifier is associated with the first cardholder account, retrieve a plurality of user browser history based on the device identifier, analyze the plurality of user browser history to determine a plurality of expected pending transactions, determine whether the payment card transaction is included within the plurality of expected pending transactions, and respond to the authorization request message based at least in part on whether the payment card transaction is included within the plurality of expected pending transactions. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169432 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING BAKER'S FRAUD IN TRANSACTIONS - A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to identify and prevent a form of fraud in payment transactions. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169433 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATED PAYMENT TOKEN RATINGS - According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for dynamic generation of payment token ratings is provided. The method includes receiving a token request, whereby the token request includes a plurality of metadata. The method also includes analyzing the received plurality of metadata based on at least one predefined rule set. The method further includes generating a token in response to receiving the token request. The method then includes determining an assurance rating for the generated token based on the analyzed received plurality of metadata, whereby the assurance rating indicates a risk of fraud associated with the generated token. The method finally includes assigning a token rating to the generated token based on the determined assurance rating. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169434 | USER AUTHENTICATION FOR TRANSACTIONS - A method of authentication of a user at a computing device ( | 2017-06-15 |
20170169435 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORIZING A TRANSACTION - Systems and methods for authorizing a transaction are disclosed. In a method a remotely accessible server receives biometric data from a communication device. The biometric data is gathered directly by the communication device from an individual at a merchant's premises. The server receives environmental data unique to the merchant and having been obtained at the merchant's premises. The server identifies a stored individual's profile associated with a biometric data record substantially matching the received biometric data and verifies the received environmental data against stored environmental data. If a stored individual's profile is identified and the environmental data is verified, the server authorizes the transaction. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169436 | Selective Scent Dispensing - A computer implemented method, a computerized system and a computer program product for selective scent dispensing. The computer implemented method comprising: detecting an event, wherein the event is associated with a person entering a predetermined physical area; in response to the detection of the event, determining, by a processor, a scent for the event; and applying, by a dispenser, the scent on the predetermined physical area. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169437 | CONTEXT GENERATION FOR ROUTING ON-DEMAND SERVICES - Context information, indicative of a tenant's engagement with a multi-tenant service, is obtained. An engagement state for the tenant is determined and the context information, and engagement state, are correlated to an issue to be addressed. A user experience is conducted, based upon the likely issue to be addressed. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169438 | USING A SATISFACTION-PREDICTION MODEL TO FACILITATE CUSTOMER-SERVICE INTERACTIONS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that uses a predicted probability of satisfaction for a customer to facilitate a customer-service interaction. During operation, the system obtains information related to an ongoing customer-service interaction involving the customer. The system uses the obtained information to determine a probability that the customer will be satisfied with the customer-service interaction. Next, the system uses the determined probability that the customer will be satisfied to facilitate subsequent interactions whether automated or manual with the customer in furtherance of the customer-service interaction. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169439 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLICATION MANAGEMENT - The present invention is to provide a system and a method for application management to effectively manage an application used in a plurality of terminals with different operating systems even if the purchaser is different from the user. The system for application management | 2017-06-15 |
20170169440 | PASSIVE ANALYSIS OF SHOPPING BEHAVIOR IN A PHYSICAL SHOPPING AREA USING SHOPPING CARTS AND SHOPPING TRAYS - Shopping related data is obtained by using a weight sensor on a shelf to determine a reduction in weight of product on the shelf, and noting the time, and then detecting weight added to a near-by located shopping cart using a sensor, and noting the time. This data is communicated to a processor, which determines a probability that a product has been moved from the shelf to the cart if the reduction in weight upon the shelf is the same weight as the increase in weight upon the cart. Using this data, it is possible to determine a time interval during which a shopper considered purchasing the product. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169441 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CUSTOMER TRAFFIC DATA - A method and device for analyzing customer traffic data at a merchant location are provided. The method may include transmitting pings within a coverage area of a wireless network provided by the merchant computer, receiving ping responses from one or more customer devices corresponding to one or more customers located within the coverage area of the wireless network provided by the merchant computer, extracting a unique device identifier from each received ping response over a period of time, each of the unique device identifiers identifying a different customer device that transmitted the ping response, estimating an amount of customer traffic at the merchant location, over the period of time, based on the unique device identifiers extracted during the period of time, and outputting an indication of the estimated amount of customer activity at the merchant location over the period of time. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169442 | DATA VISUALIZATION METHOD AND DATA VISUALIZATION DEVICE - A data visualization method and a data visualization device are disclosed. The data visualization method includes the following steps: capturing a clickstream that includes a plurality of click data; generating a similarity value for each of the plurality of click data by comparing a first sequential segment of each of the plurality of click data with a segment pattern; capturing the click data having the maximum similarity among the plurality of click data and capturing a second sequence segment of each of the click data having the maximum similarity; visualizing the second sequential segments in a 2D space to present the visualized sequence data of each of the second sequence segments, and setting a position of the click data, having the maximum similarity, in the visualized sequence data to be at a datum point in a first dimension of the 2D space. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169443 | TAG LINK CREATION AND CAMPAIGN TRACKING - The disclosure relates to tag linking systems and methods for tracking content distributed over networks, such as the Internet, and the creation of tag templates which may be loaded at a later time. Embodiments of tag linking systems and methods allow users to create and save naming conventions and easily switch between them. Embodiments of tag linking systems and methods automatically validate links supplied by the user. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169444 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CONSUMER ANALYTICS - Systems and methods are disclosed for deriving consumer analytics. A portable device associated with a user that output sensor data representing motion of the portable device, and by extension, the user. A trajectory may be derived using the sensor data and dwell periods occurring in the trajectory may be identified. By correlating dwell periods with product information including known locations of products along the trajectory, unconverted interactions may be declared in conjunction with point of sale information regarding products purchased during the trajectory. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169445 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING LIKELIHOOD OF CHARITY CONTRIBUTION - A method is provided for determining the propensity of candidate donors to donate to one or more charities. The method generally includes identifying, using a computing processing unit, transactions processed over at least one payment device network as being associated with a first candidate donor. The identified transactions are then parsed to extract ISO 8583 formatted data. By evaluating the extracted ISO 8583 formatted data, a propensity score is assigned to the first candidate donor where the propensity score represents the propensity of the first candidate donor to donate to a first predefined charity, with the propensity score being indicative of likelihood that the first candidate donor will donate to the first predefined charity. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169446 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING MULTIPLE FORECAST MODELS IN FORECASTING CUSTOMER DEMANDS FOR PRODUCTS AT RETAIL FACILITIES - In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to forecasting product demand. In some embodiments, a system comprise a forecasting control circuit to: apply each of a plurality of different models to forecast demand of a first product over a first historic period generating historic forecasted demands of the first product, wherein at least a first model uses selected one or more variables that are predicted to have an uncharacteristic effect on predicted demand; select one of the models and apply the model in generating a forecasted future demand, wherein the selection of the model is based on a difference between each of the generated historic forecasted demands and actual sales; and identify actions to modify inventory of the first product at the first shopping facility based on the forecasted future demand. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTING CUSTOMERS WITH MIXED ATTRIBUTE TYPES USING A TARGETED CLUSTERING APPROACH - Systems, methods, and other embodiments are disclosed that are configured to segment customers using mixed attribute types. In one embodiment, a computerized data structure is read. The computerized data structure has numerical demographic attribute data, categorical demographic attribute data, and target attribute data that is associated with customers and is stored in a computerized memory. The numerical demographic attribute data and the categorical demographic attribute data are converted to a same numerical scale, based at least in part on the target attribute data, to form congruent attribute data in a format that is compatible with performing a cluster analysis on the congruent attribute data. The cluster analysis is performed on the congruent attribute data to generate segmented customer data representing a segmentation of the customers. The segmented customer data may be used to control at least one enterprise function performed by a computerized management system. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169448 | Applying Priority Matrix to Survey Results - A method for preparing survey data for display is disclosed comprising retrieving, from a database, respective responses to at least one survey question in a survey taken by a plurality of respondents and behavior data recorded during taking of the survey by the plurality of respondents, in response to a query comprising the at least one survey question. The retrieved behavioral data is analyzed to derive individual non-explicit information for the respective respondents and non-explicit group information is derived from the individual non-explicit information. The retrieved responses are aggregated to derive aggregated explicit information. The derived explicit and non-explicit group information are configured to be displayed in the form of a two-dimensional grid. The configured listing is sent to a user's computing device, via a network for display, and the configured listings are displayed on a user's display device as two-dimensional grid, by the user's browser. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169449 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING GUESTS OR COLLECTING FEEDBACK FOR AN ENTERTAINMENT ATTRACTION - A mobile application for execution upon an electronic device, system, or method for an amusement park or waterpark for tracking guests and collecting feedback. The application provides information, entertainment or other data to the user within the park. The application may determine a position within the park and display notifications (discounts, menus, etc.) at nearby vendors or provide recommendations based upon wait times. The application may allow for reservations at vendors. The application may determine ride sequence(s) based upon various characteristics and navigate according to such sequence(s). Puzzles, games, or other entertainment or educational activities may be displayed to the user for providing rewards based upon their participation. Guests may be tracked using a variety of technologies and information determined (dispatch rates, queues, etc.) by such tracking. Feedback (customer satisfaction) may be collected at guest interfaces. Guest interfaces may allow communication or other data presented between or to guests. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169450 | VIRTUAL PANEL CREATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A system, method, and computer readable storage medium configured to process, analyze, and model of large amounts of data from a sample of accountholders that is representative of the overall consumer population across key geographic, demographic, and behavior dimensions in an in-memory modeling environment. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169451 | STORE VISIT DATA CREATION AND MANAGEMENT - A method includes receiving, at a user device, a plurality of signals pushed to the user device from a plurality of store devices located in a plurality of physical storefronts. Each signal includes a store identifier identifying the associated physical storefront. Store visit data is generated for each signal, the store visit data including the store identifiers and time data representing times associated with visits to the physical storefronts. Store visit data is aggregated for the plurality of signals pushed to the user device. Aggregated store visit data is transmitted to an analytics server configured to combine aggregated store visit data from a plurality of user devices and generate analytics data from the combined aggregated store visit data. At least a portion of the time data is removed from the aggregated store visit data before transmission to the analytics server. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169452 | RISK CALCULATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND RISK CALCULATION APPARATUS - A risk calculation method includes: calculating a risk value based on psychological characteristic information indicating psychological characteristics unique to a user, and behavior characteristic information indicating behavior characteristics unique to the user in a predetermined time period obtained from a behavior history in the predetermined time period, among pieces of history information in which the behavior history of the user is recorded by a processor; and outputting alerts with respect to a user who has the calculated risk value exceeding a predetermined reference value by the processor. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169453 | INDUSTRY BENCHMARK PROCESS - A system, method, and computer readable storage medium configured to the process, analyze, and model of large amounts of data resulting in improved functionality over a generic computer. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169454 | IDENTIFYING BUSINESS ONLINE SOCIAL PRESENCE WITH NAME AND ADDRESS USING SPATIAL FILTERS - Methods and systems for better identifying a business's online social presence using name and address as provided. Geocoding technology is used to enhance business location information with geographic coordinates. A scanning engine is provided that can search a wide range of social media spaces, including, for example and without limitation, FaceBook, Twitter, Yelp, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Blog, etc. to identify the social presence of a business. The search is performed using the business's name and a defined spatial boundary based on the geographic coordinates and inferred contextual information, thereby reducing the ambiguity caused by information incompleteness and variation in social profiles. Utilizing the spatial filters results in an improved match rate and match accuracy. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169455 | CONSUMER INFLUENCE ANALYTICS WITH CONSUMER PROFILE ENHANCEMENT - Offline consumer behavior and interactions are observed using beacons positioned at venues where consumers spend time and interact with each other. The beacons communicate with mobile computing devices that are carried by the observed consumers. The observed consumer behavior provides actionable insights into how consumers influence each other. For example, the people that a particular consumer spends time with form a “circle of influence” associated with that consumer. If the consumer makes a purchase, members of the circle of influence are observed to understand the degree to which they were influenced by the purchase, if at all. Metrics that quantify a consumer's influence over other consumers allow marketers to more effectively target both the influencing and influenced consumers. Also, if relatively little information is known about a particular consumer, that consumer's digital marketing profile can be supplemented using information known about the consumers with whom he/she often spends time. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169456 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF COST DETERMINATION OF COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES - A method and system of cost determination of one or more computational resources is described. The method receives a first information pertaining to one or more available computational resources from one or more resource providers and further receives one or more requests pertaining to one or more required computational resources from one or more requestors. Based on at least a comparison of the first information and the second information and a first cost and a second cost associated with the one or more required computational resources in a previous time epoch, the disclosed method determines, in a current time epoch, a first cost offered to the one or more requestors for the one or more required computational resources and a second cost offered to the one or more resource providers for providing the one or more required computational resources. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169457 | System and Method for Providing Users with Products on a Time-Based Schedule Having No Price Bias - Exemplary embodiments herein provide a system and method for providing electronic product redemption approvals to produce sales analytics data without price bias. The method includes accepting a subscription payment from a user's smart device at a cloud based server, electronically providing the user with a plurality of tangible consumable products available from a plurality of businesses for redemption on the user's smart device within a present session, accepting an electronic redemption request from the user for a specific tangible consumable product redemption from a specific business, accepting an electronic approval for the electronic redemption request from an employee of the business selected for product redemption; and storing the redemption data at the cloud based server to produce sales analytics data without price bias. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169458 | DETERMINING AWARDS FOR MOBILE DEVICE USERS BASED ON RENEWAL EVENTS - Systems and methods for providing incentives to prepaid customers of mobile devices, such as customers of services for mobile devices (e.g., voice, text, and/or data services) provided by a telecommunications carrier, in order to retain these customers, are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods include a renewal event module that accesses information associated with a renewal event performed by a mobile device customer of a current prepaid service plan, a reward determination module that determines a reward to provide to the mobile device customer in response to the a renewal event performed by the mobile device customer, and a reward provision module that provides the determined reward to the mobile device customer. Further details are described herein. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169459 | ASSET TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ENABLING USER COST REDUCTION FOR SUCH ASSETS - A communication system and servers are disclosed. The illustrative communication system is taught to include a user-facing rebate system that has a line item extraction engine, a purchasable quantities engine, and a rebate matching engine that are capable of identifying materials required in an estimate and corresponding applicable rebates or discounts, thereby facilitating the use of rebate and discount programs and benefitting from the attendant cost savings. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169460 | MEASURING PERFORMANCE OF CONTENT PRESENTED ON AN ONLINE SYSTEM BASED ON USER INFORMATION RECEIVED AT VARIABLE RATES - An online system receives information from client devices describing locations of online system users and identifies certain events based on the information. To account for different rates at which information is received from client devices when identifying events, the online system identifies a group of users associated with location information received at greater than a threshold rate and an alternative group of users associated with information received at less than the threshold rate. Based on a value associated with the group and an additional value associated with the alternative group, the online system computes a scaling factor that is applied to the additional value, allowing the online system to account for potential events associated with the alternative group that were not identified because of the lower rate at which the online system received location information associated with users in the additional group. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169461 | PROMOTION SYSTEM AND PROMOTION METHOD - The present invention provides a promotion system and a promotion method, where the promotion system includes: a producing module, configured to produce a display material; a setting module, configured to set the display material produced by the producing module; and a releasing module, configured to release the display material set by the setting module to different social networks via different release channels. According to the advertisement promotion system provided in embodiments of the present invention, the producing module completes production of the display material, the setting module completes design of the display material, and finally the releasing module releases the display material which has been produced and set to various social networks via release channels provided by the promotion system, thereby helping a user to autonomously complete production, setting and release of an enterprise display material, and reducing promotion cost. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169462 | TARGETED ADVERTISING - A method includes receiving, at the CPE device environment data, the environment data associated with an area serviced by the CPE device. The method includes selecting a particular advertisement from a plurality of cached advertisements based on the environment data, based on information associated with the particular advertisement, and based on historical data associated with advertisements sent to a media device. The method also includes sending the particular advertisement for display. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169463 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING EFFECTIVENESS OF A TARGETING MODEL - An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for determining effectiveness of a targeting model, including setting target variables corresponding to an initial group of consumers, the initial group of consumers corresponding to a subgroup of an experimental group of consumers which is larger than the initial group of consumers, applying the targeting model to an experimental set of consumer data corresponding to the experimental group of consumers to generate a plurality of experimental scores which score the experimental group of consumers according to projected fit with the target profile, identifying any experimental scores in the plurality of experimental scores which correspond to the initial group of consumers, and determining an effectiveness of the targeting model with respect to the target profile based at least in part on the target variables and one or more metrics which quantify the identified experimental scores relative to the plurality of experimental scores. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169464 | DETERMINING VIEWER'S EXPOSURE TO VISUAL MESSAGES - A method is provided for determining number of times in which a specific advertisement is displayed to a specific viewer on digital billboards. The method comprises: providing data which relates to geographical locations of the digital billboards and a displaying time when that advertisement was displayed thereat; retrieving data relating to a group of viewers who were present within a viewing range from a respective digital billboard at the time the advertisement was displayed thereat; determining whether the viewer is included among this group of viewers; and if so, storing information that relates to that determination. Also provided is a method for preventing display of a specific advertisement to the viewer if the total number of times in which that advertisement has already been displayed to that viewer on different displaying means, is equal to a pre-determined value. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169465 | MODIFYING ADVERTISEMENT BIDS USING PREDICTED ADVERTISEMENT PERFORMANCE - An advertising system provides advertisements to client devices. To select advertisements, the advertising system identifies previously selected advertisements to determine which presentations of the advertisement are still in-flight and have not yet resulted in conversion event. The advertising system predicts total advertising spend based on the in-flight advertisements, and adjusts a paced bid for the advertisement by determining whether the estimated total advertising spend, reflecting predicted in-flight advertisements, is above or below an expected spending to reach a budget for the advertising campaign, which may increase or decrease the paced bid. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169466 | AUTOMATED SCRIPT-BASED RULE EXECUTION FILTERING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automated management of campaigns using scripted rules. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169467 | INFORMATION PUSH METHOD AND DEVICE - An information push method and device are provided. The method includes: terminal information indicating that a target terminal is replaceable is acquired; a replacement probability of the target terminal is updated according to the terminal information, the updated replacement probability being higher than a pre-update replacement probability; and the replacement probability is sent to the target terminal. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169468 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF CONTENT FOR ASSOCIATED INDIVIDUALS - A method for identifying content for an associated group of individuals includes: storing, transaction messages, each including a primary account number, merchant identifier, transaction time, and transaction data; identifying a plurality of transaction groups, each group including transaction messages with a common merchant identifier and where the transaction time is within a predetermined range of time; identifying an account group comprising a plurality of primary account numbers included in transaction messages in each of two or more of the transaction groups; identifying transaction behaviors based the transaction data in each transaction message included in the transaction groups that include a primary account number stored in the account group; identifying a content item based on the transaction behaviors; and electronically transmitting the content item via a communication network. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169469 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, NETWORKS, AND MEDIA FOR PREDICTING CARDHOLDER SPENDING, INCLUDING CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURIST (CHT) SPENDING - Method for predicting cardholder spending can include storing information regarding payment card transactions of at least one cardholder at a database. Information regarding cultural heritage locations can be stored at the database. Merchants related to cultural heritage tourism can be automatically identified based on the information stored at the database. Based on the information regarding payment card transactions of each cardholder at the identified merchants, whether each cardholder is in a cultural heritage tourist target category can be automatically detected. Whether each cardholder is interested in additional cultural heritage tourism transactions can be predicted using a predictive model based on the information regarding payment card transactions, the information regarding cultural heritage locations, and the detected cultural heritage tourist target category. Systems, networks, and media are also disclosed. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169470 | COGNITIVE, CONTEXTUAL, AND PERSONALIZED REMOVAL OF IRRELEVANT MESSAGING - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product blocks irrelevant message targeted to mobile electronic device. One or more processors identify a contextual history and a cognitive state of a potential customer while in a physical venue. The processor(s) identify an electronic message related to a target product that is located within a target product location within the physical venue. The processor(s) block the electronic message targeted to a mobile electronic device in use by the potential customer based on the contextual history of the potential customer and the cognitive state of the potential customer while in the physical venue, such that the electronic message is deemed to be an irrelevant message. | 2017-06-15 |
20170169471 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANDOMIZATION FOR ROBUST RFID SECURITY - Systems, devices, apparatuses, and methods are described for providing robust RFID security and secure targeted information dissemination. Randomized identifiers for RFID tags associated with products for sale are read by readers of user devices having their own randomized identifiers. Information relating to the products is provided to the user devices by information retrieval systems without exposing information related to the user device or a user thereof. Information security is provided through the use of the randomized identifiers that act as proxies or surrogates for users and user devices. Based on the products and associated RFID tags read by the user device, a retailer or manufacturer provides targeted advertising and sales incentives to the user device through the information retrieval system. | 2017-06-15 |