26th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150178799 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FUEL FILLING TO MINIMIZE FUEL COST - In an example, a method for determining quantities of fuel to dispense at a plurality of terminals along a transit route of a vehicle includes identifying a plurality of terminals along the transit route, each terminal of the plurality of terminals have an associated cost-per-unit of fuel dispensed; initializing a set of candidate fueling scenarios, each candidate fueling scenario including an initial array of values, each value in the array of values indicating a quantity of fuel to dispense to the vehicle at one of the plurality of terminals along the transit route; iteratively, using at least one processor, modifying the set of candidate scenarios; identifying the candidate scenario of the set of candidate scenarios with the lowest total fuel cost; and transmitting for display, the quantity of fuel to dispense at each of the plurality of terminals according to the identified lowest total fuel cost candidate scenario. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178800 | Invoice Amount Calculation Method, Invoice Amount Calculation Device, and Printer Invoicing System - A manufacturer server | 2015-06-25 |
20150178801 | SALES MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM - A sales management support system includes a first server, and a second server that is connected to the first server through a network, and installed in a store. When selling a drug/food to a customer, the second server compares contraindication-related ingredient information corresponding to the drug/food that is sold to the customer with the contraindication-related ingredient information corresponding to the drug/food purchased by the customer in another store based on the contraindication-related ingredient information stored in a second server-side storage section, and purchase history information transmitted from the first server in response to request information, and generates contraindication information corresponding to the comparison result, the contraindication information indicating contraindications to the drug/food combination, or precautions against the drug/food combination. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178802 | MOBILE TOBACCO RECEIVING STATION - A system, method, computer program product, and mobile receiving station for receiving and processing leaf tobacco at a location of a tobacco farmer, including processing the tobacco leaf at the location, including means for weighing and grading of the received tobacco leaf and, optionally, determining moisture content and transmitting information relating to the optionally determined moisture content, the weight, and the grade of the received tobacco leaf to a tobacco product manufacturing facility over a communications link. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178803 | Consumer Progress Monitoring - Methods and a system for consumer progress monitoring are provided. A third-party consumer application executing on a Self-Service Terminal (SST) is monitored, without modifying the third-party consumer application, for progress updates. The progress updates are sent to a server and pushed to a device of clerk for monitoring a communication session between a consumer operating the SST and a host system. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178804 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES - Systems and methods for recommending third party products and services. The method includes the steps of ranking the third party products and services based on one or more factors, and generating a user profile based on one or more user-related factors. Next, the method determined appropriate third party products and services based on the user's geographical location and filters the third party products and services based on the user profile and the user's geographical location. These filtered results are dynamically ranked based on the user profile, and personalization of the third party products and services. Finally, the method provides the ranked results pertinent to the end user's preferences, and the geographical location. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178805 | COMPOSITE PUBLIC CLOUD, METHOD AND SYSTEM - A composite public cloud enables an automated marketplace system for, selling and trading of computational resources by aggregating available compute resources so that buyers are automatically matched with sellers. A listing of compute resources available on a prospective seller's system and bids by prospective buyers for resources offered is maintained. A seller uses a series of attributes to characterize an available resource for prospective buyers. Compute resources are presented in a form which can be easily quantified or compartmentalized. Prospective buyers search the marketplace system based on desired resource criteria. The marketplace continually evaluates the attributes of resources available for sale and the desired criteria of prospective buyers. The system attempts to match buyers and sellers, optimizing for the needs of both parties. If a desirable match is found, the marketplace system facilitates a transaction between both parties, making the purchased resource available to the buyer. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178806 | PRODUCT/SERVICE RESERVATION AND DELIVERY FACILITATION WITH SEMANTIC ANALYSIS ENABLED DIALOG ASSISTANCE - A method and system capable of authenticating transactions involving at least one service provider and one or more users who are each in electronic communication. This electronic communication can be, for example, SMS, MMS, e-mail, or online account messaging. It is an aspect of certain embodiments where the transaction is an authentication and/or verification of an entity. Examples of such entities are products, actions, and users. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178807 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASYNCHRONOUS CONSUMER ITEM SEARCHING REQUESTS WITH SYNCHRONOUS PARALLEL SEARCHING - This invention is a system for providing persistence searching for consumer items that performs the steps of: retrieving a set of get requests uniquely associated with external vendor sites wherein each get request is specifically formatted for its external vendor site and simultaneously transmitting the set of get requests to the respective external vendor sites. Asynchronously receiving current results from the external vendor sites, extracting the price from the current results for each item contained in the current results received from the external vendor sites, comparing the extracted price of the current results with the price of a previously stored results, generating a notification and including in the notification, a link to the external vendor site to provide a purchasing opportunity to a user where the price of the current results is lower than the price of the stored results. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178808 | PRICE TRANSPARENCY SEARCH AND BUNDLING FOR SURGERIES AND MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND SERVICES - A system or method for providing price transparency medical procedures or services. The system or method can allow a user to search by desired attributes (e.g., cost, procedure, location, etc.) to obtain, previously unpublished pricing information for medical care. The system or method provides comparison of the costs of in-network and out-of-network medical services and cash-only payments. The user can choose medical care at a desired location, and schedule an appointment. Bundled packages of medical services and ancillary services can be offered to enable the user to compare bundled costs based on in-network and out of network medical services and cash-only payments. Any costs calculated by the system or method can account for copayments and deductibles and can enable a user to compare total out-of-pocket expenses with a cash-only payment option. Advertisement revenue can be obtained on a click-through basis based on a healthcare provider profile. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178809 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING VEHICLES FOR A PURCHASER - Processing of vehicle inventory information is described that allows vehicles that satisfy financial institution's financing requirements, as well as a purchaser's requirements are described. The inventory information is processed to identify eligible vehicles that meet the purchaser's requirements. The financial requirements are determined from financial booking information that describes how a financial institution determines the financing for vehicles. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178810 | FUEL PRICE DATA DISPLAY - A method of displaying fuel price data comprising receiving a plurality of fuel price data display components, each fuel price data display component being configured to display fuel price data and receiving a search interface configured to receive input data indicating a search criterion associated with fuel price data. Data indicating a link between the search interface and one or more of the plurality of fuel price data display components is received and the fuel price data is displayed, wherein said fuel price data is displayed in the one or more fuel price data display components linked to the search component based upon the search criterion. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178811 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to recommend service opportunities are provided. One method includes receiving input data relating to a plurality of service options for one or more services provided to a customer using a communications network. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of service options, calculating an estimated likelihood of adoption, an expected revenue increase, and an opportunity score for the service option based on the estimated likelihood of adoption and the expected revenue increase. The method further includes selecting one or more of the service options to be recommended to a user based on the opportunity scores of the plurality of service options. The method further includes providing the user with information relating to the one or more selected service options. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178812 | ELECTRONIC LIBRARY FOR DISPLAYING BOOK TITLE COLLECTION - An electronic library can include book titles that the user owns, such as downloaded or archived e-books that are purchased from a network service, and book titles that the user has identified as having been read. In this way, the user's library can reflect the book titles that the user has previously read even though the user does not own or have right to possess a corresponding e-book. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178813 | SOCIAL MOBILE SHOPPING SYSTEM - Methods and system are provided for enhancing consumer shopping. The methods and systems allow consumers to more readily purchase products of interest to them. The consumers' ability to shop effectively and efficiently is enhanced while a payment provider, such as PayPal, Inc., and/or an online seller, such as eBay, is given a mechanism for recruiting new users. For example, a user's online searches and/or stored shopping list can be used to determine which products the user is interested in purchasing and the availability of at least some of these products can be provided to the user, along with directions to the nearest POS brick-and-mortar stores where the products can be purchased. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178814 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONDUCTING ONLINE TRANSACTIONS - A method and system for conducting online transactions are disclosed. The method implemented by a user terminal includes scanning the product label of a product and obtaining product label information; obtaining product information based on the product label information; and generating purchase order information based on the product information. The purchase order information includes a payment method. The method further includes sending the purchase order information to a trading platform and receiving a message indicating the purchase is complete. The method and system consistent with the present disclosure may improve online product purchase processes and user experience in conducting online transactions. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178815 | PROCESS AND METHOD FOR ORDERING PAINT - Implementations of this disclosure provide processes and methods of ordering paint. In some implementations, a consumer uses a provided color sample to order paint. The color sample has a product identifier thereon used to identify a specific paint formula. The identified paint formula provides the proper proportion of ingredients required to make the color of paint used to color the color sample. This ensures that the consumer receives paint that matches the color sample used to place the order. Implementations of this disclosure allow consumers, for example through a web application, to order paint by using the product identifier of a color sample. After an order is placed, the formula associated with each specified product identifier is transmitted to an authorized retailer who then mixes the ordered paint. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178816 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPARING AND DELIVERING ORDERS - A system and method for preparing and delivering product orders, such as consumer products, and is applicable in the field of “B-to-C” (“business-to-consumer”) marketing of such products (food-general merchandise-DIY, etc.), and more particularly according to a “Drive” marketing mode. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178817 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENHANCEMENT OF FAN EXPERIENCE BASED ON LOCATION DATA - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media are disclosed for enhancement of fan experience based on location data. In one embodiment, a method is provided including receiving blink data from a tag, calculating, using a processor, tag location data, wherein the tag location data is based on the blink data, correlating tag location data to merchant location data, and transmitting merchant information to an application device associated with the tag based on the tag location data and on the merchant location data. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178818 | NETWORK-BASED GROCERY STORE - The present invention is a method and system for a network-based grocery store. The invention provides for network-based order placement, fulfillment, and delivery. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178819 | ALTERNATIVE EMAIL-BASED WEBSITE CHECKOUTS - An e-commerce system and method for facilitating transactions between a customer and a vendor is disclosed. The e-commerce system includes a receiver configured to receive a request for at least one token, the request including the details of at least one transaction for the purchase of at least one product, a processor configured to generate at least one token, a transmitter configured to transmit the at least one token to a customer browser, the customer browser being used to validate the token using at least one iframe, the receiver configured to receive submission in the iframe, the processor configured to decode the token, the processor configured to perform one or more validations, and the processor configured to process the transaction, on a condition that the validations are approved. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178820 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE SHOPPING - A system of and method for online shopping in which an intelligent agent at a client-side server renders and updates domestic information relevant to a first geographical location provided on any deliverable Webpages such that the updated information is displayed on the display device as non-domestic information relevant to a second geographical location. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178821 | INTERACTIVE TRY-ON PLATFORM FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - Systems and methods for offering an online shopping service are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided for allowing an online shopper to virtually try on one or more products. The method includes storing a user video profile for the online shopper and creating a product video profile for a plurality of products offered for sale by a plurality of online sellers. The method also enables the online shopper to navigate a plurality of online websites associated with the online sellers and enables the online shopper to select a product from the plurality of products offered for sale. The method also includes the step of combining the user video profile for the online shopper with the product video profile corresponding to the selected product to create a user try-on video. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178822 | DISCOVERY ENGINE STOREFRONT - A method and a system of online shopping using a digital storefront. For example, a digital storefront having multiple touchscreen display surfaces presents a plurality of tiles to a user, where one or more tiles display images of items for sale and at least one hunch question which may be related to the environment. In further examples, a response is received from the user to one or more hunch questions, and items are recommended for the user and presented to the user in one or more updated tiles on a touchscreen display surface. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178823 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that auctions and delivers merchandise in consideration of quality degradation caused by delivery of the merchandise, and implements both an increase in profit and an increase in delivery efficiency. The information processing apparatus includes a first receiver that receives the current position of merchandise from a communication terminal used for delivery of the merchandise, a first transmitter that transmits, to a communication terminal of each user, a reserve price representing the lower limit of a bid price according to prediction of quality degradation caused by delivery of the merchandise predicted based on a current position of each user and the received current position of the merchandise, a selector that receives bid prices for the merchandise from communication terminals of a plurality of users and selects a delivery destination candidate, and a second transmitter that transmits the selected delivery destination candidate to the communication terminal located at the current position of the merchandise. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178824 | NETWORK-BASED COMMERCE FACILITY OFFER MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Various embodiments include systems, methods, and software to manage offers in a network-based commerce system. One embodiment includes providing sellers an option when listing an item for sale to receive best offers for the item from buyers. This embodiment further includes receiving best offers submitted by offerees via the network-based commerce system and notifying sellers of received best offers. Some embodiments further include providing sellers an option to accept, reject, or ignore the individual best offers received. In some such embodiments, ignored best offers expire after a period, such as 48 hours. Yet further embodiments include notifying offerees of acceptance or rejection of their submitted best offers. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178825 | Methods and Apparatus for Quantitative Assessment of Behavior in Financial Entities andTransactions - Methods and apparatus for assessing behavior, such as fraud and risk, in financial entities and transactions involve, for example, receiving, using a processing engine computer having a processor coupled to memory, data related to a plurality of entities. The plurality of entities is segmented into a plurality of entity peer groups based at least in part on a plurality of behavior components identified for each entity in the received data. For each entity, a behavior norm is created based on the entity history and its relationship to its corresponding peer group. All of the behavior components for each of the entities are normalized, and aggregated and a behavior score generated for each entity based on a continuous comparison of behavior values of each entity to a behavior norm for the entity peer group into which the entity is segmented. Based on new data received from time-to-time, this apparatus dynamically adapts the plurality of entities which may be re-segmented, the behavior components may be re-normalized, and a new behavior score may be generated for each entity. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178826 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING RULES FOR EQUITY CORPORATE ACTIONS - A system and method for creating rules for equity corporate actions and their variations is disclosed. The method includes receiving the data corresponding to corporate action event from at least one agent. Thereafter, method includes generating a rule for one or more one corporate action event from the received data by using one or more common parameters, wherein the common parameters define the one or more corporate action event. Further, the method includes executing the rule generated for the one or more corporate action event, wherein the rule generated is stored in the repository. Further, the method includes delivering the entitlement based on the rule for the one or more corporate action event. Thereby, the method enables financial institutions to handle any corporate action event and their variations. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178827 | COMPUTER MODELING OF PROPERY TAX DELINQUENCY RISK - A computer model of tax delinquency risk is generated by analyzing historical data, including mortgage loan data, associated with real estate properties that have become property tax delinquent. The model is used to generate property-specific scores representing the likelihood that the corresponding properties will become tax delinquent (absent lender or servicer intervention) within a selected time period, such as six months. The scores may, for example, be used by a mortgage lender or servicer to identify loans/properties for which to take preemptive action to avoid tax delinquency. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178828 | MULTI-BANK ASSET PARTICIPATION STRUCTURE - A method and system comprising: receiving, by a master program administrator server from a first asset purchasing entity server, a first asset purchasing entity portfolio report on a periodic basis and from a second asset purchasing entity server, a second asset purchasing entity portfolio report on a periodic basis. Transmitting, by the master program administrator server to a program asset administrator server, the first asset purchasing entity portfolio report and the second asset purchasing entity portfolio report, and a central funding entity collection report based on payment collection from the first asset purchasing entity server and the second asset purchasing entity server. Receiving, by the master program administrator server from the program asset administrator server, an analysis report based and transmitting an action item based on the analysis report. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178829 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL CREDIT SCORE AND A RESPECTIVE VIRTUAL CREDIT LINE - A system and method for generating a virtual credit score in real-time and establishing a credit line to a customer of a customer node. The method comprises receiving at least one customer identifier of the customer from a supplier node, wherein the customer performs an electronic commerce transaction with respect to the supplier node; retrieving data respective of the customer from at least one data source, wherein the date is retrieved using the at least one customer identifier; analyzing the retrieved data to determine at least one further customer identifier; generating the virtual credit score for the customer at least based on the determined at least one further customer identifier; comparing the virtual credit score to a virtual credit threshold to determine if the customer meets the virtual credit threshold; and upon determining that the customer meets the virtual credit threshold, establishing the credit line to the customer. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178830 | Method and System for Reduced-Risk Extension of Credit - A system and method for extending a firm offer of credit without regard to the credit risk profile of the credit applicant is disclosed. Using seller-defined and/or system and method provider configured business rules and related payment computations, the system derives a series of initial payments representing a “down payment.” After the down payment is collected, the goods or services are delivered. The purchaser may elect upfront from a plurality of payment options, including the automatic collection through recurring pre-authorized electronic funds transfers to a deposit account or via authorized and settled credit or debit card authorization(s). A purchaser using either of these options has the option, upon receipt of the goods or services, to pay the remaining balance through the continuation of electronic funds transfers or, at any point prior to completion of payments using a “one-time authorized amount for the balance due” alternative form of payment like cash, credit or debit card, to pay off the remaining balance. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178831 | DETERMINISTIC AND EFFICIENT MESSAGE PACKET MANAGEMENT - Methods, devices, and systems for facilitation of deterministic management of a plurality of electronic message packets communicated to an application via a network from a plurality of message sources. The facilitation involves receiving each of the plurality of electronic message packets from the network, determining an order in which each electronic message packet was received relative to the reception of others of the plurality of electronic message packets, and providing the order to the application. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178832 | DETERMINISTIC AND EFFICIENT MESSAGE PACKET MANAGEMENT - Methods, devices, and systems for facilitation of efficient processing of a plurality of electronic message packets communicated to an application via a network from a plurality of message sources. The facilitation involves receiving each of the plurality of electronic message packets from the network, and storing, upon receipt thereof, each of the received electronic message packets in a single buffer irrespective of which message source of the plurality of message sources each of the received electronic message packets originated from, the single buffer being accessible by the application. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178833 | VOLATILITY BASED FUTURES PRODUCTS - A method of providing a financial product may include obtaining, by a computer device, pricing information about a financial market over a specified duration, the pricing information including at least a high price and a low price occurring within the duration. The computer device may be configured for determining a volatility associated with the market, the volatility based, at least in part, on the pricing information and determining a settlement price for a cash settled futures product using the volatility of the market over the specified duration. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178834 | HYBRID INDEX DERIVED USING A KALMAN FILTER - A method of determining a hybrid index may include obtaining, by a computer device, financial transaction information about two or more financial products over a duration. The computer device may be configured to filter the financial transaction information to produce enhanced financial transaction information. The computer device may then determine a financial index value using the financial transaction information and the enhanced financial transaction information. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178835 | SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE SYSTEM - In an electronic supply chain finance system and method, multiple financial institutions may be available to a supplier to trade payment obligations owing to the supplier from a buyer, via a remote computer system. An entity that controls the computer system authorizes the supplier to conduct trades. The financial institutions have requirements of suppliers before agreeing to trade. Once the supplier meets the requirements for one or more of the financial institutions, the entity or the computer system selects with which of the now-available financial institutions to trade. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178836 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURITY TRANSACTION SERVICE - A security transaction server accepts a security transaction request from a terminal of a security beneficiary and registers the security transaction request in a list of security transaction requests, provides the list of the security transaction requests to a terminal of a security provider to collect security providers, receives contract documents concluded between the security beneficiary and the security provider from the security beneficiary and the security provider and registers the contract documents, establishes a security right by a security request amount of money for a financial asset of the security provider depending on contents of the contract documents, provides the established security right as a financial asset of the security beneficiary, exercises the security right on an expiration date of the security right or depending on a received contract termination request, and provides a dealing money depending on the exercise of the security right to an account of the security beneficiary. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178837 | Cover-OCO For Legged Order - A position associated with a synthetic spread order may be managed where a status of a synthetic spread order is identified as legged. The synthetic spread order may have at least one child hedge order pending at an electronic exchange and in response, a bracket order is submitted to an electronic exchange for the tradeable object associated with a filled leg of the synthetic spread. In response to execution of the bracket order, the child hedge order may be cancelled. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178838 | Method and Apparatus for Message Flow and Transaction Queue Management - Management of transaction message flow utilizing a transaction message queue. The system and method are for use in financial transaction messaging systems. The system is designed to enable an administrator to monitor, distribute, control and receive alerts on the use and status of limited network and exchange resources. Users are grouped in a hierarchical manner, preferably including user level and group level, as well as possible additional levels such as account, tradable object, membership, and gateway levels. The message thresholds may be specified for each level to ensure that transmission of a given transaction does not exceed the number of messages permitted for the user, group, account, etc. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178839 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRADE AGGREGATION OF TRADE ALLOCATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS - A post-trade aggregation system includes an allocation middleware interface, which interacts with data interface to allocate and settle trades. An order management system receives a trade order on behalf of a customer and causes apportionment of the trade into a plurality of smaller orders to be transmitted to a plurality of order destinations directly (e.g. via the FIX protocol). The post-trade aggregation system includes an allocation middleware interface which receives the individual trade executions from the plurality of order destination and compresses them into a single average-priced block. The allocation middleware interface then transmits the single average-priced block to be cleared by a designated clearing agent and allocates the single average-priced block into one or more custodian accounts. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178840 | SYSTEMS AND RELATED TECHNIQUES FOR FAIRNETTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRONIC TRADES - Fairnetting and distribution of electronic trades is described, where, a computing device includes a reception module, a trade organization module, and a trade netting module. The trade organization module organizes one or more trades, received by the reception module, by currency pairs. The trade netting module generates, at a first point in time, a netting plan designed to offset a trade against at least one other trade, and estimates, for the netting plan, a first value that is proportional to an expected savings based on real-time market data and associated with executing the trades according to the netting plan versus executing the trades without the netting plan, where the first value is not exceeded by a cost of trading proportional to a change in market value of the trades between the first point in time and a time that a first trade included in the trades is executed. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178841 | Method and Apparatus for Enabling Individual or Smaller Investors or Others to Create and Manage A Portfolio of Securities or Other Assets or Liabilities on a Cost Effective Basis - Smaller investors can create and manage on a cost-effective basis a complex portfolio of securities using a mechanism that enables the investor to provide to the system the investor's preferences regarding his portfolio, to generate a portfolio, including fractional shares, that reflects the investor's preferences. The system then permits aggregation of the orders, and netting of orders, generated by multiple investors at various times during the day for execution. In addition, the structure of the computer-based system of the present invention allows its cost to be based on access to or usage of the system (such as a monthly fee) as opposed to by securities orders entered into the system as per common brokerage. The result is that the investor can create a portfolio of directly owned securities with athibutes, such as diversification, similar to a mutual fund. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178842 | Customized Retirement Planning - According to a particular embodiment, a method for customized retirement planning includes displaying a landing page on a mobile device. The landing page depicts topic identifiers, and each topic identifiers is an element within a framework for retirement planning. A first user input is received. Based on the first user input, a priority of each element with respect to every other element within the framework for retirement planning is determined. A first information page relating to a particular element within the framework for retirement planning is selected. The element is selected based at least in part on the priority of the particular element determined based on the first user input, and the first information page is displayed. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178843 | Interactive Retirement Planning - According to a particular embodiment, a method for interactive retirement planning includes displaying a landing page that includes a topic dashboard on a mobile device. The topic dashboard depicts topic identifiers, and each topic identifier is an element of a retirement plan. A first user input identifying a selected topic identifier within the topic identifiers is received. A topic information page relating to the selected topic identifier is selected. The topic information page includes interactive content relating to the element of the retirement plan that corresponds with the selected topic identifier. The topic information page including the interactive content relating to the element of the retirement plan is displayed to the user on the mobile device. In response to receiving a second user input, the interactive content related to the element of the retirement plan that is displayed to the user is modified to reflect a user preference corresponding with the second user input. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178844 | Customized Retirement Planning - According to a particular embodiment, a method for customized retirement planning includes displaying a landing page that is a topic dashboard on a mobile device. The topic dashboard depicts a plurality of topic identifiers. Each of the plurality of topic identifiers include an element of a retirement plan. A first user input that identifies a selected topic identifier within the plurality of topic identifiers is received. Topic information pages relating to the selected topic identifier are selected. The topic information pages includes information relating to the element of the retirement plan that corresponds with the selected topic identifier. At least one of the topic information pages is displayed to a user of the mobile device. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178845 | SEASONAL PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The SEASONAL PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“SPC”) transform user data request via SPC components into seasonal portfolio investment transaction records. In one implementation, the SPC may provide an investment analytics and management tool facilitating a user (e.g., investors, consumers, portfolio managers, traders, etc.) to research, build and maintain an investment strategy for a customized portfolio based on a current economic cycle phase. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178846 | Deferred Income Annuity Structure Planning Tool Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The Deferred Income Annuity Structure Planning Tool Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“DIA-PT”) transforms individual profile input (e.g., see | 2015-06-25 |
20150178847 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT - [TECHNICAL PROBLEM] An evaluation score and information of a group of applications and patents mutually related with each other to constitute a patent portfolio are visualized so that an effective value evaluation is realized. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178848 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FINANCIAL PROPOSAL GENERATION - Systems and methods that receive personal and/or financial information associated with a customer and a proposed financial action are disclosed. Based, at least in part on the received information, and iterative analysis of the financial implications of the proposed financial action, a financial proposal is generated. The financial proposal may provide insight into one or more optimized times and/or optimized amounts for executing the proposed financial action. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178849 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSULTATIVE INSURANCE QUOTATIONS - Exemplary embodiments provide systems, methods, and products that alter the content (e.g., the questions, information, advice, educational materials, and/or interface-page flow) experienced by each user of an automated insurance quotation system in order to create a consultative interaction with the user and to define an insurance product that fits the user's desires and requirements. Various embodiments determine the flow and content to present via the user interface to each user on the basis of information provided by the user throughout the computerized insurance consultation, quote, and purchase process. Some implementations may iteratively select specific content(s) from a set of content according to input or answers received from the user in response to previously presented content, and present the selected content(s) to the user. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178850 | INSURANCE APPLICATIONS UTILIZING VIRTUAL ENGINEERING DATA - Systems, apparatus, interfaces, methods, and articles of manufacture that provide for insurance claims handling, underwriting, and risk assessment applications utilizing virtual engineering data. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178851 | INSURANCE PRODUCT MODEL RELATIONSHIPS - Managing insurance product model relationships is disclosed. A dependency data store storing dependency relationships of a plurality of source insurance product model patterns and a corresponding plurality of target insurance product model patterns is maintained. It is detected that a user interface display associated with a source insurance product model pattern is to be updated. The dependency data store is checked to identify a dependency relationship of the source insurance product model pattern and a corresponding target insurance product model pattern. A user interface display associated with the target insurance product model pattern is updated. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178852 | System and Method for Facilitating Transportation of a Vehicle Involved in a Crash - A system, method, and computer-readable medium to facilitate treatment of a damaged vehicle by gathering crash information, estimating an extent of vehicle damage, and requesting transport of the damaged vehicle from the crash site to a treatment facility. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178853 | Modeling Asset Transfer Flow Relationships Discovered in Unstructured Data - Mechanisms are provided for performing an analysis of content based on a flow of property between entities. The mechanisms analyze a corpus of unstructured documents to identify one or more asset transfer flow relationships between entities. The mechanisms generate an asset transfer flow model defining a flow of an asset between entities based on the one or more asset transfer flow relationships between entities. The mechanisms input the asset transfer flow model into an analysis engine for use in analyzing content. The mechanisms analyze the content using the asset transfer flow model to generate results of the analysis and output the results of the analysis based on the asset transfer flow model. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178854 | SINGLE USE ACCOUNT POOL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments are directed to systems, apparatus, and methods for account pool processing. In some embodiments, a server computer can store account information for a first pool of accounts and a second pool of accounts. The server computer can receive a payment request message from a buyer that identifies a payment amount and a supplier, and can determine that the payment amount corresponds to the first or second pool of accounts. If the payment amount corresponds to the first pool of accounts, the server computer can select an account from the first pool of accounts, and can transmit account information for the selected account to the supplier. If the payment amount corresponds to the second pool of accounts, the server computer can select an account from the second pool of accounts, and can transmit account information for the selected account to the supplier. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178855 | OCR ENABLED MANAGEMENT OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND/OR ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AUDITING DATA - A number of different tags are input in a fax cover sheet that tell an OCR system not only the identity of the supplier, but also to which client the document should be routed. The OCR system identifies a number of these tags and compares them to stored supplier data to validate to which supplier the document belongs. If the system cannot validate the document, it is routed to a GUI for manual sorting. If there is no coversheet, the system relies upon the OCR system to locate keywords on the document and caller ID information to suggest a correct supplier. The OCR system also clips a separate, horizontal slice of the document (‘snippet’) that corresponds to the display of any line item and places it in a data base for future reference and reporting. The application collects and associates all corresponding snippets to their originating line items. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178856 | System and Method for Collecting and Submitting Tax Related Information - A method for submitting and receiving information required for tax filing contains a mobile interface and a website interface. A client submits information through the mobile interface. Personal information and digital photographs of at least one identification card and received tax documentation are submitted by the client through a client account. Required tax information is extracted from the digital photographs submitted by the client account. The personal information and the required tax information are stored on a secure server. A tax preparer accesses the secure server through a tax preparer account. More specifically, the tax preparer account accesses the secure server through the website interface. When the personal information and the required tax information are reviewed and edited by the tax preparer account, the tax preparer account can proceed with the tax filing process through the website interface. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178857 | FACET-BASED FILTERING OF SOCIAL NETWORK UPDATE DATA - A network update interface is presented to a user on a network to display network updates from other users of a mutual social-networking site. The network updates shared by the other users are gathered in a stream and supplied to a facet-filtering system including a network update interface. The user controls the display of certain network update items according to facet-filter characteristics enabled in facet-filter selection panels in the network update interface. The facet-filter characteristics are used by a facet filter to select certain network updates for display to the user in the network update interface. Trending links to further articles with content corresponding to the facet-filter characteristics are displayed to the user according to greatest popularity among the other users. Links to the profiles of the users sharing the articles are also provided in the network update interface. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178858 | STRUCTURED DATA IN A BUSINESS NETWORKING FEED - Disclosed are database systems, methods, systems, and computer program products for providing tabular data in a social network feed. In some implementations, a server of a database system stores, in a database, social network feed data comprising a plurality of feed items as data objects. The server also stores, in a database, tabular data as data objects. The server shares the social network feed data and the tabular data in a social network feed displayable to present the feed items and the tabular data in a user interface, the tabular data being presentable in the user interface in a tabular format. The user interface may receive shareable user commentary regarding the tabular data. The stored tabular data may be editable by users of the database system. The social network feed may be updated to comprise notifications of edits to the tabular data. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178859 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management system includes an input device provided to a loading machine that performs, after a first loading work of loading a load onto a first haul machine positioned at a first loading position at a loading site of a mine is ended, a second loading work of loading a load onto a second haul machine that is already positioned, during the first loading work, at a second loading position different from the first loading position, and a processing device to which an operation signal generated by the input device is to be output, wherein the processing device specifies a start time of the second loading work based on the operation signal generated by the input device at a time when the first loading work is ended. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178860 | PROCESS FOR CONFIGURING CONSUMER SOURCE SELECTIONS IN DEREGULATED MARKETS - Some embodiments include novel methods for obtaining information regarding one or more deregulated utility markets, switching between utility providers in a deregulated utility market, and renewing utility contracts with existing utility providers in a deregulated utility market. In some embodiments, the deregulated utility market is one of an electricity market, a natural gas market, and a telecommunications service market. In some embodiments, the methods are implemented in one or more software applications that operate on a computing device (e.g., a mobile device such as a smartphone) that can connect to a network associated with the deregulated utility market. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178861 | Systems and Methods for Quantitative Evaluation of a Property for Renovation - This disclosure includes devices, systems, and methods for identifying and tracking products to be obtained and/or tasks to be performed for a structure (e.g., for repair and/or remodeling of the structure). For example, some embodiments of the present portable computing devices comprise: a processor; an input device; a display and memory storing instructions executable by the processor to: present via the display an input interface having a plurality of input portions each associated with a different portion of a structure; receive via the input device user selections of products that are available form a supplier, at least some of the selected products each associated with a different portion of the structure; and generate an output of information associated with the selected products, the output including for each of the selected products a unique identifier corresponding to a product record of the supplier. Some embodiments of the present systems comprise: an embodiment of the present devices; and a server configured to communicate with the device, the server comprising: a processor; and memory storing instructions executable by the processor to: receive user selections of at least one of: portions of a structure with which input portions are associated on the device; products that are available for selection on the device; and indications of labor costs associated with at least some of the products that are available for selection on the device. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178862 | MOBILE PAYMENTS - In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises a service provider computer system obtaining, from a point-of-sale (POS) computer of a merchant, ticket data comprising one or more items of a transaction ticket opened at the POS computer; matching the transaction ticket to a user account of a user of the service provider computer system; communicating the ticket data to a mobile computing device of the user based on matching the transaction ticket to the user account; receiving, from the mobile computing device, a request to pay a payment amount based upon the ticket data; and causing transfer of funds in the payment amount from a payment account of the user to a bank account of the merchant. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178863 | INTEGRATED SERVICE FOR FOOD SERVICE - A method for integrated food service includes: generating food service data from one or more on-site components; storing the food service data in a data repository; accessing the food service data over the internet through an administrative portal, wherein the administrative portal is configured to provide communication between the data repository and the one or more on-site components. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178864 | RESTAURANT SERVICE AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The field of the invention relates to management systems including a hub, a set of clients, and a point of sale system, the management system operable to be controlled by management tool software. There is provided a management system, comprising a hub, a set of clients, and a point of sale system, the management system operable to be controlled by management tool software wherein the management tool software provides a user interface. The management system may be used as a table management system in restaurants. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178865 | TOTAL PROPERTY OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND SMART BUILDINGS - Techniques for managing one or more buildings, including collecting historical building data, real-time building data, historical exogenous data, and real-time exogenous data and receiving the collected data at an adaptive stochastic controller. The adaptive stochastic controller can generate at least one predicted condition with a predictive model. The adaptive stochastic controller can generate one or more executable recommendations based on at least the predicted conditions and one or more performance measurements corresponding to the executable recommendations. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178866 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATING AND ANALYZING BUILDING PERMITS - Computer-based systems and methods are disclosed for performing building permits analytics for real estate properties. Building permits data from multiple jurisdictions are collected, standardized, and stored. The collected building permits data is then used to perform one or more building permits analytics. In some embodiments, the systems and methods can improve rating/ranking of regions and contractors, detect sales leads, and detect potential fraud by considering building permits analytics. In some embodiments, the systems and methods can improve valuations of real estate properties, processing of insurance claims, and synchronization with external systems by considering building permits analytics. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178867 | Linked Addendum Detection - A linked addendum detection system identifies and links related contractual documents including a master agreement (MA) and associated amendments from a large volume of data. The system extracts primary features including key references or descriptions within each contractual document. In addition, the system also includes grouping to detect the related contractual documents. Moreover, the system sorts the MA and the associated amendments according to the modification time (MTIME), and further sequentially establishes linkages from one contractual document to the next document in order. Furthermore, the system prepares and provides output result for display to an end user. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178868 | Child Custody Management System - A website is designed to facilitate visitation arrangements in contentious custody situations. A third party account is established at the website with an access right for both parents. The website provides a functionality of creating an individual calendar for each child at the third party account, allowing each parent to access the account and the calendar, and put in a request with alternatives for pick up, drop off and/or visitation dates. The non-requesting parent is then able to pick one of the alternatives, and the website will forward the selected date to the requesting parent. Requests and other communications between the parties are done by website-generated e-mails to avoid direct communications and confrontations between the parents. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178869 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSIGNING AND AGGREGATING LEGAL CLAIMS - The present invention provides a method and system for assigning and aggregating legal claims that would, individually, not be practicably actionable by claim holders. Legal claims are assigned and aggregated by providing claim holders with interfaces that allow the input of claim information and the assignment of claim rights. Assigned legal claims are grouped by prospective defendant, thereby allowing effective prosecution of the aggregated legal claims by one or a few parties. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178870 | NETWORK-BASED COMMERCE FACILITY OFFER MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Various embodiments include systems, methods, and software to manage offers in a network-based commerce system. One embodiment includes providing sellers an option when listing an item for sale to receive best offers for the item from buyers. This embodiment further includes receiving best offers submitted by offerees via the network-based commerce system and notifying sellers of received best offers. Some embodiments further include providing sellers an option to accept, reject, or ignore the individual best offers received. In some such embodiments, ignored best offers expire after a period, such as 48 hours. Yet further embodiments include notifying offerees of acceptance or rejection of their submitted best offers. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178871 | NETWORK-BASED COMMERCE FACILITY OFFER MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Various embodiments include systems, methods, and software to manage offers in a network-based commerce system. One embodiment includes providing sellers an option when listing an item for sale to receive best offers for the item from buyers. This embodiment further includes receiving best offers submitted by offerees via the network-based commerce system and notifying sellers of received best offers. Some embodiments further include providing sellers an option to accept, reject, or ignore the individual best offers received. In some such embodiments, ignored best offers expire after a period, such as 48 hours. Yet further embodiments include notifying offerees of acceptance or rejection of their submitted best offers. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178872 | NETWORK-BASED COMMERCE FACILITY OFFER MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Various embodiments include systems, methods, and software to manage offers in a network-based commerce system. One embodiment includes providing sellers an option when listing an item for sale to receive best offers for the item from buyers. This embodiment further includes receiving best offers submitted by offerees via the network-based commerce system and notifying sellers of received best offers. Some embodiments further include providing sellers an option to accept, reject, or ignore the individual best offers received. In some such embodiments, ignored best offers expire after a period, such as 48 hours. Yet further embodiments include notifying offerees of acceptance or rejection of their submitted best offers. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178873 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A CLINICAL TRIAL BUDGET - A method for generating a clinical trial budget includes determining a plurality of procedures to be performed during a clinical trial, calculating the likelihood of reimbursement by a third party for each of the procedures, calculating for each of the procedures the expected reimbursement amount, calculating an expected net cost for each of the procedures based on the cost of each procedure and the expected reimbursement amount for each procedure, and summing up the expected net costs of the procedures to determine the clinical trial budget. An apparatus for generating a clinical trial budget is also described and claimed. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178874 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME GROUP CODING - A computer-implemented method for real-time coding of medical group codes such as diagnosis and procedure related groups is described. In one embodiment, one or more initial medical group codes may be assigned to a patient record based on a first set of inputs. Upon assigning the one or more initial medical group codes, a coding summary of the one or more assigned medical group codes may be displayed. While displaying the coding summary, at least one input from a subsequent set of inputs may be received and updating one or more medical group codes in the patient record. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178875 | RESOLVING ORPHAN OR INACTIVE ACCOUNTS - In a method for resolving orphan accounts, information about at least one account on a computing system is received. One or more processors determine, from the received information, that a first potential orphan account exists on the computing system. One or more processors notify a first potential account owner of the first potential orphan account about the existence of the first potential orphan account. One or more processors receive an ownership claim for the first potential orphan account, wherein the ownership claim indicates that the first potential account owner is an actual owner of the first potential orphan account, and the one or more processors determine whether the ownership claim is legitimate. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178876 | RESOLVING ORPHAN OR INACTIVE ACCOUNTS - In a method for resolving orphan accounts, information about at least one account on a computing system is received. One or more processors determine, from the received information, that a first potential orphan account exists on the computing system. One or more processors notify a first potential account owner of the first potential orphan account about the existence of the first potential orphan account. One or more processors receive an ownership claim for the first potential orphan account, wherein the ownership claim indicates that the first potential account owner is an actual owner of the first potential orphan account, and the one or more processors determine whether the ownership claim is legitimate. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178877 | OVERVIEW USER INTERFACE OF EMERGENCY CALL DATA OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY - Techniques in this disclosure may provide a user interface that concurrently displays multiple panels which provide visualization of emergency call data of a law enforcement agency. The user interface can provide a high-level overview of emergency calls in a geographical area. Each panel in the user interface can provide visualization of the emergency calls and/or statistics relating to the calls. A user can customize which panels to include in the user interface and/or customize setting for each panel. The user may apply various types of filters to the data displayed in the user interface, and the panels can update the visualizations according to the filters. The user interface can also provide the ability to show data at various levels of detail within the same user interface or panel. The techniques in the disclosure can provide a convenient, digestible overview of tactical and/or strategic data in a single user interface. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178878 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND PAYMENT SYSTEM - A portable electronic device for presenting a recommendation message is described. The device includes display; one or more processors; and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The device detects a trigger event based on a user input, the trigger event initiating a receipt of non-tactile user input; and, in response to detecting the trigger event, receives non-tactile user input. The device generates one or more character strings based on the non-tactile user input and one or more predefined string generation rules. Each character string of the one or more character strings includes multiple characters. The device generates a recommendation message that includes the one or more character strings; and displays the recommendation message on the display. A corresponding method and a computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by the portable electronic device are also described. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178879 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SIMULTANEOUS EXECUTION OF COMPUTE AND GRAPHICS WORKLOADS - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for allocating processor resources to process compute workloads and graphics workloads substantially simultaneously. The method includes the steps of allocating a plurality of processing units to process tasks associated with a graphics pipeline, receiving a request to allocate at least one processing unit in the plurality of processing units to process tasks associated with a compute pipeline, and reallocating the at least one processing unit to process tasks associated with the compute pipeline. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178880 | COMPOSITION DATA DISPATCHER - Technologies are generally described for methods and systems effective to associate composition data with a graphics processing unit so that a corresponding model may be manipulated and an image produced. According to some examples, the methods may include receiving, by a dispatcher, first composition data that corresponds to a first model. The methods may also include associating, by the dispatcher, the first composition data with a first graphics processing unit. The methods may also include receiving, by the dispatcher, second composition data that corresponds to a second model. The methods may include determining, by the dispatcher, that the second model is stored in a second graphics processing unit different from the first graphics processing unit. The methods may also include associating, by the dispatcher, the second composition data with the second graphics processing unit based on the determination that the second model is stored in the second graphics processing unit. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178881 | PARALLEL RENDERING OF REGION-BASED GRAPHICS REPRESENTATIONS - A method of rendering an image using a number of threads, by receiving edge data for the image comprising edges identified by indices, each edge having edge scan line crossing coordinates, arranging the coordinates into partitions indexed by the indices to form a data structure that is randomly accessible by a coordinate of a portion of the image; each partition comprising a list of edge scan line crossing coordinates associated with an edge that is identified by the edge index indexing the partition, and rendering the portions of the image concurrently, using corresponding threads by identifying, by randomly accessing a partition in the indexing data structure using a coordinate of said portion in the image, at least one edge in the indexing data structure associated with said portion of the image | 2015-06-25 |
20150178882 | Content Reproduction Control Device, Content Reproducing System, Content Reproducing Method, and Content Reproducing Program Product - A content reproduction control device is connected to a content reproducing device which reproduces contents and a content output device which outputs the contents to the content reproducing device. The content reproduction control device includes operation sections used to select one of reproducing first contents in the content reproduction control device by the content reproducing device and reproducing second contents in the content output device by the content reproducing device; and a controller which instructs the content reproducing device to switch an input source in the content reproducing device to the content output device, when reproducing the second contents is selected. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178883 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAINTAINING STATE IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE WHEN DISCONNECTED FROM GRAPHICS HARDWARE - The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems for maintaining state in a virtual machine when disconnected from graphics hardware. The virtual machine is one of a plurality of virtual machines hosted by a hypervisor executing on a computing device. A control virtual machine may be hosted by a hypervisor executing on a computing device. The control virtual machine may store state information of a graphics processing unit (GPU) of the computing device. The GPU may render an image from a first virtual machine. The control virtual machine may remove, from the first virtual machine, access to the GPU. The control virtual machine may redirect the first virtual machine to a GPU emulation program. The GPU emulation program may render the image from the first virtual machine using at least a portion of the stored state information. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178884 | BOWL-SHAPED IMAGING SYSTEM - A method for flexibly sintering rare earth permanent magnetic alloy comprises: (1) weighing fine powder of rare earth permanent magnetic alloy, loading the fine powder in moulds, and orientedly compacting the fine powder in a press machine and in inert atmosphere to obtain blanks and loading the blanks into charging boxes; (2) after air between the second conveying vehicle and the first isolating valve of the glove box is replaced with inert gas, opening the two isolating valves connected with each other; wherein after a first rolling wheel transmission in the second conveying vehicle transfers the charging tray into the first chamber of the glove box, the two isolating valves are closed, and the second conveying vehicle leaves; (3) after a first conveying vehicle is coupled with a third isolating valve at an end of the second chamber, locking two matching flanges of the two isolating valves tightly; (4) after the first conveying vehicle is coupled with an isolating valve of a sintering furnace, locking matching flanges tightly; and (5) after the sintering furnace is evacuated to a vacuum degree more than 50 Pa, or the sintering furnace is filled with protective gas, processing the blanks with heating and heat preservation according to a preset process curve; wherein the blanks are sintered at a highest temperature of 1200° C. The present invention significantly increases performance of magnets. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178885 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD USING THE SAME - A display apparatus is provided to display a plurality of different images with different characteristics of an object on a single screen while gradually and mutually converting the color images and an image display method using the same. The display apparatus includes a memory to store a plurality of color images with different characteristics of an object and a display unit to display a second color image while gradually converting a first color image displayed on the display unit into the second color image, the second color image having a different characteristic from that of the first color image. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178886 | Image Monitoring During an Interventional Procedure, X-Ray Device, Computer Program and Data Medium - A method is provided for image monitoring during an interventional procedure by at least one instrument in a patient's vascular system having vessels. The method includes checking, using positional data of the instrument, whether at least a part of the instrument lies outside of the vessels described by the vascular dataset. If at least a part of the instrument lies outside of the vessel through which the instrument is guided and which is described by the vascular dataset, the method further includes determining an adjusted centerline for the vessel in such a way that the part of the instrument molds itself to fit the boundary of the vessel described by the adjusted centerline, updating the vascular dataset on the basis of the adjusted centerline, and determining the overlay image from the updated vascular dataset. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178887 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE - A display control apparatus of a vehicle for controlling a graphical user interface on a screen of a display apparatus which is mounted to a vehicle is provided. The display control apparatus includes a time information detector configured to detect time information for determining the height of the sun. A driving information detector is configured to detect driving information for determining a driving direction of the vehicle. A controller is configured to receive the time information from the time information detector and the driving information detected from the driving information detector so as to reposition a graphical user interface area where the graphical user interface is displayed on the screen. The graphical user interface area may be repositioned so as to escape from a reflection area where sunlight is reflected by the screen. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178888 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display device, including: a storage unit in which page image data including a figure or a photograph and figure photo information are stored so as to be associated with each other for each page, the figure photo information corresponding to a figure or a photograph included in a page, being information for individually displaying the figure or the photograph and including area information which indicates an area occupied by the figure or the photograph in page image data corresponding to the page; a display unit; an operation unit; an identification unit; and a display control unit. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178889 | Resizing An Image - The invention notably relates to computer-implemented method for resizing an image I. The method comprises the steps of: providing the image I to resize; and providing an image significance by computing a significance of each pixel in the image to resize. An original spatial domain (Ω) of the significance image is extracted. A transformation T | 2015-06-25 |
20150178890 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INTERPOLATION BASED ON TRANSFORM AND INVERSE TRANSFORM - Provided are a method and apparatus for interpolating an image. The method includes: selecting a first filter, from among a plurality of different filters, for interpolating between pixel values of integer pixel units, according to an interpolation location; and generating at least one pixel value of at least one fractional pixel unit by interpolating between the pixel values of the integer pixel units by using the selected first filter. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178891 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INTERPOLATION BASED ON TRANSFORM AND INVERSE TRANSFORM - Provided are a method and apparatus for interpolating an image. The method includes: selecting a first filter, from among a plurality of different filters, for interpolating between pixel values of integer pixel units, according to an interpolation location; and generating at least one pixel value of at least one fractional pixel unit by interpolating between the pixel values of the integer pixel units by using the selected first filter. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178892 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INTERPOLATION BASED ON TRANSFORM AND INVERSE TRANSFORM - Provided are a method and apparatus for interpolating an image. The method includes: selecting a first filter, from among a plurality of different filters, for interpolating between pixel values of integer pixel units, according to an interpolation location; and generating at least one pixel value of at least one fractional pixel unit by interpolating between the pixel values of the integer pixel units by using the selected first filter. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178893 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INTERPOLATION BASED ON TRANSFORM AND INVERSE TRANSFORM - Provided are a method and apparatus for interpolating an image. The method includes: selecting a first filter, from among a plurality of different filters, for interpolating between pixel values of integer pixel units, according to an interpolation location; and generating at least one pixel value of at least one fractional pixel unit by interpolating between the pixel values of the integer pixel units by using the selected first filter. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178894 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The method produces, from a first image, a second image with sparse coding. The method produces, from the first image, a processing intermediate image having a pixel value distribution that a difference among pixel values in a region of the intermediate image is equal to a DC component in a corresponding region of the first image, performs a first process of acquiring, using an AC component in a first region of the intermediate image and a basis produced by dictionary learning, an AC component in a second region, performs a second process of acquiring a difference among pixel values in the second region as a DC component in a corresponding region of the second image, and repeats the first and second processes with changing a position of the first region in the intermediate image to acquire DC components in regions of the second image. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178895 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes: a character region detecting unit which detects a character region including a character from an input image; a feature amount detecting unit which detects a feature amount indicating a level of deformation of an image in the character region detected by the character region detecting unit; a correction gain calculating unit which calculates a correction gain based on the feature amount detected by the feature amount detecting unit; and a correcting unit which corrects the input image by performing image processing on the image in the character region such that the image processing has an effect which decreases with a decrease in the correction gain calculated by the correction gain calculating unit. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178896 | IMAGE PROCESSING AND ENHANCEMENT METHODS AND ASSOCIATED DISPLAY SYSTEMS - A method, and a display system for enhancing and processing images for display based on a set of context information. A plurality sets of pixel values representing an image are received. A set of image context classifications are determined, a plurality of user settings are received. An ambient light level is received. Said image is processed and enhanced in accordance to said image context classification, said user settings and/or said ambient light level. Said enhanced image is displayed. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178897 | Method And System For Correcting A Distorted Input Image - A method for correcting a distorted input image includes determining a local region of an image to be displayed and dividing the region into an array of rectangular tiles, each tile corresponding to a distorted tile with a non-rectangular boundary within the input image. For each tile of the local region, maximum and minimum memory address locations of successive rows of the input image sufficient to span the boundary of the distorted tile are determined. Successive rows of the distorted input from between the maximum and minimum addresses are read. Distortion of the non-rectangular portion of the distorted input image is corrected to provide a tile of a corrected output image which is stored. | 2015-06-25 |
20150178898 | PROCESSING PANORAMIC PICTURES - Various implementations relate to processing pictures. In one particular implementation, a cropped picture is accessed. The cropped picture has been cropped, using a virtual camera window, from a picture in a sequence of pictures. Motion blur is generated for a feature in the cropped picture based on a motion of the virtual camera window and a motion of the feature. The generated motion blur is added to the feature in the cropped picture. In another particular implementation, a signal or signal structure includes a picture section for a cropped picture that has been cropped, using a virtual camera window, from a picture in a sequence of pictures. The signal or signal structure also includes a motion section for an indication of a motion of the virtual camera window. | 2015-06-25 |