26th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130166290 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS - A voice recognition apparatus includes a command recognizer and a data recognizer. The command recognizer recognizes a command portion of a voice input and outputs a command based on a voice recognition result of the voice input. The data recognizer recognizes a data portion of a voice inputs and outputs a data based on a voice recognition result of the voice input. The data recognizer further includes a plurality of data-category recognizers respectively using a data-category dictionary for recognizing the data portion of the voice input and outputting a data result. A voice recognition result selection unit of the voice recognition apparatus selects one of the data results from the data-category recognizers based on the command recognized by the command recognizer. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166291 | EMOTIONAL AND/OR PSYCHIATRIC STATE DETECTION - Mental state of a person is classified in an automated manner by analysing natural speech of the person. A glottal waveform is extracted from a natural speech signal. Pre-determined parameters defining at least one diagnostic class of a class model are retrieved, the parameters determined from selected training glottal waveform features. The selected glottal waveform features are extracted from the signal. Current mental state of the person is classified by comparing extracted glottal waveform features with the parameters and class model. Feature extraction from a glottal waveform or other natural speech signal may involve determining spectral amplitudes of the signal, setting spectral amplitudes below a pre-defined threshold to zero and, for each of a plurality of sub bands, determining an area under the thresholded spectral amplitudes, and deriving signal feature parameters from the determined areas in accordance with a diagnostic class model. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166292 | Accessing Content Using a Source-Specific Content-Adaptable Dialogue - A system for accessing content maintains a set of content selections associated with a first user. The system receives first original content from a first content source associated with a first one of the content selections associated with the first user. The system applies, to the first original content, a first rule (such as a parsing rule) that is specific to the first one of the content selections, to produce first derived content. The system changes the state of at least one component of a human-machine dialogue system (such as a text-to-act engine, a dialogue manager, or an act-to-text engine) based on the first derived content. The system may apply a second rule (such as a dialogue rule) to the first derived content to produce rule output and change the state of the human-machine dialogue system based on the rule output. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166293 | AUTOMATIC DISCLOSURE DETECTION - A method of detecting pre-determined phrases to determine compliance quality is provided. The method includes determining whether at least one of an event or a precursor event has occurred based on a comparison between pre-determined phrases and a communication between a sender and a recipient in a communications network, and rating the recipient based on the presence of the pre-determined phrases associated with the event or the presence of the pre-determined phrases associated with the precursor event in the communication. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166294 | Frame Erasure Concealment Technique for a Bitstream-Based Feature Extractor - A frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor in a speech recognition system particularly suited for use in a wireless communication system operates to “delete” each frame in which an erasure is declared. The deletions thus reduce the length of the observation sequence, but have been found to provide for sufficient speech recognition based on both single word and “string” tests of the deletion technique. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166295 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEAKER-CALIBRATED SPEAKER DETECTION - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for speaker-calibrated speaker detection. One embodiment of a method for generating a speaker model for use in detecting a speaker of interest includes identifying one or more speech features that best distinguish the speaker of interest from a plurality of impostor speakers and then incorporating the speech features in the speaker model. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166296 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SPEAKER-SPECIFIC SPOKEN PASSWORDS - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating speaker-specific spoken passwords. One embodiment of a method for generating a spoken password for use by a speaker of interest includes identifying one or more speech features that best distinguish the speaker of interest from a plurality of impostor speakers and incorporating the speech features in the spoken password. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166297 | Discriminative Training of Document Transcription System - A system is provided for training an acoustic model for use in speech recognition. In particular, such a system may be used to perform training based on a spoken audio stream and a non-literal transcript of the spoken audio stream. Such a system may identify text in the non-literal transcript which represents concepts having multiple spoken forms. The system may attempt to identify the actual spoken form in the audio stream which produced the corresponding text in the non-literal transcript, and thereby produce a revised transcript which more accurately represents the spoken audio stream. The revised, and more accurate, transcript may be used to train the acoustic model using discriminative training techniques, thereby producing a better acoustic model than that which would be produced using conventional techniques, which perform training based directly on the original non-literal transcript. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166298 | VOICE ANALYZER - A voice analyzer includes an apparatus body, a strap that is connected to the apparatus body to make the apparatus body hung from a neck of a wearer, a first voice acquisition unit that acquires a voice of a speaker and is disposed in either a left or right strap when viewed from the wearer, a second voice acquisition unit that acquires the voice of the speaker and is disposed in the opposite strap in which the first voice acquisition unit is disposed, and an arrangement recognition unit that recognizes arrangements of the first and second voice acquisition units, when viewed from the wearer, by comparing a voice signal of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit with sound pressure of a heart sound of the wearer acquired by the second voice acquisition unit. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166299 | VOICE ANALYZER - A voice analyzer includes an apparatus body, a strap that is connected to the apparatus body and is used to hang the apparatus body from a neck of a user, a first voice acquisition unit provided in the strap or the apparatus body, a second voice acquisition unit provided at a position where a distance of a sound wave propagation path from a mouth of the user is smaller than a distance of a sound wave propagation path from the mouth of the user to the first voice acquisition unit, and an identification unit that identifies a sound, in which first sound pressure acquired by the first voice acquisition unit is larger by a predetermined value or more than second sound pressure acquired by the second voice acquisition unit, on the basis of a result of comparison between the first sound pressure and the second sound pressure. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166300 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic device includes a voice recognition analyzing module, a manipulation identification module, and a manipulating module. The voice recognition analyzing module is configured to recognize and analyze a voice of a user. The manipulation identification module is configured to, using the analyzed voice, identify an object on a screen and identify a requested manipulation associated with the object. The manipulating module is configured to perform the requested manipulation. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166301 | ADAPTIVE VOICE PRINT FOR CONVERSATIONAL BIOMETRIC ENGINE - A computer-implemented method, system and/or program product update voice prints over time. A receiving computer receives an initial voice print. A determining period of time is calculated for that initial voice print. This determining period of time is a length of time during which an expected degree of change in subsequent voice prints, in comparison to the initial voice print and according to a speaker's subsequent age, is predicted to occur. A new voice print is received after the determining period of time has passed, and the new voice print is compared with the initial voice print. In response to a change to the new voice print falling within the expected degree of change in comparison to the initial voice print, a voice print store is updated with the new voice print. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166302 | Methods and Apparatus for Audio Input for Customization of Digital Displays - Aspects of customizing digital signage are addressed. For example, an audio feed may be analyzed for keywords occurring in potential customers' speech. These keywords are then employed to customize display screens of a digital display. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166303 | ACCESSING MEDIA DATA USING METADATA REPOSITORY - A computer-implemented method includes receiving, in a computer system, a user query comprising at least a first term, parsing the user query to at least determine whether the user query assigns a field to the first term, the parsing resulting in a parsed query that conforms to a predefined format, performing a search in a metadata repository using the parsed query, the metadata repository embodied in a computer readable medium and including triplets generated based on multiple modes of metadata for video content, the search identifying a set of candidate scenes from the video content, ranking the set of candidate scenes according to a scoring metric into a ranked scene list, and generating an output from the computer system that includes at least part of the ranked scene list, the output generated in response to the user query. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166304 | SYNCHRONISE AN AUDIO CURSOR AND A TEXT CURSOR DURING EDITING - A speech recognition device ( | 2013-06-27 |
20130166305 | SPEECH RECOGNITION ADJUSTMENT BASED ON MANUAL INTERACTION - A method of operating a speech recognition system on a vehicle having a visual display and manually-operated input device that includes initiating a speech recognition system, controlling menu selections on a visual display using a manually-operated input device, receiving a notification from the manually-operated input device indicating that the user is manipulating the device in conjunction with the menu selections on the visual display, and adjusting operation of the speech recognition system based on input received by the manually-operated input device. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166306 | PULSE LOCATION SEARCH DEVICE, CODEBOOK SEARCH DEVICE, AND METHODS THEREFOR - A pulse location search device ( | 2013-06-27 |
20130166307 | Efficient Implementation of Phase Shift Filtering for Decorrelation and Other Applications in an Audio Coding System - An analysis/synthesis system uses existing analysis and synthesis filterbanks in an audio coding system to implement a phase shift filter that requires very little if any additional processing. One implementation using a single processing path can obtain a phase shift of either zero or ninety degrees. Another implementation that uses two processing paths can obtain a phase shift of essentially any desired angle. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166308 | ENCODER APPARATUS AND ENCODING METHOD - Provided is an encoder apparatus that can suppress the quality degradation of encoding processes. An ultimate selection candidate limiting unit ( | 2013-06-27 |
20130166309 | BUSINESS PROCESS ADAPTATION TECHIQUES - Enhancement and adaptation of standard predefined business processes within a business software solution is performed by reusing business process elements, which are granular parts of the business processes. Connection of business entities to the reused business process elements ensures consistent business process adaptation. New business processes are defined in addition to the predefined business processes. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166310 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO SOCIAL BENEFIT DETERMINATIONS - In one general aspect, a computer system can include an input data parser configured to receive a plurality of input values from an application for a social benefit, and a first phase module configured to determine a first result based on a first phase of benefit decision processing using a first input value from the plurality of input values, and configured to trigger processing associated with a second phase of benefit decision processing based on the first input value from the plurality of input values satisfying a phase triggering condition. The computer system can include a second phase module configured to receive the first result from the first phase module, and configured to determine a second result based on the second phase of benefit decision processing using the first result and a second input value from the plurality of input values. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166311 | System and Method for Provisioning and Deploying a Virtual Appliance to Implement Enterprise Solutions - A reference architecture embodies a common, consistent, known best practice base reference architecture and configuration that may then be used for cloning out for the base of every customer environment. Given this base, the service provider is able to control the full functionality solution layer to provide the platform for consistent monitoring, patching, upgrading, etc. Accordingly, the service provider's application solution is an integrated appliance that can contain whatever is necessary at the solution layer to allow the service provider to remotely (or within the hosting center) support, maintain and gather key system metrics to promote optimal customer performance, decrease cost of implementation/support/ownership and vastly increase service offering base. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166312 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOOTH SELECTION AND ORDER GENERATION - The present invention may be embodied as a method or a system for generating an order for a dental restoration of an individual. An automated tooth selection apparatus is disclosed, comprising an image capture device and a processor. The automated tooth selection apparatus is configured to capture range data for each captured image, wherein the range data corresponds to the distance between the image capture device and the individual. An image is captured of a facial feature of the individual using the image capture device. The processor is used to determine the size of the facial feature of the individual. A tooth for the dental restoration of the individual is selected from a database of available teeth based on the determined size of the facial feature. An order for a dental restoration is generated including the selected tooth. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166313 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING TREATMENT OF AN ORPHAN DISEASE - A system for managing treatment of an orphan disease of a patient by a user includes a mobile device and a program stored thereon. The mobile device is constructed and adapted to communicate with at least one server. The program stores one or more parameters related to the treatment of the orphan disease, tracks the parameters, and communicates information related to the treatment of the orphan disease with a health care provider, a company, and/or a case manager. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166314 | Apparatus, Method and Computer-Readable Storage Medium For Evaluating A Physiological Condition of a Patient - A method is provided that includes receiving measurements of biological elements from a blood sample of a patient. The respective biological elements are managed by the endocrine system, which is organizable in axes including a corticotropic axis, gonadotropic axis, thyreotropic axis and somatotropic axis. The method includes calculating a plurality of indexes as functions of the measurements. The indexes reflect physiological relationships between the biological elements and the hormones that manage the respective biological elements, and at least some of the indexes reflect physiological relationships between hormones across axes of the endocrine system. The method also includes evaluating the indexes by axis of the endocrine system to facilitate identification of one or more dysfunctions capable of participating in the genesis, installation and evolution of a pathology, and thereby formulate a diagnosis of the patient. And the method includes administering a therapy to the patient in accordance with the diagnosis. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166315 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR LABORATORY TESTING SERVICES - Systems, methods, and media for laboratory testing services are disclosed. A request for an electronic form can be received from an electronic device. A customized electronic form can be sent to the electronic device. The electronic form may be customized based at least in part on a healthcare provider associated with the request. At least one laboratory test may be requested to be ordered for at least one patient associated with the healthcare provider. At least one predefined rule may be applied to the requested order to verify that the order is valid. At least one laboratory can be selected to perform the ordered laboratory tests. Specimen collection information may be sent to a collection facility and can be based at least in part on rules or preferences of a lab selected to perform a laboratory test. Customized test reports can be provided to a healthcare provider. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166316 | Quality Assurance Methods For Medication Therapy Management - A method for improving quality assurance methods for medication therapy management using a computer particularly adapted for a health care management or delivery organization is provided, the method including at least the steps of: providing a set of internal controls, wherein the internal controls further include a set of national guidelines and standards, as well as a qualified staff; and development by the qualified staff of a clinical rule based upon the national guidelines and standards. In other embodiments, a clinical quality assurance team further reviews the clinical rule developed by the staff. In further embodiments, a set of external controls is provided, wherein the external controls include one or more of a plurality of approved pharmacists, an external clinical advisory council, and/or an independent review board. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166317 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING PATIENT TREATMENT MEASURES IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for visualizing patient treatment measures in a network environment is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request from a client for data in a network environment, where the data includes services data and a clinical pathway, generating data rendering instructions for rendering the data as a visual display at the client, the data rendering instructions including options to configure the visual display. The visual display includes a graphical representation of analysis of the services data in view of the clinical pathway, and visual aids that reveal information upon user selection. The method further includes delivering the data rendering instructions to the client and facilitating access to the data by the client. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166318 | SYSTEM AND TECHNIQUES FOR COST ESTIMATION OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS ACQUIRED AT A MEDICAL FACILITY - Computer-implemented methods of processing medical data are described. The methods comprise selecting cases associated with a first parameter from medical data associated with a plurality of cases, determining a subset of cases associated with a medical facility-acquired condition, and determining another subset cases not associated with the medical facility-acquired condition. Estimated costs associated with those cases associated a medical facility-acquired condition are generated, along with expected costs for these same cases in the absence of the medical facility-acquired condition. Methods further allowing comparisons to data related to normative collections of medical facilities are also disclosed. Computerized systems for processing medical data and computer-readable storage media comprising instructions that when executed in a processor cause the processor to process medical data are also described. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166319 | COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUPPORTING RECOVERY AND FOLLOW-UP FOR PSYCHIATRIC AND/OR ADDICTION DISORDERS - The present invention provides a method of providing a recovery support and follow-up service to an individual recovering from a psychiatric and/or addictive disorder following completion of a transitional living program at a psychiatric hospital. The method provides a pro-active, pre-planned, structured communication protocol between members of a recovery support team comprised of a recovering individual, a recovery support advocate, a personal contact of the recovering individual, and a professional contact of the recovering individual. The method also provides having the recovering individual, the personal contact and the professional contact at a scheduled set number of times complete a telephone survey questionnaire regarding the recovery status of the recovering individual; obtaining at set times a set number of random urine toxicology screens from the recovering individual; and inputting all information gathered from the structure dialogues, the survey questionnaires and the random urine toxicology screens into a computer software database. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166320 | PATIENT-CENTRIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - Provided herein are methods, systems and apparatus for querying and interpreting data derived from individual patients. The methods, systems and apparatus described herein can be used in clinical and research settings. Included are methods, systems and apparatus for identifying similar patients, germline DNA analysis, somatic tissue analysis, pathway-based therapy selection, prioritizing drugs, and querying a database to return patients and clinical attributes. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166321 | VIRTUAL SAMPLE CABINET SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUG MARKETING - A system is provided which provides functionality for doctors and staff to remotely electronically download a “virtual sample cabinet” software program from a central server onto their desktop computers or mobile technology devices to allow them to centrally search, review product information and insurance coverage, print or electronically send prescription drug sample vouchers and co-pay savings coupons to selected pharmacies. This eliminates the need for physician offices to manage and house physical drug samples, as well as offers a more convenient and efficient way to allocate, dispense and monitor needed drug samples and coupons for savings to their patients. Additionally, the system helps patients to enroll into further savings on refills for their on-going medications through automatically scheduled coupons that are emailed (or mailed) to the patients thereby promoting more affordable compliance to their prescribed therapies. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166322 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION - The present invention provides a method and system for securely collecting, processing, and transmitting information. The system provides the capability for users to input personal, medical, insurance, emergency contacts, and other data important to the user, and securely store and manage that data. The system is linked to other systems to provide those systems user data during an event. The user data is then able to be provided to emergency responders, doctors, or other interested and authorized parties in order to help provide services to the user. One use of the system is for users to input and manage data that is then provide to emergency responders during an accident or event, in order to better care for the user, decrease service costs. The system also allows for querying of user location data. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATED HEALTH MONITORING, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AND MEDICAL RECORD DELIVERY - A computer-based system for providing coordinated health monitoring, emergency response, and medical record delivery. The system can include computing devices configured to process emergency-related indicators and data. The system can also include monitoring devices communicatively linked to the computing devices. The monitoring devices can be configured to monitor a particular area for the emergency-related indicators and data, wherein the monitoring devices detect speech, sounds, images and other detectable emergency-related indicators. The monitoring devices can also be configured to transmit the emergency-related indicators and data to the computing devices. Furthermore, the system can include a module linked to the monitoring devices and configured to execute on the computing devices. The module can analyze the transmitted emergency-related indicators and data to determine whether there is an emergency, communicate with a monitoring service to validate that an emergency exists, and provide access to patient records to authorized personnel, when an emergency exists. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166324 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A COMBINATION GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL INSURANCE PROGRAM - The present invention allows travel organizations to ensure that basic group, or “Core,” travel medical coverage is in effect for their travelers while allowing travelers the ability to upgrade the “Core” insurance if needed or desired. Thus, the organization need not purchase excess insurance, thereby reducing the organization's liability for their group purchase decision. Until now, combining group and individual travel medical insurance has been impossible. Individual travel medical insurance policies could be customized, but travelers covered by a group policy had to accept the coverage their organizations chose. The present invention allows travelers with different needs and tastes from around the world to customize group travel insurance coverage according to their needs and desires. By offering choice, the present invention reduces the likelihood that travelers can successfully claim later that insurance required under the group program was inadequate. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166325 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSURANCE QUOTING - Apparatuses, systems and methods for insurance quoting are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention receives from a user one or more images related to a driver's license, which are generated by a portable electronic device. The method then extracts identification information from the received images, and generates an insurance quote based, at least in part, on the extracted identification information and presents the insurance quote to the user. The generated insurance quote may be a quote for an auto insurance, a home insurance, a flood insurance, a life insurance or the like. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166326 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING DRIVER PERFORMANCE AND USE IN DETERMINING INSURANCE COVERAGE - A system and method for characterizing driver performance and using such characterization to determine a risk score and/or profile associated with a particular insured. In accordance with an embodiment, a driver can use a portable device equipped with a data collection and assessment environment, including one or more data collection devices and a data collection and assessment logic. The data collection and assessment environment can provide information to the driver about their driving performance, which the driver can then use to improve their driving skills. The information can also be used by the driver when obtaining liability insurance quotes. In accordance with an embodiment a framework (system) receives information about the driver's driving performance, and uses this information either to determine an insurance quote, or act as a broker/aggregator in inviting other insurance providers to offer an insurance quote. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166327 | SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING A HIERARCHICAL MODEL WITH OVERRIDE CAPABILITY FOR GENERATING A FLEXIBLE INSURANCE PLAN - A system and method for implementing an insurance plan to coordinate an adjudication of a submitted claim corresponding to the plan. The plan includes a people model and a benefit model, such as hierarchical trees combined by a plurality of policies. The system and method comprise assigning a first predefined inheritance of global attributes to coupled elements of the people tree and assigning a second predefined inheritance of global attributes to coupled elements of the benefits tree. The system and method also assigning a local administration rule for at least one local attribute of the trees, the assignment between a selected people element of the people tree and a selected benefit element of the benefits tree. The local administration rule overrides the corresponding global attributes of the selected elements, such that resolution of the global attributes with the local attributes for the selected elements provides a rule set for adjudication of the submitted claim. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166328 | Internal Yield Adjustment Retrieval From Revenue Accounting - Disclosed is a computer-implemented method and system to perform a travel-related Availability Computation. The method includes, at an Inventory System, initiating an Availability Computation by retrieving information relevant to a received availability computation inquiry; determining that portion of a travel solution that corresponds to a reference carrier and a context to be prorated; making a call to a Proration Service and providing the Proration Service with applicable context information; receiving from the Proration Service proration information comprised of a calculated adjusted Yield or a calculated adjustment factor to be applied to the Yield, the Proration Service using proration data that is maintained by a Revenue Accounting System to make the calculation; and completing the Availability Computation using the adjusted Yield or the adjustment factor to be applied to the Yield. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166329 | SOCIAL NETWORK TRAVEL INSPIRATION ENGINE AND METHOD OF SAME - An integrated system of travel inspiration that facilitates the electronic storage, tracking, sharing and updating of a user's travel-related information over social networks. A social network travel inspiration engine and method proactively generates travel destination proposals to a user based on travel destinations and current locations of members of the user's social network. The social network inspiration engine integrates a one click search module, booking share engine, instant traveler alert module, pricing module, opt-in repository, which may interface with a reservation system. This system may interface with booking systems to facilitate the booking of said travel recommendations upon said recommendation. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166330 | SEAMLESS TRAVEL HIVE ENGINE AND METHOD OF SAME - A seamless travel hive engine automatically stores a user's travel-related information in a seamless travel hive repository, and may generate experience marks for displaying and sharing a user's travel-related information. The system provides a continuity of the travel-related user experience through time by storing, updating, aggregating, and sharing information among multiple users and across multiple devices and applications, including social networks. The seamless travel hive engine continuously and dynamically integrates a seamless travel hive repository, travel reservation module, experience mark manager module, comparison module, tagging module, alert module, and consumer travel-related applications, and may provide a platform for a continuous cross-device travel booking flow. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166331 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Control Over On-Line Reservations of Rental Vehicles - Disclosed herein are techniques for improved control over how customers can interact with a rental vehicle reservation booking site, including user interfaces for defining customer accounts and user interfaces for defining promotional offers with respect to rental vehicle reservations. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166332 | MOBILE WALLET STORE AND SERVICE INJECTION PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The MOBILE WALLET STORE AND SERVICE INJECTION PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“SEWI”) transform user goal, trigger, trigger monitoring and paperless electronic ticket entry inputs via SEWI components into triggered monitoring updates, purchase transaction triggers, and goal resolution outputs. In one implementation, the SEWI obtains a consumer item interest indication including a context of the consumer's interest focus. The SEWI ascertains a consumer activity intent assessment from consumer atmospheric activity indicia, wherein the consumer atmospheric activity indicia include a geographic location and the obtained consumer item interest indication. The SEWI determines a dynamic injection virtual wallet component to service the consumer item interest indication, wherein the dynamic injection virtual wallet component may include any of: an augmented reality heads up display overlaying wish list or virtual wallet purchase cart items; a concierge request; and merchant offerings. The SEWI provides the determined dynamic injection virtual wallet component to a consumer's virtual wallet for instantiation. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166333 | MONITORING SYSTEM FOR PARKING SPACE - A monitoring system for a parking space includes a number of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, a monitor, a data transceiver, and a data center. The monitor corresponds to one of the parking spaces and is positioned in the parking space. When the monitor identifies an RFID tag within the parking space, the monitor records an occupied state of the parking space. When the monitor identifies the RFID tag is no longer within the parking space, the monitor records a vacant state of the parking space. The data center communicates with the monitors using the data transceiver, and stores the vacant state and/or the occupied state of the parking space. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166334 | ELECTRONIC MENU AND ORDERING SYSTEM - Embodiments are directed to providing meal information and event ticketing to a customer via an electronic menu. In one scenario, a computer system provides an electronic menu to a user. The electronic menu includes a user interface that allows users to select different meals provided by a restaurant to obtain information about the meal. The electronic menu further provides an indication of local events that are to take place within a specified time period and within a specified distance from the restaurant. The computer system receives an input from the user selecting at least one of the meals provided by the electronic menu's user interface and, in response to receiving the input, provides meal-related information for the user-selected meal. The meal-related information includes textual information, audio information, pictures and/or video content. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166335 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECALLING A PREVIOUSLY SOLD PRODUCT - In accordance with some embodiments, a unit of product is sold by a seller to a buyer at a first price and subject to a recall upon acceptance of a buyout provision. It is then determined that a buyout condition for outputting to the buyer a buyout notification has been satisfied, the buyout notification based on the buyout provision and the buyout notification is output to the buyer, informing the buyer that the seller is interested in recalling the unit of the product and requesting the buyer to define an amount of value for which the buyer is willing to surrender the unit of product (a recall payment amount). If the seller accepts the recall payment amount, the seller recalls the unit of product in exchange for providing the buyer with the recall payment amount. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166336 | System for On-site Management of an Event - A system includes a first portable, ruggedized, and waterproof case. The first portable, ruggedized, and waterproof case includes a router and a switch. The system further includes a computing system connectable to the switch. The computing system includes a first memory for storing first ticket information and a first set of instructions. The computing system further includes a first processor that, upon execution of the first set of instructions, receives a ticket identifier scanned from a ticket. The first processor also compares the ticket identifier to the stored first ticket information. Based on the comparison, the first processor further generates an indication of validity of the ticket. The first processor further transmits the indication of validity of the ticket. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166337 | ANALYZING VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF DATA - In an embodiment, a plurality of representations of business data is rendered on a user interface. The representations of business data may include various graphical representations of the business data. A type of the plurality of representations rendered on the user interface is determined. Based upon the type of the representations, a corresponding statistical analysis is determined and applied to the business data associated with the plurality of representations. Applying the statistical analysis includes computing a resultant for the business data associated with each representation. The resultant of the business data of each representation is compared to determine one or more representations that are statistically distinct. The statistically distinct representations include visually distinct representations in the plurality of representations. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166338 | ENHANCED BUSINESS PLANNING AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - In one embodiment, the method includes receiving one or more criteria defined as a planning trigger. In a further aspect, the method includes mapping the one or more criteria to a corresponding action plan. In response to recording criterion defined as a planning trigger, an action plan corresponding to the recorded criterion is invoked. Further, the method includes communicating the action plan to a selected set of contributors. Further, the method involves, receiving data specified in the action plan from the set of contributors and consolidating the business data received from the one or more contributors. In a further aspect, the method involves, extrapolating the received business data for generating extrapolated business data for one or more prognostic scenarios for facilitating business planning and operations. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166339 | Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Providing a Facility Map - A map of a facility is provided. Dispatch instructions for dispatching a mobile device from a starting location to the facility at a destination within a geographical area are received, and a current location of the mobile device is detected as the mobile device moves from the starting location towards the destination. The map of the facility is received based on the dispatch instructions and the current location of the mobile device, and the map of the facility is provided. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166340 | System and Method for Online Marketing of Services - A system for operating a marketplace for provision of services requiring skill, comprising a plurality of servers coupled to a data network, a registration software module deployed on at least one of the servers and adapted to enable the registration of a plurality of skilled workers, a worker skills management software module deployed on at least one of the servers and adapted to measure or manage skill levels of workers, and a contract management software module deployed on at least one of the servers. According to the embodiment, the contract management software module matches a buyer and a skilled worker based at least on the skilled worker's possessing a required skill and on the price satisfying rules established for the buyer and for the skilled worker. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166341 | SERVICE PROVIDER SELECTION - A population of service providers is filtered to identify candidate service providers. The filtering is based upon whether each server provider has a starting location within a geographic zone containing the service destination. Travel times to the destination for the candidate service providers are compared and used for selecting a service provider from the candidate service providers. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166342 | Method and Apparatus for Computer Based Process Monitoring and Control - A computerized method for monitoring business processes is exemplified. Business process data and task data are stored in memory of a computer. The method further includes receiving a data request from a requesting party. The method additionally includes filtering business process data and task data based on the role of the requesting party. A first requesting party has a first monitoring role is designated a level of access limited to viewing task data for fewer than all tasks. A second requesting party has a second monitoring role is designated a level of access as viewing or editing task data limited to fewer than all tasks. A third requesting party has a third monitoring role is designated a level of access as viewing or editing task data for all tasks. The method furthermore includes returning the requested data to the requesting party based on the user credentials of the requesting party. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166343 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING A RESOURCE FIELD OF THE INVENTION - A computer implemented method. A scheduling request is received from a requesting device. The scheduling request comprises a request to reserve a first resource for a first entity and a second resource for a second entity. A database is searched to identify at least one schedule slot during which the first resource can be reserved for the first entity and the second resource can be reserved for the second entity. At least one scheduling slot is sent to the requesting device. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166344 | METHOD FOR PLANNING A PROCESS CHAIN FOR A AGRICULTURAL OPERATION - A method for planning a process chain for an agricultural operation having a first resource entity of a first type such as harvesting machines and a second resource entity of a second type such as hauling vehicles includes determining a number of machines of the first and second resource entity to be used in the operation depending on the usage time frame and type of operation, determining a plurality of alternative first partial process chains for the first resource entity, determining a second partial process chain for the second resource entity for each of the alternative first partial process chains, combining the alternative first partial process chains with the second partial process chain to form a plurality of total process chains and selecting one of the total process chains. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING AND PROVIDING WORKFLOW INFORMATION - A tangible computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable program instructions that generate a user interface for displaying workflow information associated with a tissue specimen in a pathology laboratory. The program instructions may be configured to perform a method including displaying a virtual laboratory component representing a physical pathology laboratory having one or more laboratory stations for processing the tissue specimen, wherein the tissue specimen is processed by the one or more laboratory stations according to a workflow, and displaying a specimen indicator that indicates a current specimen state based on a current relationship of the tissue specimen to the workflow. The method may further include enabling a first active component associated with the virtual laboratory component, wherein the first active component is configured to receive a user selection of a laboratory station and generating a supplemental view component of the selected laboratory station in response to the user selection, wherein the supplemental view provides supplemental information on processing by the selected laboratory station of the tissue specimen. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166346 | Systems, Computer-Implemented Methods and Computer-Readable Media to Provide Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model for Outsourcing - Embodiments including systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media can generate an outsourcing questionnaire interface to be displayed at a display. The outsourcing questionnaire interface can include a plurality of questions, relating to a plurality of outsourcing dimensions, and a corresponding plurality of response fields for users to respond with respect to a business process. Embodiments can further determine a plurality of dimensional scores for the business process responsive to a plurality of user-selected responses received at the plurality of response fields. Embodiments can further generate an outsourcing recommendation interface, to be displayed at the display, that is a graphical chart including a process-recommendation bubble, for the business process, which can be displayed having a position and size in the graphical chart determined responsive to one or more of the plurality of dimensional scores. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166347 | UTILITY FOR DETERMINING COMPETITIVE RESTAURANTS - A utility for determining the competitors of a subject restaurant accesses a database that contains information about other, nearby restaurants. The utility assigns a competitor score to each restaurant within the maximum radius based on the distance from the subject restaurant, as well as the cuisine types, menus, and order histories of the subject and competitor restaurants. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166348 | Utility for Creating Heatmaps for the Study of Competitive Advantage in the Restaurant Marketplace - A utility builds and displays heatmaps of competitive activity that aid in studying the competitive advantage of a particular restaurant. The heatmaps are constructed based on activity logged with a restaurant service, and available within the restaurant service's database(s). | 2013-06-27 |
20130166349 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO AN AUDIENCE - A method of matching a buyer and a seller of audience access includes storing a plurality of profiles associated with a respective plurality of performers by a computing system. Each of the plurality of performers offers access to an audience having one or more distinct characteristics. At least one of the distinct characteristics of the audience associated with each of the performers is determined. A discovery request is received from a requestor. The discovery request identifies one or more target audience characteristics. The computing system compares the one or more target audience characteristics of the discovery request with the determined at least one of the distinct characteristics of the audience. At least one of the plurality of performers matching the discovery request is identified based on the comparing. The identified at least one performer is output over the network in response to the request. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166350 | CLUSTER BASED PROCESSING FOR FORECASTING INTERMITTENT DEMAND - A system, method and program product for cluster-based forecasting of intermittent demand. A computer system is disclosed for forecasting intermittent demand, having a data management system that provides access to historical demand data for a plurality of items; and a forecast system that generates a distribution of lead time demand predictions for a selected item having intermittent demand, and wherein the forecast system includes program code for performing the steps of: identifying a cluster from historical demand data, wherein the cluster includes items having an aggregated demand that defines a cluster driver; detecting if an association exists between historical demand data of a selected item and the cluster driver; and if the association is detected, utilizing the historical demand data of the selected item and the historical demand data to generate a distribution of lead time demand predictions. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166351 | System and Method for Generating a Marketing-Mix Solution - A method for generating a marketing-mix solution is provided. The method includes pre-modeling marketing data having a plurality of marketing-mix variables. Each of the plurality of marketing-mix variables is associated with marketing strategies for one or more products. The method also includes generating a sales and/or revenue based response model to identify contributory marketing-mix variables that affect the sales and/or revenue of the one or more products and analyzing the response model to determine individual contribution of each of the contributory marketing-mix variables towards the sales an/or revenue of the one or more products. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166352 | MOBILE CATEGORIZATION - Method and system for assigning a category to a user comprising the steps of: obtaining network usage records from a mobile network. Extracting cell information from the network usage records. Determining location information from the extracted cell information. Generating one or more user behaviour attributes from the determined location information. Assigning a user category to the user based on the determined one or more user behaviour attributes. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166353 | PRICE OPTIMIZATION USING RANDOMIZED SEARCH - A price optimization system determines the pricing of a plurality of items. The system receives an initial price vector for the items and an objective function, and assigns the initial price vector as a current price vector. The system determines a first new price vector by randomly choosing a first set of allowed prices for the items, and assigning the first set of allowed prices as the current price vector when the objective function is improved. The system then determines a second new price vector by randomly choosing a second set of allowed prices for the items and assigning the second set of allowed prices as the current price vector when the objective function does not decrease by more than a predetermined value. The system sequentially repeats this functionality until a terminating criteria is reached and then it determines the pricing. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166354 | VALUATION ESTIMATION - Example systems, methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture, etc. are disclosed that may collect, process, or use estimates of market value. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166355 | DYNAMIC MULTI-DIMENSIONAL AND MULTI-VIEW PRICING SYSTEM - A system for dynamic computing a credible deal price for a deal is adapted to receive a first data set during initializing the deal parameters. The system comprising a plurality of stakeholders inputting their views as a second data set through a presentation layer module. A preliminary information processing module configured to process the first data set and a plurality of pricing models for determining an optimum deal price for the deal using the first & second data set and associated context related therewith. A pricing strategy module configured to process a one or more inputs of the second data set to determine a list price indicator, wherein a list price generator module configured to determine the credible deal price. A deal negotiation module optimizes the credible deal price commensurate with plurality of third data set dynamic associated in time, space and values therewith the deal. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166356 | NANOSTRUCTURE TRACKING OF PRODUCT DATA SIGNATURES - Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to incorporating one or more nanoprocessors to one or more physical structures of one or more components of a product. The product is transportable via a chain of supply. Some embodiments are further directed to configuring the one or more nanoprocessors to store data that describes characteristics of the one or more components, the product, and/or the chain of supply. Some embodiments are further directed configuring the one or more nanoprocessors to transmit one or more signals that contain the data. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166357 | RECOMMENDER ENGINE - A system may include determination of a business configuration of one or more tenants of a business application platform, determination of metadata of business applications associated with the business application platform, reception of a request from a user of the business application platform for one or more recommended business applications, and application of one or more filters to a set of business applications based on the business configuration and the metadata to determine a recommended business application from the set of business applications. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166358 | DETERMINING A LIKELIHOOD THAT EMPLOYMENT OF AN EMPLOYEE WILL END - Techniques for determining whether employment of an employee will end, such as determining a risk of attrition for an employee. In some embodiments, one or more types of employment information for an employee may be evaluated and weighted to determine a likelihood that employment of the employee will end. Types of employment information that may be evaluated may include interaction information relating to a manner in which an employee interacts with coworkers, including a manner in which an employee is detected to use one or more software tools to interact with coworkers. Types of employment information that may be evaluated may include performance information, which may include performance ratings of an employee and information regarding an employee's capability to perform in the position. Types of employment information may include career path information, which may include employment history information for an employee and/or market information indicating job opportunities in the industry. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166359 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DETERMINING SHIPPING INCENTIVES - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer-program products for determining shipping incentives. In general, various embodiments of the invention involve applying a shipping incentive for a customer receiving inbound shipments from a plurality of parties based on increased inbound shipments received from such parties. While other embodiments of the invention involve applying a shipping incentive to at least one customer based on increased shipments shipped to and/or received in a locale for a particular time period using a common carrier. In particular embodiments, the incentive may be a discount on a cost of shipping for the customer. While in other embodiments, the incentive may be something else such as a preferred shipping service for the customer. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166360 | USER CENTRIC GROUP BUYING DEALS - Techniques for facilitating group discounts are described. A shopping request is received from a user. Information related to the shopping request is provided to a plurality of providers. A plurality of group discount packages is received from the plurality of providers. The group discount packages are generated based on the provided shopping request information. The group discount packages may be offered by enabling users to accept at least one of the group discount packages. A deal with at least one of the plurality of group discount packages with a corresponding at least one of the providers is confirmed when an associated threshold value is met. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166361 | ACCOUNT-DEPENDENT DISTRIBUTION AND INSERTION OF REDEEMABLE MERCHANT OFFERS - The invention provides a computer system for managing electronic transactions. A voucher entry is stored in the data store. A plurality of consumer accounts including at least first and second consumer accounts are stored in the data store, each consumer account having a respective first consumer account identifier, and the voucher entry is associated with the first consumer account. A network API determines whether the voucher entry is associated with the first consumer account, and transmits the voucher entry to a network server if the voucher entry is associated with the first consumer account. A voucher import module receives the voucher entry and the first consumer account identifier of the second consumer account over the network interface device and associates the voucher entry with the second consumer account. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166362 | System And Method For Promotional Discounted Aggregated Purchasing - A system, method, and computer program product provides discounted aggregated purchasing. A method for promotional discounted aggregated purchasing may include determining a volume discount matrix for a product to be available during a promotional period, accepting bids from a plurality of consumers indicating a price each consumer is willing to pay for the product, placing a hold on payment cards of the consumers who have entered bids, each hold being for the amount of each bid, at a conclusion of the promotional period, determining a price for the product based on a final discount level that is determined based on the received bids and on the determined volume discount matrix, and performing transactions for the product for all consumers who bid an amount greater than or equal to the determined price. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166363 | My Faves section for a website - Social networking site where the user selects advertising material that is shown on their personal section. The user enters favorites, and stored promotional information associated with those favorites is shown to the user. The user selects which of the stored promotional material will be shown on their personal part of their site. The material can be logos or videos, for example. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSUMER-SELECTED ADVERTISING AND BRANDING IN INTERACTIVE MEDIA - A user of an interactive medium may select advertising for display on the user's avatar, property, or other user-associated environment. The invention presents one or more advertisements to the user and allows the user to select at least one advertisement to display. The user may also choose a location for displaying the selected advertisement. The invention presents the selected advertisement to other users of the interactive medium. The invention tracks these presentations or displays and rewards the original user based on the presentation. The tracking data may also be used to bill the advertiser or optimize the process of selecting and displaying advertisements. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166365 | Systems and Methods to Provide Messages in Real-Time with Transaction Processing - In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to generate trigger records for a transaction handler to identify authorization requests that satisfy the conditions specified in the trigger records, identify communication preferences of the users associated with the identified authorization requests, and use the communication preferences to target real-time messages at the users in parallel with the transaction handler providing responses to the respective authorization requests. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166366 | Meal planning and coupon dispensing - Meal planning and coupon dispensing are provided. An electronic-shopping list is created. Store-specific data is procured from third-party store websites. The store-specific data is added to the electronic-shopping list. Recipes from third-party websites are saved. The third-party recipes are parsing for ingredients. The ingredients are added to the electronic-shopping list. Manufacturer and/or coupon publisher websites are analyzed for coupons. Items on the electronic-shopping list are analyzed to maximize savings through the use of manufacturer coupons. Recipe ingredients are analyzed to maximize savings through the use of manufacturer coupons and store sales items. Recipes are ranked by the number of discounted ingredients they contain. An in-store navigation map includes an in-store application interface. Thus, an integrated approach for shopping list, coupon, and recipe management is provided. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166367 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADMINISTERING MERCHANT REWARDS TO PURCHASERS WHO INCREASE SPENDING AT PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS - The disclosure relates to, among other things, systems, methods, and computer-readable media for rewarding a purchaser for increasing their purchase volume with at least one participating merchant. Embodiments may comprise offering an incentive for the purchaser to increase their purchase volume with the participating merchant. Embodiments may further comprise obtaining a first set of electronic transactions between the purchaser and the participating merchant. Embodiments may further comprise determining a merchant baseline for the purchaser based on the first set of electronic transactions. Embodiments may further comprise obtaining a second set of electronic transactions between the purchaser and the participating merchant. Embodiments may further comprise comparing the second set of electronic transactions to the merchant baseline. Embodiments may further comprise providing the reward to the purchaser based on the comparison. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166368 | Intelligent Clearing Network - In an embodiment, a system for validating, redeeming, and financially settling paper coupons coded with a GS1 barcode and 8110 Application Identifier comprises a real time network through which a Point-of-Sale (POS) terminal communicates directly to, or through a POS controller, with an Intelligent Clearing Network (ICN) server. One or both of the POS terminal, and POS controller are installed with a ICN POS data bridge which stores computer code. The ICN server is configured to ran a real time application while in communication with the POS terminal, wherein the POS terminal transmits paper coupon data elements read from the GS1 barcode and other consumer transaction information including universal product codes purchased, and transaction details to the ICN server via the network. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166369 | Digital Content Provided to a User at a Physical Location - A method for providing a promotion to a user to do commerce at a physical location includes offering a right to a particular piece of digital content to the user as an incentive to a commercial transaction that occurs at least partly at the physical location, discerning that the user is located at the physical location, and in response to the discerning, interacting with the user to provide the digital content to the user on a mobile device associated with the user. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166370 | REWARDS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A rewards system and method are provided in which the system has a reward defining engine and a rewards earning engine that are able to define a reward and allow users to earn a reward. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166371 | PREDICTING ADVERTISER KEYWORD PERFORMANCE INDICATOR VALUES - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for predicting advertiser keyword performance indicator values based on proximity of advertisers to one another are provided. A keyword is received from a first advertiser that has not previously bid on the keyword. Another advertiser that is similar to the first advertiser and has previously bid on the keyword is identified, and a predicted performance indicator value for the keyword is calculated for the first advertiser based upon an established performance indicator value of the keyword for the other advertiser. In this way, performance predictions for an advertiser desiring to bid on a keyword that is new to that advertiser may be calculated more accurately than traditional methods that do not take into account advertiser similarity. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166372 | UTILIZING REAL-TIME METRICS TO NORMALIZE AN ADVERTISEMENT BASED ON CONSUMER REACTION - One or more consumers proximate to a kiosk can be detected. The kiosk can present a product advertisement associated with a product. The product can be a good or a service. Metrics associated with the consumers can be collected responsive to interacting with the product advertisement. The interaction can be a visual and aural interaction. The metrics can be analyzed to determine an impression associated with the consumers interacting with the product advertisement. The impression can be a rational descriptor and/or an emotional descriptor. The rational descriptor and/or emotional descriptor can be a computer readable value associated with a behavioral change of the consumers responsive to the interacting. A normalized content can be generated based on the impression associated with the consumer. The normalized content can adjust the product advertisement to improve the impression. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166373 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTATION OF STIMULUS MATERIAL - Example methods, apparatus, systems and machine readable instructions are disclosed for presenting stimulus material. An example method includes selecting first media to present to a user based on a current location of the user. The example method also includes monitoring neuro-response data gathered from the user exposed to the first media, the neuro-response data gathered from a mobile device used by the user. In addition, the example method includes determining an effectiveness of the first media based on the neuro-response data and selecting second media to present to the user based on the effectiveness of the first media. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166374 | MANAGING REPUTATIONS - In general, a method includes enabling a user to specify a rule that causes a message to be formed, the rule being based on a reputation of a product and the reputation being based on information, from an online source, that is indicative of the reputation of the product. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166375 | Advertising and Web Site Feedback Systems and Methods - This disclosure relates to systems for aggregating and communicating media data, which may include advertising-related data and web site data. In various embodiments, the system includes a display showing the respective bounce rates associated with web site traffic received from multiple different traffic sources. The system may also indicate how many users (for example, from one or more particular traffic sources) execute one or more desired actions during their visit to the web site. This may allow an advertiser to quickly assess the performance of each component of an advertising campaign, and to modify the campaign to increase its effectiveness and to reduce the overall cost of the advertising campaign by discontinuing or modifying ineffective components of the campaign. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166376 | TRACKING CONVERSIONS OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE ADVERTISEMENTS - Tracking a conversion of a computer-based advertisement by receiving from a first software application running on a computing device a notification that a user interaction event has occurred in association with an advertisement, associating an identifier with the user responsive to receiving the notification, providing the identifier to the first software application, receiving the identifier from the first software application, and recording a conversion event in association with the advertisement responsive to receiving the identifier from the first software application. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166377 | ONLINE AD DETECTION AND AD CAMPAIGN ANALYSIS - Metrics for online ads are captured by parsing web pages to identify ad beacons containing information identifying whether the online ads are for a particular client. These metrics are used to determine key performance indicators for auditing and competitor analysis for an online ad campaign. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166378 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING CONTENT TARGETING - Methods and apparatus for optimizing content targeting with optimal topics. An exemplary method comprises determining metadata characteristics associated with topics of interest, determining an inventory of the metadata characteristics, determining performance characteristics associated with the metadata characteristics; and determining optimal topics associated with the metadata characteristics. The metadata characteristics preferably include primary metadata characteristics and ancillary metadata characteristics associated with the primary metadata characteristics, and determining the optimal topics is preferably based at least in part on the inventory of the metadata characteristics and the performance characteristics of the metadata characteristics. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166379 | Social Targeting - A system and method are disclosed for social targeting within a social media environment. A sample set of social media interactions containing a reference to an intent to purchase a product is processed to generate a prioritization index. The prioritization index is then used to monitor social media interactions in a target social media environment to identify social media users exhibiting propensity-to-purchase behavior. A propensity-to-purchase value is then generated for each of the identified social media users and they are ranked accordingly. The ranked social media users are then converted into sales leads for nurturing. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166380 | USE OF SERVICE ADDRESS IDENTIFIER FOR ANONYMOUS USER INTERACTIONS - A device receives a first contact from a consumer, where the first contact is related to a service offered by a service provider. The device further obtains a physical service address associated with the consumer, and adds information associated with the contact to a consumer contacts profile associated with the physical service address. The device uses the consumer contacts profile to generate a service-related recommendation, or to select an advertisement, for presentation to the consumer. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166381 | ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY UI AND ADVERTISEMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed is an effective and high-quality advertisement information display system that adapts to an internet user's lifestyle. The disclosed advertisement system includes a user interface such as an internet browser that itself has the capability of acquiring and displaying video advertisement data, at least one advertisement data storage site located on a communication network, and a user terminal connected to the abovementioned communication network and provided with the abovementioned browser, and by means of the abovementioned advertisement display capability, the advertisement system displays video advertisement data obtained by the user interface's advertisement acquisition capability to a user in accordance with an advertisement management capability. In the system, the user interface has a social capability, and users can gain rewards according to advertisements browsed. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166382 | System For Selling Products Based On Product Collections Represented In Video - A system for marketing products to customers includes an Internet-connected server and software executing on the server from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing display of links to one or more interactive video showcases; tracking consumer actions during video consumption of a video showcase; re-purposing focus of video content based on the results of the tracked consumer actions; redirecting consumers to a product description page based on consumer selection of a product during video consumption; and conducting one or more transactions through the portal relative to products selected for purchase by the consumers. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166383 | ANONYMITY-ENSURED SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AFFINITY-BASED DELIVERABLES TO LIBRARY PATRONS - A system and method for automatically determining library patrons' interests without having to identify the patron or otherwise invade his/her privacy based on the library patron's current use of library assets. The system and method involve categorizing the library's assets using broad mapping user interest categories, associating a user interest category with a specific library asset that is checked out, reserved or otherwise used by a library patron and providing that patron with a confirmation item containing that user interest category, providing the library patron with feedback about the library assets and the broad mapping user interest categories, allowing library patrons to access and register for a library rewards program using the user interest category number and having advertisers provide relevant information and rewards to library patrons who request such additional information. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166384 | LOCATION-BASED ENCODED DATA FOR FACILITATING TARGETED COMMUNICATIONS - A system and method to facilitate targeted campaign communications on mobile devices. Rather than rely on the GPS functionality of the mobile device, the method is able to determine the location of the mobile device by determining the location of the campaign media that is being scanned. Location information is embedded in encoded data, such as a 2D barcode or an RFID tag, to be placed the campaign media for this purpose. The campaign entity sends campaign data, including location data, to the campaign preparation servers of the barcode campaign service. The location data can be an address indicating where campaign entity plans to place their campaign media, or a location where campaign entity expects a recipient to receive the campaign media through the mail. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166385 | Event Location with Social Network Integration - An event location system identifies events of interest to a user. The system uses a filter and location associated with the user to search a database of events, thereby producing an event result set representing current events near the user's location that match the user's filter. The filter may include one or more criteria, such as criteria obtained from one or more social networking profiles of the user. The location may be identified automatically, such as by using a Global Positioning System (GPS) module. The system may automatically update the event result set over time and as the user's location changes so that the event result set is always up-to-date and reflects the user's current location. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166386 | COMMUNITY-BASED MARKETING AND ADVERTISING APPLICATION - A community-based marketing and advertising service uses an application (“app”) that is configured to provide location-aware services to promote local businesses and show the character and/or history of the location to customers and visitors who use the app. The app may be implemented on diverse computing platforms as both web- and smartphone-based products having location-awareness capabilities provided, for example, by GPS (Global Positioning System) or mobile phone tracking technologies such as cell tower triangulation. The app is implemented in a manner to readily enable businesses to market and advertise using, for example, social networking constructs such as blogging and tweeting while simultaneously providing users with easy-to-use tools to plan a visit, navigate and receive directions in real time using maps displayed by the app, receive promotional offers such as coupons, and generate feedback for the benefit of other users while at or near a given location in the community. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166387 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile communications device comprising a location sensing system, producing a location output; a memory, storing a set of locations and associated events; a telecommunications device, communicating event and location information between a remote system and said memory; and a processor, processing said location output in conjunction with said stored locations and associated events in said memory, to determine a priority thereof. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166388 | TECHNQUES FOR REAL-TIME OFFER EVALUATIONS - Techniques for real-time offer evaluations are presented. An enterprise system detects and interaction with a customer. Metrics for the interaction are acquired and a centralized preference server delivers real time preference values known for the customer. The metrics and the preference values are used to dynamically and in real-time evaluate conditions for an enterprise offer and when met the offer is delivered to the customer in real time. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166389 | LIST-BASED ADVERTISEMENT SERVING - A computer system and method for list-based advertisement serving are provided. In at least one embodiment, a computer system or method may comprise creating advertisement lists before runtime based on list generation data, wherein each of the advertisement lists is associated with a respective target audience definition. The computer system or method may also comprise allocating advertisements among the advertisement lists before runtime, based on the list generation data, to cause each advertisement list to include a prioritized sequence of advertisements. | 2013-06-27 |