27th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130173294 | Evidence-based healthcare information management protocols - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally, at least partly based on one or more performance indicia (excess hospital readmissions, e.g.) or therapeutic determinants (prior success, e.g.) or privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.). | 2013-07-04 |
20130173295 | Evidence-based healthcare information management protocols - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally, at least partly based on one or more performance indicia (excess hospital readmissions, e.g.) or therapeutic determinants (prior success, e.g.) or privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.). | 2013-07-04 |
20130173296 | Evidence-based healthcare information management protocols - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally, at least partly based on one or more performance indicia (excess hospital readmissions, e.g.) or therapeutic determinants (prior success, e.g.) or privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.). | 2013-07-04 |
20130173297 | Evidence-based healthcare information management protocols - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally, at least partly based on one or more performance indicia (excess hospital readmissions, e.g.) or therapeutic determinants (prior success, e.g.) or privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.). | 2013-07-04 |
20130173298 | Evidence-based healthcare information management protocols - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally, at least partly based on one or more performance indicia (excess hospital readmissions, e.g.) or therapeutic determinants (prior success, e.g.) or privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.). | 2013-07-04 |
20130173299 | EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173300 | EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173301 | EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173302 | EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173303 | EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173304 | EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173305 | EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173306 | STORING STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED CLINICAL INFORMATION FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - A computer-implemented method can include acquiring data from at least one data source, the acquired data including health data for a patient. The acquired data can be transformed into episode model data according to a context-specific data model and the episode model data can be stored in a database. The method also includes generating at least one inverted index document for at least a portion of an episode for the patient based on the episode model data. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173307 | INTERFACE FOR AN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM - An interface for an electronic medical record (EMR) system is configured to receive messages and documents having a message data format and a document data format respectively, transmitted to EMR system in accordance with a first and second device healthcare interoperability standard. The interface is further configured to determine whether a given message or document pertains to blood glucose measures and to generate records in a custom format of the EMR system. The interface is further configured to parse the messages and documents for a structure collection procedure from a comment field in the given messages and documents and to map the structured collection procedure data to applicable data fields in a corresponding record of the EM system. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173308 | IMAGING DEVICE INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for analyzing the utilization of diagnostic imaging modality devices by receiving and combining patient information from a radiology information system and image series information of patients from diagnostic imaging modality devices. The system may produce facility reports analyzing temporal utilization of the diagnostic imaging modality devices. It may also query a picture archiving and communication system to identify changes made to the image series information and update the facility database to reflect changes that are identified. The radiology information system may use a standard protocol, such as HL7, that is different from and not interoperable with a standard protocol, such as DICOM, used by the diagnostic imaging modality devices and picture archiving and communication system. The system may produce facility-independent reports for multiple imaging facilities that may be combined into regional reports by a regional information system. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173309 | PRIVACY AWARENESS TOOL - Systems and methods for applying sets of rules to data for providing useful information for review or action at an appropriate time. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to applying rules to large data sets of audit information from clinical systems of one or more healthcare provider facilities to detect patterns of behaviors that may be of concern (e.g., potential privacy violations, objectivity concerns, fraudulent behavior, abnormal activity, etc.), and to address the behaviors through human or system review or action. The rules may be weighted, aggregated, and scored to facilitate the improved detection of patterns of certain behaviors occurring at one or more healthcare provider facilities. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173310 | SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING LIFE SETTLEMENT TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for buying and selling life insurance policies includes an online database for storing information concerning in-force policies as needed for evaluation by a potential buyer. Owners of policies, either directly or through agents, who might be willing to sell their policies, register with the online website with critical financial and medical underwriting information relating to their policies, as needed for evaluation by a potential buyer. In the online database such information is organized and categorized as to parameters of various medical and financial information, to be reviewed online in an orderly manner by investors and potential buyers of policies. A membership preferably is required for a potential buyer to have access to the online information. In a preferred implementation of the system, an auction is held online to obtain essentially the best price for each policy. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173311 | Method for Determining Premiums for Representation and Warranty Insurance for Mortgage Loans - An insurance program for entities in the mortgage industry that provides coverage for financial loss as a result of material inaccuracies in the financial information provided by or on behalf of the borrower. The insurance program preferably includes the initial insurance application and establishment of an insurance agreement, periodic issuing of individual insurance coverages for particular loans handled by the lender, training and consulting on improved controls for lenders, maintaining an ineligible database of entities and a database of loan information, and handling of claims. The periodic issuing of individual insurance coverages includes receiving production information from the lender and determining the premium for the production information based at least in part on the insurance agreement. In at least one embodiment, the periodic issuing of individual insurance coverages includes scrubbing production information against databases as part of determining which loans on which to calculate the premium. The insurance program also includes a methodology for lender processing of new mortgage applications. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173312 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE TERM RIDERS FOR RISK MANAGEMENT PRODUCTS - The present disclosure comprises a method implemented on a program-controlled computer processor and a system for generating and processing life insurance policies with a whole life component and a term life component. In one embodiment, the system will provide a rider (or “flex term rider”) for whole life policies that allows the initial policy to be blended with term life insurance. The percentage of the term life coverage may vary; for example, 50% of the coverage can be term life insurance. The lower the percentage of term life in the product blend, the higher the premiums will be. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173313 | AUTOMATION OF AUDITING CLAIMS - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for automation of auditing claims. A data file is received comprising one or more auditable items, each auditable item comprising a word string having one or more words. Each word string for each auditable item is translated using one or more translation steps into a translated item description. Each translated item description is compared to a plurality of terms to generate matching information. Each translated item description is associated with an item identifier based on the matching information. Each auditable item is accepted or rejected based on the item identifier and one or more rules associated with the data file. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173314 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A MARKETPLACE FOR SPACE RENTAL - Systems and methods for providing a space rental marketplace are provided. In some embodiments, space providers list spaces available for rent with a space management system. Each space may be associated with one or more activities to be performed during the rental. Each type of activity may include pre-activity, during-activity, and/or post-activity services that may be scheduled through the space management system at the time of scheduling the rental. Space providers may add new types of activities to the space management system to be associated with their rental space. Recurring rentals may be scheduled. In some embodiments, the space management system automatically ensures that complex scheduling requirements, such as predetermined amounts of certain types of renters, may be fulfilled. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173315 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH PROXIMITY-BASED CONTENT SYNCHRONIZATION - Systems are provided that support millimeter-wave wireless communications between hosts and electronic devices. A host may be formed using a personal computer associated with a user or computing equipment associated with a public establishment. Content can be automatically synchronized between the host and the user's electronic device over a millimeter-wave wireless communications link in a communications band such as a 60 GHz wireless communications band. Synchronization operations may be performed based on user content preferences. Content preference information may be gathered explicitly from a user using on-screen options or may be gathered by monitoring user media playback activities and media rating activities. The content preference information may be transmitted automatically from an electronic device to a host when the electronic device is brought within range of the host. Synchronization operations may be performed automatically when a user is in proximity of a point-of-sale terminal or ticketing equipment. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173316 | Mobile Ticket Application - A method of providing virtual tickets on a mobile communications device running a customized app. The app connects to a central server via a wireless network to purchase a transportation ticket that is valid for travel on a selected route for a selected period of time. The ticket is paid for by an electronic payment. An encrypted copy of the ticket is stored on the mobile device. When used, the app checks if the terms and conditions of the ticket are being complied with before being displayed. If the ticket is compliant, a copy of it is displayed on the mobile devices screen along with a corporate identifier, the selected route and a unique identification string. If the ticket is not compliant, the display is overlaid with a red cross or some other indicator of invalidity. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173317 | EVENT BOOKING SYSTEM - A system and method alleviates a risk of booking an undersold event by facilitating an agreement between a performer and a venue operator, a performer and a promoter, or a venue operator and a promoter on tentative ticket reservations for consumers. If a threshold relating to the tentative ticket reservations is achieved, then the event is booked, each tentative ticket reservation is executed, and the consumer is charged. If the threshold is not achieved, the event is abandoned and each tentative ticket reservation is cancelled. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173318 | Method, Apparatus and System for Perpetual Cyber Value Add Discount Process - Method system, and apparatus for perpetual cyber value add discount process are provided. The method includes: A method for Perpetual Cyber Value Add Discount Process, comprising identifying a number of available tickets for a service provided by an organization which will be unused, selling the available tickets to a customer prior to the start of the service for which the ticket is bought, generating a sale confirmation number to the customer which allows the customer to access the service, and sending the sale confirmation number information to the customer and the organization providing the service. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173319 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MAPPING PRICE AND LOCATION OF TICKETS IN AN EVENT VENUE - A system and methods for mapping price and location of tickets in an event venue are described. An interactive event venue seat map is provided by a network-based system that implements an online marketplace for tickets for upcoming events. The interactive event venue seat map enables sellers to view pricing information and transaction information for both sold and current event listings for any section or zone in an event venue. The interactive event venue seat map allows sellers to browse and click on sections to see sold and listed data for any section and zone in the event venue and to compare a proposed sale price to available pricing information of sold and current event listings in comparable sections. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173320 | METHOD AND SYSTEM UTILIZING MERCHANT SALES ACTIVITY TO PROVIDE INDICATIVE MEASUREMENTS OF MERCHANT AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE - A system for measurements of merchant performance using a payment card processing system, the system includes a managing computer system of a payment card service provider, the managing computer system having a memory device capable of storing data for generating measurements of merchant performance based on payment card transactions, and a computer processor. The computer processor is configured to: receive payment card transactions from at least one merchant; store the payment card transactions for the at least one merchant; generate at least one business performance indicator for the payment card transactions of the at least one merchant; compare the at least one business performance indicator for the at least one merchant to a comparable business performance indicator; and generate a measurement of merchant performance for the at least one merchant based on the comparison of the at least one business performance indicator to the comparable business performance indicator. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173321 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING, UPDATING AND EXECUTING A CROP-HARVESTING PLAN - Crop-harvesting plans automatically generated based on crop-harvesting information received from a variety of sources, such as a user, remote sensor, database, data feed and/or a social network. The crop-harvesting plans may dynamically aid farmers and other production agriculture professionals when determining a crop-harvesting plan and then implementing that crop-harvesting plan. Crop-harvesting plans may include a variety of recommended crop-harvesting practices, logistics, sequences and projected outcomes for the implementation of the recommended crop-harvesting plan. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173322 | Energy Management with Correspondence Based Data Auditing Signoff - Systems and methods for monitoring energy management (EM) data from at least one energy data source; detecting a data anomaly event in the EM data; determining if a resolution for the data anomaly event requires human input; and submitting a request to at least one user for human input to resolve the data anomaly event. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173323 | FEEDBACK BASED MODEL VALIDATION AND SERVICE DELIVERY OPTIMIZATION USING MULTIPLE MODELS - An approach for validating a model is presented. Data from a system being modeled is collected. First and second models of the system are constructed from the collected data. Based on the first model, a first determination of an aspect of the system is determined. Based on the second model, a second determination of the aspect of the system is determined. A variation between the first and second determinations is determined. An input for resolving the variation is received and in response, a model of the system that reduces the variation is derived. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173324 | System And Method For Workflow Management With Configurable States And Extensibility - A workflow management system provides a GUI configuration tool that allows end users to configure the states and state properties of workflows and workers without rewriting the program. The application also provides an interface that allows the use of extensible code to perform custom functions at particular states and at particular state transitions of a workflow. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173325 | CAPITAL ASSET INVESTMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS - Automated systems and methods for use in managing collections of capital assets determine optimal replacement dates for assets based on total cost curves. Replacement dates are adjusted within ranges that avoid unacceptable risk of unmonetizable failures to satisfy constraints. Priority in adjusting replacement dates is determined based on deferral cost metrics which may be based on the total cost curves. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173326 | RECHARGING OF BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON A SMART ELECTRICAL GRID SYSTEM - Some example embodiments include a method for recharging a number of battery electric vehicles. The method include receiving (by a control module configured to control an electrical grid system that include a number of recharging stations that are configured to recharge the number of battery electric vehicles and from the number of battery electric vehicles) usage data that comprises a current charge level, a current location, and a planned itinerary that includes a destination. The method includes determining anticipated electrical loads in the number of sectors of the electrical grid system based on the usage data of the number of battery electric vehicles. The method also includes redistributing the electrical supply on the electrical grid system to at least one recharging station of the number of recharging stations based on the anticipated electrical loads, prior to actual usage defined by the usage data by the number of battery electrical vehicles. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173327 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for providing project management tools and instructions are disclosed. The systems and methods generally include: (a) performing an initial assessment to determine a pre-existing project management status for a plurality of project management parameters; (b) establishing a substantially equivalent quality level for the project management parameters based on the initial assessment; (c) creating an implementation plan including instructions for implementing a plurality of the project management parameters at the substantially equivalent quality level; and (d) providing training materials based on the implementation plan. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173328 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INJECTION OF RESOURCES INTO A FLOW OF MULTIPLE RESOURCE UTILIZATION EVENTS - Method for managing injection of resources into flow of multiple resource utilization events, by receiving flow of base resource utilization events including basic dates on which externally managed resource/s are supplied by supplier to utilizer; deriving resource utilization events from base events and storing as unrelated records: the first storing the first event, whereby externally managed resource is supplied by a first supplier by a “first date” parameter (initially the basic date); the second storing the second event, whereby the externally managed resource is supplied to a utilizer by a “second date” parameter (initially the basic date); providing an internal resource management subsystem for authorization injection of internal resources into events without exceeding available amounts of internal resources and changing first and/or second dates to define a temporal gap between individual and basic dates and recording a resource injection authorized by the subsystem to bridge the gap. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173329 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE SOLUTION TO THE JOINT PROBLEM OF PARTS ORDER SCHEDULING AND MAINTENANCE PLAN GENERATION FOR FIELD MAINTENANCE - Methods and apparatus are provided for selecting a maintenance plan such that the cost of the maintenance plan is the lowest or near the lowest. The method comprises receiving a set of maintenance actions, wherein one of the repair actions is likely to repair the failure mode. The set of maintenance actions is sequenced in the increasing order of their waiting times. Each maintenance action has an associated cost equal to a waiting time cost, an execution time cost and a material cost, wherein the waiting time of each maintenance action is the time required to requisition and receive material required to perform the maintenance action. The method also constructs a maintenance plan comprising a first requisition and a second requisition by assigning each of the sequence of maintenance actions to one of the first or the second requisition. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173330 | MULTI-FEATURE PRODUCT INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND ALLOCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data store includes, for a dealer of interest, a target inventory mix rate for an item having a feature. A computing device is configured to perform an optimization to obtain a recommended feature allocation of the item including the feature by minimizing a difference between a projected inventory mix rate for the feature and the target inventory mix rate for the feature. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173331 | Dispatching Mobile Energy Resources to Respond to Electric Power Grid Conditions - Systems and methods for responding to electric power grid conditions may include identifying a portion of the electric power grid for power response, identifying at least one mobile energy resource and at least one connection site, and dispatching the mobile energy resource to a connection site. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173332 | ARCHITECTURE FOR ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS, PREDICTION, AND MODELING AND METHODS THEREFOR - Systems and methods for automatically and/or systematically include more data sources and/or more detailed data in the analysis, prediction, and model building. Process data may be employed to pinpoint the process parameter excursions and domain knowledge and/or expert systems may be automatically and/or systematically incorporated into the root cause analysis, the prediction and/or the model building to improve results and/or to reduce the reliance on inconsistent and expensive human experts. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173333 | PRIORITIZING SOCIAL ACTIVITY POSTINGS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for prioritizing social activity postings. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for prioritized social activity postings, the request being associated with a company identifier. Social activity postings are identified. The social activity postings are available to users on a social activity system of one or more computers, and each social activity posting is associated with a user identifier. For each social activity posting, the user identifier associated with the social activity posting is matched with a customer identifier associated with the company identifier. A respective priority rating is determined for the social activity posting using configuration information associated with the customer identifier. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173334 | INFERRING USER DEMOGRAPHICS THROUGH NETWORK ACTIVITY RECORDS - Personal information on a networked client computer is used by a server from which the device has requested information to infer demographic characteristics of the user of the client computer in order to add customized content to the requested information. The personal information provided to the server is gathered from the use of network browser software by the client computer and includes cookies, history and bookmarks. Inferring demographic characteristics of the user involves application of predetermined demographics inference rules stored by the server to the personal information provided by the client. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173335 | LIFESTYLE APPLICATION PLATFORM - A lifestyle application platform receives consumer information from a user device associated with a consumer, where the consumer information includes preference, demographic, identity, relationship, transactional, and location information associated with the consumer. The lifestyle application platform creates a consumer profile for the consumer based on the consumer information, and receives enterprise information from an enterprise device associated with an enterprise, where the enterprise information includes consumer interaction, transaction, and wish list information associated with the enterprise. The lifestyle application platform performs an analysis of the consumer information and the enterprise information, and provides, to the user device, notifications, reports, and offers, associated with the enterprise and relevant to the consumer, based on the analysis. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173336 | LIFESTYLE APPLICATION FOR CONSUMERS - A user device receives consumer information from a consumer, where the consumer information includes preference information, demographic information, identity information, relationship information, and location information associated with the consumer. The user device provides the consumer information to a lifestyle application platform, and receives, from the lifestyle application platform, a consumer profile for the consumer based on the consumer information. The user device receives, from the lifestyle application platform, notifications, reports, and offers, associated with an enterprise and relevant to the consumer, based on the consumer profile, and provides the notifications, reports, and offers for display to the consumer. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173337 | LIFESTYLE APPLICATION FOR ENTERPRISES - An enterprise device receives, from a lifestyle application platform, consumer profile information for a consumer associated with a user device, where the consumer profile information is relevant to an enterprise associated with the enterprise device. The enterprise device provides a portion of the consumer profile information to other enterprise devices associated with other enterprises, and receives additional consumer profile information from the other enterprise devices. The enterprise device creates enterprise information based on the consumer profile information and the additional consumer profile information, where the enterprise information is relevant to the consumer. The enterprise device provides the enterprise information to the lifestyle application platform, and the lifestyle application platform provides the enterprise information to the user device. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173338 | CONTEXT RICH CONSENT CONTROLLED FOOD PURCHASE MANAGEMENT - A network of computers/portable devices that can capture context rich information about purchases and creates a shared secret system that can be used to exchange data between one or more retailers, one or more manufacturers and one or more consumers. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173339 | FOOD MANAGEMENT SERVICES - A food chain procurement and consumption management service tailored to support consumer specific goals that may evolve and be altered over time. While described in terms of the preferred embodiment, the system for procurement and consumption management may be adapted to encompass products and services that are not food specific. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173340 | Product Offering Analytics - Embodiments of the invention relate to supply chain recommendations in real-time. A filter model and a compliance model are provided to relate product proposal data with product order data, and to apply a measurement to the relationship in real-time. This applied measurement is a factor that is employed with respect to supply chain changes. Specifically, the measurement provides a measured correlation that is determinative of recommendations for changes to an associated supply chain. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173341 | Product Offering Analytics - Embodiments of the invention relate to supply chain recommendations in real-time. A filter model and a compliance model are provided to relate product proposal data with product order data, and to apply a measurement to the relationship in real-time. This applied measurement is a factor that is employed with respect to supply chain changes. Specifically, the measurement provides a measured correlation that is determinative of recommendations for changes to an associated supply chain. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173342 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VALUATION OF A TECHNOLOGY - A system and method for computing the value of an emerging technology is provided. The method may provide an automated process to provide objective data for valuation of a given technology. The method may use a multi-variant algorithm that has weighted measures, such as multiple parameters having one or more subsegments. Each parameter may be assigned a variable relative to its importance to the success of the ultimate success of the technology and each subsegment within a parameter may be given a different value. Information regarding a particular technology may be entered and an overall value of a technology determined. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173343 | Information Modeling and Projection For Geographic Regions Having Insufficient Sample Size - The various exemplary embodiments provide a method for projecting survey information into a geographic region. The geographic region is divided into a plurality of geographic subregions, each of which are profiled using a plurality of profiling variables to form a selected geographic subregion profile. The profiling variables include both demographic and behavioral variables. A plurality of survey respondents are then randomly assigned into the selected geographic subregion to form a modeled population, with the random assignment weighted based on a representation probability of each of the corresponding plurality of survey respondents for the selected geographic subregion profile, with the representation probabilities having been determined using a sample balancing algorithm. Following such profiling and assignment for all subregions, survey information corresponding to the modeled population is projected into the geographic region. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173344 | SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING PLURALITY OF INTERACTIVE SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH FINANCIAL ORGANIZATION - Disclosed is an integrated system for implementing various interactive services for a plurality of users associated with a financial organization. The system includes a linking module and a function module. The linking module associates user profiles corresponding to each of the users with the financial organization to enable the services for the users. The function module enables the users to perform a plurality of functionalities associated with the financial organization. Each of the users is enabled to perform the functionalities based on a type of user profile corresponding to the each of the users. Further, the function module includes a transaction module, an interaction module, and a social networking module. The transaction module, the interaction module, and the social networking module enable the users to utilize transaction services, interactive services, and social networking services, respectively. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173345 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING USER DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILES - A method determines a user demographic profile of a user that visits one or more websites of a predetermined group of websites. The method includes generating a first record of visits by the user to the websites of the predetermined group of websites. The method further includes providing one or more website profiles comprising demographic characteristics of each website visited by the user of the predetermined group of websites. The method further includes calculating an estimated user demographic profile of the user by using the first record of visits by the user and the one or more website profiles. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173346 | INFORMATION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD - An information analysis device includes: a receiving unit for receiving a location registration signal including a sector ID, location registration time information and a user ID subjected to location registration; an extracting unit for extracting a location registration signal of which the location registration time is immediately preceding a target time and a location registration signal of which the location registration time is immediately following the target time, from the location registration signal for each user; and a population distribution calculation unit for calculating population distribution by sector at the target time based on location registration time information and a location corresponding to the sector ID in the location registration signal immediately preceding the target time for each user, location registration time information and a location corresponding to the sector ID in the location registration signal immediately following the target time for each user, and the target time. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173347 | FIXED PRICING OF SERVICES - Technology is described for generating a market and a fixed price for a customer-selected service. The technology can include pooling service providers from a data store capable of performing the customer-selected service. Additionally, the technology can include acquiring information over a network from the customer and/or one or more additional sources. The information can provide values for a set of task details that can be defined to differentiate a quantity of work associated with the customer-selected service. By applying these values, potential differences in the quantity of work can be removed. Statistical information related to pricing can also be applied to the defined quantity of work to determine a fixed price for the customer-selected service, which can, thereafter, be treated as a virtual commodity. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173348 | FRAMEWORK TO RENDER SPATIAL INFORMATION OF ENTITIES - In an embodiment, the spatial information of the business entities are captured and transformed to corresponding spatial coordinates. The spatial coordinates include positional values of the business entities at various instances of time. Based upon a business condition configured for the business entities, the spatial coordinates are processed to compute a deviation between positional values of the spatial coordinates and values specified in the business condition. Based upon the deviation, a correlation between a business logic associated with the business entities and the spatial coordinates is determined. A comparative analysis of the correlation is executed for the spatial coordinates and the associated time instances. Based upon the analysis, the framework is generated to render a visual representation of the spatial information, to establish a business decision. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173349 | MANAGING A PROJECT DURING TRANSITION - A method and a system for managing a project during transition are provided. The system comprises a processor, an interface, and a memory coupled to the processor. The system receives a request for initiating the project through the interface. The memory comprises a back end module and a front end module. The back end module is configured to create a standard project workspace and a standard project plan upon receiving the request to initiating the project. The front end module is configured to generate in real time one or more status reports of the project for various stakeholders. These status reports are based on the standard project plan. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173350 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIA FOR TRADING OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY - A method for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting more efficient energy use, by establishing a measure of efficiency, defined as a ratio of a measure of energy use to a measure of production; establishing a reduction schedule that sets limits on the energy efficiency ratio, with the schedule covering a series of compliance time periods and requiring efficient energy use during those time periods; establishing a transferable credit representing an amount of energy and establishing a tradable financial instrument representing a number of energy efficiency credits; issuing a plurality of energy efficiency credits to the entities; establishing a trading system to facilitate the sale and purchase of the financial instruments; and requiring entities to comply with the reduction schedule by making operational improvements or acquiring and surrendering credits to thus increase the efficiency of energy use in turn reducing greenhouse gas emissions. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173351 | Application usage and process monitoring in an enterprise environment having agent session recording for process definition - A real-time activity monitor (RTAM) operates within or in association with a machine (such as a desktop) within a back office environment to automatically track and record desktop processing activities, application usage, as well as manual processing. The real-time activity monitor provides visibility into real-time task processing at the client desktop to enable an enterprise to address back office operational inefficiencies that are exposed by the data. According to a further feature, a recording approach is used to enable a user of the system to automatically define processes and tasks to be monitored. The approach obviates manual configuration by recording application usage actions and then using these interactions as a template for a new process object to be monitored. In an alternative embodiment, the process recorder captures screenshots and enables screen element bookmarking. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173352 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT AND CONSOLIDATION OF CONTRACTOR DATA - Solutions are provided for assessing and consolidating contractor data in an organization from a plurality of data sources. Contractor data from a plurality of data sources is collected, wherein the data sources comprise existing information systems, surveys and interviews. The collected contractor data is segmented using a decision matrix, wherein the decision matrix comprises a plurality of predefined functional units and a plurality of vendors, roles and experience bands. The segmented contractor data is evaluated for its impact on ongoing business activities in the organization, wherein the evaluation of the segmented contractor data comprises performing at least contractor assessment and application assessment. Further, the evaluated contractor data is consolidated to form at least one logical cluster within a plurality of predefined categories, wherein the predefined categories comprise functional unit, application platform, and technology platform and service type and presented to a user. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173353 | ASSESSING MATURITY OF BUSINESS PROCESSES - Method and system described herein relate to assessment of maturity of a business process. In one implementation, the method comprises obtaining business objectives of the business process, obtaining performance metrics of the business process based on the business objectives, evaluating a practice maturity score based on practices attributes for a current state of the business process, evaluating a performance maturity score based on performance attributes for the current state of the business process, and analyzing the practice maturity score and the performance maturity score with respect to each other. The practice attributes are based on the business objectives and the performance metrics and are at least one from people-related practices, process-related practices, technology-related practices and control-related practices. The performance attributes are based on the practice attributes and are at least one from efficiency-related key performance indicators and effectiveness-related key performance indicators. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173354 | ISSUE-BASED ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION OF POLITICAL ACTORS AND ENTITIES - A data processing system provides an issue-based analysis and graphical visualizations of the political orientation of members of Congress individually (e.g. political actors), as collective political entities, such as the Congress as a whole, and the individual branches of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISSEMINATION AND ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE METRICS AND RELATED BEST PRACTICES INFORMATION - A software and/or hardware facility for assessing performance-related metrics (performance metrics) of a workplace or other entity and disseminating related best practices information for how to improve specific metrics is provided. The facility provides social networking and media services that enable users to find and share materials related to various performance metrics that can be used to improve quality of service and care. The facility provides an international collaborative performance management platform that aligns users on various metrics, objectives, and initiatives and identifies and highlights best practices information for those users to consume for purposes of increasing performance with respect to the various metrics, objectives, and initiatives. Thus, users may use the facility to track and share performance-related metric data, discuss this data with interested parties, and collaborate around this data and the related metrics to improve quality of service and care. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173356 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE VOTING - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for conducting an election. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method for ensuring integrity of an electronic ballot. The method can include creating electronic ballots for voters based on votes received from the voters; digitally signing the electronic ballots; storing the signed electronic ballots; retrieving the signed electronic ballots from storage; verifying the digital signatures on the retrieved electronic ballots; and presenting the voters with validation pages derived from the retrieved electronic ballots, the validation pages including a user interface element for the voters to confirm that the retrieved electronic ballots accurately reflect their vote. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173357 | METHODS OF OFFLINE FARE COLLECTION FOR OPEN-LOOP AND HYBRID CARD SYSTEMS - Interconnected methods of card-based fare collection at computer-based service access validation terminals are disclosed. The first method is characterized by periodically propagating to the validation terminals card transaction data originated at other validation terminals. This method is most pertinent to the public transit fare systems utilizing open-loop payment cards and vehicle-installed terminals. The second method is characterized by actualizing the validation terminals' data by way of data broadcasting or multicasting. This method makes the first method practical and improves performance of open-loop and closed-loop card systems implementing offline validations. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173358 | ASSOCIATING VEHICLES WITH ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY AND CONVERSION - A deal manager associates a unique vehicle-offer code or identifier to each vehicle and/or advertisement to be displayed on a vehicle. The unique vehicle-offer code or identifier corresponds to an advertisement on one vehicle such that the vehicle can be uniquely identified. A brief description of the promotional offer and/or the vehicle-offer code may be displayed on the associated vehicle. A consumer may request additional information about the promotion offer through the use of the vehicle-offer code or other identifier. When the consumer receives the additional information, the consumer may have an opportunity to purchase the promotional offer, thereby creating a “conversion.” The identity of the vehicle displaying the brief description of the promotional offer and/or its location may then be determined through the use of the unique vehicle-offer code. The location of the consumer at the time of interest and at the time of conversion may also be determined. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173359 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING THE SPEND CAPACITY OF CONSUMERS - Time series consumer spending data, point-in-time balance information, internal customer financial data and consumer panel information provides input to a model for consumer spend behavior on plastic instruments or other financial accounts, from which approximations of spending ability may be reliably identified and utilized to promote additional consumer spending. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173360 | METHODS OF ALLOCATING BENEFITS RECEIVED IN RESPONSE TO GENERATING ENERGY WITHIN COMMUNITIES TO COMMUNITY INTERESTS - Methods of allocating benefits received in response to generating energy within communities to community interests, including deploying energy generating equipment on properties of host community members, delivering delivered portions of the energy generated by the energy generating equipment to host community members, receiving community members, or power grids, measuring the delivered portions of the energy to produce measurements, receiving benefits associated with purchasing the energy generating equipment or generating energy with the energy generating equipment, the benefits defining amounts calculated based on the measurements, distributing portions of the benefit to community interests. In some examples, a community portion of the energy may be donated to community interest organizations. In some examples, benefits may define government subsidies. In some examples, marketing materials may be delivered from non-profit entities. In some examples, community members may select to participate in the community power programs on forms provided to the community members. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173361 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT REWARD - An advertisement reward providing method includes receiving first advertisement information associated with advertisement, that is being reproduced in a first device, from a second device, providing, to the second device, a mission associated with the advertisement based on the first advertisement information, receiving, from the second device, a mission completion message and providing an advertisement reward to at least one of the first device and the second device, in response to the mission completion message. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173362 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING AND ADVERTISING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES USING INTERACTIVE MIXED MEDIA - Provided are methods and systems for advertising using interactive mixed media, which are based on providing multiple advertising content components in the same user interface and allowing users to switch between the different advertising content components using a content selection tool provided by the interface. Specifically, different content formats may be simultaneously combined in the same user interface, and then modified by the user to constitute the most optimal collection of the advertisement content components. A user may toggle between the different advertisements content components to gather additional information. For example, the initially presented content may provide some general product information. The user may then choose to explore some specific features of the product by selecting some specific part of the content. Furthermore, the user may select content that is more suitable to this particular user. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MARKETING BEAUTY PRODUCTS - System and method of marketing beauty products to male customers in a male-frequented setting. The method includes obtaining a display having advertising space for beauty products, locating the display in a male-frequented venue, and providing information about and access to the beauty products at the display for example, a freestanding kiosk. The venue may be an automotive store, such as an automotive parts store or service center, or a an electronics or home improvement store or sports arena. Beauty products can be configured to include one or more characteristics of the male-frequented venue, such as an automotive theme at an automotive venue, such that the beauty products blend in with the surrounding environment. Method provides a cost-effective, economical, convenient, comfortable, reliable, and private way to advertise and provide access to beauty products directly to target consumers without the disadvantages related to marketing through traditional advertising and retail channels | 2013-07-04 |
20130173364 | CREDIT CARD REWARDS PROGRAM - Systems and methods are provided which enable a consumer to accept a promotional offer for a credit card-based reward program without having to supply a credit card number at the time of acceptance. For example, after acceptance, a credit card number associated with the consumer may be retrieved from an entity to which the consumer previously supplied it, such as a publisher (e.g., e-commerce website), and the retrieved number may then be used in relation to the reward program. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173365 | Processing of Electronic Referral Hyperlinks - A computer-implemented method is performed at a computer of a central depository of information related to referrals. A merchant account is created for each of multiple merchants. A list of one or more items available for referral is displayed, wherein each item is a product offered by one of the merchants or associated with one of the merchants. A first message is received from a referring party, which may be a referring user or a referring site, indicating that the referring party desires to refer a selected item from the list. A referring party account is created for the referring party. A referral hyperlink is created. The hyperlink is configured to route a referred user, upon activation of the hyperlink, to the central depository. The referral hyperlink includes first data identifying the selected item. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173366 | Processing of Electronic Referral Hyperlinks - A computer-implemented method is performed at a computer of a merchant. A list of one or more items available for referral is displayed. Each item is a product offered by the merchant or associated with the merchant. A first message is received from a referring party indicating that the referring party desires to refer a selected item from the list. A referring party account is created at the computer of the merchant, for the referring party. A referral hyperlink is created for referral of the selected item. The referral hyperlink includes first data identifying the selected item. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173367 | Processing of Electronic Referral Hyperlinks - A first referral hyperlink, corresponding to a referral of a product offered by or associated with a merchant, is received from a first party. The first referral hyperlink is parsed into data elements including a referring user identifier, and at least one of a merchant identifier and a central depository identifier. Format instructions are received from the merchant or a central depository of referral information, specifying a predetermined hyperlink format for embedding data related to the referring site within a hyperlink. An identifier is created, which is configured to identify the referring site, a payment depository for processing fees payable to the referring site, a posting fee rate, or a discount made available by the referring site. In accordance with the format instructions, a second referral hyperlink is generated, having embedded therein the identifier and at least one of the parsed data elements. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173368 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR POPULARITY AND INFLUENCE INDICATORS AND COMMERCIAL INCENTIVES BASED ON OBJECT-RELATED SOCIAL NETWORK REFERRALS - The present invention generally relates to popularity indicators, influence measures, and purchase incentives. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, the present invention relates to assessing and communicating the popularity or relative popularity of objects such as songs, books, documents, pictures, web links, comments, authors, artists, creators, based on either the number of user profiles with whom an object or a reference to an object was shared on one or more social network(s) by web users, or on the number or percentage of social network connections who acted on such a referral. It also relates to measuring the influence of a web user (or group thereof) with regard to a particular object or set of objects by using the number of user profiles with whom the web user (or group thereof) shared the object(s) or a reference(s) thereto on one or more social network(s), and offering commercial incentives based on that measure. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173369 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING LOYALTY PROGRAM PARTNERS - Some embodiments include a computer-implemented method for disseminating a business lead to a partner of a loyalty program. In some embodiments, the method includes completing a sales transaction with a customer over a telecommunications network, where the customer is a member of the loyalty program. The method can also include depositing, via an electronic transmission, a first quantity of loyalty currency in an electronic account associated with the customer, wherein the deposit is given to the customer for completion of the sales transaction, wherein the loyalty currency is issued by the loyalty program. The method can also include transmitting an electronic notification to the partner, wherein the notification includes information about services purchased via the sales transaction and contact information associated with the customer. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO CONSUMERS - A method and a system to provide information to consumers are provided. A code identification module may receive one or more scanned machine-readable codes. The code identification may further identify respective descriptions of the items corresponding to the one or more scanned machine-readable codes. An incentive generation module may provide to a user an incentive interface depicting a first description of a first set of incentives available with the purchase of a first item corresponding to a first scanned machine-readable code and second description of a second set of incentives available with the purchase of a second item corresponding to a second scanned machine-readable code. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173371 | ENHANCING SERVICES FOR AWARD AIRLINE TICKETS - Some embodiments include a computer implemented method for providing enhanced services to an award ticket customer of an airline. The method can include selling, to the award ticket customer, an airline ticket in exchange for loyalty currency, wherein the selling occurs via an electronic website; and transmitting an electronic request for a business offer from a business partner of the airline, wherein the business offer is redeemable by the award ticket customer, and wherein the electronic request identifies contact information for the award ticket customer. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173372 | Electronic Coupon Management - Methods and systems are provided for electronically managing coupons. The user no longer has to clip and organize coupons. The need for hand processing of coupons is substantially reduced. Rebates or payments for coupons can be substantially hastened and can be deposited directly into a user's bank, credit card, or payment provider account. Merchants and manufactures no longer have to be concerned with receiving bad (e.g., invalid, expired, or counterfeit) coupons. Thus, the electronic coupon management system benefits the users, merchants, and manufactures. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173373 | E-couponing - Handling electronic coupons includes accessing information indicating association of an electronic coupon with an account of a user that identifies multiple retail entities associated with the user. Information indicating association of electronic coupons with the user's account may be transmitted to respective computer systems associated with the multiple retail entities. The computer systems may associate electronic coupons with the user such that the user may redeem the electronic coupons at a retail store upon presentation of a user identifier. When the user redeems an electronic coupon, cancellation information for the electronic coupon may be transmitted to the computer systems of other retail entities associated with the user. Receipt of the cancellation information may cause the respective computer systems to cancel the redeemability of the electronic coupon such that the user is prevented from redeeming the electronic coupon at a retail store associated with the corresponding retail entity. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173374 | Application Programming Interface For Determining When A Mobile Device Is Inside A Vehicle - A method for determining if a pre-configured set of relevant conditions exist that can be used to suggest a mobile device is within the confines of a vehicle operator compartment or passenger vehicle compartment. Then, an application-programming interface can be used to signal a program when those conditions are meet, and what conditions were involved in that determination. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173375 | Mortgage Matching System and Method - A computer-implemented method is disclosed for rewarding mortgage customers of a financial institution with a reward payment amount. The method includes providing enrollment in a mortgage matching system to eligible mortgage customers, wherein eligibility requirements include the requirement that eligible mortgage customers hold both a mortgage account and a checking account with the financial institution. The method additionally includes enabling the customer to make periodic mortgage payments from the checking account to the mortgage account and monitoring continued compliance with the eligibility requirements and submission of the periodic payments using a monitoring engine implemented by at least one computer processor. The method further includes determining a reward payment amount to be made by the financial institution to each complying mortgage customer using a fulfillment engine implemented by the at least one computer processor, wherein the reward payment amount is a predetermined percentage of principal and interest. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173376 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF A REBATE REQUEST WITH VALIDATION INFORMATION - The present disclosure relates to a system for rebate claim submission including an interface module configured for downloading to an electronic mobile device as a mobile app and configured for display on a display screen of the mobile device, the interface module also configured for displaying a rebate offer available for selection to a consumer of the mobile device, identifying a selection of a displayed rebate offer based on the consumer's electronic input, and providing a camera function through which the consumer may photograph proof of purchase data, wherein the proof of purchase data indicates purchase of one or more rebate qualifying products or services. The present disclosure also relates to a method for receiving a rebate claim via an electronic mobile device via a mobile app. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173377 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING DYNAMIC OFFERS TO INCENT USER BEHAVIOR - Systems and methods to deliver dynamic context sensitive offers to incent user behavior are discussed. For example, a method to deliver a dynamic context sensitive offer can include operations for generating a dynamic offer, delivering the dynamic offer, receiving data associated with a user, updating a context input with data associated with the user, and adjusting the value of the dynamic offer. Generating the dynamic offer includes associating a rule for manipulating the value of the dynamic offer based on a context input. Updating the context input of the rule includes extracting context information from the data associated with the user. Adjusting the value of the dynamic offer can be based on reevaluation of the rule with the updated context input. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173378 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE MARKETING USING INTERACTIVE FEEDBACK - The invention provides systems and methods of adaptive marketing based on interactive feedback from one or more participants. In particular, a system for adaptive marketing, comprising a participant access device, at least one data management devices, a communication means between the participant access device and the at least one data management device, and one or more sub-platforms for facilitating at least one participant interaction with the system. The one or more sub-platforms may include an Advertising sub-platform, a Redemption sub-platform, an Offer sub-platform, a Social Media sub-platform, and an Education sub-platform. Also included are methods for adapting marketing. The methods include identifying characteristics of a participant, trending the identifying characteristics, and adapting marketing materials based on the trends. The invention provides methods for distributing offers for goods or services including driving viral interactions with an integrated system. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173379 | Estimating Off-Line Advertising Impressions - A computer-implemented method for monitoring the effectiveness of advertisements broadcast is described. The method includes detecting that an advertisement has been aired by a broadcast station, monitoring a network for a duration subsequent to the airing of the advertisement for activity attributable to the airing of the advertisement, and developing a quantitative relationship between the activity and a number of listeners of the advertisement. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173380 | System and Method for Mobile Advertising Configuration - A system and method for mobile advertising configuration. A mobile advertising platform provides a service to advertisers in generating and managing an advertising campaign. The mobile advertising platform receives an advertiser's input regarding the duration, geographies, targeted demographics, expected performance such as number of impressions, and pricing requirements of an advertising campaign. The mobile advertising platform selects mobile advertisement carriers controlled by one or more fleet operators for inclusion in said advertising campaign based on profiles for the mobile advertisement carriers. The mobile advertising platform provides proof-of-performance metrics and operational metrics to the advertisers to enable management and optimization of the advertising campaign in real-time. The mobile advertising platform provides dynamic pricing to the advertisers for their advertising campaign in real-time. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173381 | CLOUD-RENDERED HIGH-QUALITY ADVERTISEMENT FRAME - A network-based system of providing an advertisement stream to at least one user, the system including a computing cloud configured to receive different media data from a plurality of advertisement data sources and generate from said media data at least one advertisement data stream to be provided to at least one remote user; a network entity configured to transmit said at least one advertisement data stream to a user device of the at least one user; the user device configured to display the content of the at least one advertisement data stream within a network-based online presentation. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173382 | CONVERSION ATTRIBUTION FOR EARNED MEDIA - Tracking a path to conversion by receiving, in relation to an engagement of a first computer user with a first computer-hosted media object, an identifier associated with the first computer user and an identifier associated with the first computer-hosted media object, receiving, in relation to an engagement of a second computer user to a second computer-hosted media object, the identifier associated with the first computer user, an identifier associated with the second computer user, and the identifier associated with the first computer-hosted media object, and associating with the engagement of the first computer user to the first computer-hosted media object, a conversion event associated with the second computer user. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173383 | Method Of, And System For, Authenticating And Custom Marketing Products In Response To Their Authentication - Authentication information and product identification information associated with a product are captured by a portable interrogation device held and operated by a user. An authentication server determines from the captured authentication information whether the product is genuine or counterfeit. In response to the authentication, a marketing server identifies the product from the captured product identification information, and sends customized transactional information about the product to the device. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173384 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AD PLACEMENT PLANNING - Methods and systems are disclosed which allow shifting inventory to fulfill guaranteed delivery advertisement contracts. Inventory may be allocated from a supply of unallocated inventory to one or more advertisers in accordance with guaranteed delivery agreements. Inventory may be reserved for the one or more advertisers from the remaining supply of unallocated inventory. Inventory may then be allocated to an additional advertiser by using unallocated inventory or shifted inventory, or a combination of unallocated inventory and shifted inventory. The shifted inventory is shifted out of the allocation for the first advertiser and the shifted inventory is replaced by the reserve inventory for the respective advertiser. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173385 | Generation and Provision of Directed Sales Incentives at Locations Remote from the Point of Sale - This invention is directed to a system and method for improving customer loyalty through direct sales incentive dissemination based on the customers past purchase history and items the store is offering at a reduced price. The additional services include providing the customer with a list of their preferred items, which are also on sale, without the customer needing to search for related coupons and the like. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173386 | Providing Advertisements in a Digital Reading Platform - Users of an education digital reading platform are provided with advertisements based on their user data. The offers are provided in a course material, such as a textbook, wherein the textbook is identified from a course syllabus. The course material is analyzed to identify ad regions wherein an advertisement may be placed, including embedded ad regions within a course material page and supplement ad regions around a course material page. In addition, predictive data suggesting a user activity in the future may be identified from a course syllabus and opportunistic data providing a current user activity may be used to select advertisements to display to the user. The selected advertisements are mapped to the embedded and supplement ad regions and sent to the user, wherein the selected advertisements are displayed to the user based on the mapping. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173387 | Method and system for marketing and sales promotion - Marketing and sales promotion support is provided to a plurality of participating brick and mortar establishments by maintaining on a server a database of customers' shopping behavior. When a customer enters the premises of one of those establishments, promotional offerings are pushed from the server to a wireless mobile device, such as a smartphone, in the possession of the customer, the content of the offerings being determined from information in the database related to the customer's prior shopping behavior. The customer behavior during the current visitation is used to update the database information related to him. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173388 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SERVICE DISCOVERY AND SELECTION - A systems and method are proposed that address the task of locating advertised services satisfying specific requirements described by a service request, and ranking discovered services so as to enable selection of best services among them. Real life scenarios often involve services described with complex pre- and post-conditions, and have Quality of Service (QoS) associated with them. The proposed method and apparatus support a unified matching of functional as well as non-functional service properties: input-output, complex constraints, and QoS. A novel service discovery and selection algorithm can adaptively locate advertised services by performing a flexible matching of the three service properties. The algorithm is capable of returning partially matched services should there be no exact match. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173389 | RETAIL SYSTEM WITH LOCATION-BASED CUSTOMIZATION - Described are retail systems including a device and one or more processors in communication with the device. The retail systems retrieve user information from the device, which may include location information, date, time, and or fitness data. The retail systems determine the location of the user or attendance of the user at an event based on the user information and transmit a list of specials based at least in part on the user location, event attendance, or fitness data to the device. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173390 | DIGITAL CONCIERGE APPLICATION - Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing digital concierge services through a portable electronic device. The digital concierge may be provided through an application installed on a portable electronic device that is configured to contact a concierge service, provide filtered and relevant offers including promotions and accountholder benefits, and provide ATM location services for users as they travel. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method comprising determining a location of a portable electronic device, receiving concierge data associated with the user, filtering, by a processor, a plurality of offers according to the location of the portable electronic device and the concierge data associated with the user, and presenting filtered offers to a user. Some embodiments may further filter the plurality of offers according to an issuer associated with the user of the portable electronic device. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173391 | LISTENING DEVICE - A listening device can be configured to receive an audio signal from a specific source. For example, the listening device may be configured to receive commentary at a sporting event or may be configured to receive audio from a television transmission. The listening device may be part of a system adapted to send the audio signal, and may also be configured to insert advertising into the audio stream where appropriate. For example, at a baseball game, the stadium may send an audio signal that with game stats, commentary and the like. Many fans may desire to receive such commentary and may, rent or buy a listening device specifically designed to receive the audio signal from the stadium. The stadium may then insert advertising in between innings, for example. This may permit the stadium to gain revenue through advertising, while also provide the fans with advertising that may be of interest. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173392 | MEDIATION ROUTER - Advertisement vendors can be dynamically selected in response to a request from a wireless communication device. A mediation router can receive an ad request from a portal interfaced with a wireless device. Specifically, the mediation router analyzes the request and dynamically selects an ad vendor to service the request, based in part on the analysis. The selected ad vendor supplies the ad and the mediation router ensures that the portal receives the ad. The mediation router selects an ad vendor in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, business decision rules or artificial intelligence and/or a combination thereof. The mediation router further employs customer profiles that help vendors target advertisements to specific consumers and wireless devices. | 2013-07-04 |
20130173393 | CUSTOMIZING OFFERS BASED ON THE OPPORTUNITY COST OF THE USER - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing users customized offers that reflect the user's opportunity cost associated with accepting the offer. In this regard, the customized offers may include additional savings, in terms of an additional discount, percentage-off or other incentive, to account for the user's specific transportation costs, time costs and the like. In additional embodiments the customization accounts for the user's propensity for accepting offers and adjusts the offer discount, percentage-off or other incentive based on their historical acceptance rates. By customizing the offers to account for opportunity costs, and in some embodiments historical offer acceptance rates, the present invention serves to increase offer acceptance, thereby benefiting the program provider and/or the merchants offering the offers/deals. | 2013-07-04 |