| 27th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
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| 20120173283 | PROCESSING A PATIENT STUDY - Processing a patient study of a patient is provided. In one embodiment, a method of storing a patient study of a patient onto a server comprises obtaining a diagnostic image of the patient ( | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173284 | PROCESSING A PATIENT STUDY - Processing a patient study of a patient is provided. In one embodiment, a method of delivering a patient study comprises storing a plurality of patient studies ( | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173285 | Proactive Clinical Evidence at Point of Care and Genomic Data Integration through Cloud EMR Media - Online Electronic Medical Record and Clinical decision support system Cloud SaaS model. Method of storing electronic patient medical information for a patient is provided which includes creating a unique patient identifier for the patient, storing the electronic patient medical record data for the patient using the unique patient identifier for the patient and creating a family linkage using unique patient identifiers to connect individual medical records of relatives of the patient. The electronic patient medical information can be shared between, a network, of a plurality of healthcare institutions, individual healthcare service providers and patients. Individual healthcare providers or patients can request for the stored electronic patient medical record data and obtain the electronic patient medical record data along with the family linkage information to at least one of the plurality of healthcare providing institutions, individual healthcare providers or patients. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173286 | DEVELOPING AND MANAGING CARE TICKETS - Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for facilitating generation of care tickets are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving context data associated with a clinical encounter at which a patient is seeking health care provided by a care provider. Clinical data associated with the patient is referenced. The clinical data includes historical health data for the patient. A care ticket is generated for the patient based on the context data and the clinical data. Such a care ticket including health information relevant to the clinical encounter at which the patient is seeking health care. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173287 | Medical Compliance Kiosk - A medical compliance kiosk (MCK) is an electronic device configured to help a healthcare service provider (HSP) track drug samples, equipment, inventory, medical records, and other valuable information, including information related to regulatory compliance. MCK may also provide electronic medical records and electronic prescription services. The kiosk is a dedicated hardware device with a touch-sensitive input screen. MCK provides a streamlined procedure for tracking critical information and maintaining records. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173288 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HEALTH CARE DATA - An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from, the first computer system. The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173289 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND IDENTIFYING PATTERNS IN INSURANCE CLAIMS - The invention relates generally to a system and method for detecting patterns of behavior in reported insurance claims. More particularly, the invention resolves insurance claim data with other demographic, activity and other related data about individuals and entities to detect specific subsets of entities and individuals and their insurance claims behaviors. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173290 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER-RELATED RISK ZONES - Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture that provide for outputting and utilization of risk zone information are provided. In some embodiments, risk zone information may be utilized to select, price, and/or manage an insurance policy. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173291 | Automated Claim Submission, Collection And Appeal For Denials - The present invention is comprised of an automated claim submission, collection and appeal for denials for providing automated medical claims processing to a medical or surgery center or other form of medical facility. The present invention is further comprised of a database software system to record, store and process large volumes of data. The present invention is further comprised of modules that automatically perform the processing task include claims preparations and automatically filing appeals for claims denials. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173292 | RESERVABLE ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING GROUPS - An electric vehicle charging network server establishes electric vehicle charging reservation groups. The electric vehicle charging network server is coupled with multiple electric vehicle charging stations that each include one or more charging ports and are owned by a charging station host. The server receives input from the charging station host to configure an electric vehicle charging reservation group. The server configures the electric vehicle charging reservation group according to the received input. The configured electric vehicle charging reservation group includes multiple charging ports and allows a limited number of electric vehicle charging group reservations that are each applicable to all of the charging ports that are part of the configured electric vehicle charging reservation group. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173293 | Systems and Methods for Carbon Emission Calculation, Tracking and Analysis - A system and method for determining and reducing carbon emissions associated with the transportation of products around the world. An origin, a load, a discharge and a destination are entered on a computer interface. A processor determines carbon emissions for a plurality of routes from the origin to the destination using the origin, the load, the discharge, and the destination to determine and by considering one or more legs from the origin to the destination and by considering a plurality of modes of transportation for each of the legs. The processor determines which of the plurality of routes and which of the plurality of mode of transportations will generate the least carbon emission. A variety of parameters, including but not limited to, vehicle type, fuel time, arrival/departure times, can also be considered in determining carbon emissions. The route with the least carbon emissions can be graphically displayed. Additionally, other alternate routes can also be displayed. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173294 | Integrating Report Actions for a Series of Reports Within a Single User Interface - A user interface may be provided for initiating communication of a business process from a single report user interface. The user interface may include a report area, a selected report in the report area and a group of integrated action buttons for initiating communication of one or more business processes against the selected report. The integrated action buttons in the user interface may be selected by a user to apply the one or more business processes against the selected report. The one or more business processes may then be initiated against the selected report from the user interface. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173295 | Determining a Target Career Path and Tasks to Achieve Same - A career navigation system provides an automated way to counsel and/or coach a user on professional networking as it affects career development and/or career advancement. The career navigation system helps people both identify a path to their desired career destination and follow that path by means of various career management and network management tools and action items. A user is associated with a role model, such as a real-life person who has achieved the user's goal job. The role model's career path is customized to generate a roadmap for the user to follow in order to achieve his goal. Action items are generated and scheduled based on the roadmap, and the user is prompted to complete the items and track his progress. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173296 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OUTAGE RESTORATION - A method and system for managing electric grid operation and maintenance are provided. The system includes a work crew locator configured to receive a location of a work crew based on a location of a work vehicle associated with the work crew, a work crew management subsystem, and an asset management subsystem configured to determine repair requirements for electric grid assets and repair times associated with the determined repair requirements. The system also includes an outage management subsystem and a restoration optimizer configured to determine a capable crew to respond to a grid configuration change request where the capable crew includes crew members qualified to perform the change request, tools and equipment required to effect the change request, and a work crew location determined to satisfy a response timing requirement and initiate crew instructions detailing work requirements and actions for the work crew to fulfill the grid configuration change request. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173297 | Method and system for task tracking and allocation - Task tracking and allocation can be performed using software implemented technology which allows authorized individuals to use a web interface to a tracking application. The application can include features allowing tasks to be delegated, new issues to be added, and various activities to be tracked. Business features such as display of profit margin in terms of worker, job, month, task or other information can also be included in such applications. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173298 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROMOTING WELLNESS-RELATED BEHAVIORS - Methods and systems for scheduling wellness based meetings are described. In one embodiment, meeting data associated with a meeting is accessed. A meeting type designation is received. The meeting type designation designates the meeting as a walking meeting, a standing meeting, or a sitting meeting. Updated meeting data based on the meeting data and the meeting type designation is stored. Other methods and systems are described. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173299 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE IN CORRECTING A PREDICTED FAILURE IN A PRODUCTION PROCESS - A method for use in operating a production process. A plurality of correction scenarios is determined for a predicted production asset failure. A total cost for each correction scenario of the plurality of correction scenarios is estimated by the computing device based at least in part on a cost of repair and a cost of downtime associated with the correction scenario. One of the correction scenarios is selected based at least in part on the total cost of the correction scenario. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173300 | INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT - An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAILURE ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS - A system and method for mining the failure association rules of geographically dispersed physical assets is provided. One approach of the present invention has steps of joining input data sources, extracting spatio-temporal (ST) information, quantilizing ST continuous value in automated manner, or based on pre-built knowledge, applying association rule mining algorithm to find associations between attributes and failure and outputting identified ST failure association rules. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173302 | METHOD OF PROVIDING ECONOMETRIC INFORMATION BASED ON REAL TIME/REAL DATA FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - Econometric information is produced based upon real data that has been electronically acquired in real time. The acquired data is analyzed to select data records having attributes unique to a particular activity of interest. The selected data records are aggregated, adjusted, and used to create a statistical index or metric related to an economic activity. The statistical index or metric, together with information illustrating or interpreting information, is electronically distributed. As an example, a Pulse of Commerce Index related to shipment of goods is produced by electronically processing and storing data relating to financial transactions involved in purchase of goods and services. Data records are selected that involve fuel purchases, which act as a proxy for freight activity. Using the selected data records, both national and regional indices based upon fuel purchases are produced and distributed. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173303 | ALLOCATING COMMODITY SHELVES IN A SUPERMARKET - A method of and a system for allocating commodity shelves including obtaining shopping paths of customers, classifying the customers according to a predetermined standard, determining one or more shopping paths adopted by more customers in each kind of customers as frequent shopping path(s) of this kind of customers, calculating a see-buy rate of a commodity for each class of customers. The see-buy rate of a commodity for a class of customers refers to a probability to purchase the commodity for the class of customers. Calculating a shelf where each commodity in a set of commodities is located when the total expected benefits for set of commodities are maximized during a certain period of time. The total expected benefits include a sum of an expected benefit for the each commodity based on the see-buy rate and the frequency shopping path when each commodity is located in its own shelf. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173304 | COMPONENT ORDER QUANTITY DETERMINATION DEVICE AND COMPONENT ORDER QUANTITY DETERMINATION PROGRAM - The part order quantity determination device has an input unit receiving an input such as an allowable out-of-stock rate of each product, a storage unit storing the allowable out-of-stock rate of each product, constituent parts of each product, the number of parts, a demand quantity distribution product by product, and an order quantity of each part, a part-by-part order information calculation unit virtually calculating a demand quantity in each calculation period from the demand quantity distribution of each product, calculating a necessary quantity of constituent parts by multiplying the calculated demand quantity with the number of constituent parts, calculating an order quantity of each part, calculating an out-of-stock rate of each product, calculating an out-of-stock rate of each part at which the out-of-stock rate of each product does not exceed the allowable out-of-stock rate, and determining the order quantity, and a display unit displaying the order quantity of each part. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173305 | MOBILE APPLICATION SURVEYS AND INCENTIVES - A mobile survey system is described herein that leverages users' appreciation of paid applications and other rewards to incentivize participation in market research surveys. As a user participates in surveys, the system gives the user points that accumulate in an account associated with the user. The points can subsequently be redeemed for paid mobile applications or other incentive compensation, such as products or services. Most application and content stores provide some ability for one user to give another user an application/content or credit for the same as a gift. The system leverages this mechanism to credit users that elect a particular application or content as a reward with the reward of the user's choice. Thus, the mobile survey system increases participation in mobile surveys by incentivizing users in ways that are highly relevant to sought after categories of users. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173306 | System and Method for Providing Real Estate Referrals - The present invention discloses a system and method for providing agent referrals for real estate transactions. The system and method provides buyers and/or sellers with a real estate agent referral based on the type of real estate involved in the transaction and/or preferences of the buyer/seller. The real estate agent provided through the referral will be the highest performing real estate available with the performance of the real estate agent based on criteria received from the seller/buyer and transaction history of the real estate agent. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173307 | Visualizing and Auditing Elections and Election Results - Described are methods, systems, and computer program products for auditing an election. A computer-readable image of a ballot is received. The image of the ballot is analyzed with a computerized image analysis tool to generate a ballot definition file associated with the ballot. The ballot definition file is validated. Validation involves comparing a predicted election outcome and a simulated election outcome based on tabulation of machine-marked ballots using the ballot definition file. Auditing an election involves comparing a predicted election outcome generated by processing voter-marked ballots with the validated ballot definition file in one vote tabulator and an actual election outcome generated by an election department using its own ballot definition file and vote tabulator to process the voter-marked ballots. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173308 | OPTIMIZING PACKAGE DELIVERY USING SOCIAL NETWORKS - In an embodiment of the invention, a method for optimizing package delivery using social networks is provided. The method includes receiving an order to purchase a product by a purchaser in an e-commerce computing application executing in memory of a host server from over a computer communications network, retrieving a list of social networking contacts for the purchaser, determining whether or not a contact amongst the social networking contacts has ordered a product from the e-commerce computing application, and rendering a prompt in the e-commerce computing application to the purchaser to consolidate shipment of the product ordered by the purchaser with a product ordered by the contact in response to determining that the contact has also ordered a product from the e-commerce computing application not yet shipped to the contact. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173309 | Residual Value Bidding System - A sponsor provides items to a residual value bidding system, which allows an auction to auction the items to bidders. Value expended to bid on the item, such as through a pay-per-bid model may be returned as a giftcard to the sponsor's store. Incentives may be used to encourage bidding, such as a coupon that gains value as more bids are placed. The coupons may be time dated to encourage immediate redemption. Sponsored auctions may also be limited to geography or demographics. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173310 | Deal quality for event tickets - A deal value metric (or “deal score”) enables consumers to identify the quality of a ticket listing, and facilitates direct comparison of available event tickets having varying quality throughout a venue. The deal value metric disclosed herein also permits simultaneous comparison of tickets among multiple similar events, and provides a helpful critierion to supplement conventional search filters such as location or price. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173311 | AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE FOR PROVIDING SERVICE USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL BARCODE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE - An automatic teller machine (ATM) providing a service using a two-dimensional (2D) barcode and an operation method thereof may be provided. The ATM may include a scanning unit to scan a 2D barcode from a mobile terminal in response to a request for a transaction request, and a processor to determine a requested financial transaction from the scanned 2D barcode, and to provide a display unit with a service screen supporting the determined financial transaction. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173312 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL BADGES - Systems, methods, and media for facilitating virtual badges within e-commerce systems associated with enterprises are provided herein. Methods may include providing a virtual badge that is displayable via a graphical user interface, the virtual badge being provided in response to at least one action executed by the consumer within an e-commerce system, the virtual badge comprising a visual representation that is based upon user profile data associated with the consumer. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173313 | METHOD FOR ADVERTISING ON DIGITAL CELLULAR TELEPHONES AND REDUCING COSTS TO THE END USER - The present invention relates to a method for displaying messages, such as advertisements, consumer promotions, and customer service announcements, on digital wireless communication devices, such as digital cellular telephones. One method includes downloading wirelessly a single database containing a plurality of graphical interactive advertising contents. The plurality of graphical interactive advertising contents are stored to a mobile wireless communications device. At least one graphical interactive advertising content is displayed a particular time period the display of the mobile wireless communication device. The mobile wireless communication device is connected to a mobile communications medium upon user activation of the at least one graphic interactive advertising content. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173314 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCUMULATING BONUS POINTS FROM PURCHASING GOODS USING IMAGE RECOGNITION CODE - A system and method for accumulating bonus points using an image recognition code are disclosed. The system for accumulating bonus points includes a customer terminal that analyzes a photographed image recognition code for point accumulation, transmits shop information and point accumulation request information in the analyzed image recognition code for point accumulation together with customer information, analyzes a photographed image recognition code for point deduction and transmits shop information and point deduction request information in the analyzed image recognition code for point deduction together with customer information, and a server that stores bonus point information by each shop for multiple customers, accumulates bonus points based on a customer's purchase of goods in the shop using the customer information, the shop information and the point accumulation request information transmitted from the customer terminal, and deducts accumulated bonus points based on the customer's purchase of goods in the shop using the customer information, the shop information. and the point deduction request information transmitted from the customer terminal. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173315 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING FRAUDULENT ADVERTISING TRAFFIC INITIATED THROUGH AN APPLICATION - An approach is provided for detecting fraudulent advertising traffic initiated through an application. An advertising platform receives a request, from an advertising module, for serving of advertisement information, wherein code for executing the advertising module is integrated with other code of an application executing at a device. The advertising platform causes, at least in part, processing of the advertisement information to include at least one verification check of the advertising module, the code for executing advertising module, the application, the other code associated with the application, or a combination thereof. The advertising platform causes, at least in part, transmission of the at least one verification check in response to the request for serving of the advertisement information. The advertising platform causes, at least in part, processing of one or more results of the at least one verification check to determine a functioning of the advertising module. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173316 | System And Method For Social Networking - A method for facilitating social networking includes receiving and storing personal information from a member of a website, which includes a publicly displayed identifier such as that individual's vehicle license plate number. An advertisement suitable for public display (e.g. a bumper sticker) is used to advertise to other individuals that the first individual is a member of the website. A query is received at the website, via a network, from a second individual in accordance with the advertisement; the query includes the publicly displayed identifier. The method further includes receiving contact information from the second individual; providing to the second individual at least a portion of the personal information of the first individual; providing the second individual with the opportunity to send his/her contact information to the first individual; and providing the first individual with the opportunity to make a social networking connection with the second individual. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173317 | PROCESSING A PATIENT STUDY - Processing a patient study of a patient is provided. In one embodiment, a method of receiving a patient study comprises receiving a query ( | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173318 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION - Disclosed herein is a system for providing advertisement information. The system includes a mobile terminal, a panel unit, and an advertisement management server. The mobile terminal operates in card mode in its initial stage, switches to read mode in response to a request for mode-switching, searches for and output AID information, and receives the data of advertisement media using tagging. The panel unit switches from read mode in its initial stage to card mode in response to a request for mode-switching from the mobile terminal, outputs received advertisement media as multimedia, and radiates and transfers the advertisement media as data when the mobile terminal performs the tagging. The advertisement management server searches for or create in real time the advertisement media and outputs and provides the advertisement media, together with a matched tag applet in response to a request from the panel unit. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173319 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING MEDICATION ADHERENCE RATES - Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a system and method for increasing medication adherence rates. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for decreasing global health care costs by monitoring, reminding, and facilitating medication adherence utilizing mobile communication devices. In one embodiment, a method of increasing medication adherence rates comprises: enabling a user to download an application to a mobile device via a network, the application comprising a set of instructions for permitting a user to access: a medication reminder means for providing a reminder to the user to follow prescribed instructions regarding medication; and an adherence tracking means for tracking the user's compliance with the prescribed instructions; and receiving data from the mobile device at a remote server via the network, the data comprising information from the medication reminder means and the adherence tracking means. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173320 | Method and system for facilitating commerce, social interaction and charitable activities - A method for automating commerce, including the work of selling, shopping for, and/or selling goods and services; by facilitating communications between any combination of buyers and sellers to facilitate opportunities for commercial activities. The method also includes facilitating opportunities for related activities, for example, charitable activities, in a manner that maximizes efficiencies including reducing intermediaries between consumers and manufacturers. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173321 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A PROMOTIONAL COUPONING SYSTEM - A promotional couponing system for the creation and management of promotional coupons, coupon templates, promotions, promotional campaigns, and triggers using a host system and a graphical front-end for use in a gaming, vending, or other business environment. A promotional couponing system runs on its own network though can connect to other host systems, and directly or indirectly to games such as slot machines and game tables and a printer of a game using a third port or interface. The promotional couponing system monitors play and other metrics to use triggers based on game and other data. The printer connection to a game only receives information which can be sent to the promotional couponing system. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173322 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE REFERRAL REWARDS VIA MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods to reward referrals via mobile communications are described. In one aspect, a system includes an interchange and a data storage facility storing a value in association with a first phone number. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the common format processor in a common format and with the controllers in different formats. The common format processor is configured to use one converter of the plurality of converters to communicate with a first mobile phone at the first phone number to confirm a payment request and identify the second phone number. In response to confirmation of the payment request, the common format processor rewards the user of the second mobile phone via a code representing a benefit. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173323 | DISCOUNTING SYSTEM AND WEBSITE WITH DYNAMIC GROUP PURCHASING DISCOUNT - An adjustable discount system adjusts discounts based on system events. The discount system may provide greater or lesser discounts on such events as timing, inventory levels, the number of people committed to purchasing, velocity of sales and acceleration of sales. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173324 | Dynamic Product/Service Recommendations - Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments facilitate electronic commerce over a network. In an embodiment, a method comprises creating a user profile comprising information including data entered by a primary user related to a product or service on a user device as well as data from other users that are related to or have common interests with the primary user, wherein the user profile dynamically changes based on, at least in part, new actions by the primary user as well as new actions by the other users. The method also comprises weighing the information in the user profile to determine targeted recommendations for the primary user. And the method further comprises providing the targeted recommendations to the primary user based on the user profile. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173325 | Using mobile devices to make secure and reliable payments for Title of Invention store or online purchases - Payment systems currently in vogue (credit/debit cards) use a form of identity applicable only to a specific payment network (card number). This prevents the aggregation of one's payment options, and exposes the sensitive account information to the relatively insecure parts (merchant locations) of the transaction chain. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173326 | Keyword bid management in an online advertising system - In a technique for managing keyword bid amounts in an online advertising system (OAS), a closed-loop feedback technique that integrates data integration, keyword management, bid management, product-search results and user activities is used to optimize revenue generation from online advertisements for websites, such as e-commerce websites. In particular, bids on a group of keywords associated with products are based on an estimated profitability of the group of keywords. Then, the resulting traffic to an associated e-commerce website is monitored by determining a financial performance metric of the e-commerce website, which facilitates subsequent feed-back adaptation. For example, a layout of the e-commerce website (such as product information, which is associated with the products, and/or relative positions of the displayed product information on the e-commerce website) is adjusted based on the determined financial performance metric. Moreover, the bid amounts for the group of keywords are modified based on the determined financial performance metric. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173327 | PROMOTING, DELIVERING AND SELLING INFORMATION TO INTRANET USERS - A method and system for managing targeted placement of content on an intranet. An ad server within the intranet collects statistics summarizing anonymized intranet user attributes and securely provides the statistics to a marketplace computer outside the intranet. The marketplace computer receives an ad, parameter values, and a bid from a publisher outside the intranet. The bid is based on the statistics. The ad server receives the ad, parameter values and bid and determines the ad is acceptable for placement on an intranet page. The ad server identifies intranet users to view the ad by matching the parameter values to user attributes retrieved from intranet data repositories that are not accessible to the publisher. The ad is placed on the intranet page displayed to the identified users. Clicks and/or impressions data associated with the ad are recorded and presented to the publisher. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173328 | DIGITAL ADVERTISING DATA INTERCHANGE AND METHOD - An interchange enables advertising data to be interchanged among providers for serving the advertising data on different provider technology platforms and consumers for using the advertising data on different consumer technology platforms. The interchange includes provider connectors for connecting all the providers to a network, and consumer connectors for connecting all the consumers to the network. A host controller executes a standardized provider application programming interface (API) on the network to enable each provider to serve the advertising data via a respective provider connector over the network to at least one of the consumers, and for executing a standardized consumer API on the network to enable each consumer to use the advertising data via a respective consumer connector over the network from at least one of the providers. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173329 | MEDIA PROPERTIES SELECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON EXPECTED PROFIT FROM PROFILE-BASED AD DELIVERY - An automatic system facilitates selection of media properties on which to display an advertisement, responsive to a profile collected on a first media property, where a behavioral-targeting company calculates expected profit for an ad correlated with the profile and arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property. The profit can be calculated by deducting, from the revenues that are expected to be generated from an ad delivered based on the collected profile, at least the price of ad space at a media property where the BT company might like to deliver ads to the profiled visitor. When the calculated profit is positive (i.e., not a loss), the BT company arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property through which the BT company expects to profit. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173330 | Personalized Financial Planning Based on Transactional History - Methods and systems for analyzing a customer's financial position and providing the customer with a personalized financial plan are described. Information associated with one or more financial transactions using a financial network may be retrieved, wherein the one or more financial transactions were previously conducted by the customer. One or more periodic payments made using the financial network by the customer may be identified. Also, one or more periodic payments paid by the customer through the financial network may be identified. A personalized financial plan for the customer at least partially based on the one or more periodic payments paid and received by the customer through the financial network may be created. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173331 | Hint-Enabled Search Advertisements - Systems, methods, and computer media for providing advertisement hints, as well as keyword search query results graphical user interfaces, are provided. A keyword search query area is capable of receiving a keyword search query from a user. At least one search result area displays an Internet web page link and corresponding text relevant to a received user keyword search query. At least one search advertisement area displays an advertisement comprising an Internet web page link and corresponding text. User interaction with the advertisement area causes an advertisement hint to appear proximate to the advertisement area. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173332 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING AND MARKETING MORE ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY PRINTING - A method and system for promoting and marketing more environmental friendly print shops through a process carried out by an online platform. The process includes the steps of receiving a print job request with particular specifications from a customer, retrieving from a database profiles of participating print shops to determine which print shops can handle the print job, calculating a job-level green score based on the particular specifications of the print job request for each such print shop, and recommending to the customer a list of print shops that can handle the print job with a ranking of their job-level green scores. The process may also include the steps of collecting information and data from the print shops to prepare their profiles and calculate a shop-level green score for each print shop based on a set of environmental friendly factors, and storing the profiles in a database, and recommending the print shops that can handle the print job based on a ranking of total green score. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173333 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING CONSUMER PROMOTION, SALE, OR GIFTING OF CONTENT ITEMS SUCH AS MOVIES - Apparatus and methods to implement a technique for selling content such as movies online. In one implementation, a user obtains permission from the content owner to sell access to an item of video content. The user acts as a promoter for the content and receives compensation from the content owner for each sale. The user does not have or create copies to transfer to buyers—the commercial transaction and fulfillment are provided by the content owner. The user can build a library or online store of content that the user promotes. In another implementation, the system provides significant gifting functionality for content items, such as for providing previews and gift wrapping skins for gifted content items. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173334 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SERVING RELEVANT ADVERTISEMENTS - The relevance of advertisements to a user's interests is improved. In one implementation, the content of a web page is analyzed to determine a list of one or more topics associated with that web page. An advertisement is considered to be relevant to that web page if it is associated with keywords belonging to the list of one or more topics. One or more of these relevant advertisements may be provided for rendering in conjunction with the web page or related web pages. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173335 | System and Methods for Enhancing Sales of Online Transactions - Systems and methods for enhancing sales of online transactions is provided. In some embodiments, a buyer selects a primary purchase, which may be either a good or a service. The system receives the committed order for the primary purchase and acknowledges the order. Order acknowledgement includes verifying payment information of the buyer. Then, at least one complimentary purchase may be offered on a web-page to the user. The user may then choose whether to accept or decline the offer. If the offer for the complimentary purchase is accepted, then the order for the primary purchase can be combined with the accepted complimentary purchase. Alternatively, the orders for primary and complimentary purchases can be completed separately. Otherwise, if the offer for the complimentary purchase is rejected, then the order for the primary purchase is still completed. Thus, there is no risk through this cross-selling activity of any loss to the primary purchase. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173336 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING HEALTH AWARENESS IN A VEHICLE - One or more embodiments may include a method and system for providing health information in a vehicle. Geographic location information for a vehicle may be received at a vehicle computer. Additionally, health information for one or more vehicle occupants may be received at the vehicle computer. Based on the geographic location information, one or more dining establishments may be identified. Menu item information, including the nutritional information for the menu items, for the dining establishment(s) may be received. Based on the health information for the vehicle occupant(s), the menu item information, and the nutritional information for the menu items, dining suggestions may be presented at the vehicle computer. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173337 | Method and Apparatus for Geographic-Based Communications Service - A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for transmitting/receiving information, and access points connected to a network. The access points are arranged in a known geographic locations and transmit and receive information from the mobile unit. When one of the access points detects the presence of the mobile unit, it sends a signal to the network indicating the location of the mobile unit and the information requested by the mobile unit. Based on the signal received from the access point, the network communicates with information providers connected to the network and provides data to the mobile unit through the access point corresponding to the location of the mobile unit. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRAFFIC ANALYSIS AND CLUSTERING - A method for selecting network documents as a medium for promotional content. The method comprises capturing a plurality of browsing sessions of a plurality of network users in a communication network, each the browsing session mapping consecutive access to a group of the plurality of network documents by one of the plurality of network users, clustering the plurality of network documents in a plurality of clusters according to the plurality of browsing sessions, selecting at least one of the plurality of clusters as a medium for promotional content, and outputting the at least one selected cluster. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173339 | Tile Space User Interface For Mobile Devices - The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing an improved user interface for mobile devices. Data and services available through the mobile device can be represented as a set of tiles maintained in a display space. The tiles provide a snapshot of the current state of content available through the mobile device without requiring any interaction by the user. The tiles and display space are customizable and can be dynamically updated to display content to a user. In addition, tiles can provide functionality, including simple tasks to a user without requiring the user to navigate away from the tile display space. Tiles can also provide quick access to start software applications. Tiles can be organized in the display space by the user or the tiles can be automatically grouped based upon associated metadata. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING A BUSINESS PROCESS WORKFLOW - A method for updating records associated with work items within a business process workflow according to embodiments of the invention, includes the steps of processing the work items according to the business process workflow, and updating a record associated with a group of work items as the group of work items transitions from a first state to a second state within the business process workflow. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173341 | INFORMATION PUBLISHING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - An information publishing method is provided in an embodiment of the present invention, including: receiving a response message that corresponds to a user request message, wherein the response message contains Web page content; obtaining a user behavior feature; determining a publishing position in the Web page content according to the obtained user behavior feature; adding content of information to be published to the publishing position to obtain a modified response message; and sending the modified response message to a terminal for display. In addition, a network device and an information publishing system are provided accordingly in embodiments of the present invention. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173342 | DETERMINING WHETHER AN ADVERTISEMENT AIRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PREDEFINED AIRING SPECIFICATIONS - A method and computing devices are provided for determining whether an advertisement aired in accordance with predefined airing specifications. A plurality of advertisement identification markers may be inserted into an advertisement by a first computing device. The plurality of advertisement identification markers may be inserted between the start and end of the advertisement. A second computing device may receive a broadcast stream including the advertisement having the plurality of advertisement identification markers. Airing parameters of the advertisement may be determined by the second computing device based on the advertisement identification markers. The airing parameters of the advertisement may be compared with predefined airing specifications corresponding to the advertisement. Auditing data may be generated that describes whether or not the advertisement aired in accordance with the predefined airing specifications. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173343 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods and systems are provided for enabling users to manage content provided by content providers, the content including user-desirable content and alternate content. A computer-implemented method for altering internet advertisements comprises providing a computer system to enable an internet fast pass associated with a user having an account balance, determining if the user's account balance on the internet fast pass is above a predetermined limit, determining if the user chooses to bypass the alternate content, and disabling one or more advertisements if the user's account balance is greater than or equal to the predetermined limit. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173344 | ESTIMATING BID PRICES FOR KEYWORDS - Estimating bid prices for keywords is disclosed, including: receiving a request to estimate a bid price associated with a target keyword for a bidder; determining whether the bidder has previously bid on the target keyword; in the event that the bidder has not previously bid on the target keyword, determining an estimated bid price based at least in part on a plurality of historical bid prices associated with the bidder corresponding to keywords other than the target keyword and a plurality of historical bid prices associated with other bidders corresponding to the target keyword; and in the event that the bidder has previously bid on the target keyword, determining the estimated bid price based at least on revising a current bid price associated with the request; and returning the estimated bid price associated with the target keyword. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173345 | Unified Tracking and Reporting Across Multiple Publishers - Methods and system for collecting and disambiguating data across multiple, disparate publishers using a tracking uniform resource locator (URL) are provided. A tracking URL is created that maps a keyword or advertisement with a landing page. The tracking URL comprises a compound key and publisher specific formatting strings. A user selection corresponding to the tracking URL is received. The tracking URL along with fact data corresponding to the user selection is logged into a fact record. Further, the landing page associated with the tracking URL is retrieved and presented to the user. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173346 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-PARTY WEB PUBLISHING AND DYNAMIC PLUG-INS FOR SAME - The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at least one permission for enhancement of the primary content, ones of a plurality of content produced remotely from the javascript component and according to the javascript component, and an enhancement widget. The enhancement widget may be a flash widget. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173347 | Automatic System and Method for Tracking and Decoding Barcode by Means of Portable Devices having Digital Cameras - The present invention patent application refers to a system and method for automatic tracking and decoding barcode image on the standard EAN-13 through portable devices equipped with digital cameras. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173348 | Systems and Methods to Process Payments via Account Identifiers and Phone Numbers - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility that stores data associating a phone number of a user and an account identifier of the user. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor uses one of the converters to transmit premium messages to the phone number to collect funds via a telecommunication carrier, receives a payment request having the account identifier, identifies the phone number based on the account identifier, and makes a payment on behalf of the user using the collected funds. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173349 | ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEM - An electronic transaction system uses an electronic transaction device; and a plurality of balances, each being linked to the transaction device and electronically stored in association with a transaction scheme. Transaction processing means processes a transaction request to provide an outcome in which the balances associated with the transaction scheme may be modified. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173350 | MOBILE APPLICATION FACILITATING RESTAURANT ACTIVITIES AND METHODS THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a client application and system for facilitating restaurant activities between a hostess, attendant and others involved in a restaurant. In one illustrative embodiment, an attendant for customers logs into the application. Through the application, the attendant can assign a table to the customers. Menu items can be displayed to the customers for order. The attendant in turn can take orders from the customers and provide them wirelessly to a point-of-sale. In the kitchen, the order can be received from the point-of-sale and processed. Thereafter, payment can be calculated for the orders. The calculated payment can be processed directly on the application or at the point-of-sale. When processed on the application, the payment is then displayed to the customer. The attendant can receive payment from the customers. The attendant can then close the session for the customers of the table. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173351 | Mobile Electronic Shopping - The present disclosure describes electronic shopping systems, specifically electronic shopping and payment embodiments, which utilize a software program running on a device to digitally photograph a machine-readable representation of data including but not limited to a UPC, a digital photograph of a product or product identification code, a voice representation of a product or product identification code, or the manual entry of a product identification code to identify products which are then stored on a client or server in a virtual shopping cart. Virtual shopping cart items are purchased through an electronic payment system from the mobile device using a client and server. The physical representation of these items may be located in an actual shopping cart in a brick and mortar store or virtually located through the Internet. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173352 | CURRENCY HANDLING APPARATUS AND CURRENCY HANDLING METHOD - Currency handling apparatus comprising: accommodating unit for accommodating various kinds of currencies; a currency discharge opening; a transfer unit for transferring the currencies from the accommodating units to the currency discharge opening; a control unit for controlling the transfer unit to transfer the currencies from the accommodating units to the currency discharge opening thereby to discharge the currencies; and a storage unit for storing various kinds of discharge patterns indicating the numbers of currencies of individual kinds. The control unit is constituted to specify at least one of the discharge patterns in response to the instruction of a user and to discharge the currencies in accordance with the specified discharge pattern. As a result, the user can discharge the desired numbers of currencies of individual kinds merely by performing the simple designating operations. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173353 | ELECTRONIC BOOK RENTALS - Architectures and techniques are described to rent electronic books. In particular, a content provider can rent electronic books to individuals for a specified rental term. The individuals may have the option to modify the rental term for an electronic book. The rental term for a particular electronic book may be modified by extending the rental term of the particular electronic book or decreasing the rental term of the particular electronic book. Individuals may also convert the rental of an electronic book to a purchase and a purchase of an electronic book to a rental. In order to rent the electronic books to individuals, the content provider may acquire permission from the publishers of the electronic books. In some cases, the content provider may acquire a pool of time-bound rentable licenses from the publishers to allocate to individuals renting electronic books from the content provider. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A UNIFIED MESSAGING AND MODELING INFRASTRUCTURE - A system and method for providing a unified messaging and modeling infrastructure (UMMI) is disclosed. The system may comprise an input module of a first operations support system configured to receive information for processing at the first operations support system and a processor module of the first operations support system configured to process the information received at the first input module and an output module of the first operations support system configured to transmit a standardized data sheet to the second operations support system. The system may comprise an input module of the second operations support system configured to receive the standardized data sheet and a processor module of the second operations support system configured to update the standardized data sheet based on processing operations at the second operations support system and to generate executable code to support interface functionality based on definitions of the standardized data sheet. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173355 | System and method to price and exchange data between data producers and data consumers through formatting data objects with necessary and sufficient item definition information - The invention provides a method and system to enable buyers and sellers of data items to adjust fees for one or a plurality of data items according to the compatibility of the data items with research and dataset compatibility requirements of the end user or buyer of the data items. It further provides a method for constructing data item pairs consisting of targets for observations and observations upon targets compatible with the requirement of the purchaser of the data. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173356 | System for Managing, Storing and Providing Shared Digital Content to Users in a User Relationship Defined Group in a Multi-Platform Environment - A system for managing, storing and providing shared digital content to a group of users in a multi-platform environment, comprising a cloud storage component configured to store digital content items that are shared by members in a user relationship defined group, and a cloud service component configured to provide one of the digital content items to a first platform for a first member of the user relationship defined group in a format suitable for the first platform and to a second platform for a second member of the user relationship defined group in a format suitable for the second platform, wherein the first platform and the second platform are different platforms. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173357 | BEVERAGE MACHINE IN A NETWORK - A method for preventing shortage at a customer location ( | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173358 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173359 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173360 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173361 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173362 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173363 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173364 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173365 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173366 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173367 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173368 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173369 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173370 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173371 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173372 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173373 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173374 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173375 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173376 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173377 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173378 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173379 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY USER DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF PROVIDERS - A computer system that presents mobile communication facility data to a first and second bidder in real time by performing the steps of: (a) retrieving a first datum relating to a mobile communication facility user accessing an application from a provider; (b) retrieving a second datum relating to the same user accessing an application from a second provider; (c) storing the first and second data in a database; (d) presenting the data to a first and a second bidder; (f) receiving a bid from the first bidder, including: (i) a selection of the data; and (ii) a financial consideration; (g) receiving a bid from the second bidder, including: (i) a selection of the same data as the first bidder; and (ii) a financial consideration; (h) determining that the bid of the first bidder is greater than that of the second; and (i) delivering the data to the first bidder. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173380 | Pay To Bid Auction System - Methods and systems for conducting electronic auctions. Bidders purchase the chance to bid, the number of times bidding are used as a winning factor. Bidder who has the highest Personal Bid and earliest bid time is selected as winner. Alternatively, Bidder who spend Highest Credit Bid and earliest bid time is selected as winner. A timer is reset to provide a new target time by adding a set number of seconds to the remaining time each time a new bid is placed. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173381 | Process and system for pricing and processing weighted data in a federated or subscription based data source - A system and method for collecting handling processing and calculating values weights and prices for observations entered by one or a plurality of sources about one or a plurality of targets related to a researchable model or a theory or practice. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173382 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LIGHTING ATMOSPHERE MARKETPLACE - Systems and methods for creating a marketplace of lighting atmosphere settings related to at least one controllable lighting network are disclosed. The systems include a processor that can be used in conjunction with a personal communication device and a preferences database. The processor is used to detect a user identifier, a user input associated with a set of lighting atmosphere settings, and optionally a context corresponding to the user identifier. The processor in some such systems has an associated local memory to store the user input, the set of lighting atmosphere settings, and the identifier of the associated user. The processor is further used to identify a setting identifier associated with the set of lighting atmosphere settings from a preference database. The processor is also used to provide or approve a payment for the value of the set of lighting atmosphere settings to the marketplace. In exchange for the payment, the processor retrieves the set of lighting atmosphere settings using the setting identifier. The preferences database in some such systems is used to store the setting identifiers, the user input and the associated user identifiers. | 2012-07-05 |
