33rd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130211878 | ESTIMATING ELASTICITY AND INVENTORY EFFECT FOR RETAIL PRICING AND FORECASTING - A system that estimates elasticity and inventory effect for a product pricing or forecasting system receives a sales condition relationship for an item at a store, the relationship comprising an elasticity parameter, an inventory effect parameter and a sales constant. The system receives a demand model for sales of the item in terms of the elasticity parameter and the inventory effect parameter and a base demand for the item selling at the store. The system estimates the sales constant, the estimating comprising generating a theta parameter by taking logarithms of the sales condition relationship. The system uses linear regression to estimate a logarithm of the sales constant and a value of the theta parameter. The system determines a relationship between the elasticity parameter and the inventory effect parameter based on the value of the theta parameter. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211879 | USER-SELECTED ADVERTISEMENTS - An end user earns points by selecting advertisement content and observing the advertisement content at a client at a first time period. The points are stored in memory until the end user desires to view entertainment content. A server streams entertainment content selected by the end user to the client at a second time period if the points stored for the end user are at least equal to a point cost of the entertainment content. For example, entertainment content that is normally streamed with advertisement content for presentation during commercial breaks is streamed at the second time period without advertisement content since the end user has already viewed advertisement content at the first time period. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211880 | CHAT CATEGORIZATION AND AGENT PERFORMANCE MODELING - Chat categorization uses semi-supervised clustering to provide Voice of the Customer (VOC) analytics over unstructured data via an historical understanding of topic categories discussed to derive an automated methodology of topic categorization for new data; application of semi-supervised clustering (SSC) for VOC analytics; generation of seed data for SSC; and a voting algorithm for use in the absence of domain knowledge/manual tagged data. Customer service interactions are mined and quality of these interactions is measured by “Customer's Vote” which, in turn, is determined by the customer's experience during the interaction and the quality of customer issue resolution. Key features of the interaction that drive a positive experience and resolution are automatically learned via machine learning driven algorithms based on historical data. This, in turn, is used to coach/teach the system/service representative on future interactions. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211881 | Product Pricing in E-Commerce - Systems and methods for dynamically fixing price of a product in an electronic commerce (e-commerce) environment are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining product information associated with the product. Further, the method comprises extracting a real time market price of at least one product constituent indicated in the product information from at least one market information source. Furthermore, the method comprises evaluating a market price factor for the product based on the extracting, where the market price factor is indicative of impact of market conditions onto the price of the product. Based at least on the product information and the market price factor, a real time selling price of the product may be fixed. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211882 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROJECT DOCUMENTATION AND PROPOSALS - A system and method for providing low voltage project documentation and proposals, including functionalities of completing the entire project in a timely, cost effective fashion. The project manager is concerned with a project from the cradle to the grave, and the entire life cycle of a project, including cost and benefits from initial planning through operations and disposal of a project are relevant to decision making. By integrating project management tools in a manner consistent with optimizing the entire project life cycle, the user is able to access a turn-key solution for onsite take-off and proposal delivery. Each user will be able to utilize the system for the entire process of bidding, designing, tracking and on-site purchase from the project start to finish, all within one system. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211883 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING MEMBERS OF A PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY - Techniques for evaluating a person who is a member of a professional community involve collecting quantitative information regarding the person's participation in at least one social network. The quantitative information may be incorporated in computing a score indicating the person's value to the professional community. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211884 | PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IN A PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A project management system includes a project processor configured to receive information about a project, wherein the information includes subtasks for the project and information about an entity assigned to complete at least one subtask of the project; calculate expected outcomes for the project based on the subtasks for the project and the information about the entity, wherein the expected outcomes include at least one subtask expected outcome; receive realized outcomes of the project after it is realized, wherein the realized outcomes includes at least one subtask realized outcome; determine feedback for the project based on the at least one subtask realized outcome in relation to at least one the subtask expected outcome; generate a performance evaluation for the entity assigned to complete the at least one subtask of the project based on feedback for the project; and publish the performance evaluation for the entity. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211885 | Electricity Transfer System and Method of Providing and Using the Same - Some embodiments include an electricity transfer system. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211886 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR UNIVERSALLY ADMINISTERING MERCHANTS' LOYALTY PROGRAMS - A method for administering the loyalty programs of multiple merchants. The method includes enrolling a plurality of customers in a universal system for administering multiple loyalty programs. The method further includes receiving lookup requests from a plurality of distinct merchants, each lookup requests relating to a customer's wish to receive loyalty program benefits from a merchant. The method further includes providing computerized customer record information in response to each lookup request, the customer record information being used by the merchants for invoking each merchant's respective loyalty program and providing loyalty benefits to the customer. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211887 | MULTIMEDIA ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM USING TOUCH SCREEN AND PROJECTOR - A method and system for displaying a multimedia advertisement using a touch screen and a projector, the method and system displaying a plurality of icons such as an advertising icon, and the like, on a touch screen, and displaying a multimedia advertisement corresponding to an icon on a wall screen using a projector when the icon deviates from an area of the touch screen in response to a touch event of a user, is provided. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211888 | TIMER-BASED AD PLACEMENT IN CONTENT RETRIEVAL APPLICATIONS - Techniques are described for incorporating advertisements into content in a content retrieval application. Embodiments receive a request to view content retrieved from source content containing one or more advertisements. In response to receiving the request, a timer is initiated. The timer is configured to expire after a period of time has elapsed. Embodiments determining whether to display any of the one or more advertisements, based upon whether the timer has expired. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211889 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCOURAGING CONSUMPTION OF A PRODUCT - A method and apparatus for engaging consumers in the performance of predetermined action. The method comprises the steps determining performance of a predetermined action, providing feedback related to the determined performance of the predetermined action, and broadcasting confirmation of performance of the predetermined action along with at least a portion of the provided feedback. An incentive be provided based upon performance of the predetermined action, or upon broadcasting. The predetermined action may include eating a candy or other edible item. The feedback may include material related to an advertising campaign, or otherwise related to the candy or edible item. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211890 | ELECTRONIC COUPON ISSUANCE AND REDEMPTION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The ELECTRONIC COUPON ISSUANCE AND REDEMPTION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“ECIR”) transforms user coupon purchase and redemption request inputs via ECIR components into coupon issuance, transaction, and analytics outputs. In some embodiments, the ECIR may receive an inventory request from a coupon program manager, including at least a virtual coupon issue criteria. The ECIR may generate one or more account identifiers, and transmit the account identifiers to the coupon program manager. The ECIR may receive, from the coupon program manager, an issue request along with the purchase information, which may include one or more purchase identifiers corresponding to one or more buyers. The ECIR may determine when the received purchase information satisfies the virtual coupon issue criteria, when it satisfies the criteria, the ECIR may issue one or more virtual coupons having the one or more account identifiers, and transmit the issued virtual cards to the coupon program manager. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MARKETING PRODUCTS OR SERVICES THROUGH AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - A system that includes a processor, computer executable instructions readable by the processor and operative to allow a first user of an online social network to endorse a product or service through the online social network, allow a second user of the online social network to purchase the product or service, and distribute a commission to the first user. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211892 | Method and Apparatus to Increase a Cash Line Limit - A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to provide a cash line from a cash provider to a user in which the user is permitted to withdraw cash from the cash line. The cash line can be automatically increased by the user taking certain actions, such as the user friending the cash provider on a social networking site such as FACEBOOK. The cash line can also be increased if the user provides an email address of a user's friend and that friend actually signed up with the cash provider and receives their own cash line. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211893 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED RFID BASED COMMERCE REWARDS - Systems and methods for social sharing and online publishing of advertisement messages concerning products or services. In one embodiment, an advertising message associated with a radio frequency identification based transmission may be published online by a user of a wireless ordering device. The users sharing of such messages may serve as an endorsement of the brand, product or service. A system, such as a commerce data organization system and/or vendor system, may then reward or credit the message sharer (e.g., consumer affiliate) based on variables the vendor or advertiser chooses, such as social influence, audience reach and performance based metrics. In some cases, the technology involves a method for consumers to engage with RFID based advertising to gain rewards. The rewards may be in the form of affiliate points that consumers may gain each time they share a message. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211894 | System and Method for Managing Promotional Savings Using a Communications Platform - A system and method for processing promotional savings using existing communications platforms. A plurality of promotional codes are assigned and stored in a promotions database. These promotional codes are positioned by marketers on products, packaging, or the like, along with instructions informing consumers to transmit the promotional code to a predefined destination address, such as a phone number, a short code text number, or an email address. After a message containing the promotional code is received from the consumer, the received code is parsed from the message, validated, and a promotional savings value associated with the code is identified. That amount is communicated to an operator of at least one account associated the consumer, and applied as a savings to the operator's billing statement. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211895 | Systems, Methods, and Media for Inducing Consumer Loyalty - Systems, methods, and media are provided for inducing customer loyalty that are configured to: identify a loyalty account associated with a consumer, wherein the loyalty account is part of as loyalty program established by a retailer, create a monetary account linked to the consumer's loyalty account, designate an amount of change from a cash transaction at the retailer to be deposited into the monetary account, deposit the amount of change into the monetary account by adding the designated amount of change to an existing balance of the monetary account to create a new balance, determine if the consumer is entitled to a reward based on the depositing of the designated amount of change into the monetary account and at least one threshold; and display to the consumer the outcome of the determining. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211896 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL BUYERS - A method by which potential buyers are identified includes receiving a description of an item a potential buyer intends to purchase within a particular time, determining a reward for the potential buyer based on intent data, providing the reward to the potential buyer and applying a penalty to a financial account of the potential buyer if the potential buyer does not purchase the item within the particular time period. The system includes a controller coupled to at least one input device with the controller operable to compute a reward offer. The controller includes circuitry, or software, configured to compute and apply a penalty if the potential buyer does not purchase the item within the particular time period. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211897 | REAL-TIME MOBILE DEMAND-SHAPING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A demand-shaping server, and method of shaping demand and an infrastructure incorporating the server or the method. In one embodiment, the server includes: (1) a sponsor interface configured to receive from a sponsor information regarding a time-sensitive deal and including a location at which the time-sensitive deal may be claimed and (2) a runner interface coupled to the sponsor interface and configured to transmit notices containing at least some of the information to mobile devices based on runner criteria associated therewith. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211898 | EXPENSE TRACKER - The invention provides a computer-based method of managing electronic transactions. A plurality of consumer accounts is stored in a data store, each consumer account having a first consumer account identifier. A rule is stored in association the consumer account. A charge request is received over a network interface device, the charge request including a charge amount and a second consumer account identifier. A selected one of the consumer accounts is identified by associating one of the first consumer account identifiers with the second consumer account identifier. The rule of the selected consumer account is retrieved in response to receiving the charge request and an action is executed based on the rule. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211899 | CONSUMER PROMOTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A retail promotion management system presents a consumer with a set of retail promotions. The consumer selects a set of retail promotions to store in the consumer's account. When the consumer makes a purchase, the consumer provides the system with retail store receipt data, which will includes information indicating that the consumer has purchased the promoted product. The system verifies the transaction and then issues a reward to the consumer, based on the retail promotion. Sellers also may upload retail promotions to the system for presentation to the consumer as candidate promotions. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211900 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TRANSACTIONS WITH A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and system include verifying credentials for gaining access to a central mobile payment controller using the portable computing device (“PCD”). The central mobile payment controller may receive a merchant identifier corresponding to a vending machine and then it may compare the merchant identifier against loyalty account data stored in a database. The central mobile payment controller through a tender steering module may determine if a profile of the portable computing device is associated with a merchant branded payment account and/or with a merchant branded stored value account. The central mobile payment controller may produce a message that lists one or more preferred payment options in a ranked fashion that may favor a merchant based on interchange rates for completing a transaction at the vending machine. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211901 | MULTIPLE PARTY REWARD SYSTEM UTILIZING SINGLE ACCOUNT - A method enabling a frequent shopper reward system capable of tracking performance data of a plurality of members or account holders linked to a single frequent shopper account. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211902 | MULTIPLE PARTY REWARD SYSTEM UTILIZING SINGLE ACCOUNT - A method enabling a frequent shopper reward system capable of tracking performance data of a plurality of members or account holders linked to a single frequent shopper account. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211903 | Online point redemption and distribution system and method. - An online point redemption and distribution system and method. The online point redemption and distribution system is used in combination with a cloud computing operating system to allow consumers and stores to do transaction online, every transaction between the consumers and the stores will be recorded as points, and then the points can be redeemed into virtual money and deposited in consumer's account. Therefore, it will enhance consumers' loyalty. The online point redemption and distribution system comprises a website operation platform and an application programming interface module. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211904 | GUI That Displays Characteristics of an Advertising Audience Selected By Specifying Targeting Constraints - An audience browser GUI that displays characteristics of an advertising audience selected by specifying targeting constraints is disclosed. The audience browser GUI allows a user to express constraints to define audiences. The audience browser displays characteristics of audiences defined by the constraints. A user can adjust constraints, observe characteristics of the resulting audience, and repeat to develop a desirable audience. In addition, the audience browser may recommend initial constraints and adjustments to constraints, based on advertiser goals and data. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211905 | ATTRACTIVENESS-BASED ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT CLICK PREDICTION - The probability that a user clicks on an online advertisement may be dependent on an attractiveness of the online advertisement. In determining such click probability, an advertisement attractiveness model for estimating an attractiveness of an online advertisement to users may be developed. A click behavior model is then created by combining the advertisement attractiveness model with a relevance model. The relevance model may be used for estimating relevance between the online advertisement and a search query. The click behavior model may be applied to features extracted from the online advertisement to calculate a click probability for the online advertisement. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211906 | Measuring and Utilizing The Effect of Social Sharing In Online Advertising - The present invention provides techniques for use in measuring effects of social sharing, and social sharing user characteristics, on advertisement effectiveness. Measurement information can be used in many ways, such as in optimizing advertisement campaigns and advertisement targeting. Techniques are provided in which bucket testing experiments are utilized. Advertisement performance may be tracked, including downstream advertisement performance, which may follow social sharing, in measuring differences in advertisement performance between content sharing users and content non-sharing users. Techniques are provided in which user social graph information may be used in determining downstream advertisement performance, even without information regarding specific sharing instances. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211907 | CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Exemplary systems and methods are provided for advertising on an authenticated web-based social network. Such methods include providing a screen for creation of a classified advertisement, receiving the classified advertisement from an advertising member, and displaying the classified advertisement on a user network in the authenticated web-based social network with information about a relationship between the advertising member and a member of the authenticated web-based social network viewing the classified advertisement. Exemplary systems include an advertising engine configured to generate a screen for creation of a classified advertisement, a communications module configured to receive the classified advertisement from, an advertising member, a distributed database configured with a user network and relationship information, and a display module configured to display the classified advertisement on the user network with the relationship information. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING INTERACTIVE EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH DISTRIBUTION OF SENSOR-BASED ADVERTISEMENTS - A computing device is configured to render an advertisement content in connection with a primary content. In connection with the rendering of the advertisement content on the computing device, a user is enabled to select a portion of the advertisement content. The portion of the advertisement content can be manipulated in response to input provided from the user operating the computing device. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211909 | SERVER DEVICE AND ADVERTISMENT IMAGE DISTRIBUTION AND PROGRAM - To provide a technique for maintaining high efficiency of advertisement images. In response to a request for a banner advertisement data set from a terminal device, a second banner distribution server device selects a banner advertisement data set at distribution frequencies that are determined in advance, and distributes the selected banner advertisement data set to the terminal device. For the first distribution term, the second banner distribution server device determines distribution frequencies so that each attribute of each component comprising a banner advertisement image is contained in distributed banner advertisement images at an equal rate. In the second and later distribution terms, banner advertisement data sets that had CTRs equal to or greater than a baseline-CTR in the previous distribution term are continuously distributed. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211910 | USER-DEFINED ADVERTISEMENT TARGETING - A computer-implemented method for targeting of an advertisement comprises receiving content uploaded by a user, assigning information to the content by the user, selecting an advertisement based on the information, presenting the content in connection with the selected advertisement based on the information, modifying the information by the user after the advertisement has been selected, selecting a new advertisement based on the modified information, and presenting the content in connection with the selected new advertisement based on the modified information. Furthermore, a server for targeting of an advertisement is defined. The method and server for targeting of an advertisement greatly improve the selection and presentation of advertisements related to uploaded content on a system or platform. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211911 | PERMISSIONED USE PREDICTIVE INTERACTIONS - Competition for Consumers in the marketplace is a billion dollar industry. Retention and acquisition of customers is important for many financial services entities. Disclosed herein is a system and method for a specific source to be permitted by a specific User to utilize computing devices and servers to acquire, parse, analyze and otherwise D-INE™ “data mine with permission” User Records which have been previously acquired and/or mined by third parties. Alpha Source in some instances applying its schemas to said User records utilizes its analysis to provided predictive information and offers to said User. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211912 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT BASED ON USER INTEREST INFORMATION - A system, apparatus and method for providing advertisement based on user interest information includes a user interest information search server for searching for user interest information associated with an advertisement request from a device, from among user interest information generated based on device activity information associated with user's device operations, and an advertising server for providing advertisement information corresponding to the searched user interest information from among stored advertisement information, to the device. Thus, the apparatus provides advertisements with a high user interest level from among numerous advertisements based on the user interest information, thereby maximizing advertising efficiency. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211913 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE ON FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to monitoring selected activity of a user of one or more social networks and providing offers to the user based on such selected criteria. For example, selected parameter could be the number of other users of the social network that are associated with the user, the number of posts entered by the user on the social network, the number of other users that respond to a post by the user, a type of product, service, or event that the user either selects or enters a posting for, and/or associations the user has with other selected users of the social network. In some embodiments, financial data associated with the user and other users of the social network may be analyzed to determine the user's influence on other users of the social network and provide offers to the user based on such influence. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211914 | Realtime advertising for search results - Architecture that enables the realtime selection and application of advertisements to search results of a user based on the user intent. The architecture enables information exchange between the search engine and advertisement frameworks to provide significant input for realtime advertising decisions. Each query processed in the search engine is analyzed and classified for user intent. Realtime intent classification enables merchants to choose to place or not to place advertisements based on a given query from the end user, with a much higher degree of relevance. This also exposes the ability to provide dynamic pricing for advertisement monetization based on realtime query signals. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211915 | Advertising Based on Customized User Dictionary - In one embodiment, constructing one or more customized dictionaries for a particular user, each customized dictionary comprising a different blending of one or more frequently used words collected from texts submitted by one or more users; determining one or more customized advertisements for the particular user based on the customized dictionaries; and presenting the customized advertisements to the particular user. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211916 | AUTOMATIC REAL-TIME OPPORTUNITY-RELEVANT PROMOTIONS FOR AN AUTO BUYING ASSISTANT APPLICATION - Automatically receiving loan application promotions on a mobile device based on the mobile devices entering of a predetermined geographic area. The loan promotion application for the mobile device incorporates location-based promotion technology to provide financial institutions with the ability to deliver real-time opportunity-relevant loan promotions to potential borrowers based on the mobile device's physical presence at a point of sale. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211917 | LOCAL AREA ADVERTISEMENT MANAGEMENT - A local area advertising server limits distribution of advertisements to computing devices, preferably mobile computing devices, that are carried by people likely to be in close physical proximity to a store or location to which the advertisements pertain and likely to be currently engaged in activities relevant to the advertisements. Advertisements from a specific store can be delivered immediately through the Internet to people physically inside the store. Computing devices coupled to a local area network located in or near a store or other location are presumed to be physically in or very near the store or location. By associating advertisements with local area networks to which they pertain, only advertisements associated with the local area network to which the computing device is connected are sent to the computing device. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211918 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED MOBILE ADVERTISEMENT - A method of providing a targeted advertisement is provided. A mobile terminal receives user characteristic information including information indicating favorite shops and basic information used for user classification, and generates an access control key used for encoding advertisement content by using the received user characteristic information. An advertisement main server selects at least one of shop management servers installed in respective shops by using the user characteristic information, and transmits the user characteristic information to the selected at least one shop management server. The shop management server receiving the user characteristic information encodes advertisement content selected using the user characteristic information with a specific access control key, and broadcasts the encoded advertisement content. The mobile terminal decodes the broadcast advertisement content by using the generated access control key. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211919 | System and Method for Sharing and Endorsing Content - A system and associated method to enable individual users of the system to preferably share and/or endorse a set of information by actively embedding the information within a user's existing communications, which include but are not limited to a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a smart phone, a tablet, or any other similar networked and internet-ready device. Additionally, the system is preferably configured to enable a content creator to monitor the content distribution to users of the system in real-time. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211920 | METHOD FOR DELIVERING AND DISPLAYING CONTENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE - This invention concerns content distribution, in particular providing promotional messages and images to mobile devices. It includes a method of content distribution in which the probability of familiarization of a user with the content is increased, maintaining convenience of use of a mobile device. The abovementioned technical result is achieved by installing on the mobile device an original external program, required for reception, processing and display of promotional and informational messages. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AFFILIATE MARKETING SERVICE IN INTEGRATED MARKETPLACE - A system and method for providing an advertisement that provides an affiliate marketing service in an integrated e-marketplace is disclosed. The system for providing the advertisement included in a portal site managing system which managing system provides a plurality of services including at least one of a shopping information providing service, a social networking service, a web document searching service, a personal page managing service, and a payment service. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211922 | Method of Facilitating the Marketing, Redemption, and Reimbursement of Prepaid Services in a Service Network - A computer-assisted method of facilitating the marketing, redemption, and reimbursement of prepaid services in a service network. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211923 | SENSOR-BASED INTERACTIVE ADVERTISEMENT - A computing device is configured to render an advertisement content in connection with a primary content. In connection with the rendering of the advertisement content on the computing device, a user is enabled to select a portion of the advertisement content. The portion of the advertisement content can be manipulated in response to input provided from the user operating the computing device. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SENSOR-BASED ADVERTISEMENTS - A computing device is configured to render an advertisement content in connection with a primary content. In connection with the rendering of the advertisement content on the computing device, a user is enabled to select a portion of the advertisement content. The portion of the advertisement content can be manipulated in response to input provided from the user operating the computing device. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211925 | USER-SELECTED ADVERTISEMENT LAYOUT - An entertainment content consumer selects the manner in which advertisements are presented at a client by selecting one of plural available advertisement content layouts. Entertainment content is served to the entertainment content consumer's client with advertisement content by using the advertisement content layout selected by the consumer. For example, a consumer selects whether to have advertisements served within a social media news feed or to have advertisements served by a video shown over the social media news feed according to a predetermined metric, such as an advertisement at regular time intervals or predetermined download metrics. Empowering the consumer to control how advertisements are served improves the consumer's experience by providing fewer higher quality advertisements to the consumer for a given allocation of entertainment content viewing. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTEGRATED MARKETPLACE - Provided is a system and method for providing an advertisement that provides an integrated e-marketplace in a portal site managing system that provides a plurality of services including at least one of a shopping information providing service, a web document searching service, a personal page managing service, and a payment service. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211927 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COMPARING DECISION OPTIONS - A method for comparing decision options includes storing a set of decision options. The method includes determining for each decision option of the set of decision options, a plurality of factors, wherein each of the plurality of factors defines a respective metric. The method includes receiving a plurality of user preference indicators, each indicator corresponding to a respective factor of the plurality of factors. The method includes ranking the set of decision options in response to receiving a first user preference indicator. The method includes providing the user with a ranked list of the set of decision options in response to receiving the first user preference indicator. The method includes reranking the set of decision options in response to receiving a second user preference indicator and providing the user with a reranked list of the set of decision options in response to receiving the second user preference indicator. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211928 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE DISTRIBUTION AND DOSING IN WINE TASTING - A method for distributing and marketing wine includes bottling the wine in containers ( | 2013-08-15 |
20130211929 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH AN IC CHIP FOR SUBMISSION OF PIN DATA - A system and method for coordinating processing of a cardholder present financial transaction between the cardholder and a merchant system. The system collects a transaction amount of the financial transaction associated with merchant identification information of the merchant system. The system sends an authentication request using a wireless communication protocol configured for proximity communication between a communication interface of a computer device and a wireless communication enabled integrated circuit (IC) chip of a payment card, the authorization request including an IC command expected by computer hardware of the IC chip. The system receives an authentication response from the computer hardware of the IC chip by the wireless communication protocol, the authentication response including an encrypted value generated by the computer hardware of the IC chip. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211930 | TRANSACTION AUTHENTICATION WITH AN MSISDN AT A POS ROUTED THROUGH A MERCHANT ACQUIRER COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer-based method of managing electronic transactions is described. A plurality of consumer accounts is stored in a data store, each consumer account having a first consumer account identifier. A second consumer account identifier in the form of an MSISDN is received in a point-of-sale device. The point-of-sale device transmits the charge request, including an amount and the second consumer account identifier, to a merchant acquirer computer system, which routes the charge request. The charge request is received over a network interface device, the charge request including the amount and the second consumer account identifier. A selected one of the consumer accounts is identified by associating one of the first consumer account identifiers with the second consumer account identifier, and the charge request is processed based on an account detail of the selected consumer account. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211931 | TRANSACTION AUTHENTICATION WITH A NON-PAN ID AND PIN - A computer-based method of managing electronic transactions is described. A plurality of consumer accounts is stored in a data store, each consumer account having a first consumer account identifier that is not a PAN and a respective first PIN. A charge request is received over a network interface device, the charge request including an amount, a second consumer account identifier and a second PIN. A selected one of the consumer accounts is identified by associating one of the first consumer account identifiers with the second consumer account identifier, and the charge request is processed based on an account detail of the selected consumer account. The processing of the charge request is only permitted upon a favorable comparison of the first PIN and the second PIN. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211932 | TRANSACTION AUTHENTICATION WITH A VARIABLE-TYPE USER-STORED ACCOUNT IDENTIFIER - Each of a plurality of consumer accounts in a data store has a first consumer account identifier. Login information is received from a consumer device over the network interface device. The first consumer account identifier is received from the consumer device and stored in association the consumer account. The first consumer account identifier is storable as one of at least two types of identifiers and the storing by the consumer device of the first consumer account identifier is only permitted upon successful login based on the login information. The charge request is received over a network interface device, the charge request including the amount and the second consumer account identifier. A selected one of the consumer accounts is identified by associating one of the first consumer account identifiers with the second consumer account identifier, and the charge request is processed based on an account detail of the selected consumer account. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211933 | TRANSACTION AUTHENTICATION WITH A NON-MSISDN ID AND AUTHORIZATION BY COMMUNICATING WITH A CONSUMER DEVICE - A computer-based method of managing electronic transactions is described. A plurality of consumer accounts is stored in a data store, each consumer account having a first consumer account identifier. A second consumer account identifier is received in a point-of-sale device. A charge request including an amount and a second consumer account identifier is received, wherein the second consumer account identifier is not an MSISDN. A selected one of the consumer accounts is identified by associating one of the first consumer account identifiers with the second consumer account identifier. An authorization request is transmitted to a consumer device. An response to the authorization request is received from the consumer device, and the charge request is processed based on an account detail of the selected consumer account, wherein the charge request is processed if the response is the authorization response. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211934 | ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT IMPLEMENTATION FOR ELECTRONIC RETAILERS - A system and method process a transaction between a merchant and a consumer at a point of sale (POS). Transaction information for the transaction is received from the consumer at the POS. The transaction information identifies an alternative payment option of an alternative payment provider to use for the transaction. A universal merchant platform (UMP) is requested to approve the transaction with the alternative payment provider of the identified alternative payment option. The request includes the received transaction information and is provided to the UMP according to a unified payment implementation. In response to approval of the transaction, an order identifier is received from the UMP. The order identifier uniquely identifies the transaction. The UMP is requested to authorize and/or capture funds for the transaction using a payment implementation specific to the alternative payment provider of the identified alternative payment option. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211935 | PHASED DEBIT ACTIVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of facilitating activation of a general-purpose reloadable (GPR) card includes reading an activation storage medium from a GPR card using a point-of-sale (POS) terminal, wherein the GPR card is linked to a GPR account stored on a database. The method further includes collecting identification information from a card applicant and forwarding the collected identification information to a financial processing network, submitting an initial monetary amount to be loaded to the GPR account to the financial processing network, and communicating initial activation of the GPR account to the card applicant at the POS terminal after receiving activation approval from the financial processing network. The initial activation of the GPR account is a first phase of activation in a multiple phase activation characterized by the GPR account being available for use toward a price of purchases and unavailable for loading an additional monetary amount to the GPR account. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211936 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STORING ELECTRONIC RECEIPTS ON A UNIFIED CARD OR SMARTPHONE - A receipt system allows customers to store receipts on a Unified Card or smartphone when making purchases from different retailer merchants. The customer purchases goods or services and the receipt is recorded electronically onto a single Unified Card or smartphone. This eliminates the need for paper receipts. The user can then use the Unified Card or smartphone to make returns or exchanges or as proof of purchase. Unified Card readers can be located at Kiosks as part of a home based system that works with the user's home computer. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211937 | USING CREDIT CARD/BANK RAILS TO ACCESS A USER'S ACCOUNT AT A POS - A payment provider card can be used on any credit card or bank network in order to access the user's payment provider account at the POS of non-payment provider integrated merchants. The consumer may swipe or have the card read through NFC or other means, at the POS, where the information contained in the card is communicated to the payment provider through a credit card or bank card network or rails that is already part of the merchant payment network. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211938 | RETAIL KIOSKS WITH MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIVE SURFACE - A multi-modal interactive surface is connected to a retail management system in a retail store. A user interface component provides user interface displays that allow a user to research products in the retail store and complete a sales transaction. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211939 | Methods, tools & application of encoding & decoding order item permutations using smart handheld devices towards achieving greater order accuracy, efficiency and seamless distributed, non queuing capture process - Presented here is a summarization of concepts, associated implementation processes, methods and apparatus for generating orders by a customer and logistics involved in the order life cycle as it gets created, transferred and eventually fulfilled by the vendor. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211940 | Metered and Conditional Access Control - Various methods, systems, and apparatuses can be used to perform metered and conditional access control. In some implementations, a metered and conditional access control system can operate to approve, deny, or meter a request from a requesting user device for transactions such as, for example, approval of purchases, requests for bandwidth, access to restricted content, among many others. Once prompted, a granting user device can grant, deny, or meter directly with the requesting user device or another network element. A metered and conditional access control system can also coordinate with a metered conditional access control coordinating device to facilitate conditional access and/or metering. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211941 | VEHICLE CO-LISTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for computer network-based sale of vehicles. An access group data structure is created. The access group data structure includes structure that defines association of web sites, users and vehicles associated with an access group. Whether vehicles are visible on respective web sites is controlled based on the access group, and access by the user is allowed to respective items in the access group based on whether a user is associated with the access group. Another embodiment includes providing an access group object, wherein the access group object includes properties that define association of web sites, users and vehicles associated with an access group. Another embodiment is directed to a computerized system for vehicle sale including a web server. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211942 | METHOD FOR ENABLING A GIFT TRANSACTION - A method of an embodiment includes: receiving a gift request from a sender, the gift request specifying a recipient and a gift item; requesting approval of the gift item from the recipient; posting a notification of the gift item for publication by an online social network in response to approval of the gift item by the recipient; and initiating payment for the gift item, on behalf of the sender, in response to approval of the gift item by the recipient. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211943 | METHOD FOR ENABLING A GIFT TRANSACTION - A method of an embodiment includes: receiving a gift request from each of a plurality of senders, each gift request specifying a recipient and a selected gift item; requesting approval of each gift item from a respective recipient; posting a notification of each gift item for publication by an online social network in response to approval of each gift item by a respective recipient; initiating payment for each gift item, by a respective sender, in response to approval of each gift item by a respective recipient; tracking approval and modification of each gift item by a respective recipient; and generating a trend report of gift customization based upon a characteristic of recipients who modify and accept gift items specified by respective senders. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211944 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SHARING A PRODUCT/SERVICE AND ITS ASSOCIATED PURCHASE PRICE BETWEEN CUSTOMERS - A peer-to-peer, collaborative, group-buying website permits customers co-pay and co-share items. The e-commerce website may locate and display an item offered for sale by a merchant. A sale price of the item may be displayed wherein use and sale price of the item may be shared between first and second customers. A first customer bid may be displayed to use the item for a first period of time wherein the first bid is equal to a first fraction of the sale price. A second customer bid may be displayed to use the item for a second period of time wherein the second bid is equal to a second fraction of the sale price. In this manner, the first and second customers are authorized to use the item for the first and second periods of time upon simultaneously paying the first and second fractions of the sale price. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211945 | Method and System for Purchasing Property Options - The present invention relates to a method, system and or software for selling property comprising or adapted for: providing details of a property item for review | 2013-08-15 |
20130211946 | BIDDER AUTOMATION OF MULTIPLE BID GROUPS OR CASCADES FOR AUCTION DYNAMIC PRICING MARKETS SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A system, method, and computer program product for automating an online auction service and bidder interaction including receiving a keyword searching based on the keyword product auctions of a plurality of auction sites; and may include using a search agent or a meta-search agent, and providing returned auctions, and may include presenting current status of product auctions. The method can monitor temporal progression of auctions, and can notify users of changes in status A bid proxy can be activated as an auction nears completion placing bids until the auction is won or lost. In the event of a counter offer, a higher bid can be made. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211947 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING CHAIN-LINK FENCE DESIGN - A method and system for generating a schematic illustration of a design made by inserting cups in the openings of a chain-link fence are provided. A customer uploads a design representation through a web based interface. The designer adjusts the representation into a matrix of polygons displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI). The matrix of polygons represents the polygonal openings of the chain-link fence. The representation is converted into a cluster of highlighted polygons that represents the schematic illustration of the design. The customer can customize the design parameters and place an order for the design. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211948 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CUSTOMIZED USER PLANS - A computer-implemented method for generating a customized user plan based on corresponding creator plans and user data. The creator plans is generated by experts in their respective fields, by businesses, and by users of the system. The creator plans is available for selection or purchase by users. A system may propose creator plans to a user. Once the one or more creator plans are identified for a particular user, the system generates a customized user plan based on these creator plans and corresponding user data, such as user input, user state, and privacy settings. External data and other plans of this and other users may also be used in generating the customized user plan. A single customized user plan may integrate multiple creator plans and set multiple goals for the user. The user plan may be dynamically generated and updated based on, for example, changes to the user data. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211949 | METHOD FOR ENABLING A GIFT TRANSACTION - A method of an embodiment includes: receiving a gift request from a sender, the gift request specifying a recipient and an initial order for a gift item of a predefined price; modifying the initial gift order according to a customization input from the recipient; requesting approval of the modified gift order from the recipient; posting a notification of the modified gift order for publication by an online social network in response to approval of the modified gift order by the recipient; and in response to approval of the modified gift order by the recipient, initiating fulfillment of the modified gift order by requesting payment from the sender up to the predefined price of the gift item specified in the gift request and according to the customization input from the recipient. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211950 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for recommending items from a catalog of items to a user by parsing the catalog of items into a plurality of catalog clusters of related items and recommending catalog items to the user from catalog clusters to which items previously preferred by the user belong. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211951 | SELF LEARNING GIFT RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for operating a self learning gift recommendation engine in an electronic medium to facilitate the selection of gifts by a gift shopper for a prospective gift receiver. In one example, a method comprises presenting the gift shopper with at least one question from a questions repository through an interface of an electronic device, receiving a response from the gift shopper to the at least one question, presenting the gift shopper with a recommendation for at least one gift, receiving an indication from the gift shopper of the desirability of the at least one gift, analyzing data regarding the at least one question presented, the response received, and the indication received to asses one of the effectiveness and the efficiency of the at least one question presented in facilitating the selection of the gift, and recording an indication of the assessment in a knowledge repository. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211952 | BUSINESS SALES PROMOTION SERVER, BUSINESS SALES PROMOTION METHOD, AND BUSINESS SALES PROMOTION PROGRAM - A business sales promotion server analyzes information on the type of electric appliance connected with a network in order to recommend a sales representative to sell electric appliances. The business sales promotion server stores electric appliance configuration in relation to a local network, the electric appliance configuration including model related information acquired from an electric appliance communicatively connected with the local network, outputs information on an electric appliance being lacking in one local network to the sales representative terminal based on the electric appliance configuration, and then recommends the sale of the electric appliance. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211953 | COLLABORATIVE SHOPPING ACROSS MULTIPLE SHOPPING CHANNELS USING SHARED VIRTUAL SHOPPING CARTS - A system for collaborative shopping comprising shopping devices interconnected by a network and respectively used by shoppers in a collaborative shopping session, and virtual shopping carts respectively associated with the shopping devices for sharing information on items of interest among the shoppers and enabling the shoppers to collaborate on the shopping. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211954 | METHOD FOR ENABLING A GIFT TRANSACTION - A method of an embodiment includes: accessing a list of gift items previously selected for a recipient by previous senders, the list comprising a first gift item previously selected by a first sender; receiving a gift request from a second sender, the gift request specifying the recipient and a second gift item; identifying a complementary relationship between the first gift item and the second gift item; requesting approval, from the recipient, of an aggregated gift item that is a combination of the first gift item and the second gift item; posting a notification of the aggregated gift item for publication by an online social network in response to approval of the aggregated gift item by the recipient; and initiating payment of the second gift item by the second sender in response to approval of the aggregated gift item by the recipient. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211955 | ENHANCED SHOPPING & MERCHANDISING METHODOLOGY - An enhanced shopping system for facilitating grocery shopping and in-store advertising is disclosed. The system utilizes uniquely changes (1) the way grocery retail industry captures and retains customers, (2) how customers organize their shopping efforts in grocery stores, (3) the approach to advertising and reaching customers, and (4) the information available to retailers and merchandisers related to customer (a) shopping patterns, (b) responses to merchandising and advertising, and (c) specific impact of discounting/coupons. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211956 | Mobile Application for Capturing Inspirations - A system, method, and mobile application for capturing and synchronizing information is disclosed. One method can comprise capturing information relating to an object, generating an entry based upon the captured information, and automatically transmitting the entry to an online marketplace. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211957 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MANAGING MARKETS - A process and system for managing markets is provided. The method includes receiving, by the computer, information descriptive of at least one product produced by at least one producer associated with at least one exchange. The method also includes receiving, by the computer, information descriptive of at least one order requested by at least one member associated with at least one destination, the at least one order including at least one identifier of the at least one product. The method further includes identifying, by the computer, at least one route including the at least one exchange and the at least one destination. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211958 | Method of Raising Funds for an Organization - The present invention relates to a method of raising funds for an organization. In one embodiment, the organization distributes a solicitation to a buyer, or for delivery to a buyer by way of a child relative of the buyer. The solicitation comprises an offer to sell a jewelry article made from a processed exfoliated deciduous tooth of the child, set in a jewelry object, as a gemstone would be set. The buyer sends a payment for the jewelry article to the manufacturer, who sends a payment to the organization for having distributed a solicitation that was converted into a purchase. The buyer sends the exfoliated deciduous tooth to the manufacturer. The deciduous tooth is specially processed in a manner that allows it to be set in the buyer's selected jewelry object as a gemstone would be set to create the completed jewelry article. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211959 | System to Maximize Regional Regulated Revenue - The present invention provides a system and method for a vehicular regionally regulated electronic platform allowing for a plurality of users to interface with said platform to effect various regulatory services, such as parking. The platform may also be used by enforcement authorities to implement enforcement regimes with increased efficiency and maximizing revenue. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211960 | ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system to manage, review, and process distressed real estate and other assets, including, but not limited to, performing and nonperforming notes, substandard assets, and other real estate owned (OREO) assets. The system may be hosted on one or more servers on a network, such as the Internet, and accessible to financial institutions and other users through a web browser or similar program. Alternatively, the system may be hosted on an institution's own computers. The system may be used by banks, credit unions, savings and loan institutions, asset management companies, financial institutions, real estate development companies, and other holders of assets to list such assets and make them available for review by potential investors or purchasers, and tracks said assets until said assets are sold or “off-loaded.” | 2013-08-15 |
20130211961 | SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING REDEMPTION INFORMATION - A system to determine offers and/or to determine the acceptability of offers based on received information relating to product redemption at a third party. According to one embodiment, the system includes arrangement for a customer to redeem a product from a third party, reception of information relating to a redemption of the product by the customer, reception of an offer to purchase a product for an offer price, determination to accept the offer based on the received information relating to the redemption, determination of an assigned third party at which the offer product may be redeemed based on the received information, and transmission of an acceptance of the offer and an indication of the assigned third party. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211962 | VIRTUAL SHOPPING ASSISTANT - A method and system for purchasing an item includes registering identification and credit card information of a shopper with a third party purchasing system, selecting a desired item in a store by a shopper, and sending information identifying the item and its price to the third party purchasing system. The third party purchasing system conducts a search for the item on the internet and analyzes the results of the search via the microprocessor to determine prices of the item. The system then compares the lowest price of the item found in the search with the price of the item sent by the shopper and purchases with the shopper's credit card information the item having the lowest price based on the search, when the lowest price is lower than the price submitted by the shopper. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211963 | Facilitation of interaction between providers, buyers, and agents - Systems and methods for sellers of goods and services for providing information relating to existence and features of what they provide, to buyers using a system as herein described that enables a buyer to identify and obtain collections of information that comprise a subset of the contents of a database having multiple records provided by a plurality of sellers. A seller may use a conventional home or office computer including without limitation PC's and MACINTOSH™ computers, tablets and smartphones to transmit information to a system as provided, which is accessible to users also via a conventional home or office computer. A user specifies desired criteria and the system provides the user a subset of information upon which further decisions by the user can be made. In some embodiments, systems and methods provided relate to information concerning the inventory of new home construction in a selected region, which region may include a general metropolitan area. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATION OF AN ONLINE STORE - A system for automatic generation of a school store front, comprises storage configured to store: a plurality of school store front templates, and at least one base product catalogue; and an administration module comprising store front creation module, the store front creation module configured to receive a selection of one of the plurality of store front templates, receive school-specific variables, receive a selection of artwork associated with the school, and generate a school specific catalogue from the base catalogue using the selected artwork and the school-specific variables. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211965 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACQUIRING AND GENERATING COMPARISON INFORMATION FOR ALL COURSE BOOKS, IN MULTI-COURSE STUDENT SCHEDULES - Provided are systems, methods and computer programs for generating comparison information for all course books, regardless of whether or not the books are required or optional, for multi-course student schedules. Also provided are systems, methods and computer programs for transacting sales between sellers and buyers of course books and online products, wherein the sellers and buyers may be online or offline and the online products may have a standardized product identification number. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211966 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING AND TRANSACTING ELECTRONIC TRADING CARDS - A method of displaying, buying, and trading electronic trading cards on a computer or handheld electronic device by running an electronic trading card application on the computer or handheld device that communicates via the internet with at least one remote server containing a registry of all electronic trading cards. The electronic trading card application running on the computer or handheld device transmits a transaction request to the at least one remote server to execute a purchase or trade between two users of one or more electronic trading cards. The electronic trading card application further displays various components of an electronic trading card based upon user inputs. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211967 | Ordering and Payment Systems - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a product transaction. An order system is provided which independently stores orders generated by a customer, in a customer order repository, A customer order repository is associated with a customer order repository ID which identifies the customer order repository. When shopping, the customer selects a product and provides the customer order repository ID to the vendor. The vendor provides the COR ID to the order processing system together with information identifying the product. The order processing system then communicates with a customer device via a customer interface, such as a client App. The customer confirms the order and the order processing system processes payment. Details of order processing and other information relating to the order may be published on social network sites and communicated to the customer and to the vendor. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211968 | E-Commerce Systems and Methods - Community-based e-commerce methods for providing a buyer with a set of local retailers affiliated with a selected community and offering a desired type of product. Methods may include storing retailer data including retailer records including retailer affiliation data and retailer location data, receiving into the data storage unit with the central processing unit buyer preference data from the buyer including a desired affiliation and a desired location, selecting with the central processing unit a retailer record from the retailer data, the selected retailer record having retailer affiliation data consistent with the desired retailer affiliation and retailer location data consistent with the desired retailer location, and displaying the selected retailer record. In some embodiments, methods may additionally or alternatively include social networking features. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211969 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY CHANGING THE CONTENT OF AN INTERNET WEB PAGE - A host Web page includes an evolving interactive dialog box wherein an Internet user may enter user data to be processed. When the user completes entering user data in a first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first revolution is replaced with a second revolution of the evolving interactive dialog box without disturbing or affecting any other part of the host Web page being displayed. Beneficially, the first and second revolutions may be communicated to a user computer together with and at a same time as the host Web page. Also, the second revolution may include a variety of data which is selected or customized to match the user data submitted in the first revolution. Each revolution of the evolving interactive dialog box may be comprised of any combination of general textual data entry fields, category (pull-down) menus, contact information data entry fields, and opt-in/opt-out buttons. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211970 | PERSONALIZED WEBPAGE GIFTING SYSTEM - A computer-implemented system for creating an enhanced online gifting experience that allows a purchaser to enter information identifying a gift recipient as well as text, sound, images or video relevant to the gift recipient and/or to an event. The system uses this information to create a personalized webpage identified and located via a personal uniform resource locator (PURL) associated with the gift recipient. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211971 | Media Gifting Devices and Methods - Various techniques are provided for the gifting between multiple electronic devices of media content provided by an online digital media provider. An offer and acceptance of a selected gift file is accomplished between a gifter device and a receiving giftee device using a near-field communication (NFC) connection. If a connection to the online provider is available, the gifter device may transmit a gift request by which the gifter's account is charged for the gift file. Thereafter, a gift file created using DRM keys associated with the giftee's account may be downloaded to the giftee device. If a network connection is unavailable, the giftee device may transfer a locked gift file and a corresponding gift license to the giftee device using a peer-to-peer connection. The giftee device may authenticate the license and unlock the gift file once a connection to the online provider is available. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211972 | ELECTRONIC BOOK HAVING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE FEATURES - A viewer for displaying an electronic book and providing for electronic commerce. In conjunction with viewing an electronic book, a user can view information about products and services, view an on-line electronic catalog, and receive samples of products available for purchase. By entering a purchase request, the user can purchase products or services. In the case of a digital product, the user can download the purchased product directly into the viewer. The viewer also records statistics concerning purchase and information requests in order to recommend related products or services, or for directing particular types of advertisements to the user. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211973 | INVENTORY SYSTEM FOR STAGERS, DESIGNERS AND CUSTOMERS - An online web-based, membership-based inventory system for stagers and designers which includes a processor working with a stored program to enable the storage, rental and sale of inventory items, which includes a membership portion for reviewing and accepting membership applications, a warehouse storage of inventory items, a warehouse inventory portion for storing information concerning inventory items available to the membership; a communication portion enabling the membership to access the stored information in the warehouse inventory portion and to select items from available inventory for rent and/or purchase; and an accounting portion for tracking rental or purchase of inventory items from the inventory warehouse. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211974 | LIGHT WEIGHT, STRONG, FIRE RETARDANT DUNNAGE PLATFORM BAG AND SYSTEM OF LOADING, DISPENSING AND USING BAG - The present invention relates to methods of manufacturing lightweight thermoplastic dunnage platform decks or repairing and reusing damaged lightweight thermoplastic dunnage platform decks to be mounted with molded feet. In an embodiment of the present invention, a dunnage platform with damaged feet is modified such that the damaged feet are removed and replacement feet are attached. In an embodiment of the present invention, the damaged feet of a dunnage platform are removed and the resulting dunnage platform deck is shipped to a desired site whereupon molded feet are attached to the dunnage platform deck and the dunnage platform generated from the deck and molded feet is used for shipping cargo. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211975 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC KIT FOR PAYROLL VOUCHER, TIME TRACKING, AND PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATION IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY - The invention discloses a portable luggage-sized kit and integrated hardware-software system for streamlined digital administration of production projects in the entertainment industry, said kit comprising a suite of electronic devices and a GUI-driven interface specially adapted for the unique demands of payroll, time and attendance monitoring, prop and wardrobe inventory, and administrative management of projects according to customizable settings for compliance with relevant guild, union, and project-specific rules. The kit includes handheld scanners, card and tag readers, badge and voucher printers, database architecture, web services, fillable forms and intelligent menu navigation that share data in real time across a network linking an expandable range of nodes in horizontal and vertical hierarchies of project roles. The system electronically processes payroll vouchers, check-in and check-out events, miscellaneous adjustments and any other personnel data management tasks smoothly and intelligently, saving time, increasing project flexibility, and preventing mistakes. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211976 | Asset Monitoring Using the Internet - Method for monitoring assets that include a sensor system that obtains data about contents thereof, a processor that derives information about the contents from the sensor data, and a communication system that, when linked to a communications network, wirelessly transmits the information derived by the processor via the Internet. The information is received at a data processing and storage facility, associated with a unique identification code for each asset, and stored in association with the identification code. Access to the stored information is effected via the Internet. | 2013-08-15 |
20130211977 | WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A warehouse management system can include pick platforms, each having an identifier associated therewith. A mobile computing device can be associated with a pick platform based on the identifier and may be associated with one of the pick platforms at a time. A director computing device can be in communication with the mobile computing device and can transmit pick instructions to the mobile computing device based on a currently associated pick platform. | 2013-08-15 |