35th week of 2022 patent applcation highlights part 45 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20220277296 | SYSTEM FOR SECURE DISTRIBUTION OF PEER REQUESTS FOR RESOURCES - Aspects of the disclosure relate to a system that provides enhanced security of information transmitted by connected devices. The system may be used to request resources from members of a donee's virtual group. Donated funds or line of credit may be loaded to the donee's digital wallet with no link to any of the donee's personal accounts. The request for resources may utilize secure correspondence between the donee and the prospective donors. The secure correspondence may be locked and prevented from being forwarded or captured via a screenshot to ensure confidentiality. If an attempt is made to forward or copy the secure correspondence, the secure correspondence may be deleted. Donated funds/line of credit may be allocated for specific use, and may not be owned by the donee until used. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A DATA TRANSFER APPLICATION - A computer system for provisioning a data transfer method is disclosed, comprising a processor, and a communications module and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computer system to: receive a provisioning request for a data transfer method; send, to a server associated with the data transfer method, a request, based on the provisioning request, for assignment of a data transfer identifier; receive, from the server, the data transfer identifier responsive to the request for assignment of the data transfer identifier; obtain a data transfer token corresponding to the data transfer identifier by: sending, to a token service provider, a request for the token comprising the data transfer identifier; receiving, from the token service provider, a data transfer token in response to the request for the token; and, send a reply to the provisioning request comprising the token. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277298 | ALERT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH REAL-TIME REMEDIATION AND INTEGRATION WITH THE EXCEPTION ORIGINATING SYSTEM - An alert management and real-time remediation system is disclosed. The system may receive, from an institution, an electronic file that includes an exception information (EI) data structure comprising exception information representing events and customers associated with the events, and a contact information data structure comprising an electronic address for each customer. The system may automatically parse the EI into events associated with the customers, and for each customer, send an event notification message (EN) to the electronic address of the customer, wherein the event notification message includes a link to an authentication interface of the institution associated with the customer. Responsive to the customer being authenticated by the authentication interface, providing a user interface to the electronic customer device for display to the customer, wherein the user interface displays information for each event associated with the customer and display elements from which a user may select, including a display element for a payment option; and responsive to the customer selecting the payment option, generating and sending a payment message to the institution. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277299 | CART/BASKET FRAUD DETECTION PROCESSING - An image of a cart/basket is captured based on a triggering event associated with a transaction at a transaction terminal. A determination is made whether the cart/basket is empty or nonempty from the image. When the cart/basket is nonempty a determination is made whether the nonempty cart includes one or more legitimate items or saleable items associated with a store. When the cart/basket is nonempty with one or more saleable items remaining in the cart/basket, and alert is raised to suspend completion of the transaction at the transaction terminal for intervention and audit of the transaction. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277300 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING SMART CONTRACT - A method and device for executing a smart contract. The method comprises: receiving a contract execution transaction comprising user information, difficulty information, and contract parameters; searching, according to the user information, for prestored difficulty information corresponding to the user information, the difficulty information corresponding to the user information being determined according to execution result information of a contract execution transaction submitted by the user last time indicated by the user information; executing verification by: determining whether the difficulty information in the contract execution transaction is consistent with the found difficulty information; in response to determining that the difficulty information in the contract execution transaction is consistent with the found difficulty information, executing a smart contract according to the contract parameters to obtain execution result information; and updating the prestored difficulty information corresponding to the user information according to the obtained execution result information. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277301 | SECURE TRACKING AND TRANSFER OF ITEMS USING A BLOCKCHAIN - Technologies are shown for tracking transfer of an item on an item tracking data blockchain, where transfers of the item and the holder of the item are recorded in item tracking data blocks of the blockchain. In some examples, a verification of the item is performed for a transfer and recorded in the data block for the transfer. In other examples, the blockchain stores a unique code for the ticket. Transfers of the ticket are recorded in the blockchain. When the ticket is presented for use, a holder identifier and a presented ticket code are validated against a holder identifier in the most recent block in the blockchain and the unique code for the ticket stored in the blockchain. In some examples, a portion of a resale price of the ticket is sent to an issuer of the ticket. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277302 | CRYPTOASSET CUSTODIAL SYSTEM WITH PROOF-OF-STAKE BLOCKCHAIN SUPPORT - Methods and systems for secure storage and retrieval of information, such as private keys, useable to control access to a blockchain, include: receiving, in a cryptoasset custodial system, a request to authorize a staking operation associated with a blockchain, wherein the staking operation is associated with a private key of an asymmetric cryptographic key pair, the private key is usable to control ownership of a cryptoasset recorded in the blockchain, and the private key is securely held in the custodial system; performing, in response to the request, a portion of the proof-of-stake protocol in a hardware security module using logic designed for the protocol, wherein the logic in the hardware security module is configured to authorize the staking operation by digitally signing an associated staking transaction; and sending the digitally signed staking transaction to another computer to effect the staking operation on behalf of the user. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277303 | DYNAMIC SECURITY CODE AUTHORIZATION VERIFICATION SERVICE - A method includes receiving a request to verify a dynamic security code included in a transaction authorization request message. The transaction authorization request message was generated in connection with a payment account transaction. The method further includes performing a verification process with respect to the dynamic security code to generate a verification result. In addition, the transaction authorization request message may be modified by adding the verification result to the transaction authorization request message. Also, the modified transaction authorization request message may be transmitted to an issuer of a payment account designated for use in the payment account transaction. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277304 | Systems and Methods for Sanction Management - Systems and methods for sanction management are disclosed. In one embodiment a method may include a server: (1) receiving a transaction from a transaction source; (2) receiving decisioning on a sanction status of the transaction; (3) storing the transaction and the decisioning for the transaction in an active database; and (4) moving the transaction and decisioning for the transaction to an archive database after a first period of time. According to another embodiment, a method may include a server: (1) receiving an inquiry for a transaction that has a sanction status; (2) querying an active database for the transaction; (3) querying an archive database for the transaction in response to the transaction not being located in the active database; (4) retrieving the transaction and decisioning for the transaction from the archive database into the active database; and (5) presenting the transaction and decisioning for the transaction on an interface. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277305 | System and Method For Self-Service Returns - Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for processing a merchandise return transaction. A system for processing a merchandise return transaction comprising: a user interface for allowing direct entry of information by a customer without assistance from a worker; a database; and a control circuit coupled to the user interface and the database, the control circuit configured to execute the return transaction by: obtaining from the customer identifier relating to a purchase transaction in which at least one item was previously purchased; identifying a product item from the purchase transaction to be returned; obtaining from the customer a reason for the product item to be returned; obtaining from the customer a preferred tender for the return transaction; authorizing the return; and providing instructions to the customer for returning the product item to a retail facility. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277306 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for authenticating a customer of a business. The method may include the steps of: receiving from the customer at least one item of identifying information; confirming the identity of the customer; generating a token that represents an active session in which the customer interacts with one or more systems or personnel at the business; conducting a first set of communications between the customer and a first system of the business; inquiring with the customer as to whether the customer desires to transfer the active session to a second system at the business or to a third party system; and transferring the active session using the token to the second system or the third party system. The method may also comprise the steps of retrieving background information on the customer to assist a representative of the business in assisting the customer. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277307 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION - A personal/client identification and verification process, pseudonymous system and transaction network for monitoring and restricting transactions of cryptography-based electronic money. The present invention—“legal identity-linked credential authentication protocol” is a protocol providing a practical solution for the issues related to cryptocurrency theft, KYC and AML, while maintaining user privacy. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277308 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING RISK OF IDENTITY FRAUD BASED ON MULTIPLE FRAUD DETECTION MODELS - A fraud risk determination system that provides a comprehensive approach to multiple different types of fraud that outputs a single identity fraud risk score based on dynamically combining several independent fraud component models which employ various analytical techniques. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277309 | SELF-SERVICE COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A self-service commodity sales data processing device that includes a take-out determination unit for determining whether commodities were taken out simultaneously based on an image of a commodity taken out, a first identical termination unit for determining whether taken-out commodities are different commodities or identical commodities if the take-out determination unit determines that the commodities are taken out simultaneously, a reading unit for reading information of the taken-out commodities, a second identical determination unit for determining whether the commodities read by the reading unit are the identical commodity if the first identical determination unit determines that the taken-out commodities are different commodities, and a suspension unit for suspending the transaction if the second identical determination unit determines that the commodities are the identical commodity. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277310 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FRAUD MANAGEMENT SOLUTION - An artificial intelligence fraud management solution comprises an expert programmer development system to build trainable general payment fraud models that integrate several artificial intelligence classifiers like neural networks, case based reasoning, decision trees, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, and rules and constraints. These are further integrated by the expert programmers and development system with smart agents and associated real-time profiling, recursive profiles, and long-term profiles. The trainable general payment fraud models are trained with supervised and unsupervised data to produce an applied payment fraud model. This then is applied by a commercial client to process real-time transactions and authorization requests for fraud scores. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277311 | A TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND A TRANSACTION METHOD BASED ON FACIAL RECOGNITION - The present invention belongs to the fields of data processing systems and methods, as well as payment protocols. The invention relates to a transaction processing system, preferably a payment system, and a transaction method based on facial recognition. The essence of the invention is that the customer is not required to perform any actions or gestures to confirm his/her liveness. In contrast liveness is passively checked by an algorithm incorporated in the system comprising a server hosting a customer database of personal profiles, a database of merchants, a transaction terminal having a camera or any other suitable device suitable for taking an image of a person, wherein the algorithm performs: —liveness analysis to ensure that the taken image is of a living person and not from a printed photo or a pre-filmed video; —retrieving of stored facial fingerprint of the customer from his profile; and—comparison of the obtained facial fingerprint from the taken image and the stored facial fingerprint to allow or reject the transaction. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277312 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH MESSAGE FORMATTING - A method is disclosed and includes receiving, from a network computer, an authorization request message in a first data format for an interaction and converting the authorization request message in a first data format to a second data format. The method also includes transmitting the authorization request message in the second data format to a processing system comprising plurality of processing modules. The processing system uses the plurality of processing modules to process the data in the authorization request message in the second data format. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277313 | IMAGE-BASED PRODUCE RECOGNITION AND VERIFICATION - An image of a candidate produce item is received during a transaction at a transaction terminal. A Feature Vector (FV) for the image is produced. Sales data associated with Produce Look Up (PLU) codes is obtained. Bayesian produce recognition engines are provided the FV and the corresponding sales data. Probabilities returned by the engines are evaluated and a pick list of produce items are produced and/or an entered PLU code provided by an operator of the terminal during the transaction for the candidate produce item is verified or identified as counterfeit. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277314 | SUPPLIER DATA VALIDATION USING VALIDATION SUBSYSTEM - A computer-implemented method for validating supplier data is provided. The method includes accessing a spend management interface of a spend management system. The spend management interface may receive supplier data from a supplier computer via user interface widgets of the spend management interface. A country identifier is received from the supplier computer via a country widget and a currency identifier is received via a currency widget of the user interface widgets. One or more parameters associated with the country identifier and currency identifier are identified within a validation database of the spend management system and customized user interface widgets are generated based on the one or more parameters. The spend management interface is electronically updated to present the customized user interface widgets to the supplier computer. Supplier data is received from the supplier computer via the customized user interface widgets and the supplier data is programmatically validated. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277315 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREDICTIVE GRAPH-BASED NETWORK ANALYSIS - Methods, apparatuses, systems, computing entities, and/or the like are provided. An example method may include retrieving a scheme data object; generating a tabular data object; generating a graph data object including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges; calculating, based on the graph data object, a plurality of node attributes for the plurality of nodes and a plurality of edge attributes for the plurality of edges; identifying at least one irregular member node from the plurality of member nodes; identifying at least one irregular referring provider node from the plurality of referring provider nodes; identifying at least one irregular servicing provider node from the plurality of servicing provider nodes based at least in part on the at least one irregular member node and the at least one irregular referring provider node; and performing one or more responsive actions. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277316 | Forensics System - A method includes receiving ticket and invoice data. The method further includes comparing the ticket and invoice data to rules to identify anomalies. The method further includes generating a graphical user interface displaying information related to the anomalies and selectable options to assign the anomalies to user accounts. The method further includes, in response to receiving a selection of an option to assign a particular anomaly to a user account, storing data assigning the particular anomaly to the user account. The method further includes, in response to receiving a request to access the user account, generating a graphical user interface displaying information related to the particular anomaly. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277317 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURING COMMUNICATION DATA AND PROPERTY USING BLOCKCHAIN - Blockchain-based systems and methods are used to control access to property. One system includes a mobile device, a key fob, and a server. The mobile device generates an encrypted code and transmits it to the key fob. The key fob transmits the encrypted code to the property and the server updates a log of the key fob in a hyper ledger. The property includes a computing device that validates the encrypted code and grants a key fob user access to the property. Another system includes a server that validates an access key and a first station that transmits an access key to a second station via the server and a satellite. The second station transmits data to the first station via the server and the satellite. The server saves a transmission log in a hyper ledger and transmits the access key in response to a request by the first station. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277318 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING METADATA CORRECTNESS - A method is disclosed. The method includes a relationship server receiving a discovery service request from a client computer, the relationship server comparing metadata provided in the discovery service request against a database and a crawler retrieving updated metadata from a commerce server for if the metadata provided in the discovery service request does not match the metadata stored in the database column. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277319 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORECASTING PAYMENT CARD USAGE - A method and a system for forecasting future activity with respect to a financial account is provided. The method includes: retrieving historical data that relates to a first account from a memory; and determining at least one projected attribute of the first account based on the retrieved historical data. The method is implementable on each of a diverse plurality of platforms by executing software that is compatible with each of the plurality of platforms. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277320 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, on a basis of first information indicating an activity history regarding at least one user in real space, acquire second information present in Internet space and indicating an activity history regarding the at least one user. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277321 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES THAT AUGMENT TRANSPARENCY OF TRANSACTION DATA - Techniques for augmenting transparency of published transaction data are described. The techniques can include one or more of associating a financial account with an account of a user at a transaction management platform, receiving transaction data from the financial account, categorizing the transaction data, publishing the transaction data, assigning permission levels to user for different levels of access to the amount and granularity of published transaction data, storing an immutable record of transaction data from which changes to the transaction data can be determined, and enabling crowd intelligence about the entity, account, or transactions by recording interaction of users of the published transaction data. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277322 | Customer Analysis Device - A customer analysis device acquires replies from a user who receives a financial service to one or more first type questions defined for surveying an action desire for the financial service and calculates an action indicator based on the one or more replies. Subsequently, the customer analysis device acquires replies from the user who receives the financial service to a plurality of second type questions defined for surveying a customer emotion for the financial service and calculates a plurality of types of emotion indicators based on the plurality of replies. The customer analysis device calculates correlation coefficients between the action indicator and each of the plurality of types of emotion indicators, and graphically displays an influence of each of the plurality of emotion indicators on the action indicator based on the calculated correlation coefficients. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277323 | PREDICTING FUTURE OCCURRENCES OF TARGETED EVENTS USING TRAINED ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE PROCESSES - The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented apparatuses and processes that dynamically predict future occurrences of targeted events using adaptively trained machine-learning or artificial-intelligence processes. For example, an apparatus may generate an input dataset based on interaction data associated with a prior temporal interval, and may apply a trained, gradient-boosted, decision-tree process to the input dataset. Based on the application of the trained, gradient-boosted, decision-tree process to the input dataset, the apparatus may generate output data representative of a predicted likelihood of an occurrence of each of a plurality of targeted events during a future temporal interval, which may be separated from the prior temporal interval by a corresponding buffer interval. The apparatus may also transmit the output data to a computing system, and the computing system may transmit digital content to a device based on at least a portion of the output data. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277324 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CROWD SOURCED METRICS FOR NETWORK CONTENT BROADCASTERS - A system and method for providing crowd sourced metrics for broadcast content providers. For determinations of such metrics, user consumption of broadcast content in multiple streams by multiple content providers may be monitored and user consumption information regarding the broadcast content may be obtained. One or more content consumption metrics may be determined to quantify individual user consumption of the broadcast content. Audience metrics may be determined, for a content provider, to inform about users that are available to consume broadcast content provided by the content provider. Events within the broadcast content may be determined and event information regarding individual user consumption of the broadcast content at the event may be obtained. Event metrics may be determined based on the obtained event information to inform about consumption of the broadcast content at the event by users. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277325 | ESTIMATING CONVERSIONS - An online host for conducting a promotion campaign is presented. Online behaviors of subscribers exposed by the promotion campaign are tracked for determining conversion counts for the promotion campaign. For exposed subscribers whose online behaviors are not sufficiently available to the online host to determine conversion counts (non-measurable subscribers), a machine learning model is trained to predict conversion counts based on online behaviors that are conducted on internet locations under control of the online service, and further trained to determine an estimated error rate regarding the predicted conversion counts. Conversion counts for a promotion campaign are determined according to an analysis of the online behaviors of the exposed subscribers whose online behaviors are sufficiently available to the online host to determine conversion counts (measurable subscribers), and according to the predicted conversion counts of the non-measurable subscribers with an estimated error rate that meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277326 | PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS FOR A MARKET RESEARCH PLATFORM - Techniques for improving performance and quality in a market research platform include: obtaining first usage data of a first set of survey respondents to a first market research survey, the first market research survey being associated with a first tenant of a multi-tenant market research survey platform and conforming to a market research survey template provided by the platform; obtaining second usage data of a second set of survey respondents to a second market research survey, the second market research survey being associated with a second tenant of the platform and conforming to the market research survey template; generating a template-specific quality filter associated with the market research survey template, based at least on the first usage data and the second usage data; and based at least on the template-specific quality filter and third usage data of a particular survey respondent, identifying the particular survey respondent as a low-quality respondent. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277327 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS FOR DATA DISTRIBUTION ALLOCATION UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable distribution modelling and forecasting for populations and sub-populations of entities by employing a processor to receive a numerical data history for a population of entities, with the numerical data history including a series of activity-related quantity indices through time and the population of entities including sub-populations. The processor determines a combination of normal distributions approximating an index distribution for the sub-population of the entities based on the series of activity-related quantity indices, where the normal distributions are centered around a respective mean quantity value of a respective sub-population. The processor uses the normal distributions to eliminate simulations by using a Bayesian model to approximate an inferred index distribution for a particular sub-population. The processor determines at least one inferred statistical value based on the inferred index distribution. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277328 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE DUPLICATION CORRECTION FOR BROADCAST STATION AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DATA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to enable duplication correction for broadcast station audience measurement data are disclosed. An example apparatus to generate ratings information includes memory and processor circuitry to execute computer readable instructions to at least generate listening data based on collected audience measurement data, match demographic information included in the listening data to a demographic group, the demographic group included in a list of demographic mappings, determine a digital cumulative audience measurement based on contribution weights associated with a first set of panelists included in the listening data, determine a duplicate cumulative audience measurement based on contribution weights associated with a second set of panelists included in the listening data, and calculate an unduplication factor based on a ratio of the digital cumulative audience measurement and the duplicate cumulative audience measurement. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277329 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPOSITIONING VEHICLES IN A RIDE-HAILING PLATFORM - This disclosure describes systems and methods for repositioning vehicles. An exemplary method includes obtaining a plurality of first signals corresponding to a vehicle and a plurality of second signals corresponding to supply-demand statuses in a plurality of neighboring areas of the vehicle; inputting the plurality of first and second signals into a trained neural network and obtaining, from the trained neural network, a plurality of action values for repositioning the vehicle to the plurality of neighboring areas respectively; determining, based on the plurality of action values, a plurality of probabilities for repositioning the vehicle to the plurality of neighboring areas respectively; determining, according to the plurality of probabilities, one of the plurality of neighboring areas for the vehicle to reposition to; and transmitting a signal to a computing device associated with the vehicle to reposition the vehicle to the one determined neighboring area. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277330 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCT PROCESSING PRICE PREDICTION BASED ON MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL - A method and system for product processing price prediction based on multiple regression model includes: gathering multiple product data, building product original dataset, the data includes product quantity, surface area, processing complexity, product X axis length, product Y axis length, product Z axis length, tool utilization rate, product tolerance level, product machinability, material unit price, material density and price; building a multiple linear regression model based on the product original dataset; the product original dataset is divided into a training subset and a testing subset, the multiple linear regression model is trained through the training subset, the accuracy of the multiple linear regression model is verified by the testing subset, and the multiple linear regression model is adjusted according to the testing result to determine the final multiple linear regression model. The product processing price in predicted based on the artificial intelligence algorithm, which improves the accuracy of the quotation. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277331 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCUREMENT COST FORECASTING - Systems and methods for automatically predicting component procurement costs using machine learning and a procurement cost forecasting platform are herein disclosed. In one example, a method for a procurement cost forecasting platform comprises, collecting component procurement cost data for a component, pre-processing the component procurement cost data to produce screened and tested component procurement cost data, acquiring historical data, pre-processing the historical data to produce screened and tested historical data, determining a component procurement cost forecast for the component over a pre-determined future duration using a composite machine learning model, the screened and tested component procurement cost data, and the screened and tested historical data, wherein the composite machine learning model comprises a plurality of models, wherein each of the plurality of models comprises one or more internal parameters, and one or more associated weights, and displaying the component procurement cost forecast to a user via a graphical user interface. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277332 | Interactive Rewards System for Rewarding Drivers - Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses are disclosed for an interactive rewards system for engaging and rewarding drivers. In one aspect, a system comprising a first computing associated with a driver and a second computing device is disclosed, where the second computing device is configured to receive, from the first computing device, driving score information for the driver, assign at least one lottery ticket to the driver based on the driving score information, and send, to the first computing device, a notification indicating that the at least one lottery ticket has been assigned to the driver. In another aspect, the second computing device may be configured to assign, to a driver, a card for a virtual card game. The particular card assigned may be based on the driver's driving behavior. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277333 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL ITEMS TO USERS OF A VIRTUAL SPACE - Participation by multiple users in an online game through client computing platforms associated with the users is facilitated. User accounts associated with the users indicate affiliations having a functional significance between users. Presentation of offers to sell virtual items are provided to users having a first affiliation and to users having a second affiliation. The virtual items associated with the offers are distributed to the users having a first affiliation upon an indication that a threshold number of users having the first affiliation have accepted the offer and are not distributed to users having a second affiliation upon an indication that a threshold number of users having the second affiliation have not accepted the offer. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277334 | DYNAMIC POPULATION ADJUSTMENTS FOR A GROUP - An initial small group of customers are randomly selected for participation in a campaign associated with a promotion. Transactions of the group are monitored for a redemption of the promotion. A redeeming member's transaction is modeled and mapped into a multidimensional space and transactions for customers not included in the group are modeled and mapped into the space. A neighborhood of the redeeming member and select ones of the customers not included in the group are detected as emerging from the space. Most similar customers to the redeeming member are determined from the neighborhood and a preconfigured number of the most similar customers are selected for inclusion within the group for the campaign. This process continues until a goal of the campaign is reached or the campaign is ended. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277335 | Social Network Driven Real-Time Multi-Player, Multi-Merchant, Multi-Bucket Discounting Social Commerce System With Value Tracking, Multi-Layer Commission Forwarding and Discount Processing Systems and Related Methods - Methods for a buyer to receive a discount from a merchant or another member in a multi-merchant, multi-payer internet commerce platform in a social network. The methods relate to deals which include loyalty-based discounts, prepaid discounts and/or coupon discounts. A buyer may wish a deal form a selected merchant at a selected discount. Upon acceptance by the merchant, the deal is published and available to all members. Existing members may sponsor friends or businesses to become members of the internet commerce platform. New businesses listed on the internet commerce platform are subject to verification by current members entering business telephone numbers and determining if the entered numbers match. Further verification may include an interactive voice response test performed on the business manager's mobile telephone number. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277336 | DEVICE AGNOSTIC SINGLE VERIFICATION DIGITAL PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR ACCEPTING PAYMENT FROM A USER DEVICE AT A BRICK AND MORTAR POINT OF SALE TERMINAL - The present disclosure is for a system and a method for disaggregating point-of-sale terminals in coupon or token based transactions wherein buyers may initiate a purchase transaction via a computing device and/or their mobile-wallets and sellers may complete the transaction on their point-of-sale terminals, which may not have digital payment processing capabilities. Unlike traditional coupon or token redemption systems, which require communication from a point-of-sale terminal and a user device (and the related infrastructure required to integrate the two systems), systems and methods of the present enable verification using a single device. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277337 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT ALLOCATION - Systems and methods for the optimized allocation of content on a content distribution system according to a content distribution plan are described. In some embodiments, a management system may be configured to generate an optimized schedule for content distribution, such as an advertising campaign. For a television distribution schedule, an impressions forecast may be generated based on the available inventory and historical audience measurement information, such as television ratings for a television advertising campaign. An optimized schedule may be generated based on the impressions forecast and content may be distributed according to the optimized schedule. Measurement information relating to the distribution according to the optimized schedule may be analyzed and used to generate a re-optimized schedule, for example, that may be used to schedule the advertising campaign on a subsequent day. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277338 | ADVERTISING BUDGET OPTIMIZATION DEVICE - An advertisement budget optimization device ( | 2022-09-01 |
20220277339 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE TRAFFIC FILTRATION BY ELECTRONIC CONTENT PROVIDERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for traffic filtration by content providers. One method includes receiving a content request from a device of a user; determining whether one or more container tags are associated with requested content; determining, prior to responding to the content request, whether the content request is by a user based on the content request and the one or more container tags; generating, prior to responding to the content request, an ad request based on the content request and the one or more container tags; determining, prior to responding to the content request, an ad request recipient based on the generated ad request and the one or more container tags; transmitting the ad request to the determined ad request recipient; and transmitting, over the electronic network to the device, a response to the content request when the content request is determined to be by a user. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277340 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ESTIMATE AN AUDIENCE SIZE OF A PLATFORM BASED ON AN AGGREGATED TOTAL AUDIENCE - A disclosed example apparatus includes a communication interface to: access impression count data corresponding to a plurality of platforms; and access deduplicated total audience size data; an arithmetic logic unit to: generate a total impressions count by aggregating the impression count data corresponding to the plurality of platforms; generate an estimated per-platform impression count by dividing the total impressions count by a number of the platforms, a solver controller to: instruct a numerical solver to utilize the number of the platforms, the deduplicated total audience size data, and the estimated per-platform impression count to estimate the deduplicated audience size of a first platform of the platforms; and store the deduplicated audience size of the first platform in memory. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277341 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSITION-CODED MEDIA, MEASURING ENGAGEMENT OF TRANSITION-CODED MEDIA, AND DISTRIBUTION OF COMPONENTS OF TRANSITION-CODED MEDIA - Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media. For instance, the method may include: obtaining a media file; determining whether the media file includes transition-coded media; in response to determining the media file includes the transition-coded media, setting up a dynamic media environment; detecting whether a user is interacting with the transition-coded media; and in response to detecting the user is interacting with the transition-coded media, executing the transition-coded media with the dynamic media environment. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277342 | METHOD FOR MODELING DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENT CONSUMPTION - One variation of a method for selectively serving advertising content comprises: receiving identification of an advertisement slot loaded within a webpage; receiving a set of advertisement slot characteristics corresponding to the advertisement slot; accessing a model associating advertisement slot characteristics and user interactions with advertisements; for each target outcome, in a set of target outcomes, calculating an outcome score for the advertisement slot based on the set of advertisement slot characteristics and the model, the outcome score representing a probability of the user interacting with advertising content, presented within the advertisement slot, according to the target outcome; in response to a first outcome score, corresponding to a first target outcome, in the set of target outcomes, exceeding each other outcome score, assigning the first target outcome to the advertisement slot; and selecting a first advertisement, designating the first target outcome, for presentation within the advertisement slot. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277343 | Ad Targeting & Display Optimization Based on Social and Community Data - A system and method for optimizing advertisements for display to users comprising receiving a request for an advertisement wherein the request comprises information about a user to whom the advertisement is to be displayed; determining at least one community of which the user is a member; determining a conditional probability that the user will interact with the advertisement; responsive to the conditional probability exceeding a threshold, determining community data to present with the advertisement and providing for display to the user the advertisement and the community data; responsive to the providing of the advertisement, receiving an indication of activity at a client system related to the advertisement or community data; and storing the indication in a storage medium. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277344 | ADVERTISING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A targeted advertising method used in an electronic device targets and obtains a user posting on a social platform, wherein the target posting includes image information and text information. A first analysis of the image information, and a second analysis of the text information are carried out. The electronic device further generates an advertising message corresponding to the tone and emotional content as extracted by an AI process carried out in relation to the words used in and extracted from the target posting according to the results of the first and/or second analysis and publishes the advertising message at a relevant position in the target posting. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SPONSORED RECOMMENDATIONS - This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing digital recommendations including sponsored items at optimized positions. In some examples, a computing device receives a recommendation request. In response, the computing device obtains a plurality of items based on the user data. The plurality of items includes a plurality of relevant items and a plurality of sponsored items. The computing device then determines a total profit for a combination of the plurality of items by injecting the plurality of promotional items at different position amongst the plurality of relevant items. The plurality of items are presented to the user based at least in part on the total profit and the corresponding combination. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277346 | A COMPUTER APPARATUS AND METHOD IN A COMPUTING APPARATUS - In a computer apparatus, at least processor is arranged to determine values for two or more candidate advertisements. Based on the determined values, one of the candidate advertisements is selected. The selected advertisement is displayed on a user interface. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277347 | DYNAMIC EVALUATION AND USE OF GLOBAL AND CONTEXTUAL PERSONAS - A system and method for content selection and presentation is disclosed. A plurality of content elements configured for presentation in at least one content container is received and one of the plurality of content elements is selected for presentation in the at least one content container. The one of the plurality of content elements is selected by a trained selection model configured to select one of an individual context or a global context. An interface including the selected one of the plurality of content elements is generated. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277348 | Conversion Timing Prediction for Networked Advertising - A conversion timing model is model is configured to predict a likelihood of conversion based on an entity's elapsed time since a qualified entry event and based on a funnel state. The conversion timing model is constructed based on a distribution of the conversion timespans of converters. A notification of an opportunity to expose a candidate entity to networked content is received. A likelihood of conversion for the candidate entity is determined by applying the conversion timing model to the elapsed time. A response to the notification based on the likelihood of conversion for the candidate entity is prepared based on the likelihood of conversion and based on the funnel state. Timely responses may include the selection of customized content or bid values. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277349 | Content Output Systems Using Vehicle-Based Data - Electronic display systems, including roadside display devices, vehicle-based devices, personal mobile devices, intermediary servers, advertising servers and/or networks, and/or additional external data sources may operate individually or in combination to identify one or more vehicle locations, driving routes, driver and passenger characteristics, driving behavior and patterns, telematics data, and the like. Vehicle and individual characteristics and/or telematics data may be determined based on data received from traffic cameras, vehicle-based devices, personal mobile devices, telematics devices, and/or other data sources, including software applications. Based on the vehicle characteristics, individual characteristics, driving data and driving patterns, telematics data, and the like, content, such as digital display content or audio content, may be determined for output on various devices, such as electronic roadside displays to be viewable by the approaching vehicles, and/or other devices to be accessible by associated individuals via the other devices. Various techniques may be used to determine customized content. Additionally, certain systems may be interactive to allow user responses and follow-up content via on-board vehicle devices or other user devices. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277350 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA ENRICHMENT FOR REQUESTS FOR ADVERTISING ON MOBILE DEVICES - A data enrichment system for enriching requests for advertising opportunities. The data enrichment system is configured to aggregate and index data to provide end user insights to marketers based upon information supplied by publishers in regards to advertising opportunities passed along in requests. The system is configured to take attributes passed along in a request associated with the advertising opportunity and provide enriched data based upon the attributes received in the request. The attributes can then identify corresponding enriched data that can be passed along to the marketers. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277351 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LABELING DATA - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining classes from a corpus based on topic modeling, data clustering and unsupervised learning. Labels are determined for each of the classes and trained models are generated for each of the classes by assignment of a plurality of textual documents to labels based on a highest number of matches. A raw textual document can be tokenized and stop words removed. A corresponding one of the trained models can be selected according to a class that is applicable to subject matter of the raw textual document. The processed document can be assigned to a target label based on a highest number of matches of words. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277352 | SPONSOR DRIVEN DIGITAL MARKETING FOR LIVE TELEVISION BROADCAST - A system and method facilitate digital marketing for sponsors of live television broadcasts. The system allows a user, using an application on a computing device while a piece of sponsored content is being broadcast, to express an interest in the broadcast piece of sponsored content and the interest of the user is communicated to a backend system that selects an endpoint destination associated with the broadcast piece of sponsored content wherein the endpoint destination is a pointer to further digital information about the broadcast piece of sponsored content. The system and method may periodically change the selected endpoint destination based on an event in the sponsored piece of content. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277353 | DIGITAL CONTENTS DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - An intellectual contents distribution method distributes intellectual contents from a computer via a network. The contents provided from a contents provider are stored in a computer | 2022-09-01 |
20220277354 | PRUNING FIELD WEIGHTS FOR CONTENT SELECTION - One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A machine learning model may be trained using a plurality of sets of information. One or more pruning operations may be performed in association with the training to generate a machine learning model with a sparse set of field weights associated with feature fields associated with features of the plurality of sets of auction information. A request for content associated with a client device may be received. A set of features associated with the request for content may be determined. Positive signal probabilities associated with a plurality of content items may be determined using the machine learning model based upon field weights, of the machine learning model, associated with the set of features. A content item may be selected from the plurality of content items for presentation via the client device based upon the positive signal probabilities. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277355 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER ENGAGEMENT - A health care provider (HCP) engagement engine is disclosed. The HCP engagement engine facilitates effective communication between pharmaceutical sales representatives (medical reps) and HCPs by generating, using machine learning algorithms, messages for the medical reps to send to HCPs. The recommended messages may be sent over a network and may include email messages, text messages, or online chat messages. The recommended messages may be drafted entirely by the engagement engine or may be drafted as addenda to messages already used by the medical reps. The HCP engagement engine uses historical data on actions performed by the HCPs and medical reps, as well as data collected from historical message recommendation events, in order to produce message recommendations. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277356 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSOCIATING ADVERTISERS AND CONTENT CREATORS - An embodiment of the present disclosure is a system and method for associating advertisers with content creators. The system and method may include determining an association between an advertiser preference profile associated with an advertiser and a user preference profile associated with a content creator to facilitate matching the advertiser with the content creator for an advertiser campaign. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277357 | INTERMEDIARY TECHNOLOGY FOR ONLINE MARKETING - Among other things, advertisements are received for brands or products of brands. Criteria for placement of the advertisements are received at online retail sites. The online retail sites are controlled independently from one another. Inventory data for the products at the online retail sites is received and stored. Data about propensities of the consumers to favor one or more of the brands or one or more products of the brands, from activities of consumers on the online retail sites, is stored. Activity data about current activities of the consumers on the online retail sites is received. One or more of the advertisements are placed on pages served to the online retail sites based on the placement data, the inventory data, the propensity data, and the activity data. Conversion data is received indicating that consumers engaged in conversion events with respect to products associated with the brands or products of brands being advertised. The brands are charged based on the placing of the advertisements and the conversion events. The online retail sites are paid for the placing of the advertisements and the conversion events. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277358 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An object is to provide a user with appropriate information about a unit area price and liquidity of a property in a predetermined region. There are included an identification unit for identifying a first region that is specified by a user; an acquisition unit for acquiring first unit price information indicating a unit area price of a property in the first region, and first liquidity information indicating liquidity of the property; and a display processing unit for causing a display unit to display the first unit price information and the first liquidity information in association with each other. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277359 | A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR ENABLING INTERACTION BETWEEN AVAILERS AND PROVIDERS - The present invention provides a system and method for enabling interactions between availers ( | 2022-09-01 |
20220277360 | AN INTENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING INTENT IN A PROCESS JOURNEY - A method of determining intent base upon initially flattening interactions using set alphanumeric identifiers into sequences then defining From targets and To targets at least to determine sequence journeys between such targets and possibly Through/Not through targets such that for use From and To targets as fragments of sequences provide a prediction of an outcome. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277361 | METHODS OF COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED IMAGE SENSOR-INITIATED TRANSACTIONS FOR PURCHASES WITH TRANSACTION FEES PAID TO MULTIPLE PARTIES - A computer-implemented method for initiating an on-line purchase transaction with transaction payments to multiple parties, including the steps of: a) receiving information from an internet-accessible mobile device indicative of a item identifier and pot location information indicative of a purchase location; b) processing the item identifier information to identify at least one good or service, c) processing the location information to determine a physical location of an associated merchant, d) initiating an electronic search to find offers from on-line merchants for the one good or service, e) processing the on-line merchant offers, f) transmitting information at least one of the found offers, g) receiving an acceptance of one of the offers, h) transmitting a signal to an on-line merchant providing the accepted offer, and i) transmitting a signal to the associated merchant indicating an amount payable to the first merchant upon payment to the on-line merchant for the offer. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277362 | REAL-TIME RECOMMENDATION OF DATA LABELING PROVIDERS - A method of automatically recommending partners to label machine learning datasets by receiving a dataset to be labeled and labeling instructions; storing in a database real-time performance values for labeling partners in a labeling marketplace, the values being updated as the partners complete labeling tasks for training data for machine learning models and transmit the metrics from the labeling partners to the system; determining a type of data of the user dataset and a type of labeling task; identifying, from among the partners, a subset of partners that can label the data or perform the labeling task; querying the metrics to select a selected labeling partner optimal to the task; transmitting the data and instructions to the selected partner; receiving a labeled dataset from the selected partner; evaluating a quality of the labeled dataset and updating the database to specify the quality; transmitting the labeled data to the user. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277363 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING REFERRALS - Systems, methods, and computer products for providing referrals are disclosed. A user accesses a referral service website or application and creates a user account. The user is verified to provide referrals. The verification is sent to a communications unit, which sends a message to the user requesting the user complete a single step to provide a new referral for a business for a category of goods or services wherein the single step comprises providing a response selected from not more than two available response options. The user account is updated to include the new referral. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ATTRIBUTES OF A TRAVEL ROUTE INVOLVING SLK LOCATION(S) - Location data is received that includes information relating to a start location and a destination location. The start location and/or destination location is an SLK location and does not include coordinate values that enable calculation of a distance to/from the SLK location(s). A first application programming interface (API) is queried for validation of information relating to the SLK location(s) and for coordinate values associated with any SLK location(s). Based upon validation of information relating to the SLK location(s), the coordinate values associated with the SLK location(s) is received. Based on the received coordinate values, determined is attribute(s) associated with travel between the locations including: at least one travel route between the start and destination locations, at least one travel route determined by querying a second API. The attributes associated with travel between the locations is inserted into content displayed on a graphical user interface associated with the device. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277365 | U3D 3D OBJECT IDENTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION SYSTEM - An exemplary 3UD object identification and registration system enables a owner or creator of a 3D file to upload this owner 3D file to the operating system for registration. If the 3D file is deemed, through analysis to be original, the owner can register the 3D file and may require a licensing fee by other users for future use or may designate the 3D file as fee or open to the public. A user may be required manually or automatically to confirm that a user 3D file is authorized for use. A software on a 3D printer may interface with the operating software upload 3D files prior to allowing the user to print an object from the 3D file. A user may also search the database for a 3D file that they can use and they may be required to pay a licensing fee. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277366 | SUBSCRIPTION-BASED ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Subscription-based electric vehicle charging management methods and systems are provided. A server receives charging request with at least a user identification code from an electric vehicle charging station or a mobile device through a network. The server searches a database according to the user identification code to obtain contract situation corresponding to the user identification code and determines whether the contract situation is in a contract expiration status or an arrears unpaid status. When the contract situation is not in the contract expiration status or the arrears unpaid status, the server instructs the electric vehicle charging station to perform a charging operation. When the contract situation is in the contract expiration status or the arrears unpaid status, the server transmits a charging rejection instruction to the electric vehicle charging station. In response to the charging rejection instruction, the electric vehicle charging station rejects the charging request. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277367 | SERVER AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS - A controller of a server is configured to: in a state where first combination data including first account data and first device-identification data is stored in a memory of the server in association with each other, receive a first request including second account data from a first external device; determine whether priority assigned to the second account data is higher than priority assigned to the first account data; based on a determination that the priority assigned to the second account data is higher than the priority assigned to the first account data, replace the existing first account data with the second account data, thereby storing the second account data in association with the first device-identification data; and based on a determination that the priority assigned to the second account data is not higher than the priority assigned to the first account data, not replace the existing first account data. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277368 | GENERATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR VISUAL PRODUCT DETAILS - Techniques are disclosed for generating image recommendations to facilitate the sale of a product. An example methodology includes identifying a product category associated with an image of the product provided by the seller, and a product sub-category associated with the product image. The method further includes retrieving one or more images of for-sale items. The retrieval is based on a search of for-sale listings using the identified product category and the identified product sub-category. The method further includes clustering the retrieved images of for-sale items into groups, each group associated with a perspective viewpoint of the for-sale item. The method further includes providing a selected image from each group as an image recommendation. The selection is based on a value score associated with each of the images of the for-sale items. A graphical status indicating completeness of the seller's image set is updated in response to recommended images being adopted. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277369 | METHOD OF ADDING GOODS AND SERVICES FROM VARIOUS SUPPLIERS TO THE ELECTRONIC SHOPPING CART WITH THE CONVERSION OF LINKS AND IDENTIFIERS INTO GOODS AND SERVICES ON THE INTERNET - This invention discloses methods and systems for increasing the efficiency of acquiring goods and services from different sellers with the possibility of using a “one-click” service, achieved as a result of increasing the speed of adding goods and services to an electronic shopping cart and paying for them, as well as covering the entire spectrum of types of product information placement or service from different suppliers, adding them to one electronic shopping cart upon purchase. The invention converts hyperlinks by comparing theoretically all global links on the Internet with electronic links to the sale of goods and services and is aimed at expanding the arsenal of technical means for universal shopping carts. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277370 | Inventory Ingestion and Pricing System - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing inventory ingestion and pricing system. An embodiment operates by identifying an e-mail receipt identifying a purchased object. The e-mail receipt is parsed for the identification of the purchased object. From an electronic marketplace, a set of items similar to the purchased object is identified. A price for a subset of the identified set of similar items that have sold on the electronic marketplace is determined. A sale price for the purchased object is generated based on the determined prices for the subset of similar items. The generated price is provided responsive to the identification of the purchased object. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277371 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VERIFYING TRANSACTION COMPLIANCE IN AN ONLINE MARKETPLACE - A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product for verifying transaction compliance in an online marketplace. The system that combines verification data, including a user's name, age, and address to form a tokenized smart identity that automates the user's online compliance with state and federal laws when the user buys or sells products in an online cannabis marketplace. The process I have in place allows for an online marketplace to be smart and dynamic to ensure that both buyers and sellers comply with state and federal laws based on a created smart identity that is tokenized for privacy and security. The marketplace is configured with a product credential carried on a blockchain for a validation of the regulated product on the marketplace. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277372 | TRANSACTION ARBITER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A transaction arbiter system and method is disclosed which incorporates a merchant function database under control of a transaction arbiter that permits merchants to interact in an automated way with bids generated by other merchants. Rather than utilizing fixed price schedules as taught by the prior art, the present invention permits each merchant to define a set of functions which describe how the merchant will respond to a customer request-for-quote for a given product or service. These merchant functions interact with both the customer request-for-quote and the results of other merchant functions to generate a dynamic real-time bidding system which integrates competition among merchant bidders to achieve an optimal consumer price for a given product or service. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277373 | QUERY REFORMULATIONS FOR AN ITEM GRAPH - An online concierge system generates an item graph connecting item nodes with attribute nodes of the items. When the online concierge system receives a search query to identify one or more items from a customer, the online concierge system parses the search query into combinations of terms and identifies item nodes and attribute nodes related to the search query. The online concierge system may determine that no item nodes meet presentation criteria. The online concierge system may determine that a reformulated search query has a higher conversion probability than the search query received from the customer. The online concierge system reformulates the search query. The online concierge system selects item nodes as search results. The online concierge system transmits the search results to the customer. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277374 | INFORMATION SUGGESTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION SUGGESTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There are provided an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting, to a user, information on a product matching a hobby and the preference of the user from an image group of the user. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277375 | ATTRIBUTE-BASED ITEM RANKING DURING A WEB SESSION - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that rank items based on user interactions within the same web session. The method includes: providing a first content page for display on a client device; receiving a set of user interactions with one or more items of the first plurality of items; determining an affinity score representing a user interest in the attribute based on the set of user interactions; updating an attribute repository storing a second plurality of attributes and corresponding current affinity scores; identifying a second plurality of items and a corresponding third plurality of attributes; ranking the second plurality of items; and providing a second content page for display on the client device. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277376 | SERVICE DISCOVERY AND DELIVERY THROUGH TRUSTED PARTNERS AND PROVIDERS - The invention generally relates to systems and methods for controlled and monitored referral transfer tracking among a network of trusted service providers. The system allows a request to be sent to one or more organizations that may be able to provide the needed service. The request may be fulfilled by one of these service provider organizations or be forwarded by them to others if they cannot fulfill the request. This chain of forwards and referrals among a network of trusted service providers enable the request to reach across the trusted web of organizations to the one that finally fulfills the requested service. The final provider who delivers the requested service can get paid through the system. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277377 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR EVALUATING SUBSTITUTIONS MADE DURING ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESSES - A system includes a computing device configured to receive order data indicating an order placed by a customer on an e-commerce platform and route the order into a test group or a control group when the order data indicates that the order will be filled by a store participating in the comparison test. The computing device is further configured to apply test features to the order if the order was routed into the test group and apply control features to the order if the order was routed into the control group and determine recommended substitute items based on the test features or the control features. The recommended substitute items are intended to replace items ordered by the customer that are unavailable. The computing device is also configured to determine one or more performance metrics of the test group and the control group. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277378 | INTUITIVE ENTITY NAVIGATION - This specification relates to methods and systems for providing intuitive navigation of a set of entities. One of the methods includes determining n-dimensional embeddings representing entities; reducing the n-dimensional embeddings representing entities into a 2-dimensional representation of the entities; forwarding, for display on a user's computing device, the 2-dimensional representation of the entities; receiving an input from the user's computing device; responsive to the input, determining an additional 2-dimensional entity representation; and forwarding, for display on the user's computing device, the additional 2-dimensional entity representation. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277379 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON ITEM - A method of providing information on or regarding a product in an electronic device according to various example embodiments of the present disclosure may include identifying detailed information on a first product in response to a request on a first page for the first product, identifying, when the first product is included in a specific category, at least one second product corresponding to the specific category, identifying at least one attribute list corresponding to the specific category, and, providing the first page, wherein the first page includes detailed information on the first product displayed in a first portion, first attribute information of the first product corresponding to the attribute list and displayed in a second portion, and second attribute information of the at least one second product corresponding to the attribute list and displayed in a third portion corresponding to the second portion. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277380 | COOPERATIVE SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION CHAIN PROCESSING - A ledger associated with a Purchase Order (PO) is maintained in a private blockchain among entities associated with the PO. An Application Programming Interface (API) is provided to hash and store ledger entries, ledger accesses, and/or documents associated with the PO. An interface is provided that uses the API to obtain the ledger, selective entries of the ledger, the PO, selective portions of the PO, ledger accesses, and/or selective documents associated with the PO from the private blockchain. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277381 | Interface for Matching a Racquet Sports Player and a Racquet Stringer - Linking interface (INT) between a racket sports player (J) and at least one stringer from a list of stringers (C | 2022-09-01 |
20220277382 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCT RETRIEVAL - Systems, apparatuses, devices, applications, and methods are provided herein useful to provide retrieval of products within a retail store and control a point of sale system to execute purchase of a product list in conjunction with a mobile device. A device control circuit of the mobile device is configured to receive a proposed product list from a respective customer; determine a suggested product list based on the proposed product list and a weighted average of a plurality of variables; determine a shopping route for the suggested product list, reduce the duration of the shopping route if possible, acquire payment from the respective customer for products on a final product list, and control the point of sale system to execute purchase of the products on the final product list on behalf of the respective customer. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277383 | BEHAVIORAL SAVINGS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING REAL-TIME OPTIMIZED SAVINGS - A computer-implemented system and method for generating and implementing real-time optimized savings recommendations during online purchase checkout processes. The recommendations may be in the form of personalized digital nudges designed to influence the user in a manner that furthers a savings goal. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277384 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING NETWORK DATA AND TERMINAL - A method for processing network data can include: displaying an item setting interface, the item setting interface being configured to set an allowable transaction condition of an item; acquiring an allowable transaction condition of a target item in response to an operation of setting a transaction condition for the target item; and sending an item issuing request to a server, the item issuing request being configured to instruct the server to issue the target item to a live-streaming room and to open a transaction authority of the target item to an audience account, and the audience account meeting the allowable transaction condition of the target item. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277385 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING - A method of delivering advertising in an online environment includes determining a context of a user operating a client computer to interact with an e-commerce website, where the determined context representing an intent of the user to locate a product for purchase, defining a relation between one or more of a plurality of advertisements and the product based on at least one of a plurality of relevance types, and displaying, to the user, at least one of the advertisements having the relation to the product. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277386 | System for Providing Scores to Customers Based on Financial Data - Disclosed is a system for scoring customers of a financial institution based on financial data. The system includes a central database that stores a plurality of modules, a central server that processes the plurality of modules and a display unit that displays the processed plurality of modules. The plurality of modules includes a criteria configuration module, a data module, and a computation module. The criteria configuration module includes a metric module to receive the input parameters required to evaluate the score, and a measurement module for defining transformation criteria to be applied on the data corresponding to the input parameters. The computation module includes a metric evaluation module to compute and applies the transformation criteria to the values of the input parameters, and a scoring module coupled to the metric evaluation module to automatically compute and display the score of the customers based on the values retrieved from the metric evaluation module. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277387 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING OPTIMIZED DATA STRUCTURE OBJECTS - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating optimized data structure objects. In a given embodiment, a server receives a request to identify a set of data structure objects from a plurality of data structure objects for a specified vehicle and a specified user and based on user objective data and an attribute. The server may generate the plurality of data structure objects within constraints of the user objective data, policy data, and the attribute. The server may identify the set of data structure objects from the plurality of data structure objects. Each data structure object of the set is within a threshold distance to a value of at least one dimension of a set of the dimensions of the set of dimensions of a model. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277388 | Data Processing System and Method for Facilitating Transactions with User-Centric Document Access - One embodiment comprises data processing system comprising a data store storing a set of inventory records for a program pool of vehicles, a processor and a memory coupled to the processor storing a set of computer executable instructions. The set of computer executable instructions may be executable to receive, from a mobile application, a selection of a vehicle from the program pool, retrieve the inventory record for the selected vehicle, create, at the server, an order to capture information about a transaction, receive a request from the mobile application to view an electronic document associated with the selected vehicle; responsive to the request to view the electronic document, automatically populate the electronic document with the order information; and communicate the electronic document to the mobile application for presentation in the operator interface of a mobile device. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277389 | SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE SYSTEM - In an electronic supply chain finance system, a method of enabling a supplier to obtain funds includes receiving information from a buyer defining a payment obligation, receiving an offer to sell the payment obligation, and providing electronic instructions to print a negotiable instrument issued by the buyer, to the supplier as payee, having a payable date based on a maturity date of the payment obligation and a payment value based on a payment amount of the payment obligation. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277390 | CONDITIONAL TRANSACTION OFFER SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention involves a system and method for coordinating the centralization of the submission of requests for offers for credit and receipt of offers for credit between an internet user and a plurality of lending institutions via the internet. This method involves the use of a single offer request form, which is the combination of required lender information from consumer credit processes, and the receipt of information from the user, and various semi-automated online processes, to populate that single offer request form. After receiving this data, a special computer, or server, sorts the information and applies a filter to the data. Once the data has been filtered, it is transmitted to a multiple number of lending institutions, or alternatively evaluated using a model of the lending institutions criteria. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277391 | AUTOMATED HEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Exemplary embodiments provide hedge management systems and methods for implementation of automated hedging programs. The automated hedge management system manages various types of hedging programs on behalf of various clients based on currency exchange information received from any of various market data providers. The automated hedge management system also interfaces with various hedge service providers (e.g., banks or other asset market makers) such as for implementing a hedge decision, e.g., to purchase or sell a forward contract. Exemplary embodiments are implemented using parameterized programs and parameterized program engines, thereby allowing a single program engine to implement multiple hedging program instances including combinations of instances. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277392 | METHOD FOR TRADING CRYPTOCURRENCIES - A method for trading cryptocurrencies in a vehicle involves providing the vehicle with a control module for trading in the cryptocurrencies. The control module checks each desired trading action based on stored and/or retrieved information relating to local legal provisions. Only legally compliant trading actions are permitted. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277393 | Methods and Systems for Low Latency Generation and Distribution of Quote Price Direction Estimates - Systems and methods are disclosed herein that compute trading signals with low latency and high throughput using highly parallelized compute resources such as integrated circuits, reconfigurable logic devices, graphics processor units (GPUs), multi-core general purpose processors, and/or chip multi-processors (CMPs). For example, an estimation that estimates a quote price direction for a quote on a financial instrument can be generated from streaming financial market data. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277394 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR DEAL STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods create and modify augmented deal structure using specialized components working together in a technical system by aggregating and transforming inputs. Big Data issues are controlled and restriction rules along with specialized components work together to synthesize an augmented deal structure. This augmented structure is presented through a graphical user interface configured to provide at least one of an interactive analysis (providing sensitivity analytics) and a batch processing capability. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277395 | VIRTUAL INTRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The systems and methods described herein establish one or more communication connections between one or more expert user devices and one or more entrepreneur user devices via a network connection. The system may generate a likelihood of success score between the expert user and the entrepreneur user based on characteristics of the expert user, a product or service of the entrepreneur user, or other parameters associated with the entrepreneur user and the expert user. If the likelihood of success score exceeds a threshold value, the system may generate a timeslot reservation between the entrepreneur user and the expert user. | 2022-09-01 |