36th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 44 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140249822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTI-MODAL DEVICE INTERACTIONS IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE VOICE SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for processing multi-modal device interactions in a natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, one or more multi-modal device interactions may be received in a natural language voice services environment that includes one or more electronic devices. The multi-modal device interactions may include a non-voice interaction with at least one of the electronic devices or an application associated therewith, and may further include a natural language utterance relating to the non-voice interaction. Context relating to the non-voice interaction and the natural language utterance may be extracted and combined to determine an intent of the multi-modal device interaction, and a request may then be routed to one or more of the electronic devices based on the determined intent of the multi-modal device interaction. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249823 | STATE ESTIMATING APPARATUS, STATE ESTIMATING METHOD, AND STATE ESTIMATING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A state estimating apparatus includes: a spectrum calculating unit which calculates a power spectrum for each of a plurality of frequencies on a frame-by-frame basis from a voice signal containing voice of a first speaker and voice of a second speaker transmitted over a telephone line; a band power calculating unit which calculates power of a non-transmission band on a frame-by-frame basis, based on the power spectra of frequencies contained in the non-transmission band among the plurality of frequencies; a transmitted-voice judging unit which determines that any frame whose power in the non-transmission band is greater than a threshold value indicating the presence of voice carries the voice of the first speaker; and a state judging unit which judges whether the state of mind of the first speaker is normal or abnormal, based on the frame judged to carry the voice of the first speaker. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249824 | Detecting a Physiological State Based on Speech - A computer-implemented method identifies a spoken audio signal representing speech of a person and estimates a physiological state of the person based on the spoken audio signal. For example, the method may identify articulatory patterns (such as landmarks) in the speech and estimate the person's physiological state based on those articulatory patterns. The method may estimate, for example, the amount of time the person has been without sleep. The method may produce the physiological state estimate without performing speech recognition on the spoken audio signal. The method may produce the physiological state estimate in real-time. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249825 | REMOTE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH A BUILDING GATEWAY CONTROL TO CONTROL BUILDING SYSTEMS AND ELEMENTS - A wearable monitoring device, worn by a user, has one or more sensors which acquire at least one of a user's activities, behaviors and habit information, an antenna and a unique user ID. The monitoring device includes a wireless user interface with a one or more input selection elements, which are accessible by the user to control at least a portion of one or more controllable devices housed in a building. One or more controllable systems or devices are at the building. At least a first portion of the one or more controllable systems or devices have an interface with a receiver in communication with the monitoring device that enables the monitoring device to communicate with the receiver. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249826 | SPEECH DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND SPEECH DIALOGUE METHOD - A speech dialogue system generates a response sentence in a way to improve the efficiency of the dialogue with the user, based on a result of estimation on an attribute of a proper name in an utterance of a user. The system includes a database attribute estimation unit to estimate the attribute of the input proper name by utilizing a database, and a web attribute estimation unit to estimate an attribute of an input proper name by utilizing information on the web. A reliability integration unit calculates integrated reliability of estimation for each of possible attributes obtained from the estimation by the units, by integrating first reliability of the estimation. A response generation unit generates a response sentence to an input utterance based on the integrated reliabilities of the possible attributes. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249827 | SPECIFYING SPHERICAL HARMONIC AND/OR HIGHER ORDER AMBISONICS COEFFICIENTS IN BITSTREAMS - In general, techniques are described for specifying spherical harmonic coefficients in a bitstream. A device comprising one or more processors may perform the techniques. The processors may be configured to identify, from the bitstream, a plurality of hierarchical elements describing a sound field that are included in the bitstream. The processors may further be configured to parse the bitstream to determine the identified plurality of hierarchical elements. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249828 | Audio Encoding/Decoding based on an Efficient Representation of Auto-Regressive Coefficients - Described is an encoder ( | 2014-09-04 |
20140249829 | CONFIGURABLE RESOURCE UTILIZATION DETERMINATOR AND ESTIMATOR - In one example, this disclosure describes a method determining a resource utilization value, via one or more computers. The method may comprise receive dated patient healthcare data comprising information about one or more of diagnosed conditions, delivered services or procedures, severity indicators, or resource utilization data associated with any delivered services or procedures. The method may further comprise receiving selection input comprising one or more resource type parameters. After receiving selection input, the method may further comprise determining a resource utilization value based at least in part on the patient healthcare data and the selection input. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249830 | VIRTUAL MEDICAL ASSISTANT METHODS AND APPARATUS - In some aspects, a method of using a virtual medical assistant to assist a medical professional, the virtual medical assistant implemented, at least in part, by at least one processor of a host device capable of connecting to at least one network is provided. The method comprises receiving free-form instruction from the medical professional; providing the free-form instruction for processing to assist in identifying from the free-form instruction at least one medical task to be performed, providing at least one first response to the medical professional regarding the free-form instruction prior to the at least one medical task being performed, and receiving first information from the medical professional responsive to the at least one first response. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249831 | VIRTUAL MEDICAL ASSISTANT METHODS AND APPARATUS - In some aspects, a method of using a virtual medical assistant to assist a medical professional, the virtual medical assistant implemented, at least in part, by at least one processor of a host device capable of connecting to at least one network is provided. The method comprises receiving free-form instruction from the medical professional, providing the free-form instruction for processing to assist in identifying from the free-form instruction at least one medical task to be performed, obtaining identification of at least one impediment to performing the at least one medical task, and inferring at least some information needed to overcome the at least one impediment. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249832 | REMS MANAGEMENT TOOL - The various technologies presented herein relate to assisting a prescriber in obtaining and maintaining Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) compliance. A centralized approach is presented for obtaining REMS compliance data from a drug manufacturer, federal regulator, etc., and based on identifying one or more REMS medications associated with a prescriber, compliance of the prescriber with regard to the REMS compliance data for the one or more REMS medications can be determined. Interaction and notifications, etc., can be performed utilizing internet access. In the event of a prescriber failing a compliance requirement, one or more actions can be identified to facilitate bringing the prescriber into REMS compliance. REMS compliance data can be shared with the drug manufacturer, regulatory body, etc., to facilitate understanding of success of REMS compliance. Stored REMS compliance data can be forwarded to a third party. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249833 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING HEALTH CARE WORKFLOW INTERACTIONS WITH A SAVED STATE - An apparatus is provided for managing health care tasks. The apparatus may include at least one memory and at least one processor configured to display a user interface including a workspace area including visible indicia indicating steps of a health care task(s) to be performed on behalf of a patient(s) and a context area arranged adjacent to the workspace area. The context area includes visible information indicating health care data of the patient associated with visible indicia of the workspace area. The processor is also configured to update display of the visible indicia of the workspace area to include different health care data responsive to detecting a change in data of the visible indicia or updating display of the visible information of the context area to include different health care information responsive to detecting changes in information of the visible information. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249834 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING TECHNIQUES FOR USERS TO CREATE HEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS - An apparatus is provided for identifying patients of a cohort. The apparatus may include at least one memory and at least one processor configured to generate at least one user interface defining items of predefined criteria to identify a plurality of patients, among a candidate set of patients, of a cohort. The patients have at least one common characteristic associated with a designated medical condition or a designated health plan. The processor is also configured to identify the plurality of patients of the cohort in response to receiving indications of selections of one or more of the items of the predefined criteria. The processor is also configured to monitor and manage care of the identified patients of the cohort on an ongoing basis to provide interventions and track outcomes. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249835 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA-DRIVEN MONITORING - Methods and apparatus for facilitating monitoring in a clinical trial. The method includes acts of receiving data from at least one information technology system configured to process clinical trial data, and assigning a site prioritization to each of a plurality of sites for at least one clinical trial associated with the at least one information technology system. Assigning a site prioritization is based, at least in part, on the received data. The method further includes an act of outputting an indication of the site prioritization. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249836 | CLAIM DRIVEN MEDICAL EVENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A computer-implemented method, a system, and software include receiving information for a healthcare services event for a patient and creating a note based therein; performing an insurance Eligibility Request/Eligibility Verification by with an insurance company utilizing patient information converted into a format readable by the insurance company; receiving information as the healthcare services event is performed to complete the note, wherein the note comprises doctor supplied procedure and diagnostic content needed to create a valid insurance claim; and converting the note into an insurance claim and providing the insurance claim to the insurance company in a format readable by the insurance company; wherein the note is setup to automatically convert to the insurance claim without back-end user input or coding. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249837 | Methods And Systems For Facilitating Use Of Healthcare And Social Service Resources In A Community - Methods and systems are provided to facilitate the identification and connection of unique, relevant, and personalized healthcare and social service resources in a distributed user community in an automated manner to support and improve the health of communities. A method is provided that at least includes aggregating data about a plurality of community healthcare and social service resources, wherein resource profiles are generated for each of the plurality of community resources; generating user profiles for one or more community users, wherein the user profiles comprise indications of needs and preferences for the one or more community users in regard to healthcare and social services; receiving a query from one of the community users regarding a need for healthcare or social services; and generating a list of recommendations from the community resources based on the query and the user profile of the one of the community users. A corresponding system is also provided. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249838 | MEDICAL IMPLANT MANAGEMENT - Embodiments relate to medical implant management. An aspect includes calculating an efficacy of a medical device based on a plurality of outcomes of medical procedures that utilized the medical device. It is determined that the efficacy of the medical device meets a threshold. Information about the efficacy of the medical device is transmitted to at least one recipient based on the efficacy of the medical device meeting the threshold. The information identifies the medical device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249839 | METHOD AND SYSTEM RELATING TO A LABORATORY PRODUCT - A method of providing data indicative of options for supply of a dental laboratory product is disclosed. The method may include receiving data indicative of the dental laboratory product and based on the received data, retrieving data indicative of a first value of a parameter of the dental laboratory product and a second value of the parameter of the dental laboratory product. Based on a comparison of the generated values, data is generated to allow for selection of one of the products. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249840 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING ON-CALL DATA FOR HEALTH CARE LOCATIONS AND PHYSICIANS - A system which contains real-time specialist on-call data is disclosed. The system allows for the input and searching of specialist on-call data for various health care locations. The system is configured to allow a patient in need of the medical care of a specialist not currently available at the patient's location to search for the nearest health care location(s) with a physician of the desired specialization presently or soon to be on call. Methods of the same are also disclosed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249841 | ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICINE - A medical general intelligence computer system and computer-implemented methods analyze morpho-physiological numbers for determining a risk of an emergent disease state, determining an emergent disease state, predicting a pre-emergent disease state, determining a pre-emergent disease state, and/or predicting a risk of a pre-emergent disease state. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249842 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING HEALTHCARE SERVICES CONSUMPTION - A method of optimizing healthcare services consumption according to the invention includes the steps of assessing the healthcare situation of an employer providing healthcare benefits to a population, identifying a first group of patients from the population likely to generate expensive healthcare claims based on data representing past claims, periodically determining whether patients in the first group have satisfied certain predetermined healthcare requirements, identifying a first group of providers who provide high quality, cost efficient healthcare services based on the practice patterns of the providers, prompting patients who have not satisfied the predetermined healthcare requirements to obtain services from providers in the first group, and responding to healthcare requests from patients by determining whether the requesting patient is seeking services from a provider in the first group, and, if not, urging the patient to obtain such services from a provider in the first group. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249843 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING HEALTHCARE SERVICES CONSUMPTION - A method of optimizing healthcare services consumption according to the invention includes the steps of assessing the healthcare situation of an employer providing healthcare benefits to a population, identifying a first group of patients from the population likely to generate expensive healthcare claims based on data representing past claims, periodically determining whether patients in the first group have satisfied certain predetermined healthcare requirements, identifying a first group of providers who provide high quality, cost efficient healthcare services based on the practice patterns of the providers, prompting patients who have not satisfied the predetermined healthcare requirements to obtain services from providers in the first group, and responding to healthcare requests from patients by determining whether the requesting patient is seeking services from a provider in the first group, and, if not, urging the patient to obtain such services from a provider in the first group. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249844 | REMOTELY DIAGNOSING CONDITIONS AND PROVIDING PRESCRIPTIONS USING A MULTI-ACCESS HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PORTAL - Embodiments are directed to providing remote healthcare services including remote diagnostics, and facilitating third-party healthcare payments. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an input including authentication credentials from a healthcare entity, and also requests assistance from another healthcare entity. The computer system authenticates the first healthcare entity using the authentication credentials, receives an input including authentication credentials from the other healthcare entity, and authenticates the other healthcare entity using these authentication credentials. The computer system further receives real-time information related to a health condition of a patient, where the real-time health condition information is provided to the second healthcare entity. The computer system also receives, from the other healthcare entity, diagnostic information related to the patient's health condition, and provides the received diagnostic information to the first healthcare entity, the patient and/or a payment entity. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249845 | CLINICAL TRIALS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - System and method of managing a clinical trial in accordance with a protocol are provided. In accordance therewith, a workflow associated with the protocol is accessed from a first data structure. The workflow includes a plurality of workflow tasks to be performed in connection with treatment of a plurality of patients according to the protocol. Instruction is provided to clinical personnel to perform one or more workflow tasks according to the workflow in connection with a visit of a patient out of a plurality of visits. Progress of the patient through the workflow is recorded to a second data structure as performance or non-performance of the one or more workflow tasks in connection with the visit on a per-visit basis. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249846 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REWARDING CONSUMERS - The present invention relates to a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing program code for funding a deposit account associated with a unique identifier encoded on a machine readable card, with an insurance company payment processing system, accessible by a pharmacy for obtaining payment for drugs dispensed to customers insured by an insurance company, wherein the deposit account is only funded upon successful completion of a test or questionnaire by a patient, wherein patient instructions for participating in the test or questionnaire was distributed to the patient by a drug prescriber with a prescription for the drug sample and the machine readable card; and program code for reimbursing the pharmacy from the funded deposit account for the charge for the drug sample in response to the card being read by a card reader linked to the insurance company payment processing system. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249847 | Healthcare Object Recognition Systems And Methods - Healthcare object (HCO) discriminator systems and methods are presented. Systems can obtain a digital representation of a scene via a sensor interface. An HCO discriminator platform analyzes the digital representation to discriminate objects within the scene as being associated with a type of HCO or as being unrelated to a type of HCO. Once the HCO recognition platform determines that a type of HCO is relevant, it instantiates an actual HCO. The HCO can be routed to one or more destinations based on routing rules generated from a template or based on the manner in which the objects in the scene were discriminated. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249848 | DEFINING PATIENT EPISODES BASED ON HEALTHCARE EVENTS - In one example, this disclosure describes a method of processing healthcare data via one or more computers. The method may comprise receiving dated patient healthcare including information about diagnosed conditions, delivered services or procedures, severity indicators, or resource utilization. The method may further comprise determining trigger healthcare service events based on the patient healthcare data. Trigger healthcare service events may comprise inpatient admissions, outpatient procedures, or outpatient healthcare services. After determined any trigger healthcare service events, the method may include determining one or more temporally non-overlapping healthcare service events based on any determined trigger healthcare service events. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249849 | REAL TIME STRATIFICATION OF HEALTH-RELATED DATA - Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for real time stratification of health-related data. In one embodiment, health-related data can be received in real time, after which rules corresponding to the health-related data can be identified. After identification, the rules can be applied to the health-related data to stratify patients into those who may be eligible for participation in and those who are ineligible for participation in one or more care pathways. Then, corresponding tasks can be created for the patients who are eligible for participation in the care pathways. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249850 | CRITICAL CONDITION MODULE - Technologies for medical information and scheduling communication determining a patient condition of a person presently experiencing the condition, determining a timeline, indicating the timeline, receiving real-time information regarding the condition, and updating the timeline. The timeline illustrates time lapsed since an initialization of treatment tracking, a recommended treatment of the patient condition, a treatment time necessary for effective application of the treatment for the patent condition, and an average time of treatment. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249851 | Systems and Methods for Developing and Managing Oncology Treatment Plans - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing oncology care plans. The systems and methods involve or include: retrieving a standard care plan from an electronically stored library of oncology care plans provided by one or more clinical content providers; receiving, from a user, a modification to the standard care plan; generating a local care plan that includes the standard care plan and the modification to the standard care plan; retrieving, from the electronically stored library of oncology care plans, an updated standard care plan that includes one or more updates to the standard care plan provided by the one or more clinical content providers; and automatically generating an updated local care plan that includes the updated standard care plan and the modification to the standard care plan. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249852 | Methods using patient monitoring devices with unique patient IDs and a telemetry system - Patient information is acquired using a patient monitoring device. The patient information is selected from of at least one of, a patient's activities, behaviors and habit information, and patient monitoring. The patient monitoring device has a unique patient ID, ID circuitry including ID storage, a communication system that reads and transmits the unique ID from an ID storage. Also included are a power source and a pathway system to route signals through the circuitry. A database of patient ID's is accessed at the telemetry system. The patient information is communicated from the patient monitoring device with the telemetry system in communication with the patient monitoring device. Patient information is analyzed at the telemetry system to create personalized information about the patient. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249853 | Monitoring System and Device with Sensors and User Profiles Based on Biometric User Information - A system selects a user profile based on biometric information. A wearable device is provided with one or more sensors that detect or measure user biometric information selected from of at least one of, a user's activities, behaviors and habit information, and a user's health. The wearable device includes circuitry that provides at least identification of the wearable device, a communication system, and a pathway system. A telemetry system is in communication with the wearable device. The telemetry system includes a database of user profiles. The telemetry system uses one or more processors to compare received biometric information from the wearable device, perform a comparison, and determine a user profile stored in a database. The telemetry system selects records of user biometric data of one or more users. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249854 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING, UNIFYING AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA ACROSS HEALTHCARE CONTINUA - Implementations provide a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving a user request, the user request being received in response to user input to the mobile device, determining that the user request is associated with patient data and/or patient information stored in a plurality of data stores associated with a plurality of facility systems, each data store in the plurality of data stores being associated with a respective facility system, transmitting a plurality of requests, each request being directed to a respective facility system, receiving a plurality of responses, each response being responsive to a respective request of the plurality of requests, and transmitting a response to the mobile device, the response being responsive to the user request. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249855 | Systems And Methods For Integrating, Unifying And Displaying Patient Data Across Healthcare Continua - Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a base screen, in response to the user input, processing, user-specific data to determine one or more user-specific menu groups, and displaying the base screen on the mobile device, the base screen including a menu having at least one default menu group and the one or more user-specific menu groups, wherein icons within one or more of the default menu group and the one or more user-specific menu groups are user-selectable to provide access to patient information and patient physiological data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249856 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING, UNIFYING AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA ACROSS HEALTHCARE CONTINUA - Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a vitals screen for a particular patient, processing patient-specific data and trend data to provide one or more trend graphs, and displaying the vitals screen on the mobile device, the vitals screen including a first display region and a second display region, the first display region displaying one or more trend graphs, and the second display region displaying one or more vitals data sets, each vitals data set corresponding to a trend graph displayed in the first display region. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249857 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING, UNIFYING AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA ACROSS HEALTHCARE CONTINUA - Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a monitoring screen for a particular patient, processing patient-specific data and event data to provide one or more event summaries, each event summary including a graphical representation of an event based on the patient-specific data, and displaying the monitoring screen on the mobile device, the monitoring screen including the one or more event summaries, each event summary including at least a portion of patient-specific data displayed as a waveform associated with an event. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249858 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING, UNIFYING AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA ACROSS HEALTHCARE CONTINUA - Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a laboratory results screen for a particular patient, processing patient-specific data and lab results data to provide one or more tables, and displaying the laboratory results screen on the mobile device, the laboratory results screen including the one or more tables, each table of the one or more tables providing one or more discrete data values, wherein a discrete data value of the one or more discrete values is user-selectable to provide detailed result information. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249859 | DATA EXCHANGE WITH PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD SERVICE - A method of interoperability for health records includes registering an individual with a personal health record service, generating a medical record number at the personal health record service, and sending health data between the personal health record service and one or more health information technology systems by sending health data and the medical record number to the one or more health information technology systems. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249860 | VOICE RECOGNITION MEDICAL CODING APPLICATION - The invention relates to an apparatus and method for a using voice recognition technology for medical coding purpose. In particular, the invention comprises a system, and preferably a mobile application, to use voice recognition to translate human speech into medical diagnostic codes. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249861 | Identification and Selection of Healthcare Claim Transactions for Requesting Increases in Reimbursement Levels - Systems, methods and computer-readable media are disclosed for performing various filtering operations and selection processing on healthcare claim transaction data associated with a plurality of healthcare claim transactions. The filtering operations may include a first filtering operation to identify healthcare claim transactions reimbursed at a loss and a second filtering operation to further identify those transactions reimbursed at a MAC rate below cost. The selection processing may be performed to identify, from among the filtered healthcare claim transactions and based at least in part on one or more selection parameter thresholds, those transactions that are suitable candidates for MAC rate appropriateness review by a claims processor. Upon identification of the candidate healthcare claim transactions, one or more representative claim transactions may be selected therefrom, and information associated therewith may be communicated to an appropriate claims processor as part of a request for an increase in MAC rate(s) associated with healthcare product(s). | 2014-09-04 |
20140249862 | Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Insurance Pricing - Systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means for rating and pricing insurance policies are provided. In some embodiments, an automated insurance processing platform rates and prices insurance policies by including a territory factor in the calculation of a premium for the policy. Pursuant to some embodiments, the territory factor is calculated by receiving historical loss data, geographical data, and demographic data, analyzing the historical loss data, the geographical data, and the demographic data to identify data having similar claim behaviors. The historical loss data is analyzed to identify at least a frequency and severity of historical loss by coverage type. The frequency and severity of loss data, the geographical data, and the demographic data is iteratively analyzed to create a territory set having different geographical boundaries for the different coverage types; and the territory set is used to generate a set of territory factors for the different coverage types and the territories. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249863 | Computerized Composite Risk and Benefits Apparatus and Method - A computerized composite risk and benefit product provides a plan participant with a “bank” of coverage through a self-funded trust, which the bank amount set based on the actuarially determined contribution amount paid by the participant. All claims paid are charged against the bank, such that when the bank is exhausted the plan is terminated. The product provides a comprehensive coverage package but a relatively low contribution due to the low underwriting risk resulting from the maximum possible claim amount being capped. Therefore, a comprehensive plan may be provided to a participant at a lower contribution. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249864 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PAYMENT BUNDLES - A system and process for prospectively creating patient episodes of care and triggering associated payment bundles during the claim adjudication process facilitates real-time claim pricing in accordance with payment bundle rules to facilitate episodic payment in place of pay-for-service payment. Additionally, various processes are described for modeling patient episodes and payment bundles and unbundling episodic payments. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249865 | CLAIMS ANALYTICS ENGINE - Methods and systems for processing claims (e.g., healthcare insurance claims) are described. For example, prior to payment of an unpaid claim, a prediction is made as to whether or not an attribute specified in the claim is correct. Depending on the prediction results, the claim can be flagged for an audit. Feedback from the audit can be used to update the prediction models in order to refine the accuracy of those models. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249866 | QUEUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - An automated waiting line transaction management system that provides patrons/users the option of queuing up and waiting in the standard attraction line at a venue or obtaining an ID unit that can be used for purchasing a pass to bypass the normal line. The venue administrator sets pass prices for each attraction on a real time basis either manually or through a venue algorithm. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249867 | USER SPECIFIC LOCATION ASSIGNMENT AND VALUATION - Systems and methods for assigning a user to a physical location. User data that includes characteristics of a user is acquired. The user is matched with an attendee based on the user characteristics and attendee characteristics of the attendee. A physical location is determined based on a location that the attendee matched to the user will occupy. A notification including an identification of the physical location, an identification of the attendee, and the attendee characteristics are sent to the user. Input is received that indicates whether the user wants to obtain a right to occupy the physical location and if the input indicates that the user wants to obtain the right to occupy the physical location, then the right to occupy the physical location is obtained. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249868 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND ARTICLE-OF-MANUFACTURE FOR THE CREATION, ISSUANCE, TRADING, AND EXERCISE OF REFUND OPTIONS FOR ATTENDANCE RIGHTS - Computer-related methods, apparatus, and/or articles of manufacture to permit/facilitate the creation, marketing, and/or distribution of options to purchase tickets or obtain refunds to a particular future event, particularly an elimination format competition, when the chosen competitor's qualification for such a game is currently uncertain, but where the uncertainty will be resolved prior to the commencement of the particular future event. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249869 | Graphical User Interface for Travel Planning System - A user interface for presenting travel itineraries to a user includes a first field to render a representation of a first segment of the itinerary including a location of departure and a location of arrival for the first segment, and a second field to render a text-based alert that includes notification information of the first segment of the itinerary, wherein the text-based alert is emphasized to bring the text-based alert to the attention of the user. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249870 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING AND PROCESSING UPDATED INVENTORY INFORMATION FOR EVENT LISTINGS - System and methods for prioritizing and processing updated inventory information for event listings are described. In one embodiment, a network-based system may receive updated ticket information from a seller for multiple event listings, categorized the updated ticket information from the seller by event, prioritize event categorizing comprising updated ticket information in accordance with a prioritization policy, and process a prioritized event category comprising updated ticket information for a particular event listing out-of-order with respect to one or more other event categories comprising previously received updated ticket information for other event listings. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249871 | Method And System For Managing Vehicles Offered For Rental - The invention relates to a method ( | 2014-09-04 |
20140249872 | CUSTOMER-BASED INTERACTION OUTCOME PREDICTION METHODS AND SYSTEM - A method for customer-based outcome prediction that includes receiving recordings of interactions with customers in a customer group, analyzing the recordings of the interactions to generate interaction data, and building a predictive model using the interaction data, the predictive model identifying a variable relevant to predicting a likelihood of an identified outcome occurring in association with future interactions with customers in the customer group. The method also includes receiving a recording of a current interaction with a first customer, the first customer being in the customer group and analyzing the recording of the current interaction with the first customer to generate current interaction data. Further, the method includes adding the current interaction data to a first customer profile associated with the first customer and applying the predictive model to the first customer profile to predict the likelihood of the identified outcome occurring in association with the current interaction. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249873 | CUSTOMER-BASED INTERACTION OUTCOME PREDICTION METHODS AND SYSTEM - A method for customer-based outcome prediction that includes receiving recordings of interactions with customers in a customer group, analyzing the recordings of the interactions to generate interaction data, and building a predictive model using the interaction data, the predictive model identifying a variable relevant to predicting a likelihood of an identified outcome occurring in association with future interactions with customers in the customer group. The method also includes receiving a recording of a current interaction with a first customer, the first customer being in the customer group and analyzing the recording of the current interaction with the first customer to generate current interaction data. Further, the method includes adding the current interaction data to a first customer profile associated with the first customer and applying the predictive model to the first customer profile to predict the likelihood of the identified outcome occurring in association with the current interaction. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249874 | FARM WORK SUPPORT METHOD AND FARM WORK SUPPORT APPARATUS - A farm work support method executed by a computer includes calculating a forecast harvest date of a first cultivation of crops based on result values of a weather condition from a start date of the first cultivation to a current day stored in a storage unit, and forecast values of the weather condition after the current day stored in the storage unit, and calculating a forecast harvest date of a second cultivation of crops based on the forecast values after the current day stored in the storage unit; and determining the current day as a start date of the second cultivation if an interval between the forecast harvest date of the first cultivation and the forecast harvest date of the second cultivation has the number of days greater than or equal to a predetermined number of days. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249875 | DETECTING CASES WITH CONFLICTING RULES - A method, system and/or computer program product for managing condition action rules comprises: a treated case modeler for building a family of cases that make some rules applicable; a conflict detector for iteratively building and testing subsets of cases of the family searching for cases with conflicting decisions in order to locate a subset of cases that all have conflicting decisions. The conflict detector is further adapted for eliminating subsets of cases that have all non-conflicting decisions. The conflict detector is further adapted for distinguishing conflicting decisions from unrelated decisions and thus avoids the reporting of false conflicts. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249876 | Adaptive Stochastic Controller for Energy Efficiency and Smart Buildings - Techniques for managing one or more buildings, including collecting historical building data, real-time building data, historical exogenous data, and real-time exogenous data and receiving the collected data at an adaptive stochastic controller. The adaptive stochastic controller can generate at least one predicted condition with a predictive model. The adaptive stochastic controller can generate one or more executable recommendations based on at least the predicted conditions and one or more performance measurements corresponding to the executable recommendations. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249877 | WORKER SELF-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - This Application relates to a system, method and computer software code for the timely and accurate self management by workers and employees of their own reporting of task related statistical data and information to their contractors and employers. This is a labour and service management system utilizing a “cloud based” server, and a portable “Smartphone” computing device that is in continual communication with the server by way of the wireless facility of the telecom service provider to the individual worker/employee, the effect of which system is that each worker or employee has his or her own individual mobile GPS enabled “punch clock” device. Both the server and the Smartphone contain computer readable software code. Additionally, this system supports custom interfaces between the contractor/employer and the worker/employee, and a wealth of management information in custom report formats. Taken together, the hardware and the software parts of the System create a worker self management process, which generates, connects and transforms raw data and information for the benefit of both the worker/employee, and his or her contractor/employer. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249878 | APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING - Systems, methods and/or services that allocate and schedules appointments based on supply and demand. In an example, a method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to: gather information of a plurality of suppliers from one or more external sources, prior to a registration process for scheduling an appointment request from a consumer; validate the gathered information of the plurality of suppliers; receive a request from the consumer for scheduling of an appointment with one or more of the plurality of suppliers which meet consumer criteria; enable swapping, purchasing and auctioning of appointments; enable virtual visits and virtual visit queues for on demand virtual appointments; provide system agnostic calendar integration, and provide available suppliers to the consumer based on the consumer criteria. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249879 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention concerns a system and method configured for hosting a network for facilitating interaction between members of certain socioeconomic and/or interest groups. The system comprises a categorizing module for categorizing individuals according to certain criteria to form a plurality of groups of members, wherein admittance to each group is regulated based on an authority specializing in the specific characteristic of that group, a governing module for establishing a set of rules governing from which groups members are authorized to interact with one other, and an administrator module for administrating said rules, the administrator governing connectivity between members in said groups. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249880 | EVENT SCHEDULING - In one aspect, the invention is a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon. The instructions when executed by the processor, cause that processor to schedule a network-based media event; and to invite an attendee to attend the network-based media event. Other aspects of the invention includes a process and a method. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249881 | COMPUTERIZED ESTIMATING TOOL FOR PROPOSED INSECT-CONTROL SPRAY CAMPAIGN - A computerized estimating tool that is used to create needs-assessment estimates, a multi-year budget, and an operational calendar for a proposed insect-control spray campaign presents a user with an electronic questionnaire that asks the user to input workforce data and has a field that, when clicked by the user, opens a worksheet in which the user provides demographic information on individual villages or communities to be covered by the proposed campaign, including the proportion of households in each community that or rural or urban. The tool has a program that retrieves the input data and other data stored in memory, calculates both a budget and an operational calendar for the proposed campaign, and generates a printable, narrative-form needs-assessment report. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249882 | System and Method of Stochastic Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling - A method or system of optimally scheduling projects with resource constraints and stochastic task durations. This is a new framework in order to solve real world problems of uncertainties and computational dilemma in project scheduling and management. This new framework is devised with a constraint programming (CP) procedure as an approximate dynamic programming (ADP) to reduce the size of domain. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249883 | STORE INTELLIGENCE - IN-STORE ANALYTICS - Store intelligence—in-store analytics (“in-store analytics”) techniques are provided that, by combining analytics with experience, improve the shopping, managing, monitoring, etc., experience of an end user. In-store analytics can be integrated with workflow for optimizing and assisting prioritizing operations. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249884 | SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC INVENTORY CONTROL - A production management system is configured to dynamically controlling inventory of a semiconductor product to prevent overstock and stockout. The production management system includes a production planning module including components containing data of demand forecast, and customer order. The production management system further includes a dynamic inventory control module including a dynamic inventory control simulation module and an inventory management system, wherein the dynamic inventory control simulation module is configured to adjust a target inventory if a current inventory is beyond a threshold multiplied by the target inventory for M number of review cycles. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZED SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON A SHOPPING HISTORY OF A USER, RETAILER IDENTIFICATIONS, AND ITEMS BEING PROMOTED BY RETAILERS - The disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing a custom search based on search input entered by a user, shopping history of the user, retailer identifications, and products to be promoted by the retailers. The system may leverage a combination of retailer and user information to customize search results for the user. The system facilitates a search platform where retailers may provide items being promoted such that promoted items may feature prominently in search results and/or be included in search results while non-promoted items may be featured less prominently n search results and/or be excluded from the search results. In this manner, the retailer may more successfully drive sales of promoted items. Users may benefit from use of the search platform by receiving relevant results that are customized for the user and include items that are being promoted so that the user is made aware of relevant promotions. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249886 | BILLBOARD EXPOSURE DETERMINING SYSTEM AND METHOD - This invention relates to a method and system for determining probable exposure to a visual display at a particular location. The invention involves receiving object data associated with at least one object proximate, or in viewing proximity, to the visual display; and processing the received object data to determine a probable demographic profile associated with the object, wherein the determined probable demographic profiles are used to determine the exposure to the visual display. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249887 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING CUSTOMERS WITHIN RETAIL PREMISES - The present disclosure provides a monitoring system for monitoring customers within a retailing premises. The monitoring system includes a data processing arrangement, and a wireless communication network coupled in communication with the data processing arrangement. The customers are provided with corresponding wireless devices. Each wireless device is identified by an associated identification code (ID). The wireless devices communicate with the wireless communication network, and thereby enable the data processing arrangement to monitor and record routes of the customers using these wireless devices within the retailing premises. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONDUCTING AN INFORMATION BROKERING SERVICE - A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by a user. Such an opinion may be interesting to an information consumer, who may be interested in determining the outcome of the consensus relating to the event or observation, or may otherwise desire to perform surveillance or survey of a particular issue or subject. Such recognition of early events or observations may be useful where initial observations, if provided early, allow resulting decisions to be made much earlier. The opinion may, for instance, be used as an early indicator of problem with a product, company, etc. that would permit an information consumer to perform an action at a much earlier point than if he/she relied on traditional sources of information. Thus, such opinion information may be invaluable as a tool for monitoring events. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249889 | FACILITATING CONTENT GENERATION VIA MESSAGING SYSTEM INTERACTIONS - The following disclosure relates generally to techniques for generating useful content based on user interactions, such as by enabling users to submit questions to and otherwise interact with an answer-providing service. In some situations, one or more interfaces are provided to allow users to specify a variety of types of questions for the answer-providing service, such as via a GUI and/or using a messaging interface based on email or other types of electronic messages. When communications occur via electronic messages, the answer-providing service may in some situations generate and include unique tracking identifiers in electronic messages sent to users, so that the users can reply back to the messages in order to provide a command to the answer-providing service that includes a tracking identifier previously sent to the user and thus verify that the command is sent by someone with access to the electronic messages of the user. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249890 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STRATEGIC LEARNING - The present invention provides a system and method of strategic learning and, in particular, to a system and method that allows evaluation to occur in real-time, shifts evaluation from the researcher to the program manager, and provides a feedback loop regarding evaluation findings. In one embodiment, the method comprises steps of: 1) learning preparation, wherein a team is established to implement a model, 2) roadmap development, wherein tangible outcomes are created and identified, 3) focused learning, wherein a plurality of outcomes from step 2) are identified and then considered critical, 4) systematic data collection wherein one asks how to collect data that is meaningful, and 5) strategies improvement, wherein data collection is used to change strategy. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249891 | Social Sensing And Behavior Analysis System - A method and system for capturing and analyzing human behavior data is disclosed. The present disclosure describes a method and system for a plurality of people, wherein each person wears a badge. The badge transmits data collected from a plurality of sensors from the badge to a base station. The data is sent from the base station to a server, which aggregates the data from a plurality of base stations, and then analyzes and processes the data to create raw human behavior data. From the raw human behavior data and plurality of metrics is calculated, which can be displayed on a computer screen according to whichever metrics a user wishes to view. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249892 | INTEGRATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT - Integrated management environmental sustainability system and method that includes a server ( | 2014-09-04 |
20140249893 | AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS - Embodiments of agricultural performance information systems are presented and disclosed herein. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249894 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING COMPLIANCE STATUS BASED ON TIME-ORDERED REFERENCE PERIODS - Systems and methods for monitoring compliance status are described herein. System performance data for multiple time-ordered reference periods is determined. A compliance status for each reference period is determined based on the system performance data. For each reference period, it is determined whether the reference period is a historical reference period or a current reference period. A set of selected historical reference periods to display is determined. A graphical visualization of the set of selected historical reference periods is generated using a set of nested graphical objects. Each graphical object in the set of nested graphical objects represents a compliance status of a historical reference period of the set of selected historical reference periods. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249895 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING ELECTRONIC VOTING - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for engaging in votes and/or voting related activities. According to various aspects, a voting poll may be generated including one or more voting questions and/or prompts that enable users to provide voting responses. Any received votes may be transmitted to a vote management system which applies the vote to one or more of the voting questions included within the voting poll. Once a vote has been received, the vote management system may maintain the integrity of a vote by prohibiting double votes. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249896 | Controlling Use of Parking Spaces Using a Camera - Tracking the use of at least one destination location is disclosed. Initially, five or more first images are received from a first camera. A first static characteristic, a second static characteristic, a first dynamic characteristic, and a second dynamic characteristic of the first vehicle are determined based the five or more first images. The second static characteristic is determined to be approximately equal to the first static characteristic. The second dynamic characteristic is determined to be approximately equal to the first dynamic characteristic. In response, it is determined that the first vehicle is traversing a portion of a roadway. Then, it is determined that the first vehicle is stopped within the at least one destination location at a first time. It is then determined that the first vehicle left the at least one destination location at a second time that is after the first time. Finally, the first time and the second time are indicated. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249897 | EXPANDED OVERLAY STATE FOR CAMPAIGN PERFORMANCE DATA SNAPSHOT CARDS - Systems and methods are disclosed for facilitating collaboration amongst individuals working on a coordinated campaign toward certain goals. In furtherance of these goals, the individual team members use technical resources provided by specialized tools, which are also sometimes referred to as applications or products. As the campaign progresses, these applications generate a large volume of data, some of which may be useful to teams other than those which were originally responsible for producing the data. In certain embodiments a campaign manager platform is used to facilitate data sharing and collaboration amongst the various teams that comprise a campaign. In such embodiments the individual team members interact not only with the applications specifically adapted for their team, but also with the campaign manager, which provides a medium for exchanging data and ideas with other teams. This advantageously facilitates data sharing and collaboration amongst the teams, thereby enhancing the overall campaign success. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249898 | SPONSORSHIP PLATFORM SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A manufacture, comprising a non-transitory non-volatile computer-readable storage device that can include computer-readable code for managing a sponsorship transaction and interpretable by a processor to cause a computing system to perform a process that can include including presenting to a user a human-readable representation of a plurality of objectives, receiving from the user a designated business objective, storing, in a first data record of a database, the designated business objective, presenting to the user a human-readable representation of a plurality of criteria, receiving from the user a designated criteria, storing, in the database, the designated criteria in a second data record, based on receiving the designated business objective and the designated criteria, matching a property, and presenting to the user a human-readable representation of the property. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249899 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF APPLYING REWARDS TO FEES IN QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS - A system, computer program product and a method of applying rewards to fees in qualifying accounts of a financial institution are provided. The system, computer program product and method ensure that one or more reward accounts of a single account holder or “household” of account holders at the financial institution are qualified to receive a reward, are entitled to receive income other than the reward amount, that the account holder of the account is enrolled to receive one or more service for a service fees from the financial institution and that the fees are entitled to be automatically offset against income earned by the reward accounts during the predetermined cycle. If so, the system, computer program product and method deduct the fees from the sum of earned reward amount and the income other than the reward amount. In cases where the sum of the earned reward amount and the income from other than the reward amount is less than the service fee, a credit is automatically applied to the account holder that is up to or equal to the difference as a further reward to the account holder for having the reward account. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249900 | AFFILIATE SYSTEM, AFFILIATE METHOD, AND SERVER - An affiliate system according to the embodiment acquires an introduction request including information on a product or service that a user of a first terminal decides to introduce to a user of a second terminal among products or services purchased or used by the user of the first terminal, selects from among users of respective second terminals, the user of the second terminal who is associated with the user of the first terminal and who visits a purchase site or use site of the product or service specified in the introduction request, and notifies introduction information corresponding to the introduction request to the second terminal of the selected user. If the user of the second terminal purchases or uses the product or service on the basis of the introduction information, a reward is provided to the user of the first terminal. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249901 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CIRCLE OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS MARKETPLACE - A customer selects a payment source and authorizes payment by sending Short Message Service (SMS) text messages or secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS) requests from the customer's mobile phone or device. A SMS payment software-plugin is installed on a Point-Of-Sale (POS) terminal and launches a price match search and can fetch customer rewards. When a customer requests to pay by SMS, the plugin is activated and the customer's mobile phone number and zip code or POS PIN are entered on the POS terminal. The POS terminal sends a request to a SMS payment system, which sends SMS text messages to the customer's mobile device. The details are discussed. The application on marketplace based on circle of friends and family is also discussed, which connects the people to schools or universities, to support them financially, through Koincloud marketplace. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249902 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CUSTOMER SURVEY - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing a follow-up survey for purchases made at a merchant entity. A customer can make a purchase at a merchant entity, such as a restaurant, and a system can coordinate and store data about the customer using a purchasing account. When the customer visits a website or application associated with the merchant entity, the system can determine if an offer to take a survey exists for the customer. If an offer exists, the system can prompt the customer to take the survey to receive a discount on future purchases made at the merchant entity. Once the customer completes the survey, the system monitors future purchases by the customer and applies the discount appropriately the next time the customer uses the purchasing account at the merchant entity. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249903 | Non-contextual Information Collected and Transacted by Merchants and Consumers Thru POS and Mobiles - This disclosure relates to a different system and methods which is offered to consumers and merchants. It describes the affordability it provide by reducing the numbers of touch points required for consumers to recognize a discount through the redemption of coupons. Along with a system accessible by merchants for entering products on coupons for savings to consumers. It details the critical components required for a seamless and transparent method to enter, view, select, collect, and redeem multiple coupon offers in a single scan or swipe of a mobile device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249904 | Systems and Methods for Managing a Virtual Card Based on Geographical and Balance Information - The invention is directed to systems and methods for using a virtual gift card having an associated value, operable on a mobile device having a processor and memory, the mobile device linked to a virtual gift card manager, the method including: identifying a geographic identifier for the mobile device; matching the geographic identifier with at least one virtual gift card stored on the mobile device; determining an amount of value associated with the at least one virtual gift card; identifying any offers or promotions redeemable with the amount of value; displaying the at least one virtual gift card, the amount of value, and any offers or promotions on the mobile device; and selectively enabling a transaction utilizing the virtual gift card, the transaction based at least in part on the any offers or promotions, the transaction including a manipulation of value associated with the at least one virtual gift card. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249905 | METHOD FOR HANDLING ELECTRONIC VOUCHERS - The invention refers to a method for handling electronic coupons, particularly in the retail and/or service industry, whereby a mobile terminal device, particularly a mobile phone or smartphone is used to pay cashless for one or several products and/or services—products—at a pay terminal, whereby the data to execute the payment process/the payment are preferably transmitted wirelessly between the mobile terminal device and the payment terminal via near field communication (NFC), whereby a receipt with regard to the paid products is transmitted to the mobile terminal device, whereby using the receipt information on the receipt the mobile terminal device preferably sends a request to the central database, whereby the database processes the request, whereby the database provides an electronic coupon for a coupon product depending on the receipt information transmitted in the request and whereby the electronic coupon is automatically redeemed when paying for the coupon product. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249906 | MEDIA ITEM COLLECTION PRE-ORDER FULFILLMENT - Fulfilling a pre-order for a collection of media items in an online store and enforcing one or more pricing schemes which adjust the price charged for the collection of media items purchased as a pre-order. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249907 | METHOD TO RAISE ACCURACY OF TARGETING THE SEGMENTATION FOR SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION - There is provided a center server and a store terminal to enhance the targeting accuracy in providing services. The center server gives a unique ID to a member application, sends it to a particular mobile information terminal and manages it as authentication information about a member who is the user of the mobile information terminal. In response to purchases of a particular article by the member, the store terminal inputs the ID from the mobile information terminal and inputs purchase information about the article the member purchases. The center server then acquires attribute information about a member identified by the ID. Then, by checking the purchase information, the attribute information and service information set in association with attribute information about the member and kinds of articles and stored in particular storage means, information about a service to be provided for the member is identified. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249908 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROMOTION CREATION AND REDEPTION - A method and system for the creation of coupons at a centralized server and distribution to multiple users is shown. The coupons are received at mobile devices and are redeemed at participating retail locations, which connect to an administration server that employs both an online and offline authentication process to ensure users are attempting to redeem valid coupon. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249909 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An electronic receipt system includes an electronic receipt collective management unit which associates a code of a consumer with electronic receipt information including information concerning a payment made by the consumer in different stores, a reception unit which receives an input a search condition pertaining to an electronic receipt, a search unit which searches the electronic receipt collective management unit based on the search condition, and an output unit which outputs a result of search acquired by the search unit. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249910 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDEEMING REWARDS TO FUND A PAYMENT CARD ACCOUNT - A transaction aggregator aggregates a plurality of transaction account charges for a user transaction account. The transaction charges are received from merchants for acquisitions made by a user. The user is offered an option to make at least a partial payment to the user transaction account by redeeming rewards from at least one user reward account associated with a rewards issuer. A reward redemption instruction is received from the user, the reward redemption instruction designating the redemption of rewards from at least one user reward account. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249911 | CAMPAIGN PERFORMANCE DATA SNAPSHOT CARDS - Systems and methods are disclosed for facilitating collaboration amongst individuals working on a coordinated campaign toward certain goals. In furtherance of these goals, the individual team members use technical resources provided by specialized tools, which are also sometimes referred to as applications or products. As the campaign progresses, these applications generate a large volume of data, some of which may be useful to teams other than those which were originally responsible for producing the data. In certain embodiments a campaign manager platform is used to facilitate data sharing and collaboration amongst the various teams that comprise a campaign. In such embodiments the individual team members interact not only with the applications specifically adapted for their team, but also with the campaign manager, which provides a medium for exchanging data and ideas with other teams. This advantageously facilitates data sharing and collaboration amongst the teams, thereby enhancing the overall campaign success. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249912 | ORGANIZATION OF CAMPAIGN PERFORMANCE DATA SNAPSHOT CARDS IN CARD FEEDS AND CARD BOARDS - Systems and methods are disclosed for facilitating collaboration amongst individuals working on a coordinated campaign toward certain goals. In furtherance of these goals, the individual team members use technical resources provided by specialized tools, which are also sometimes referred to as applications or products. As the campaign progresses, these applications generate a large volume of data, some of which may be useful to teams other than those which were originally responsible for producing the data. In certain embodiments a campaign manager platform is used to facilitate data sharing and collaboration amongst the various teams that comprise a campaign. In such embodiments the individual team members interact not only with the applications specifically adapted for their team, but also with the campaign manager, which provides a medium for exchanging data and ideas with other teams. This advantageously facilitates data sharing and collaboration amongst the teams, thereby enhancing the overall campaign success. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249913 | ADVERTISEMENT PRESENTATION SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT PRESENTATION DEVICE, AND ADVERTISEMENT PROVISION DEVICE - An information management center transmits advertisement information to a vehicle. The vehicle displays a predetermined advertisement on a body display part based on the transmitted advertisement information. After a predetermined time has passed since the display of the advertisement by the body display part ended, the information management center acquires the results information about change of the sales results of an advertised good which is an object of a predetermined advertisement from the store existing within a predetermined distance from a location of the body display part through a network. The information management center returns remuneration to a user of the vehicle which permitted use of the body display part, when a sales volume, for example, is increasing based on the acquired results information. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249914 | BID OPTIMIZATION IN SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING - Methods and apparatus are described for optimally allocating an online advertising budget for a search engine marketing (SEM) campaign among a fixed set of keywords. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249915 | SYSTEMS AND/OR METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING ADVERTISEMENTS FROM A CENTRAL ADVERTISEMENT NETWORK TO A PERIPHERAL DEVICE VIA A LOCAL ADVERTISEMENT SERVER - Certain exemplary embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and/or methods for distributing advertisements from a central advertisement network to one or more peripheral devices at a location via a local advertisement server. In certain exemplary embodiments, the local advertisement server within a location receives advertisements from the central advertisement network and rebroadcasts them to peripheral devices within that location. Advertising information may be tracked and reported, e.g., for accounting, revenue-sharing, and/or other purposes in certain exemplary embodiments. Thus, in certain exemplary embodiments, the distribution of advertisements is provided to peripherals via a non-web- and non-PC-dependent network. Moreover, in certain exemplary embodiments, reporting and advertising related communications are substantially bi-directional regardless of device type. Certain exemplary embodiments provide revenue sharing among some or all of the central advertising network provider, the proprietors of locations, operators tasked with maintaining the local ad server and/or the peripheral devices, etc. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE GROCERY BUDGET APPLICATION - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing a mobile shopping budget application. The system includes an account processor that receives, via a network, location data associated with the current location of an account holder, product data, and budget data, a database that stores the received location, product and budget data, and an aggregator that determines a total price based on at least the location data, product data, and budget data, and provides a virtual shopping basket to the account holder based at least on the product data and budget data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249917 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A HOSTED MERCHANT AND CARDHOLDER TRANSACTION CACHE - A method for distributing cardholder transaction information includes: storing, in a database, a plurality of transaction data entries, wherein each transaction data entry includes data related to a previously conducted financial transaction involving at least one of a plurality of merchants and includes at least a merchant identifier, a consumer identifier, a transaction time and/or date, and transaction data; receiving, by a receiving device, a transaction cache request, wherein the transaction cache request includes at least a specific merchant identifier; identifying, by a processing device, a transaction data entry subset, wherein the transaction data entry subset includes a subset of the plurality of transaction data entries and where each transaction data entry in the transaction data entry subset includes at least the specific merchant identifier; and transmitting, by a transmitting device, the transaction data entry subset to a merchant associated with the specific merchant identifier. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SHOPPING AIDS AND INCENTIVES TO CUSTOMERS THROUGH A COMPUTER NETWORK - A system and method for delivering purchasing incentives and a variety of other retail shopping aids through a computer network, such as by E-mail over the Interne or the World Wide Web. Customers ( | 2014-09-04 |
20140249919 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING REVENUE FROM MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system and method for improved advertising revenue streams for social networking service providers via automatic exchange of information shared by individuals on social networking service providers and/or their mobile computing devices, wherein said exchanged information contains implied or explicit advertisements is disclosed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249920 | System And Method For Activity Summary And Product Promotion - A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for facilitating communication between a merchant and a client are provided. An example method may include creating a beautician identification record for a beautician, receiving an information related to an interaction between the beautician and a client, determining at least one product or service for the client from the information, and creating, using a processor, a communication to the client. The communication may include an indication of the at least one product or service. The method may also include sending the prescription to the client. Example systems, apparatuses, and computer readable media are also provided. | 2014-09-04 |
20140249921 | System and Method for Dynamic Client Relationship Management (CRM) and Intelligent Client Engagement - A system and method for dynamic client relationship management and intelligent client engagement is disclosed. The system collects user information and allows internal Licensee user groups to better know and serve their clients and clients' families, as well as qualified prospects, by providing a customized invitation-only portal with VIP offers and events, corporate hospitality, and exclusive arrangements based on specific client profiles and user segmentation, within a configurable hosted platform securely accessible and optimized for web and mobile devices. The platform facilitates and manages dynamic CRM, moving beyond existing CRM formats where one user or data feed enters data about another individual into a system. The data captured is dynamically augmented based on users' expressed interests and actual behaviors and interactions across sectors and industries, thus facilitating two way data flow, capture, analysis, and predictive promotion of exclusive goods, services or other information, by different companies serving common customer bases. | 2014-09-04 |