40th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160292723 | VISUALIZATION OF ONLINE ADVERTISING REVENUE TRENDS - A machine may be configured to facilitate visualization of online advertising revenue trends. For example, the machine accesses revenue booking data associated with a customer and identifying a revenue amount booked for delivering an ad product during a campaign delivery period of an advertising campaign associated with the customer. The machine determines a daily booking value for each date in the advertising campaign delivery period based on the revenue booking data and additional campaign data. The machine generates a revenue booking graph for the ad product based on the daily booking value for each date in the advertising campaign delivery period. The machine causes display of the revenue booking graph for the ad product in a user interface of a device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292724 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAXIMIZING MARKETPLACE TRANSACTIONS - A systems and methods for managing a plurality of service provider transactions within an auction/delivery services marketplace defined by multiple rapidly changing criteria is provided. The present invention regularly tests and tracks in real time the available service providers within the auction/delivery to determine their rates of successfully delivering their provided services. These live performance results are continuously fed back into the testing and tracking of the service providers forming a feedback loop for reasonably calculating maximum revenues while balancing multiple rapidly changing criteria when dealing with the plurality of available service providers | 2016-10-06 |
20160292725 | INTEGRATING SPONSORED MEDIA WITH USER-GENERATED CONTENT - A variety of computer based service that permit users to edit, compose, upload, or otherwise generate content also provide for the integration of sponsored media into presentations along with user-generated content. An exemplary service generates text based on user input, provides tags based on the text to a sponsored media repository, receives a sponsored media data structure in return, and formats sponsored media from the data structure for display to the user. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292726 | UNIQUE USER EXPERIENCES IN A CLIENT CONFIGURATION PLATFORM - Generating a unique client configuration unit (CCU) program user interface for each participant user device. A CCU program generator module generates each CCU program, which is defined by attributes and rules selected via an administrator user interface (AUI). The CCU program is optionally defined by personalization, marketing, and/or targeting rules. A participant user interface (PUI) module identifies participant user devices of the CCU programs and provides identified participant user devices access to their unique CCU program. A processor executes processor-executable instructions comprising the AUI module, the PUI module, and the CCU program generator module to generate the CCU program of each identified participant user device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO MARKET OVER THE INTERNET - A computer-aided method for marketing to subjects in a social media platform over the internet comprises supplementing social media data derived from a social media platform and representing candidate subjects for marketing with demographic data derived from outside social media platforms and representing attributes of a population by assigning, in data, the candidate subjects with demographic tags that indicate an attribute of their population. A cluster of target subjects for marketing is selected, from the data, from among the candidate subjects based on the demographic tags, and a marketing message is sent, over the internet using a social media platform, to at least one of the target subjects in the cluster. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292728 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING SERVICES TO DEVICES WITH DYNAMIC AD CREATIVE DEEP LINKING - Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services to devices with dynamic ad creative deep linking. In one embodiment, an advertising system includes a storage medium to store one or more software programs of an ad server and processing logic of the ad server that is coupled to the storage medium. A dynamic ad creative deep linking unit is configured to receive an ad campaign including at least one video ad from the ad server and to generate a customized deep link for a targeted software application or targeted content of the at least video ad based on installed applications of a device, application usage history of the installed applications, and metadata associated with at least one of the installed applications. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292729 | IDENTIFYING PRODUCTS RELATED TO INTERACTIONS PERFORMED BY AN ONLINE SYSTEM USER WITH CONTENT FROM A THIRD PARTY SYSTEM - An online system stores information identifying interactions by online system users with content provided by a third party system. The third party system includes a tracking mechanism in content that specifies one or more interactions with the content. When a user performs a specified interaction with the content via a client device, the tracking mechanism communicates information describing the performed interaction from the client device to the online system. The online system retrieves information identifying the user from the client device and stores the information describing the performed interaction in association with the information identifying the user. An advertisement request from the third party system requests presentation of content presented by the third party system with which the user interacted, so the online system selects content provided by the third party system with which the user interacted for presentation via the advertisement request. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292730 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PLATFORM FOR USER GENERATED ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN - An electronic portal provides merchant users facilitated generation of advertising campaigns via text messaging. A merchant user may initiate an advertising campaign by text messaging the portal. In response to options provided by the portal, the merchant user selects a product as the subject of the campaign. In some embodiments, a budget may be selected to limit the number of advertisements generated. A platform connected to the portal may include a database of online shopping activity from previous customers of the merchant user and of potential new customers identified by data mining of social media sites. The platform may generate the advertising campaign based on the merchant user's inputs and identified potential customers sending advertisements related to the product the identified potential customers. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292731 | CONTEXTUAL REAL-TIME MARKETING - A method and system for real-time targeting of advertisements and promotional offers to users of mobile wallet in a proactive as well as reactive manner is described. Targeting is based on a set of information associated with real-time transaction history of mobile wallet users. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292732 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH DEVICES WITH A CUSTOMIZED ADAPTIVE USER EXPERIENCE - Methods and systems are described for providing communications to devices with a customized adaptive user experience. In one embodiment, a system includes a storage medium to store one or more software programs and a format and targeting builder unit to create and edit customizable ad formats and create target user segments. The system includes processing logic that is configured to execute instructions of at least one software program of the format and targeting builder module to receive biometric data from devices of users and provide the options of custom scripting for creating and editing ad formats and targeting user segments with different categories. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292733 | OPTIMIZING ONLINE TRAFFIC ALLOCATION BETWEEN CONTENT SOURCES - A system and method for optimizing online traffic allocation between content sources are provided. In example embodiments, assigning a query score for each of a set of advertisement sources, accessing historical data from a database, determining a threshold value based on historical data of traffic share allocation between at least two advertisement sources satisfying a predefined criteria, selecting an advertisement source from the set of advertisement sources based on the query score for the advertisement source exceeding the threshold value, and selecting an advertisement source based on the query score exceeding the threshold value. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292734 | Systems and methods for advertising into online conversation context based on real time conversation content - The subject invention provides a method, business process and computer program product that can be applied into any type of instant messaging apps for displaying advertisement (ad). The proposed method and system can capture and process the content of live conversation occurred within the instant messenger. Based on the live conversation context, the system selects the ad content and injects it into the live conversation in such a way that all users involved in the chatting group/room can see it. The whole system includes sub systems for ad advertiser (or advertisers agent) and ad publisher subscription. Other key parts of this system include a central database system and a crowdsourcing based, machine learning enabled ad recommendation engine. This invention also includes a novel business process or business model based on the above mentioned system. It releases ad content through publishers online chat account. It allows individual person to act as ad publishers with almost zero cost. Reciprocally, the ad publishers help improve the ad recommender engine for more precise ad delivery through crowdsourcing. This invention essentially enables an innovative forms of Mesh Economy. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292735 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZED COUPON PROVIDING SERVICE - A current position of a user is compared with a predetermined main residential area and a main travel path, an event-identification target is determined depending on deviation of the current position such that coupon information of an affiliated store around the current position of the user is searched and provided if the current position deviates from the main residential area and the main travel path and coupon information of an affiliated store around the current position having been previously used is searched and provided based on utilization information history of the user if the current position does not deviate from the main residential area and the main travel path, that is, the user exists within the main residential area and the main travel path, thereby enabling effective purchase and inducing the user to use an affiliated store that provides a coupon. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292736 | ASYNCHRONOUS ADVERTISING PLACEMENT BASED ON METADATA - A podcast system and method are provided to select and deliver media ads over a network to a user device and to insert the media ads in media content subscribed to and delivered over the network to the user device. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292737 | LOCATION-BASED TRANSMISSIONS USING A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - According to one method, a mobile communication device determines its location and compares its location to a location associated with an automation system. If the location of the mobile communication device matches the location associated with the automation system, the mobile communication device transmits a command to the automation system. According to another method, a mobile communication device determines if it has entered wireless communication range of an automation system and determines if it has exited wireless communication range of an automation system. In response to determining if the mobile communication device has entered wireless communication range of an automation system, the mobile communication device transmits a first command from to the automation system. In response to determining if the mobile communication device has exited wireless communication range of an automation system, mobile communication device transmits a second command to the automation system. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292738 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY RETRIEVING AND MONITORING GEOFENCE ACTIVITY - Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for dynamically retrieving and monitoring geo-fence activity. A meta geo-fence may be identified based on a user device geolocation. The meta geo-fence having a radius that is dynamically generated to include previously defined geo-fences within or touching the meta geo-fence. User device geolocation may be monitored in relation to the defined geo-fences included in the radius of the meta geo-fence. A communication may be sent to the user device when the user device reports that the user device has entered or exited one of the previously defined geo-fences within or touching the radius of the meta geo-fence. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292739 | MUNICIPALITY-CENTERED VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE - A method and computer program product are disclosed for creating a municipality centered virtual marketplace via a computer network including receiving and sending municipality-based content from a municipality or chamber of commerce to the virtual marketplace. Business based content is sent and received from a business located within the municipality to the virtual marketplace regarding goods or services offered by the business. Customer based content is sent and received from a customer regarding the municipality based content and the business based content from the virtual marketplace. Transactions between the customer and the business are processed for at least one of the municipality sponsored incentives to patronize local businesses, promotions, advertisements and special deals offered by the business on the municipality centered virtual marketplace. Information relating to the transaction is communicated to the businesses and the municipality. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292740 | Automatic Notification with Pushed Directions to a Mobile-Device Real-Estate App that Senses a Nearby Chirping Beacon Mounted on a Property-for-Sale Sign - Automatic notification of real estate for sale is provided to a prospective buyer running a real estate app on a mobile device. A chirp beacon that is a Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) tag or iBeacon is attached to a real estate sign. The chirp beacon periodically broadcasts its identifier that is received by mobile devices within a range of 10-100 meters. The real estate app sends the identifier to a remote database to find a property IDs. The property ID is looked up in a merged database to obtain property information and directions that are displayed on the mobile device. Additional signs such as at busy intersections or inside the property may also have chirp beacons that cause the real estate app to fetch more information. When real estate app detects a nearby chirp beacon, an audible chirp sound is generated by mobile device. Selling agents receive valuable usage statistics. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292741 | GROUP MONITORING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system for monitoring/confirming the location of and communicating with a group of user devices or individual members thereof is generally represented by reference numeral | 2016-10-06 |
20160292742 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC AD SELECTION OF MULTIPLE ADS OR AD CAMPAIGNS ON DEVICES - Methods and systems are described for dynamic ad selection of ads stored on a device. In one embodiment, a device includes a storage medium to store software programs including advertising services software and software applications. Processing logic is coupled to the storage medium and a display device. The processing logic is configured to execute instructions of at least one of the software programs to receive user input for initiating a software application on the device, determine attributes for the device including software applications currently operating in the storage medium and placement information for the initiated software application, and dynamically select one of the video ads stored on the device based on the attributes including software applications currently operating in the storage medium and placement information for the initiated software application. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292743 | MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE ADVERTISEMENT POSITIONING AND DYNAMIC REPOSITIONING - A system and method transform a mobile computing device into a machine that displays multiple advertisements on a screen of the mobile computing device with at least one of the advertisements having a prominent position on a screen of the mobile computing device and the remaining, viewable advertisements having subordinate positions on the screen. In at least one embodiment, a subordinate position occupies less screen space than the prominent position. In at least one embodiment, displaying multiple advertisements allows the mobile computing device to engage the user with multiple advertisements, thus, increasing the likelihood that the user will act on at least one of the advertisements. Furthermore, the system and method further transform the mobile computing device into a machine that allows the user to reposition the advertisements by reallocating the prominent and subordinate positions to different advertisements. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292744 | SMART BILLBOARDS - Methods and apparatus are described by which advertising channels in public spaces are configured to deliver adaptive and targeted advertising in real time. Real-time, contextual information is used to make determinations about the likely audience currently in position to view an advertising channel (e.g., a digital billboard). Appropriate advertisements are then selected based on those determinations. Techniques for measuring user engagement with advertising content are also described. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292745 | DIGITAL PLAQUE MEDIA PANEL AND INFRASTRUCTURE - A digital plaque media panel that displays a certificate, the educational institution associated with the certificate currently displayed on the digital plaque media panel is an alma mater associated with the individual user. The digital plan media panel receives and displays alma mater related news and information, periodically or as needed, to the individual user based on a configuration. An alumni updates and advertisement infrastructure provides alma mater related news and information. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292746 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS BIDS OF ADVERTISEMENT INVENTORY - Methods and systems are described for providing programmatic bidding of advertisement inventory. In one embodiment, an advertising system includes an ad bidding component or module of an ad server and a storage medium coupled to the ad server. The storage medium stores instructions including instructions of the ad bidding component or module. Processing logic is configured to execute the instructions to receive a bid campaign function call for an ad campaign from an advertising entity, determine objectives for the advertising entity including life time value (LTV) for users and return on investment (ROI) for the ad campaign, determine targeted users having characteristics appropriate for satisfying the objectives of the advertising entity, and autonomously determine a dynamic ad bid price parameter and associated group of targeted users that satisfy the objectives of the advertising entity based on having characteristics that satisfy at least three different parameters. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292747 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLACING DISPLAY INFORMATION - The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for placing display information, and belongs to the field of Internet technologies. The method includes: acquiring attribute information of a preset attribute item of a target account; determining, according to a pre-stored correspondence between attribute information and display information pools, a display information pool corresponding to the acquired attribute information, where in the correspondence, directional information of each piece of display information in any one display information pool includes directional information not contradicting attribute information corresponding to the any one display information pool; and placing display information to the target account according to the determined display information pool, and the attribute information of the target account. By using the present disclosure, utilization of display position resources can be improved. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292748 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING SUBSIDIES IN AN ONLINE AUCTION - A first candidate content item and a second candidate content item are identified. The first candidate content item has a first candidate bid value and the second candidate content item has a second candidate bid value. Subject matter of the first candidate content item is identified and compared with item information of an online marketplace to determine a similarity metric. Based on the similarity metric, the first candidate content item is determined to correspond to the online marketplace. Historical competing bid values from historical online auctions are retrieved. A distribution function is determined corresponding to the second candidate bid value. A subsidy value to apply to the first candidate bid value is provided. A combination of the first candidate bid value and the subsidy value is identified as greater than or equal to the second candidate bid value. The first candidate content item is selected for display. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292749 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An image processing device having a processor coupled to a memory. The processor is programmed to process two or more media formats stored in the memory, each media format is made up of a digital image layer that includes non-transparent pixels and may include transparent pixels. The processor is programmed to: set the non-transparent pixels in each of the digital image layer of the two or more media formats to a contrast state, set pixels stored in an off-screen data buffer of the memory to pixels corresponding to a predetermined color scheme, apply an image function to each media format that is drawn to the off-screen data buffer so as to allow the plurality of overlapping media formats to be displayed on the display screen as see through. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292750 | Process and system for determining the quality and condition of real property - A process for determining a rating for the quality and condition of real property which comprises formulating a quality model and a condition model for the real property, and determining, based on the quality and condition models, a rating for the quality and condition of the real property. A non-transitory computer-readable medium is provided comprising encoded instructions for execution by one or more processors of a computer. The instructions when executed are operable to formulate a quality model and a condition model for the real property, and to determine a rating for the quality and condition of the real property. A system is provided comprising one or more processors and instructions encoded in one or more tangible media for determining a rating for the quality and condition of real property. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292751 | PRODUCT VALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention may generally related to systems and methods for valuing used electronic, computing, and/or telecommunications equipment. Some embodiments may enable valuation to approach an efficient market value based on historical sales data and forward projection methods, and/or may also provide improved calculation efficiency. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292752 | ASSESSING QUALITY OF A LOCATION WITH RESPECT TO ITS PROXIMITY TO AMENITIES - A method and system for computing an amenity score for any arbitrary point in a given geographic area. The amenity score may take into account a variety of amenity types and an optional list of user-prioritized amenity types, to compute a score that measures the overall amenity availability for that location. The amenity score may be determined by identifying amenities, assigning a unit function to each identified amenity, summing unit functions to obtain an integrated function for each amenity type, and combining the integrated functions into an amenity score function. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292753 | Systems and Methods for Generating Donations From Payment Account Transactions - Exemplary systems and methods for generating donations to charities based on transactions to payment accounts are disclosed. One exemplary method includes identifying at least one transaction associated with a payment account; generating, by a computing device, a donation value to the payment account based on the at least one transaction; aggregating, by the computing device, the donation value for the at least one transaction; and submitting a donation transaction, to an acquirer associated with the charity, for payment to the charity of an amount based on at least the aggregated donation values. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292754 | METHOD OF SENDING AND TRACKING DONATIONS - A method of making and tracking donations is provided. The present invention may include a platform displayed from a website on a computer or application on a smart device. A user may use the platform to purchase a card. The card is assigned a unique code, which may be printed on the surface of the card. The card is then sent to the user and the user enters the unique code in the platform. The user makes a donation to an entity and then enters information including details about the donation. The information is linked with the unique code and is stored on a database. The user transfers the card to a second user. The second user may enter the unique code on the platform and the details of the donation are displayed. The second user may then be prompted to make another donation and send the card to a third user. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292755 | Method and Apparatus for Funding Causes Through a Gaming Platform - A system and a method is provided that allows for individuals, groups, corporations and others to provide benefits to beneficiaries through a common platform that has activities and other opportunities to provide funds to the beneficiaries. Users can also leverage the system by their activities and associations with other users/groups/corporations/to increase their benefits to the beneficiaries. The system tracks the benefits and, based on reports from the beneficiaries, provides details on the impact of users' contributions to the beneficiaries. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292756 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A FIXED UTILITY BILL - Disclosed is a method of providing a fixed utility bill for a billing period to a utility consumer of a utility product including the steps of maintaining in a rolling historical database, for each utility consumer, environmental indicator, consumption, and optional pricing data, which is used for calculating a continuous probability distributed current expectation value of a quantity of consumption for the utility consumer, calculating a risk position in the form of a current fixed bill based upon the current expectation value, and matching the risk position with a balancing fixed payment to a utility distribution company. Also disclosed is a system architecture for providing the fixed billing process that includes a computer in communication with a rolling historical database. The computer continually monitors the consumption behavior of the utility consumers and current environmental indicators to update the database. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292757 | COMMERCIAL PRODUCT EVALUATION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A product evaluation device includes a receiving means for receiving product specifying information for specifying a product attribute, an acquisition means for acquiring designation in formation corresponding to a product attribute specified by the product specifying information from a storage means storing, for each product attribute, a genuine image showing a characteristic part for evaluating whether a product is a genuine product and designation information designating the characteristic part in association with each other, a request means for requesting a user to take a photograph by designating a characteristic part of the product based on the designation information acquired from the storage means and requesting a photographed image obtained by the photographing, and an output means for outputting an evaluation result obtained based on the photographed image provided in response to the request and the genuine image stored in the storage means. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292758 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY QUALIFY A PARTY TO PARTICIPATE WITHIN A NETWORK-BASED COMMERCE TRANSACTION - A system to automatically qualify a party to participate within a computer-based commerce transaction is described. The system receives, from a first party, item information relating to an item to be offered for sale. The system generates user interface information including criterion information and communicates a user interface, over a network, to a client machine. The system receives from the client machine and from the first party at least a portion of the criterion information. The system parses to identify and extract at least one criterion from the criterion information that is automatically satisfied by a second party to qualify the second party to bid on the item via the computer-based commerce system. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING COLLISION DAMAGE TO A CAR - For determining an estimate of the collision damage to a car, a body part ( | 2016-10-06 |
20160292760 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A ROOFING PLAN WITH COST ESTIMATION - A system and method for automatically generating a roofing plan with cost estimation are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: generating, by use of a data processor, a user interface on a client device for prompting a user to enter a plurality of job parameter inputs, the job parameter inputs including a product selection based on product information received from a plurality of product sources; generating, by use of the data processor, a roofing plan with cost estimation based on the job parameter inputs, the roofing plan including elements from the plurality of job parameter inputs and dynamically computed elements; generating a bid that corresponds to the generated roofing plan; and generating a contract that corresponds to the generated roofing plan. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE MOVING SERVICE PRICE QUOTES THROUGH USE OF PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICES - A price quote computing system identifies one or more agents respectively of one or more moving service providers that are available to conduct a conference session with a first user that operates a first user computing device; enables a conference session between the first user computing device and a first moving service provider computing system, the first moving service provider computing system operated by a first agent of the one or more agents, the conference session comprising an imagery-based tour of a space for which the first user desires moving service; receives data from the first moving service provider computing system that describes a price quote for moving service to be performed by the first moving service provider for the first user for the space based at least in part on the imagery-based tour of the space; and provides the price quote to the first user computing device for presentation to and approval by the first user. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE AND PRIVATE SESSIONS - Examples of a method and system for collaborative and private sessions are provided. A request from a user of a collaborative shopping session is received. The user is associated with a private shopping session that allows access to an item at a special price, the special price being unavailable to non-participants of the private shopping session. Criterion is designated for the private session, the criterion indicating a completion of the private shopping session. User interactions received from a device of the user are processed. Satisfaction of the criterion is determined as a result of the processing. The private shopping session for the user is concluded based on the determination. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292763 | DISCOVERY METHOD FOR BUYERS, SELLERS OF REAL ESTATE - Sellers can, anonymously to buyers if they choose, expose to potential buyers a property that is or may be for sale, with or without a sales price or listing agreement, with as little or as much description of their property as the sellers wish to provide. Potential buyers can identify the location and/or types of properties that they would be interested in purchasing, with as little or as much specificity as they wish, and, at their option, provide information about themselves, such as their financial ability to complete a purchase, to the extent they wish. The system allows sellers to gauge demand for their properties and, if desired, initiate contact with potential buyers who have expressed an interest in purchasing those types of properties. Similarly, the system allows buyers to identify properties that match their interests and, if desired, initiate contact with potential sellers. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292764 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A STORE DIRECTORY BASED ON A PERSONALIZED SHOPPING LIST - A method comprising steps (a) a user at a geographical location using a mobile device logs in to a mobile computer network system; (b) the user generates a list of items; (c) the user enters a plurality of search preferences, wherein the plurality of search preferences consists of a percentage match filter value, a distance filter value, and a selection of optional special preferences filters; and (d) a first directory list is provided as a result of the plurality of search preferences, wherein the directory list comprises a first list of stores. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292765 | DATA COLLECTION FOR CREATING APPAREL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS - Collecting dimension data (e.g., height, chest size, etc.) associated with users and leveraging the dimension data to generate and display size distributions in association with products in an online marketplace is described. The size distributions may summarize data so that users may make sizing decisions based on users with similar user dimensions who acquired a same garment. The size distributions may summarize data so that a user may compare values corresponding to ranges of user dimensions in the context of a size of garment. The values may be determined based on adjusting a baseline value based at least in part on a number of users who acquire a garment, return a previously acquired garment, or provide negative feedback about the size of the garment. Graphical representations, such as pie charts, bar charts, etc., that are representative of the size distributions may be presented to users for providing contextual recommendations and/or information to streamline online shopping transactions. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292766 | Devices And Methods For Acquiring Data Comparison Information - Devices and methods are provided for acquiring data comparison information. For example, a session window of a preset account is switched to in a social networking application, wherein the preset account is configured to provide an inquiry service for a target account; first commodity information for price comparison input into the session window by a user is acquired, wherein the first commodity information is sent to the preset account by the target account and the target account corresponds to a client account of the social networking application used by the user; the first commodity information for price comparison is sent to a server, so that the server determines whether a price comparison result associated with the first commodity information for price comparison is saved; the price comparison result sent by the server is received; and the price comparison result is displayed in the session window. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292767 | COLLABORATIVE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - Disclosed are various embodiments for collaborative electronic commerce. For example, a first network site is implemented in at least one server that sells a first plurality of items via a network. A relationship is identified in the at least one server between a second network site and an aspect of the first network site, where the second network site is configured to sell a second plurality of items via the network. A reference to the second network site is presented to the user in association with a transaction that involves the aspect of the first network site. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292768 | VEHICLE RATINGS VIA MEASURED DRIVER BEHAVIOR - Various systems and methods for obtaining and providing vehicle ratings via measured driver behavior are described herein. A system includes a receiving module to receive vehicle operation data for a vehicle, a determination module to use the vehicle operation data in determining data describing how the vehicle was used, a search module to search a vehicle database to identify vehicles similar to the vehicle. an aggregation module to aggregate the data describing how the vehicle was used with data describing how vehicles similar to the vehicle were used, to produce aggregated data, and a calculation module to calculate a result based on the aggregated data. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292769 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT EMPLOY ADAPTIVE MACHINE LEARNING TO PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods described herein employ adaptive machine learning to provide recommendations to an entity that selects one or more items for a client from an item inventory. Client information, item information, and recommendation algorithms are stored and are accessible by a recommendation engine. The recommendation algorithms utilize the client information and the item information in different manners to identify different subsets of items recommended for a client. Information about two or more of the subsets of the items in the item inventory that are identified are selected for display to the entity tasked with selecting items for the client. Feedback information, including client, selection and/or coverage feedback information, is obtained and adaptive machine learning is used to modify the stored client information, the stored item information and/or stored recommendation algorithm(s), in dependence on the client feedback information, the selection feedback information and/or the coverage feedback information. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292770 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE SIZING AND SHOPPING - A remote shopping system includes at least one server having circuitry configured to receive body measurements corresponding to dimensions of a body of a user as well as at least one body image of the user. The circuitry also processes the at least one body image of the user to determine additional body measurements, generates a shopper avatar having proportional dimensions to the body measurements, and determines shopper clothing sizes corresponding to one or more size charts. A clothing budget is determined including budget subcategories associated with one or more types of clothing, and style preferences are determined based on style, store, and brand inputs. One or more suggested articles of clothing are output to an external device based on the shopper profile, and one or more clothing selections are received. Shopper feedback is received related to the one or more clothing selections. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292771 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PURCHASE OF AN ITEM - The present disclosure relates to a network server of a service provider providing a service. The method comprises receiving a detection message from a mobile radio device running the service for a user registered with the service provider. The registration comprises payment details of the user. The message comprises an indication that said radio device has detected a radio transmitter as well as comprising an identifier of said radio transmitter. The method also comprises determining that the radio transmitter is associated with a purchase order comprising a price of at least one item in a store. The method also comprises sending a purchase order message, comprising information about the purchase order, to the mobile radio device, in response to which a user confirmation message is received, confirming the purchase order. The method may also comprise payment verification. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292772 | Information Processing Apparatus for Automatic Order of Consumable Items - An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface, a storage, and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire consumable item information including remaining amount information about a remaining amount of a consumable item, determine whether an order condition for ordering a new consumable item is met on the basis of the remaining amount information, determine whether the consumable item has been used in rapid pace on the basis of the remaining amount information, receive a user instruction whether an order of the new consumable item is placed when determining that the consumable item currently in use has been used in rapid pace, and transmit order information including information about the order of the new consumable item to a server when determining that the order condition is met or in response to receipt of the user instruction to place the order of the new consumable item. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292773 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PURCHASING MULTIPLE ITEMS BASED ON A BUDGET - In various example embodiments, a system and method for automatically purchasing multiple items within a budget are presented. A budget order request associated with a user is received by a budget purchasing system. The budget order request includes item identification information specifying multiple items to be purchased and a budget amount for the budget order request. The budget ordering system generates an estimated budget for the budget order request. The budget order system generates an estimated budget for the purchase order request based on the estimated current pricing and determines the estimated budget is within the budget amount for the budget order request. The budget purchasing system identifies listings associated with the multiple items and automatically selects listings from the identified listings to purchase the multiple items specified in the budget order request within the budget amount specified in the budget order request. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292774 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC ORDERING OF CONSUMABLE ITEMS - An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface, a storage, and a controller. The controller is configured to: acquire consumable item information including remaining amount information about a remaining amount of a consumable item; output screen information about an input screen to which condition information about an order condition for ordering a new consumable item for replacement is inputted; receive the condition information inputted to the input screen displayed on the basis of the screen information; determine whether or not the order condition represented by the received condition information is met in response to acquisition of the consumable item information; and output order information including information about an order of the new consumable item to a server in response to determination that the order condition represented by the received condition information is met. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292775 | ITEM LIST DISPLAY - Provided are a system and method for displaying an item list, comprising: a list generator on a device that associates a list of items of interest at a retail establishment with feedback data according to locations of the items of interest relative to a location of the device; a location server that determines the locations of the items of interest relative to the location of the device; and an updater that reorders the list of items of interest and associates the feedback data with the reordered list of according to current locations of the items of interest relative to the location of the device. When the device is at a closest item of interest having a predetermined feedback data, the closest item of interest is swiped or removed from the list of items of interest displayed at the user interface, and the list of items of interest is reordered so that the next closest item of interest has the predetermined feedback data. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292776 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER BASED ROUTING - A system and method for providing route information to a user, in which paths provided to the user are automatically selected based on personal information of the user, so that in following the provided paths, the user passes things in which the user may have particular interest. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292777 | DATA STORAGE AND ACCESS SYSTEMS - Data storage and access systems enable downloading and paying for data such as audio and video data, text, software, games and other types of data. A portable data carrier has an interface for sending and receiving data, data memory for storing received content data, and payment validation memory for providing payment validation data to an external device. The carrier may also store a record of access made to the stored content, and content use rules for controlling access to the stored content. Embodiments store further access control data and supplementary data such as hot links to web sites and/or advertising data. A complementary data access terminal, data supply computer system, and data access device are also described. The combination of payment data and stored content data and use rule data helps reduce the risk of unauthorized access to data such as compressed music and video data, especially over the Internet. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292778 | Business Communication Service - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing business communication services are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include detecting a communication initiated by a user, analyzing the detected communication to determine an intended recipient of the communication, determining whether the recipient is responsive to the communication, determining whether to provide visual information associated with the recipient to the user in response to the communication, analyzing one or more prior transactions involving the user and the recipient, identifying a reason that the user initiated the communication with the recipient, determining one or more preferences of the user to generate a personalized user interface comprising the visual information, generating the personalized user interface for the user comprising the visual information, and displaying the personalized user interface to the user in response to the communication, for example, when the recipient is unable to respond to the communication. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292779 | MODIFICATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL GARMENTS USING GESTURES - Techniques for modifying a garment based on gestures are presented herein. An access module can access a first set of sensor data from a first sensor, and a second set of sensor data from a second sensor. A garment simulation module can generate a three-dimensional (3D) garment model of a garment available for sale draped on an avatar based on the first set of sensor data and the second set of sensor data. A display module can cause a presentation, on a display of a device, of the 3D garment model draped on the avatar. Additionally, the garment simulation module can determine a modification gesture associated with the 3D garment model draped on the avatar based on the first set of sensor data and the second set of sensor data. Furthermore, the garment simulation module can modify the 3D garment model based on the determined modification gesture. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292780 | INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - An interactive communication method and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a degree of matching between a product image and a user image, and establishing a connection with a product image provider in response to the degree of matching being greater than a preset threshold. The disclosed interactive communication method and apparatus perform a matching between a product image and a user image, and obtain a degree of matching between the product image and the user image. When the degree of matching between the product image and the user image meets a preset criterion, a connection between a user and a product provider is established. Thus, a better effect of product experience is achieved for an online shopper to select and purchase a product. Furthermore, an interactive communication between the product provider and the online shopper is enhanced. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292781 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING, CONTROLLING AND MONITORING AIR CONDITIONING, HEATING AND AIR QUALITY - An on-premises device that works in conjunction with systems and methods to provide atmosphere control as a service. For example, an on-premises device that works in conjunction with a system and method may provide to, control and monitor air conditioning and/or heating at a premises as a service on e.g., a pay per use and/or subscription plan. In addition to or alternatively, an on-premises device that works in conjunction with a system and method may provide air quality and comfort to a premises as a service. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292782 | OBTAINING CONSENT FOR ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF COMPLIANCE INFORMATION - A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual is prompted by the computer to consent to the computer-aided delivery of additional compliance information. Once consent is indicated, it is communicated from the individual's computer to another computer such as a server over, for example, a modern connection. Having secured the individual's consent, the additional compliance information can be delivered to the individual's computer as, for example, a file attachment to an email message. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292783 | ONLINE MARKETPLACE INTERFACE HAVING A NETWORK OF QUALIFIED USER OFFERS - There are provided systems and methods for an online marketplace having a network of qualified user offers. A service provider may offer an online marketplace to connect lenders and borrowers. A lender may establish a financial offer with the online marketplace by entering at least an amount that the lender wishes to provide to a borrower to the online marketplace. The lender may also establish terms for acceptance of the financial offer, including required collateral, which may take the form of a virtual asset of the borrower. The borrower may access the online marketplace to search and browse financial offers. Once the borrower finds and/or negotiates an acceptable offer, the borrower may receive the amount for the offer after completing the terms of acceptance, including providing the virtual asset to the lender. The lender may then prevent access and/or use of the virtual asset in the event of default. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292784 | WIRELESS BEACON CONNECTIONS FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL LETTERS OF CREDIT ON DETECTION OF A USER AT A LOCATION - There are provided systems and methods for wireless beacon connections for providing digital letters of credit on detection of a user at a location. A payment provider may authorize use of one or more wireless beacons at a merchant location. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292785 | Inter-Product Matrix - Lists of tradeable objects may be generated and displayed to enable a user to define a trading strategy having multiple legs. The lists of tradeable objects may be used to define and display different combinations of the tradeable objects that are included in each of the lists. Each combination of tradeable objects may define the different legs of a spread that may be tradeable on one or more exchanges. A combination of tradeable objects may be selected to display contract information associated with the different legs of the spread. The contract information for each leg may be used to define and display spread information for the legs of the trading strategy. The spread information may allow the user to view information related to the spreads for different combinations of tradeable objects in a display. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292786 | Online Broker Evaluation Strategy - The invention discloses a scheme for the effective evaluation of online brokers of Over-The-Counter (OTC) traded financial assets. The techniques disclosed evaluate online brokers on the basis of a broker-score that is derived from a pricing-score and an execution-score correspondent to each online broker. Pricing-score and execution-score are further derived from pricing data and execution data collected from trading stations/platforms supported by the online brokers. Such data collection is performed with the aid of custom Expert Advisor (EA) modules developed and installed specifically for a given trading platform, e.g. MetaTrader4 (MT4). Evaluation results are generalized across all traders as well as customized according to the trading patterns of an individual trader. The results are presented to the traders as a ranked list of brokers recommended by the evaluation scheme. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292787 | METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF INVESTMENT TRADING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if behavior of interest which may involve a rules violation, a departure from the rules which is not technically a violation or a potential departure from the rules which might make desirable further investigation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292788 | Currency and Financial Instrument Based Digital Assets - This invention is the creation of a novel class of digital assets, currency and financial instrument backed digital assets. This digital asset is backed by currency or other financial instrument to achieve a stable and fixed value and is programmable and uniquely identifiable. This digital asset can be used as a store of value and as a medium of exchange for commerce. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292789 | AUTOMATED REGULATORY COMPLIANCE FOR INSURANCE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described that enable automated review and tracking of compliance of documents with respect to one or more rules or regulations, and, if a deficiency in compliance is detected, automated performance of remedial actions to enable compliance. Flood protection certificate information associated with a property, as well as one or more rules related to the flood protection certificate information, are identified. A compliance status of the flood protection certificate information is automatically determined based on the one or more rules. A result of determining the compliance status of the flood protection certificate information with the one or more rules is then provided. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292790 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING ANNUITY PRODUCT COMPOSITION AND PRICING - A system and method that allows a user to interactively and iteratively create, manage, customize and price optimized annuity product composition is described. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292791 | METHOD AND A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR FORECASTING THE VALUE OF A STRUCTURED FINANCIAL PRODUCT - A method and system for forecasting the value of a structured financial product, which can be a weather-based structured financial product. The method and system calculate a forecast value based on forecasted weather data for a defined time period in a defined geographical area, calculate reference weather data from historical data for the defined time, and the defined geographical area, and calculate a quality indicator, indicative of a forecasting quality associated with the forecasted weather data, based on the forecasted weather data and the reference weather data. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292792 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERCONNECTING ACCOUNTING OPERATIONS - A method and system for receiving, storing, calculating, creating and making accessible sub ledgers to some or all of the business parties sharing a cloud computing space are provided. A business transaction which creates an accounting event is engaged in. As a result, an open item in the first party's sub ledger relating to the business transaction is created. A corresponding open item in the second party's sub ledger based on the open item in the first party's sub ledger is created. The open item and the corresponding open item is presented to the parties. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292793 | SELECTION AND DISPLAY OF A FEATURED PROFESSIONAL PROFILE CHOSEN FROM A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - In various example embodiments, a social network server maintains a social networking service having a plurality of member profiles, each member profile being associated with a member of the social networking service. When the social networking service is accessed by a member, the member is presented with a user interface for interacting with the social networking service where the user interface presents information associated with the member's profile. In addition, the social network server includes various modules for presenting a featured professional profile at a predetermined location within the user interface. These modules include a featured profile selection module, a feature profile display module, and a featured profile communication module that interact to select and display the featured professional profile selected from the various member profiles associated with the social networking service. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292794 | ELECTRONIC GOAL MONITORING - Technologies for electronically monitoring achievement of goals includes a goal achievement computing device that receives section of a goal related to an online presence of a user. The goal achievement computing device indexes online content related to the selected goal and analyzes the indexed online content based on a goal database. The goal database includes conditions that hinder achievement and support achievement of the selected goal. The goal achievement computing device determines a recommendation for achieving the selected goal based on a determination that a portion of the indexed online content satisfies a condition that hinders or a condition supports achievement of the selected goal. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292795 | CHARGING DEVICE OF CIRCULATING WATER UTILIZATION SYSTEM AND CIRCULATING-WATER UTILIZATION SYSTEM - A charging device | 2016-10-06 |
20160292796 | BEVERAGE INVENTORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A beverage inventory system includes a level sensing subsystem configured to interface with a beverage container and to produce one or more electronic signals based on a level of liquid within the container. The system also includes processing structure configured to receive the one or more electronic signals and to compute volume of liquid within the container based on a corresponding signal-volume relationship. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292797 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING PLACEMENT OF AN ORDER - A method and system for facilitating anonymous placement of an order at a restaurant is disclosed. The method may include receiving one or more messages from a user device. The message may include the order. Additionally, in some instances, the message may be transformed into a structured order. Further, the method may include presenting one or more codes to a user and receiving the one or more codes from the user. Moreover, the method may include presenting the order to the user on the user device. Additionally, the method may include performing one or more actions on the one or more messages based on receipt of each of the one or more codes and confirmation of the order from the user. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292798 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTING ITEMS - A method for distributing items comprises directing a batch of an item from a central location to a distribution location that is not dedicated for use in preparing the batch. The distribution location is dedicated to deliver individual quantities of the batch to a given geographic area. Next, an order for the item is received from an electronic device of a customer. The order includes a request to deliver the item to a delivery location that is within the given geographic area. The item is then prepared for delivery to the delivery location. Next, the item is delivered to the customer at the delivery location. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292799 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING OF INTERNET ACCESS SERVICES IN A GUEST FACILITY - A system and method for provisioning Internet access services to guests of a facility (e.g., one or more hotel chains). Equipment and devices for access service are installed throughout the facility. Each device that supports the Internet access services has a unique identifier. Zones representing various public and private areas within each facility are defined and one or more devices are associated with each zone. Service offerings for wired and wireless connections are defined and associated with one or more zones. Service offerings are also paired with pricing plans that provide various payment options and amounts. A web-based administration application allows an administrator to define and manage service offerings associated with the zones. The application also allows the administrator to define and manage the pricing plans. The ability to customize offerings in each facility allows development of consistent offerings, regardless of the size or layout of the facility. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292800 | Automated Real Estate Valuation System - An automated real estate valuation system for a selected specific property, that uses specific property input attributes items and a plurality of primary token features that are disposed within a specific tract of land, in addition, a plurality of recently sold property input data set items and a plurality of secondary token features that are disposed within the same specific tract of land. Sold properties are qualified by being within first and second ranges of first and second matched items to the specific property, wherein common features are removed and remaining features are given a tokenized grouping and weight via an algorithm to explain price per square foot differences between sold properties. These weights are used determine a calculated value of the specific property by determining a calculated value per square foot based upon the weight of the features associated with the specific property. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292801 | System and Method for Creating, Managing, and Searching Real Estate Listings - A real estate listing search system includes: a processor; a database of real estate listing records in communication with the processor, each real estate listing record including a property, identified by a property identifier, and a plurality of real estate features associated with the property; a display in communication with the processor; and memory in communication with the processor, the memory including computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the processor to: receive, from a user, a set of preferred real estate features; compile a list of real estate listing records ordered by a percentage of matching features, and display the list of real estate listing records on the display, the displayed list including the property identifier and a visual representation of the percentage of matching features. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292802 | Asset Management Support System - An asset management support system of the present invention issues a work order to an asset facility for inspection and maintenance and includes a facilities information database that stores inspection and maintenance results, a health index database that stores a state of the asset facility and surroundings around the asset facility as a health index, a comparison function that considers the health index as actual facility status of the asset facility and compares the actual facility status with a maintenance expectation effect estimated from an asset facility state at a time of installation of the asset facility or previous inspection and maintenance, an operation knowledge database that stores operation knowledge of an operator, a maintenance process update function that extracts an operation change of the inspection and maintenance and updates the facilities information database, and a work order issuing function that issues the work order for the inspection and maintenance. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292803 | Document Analysis System, Document Analysis Method, and Document Analysis Program - A document analysis system obtains digital information recorded in plural computers or servers, analyzes document information configured by plural documents, included in the obtained digital information, and provides the document information for easy use in a lawsuit or an illegality inspection. The document analysis system includes: an inspection category input receiving unit that receives an input of a category of the lawsuit or the illegality inspection; an inspecting unit that performs an inspection based on the category received by the inspection category input receiving unit; and a report preparing unit that prepares a report for reporting a result of the inspection performed by the inspecting unit. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292804 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, CONTRACT CREATION SYSTEM, CONTRACT VERIFICATION SYSTEM, AND FINAL CIPHER CREATION SYSTEM - A computer-readable recording medium records a contract creation program for creating a contract image of a contract executed by parties each having private key. The program causes a computer to perform steps of: creating, for each party, a signature image of handwritten signature; creating, for each party, signature identification information for identifying the signature image; creating text identification information for identifying contract body text; creating, for each party, an intermediate cipher by enciphering the signature identification information of the party and the text identification information with the private key of the party; creating, for each party, a final cipher by enciphering the signature identification information of the party and the intermediate ciphers of all other parties with the private key of the party; creating an optical mark from each final cipher; and creating the contract image including the text, the signature images, and the optical marks disposed in predetermined columns. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292805 | SHARING CONTENT UNDER UNIT-BASED LICENSING - Sharing content under unit-based licensing may include receiving a content request from a device associated with a receiving user, the content request indicating content and a customer account, the content request generated in response to the device associated with the receiving user receiving a content communication from a sending user, the content communication indicating the content, identifying a cardinality of assigned units for the content, identifying a cardinality of available units for the customer account, determining, by a processor, whether the cardinality of assigned units is within the cardinality of available units, outputting a response indicating that the content request is granted on a condition that the cardinality of assigned units is within the cardinality of available units, and outputting a response indicating that the content request is denied on a condition that the cardinality of assigned units exceeds the cardinality of available units. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292806 | SYSTEM FOR RECEIVING STUDENT FEEDBACK - A system for receiving student feedback is provided. The system includes loading a student application for at least one student and a teacher application for a teacher; submitting a class roster, content information, and exhibits from the teacher to a teacher administrative interface; a server receiving the class roster, content information and exhibits from the teacher administrative interface; the at least one student following the inputs on the application; the at least one student submitting feedback to the application as to the understanding of a session; the teacher adjusting the session based on the feedback received; and the teacher controlling the distribution of quizzes, exhibits and assessments. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292807 | System and Method for Selecting a Physician and Other Professional Service Providers - The invention is a method for selecting a professional service provider, the steps including visiting a web page that has implemented provider reviews; updating a div on the web page; making a request to an RSS feed for provider information; parsing the information, and generating XML related to an RSS specification. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292808 | PARKING FACILITY OCCUPANCY MANAGEMENT USING RETAIL INCENTIVES - In an approach to manage parking facility occupancy, a computing device retrieves a customer identification for a customer entering a parking facility and determines whether a customer profile is available for the customer. Upon determining the customer profile is available, the computing device retrieves the customer profile from a database. Additionally, the method includes the computing device determining, based, at least in part, on the customer profile, a customer spending level for the customer. Furthermore, the computing device determines whether an alert is received, the alert indicating a parking facility occupancy level is predicted to attain an alert threshold level. In response to determining the alert is received, the computing device determines a retail incentive for the customer, based, in part, on the customer spending level. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292809 | Feature Resolutions Sensitivity For Counterfeit Determinations - A counterfeit identification performance attribute (SIPA) sensitivity to changes in resolution of the image for features of an image is determined. The CIPA sensitivity for the features is used to choose at least one feature to determine whether the image on a sample is a counterfeit. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292810 | LOCAL MANAGEMENT FOR INTERMEDIARY GRAPHICS RENDITION - Technologies related to intermediary graphics rendition are generally described. In some examples, one or more devices in a local network may be equipped to serve as real-time graphics rendering intermediary computing devices for clients in the local network. A graphics rendering manager for the local network may collect graphics processing capability information of the devices in a local network, and may select computing device(s) in the local network to serve as intermediary computing device(s). The graphics rendering manager may interact with a system controller at a server or datacenter to direct compositing flow(s) to the selected computing device(s), responsive to system controller requests to initiate intermediary graphics rendering for clients in the local network. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292811 | METHOD FOR THE INTERACTIVE PARALLEL PROCESSING OF DATA ON A CLUSTER WITH THE GRAPHIC INPUT/OUTPUT ON A VISUALISATION DEVICE - A method of calculation that is simultaneously parallel and graphic able to run on clusters with various operating systems such as for example Windows HPC and Unix. A program realized according to such a method is able to perform a parallel calculation on a cluster, by means of a message-passing system (for example MPI), and at the same time to visualise an interactive graphic interface (GUI). The program according to the method runs in parallel and executes the calculation in parallel as defined by user instructions that are provided through a GUI. The GUI is generated, managed and visualised within the cluster itself and therefore it is not necessary to connect to it by an external PC. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292812 | HYBRID 2D/3D GRAPHICS RENDERING - A graphics processing unit (GPU) may perform three-dimensional (3D) graphics processing in accordance with a 3D graphics pipeline using a first plurality of graphics processing hardware units of the GPU. The GPU may further perform a two-dimensional (2D) graphics operation using a second plurality of graphics processing hardware units of the GPU not used in performing the 3D graphics processing and one or more graphics processing hardware units of the first plurality of graphics processing hardware units of the GPU. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292813 | DIRECT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GPU AND FPGA COMPONENTS - A system may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The system may further include a bus interface that is external to the FPGA, and that is configured to transfer data directly between the GPU and the FPGA without storing the data in a memory of a central processing unit (CPU) as an intermediary operation. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292814 | MANAGING BACK PRESSURE DURING COMPRESSED FRAME WRITEBACK FOR IDLE SCREENS - A display pipe is configured to generate output frames for display. Additionally, the display pipe may be configured to compress an output frame and write the compressed frame back to memory responsive to detecting static content in successive output frames. The display pipe may also be configured to determine to selectively allow write-back logic to operate when doing so will not cause a pixel underrun to the display. If an underrun might occur, write-back logic is temporarily disabled. If write-back is successful, the display pipe may read the compressed frame from memory for display instead of reading the source frames for compositing and display. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292815 | PRIORITIZED REQUESTING OF MAPPING LAYERS - A mapping system disclosed herein includes a requestor that transmits requests for different layer sets of mapping data for a digital map to one or more data sources across a network according to a predefined order. According to one implementation, the mapping system also processes and/or renders the different layer sets to a display according to the predefined order. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292816 | HYBRID ON-DEMAND GRAPHICS TRANSLATION TABLE SHADOWING - In several embodiments, a graphics processor couples to a virtual machine monitor (VMM) to present a virtual graphics processor to one or more virtual machines. A mediator for the virtual graphics processor synchronously shadows modifications to a guest graphics translation table (GTT) of a virtual machine to a shadow GTT of the VMM using trap and emulate virtualization. If the mediator detects a frequency of modifications to the guest GTT that exceeds a threshold the mediator may then asynchronously shadow at least a portion of the guest GTT to the shadow GTT and rebuild the shadow GTT prior to submitting commands for the virtual graphics processor to the graphics processor. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292817 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING WIDE-AREA MOTION IMAGERY FRAMES AS OBJECTS ON AN OBJECT STORAGE DEVICE - A method, implemented by a computer system, and a system of organizing data of a wide area motion imagery frame and a method and a system of retrieving objects that match a user defined AOI from an image in a WAMI frame in a WAMI collection are described. The method of organizing includes dividing, by the computer system, an image of a WAMI frame into a plurality of tiles, each tile in the plurality of tiles comprising a plurality of pixels and having a pixel width and a pixel height; storing, by the computer system, the plurality of tiles as objects in an OSD, each object having an object identifier (OID); collecting, by the computer system, object identifiers (OIDs) of the objects; and storing, by the computer system, the OIDs in the OSD. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292818 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A medical image display apparatus includes a display unit that displays at least partial paths of a plurality of paths of a tubular structure identified from a medical image, the at least partial paths including a first path and a second path that are displayed separately from each other, and a display magnification determining unit that determines at least one of a display magnification and a display position of at least one of the displayed first and second path based on whether the first path and the second path has a common part to each other, wherein the display unit displays the first path and the second path and displays one of the first path and the second path at a determined display magnification. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292819 | RESOLUTION ESTIMATING DEVICE - A resolution estimating device is achieved which is capable of adequately estimating the resolution of the original image of any received image signal. A resolution estimating device ( | 2016-10-06 |
20160292820 | TILING-DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A tiling-display system includes an image source device, a splitter unit, a plurality of control units, and a plurality of display devices. The splitter unit receives a source image from the image source device and outputs a plurality of replication images. Each of the source image and the replication images has a first image size. The control units receive the replication images and generate sub-images according to groups of setting parameters. Each of the groups of setting parameter includes a scale, a shift and a rotation angle. The shifts of the group of the setting parameters are different from each other, and each of the plurality of sub-images has a second image size and the corresponding rotation angle. The display devices receive and display the sub-images from the control units. The display devices are arranged according to the rotation angle and display a tiled image. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292821 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PANORAMIC IMAGE USING SINGLE LOOK-UP TABLE - An apparatus and a method for displaying a panoramic image using a look-up table (LUT) are disclosed, including generating an LUT may include determining first geometric correction information to transform an input domain pixel coordinate system of an input image to a panorama domain pixel coordinate system of a panoramic image, determining second geometric correction information to transform an output domain pixel coordinate system of an output image of the panoramic image to the panorama domain pixel coordinate system of the panoramic image, determining third geometric correction information to transform the output domain pixel coordinate system of the output image to the input domain pixel coordinate system of the input image based on the first geometric correction information and second geometric correction information, and generating an LUT that maps the output domain pixel coordinate system of the output image to the input domain pixel coordinate system of the input image. | 2016-10-06 |
20160292822 | SUPER-RESOLUTION IN PROCESSING IMAGES SUCH AS FROM MULTI-LAYER SENSORS - Pixels of an array capture values for an input image. The captured values correspond to pixel center points of the pixels that captured the values. Additional values about the input image may be further computed from the captured values. These additional values may correspond to additional center points, which can be different from any of the pixel center points. An output image may be constructed from the captured values plus the additional values. These values may be stored together and/or displayed together as the output image. Embodiments are applicable to images such as from multi-layer sensors. Since the output image can be created from a higher total number of values than those captured by the available number of pixels, such image processing can be called super-resolution, and can be applied to image processing within imaging devices, for still pictures, video and motion pictures, and so on. | 2016-10-06 |