41st week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 47 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150287028 | Systems and Methods for Authenticating Electronic Transactions - The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for authenticating electronic transactions. A system for authenticating electronic transactions may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to receive transaction data associated with a transaction and further associated with a customer. The transaction data includes a customer identifier. The one or more processors may be configured to identify a customer account associated with the customer based on the customer identifier, and determine an authentication tier level associated with the transaction. The authentication tier level may reflect one or more levels of authentication required to authorize the transaction. The one or more processors may be configured to receive authentication data associated with a customer, and determine whether the authentication data satisfies the authentication tier level associated with the transaction and authorize the transaction when the authentication data satisfies the authentication tier level. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287029 | MOBILE PAYMENT SYSTEM AND MOBILE PAYMENT METHOD USING DYNAMIC TRACK 2 INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a mobile payment method using dynamic track 2 information, which provides a mobile payment environment having improved security by: enabling a card company server to process all encoding and decoding steps for track 2 information; and preventing a payment device, a card reader, and a relay server from being involved in the encoding and decoding steps. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287030 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS AUTHORIZATION OF TRANSACTIONS WITH MOBILE PAYMENT DEVICES - Methods for authorizing wireless payment transactions that include encrypting, with an encryption module on the mobile payment device, a payment account token stored on a mobile payment device and a session key generated on the mobile payment device with a public key. The methods also include transmitting the encrypted payment account token and session key to a vending machine, further encrypting, with the vending machine, the encrypted payment account token and session key with a device key, and transmitting, from the vending machine, the encrypted payment account token and session key to a central server. The methods further include decrypting the payment account token and session key with the device key and with a private key stored at the central server and sending an authorization determination and session key from the central server to the vending machine based on the decrypted payment account token and session key. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287031 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CARD TRANSACTIONS - A secure payment system comprises a merchant POS client and a remote POS server. The merchant POS client comprises a reading device for reading a customer user token and for accepting transaction details and customer verification data, and also a computing device with access to a communications network and in communication with the reading device. The merchant POS client also comprises a merchant token associated with the remote POS server. The remote POS server is in communication with the merchant POS client through the communications network, and one or more elements of the merchant POS client business logic are assured by the remote POS server and not the merchant POS client. A merchant token for use in such a merchant POS client is described, as is a suitable reader device, and a method of conducting a transaction using such a payment system. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287032 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONNECTING MULTIPLE MERCHANTS TO AN INTERACTIVE ELEMENT IN A WEB PAGE - A method for redirecting a user apparatus to a merchant web page includes: transmitting web page data corresponding to a web page to be displayed on a user apparatus, the web page includes at least one interactive element; receiving an indication of a user interaction with an interactive element; storing, a plurality of merchant data entries, each entry including a merchant web page, an indication of interest, and an associated interactive element; identifying, a subset of the plurality of data entries, wherein each entry in the subset is associated with the interactive element; identifying, in the subset, a single entry based on the indication of interest of each entry in the subset; and transmitting redirecting data to redirect the user apparatus to the merchant web page associated with the single entry. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287033 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TESTING SUCCESS OF REMOTE PERSONALIZATION - Systems, apparatus and methods for cost effectively and accurately testing the validity and/or success of an over-the-air (OTA) personalization of a payment-enabled mobile device. In an embodiment, a process includes transmitting, by a mobile device processor to an issuer financial institution (FI) computer, a request for a unique number, receiving the unique number, generating a cryptogram based on the unique number, and transmitting the cryptogram and a zero value purchase amount transaction request to the issuer FI computer. The process also includes receiving, by the mobile device processor, a zero value transaction authorization message from the issuer FI computer which indicates that the payment application successfully loaded and is functional. In some embodiments, a payment application load success message is then displayed on a display component of the payment-enabled mobile device. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287034 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING A DATA STRUCTURE SUMMARIZING ITEM INFORMATION IN AUTHORIZATION REQUEST MESSAGES FOR COMMUNICATION IN TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING MULTIPLE ITEMS - A system and method includes an authorization request message configured with information about transaction amounts of items aggregated according to item categories and applicable rates for the items in the respective categories. Based on the information provided in the authorization request, a transaction handler is configured to compute a modified transaction amount for the transaction by reducing the transaction amount of items in one or more of the categories, without reducing the transaction amount(s) of items in one or more other categories, and computing a total transaction amount based on the reduction and the applicable rates. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287035 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDED PASSCODE ENTRY - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating guided entry of a passcode. The exemplary guided passcode entry system provides additional security to traditional secret PIN or passcode entry systems by generating a randomized input sequence (order of entry) and prompting the user to input the passcode according to the randomized input sequence. The system also causes a test of the user's input data against a database of passcodes associated with the particular user for an exact match. The testing step can include comparing the characters of the input data to a particular passcode associated with the user which is stored in a database in accordance with the randomized input sequence in regard to the order that the input data was received. Based on the comparison of the received pin to the stored pin, the system can advance the transaction with the user. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287036 | Method and System for Secure Mobile Payment Transactions - A method for facilitating the widespread use of the PIN-Debit payment method for Internet “eCommerce” and mobile payments sales which requires little or no change for the cardholders, merchants, debit networks and card issuers based primarily on the introduction of a layer of middleware and wherein the Debit Networks and Issuing Banks may customize the implementation of the services based on individual strategy and cardholder preferences. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287037 | DATA PASSED IN AN INTERACTION - A method for providing first data and second data for an interaction is disclosed. The first data is beneficial to a first party and necessary for the interaction, while the second data is beneficial to a second party and is not necessary for the interaction. The first data and second data are provided by a first party device in a single data element. A second party device receives the single data element, separates the first data and second data, and processes the first data and second data separately. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287038 | DATA VISUALIZATION USING DISPLACEMENT SHAPES - Data visualizations include first and optionally second containers representing first and second time periods, respectively; each container encloses icons representing data entities associated with the container's time period. Icons from the first and second containers may be moved to the other container to change the time periods associated with data entities corresponding to the moved icons. Additionally, changes to attributes of data entities made via the data visualization may be shared with other users. A level indicator representing data entities associated with the first container aggregate attribute value changes in response to icons being added to or removed from the first container. The containers may be visually styled as cups, the level indicators as liquid and/or a straw contained in the cup, and the icons as bubbles or other objects in the liquid. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287039 | LIVE ASSIST - Customer assistance is provided by leveraging certain contact center infrastructure components to a retail setting. Often contact centers have a wealth of information regarding individual products and services a retail setting may offer. The information, as provided herein, may then be delivered to the customer in the form of a dialogue. The dialogue may be based, in part, on a contact center dialogue for the same or similar item. The customer may then be instructed to perform an act, such as retrieving another item at a certain location. Unlike a contact center, the physical presence of the customer provides an opportunity to receive feedback in the form of monitor the customer's actions to determine if the customer complied with instructions. Optionally, a follow up activity may be imitated based on the customer's compliance. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287040 | SYSTEM ENFORCED TWO-PARTY VERIFICATION PROCESS IN CUSTOMER SUPPORT WORKFLOW - A system-enforced two party verification process is described. An action to be taken on a resource is permitted when that resource is tagged with a same code by both a service vendor and the customer to whom the resource is associated. The system issues the code to the service vendor and relies on the service vendor to provide the code to the customer. The system then permits the action to be taken on the resource or automatically causes the action to be taken upon receipt of the code being applied by the customer to the same resource as previously indicated by the service vendor. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287041 | System and Method For Exchanging Support Data With a Device Having No Physical User Interface - A system and method for facilitating a request for technical assistance for a device ( | 2015-10-08 |
20150287042 | MICRO VIDEO ASSISTANT - A method for retrofitting a vending machine with a video communications device includes securing a video communications device with a mounting feature of the video communications device removably coupled with a mounting location on a vending machine. The video communications device includes a video communications module for real-time interactions with a ticket office. The video communications module includes a display, a camera, a speaker, and a microphone. The video communications device includes a video communication device communications interface. The method includes electronically coupling the video communications device with a power supply of the vending machine and communicatively coupling the video communications device with the vending machine such that functions of the vending machine are controllable using the video communications device. The method includes communicatively coupling the video communications device with the ticket office for real-time video communications with the ticket office. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287043 | NETWORK-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF DEVICE USAGE PATTERNS THAT CAN INDICATE THAT THE USER HAS A QUALIFYING DISABILITY - The present disclosure is directed to a method, instructions and system to collect accommodation and/or impairment-related information associated with one or more computational devices associated with a user, determine, based on the collected accommodation and/or impairment-related information, that the user potentially requires accommodation of an impairment and/or disability, and perform an action associated with the determination that the user potentially requires accommodation of an impairment and/or disability. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287044 | COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES - This patent application relates to compliance management techniques for interactively managing an entity's compliance. Entities can remain compliant by utilizing an interactive compliance status dashboard and other compliance tools that allow the entity's current compliance status can be interactively tracked and presented via the dashboard. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287045 | COMPLIANCE SYSTEM FOR DISPLAY UNITS IN A RETAIL SETTING - A system for monitoring compliance with a retail display program includes a beacon coupled to a promotional display structure. The beacon is configured to transmit a beacon signal that includes a beacon ID and is configured to be received by a user device. A database stores the beacon ID along with a specified retail facility and time period associated with the promotional display structure. A computing device is configured to receive a beacon data record at least partially generated by the user device. The beacon data record includes the beacon ID, a time stamp, and location-specific data associated with a retail facility in which the beacon data record is generated. The computing device is configured to compare the location-specific data and time stamp to the specified retail facility and time period to determine whether the promotional display structure is displayed in the specified retail facility during the specified time period. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287046 | AUTOMATIC MERCHANT-IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Merchant accounts associated with sales of counterfeit or other prohibited goods may be automatically discovered by identifying websites that have traits characteristic of those that sell prohibited goods. Automated browsing sessions are established with the respective websites, in which communication traffic, page identifiers, and page contents are captured for analysis. During each of the automated sessions, a website is automatically navigated to locate and visit a payment-processing page associated with a known payment processor. The captured data from the session is analyzed to identify a merchant account established with the payment processor for receiving proceeds from sales of prohibited goods. In some cases, the captured data is analyzed to identify a common merchant and/or page identifier that was encountered in multiple sessions. Multiple otherwise unrelated websites may thereby be grouped together as being likely associated with a common merchant account. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287047 | Extracting Information from Chain-Store Websites - Provided is a process of extracting structured chain-store data from chain-store websites, the process including: identifying, via a processor, a store-locator webpage from a store website; querying the store-locator webpage for store locations in a geographic area; detecting a repeating pattern in a document object model (DOM) of a responsive webpage returned by the store website, the repeating pattern containing location information for stores in the geographic area; extracting, from the repeating pattern, location information for the stores in the geographic area; and storing the location information in a business listing repository. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287048 | SIGHT INFORMATION COLLECTION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for collecting an using eye heading and sight heading information in head worn computing. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANTLY MEASURING AND UPDATING CUSTOMER LOYALTY FOR BRANDS ON A DIGITAL WORLD MAP THROUGH UTILIZATION OF COLOR AND DIGITS - A system and method for instantly measuring and updating customer loyalty for one or more brands on a digital world map through utilization of color and digits is disclosed. The system may include a measuring and updating customer loyalty for one or more brands non-transitory storage media. The method may include uploading a measuring and updating customer loyalty for one or more brands non-transitory storage media onto a memory system declaring brand loyalty thereby increasing a brand's indicia color on a digital world map and retracting brand loyalty thereby decreasing the brand's indicia color on the digital world map. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287050 | SPLIT TESTING FRAMEWORK - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for providing a split testing framework. An example method includes identifying a test scenario associated with an application, the test scenario including a plurality of variant definitions each including at least one variation in the application, the test scenario including at least one behavior condition to be measured, and a balancing strategy defining how to direct requests to different application variants; initiating a plurality of application variants, each corresponding to one of the plurality of variant definitions in the test scenario and including the variation included in the variant definition; directing requests from a plurality of clients to the plurality of application variants based on the balancing strategy; and determining an effect of each variation in the application on the behavior condition included in the test scenario based on logging data associated with the plurality of application variants. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING GROWING COMPANIES AND MONITORING GROWTH USING NON-OBVIOUS PARAMETERS - The focus of this invention is to provide an efficient growth analytical system for companies. The inventive system taught here describes a ranking system that ranks companies based on a combination of factors including non-obvious parameters corresponding to the type of company whose growth is being analyzed. The ranking is based on weightages associated with different data points, the data points being indicative of growth parameters. Companies are ranked and re-ranked based on appropriate data point and/or time period selection by a user. The users are provided “user handles” to tweak ranking per their desired criteria. Such a system would help investors and key players to make better business decisions when analyzing smaller non-listed companies. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287052 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING FESTIVAL BEST-SELLING COMMODITY - The invention provides a method and a device for determining a festival best-selling commodity, which is capable of filtering a festival best-selling commodity more accurately from a large number of commodities. The method comprises the following steps of: for each commodity in a plurality of commodities, based on a comparison of sales of the commodity during a predetermined festival to sales in a predetermined time period during which the festival lasts, calculating a best-selling degree of the commodity during the festival; and determining a commodity with a higher best-selling degree as the festival best-selling commodity. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING CONSUMER HABITS AT A VENUE - There is provided a system and method for tracking consumer habits at a venue. First request data indicative of a first request for at least one of a first plurality of products offered at the venue by a first service is received. Second request data indicative of a second request for at one of a second plurality of products offered at the venue by a second service is received. The first request data is correlated with the second request data to determine a relationship between a first consumption of the first plurality of products and a second consumption of the second plurality of products. Correlation data indicative of the relationship is then output. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287054 | AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF RAPPORT - In selected embodiments, one or more wearable mobile devices provide videos and other sensor data of one or more participants in an interaction, such as a customer service or a sales interaction between a company employee and a customer. A computerized system uses machine learning expression classifiers, temporal filters, and a machine learning function approximator to estimate the quality of the interaction. The computerized system may include a recommendation selector configured to select suggestions for improving the current interaction and/or future interactions, based on the quality estimates and the weights of the machine learning approximator. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287055 | Development of Dynamic Business Data for Marketing to Moving Spatiotemporal Phenomena and Events - Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method of developing data for use by a business system. The method includes identifying, by a processor circuit, an occurrence having at least one characteristic that changes over time. The method further includes determining, by the processor circuit, a pattern of the change over time, wherein the pattern includes past changes and expected future changes. The method further includes identifying, by the processor circuit, a plurality of associations among data of an offering, data of a potential consumer and the pattern of the at least one characteristic's change over time. The plurality of associations also change over time, and the data for use by the business system is derived from the plurality of associations that change over time. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287056 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A processing apparatus, a processing method, and a program that generates a selection model obtained by modeling selection behavior of a target to a given choice. The processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire learning data including at least one selection behavior for learning in which choices given to the target are input choices and choices selected out of the input choices are output choices, an input vector generating unit configured to generate an input vector that indicates whether each of a plurality of kinds of choices is included in the input choices, and a learning processing unit configured to learn the selection model using the input vector corresponding to an input choice for learning and the output choices. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287057 | NETWORK DEMAND FORECASTING - Approaches for predicting demand spikes and cyclic demand for web-related content is provided. An approach includes generating multiple models for predicting demand. The approach further includes selecting a model from the multiple models. The approach further includes inputting information into the model. The approach further includes generating, by at least one computing device, a predicted demand spike using the model and the information. The approach further includes generating a total predicted demand curve by combining the predicted demand spike with predicted cyclical demand. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING PRICES FOR PARKING USING BLOCKING RATES AND TRAFFIC FLUX - A system and method for recommending pricing using blocking rates and traffic flux. For a given block face, occupancy and traffic flow information are collected and analyzed to determine a blocking rate. The traffic flux for the block face is determined using the collected traffic flow information. External costs, including cost to drivers slowed and cost to drivers blocked from parking are estimated and a cost rate is determined as a function of the blocking rate, the traffic flux, and the external costs. A utility rate is calculated and a price change is recommended based upon a maximization of the utility rate. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287059 | FORECASTING DEVICE RETURN RATE - Systems and methods for forecasting device return rates are disclosed. Some implementations include identifying correlations between device return cause codes and corresponding device return rates for one or more devices, computing, based on the identified correlations, correlation indexes for each of the device return cause codes, ranking the computed correlation indexes associated with each of the device return cause codes, selecting, a subset of device return cause codes, determining a relationship between the selected subset of the return cause codes and corresponding device return rates, mapping one or more measured key performance indicators (KPIs) of a particular device to return cause codes of the device, and estimating a device return rate for the particular device based on the mapped KPIs and the determined relationship. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287060 | PRODUCT SCORE METHOD AND SYSTEM - Disclosed in one embodiment is a method implemented in a computer system for determining a score of a product. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287061 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To represent selection behavior of a cognitively-biased consumer as a learnable model having high prediction accuracy. there is provided a processing apparatus including a parameter storing unit configured to store first weight values set among nodes between an input layer and an intermediate layer and second weight values set among nodes between the intermediate layer and an output layer, an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of input values to a plurality of input nodes, and a calculating unit configured to calculate a plurality of output values from a plurality output nodes corresponding to the plurality of input values using a prediction model in which the influence of the second weight value set between the output node and the intermediate node corresponding to the input node, the input value to which is equal to or smaller than a threshold is reduced. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287062 | PERSONALIZED CUSTOMER SURVEYS - In order to provide a survey that reflects details of a communication session between two parties, content of an established communication session between the parties is monitored. One or more topics in the content of the communication session are identified. For example, a voice communication between a customer and a call center agent can be monitored to identify a specific topic, such as a discussion about car insurance. Based on the identified topic, a survey is generated by incorporating the topic into the survey. For example, the survey can include a question regarding the customer's car insurance of his four wheel drive SUV, which was discussed during the call. The survey is then presented to or sent to a party of the communication session. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287063 | TRIGGERING AND CONDUCTING AN AUTOMATED SURVEY - Systems and methods for initiating and conducting an automated survey are disclosed herein. According to some implementations, a processing device of a computer may receive a notification of an occurrence of a trigger event after the occurrence of the trigger event, initiate an automated survey to be offered to the customer, conduct the automated survey with the customer, and receive survey result information from the customer in response to the automated survey. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287064 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING TRAVEL PATHS BASED ON CARDHOLDER TRANSACTIONS - A computer-implemented method for generating travel paths based on cardholder transactions is provided. The method uses a computing device having a processor communicatively coupled to a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of payment transactions from a plurality of cardholders, calculating by the computing device a plurality of modeled paths based on the plurality of payment transactions where each modeled path of the plurality of modeled paths identifies a series of two or more locations where a payment transaction was initiated by a specific cardholder during a specific period of time, and displaying by the computing device a selected subset of the plurality of modeled paths. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287065 | LINKING PROMOTIONAL TERMS - Among other things, a computer-implemented method includes: identifying terms of a promotion associated with a vehicle model; determining a vehicle identification number associated with the identified terms of the promotion, the determination based on: 1) a relationship between the vehicle model and the vehicle identification number, and 2) a transaction that identifies the vehicle identification number as associated with a purchase tool; and in response to a request to activate the purchase tool, linking the purchase tool to the terms of the promotion. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287066 | AFFILIATE MARKETING SYSTEM: METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention is a method and system for marketing by an affiliate of a retailer using electronic coupons. Data in the electronic coupon may include an affiliate ID, a consumer ID, and an offer to discount one or more products from the retailer. The electronic coupon is accessed by the retailer, either through a point-of-sale system in a store, by accessing information on a mobile device of the consumer, or online. A commission is applied by a processing system to products purchased during the transaction, but the affiliate is responsible to reimburse the retailer for the amount of any discount attributable to the coupon that would otherwise financially impact the retailer. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287067 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING MERCHANT LOYALTY PROGRAMS WITH PAYMENT CARDS - A computer-based method for providing a loyalty identifier to a merchant using a payment network is described. The method includes storing data including at least one loyalty identifier associated with a cardholder enrolled in a loyalty program and a corresponding payment card identifier, receiving a first authorization request message for a payment transaction initiated by a first cardholder using a first payment card at an originating merchant, the first authorization request message including a first merchant identifier and a first payment card identifier, determining a first loyalty program associated with the originating merchant based in part on the first merchant identifier and the data stored in the memory, determining a first loyalty identifier associated with the first cardholder for the first loyalty program based in part on the first payment card identifier and the data stored in the memory, and providing the first loyalty identifier to the originating merchant. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287068 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POOLING AND CONVERTING PURCHASE REWARDS TO CASH FOR END-USERS - A purchase rewards pooling and conversion system includes computing devices configured to execute modules. The modules include a user account module, a loyalty program identification module configured to receive and store information pertaining to a user's loyalty program membership, a transaction module configured to initiate purchase transactions with a retailer, a loyalty program application module configured to identify stored loyalty program membership information corresponding to a purchase transaction and transmit the stored loyalty program membership information to the retailer during the purchase transaction, a loyalty program reward conversion module configured to transmit to the retailer, with the purchase transaction, instructions to convert a portion of the loyalty program rewards earned by the purchase into a different form of rewards, a converted loyalty program rewards module configured to receive converted loyalty program rewards from the retailer, an interactive account information module, and a disbursement module configured to apply converted loyalty program rewards to at least one of a user's banking information and a purchase transaction. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287069 | PERSONAL DIGITAL ENGINE FOR USER EMPOWERMENT AND METHOD TO OPERATE THE SAME - A personal digital engine for personal engine for user empowerment includes content viewing or generating activities, and generate information including the user's content viewing or generating activities; a push content system configured to generate content according to the information including the user's content viewing or generating activities; a loyalty points system configured to generate loyalty points for the user according to the information including the user's content viewing or generating activities; a central processing system configured to interact with the pull content system, the push content system and the loyalty points system; a data storage configured to store the information including the user's content viewing or generating activities; and a user interface configured to display the information including the user's content viewing or generating activities. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A REWARDS PROGRAM BASED ON ELECTRONIC ACQUISITION OF A DISPLAYED DYNAMIC MARK | 2015-10-08 |
20150287071 | PERFORMANCE BASED APPROVAL IN CMS WORKFLOW PROCESS - A method for testing a new workflowed item associated with a workflow process in a content management system (CMS) is provided. The method may include adding a workflow stage to the workflow process in the content management system (CMS). The method may also include adding a test associated with the workflow stage. The method may further include determining if a criteria threshold is met based on the test associated with the workflow stage. Additionally, the method may include publishing the new workflowed item based on the criteria threshold being met. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287072 | System and Method for Optimizing the Presentation and Delivery of Content - Arrangements are directed to dynamically optimizing the delivery of targeted and/or geographically relevant content. A geographical area can be divided into a virtual grid comprising a plurality of cells. Geographically relevant information can be assigned to the plurality of cells. Responsive to receiving a request to output content to information playback devices within a selected set of the cells, content can be output to an information playback device that is located within a respective one of the selected set of the cells. One or more underperforming cells within the selected set of cells can be identified. The one or more underperforming cells within the selected set of cells can be adjusted without changing the size and shape of the selected cells. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287073 | ADVERTISEMENT CAROUSEL SYSTEM - A method for enabling browsing of multiple advertisement units via an advertisement carousel is described. The method includes: integrating advertisement units from multiple vendors into an advertisement carousel; displaying at least one advertisement unit of the advertisement units in response to a display instruction; and capturing an impression time for the at least one advertisement units. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287074 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR, VERIFY, AND RATE THE PERFORMANCE OF AIRINGS OF COMMERCIALS - Methods and apparatus to monitor, verify, and rate the performance of airings of commercials are disclosed. An example method includes analyzing received advertisement detection information associated with the advertisement, the advertisement detection information detected from a presentation of the advertisement; identifying a buy order corresponding to the presentation of the advertisement based on the advertisement detection information; determining a purchased ratings value from the buy order; comparing the purchased ratings value of the buy order to received ratings information corresponding to the presentation of the advertisement to determine whether the advertisement was presented as indicated in the buy order; and generating a performance monitoring report using the buy order and the advertisement detection information to indicate whether the ratings information is less than the purchased ratings value. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287075 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MARKETING BEAUTY PRODUCTS - The present invention relates to a system and method of marketing beauty products, and more particularly to a system and method of marketing beauty products to male customers in a male-frequented setting. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining a display having advertising space for beauty products, locating the display in a male-frequented venue, and providing information about and access to the beauty products at the display. The display may be, for example, a freestanding kiosk. The male-frequented venue may be an automotive store, such as an automotive parts store or service center, or a non-automotive store or venue, such as an electronics or home improvement store or sports arena. The beauty products can be configured to include one or more characteristics of the male-frequented venue, such as an automotive theme at an automotive venue, such that the beauty products blend in with the surrounding environment. The method provides a cost-effective, economical, convenient, comfortable, reliable, and private way to advertise and provide access to beauty products directly to target consumers without the disadvantages related to marketing through traditional advertising and retail channels. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287076 | Augmented Pre-Paid Cards, Systems and Methods - Pre-paid transaction card systems and methods are described. A transaction system can include a transaction database to store transaction objects that represent characteristics of a pre-paid transaction card. A deal engine communicatively coupled with the transaction database can receive an image of a marker-less portion of the transaction card and derive a set of image descriptors from the marker-less portion. The deal engine can also identify transaction characteristics associated with the card from the transaction database using the image descriptors. In addition, the deal engine can construct a deal recommendation based on the transaction characteristics previously identified. The deal recommendation can be transmitted to a user, and in some cases, displayed to the user as an augmented reality image. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287077 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROCESS OFFERS BASED ON MERCHANT HIERARCHIES - System and method configured to store data defining merchant groups, data associating transaction terminals with merchant groups, and data associating offers with merchant groups. Each of the merchant has one or more transaction terminals configured to process payments via a payment processing network. When a transaction being processed in the payment processing network is detected to be relevant to offers, the transaction data is augmented/enriched with data identifying one or more merchant groups to which a transaction terminal that initiates the transaction is associated. Offer rules are applied to the transaction data that is augmented with merchant group data. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENABLING SUCCESSIVE OFFERS FOR THE SALE OF A DIGITAL ASSET OF A DIGITAL SERVICE - A system comprises a communications engine configured to receive context information of a user of a digital service, the context information identifying a possible interest of the user in a digital asset of the digital service; a rules engine configured to obtain offer rules associated with the context information; an economic data engine configured to obtain economic data associated with the offer rules; and an offer engine configured to first determine based on the offer rules whether to present a first offer for the digital asset; if the offer engine determines to present the first offer, generate the first offer for the digital asset; if the first offer is refused, second determine based on the offer rules whether to present a successive offer for the digital asset; and if the offer engine determines to present the successive offer, generate the successive offer based on the economic data, the successive offer being designed to be more attractive to the user than the first offer. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287079 | ADVERTISEMENTS FOR APPLICATIONS ON AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph, receives a request to access a resource of the social graph, generates an advertisement of a third-party application based on the relevance of the third-party application to the user, wherein the relevance of the third-party application is based on social-graph information associated with the user and the third-party application, and sends the advertisement of the third-party application to the client device of the user for display. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287080 | CONTEXTUAL PROMOTIONS - A database of available promotions may be accessed. The promotions may be associated with one or more sellers, one or more product lines, one or more themes, and so on. A user may submit a search query to a search engine. The search engine may process the search query and generate a set of results. Items in the result set may be associated with one or more of the promotions. Based on the associations with promotions in the set of results to the user's query, one or more promotions may be selected for presentation to the user. The number of selected promotions may be a constant, set by the user, or determined on a query-by-query basis. The selected promotions may be presented to the user along with the search results for the query. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287081 | PRODUCT PLACEMENT ENGINE AND METHOD - A product placement engine and method for automatically identifying products for association with a document, the engine including a parser, an analysis module adapted to determine word scores and to adjust the word scores of the words by predetermined weightings, a keyword constructor module adapted to construct a keyword query search string using words having the highest word scores, a search engine adapted to search a products database having product records to identify products satisfying the keyword query search string and assign product scores, and a post processing module adapted to identify word matches in each of the product records and the document and update the product score. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287082 | Online Communication of Qualitative Information Describing Service Providers - A system receives user input at a website. The input describes service provider qualities and/or attributes. The user input is compared with stored qualities and/or attributes corresponding to service providers, the stored qualities and/or attributes having been specified in response to requests by the system for qualitative information from individuals determined to have personal knowledge of service providers described in the system. The individuals are in groups, each group having a corresponding perspective from which to evaluate service providers, at least some of the qualitative information having been specified as to a given provider in response to a self-evaluation by the given provider with respect to the stored qualities and/or attributes. The computer(s) identify service providers described in the system as having service provider qualities and/or attributes input by the user. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING SERVICES TO DEVICES - Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services to devices. In one embodiment, a system receives an advertising request from a device upon the device having an ad play event for an initiated software application. The system determines a bandwidth for a connection between the system and the device and determines whether at least one ad located on the device or at least one streamed ad will be displayed on the device for the ad play event based on at least one configurable parameter including at least one of the bandwidth for the connection between the device and the ad server, device characteristics, user characteristics, and a service level agreement. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287084 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR LOCAL MERCHANTS - A system or method for implementing an online marketplace for local merchants is provided. In particular, an online portal or interface is provided to allow local merchants to set up virtual stores at the online marketplace. The portal or interface may be configured to register a local merchant by receiving and storing the local merchant's information. For example, the local merchant may enter the merchant's name, type of merchant, operating hours, location, directions, type of products or services offered, delivery service, delivery range, wait time, inventory status, and the like. In particular, a database may be provided at the online marketplace to receive the local merchant's product information. The local merchant may upload product/inventory list, price list, product information, availability status, product condition, or the like to the database of the online marketplace. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287085 | CUSTOMIZED LOYALTY NOTIFICATIONS - A user accesses an account management system website via a user computing device and establishes a user account with the account management system. The user downloads an application onto the user computing device, which receives information for one or more loyalty cards. A loyalty card is associated with a merchant system location in response to a user request, in response to a request from a merchant device, in response to being read by a merchant POS device, or as a result of the loyalty card being identified by the account management system, based on aggregate data received from a plurality of user computing devices, as belonging to a loyalty card class associated with one or more merchant system locations. The user enters the merchant system location and the application detects the user computing device location. The application suggests the loyalty card according to user-configured alert settings. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287086 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING DRIVER PREFERENCES - A vehicle computing system enables one or more processors to control a plurality of vehicle features. The vehicle computing system may control a plurality of vehicle features while determining and selecting occupant preferences for those features. The vehicle computing system may receive input including occupant selections of an application requesting user control. The vehicle computing system may receive context variables at the time of occupant selections. The vehicle computing system may store in memory the occupant selections of the vehicle feature settings and/or controls with the associated context variables. The vehicle computing system may determine an occupant preference to an input request using an associative rule filter based on the occupant selections stored in memory. The vehicle computing system may assign a predetermined amount of time after the application input is requested to allow control of the vehicle feature based on an associative rule filter output. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287087 | REAL-TIME CONSUMER INTERACTION VIA MEDIA BROADCAST - A system for integrated consumer interaction via media broadcast, comprising an immediate communication system that communicated with a media provider and a communications system, wherein the consumer submits a request to a content provider for interaction that is then handled by the immediate communication to establish an interaction with a communication system, and a method for providing integrated consumer interaction. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING SERVICES TO DEVICES BASED ON AT LEAST ONE CONFIGURABLE PARAMETER INCLUDING AT LEAST PARTIALLY BASED ON A CACHE WINDOW - Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services for devices based on at least one configurable. In one embodiment, a system sends an ad call or request to an ad store having ad campaigns and ads and receives an ad response from the ad store in response to the ad call or request. The ad response includes a payload with at least one ad for being streamed to the device or an ad serving tag for accessing one or more third party ad databases. The system determines, based on at least one configurable parameter including at least partially based on a cache window, whether to use at least one ad located on a device, at least one ad streamed from the ad store to the device, or at least one ad streamed from the one or more third party databases using the ad serving tag. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287089 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PREVENTING ADDICTION TO ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE ADAPTED TO THE SAME - A method and apparatus are provided of preventing addiction to an electronic device by the electronic device and/or a server. A method includes receiving, by the electronic device, a command to unlock the electronic device; playing an advertisement in response to the unlocking of the electronic device; and transmitting, to the server, subtraction point information based on the playing of the advertisement. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287090 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR OFFERING PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS TO CUSTOMERS BY MERCHANTS USING A POINT-OF-SALE TERMINAL - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and devices for offering promotional materials to customers by merchants and rendering payment by merchants for third party services using a POS terminal. Such embodiments include configuring an offer by a merchant using a first POS terminal. Further, such embodiments include distributing the offer to a customer through a remote computer system. In addition, such embodiments include receiving, by the customer, the offer using a promotion module on a user device. Moreover, such embodiments include enrolling in the offer using the promotion module on the user device by providing customer-specific information to the promotion module. Such customer-specific information may include, but is not limited to, information regarding a payment card as well as any portable device having a radio frequency (RF) or near field communication (NFC) capability to render payment at a POS device. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287091 | USER SIMILARITY GROUPS FOR ON-LINE MARKETING - Methods and apparatus for finding similar on-line users for advertisement or content targeting are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of user data sets associated with a plurality of user identifiers for a plurality of anonymous users are obtained, and each user data set of each user identifier specifies one or more user attributes and on-line user events that have occurred for such user identifier. For each attribute, a correlation to a success metric value is determined for a particular type of event or attribute that has occurred for a plurality of user identifiers that are each associated with such attribute. The plurality of user identifiers and associated data sets are clustered into a plurality of user groups that each has similar data sets by weighting based on the attributes' relative correlation to the success metric. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287092 | SOCIAL NETWORKING CONSUMER PRODUCT ORGANIZATION AND PRESENTATION APPLICATION - A user account may have various attributes which define the user personally. The attributes may be applied to product information of other users so the favorite products of various users with similar attributes can be shared automatically. One example method of operation may include identifying user profile attributes of a first user profile, comparing the user profile attributes to other user profile attributes of other user profiles to identify flagged products of interest by each of the other user profiles, comparing the flagged products associated with the other user profile attributes to identify a minimum relevancy threshold between the user profile attributes and the other user profile attributes, and updating a first data feed of the first user profile with the flagged products that are associated with other user profiles attributes which are above the minimum relevancy threshold as compared to a weighted sum of the user profile attributes of the first user profile. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287093 | SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILE MONETIZATION USING VIEWER ENGAGEMENT TOOLS - A computer-based system for monetizing social media profiles on social media platforms including providing a link or URL for a user publish to a social media profile on a social media platform, where the link or URL is controlled by the system, providing at least one article for the user to publish to the social media platform instructing viewers to select or follow the link or URL, and directing or redirecting a viewer who selects or follows the link or URL to a webpage containing advertising. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287094 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRIVING CROSS-PLATFORM INTEREST AND INTERACTIVITY AROUND ADVERTISING INFORMATION - A system and method are disclosed for providing interactive computer managed media bartering. Information representing criteria permitting use of personal information and/or media within advertising is received from a first user. Targeted advertising placement requests including criteria for targeting users and criteria related to requests to barter for advertising. A value representing respective advertising that may be paid with products, goods and/or services is determined based on a demonstrated interest of a plurality of users in the advertiser. Information from the first user and criteria from advertisers are processed to determine contextual elements to incorporate within advertisements. A numerical value representing an incentive for a targeted user to receive and/or be included within the contextual information is determined. The numerical value is applicable toward a redemption option. Advertisements with the contextual elements are generated and transmitted to an advertisement receiving user. The redemption option is provided to the targeted user. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287095 | PROFILING INFRINGING ACTIVITY OF CONTENT CONSUMERS FOR DIGITAL ADVERTISERS - Profiles of consumers may be built based on observed infringing activity over time. Infringement-based consumer segmentation information may be provided to digital advertisers to more accurately target consumers. Additionally, since the marketer may be willing to pay for the use of this data, the copyright holders whose works have been exploited can benefit from the fact that this observation of infringement is providing value to marketers by receiving a share of the revenue paid by the marketer for the intelligence gleaned from access to the information. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287096 | BID CONTROL THROUGH SEMANTIC SIGNALS EXPRESSED IN NATURAL LANGUAGE - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for managing keyword independent signals. A method includes: receiving a request for content; evaluating an inventory; identifying one or more eligible content items; identifying a first content item and determining that the first content item is a match for the request; determining that the first content item is associated with a campaign that includes a selection criterion that requires satisfaction of a keyword independent signal; evaluating the request to determine that the request satisfies the keyword independent signal; retrieving a bid and a bid modifier associated with the first content item; applying the bid modifier to the bid to create a modified bid; and using the modified bid in an auction with bids associated with other eligible content items. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287097 | Advertisement Control Platform For Managing Viewability-Based Advertising Campaigns And Bids - An advertisement (ad) control platform for managing advertising campaigns and bids for advertising opportunities. The ad control platform equips ads to be submitted in response to the advertising opportunities with capabilities to perform measurements related to viewable time of the ads when the ads are published. It analyzes properties of ads published as a result of winning bids in terms of viewable time based on the performed measurements. It allows an advertiser to set up an advertising campaign with various goals, including those related to viewable time. Based on the analysis result and the campaign goals, it determines a bidding price for the campaign expressed in terms of viewable time. In response to an advertising opportunity, it converts the determined bidding price into one expressed in terms of a number of impressions and submits a bid including the converted bidding price and associated ads each equipped with the aforementioned capabilities. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287098 | MULTI-COMPONENT MARKETING PLATFORM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COMBINATION VIDEO PACKAGES WITH BRANDED MARKET VIDEOS AND PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED CONSUMER CONTENT - A new and useful multi-component marketing platform for the production of combination video packages with branded market videos and professionally produced consumer content that allows a user to create custom and personalized marketing videos as informed by a particular industry or profession. The advantages of this invention over the existing art include functionality to brand the video to the user with assets such as video pre-roll, post-roll, changeable color scheme, and personal information, such as head-shot, logos, and contact information, the ability for the user to share resultant video content on the user's detail, social media, or other websites, and a delivery method for branded video newsletters specific to the user for marketing purposes such as sharing content and driving traffic to agent affiliated websites. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287099 | METHOD TO COMPUTE THE PROMINENCE SCORE TO PHONE NUMBERS ON WEB PAGES AND AUTOMATICALLY ANNOTATE/ATTACH IT TO ADS - Systems and methods for automatically extracting a plurality of contact information from a resource, calculating prominence scores of each contact information, and associating a selected contact information with a content item are provided. A content item and a uniform resource locator are received from a content provider. A resource identified by the uniform resource locator is loaded. A plurality of contact information is detected from the loaded resource. For each of the detected contact information, a prominence score is calculated. One of the plurality of contact information is selected based on the calculated prominence scores. The selected contact information is associated with the content item. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287100 | CENTRALIZED PUBLISHER MANAGEMENT - A management system can recommend and manage publishing content with publishers of business information. A representative can provide unique identifying information for a business that can be used to determine a category of similar businesses. Based on the identified category, a list of publishers can be identified to the representative as related to the business category. The representative can select one or more of the publishers to publish content about the business. Based on the representative selection, the system can request a set of content from the representative. After receiving the content from the representative, the system can translate the content to formats acceptable to each of the publishers. The content can then be provided to the publishers to publish. The published content can then be monitored for problems, and corrected if problems are discovered. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287101 | PERFORMANCE BASED APPROVAL IN CMS WORKFLOW PROCESS - A method for testing a new workflowed item associated with a workflow process in a content management system (CMS) is provided. The method may include adding a workflow stage to the workflow process in the content management system (CMS). The method may also include adding a test associated with the workflow stage. The method may further include determining if a criteria threshold is met based on the test associated with the workflow stage. Additionally, the method may include publishing the new workflowed item based on the criteria threshold being met. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287102 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING SERVICES TO DEVICES BY ACCESSING ONE OR MORE AD DATABASES INCLUDING THIRD PARTY AD DATABASES USING AD SERVING TAGS - Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services for devices by accessing one or more ad databases including third party ad databases using ad serving tags. In one embodiment, a system includes a storage medium to store one or more software programs and processing logic that is configured to execute instructions of at least one software program to receive an advertising request from a device upon the device having an ad play event for an initiated software application, send an ad call or request to an ad store having ad campaigns and ads, and receive an ad response from the ad store in response to the ad call or request. The ad response includes a payload with one or more ads or potential ad campaigns for being streamed to the device or an ad serving tag for accessing one or more third party ad databases. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287103 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING SERVICES TO DEVICES WITH AN ADVERTISING EXCHANGE - Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services to a device with an advertising exchange. In one embodiment, a system receives a configuration call from a device upon initiation of a software application and associated advertising services software on the device. The system sends a configuration file to the device in response to the configuration call. The configuration file includes different options for obtaining an advertisement (ad) to play on the device during an ad play event. The options include playing an ad cached on the device, obtaining at least one ad from an ad store of the system, and obtaining at least one ad from an advertising exchange that includes third party participants. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287104 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING SERVICES IN A PREDICTIVE MANNER TO DEVICES WITH AN ADVERTISING EXCHANGE - Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services in a predictive manner to a device with an advertising exchange. In one embodiment, a system receives a configuration call from a device upon initiation of a software application and associated advertising services software on the device. The system generates, prior to a predicted ad play event on the device, a predictive ad request for obtaining at least one advertisement (ad) from at least one of an ad store and an advertising exchange prior to the predicted ad play event. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287105 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ADVERTISING SERVICES AT MULTIPLES TIMES FOR DELIVERING TO DEVICES FROM ANY AD SOURCE - Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services in a predictive manner to a device with an advertising exchange. In one embodiment, a system receives a configuration call from a device upon initiation of a software application and associated advertising services software on the device. The system generates, prior to a predicted ad play event on the device, a predictive ad request for obtaining at least one advertisement (ad) from at least one of an ad store and an advertising exchange prior to the predicted ad play event. The at least one ad is stored on the device prior to an actual ad play event. The system determines, just prior to the actual ad play event, a bandwidth for a connection between the device and the system. The system determines if any ad source includes at least one ad that is more likely to convert or cause user interaction than the ads stored on the device based on the bandwidth for the connection between the device and the system. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287106 | Captive Portal Service Offerings - A captive portal service offering system includes an advertising server hosting at least one captive portal service offering page, a registration server configured to provide user account information associated with a user account, and an interface device associated with the user account. The interface device is configured to retrieve, from the registration server, user account information. Based on the user account information, the interface device determines whether to present the at least one captive portal service offering page to the at least one client device. In response to the determination, the interface device directs at least one client device to the at least one captive portal service offering page. The interface device receives a user selection of the network service offered by the at least one captive portal service offering page and transmits the user selection to the registration server. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287107 | RADIO SEARCH APPLICATION WITH FOLLOWER CAPABILITY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A Hitch Radio system and method are disclosed and the system may include an application that combines the fun of instant messaging with the power of real-time search. The Hitch Radio system and method allows a user to hear a song on the radio and be able to share the song with a friend. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUEUE MANAGEMENT - A queue management scheme whereby a system-wide status is considered together with a status of each and every specific or particular queue and associated device within the system, in order to efficiently and effectively balance the needs and desires of customers with the needs and desires of an entity that provides services to the customers. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287109 | PERSONALIZABLE ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM - A Personalizable Engagement Platform includes a Customer Module and a Merchant Module for use by participating customers and merchants. Participating customers and merchants are limited to using their respective modules. The Platform is activated when a participating customer is in the proximity of a merchant's place of business. Once activated, participating customers and the merchant are able to exchange selected and personalized information. The Customer Module is preferably in the form of a mobile app that may be downloaded to a mobile device, such as a smartphone, and the Merchant Module is preferable in the form of an app that may be downloaded by a merchant onto their system, which may include, for example, one or more of the following: a server, PC, mobile device(s). | 2015-10-08 |
20150287110 | DISTRIBUTING ILLUMINATION FILES - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for creating, distributing and playing illumination data files. The illumination data files, created using luminaire development systems are uploaded to a luminaire management system, where they are further processed and packaged for sale or license within a luminaire marketplace. Consumers and enterprises using luminaires may establish accounts with the luminaire management system and marketplace to access illumination data files for playback on individual or multiple luminaires. Consumers and enterprises may also create play lists and uniquely configure the luminaires to display various lighting effects based on user preferences, environmental factors or energy efficient settings. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287111 | UNIFIED PRODUCT CATALOG - Embodiments for creating a unified catalog include systems and methods that import catalog data from one or more underlying catalog systems. The systems provide a user interface to a user for browsing items from the catalog data and receive a request for at least one selected item from the user. The systems also determine an item identifier for the at least one selected item and match the at least one selected item to at least one source catalog selected from the one or more underlying catalog systems based on the identifier. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287112 | Apparatus and Method for Managing Data Records for Associated Seals from Products - An apparatus is configured to manage N data records for N associated seals from products. The apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a challenge message, sent by a capture appliance, with a code associated with one of the N seals. There is a checking unit configured to check the received code for validity and for a first breakage of the seal associated with the received code on the basis of the data record associated with the associated seal. A transmission unit is configured to send a response message, generated on the basis of the check, with a piece of status information pertaining to the first breakage of the seal associated with the received code to the capture appliance. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIND AND DELIVER SERVICE - This disclosure describes systems, methods and apparatus for finding and delivering a desired item, including unique or hard-to-find items. In one example, there is provided a method that includes receiving a request to find the item and broadcasting the request. The method includes receiving responses to the broadcasted request, the responses indicating a finding of the item and including a bid to sell the item. The method includes providing purchase options for the item to a source of the request based on the received responses, and receiving, from the source of the request, a selection of a purchase option from among the purchase options provided to the source. The method includes providing instructions to a provider of the selected purchase option based on the received selection. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287114 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM OF GROUPING BUYER REQUESTS MATCHING IN COMBINATION WITH A SELLER OFFER - An apparatus for brokering between buyer nodes and seller nodes in a communication system, wherein the apparatus comprises a buyer node interface configured for receiving buyer requests from respective ones of the buyer nodes, each buyer request requesting buying a respectively specified product, a seller node interface configured for receiving seller offers from respective ones of the seller nodes, each seller offer offering sale of a respectively specified group of products, a buyer group formation unit configured for forming buyer groups, each formed by combining a plurality of the buyer requests meeting at least one common similarity criterion in terms of the products specified by the buyer requests of a respective buyer group, and a broker unit adapted for, upon determining a match between the products requested by the buyer requests of a buyer group and a group of products specified by a respective one of the seller offers, brokering a sale of the respective group of products from the seller node to the buyer nodes corresponding to the plurality of buyer requests of the respective buyer group via the communication network. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287115 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING REPLACEMENT EVENT TICKETS - A system and machine-implemented method for providing a commemorative ticket based on information obtained from an issued event ticket and visual information provided by a user. An existing event ticket may be scanned and configuration options for the commemorative ticket chosen. After payment is received, a commemorative ticket may be produced and delivered to the ticket purchaser or designated recipient. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287116 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LONG-TERM ON-LINE COMPARISON SHOPPING - A method, system, and computer-program product for automatically monitoring websites (e.g., web-based shopping sites, catalogs, auction sites, etc.) for acquisition parameters (e.g., prices, rental amounts, trading/barter requirements, etc.) on one or more commodities, for a predetermined time period. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287117 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE SEARCHING USING ACTIVE LABEL TECHNOLOGY - A user communication device retrieves shape information from active labels and performs an image based search on the shape files to find locally available acceptable replacement parts. The user communication device may use only the shape files from the active label, or the user communication device may use a combination of images from both the active label and images generated by a user to search for an acceptable replacement part for a faulty system. Using the active label system, the user communication device directly pings replacement parts at local retailers independently of the computer networks operated by the retailers. The user communication device receives back data from replacement parts and provides the user with a list of locally available parts. In another variation of the invention, the user communication device uses the shape files to find three dimensional model files from manufacturers that can be utilized to create replacement parts for the faulty system. The 3D models may be encrypted one-time-use files that enable a user to create a single part at a local 3D printing facility. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287118 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMPARISON SHOPPING WITH GEOGRAPHICALLY-SPECIFIC, REAL-TIME PRODUCT INVENTORY INFORMATION - Consistent with some embodiments of the invention, a web-based comparison shopping and marketplace service enables a user to search for and/or browse products of interest, and then obtain geographically-relevant, real-time product availability and pricing information for a product of interest that is offered by one or more physical retail stores. Additionally, with some embodiments, the service enables a user to conclude a purchase transaction for a product that is located at a retail store, and then provides the user with driving directions from the user's location to the retail store. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287119 | PRESENTATION OF ITEMS OF VALUE FOR PURCHASE - Disclosed are systems, media, and methods for efficiently presenting location-based ticket information comprising: providing an interface presenting location-specific information about upcoming events; providing an interface allowing a user to indicate preferences; aggregating ticket listings for a selected event from primary and secondary market vendors, each ticket listing comprising a price; a software module configured to apply an algorithm identify a group of suitable ticket listings and generate a ticket value score for each ticket listing based, at least in part, on the user preferences and the price; providing an interface presenting the ticket listings for an event as pins on a map of an event venue, each pin indicating a price, each pin positioned on the map to indicate section and row of the ticket listing; and obfuscating ticket listings that are a higher price and lower ticket value score than a presented or selected ticket listing. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287120 | MERCHANT MENU SUGGESTIONS BASED ON USER LOCATION AND FOOD PREFERENCES - There is provided systems and method for merchant menu suggestions based on user location and food preferences. A user may establish preferences for certain types of food items, food descriptions, and/or types of ingredients. Using these preferences a merchant menu provider may search for merchants offering food items matching the preferences that are in proximity to the user. As the user selects merchants nearby from the list, information on the merchant's location and the menu items offered by the merchant may be accessed by the user, including prices, nutritional information, and directions to the merchant. If the user is with another user that also have food preferences, the list of nearby merchants may be refined with the second user's food preferences. Additionally, the user may view rating information for the merchant and the merchant's food items matching their preferences. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287121 | AUTOMATIC EVALUATION SYSTEM AND NAVIGATION DEVICE - An automatic evaluation system includes: a navigation device used in a vehicle; and a center that communicates with the navigation device. The navigation device includes: a stop-over determination device that automatically determines whether a user has stopped over at a store; a counting device that counts a cumulative number of stop-over times; a recommended store determination device that determines the store, at which the cumulative number of times has become two, as a recommended store; and a posting device that automatically transmits information on the recommended store to the center. The center includes a registration device that registers the information on the recommended store received from the navigation device in relation with the vehicle as a sender source. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287122 | CONSUMABLE PERSONALIZATION - Systems and methods for consumable personalization are provided. In example embodiments, a request to identify similar consumables that are similar to a first consumable is received from a user device of a user. Consumable data corresponding to a plurality of consumables is accessed. The consumable data includes attributes of respective consumables of the plurality of consumables. The attributes include potency data for a first active ingredient. A second consumable among the plurality of consumables is identified by comparing attributes of the first consumable with the attributes of the respective consumables of the plurality of consumables. The second consumable is presented on a user interface of the user device of the user. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287123 | 3D FOOD PRINTING SHOPPING HISTORY SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE INGESTIBLE MATERIAL PREPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically directing control of at least partial dispensing of the one or more selected ingestible products subsequent to and based at least in part upon the selection of the at least one candidate ingestible product as the at least one selected ingestible product via the electronically enabled input in response to the electronically outputted one or more selection menus and prior to dispensing of the one or more selected ingestible products for ingestion by the particular individual living being of the selected ingestible products, the at least partial dispensing of the one or more selected ingestible products occurring within a vicinity of the electronically outputting of the electronically outputted one or more selection menus. In addition, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287124 | UNIFIED PRODUCT CATALOG ORDERS - Embodiments for creating a unified catalog include systems and method that import catalog data from one or more underlying catalog systems. The systems configure required fields for order fulfillment and receive a request for at least one selected item from the user. The systems further present at least one required field to the user in response to the request and send an order for the at least one selected item to the one or more catalog systems, the order comprising data from the at least one required field. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287125 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A CLOSED LOOP PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR USE IN THE PRODUCTION OF A FORMULATION-BASED PRODUCT - An order relating to a formulation-based product is received, wherein fulfilling the order requires production of the formulation-based product at a first location, transport of the formulation-based product in a vehicle to a second location different from the first location, and performance of an activity with respect to the formulation-based product at the second location. First information relating to a first change made to the formulation-based product at the first location is received, from the first location, prior to transport of the formulation-based product. Second information relating to a second change made to the formulation-based product during transport of the formulation-based product is received during transport of the formulation-based product. Third information relating to the activity performed with respect to the formulation-based product at the second location is received from the second location. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287126 | CONTEXTUAL USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS FROM EXTERNAL TRIGGERS - A method for retrofitting a vending machine with a video communications device includes securing a video communications device with a mounting feature of the video communications device removably coupled with a mounting location on a vending machine. The video communications device includes a video communications module for real-time interactions with a ticket office. The video communications module includes a display, a camera, a speaker, and a microphone. The video communications device includes a video communication device communications interface. The method includes electronically coupling the video communications device with a power supply of the vending machine and communicatively coupling the video communications device with the vending machine such that functions of the vending machine are controllable using the video communications device. The method includes communicatively coupling the video communications device with the ticket office for real-time video communications with the ticket office. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287127 | REMOTE SCREEN AND TOUCH SHARING - A method for retrofitting a vending machine with a video communications device includes securing a video communications device with a mounting feature of the video communications device removably coupled with a mounting location on a vending machine. The video communications device includes a video communications module for real-time interactions with a ticket office. The video communications module includes a display, a camera, a speaker, and a microphone. The video communications device includes a video communication device communications interface. The method includes electronically coupling the video communications device with a power supply of the vending machine and communicatively coupling the video communications device with the vending machine such that functions of the vending machine are controllable using the video communications device. The method includes communicatively coupling the video communications device with the ticket office for real-time video communications with the ticket office. | 2015-10-08 |