| 44th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
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| 20210342719 | USING MACHINE LEARNING-BASED SEED HARVEST MOISTURE PREDICTIONS TO IMPROVE A COMPUTER-ASSISTED AGRICULTURAL FARM OPERATION - Embodiments generate digital plans for agricultural fields. In an embodiment, a model receives digital inputs including stress risk data, product maturity data, field location data, planting date data, and/or harvest date data. The model mathematically correlates sets of digital inputs with threshold data associated with the stress risk data. The model is used to generate stress risk prediction data for a set of product maturity and field location combinations. In a digital plan, product maturity data or planting date data or harvest date data or field location data can be adjusted based on the stress risk prediction data. A digital plan can be transmitted to a field manager computing device. An agricultural apparatus can be moved in response to a digital plan. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342720 | Event Recommendation System - An event recommendation system recommends events for a candidate attendee. The system recommends an event based on characteristics of the candidate attendee and characteristics of prior attendees that attended a prior occurrence of the event. A prior attendee may have a positive or negative experience with the prior occurrence of the event. A positive experience may be defined, for example, as enjoying the event, completing the event, or performing well in the event. A negative experience may be defined, for example, as not enjoying the event, not completing the event, or not performing well in the event. An event is recommended to a candidate attendee if the candidate attendee has similar characteristics to a prior attendee that had a positive experience. An event is not recommended to a candidate attendee if the candidate attendee has similar characteristics as a prior attendee that had a negative experience. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342721 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING CLOSING METRICS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for calculating closing metrics regarding a contract between a promotion service and provider. A promotional system may calculate a probability of closing, and an estimated time to close. The promotion service may offer a promotion to consumers for a discounted product or service, to be honored by the provider. A category, lead source, historical data, stage in sales, and/or size of the provider may be used in calculating a probability of close and/or time to close. An example method may comprise supplying a classifying model with a dataset, wherein the dataset comprises an identification of a provider and attributes corresponding to the provider and identifying a class of the provider in accordance with the plurality of corresponding attributes, wherein the identification is determined based on one or more patterns determinative of a return rate by the classifying model. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342722 | AIR QUALITY PREDICTION MODEL TRAINING METHOD, AIR QUALITY PREDICTION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An air quality prediction model training method, an air quality prediction method, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided, and relate to the technical field of artificial intelligence, such as deep learning and big data. The training method includes: establishing an air quality prediction model according to spatial correlation information among a plurality of regions; and adjusting the air quality prediction model according to air quality observation values for the plurality of regions and air quality prediction values for the plurality of regions output by the air quality prediction model. The accuracy of air quality prediction result can be improved. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342723 | Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Improving Efficiency - Disclosed are systems and methods providing for automation of enterprise and other processes. The systems and methods involve receiving historical process data, applying process mining techniques and generating process models. The process models can be used to identify automation candidates. One or more automation tools designed and configured for the identified automation candidates can be deployed to automate or to increase the efficiency of the process. In one embodiment, automation tools include artificial intelligence networks, which can label a set of input data according to determined or preconfigured domain-specific labels. An aggregator module can combine the similarly labeled data as part of automating a process or to increase the efficiency of a process. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342724 | PETROLEUM PLAY ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY - A system for analysis and display of hydrocarbon play information according to some aspects determines a probability of source rock occurrence according to source rock age based on a proven play concept. The system can also determine a relative probability of migration for hydrocarbons from a source rock of a proposed petroleum play concept to a reservoir. A relative probability of wellbore success for the proposed play concept can be determined at least in part based on these probabilities. The system can display the relative probability of wellbore success for the proposed play concept, either alone as part of a displayed inventory of proposed hydrocarbon play concepts. The system can produce accurate results that facilitate rapid play concept investigations for hydrocarbon exploration. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342725 | Systems And Methods For Tracking And Representing Data Science Model Runs - A system for tracking and representing data science model runs includes a hub including a first computing device communicatively coupled with a data store. A runner including a second computing device having a cache is communicatively coupled with the hub through a telecommunications network. An end user computing device includes a display and is communicatively coupled with the runner and the hub. User interfaces displayed on the display include: a unique identifier identifying a data science model run performed by the runner; a list of input files used by the runner to perform the run; a list of output files output by the runner as a result of the run; and a diagram diagramming a process flow including a visual representation of the input files, a visual representation of the run, and a visual representation of the output files. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342726 | Low Power Quantum Controller - A quantum write controller includes an in-phase path that includes a first digital to analog converter (DAC) configured to receive an in-phase signal at a first frequency, a first mixer configured to create a third in phase frequency, a first combiner configured to combine an output of the first mixer with an output of a third mixer, and a second mixer configured to mix an output of the first combiner with a fourth in phase frequency. There is a quadrature path that includes a second DAC configured to receive a quadrature phase signal at the first frequency, a third mixer configured to create a third quadrature frequency, a second combiner configured to combine the output of the third mixer with the output of the first mixer, and a fourth mixer configured to mix an output of the second combiner with a fourth quadrature frequency. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342727 | High Fidelity Waveform Generator for Qubit Controller - A qubit controller includes an in-phase path and a quadrature path. A first combiner is configured to combine an output of the in-phase path with an output of the quadrature path to create a single sideband. There is a splitter configured to divide the single sideband into N portions, provide a first portion of the N portions to a qubit corresponding to the qubit controller, and provide each of the remaining N−1 portions to adjacent qubit controllers of a qubit cluster that includes the qubit corresponding to the qubit controller. A second combiner is configured to combine the first portion and N feedback signals received from the adjacent qubit controllers of the qubit cluster. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342728 | ITERATIVE QUANTUM AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION - Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate iterative quantum amplitude estimation are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise an iterative quantum amplitude estimation component that increases a multiplier value of a confidence interval in an estimation problem to a defined value that positions the confidence interval in a defined plane of a defined circle. The computer executable components can further comprise a measurement component that captures a quantum state measurement of a qubit in a quantum circuit based on the defined value. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342729 | Modular Quantum Processor Architectures - In a general aspect, a quantum processor has a modular architecture. In some aspects, a modular quantum processor includes first and second quantum processor chips and a cap structure. The first quantum processor chip is supported on a substrate layer and includes a first plurality of qubit devices. The second quantum processor chip is supported on the substrate layer and includes a second plurality of qubit devices. The cap structure is supported on the first and second quantum processor chips and includes a coupler device that provides coupling between at least one of the first plurality of qubit devices with at least one of the second plurality of qubit devices. In some instances, the coupler device is an active coupler device that is configured to selectively couple at least one of the first plurality of qubit devices with at least one of the second plurality of qubit devices. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF QUANTUM ENHANCED ACCELERATED NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING - A novel and useful system and method of quantum enhanced accelerated training of a classic neural network (NN). The quantum system implements an optimizer that accelerates training of the classic NN by exploiting the properties of quantum mechanics and manipulating the quantum system into a state that represents the complete state of the classic NN, including the loss function. The quantum system is then allowed to transition to its “optimum state” and the minimum energy state is read out from detectors and weight updates are calculated and fed back to the classic NN. Mapping and detection helper neural networks learn the characteristics of the quantum system structures. By averaging this over a number of images the learning weight or gradient of descent can be controlled to yield optimum neural network parameters. The time and energy required for training the classic NN as well as for inference is drastically reduced. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342731 | SIMULATING QUANTUM CIRCUITS ON A COMPUTER USING HIERARCHICAL STORAGE - Described herein is a simulation of an input quantum circuit, comprising a machine-readable specification of a quantum circuit. Aspects include partitioning the input quantum circuit into a group of sub-circuits based on at least two groups of qubits identified for tensor slicing, wherein the resulting sub-circuits have associated sets of qubits to be used for tensor slicing. The simulating can occur in stages, one stage per sub-circuit. A set of qubits associated with a sub-circuit can be used to partition the simulated quantum state tensor for the input quantum state circuit into quantum state tensor slices, and the quantum gates in that sub-circuit can used to update the quantum state tensor slices into updated quantum state tensor slices. The updated quantum state tensor slices are stored to secondary storage as micro slices. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342732 | FREE-FORM INTEGRATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL PRIMITIVES - A processor may include a set of primitive operators, receive a set of data-driven operators, at least one of the set of data-driven operators including a machine learning model, and receive an input-output data pair set. Based on a grammar specifying rules for linking the set of primitive operators and the set of data-driven operators, the processor may search among the set of primitive operators and the set of data-driven operators to find a symbolic model that fits the input-output data set. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342733 | ALLOCATING COMPUTATIONS OF A MACHINE LEARNING NETWORK IN A MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATOR - A compiler receives a description of a machine learning network and generates a computer program that implements the machine learning network. The compiler allocates instructions of the computer program to different groups of processing elements (Tiles) for execution such that different groups of Tiles implement different layers of the machine learning network. The compiler may determine the size of the different groups based on a partial computation metric associated with the computations performed to implement the corresponding layer. Furthermore, the compiler may assign specific Tiles to each group based on a set of predefined layout constraints. The compiler may statically schedule at least a portion of the instructions into one or more deterministic phases for execution by the groups of Tiles. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342734 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INT9 QUANTIZATION - A method of converting a data stored in a memory from a first format to a second format is disclosed. The method includes extending a number of bits in the data stored in a double data rate (DDR) memory by one bit to form an extended data. The method further includes determining whether the data stored in the DDR is signed or unsigned data. Moreover, responsive to determining that the data is signed, a sign value is added to the most significant bit of the extended data and the data is copied to lower order bits of the extended data. Responsive to determining that the data is unsigned, the data is copied to lower order bits of the extended data and the most significant bit is set to an unsigned value, e.g., zero. The extended data is stored in an on-chip memory (OCM) of a processing tile of a machine learning computer array. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342735 | DATA MODEL PROCESSING IN MACHINE LEARNING USING A REDUCED SET OF FEATURES - A computer system trains a predictive model. A plurality of subsets of features are selected from a dataset comprising a plurality of cases and controls and a plurality of features. Cases and controls are matched to select a plurality of case-control subsets for each subset of features, each case-control subset having similar values for the corresponding subset of features. For each case-control subset, a statistical significance of each feature of the plurality of features absent from the subset of features used to match the case-control subset is identified. A final subset of features is selected based on satisfying a statistical significance of each feature for the plurality of case-control subsets. A predictive model is trained using the final subset of features. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for training a predictive model in substantially the same manner described above. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342736 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL RETRAINING PIPELINE FOR ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION - A machine learning (ML) model retraining pipeline for robotic process automation (RPA) is disclosed. When an ML model is deployed in a production or development environment, RPA robots send requests to the ML model when executing their workflows. When a confidence level of the ML model falls below a certain confidence, training data is collected, potentially from a large number of computing systems. The ML model is then trained using at least in part the collected training data, and a new version of the ML model is deployed. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342737 | AI/ML BASED PROACTIVE SYSTEM TO IMPROVE SALES PRODUCTIVITY BY CATEGORIZING AND DETERMINING RELEVANT NEWS - A machine learning (ML) module that automates the screening of the news articles in the search results received from an online news aggregator and intelligently selects only those articles for presentation to a user that are really important in creating potentially new business transactions with the user's clients. Other non-relevant or marginally-relevant news are removed to avoid distractions. The ML module analyzes commercial information—such as, for example, the product/service offerings (current and in the near future) of the corporate entity employing the user, historical sales and marketing information related to the user's client, current account status of the client, and past business transactions with the client—to intelligently select the most relevant news articles for the user. The ML module goes beyond the existing news aggregator platforms by curating the aggregator-provided results and selecting only those news articles that hold promise in exploring new business opportunities with a client. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342738 | MACHINE LEARNING-FACILITATED DATA ENTRY - Techniques and solutions are described for facilitating data entry using machine learning techniques. A machine learning model can be trained using values for one or more data members of at least on type of data object, such as a logical data object. One or more input recommendation functions can be defined for the data object, where an input recommendation method is configured to use the machine learning model to obtain one or more recommended values for a data member of the data object. A user interface control of a graphical user interface can be programmed to access a recommendation function to provide a recommended value for the user interface control, where the value can be optionally set for a data member of an instance of the data object. Explanatory information can be provided that describes criteria used in determining the recommended value. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342739 | Node-Based Interface For Machine Learning Classification Modeling - One or more processors may output for display, an interface including a data classification section including two or more class nodes, a training section including a training node, and an evaluation section including an evaluation node. At a first class node a first set of training data may be captured and at a second class node a second set of training data may be captured. In response to an input received at the training node, a classification model based on the first set of training data and the second set of training data may be trained. Evaluation data may be captured in an evaluation node, and using the trained classification model, classifications for each piece of the evaluation data may be determined. A visual representation of the classification for each piece of the evaluation data may be output for display within the evaluation node. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342740 | SELECTIVELY TRANSMITTING ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES BASED ON ENTITY SELECTION HISTORY - Techniques for selectively transmitting electronic notifications using machine learning techniques based on entity selection history are provided. In one technique, a candidate notification is identified for a target entity. An entity selection rate of the candidate notification by the target entity is determined. Based on the candidate notification, determining a probability of the target entity visiting a target online system. Based on online history of the target entity, a measure of downstream interaction by the target entity relative to one or more online systems is determined. Based on the entity selection rate, the probability, and the measure of downstream interaction by the target entity, a score for the candidate notification is generated. Based on the score, it is determined whether data about the candidate notification is to be transmitted over a computer network to a computing device of the target entity. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342741 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING DATA - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for processing data. According to exemplary implementations of the present disclosure, a method for processing data includes: determining a factor associated with a first input of a deep learning model, wherein the factor affects the number of threads for executing the deep learning model; generating a plurality of first partial inputs by using the first input based on the factor, wherein each first partial input in the plurality of first partial inputs is a part of the first input; and performing an operation on the plurality of first partial inputs by using the deep learning model, and generating an output of the deep learning model. Thereby, the data processing performance can be improved, and the resource requirement for data processing is lowered. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342742 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED APPLICATION TESTING AND SCORING - A dynamic application testing and scoring system that tests applications under various tenets and categorizes the applications to be published, to be further reviewed or rejected. The results from administering a plurality of tests to an application are analyzed by applying rulesets that pertain to criteria under each of the tenets. An application score is determined from the analysis using weights associated with the tenets, priority levels of the criteria and the severity levels of the rulesets. The application score identifies a position for the application on a scoring scale relative to two trust threshold values. The application is categorized based on the position. Feedback regarding the categorization is received and the trust threshold values on the scoring scale can be adjusted if the categorization in the feedback is different from the categorization produced by the scoring system. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342743 | MODEL AGGREGATION USING MODEL ENCAPSULATION OF USER-DIRECTED ITERATIVE MACHINE LEARNING - The present invention relates to model aggregation tools utilizing model encapsulation of user-directed iterative (UDI) machine learning, and the related methods that offer a typical user, without programming expertise, the ability to create and modify machine learning models. In particular, the present invention further provides methods and tools that not only afford machine learning models that are easily created and configured without the necessity of hard coding by the user, but also to afford the user with the ability to share their “know-how” derived from these models to collectively improve the models while maintaining privacy by obscuring the original training data, so that no confidential or proprietary information is shared between users of this collective model. Users may thereby rapidly teach the machine learning models to interpret their data without programming, personalizing the system's analysis and filtering capabilities, and then encapsulate their domain expertise in machine learning models that can be leveraged at scale and shared throughout a single or across multiple enterprises. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342744 | RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM - There is described a method for improving a machine learning system, the method comprising: determining an uncertainty of an output data of the machine learning system using an uncertainty of an input data of the machine learning system; comparing the determined uncertainty to a threshold; if the determined uncertainty is greater than the threshold, determining a query adequate for decreasing the uncertainty of the output data; transmitting the query to a source of data; receiving a response to the query; and updating the input data of the machine learning, thereby decreasing the uncertainty of the output data. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342745 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL AND DATA COLLECTION/DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - In some embodiments, a service platform that facilitates artificial intelligence model and data collection and collection may be provided. Input/output information derived from machine learning models may be obtained via the service platform. The input/output information may indicate (i) first items provided as input to at least one model of the machine learning models, (ii) first prediction outputs derived from the at least one model's processing of the first items, (iii) second items provided as input to at least another model of the machine learning models, (iv) second prediction outputs derived from the at least one other model's processing of the second items, and (v) other inputs and outputs. The input/output information may be provided via the service platform to update a first machine learning model. The first machine learning model may be updated based on the input/output information being provided as input to the first machine learning model. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342746 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ANALYZE PERFORMANCE OF WATERMARK ENCODING DEVICES - Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that analyze performance of manufacturer independent devices. An example apparatus includes a software development kit (SDK) deployment engine to deploy an SDK to a manufacturer of a device, the SDK to define heartbeat data to be collected from the device and interfacing techniques to transmit the heartbeat data to a measurement entity. In some examples, the apparatus includes a machine learning engine to predict whether the device is associated with one or more failure modes. The example apparatus also includes an alert generator to generate an alert based on a prediction, the alert to indicate at least one of a type of a first one of the failure modes or at least one component of the device to be remedied according to the first one of the one or more failure modes, and transmit the alert to a management agent. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342747 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED DEEP MACHINE LEARNING - The present teaching relates to distributed deep machine learning on a cluster. In one example, a request is received for estimating one or more parameters associated with a machine learning model on a cluster including a plurality of nodes. A set of data is obtained to be used for estimating the one or more parameters. The set of data is divided into a plurality of sub-sets of data, each of which corresponds to one of the plurality of nodes. Each sub-set of data is allocated to a corresponding node for estimating values of the one or more parameters based on the sub-set of data. Estimated values of the one or more parameters obtained based on a corresponding sub-set of data allocated to the node, are received from each of the plurality of nodes. The one or more parameters of the machine learning model are estimated based on the estimated values of the one or more parameters generated by at least some of the plurality of nodes. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342748 | TRAINING ASYMMETRIC KERNELS OF DETERMINANTAL POINT PROCESSES - Determinantal Point Process-based predictions are provided by training an asymmetric kernel of a Determinantal Point Process (DPP) from a training data set by calculating an inverse matrix of a sum of the asymmetric kernel and a first identity matrix, the calculating using an inverse of a sum of the first identity matrix and a symmetric positive semidefinite matrix, a concatenated matrix made from a first matrix and a second matrix and a second identity matrix, the asymmetric kernel including the symmetric positive semidefinite matrix and a skewed-symmetric matrix, the skewed-symmetric matrix being calculated from the first matrix and the second matrix, to produce a prediction model, and outputting the asymmetric kernel as at least a part of the prediction model to make a prediction. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342749 | ADAPTIVE ASYNCHRONOUS FEDERATED LEARNING - Techniques for adaptive asynchronous federated learning are described herein. An aspect includes providing a first version of a global parameter to a first client and a second client. Another aspect includes receiving, from the first client, a first gradient, wherein the first gradient was computed by the first client based on the first version of the global parameter and a respective first local dataset of the first client. Another aspect includes determining whether the first version of the global parameter matches a most recent version of the global parameter. Another aspect includes, based on determining that the first version of the global parameter does not match the most recent version of the global parameter, selecting a version of the global parameter. Another aspect includes aggregating the first gradient with the selected version of the global parameter to determine an updated version of the global parameter. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342750 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus in the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a captured image obtained by capturing a passenger who is boarding on an airplane and has not yet passed through a boarding gate corresponding to the airplane, biometric information of the passenger; a specifying unit that specifies boarding reservation information regarding the boarding by using the acquired biometric information; and an output unit that outputs information used for supporting a procedure of the passenger at the boarding gate based on the specified boarding reservation information. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342751 | System and Method for Monetizing Underused Assets - A system and method for monetizing an asset. The system matches a potential renter with a property owner. The property owner can list two or more segmented properties which can be rented separately or together. This provides the property owner and opportunity to rent segments or property which were not previously monetized. The system also provides customized vendor information related to the location and event type selected by the potential renter. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342752 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND VEHICLE - An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit a control unit that acquires traveling information and location information of a vehicle acquired based on past traveling of at least one vehicle for one occupant of the vehicle, the vehicle included in the at least one vehicle, generates preference information of the one occupant based on the traveling information and the location information that are acquired, and determines destination information based on the preference information of the occupant when the control unit determines that an occupant who is on board the vehicle is the one occupant who has boarded the vehicle in the past and the preference information is generated for the occupant. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342753 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMING, ORGANIZING, TRANSPORTING, BOARDING AND ACCOMMODATING PASSENGERS IN AIRCRAFT, EQUIPMENT AND RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAMS - The present invention relates to a method characterized in that one or more passenger waves having a size corresponding to the number of passengers in the settling process, who may be standing at the same time in an aircraft aisle. The invention also relates to a system and equipment capable of performing a method according to the invention, in addition to corresponding computer programs. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TRAVEL ITINERARIES THROUGH A SOCIAL INTERACTION PLATFORM - Systems, methods, and storage media for generating travel itineraries through a social interaction platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: register at least one interaction between a first user and a second user; generate at least one travel itinerary from a plurality of itinerary elements stored within the data store as a result of the at least one interaction; and present the at least one travel itinerary to at least one user. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342755 | VERIFICATION OF PROOF OF WORK USING COMPUTER VISION AND/OR MACHINE LEARNING - A device receives image data associated with an environment of an individual and identifies verifiable content by processing the image data. The device processes the verifiable content to determine a likelihood that the individual is an employee or agent of an organization and to determine a set of likelihoods of the environment being a work environment. The device determines, based on the likelihood and the set of likelihoods, a number of verifiable hours worked by the individual during a given time period. The device identifies wages data that specifies a number of hours worked that has been credited to the individual for the given time period, determines that an amount of wages paid to the individual is an incorrect amount of wages, and provides an alert to another device that indicates that the amount of wages paid to the individual is the incorrect amount of wages. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342756 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESS SHAPING - A system for process shaping in a retail store environment comprises a video generation and processing component, a data source integration and aggregation component for aggregating and integrate information received from various sources, a process sensing component for generating one or more continuous processes, a process aggregator and weighing component for aggregating the one or more continuous processes into a merged weighted process, a proof of problem and value component for determining one or more process variations, a ripple effect analyser for sending one or more nudging messages to the retail store environment, and a gamified feedback algorithm component for communicating a nudging action corresponding to a nudging message, to one or more entities in the retail store environment. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342757 | SKEW-MITIGATED EVOLVING PREDICTION MODEL - Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented for service cost prediction using machine learning. A claims risk model is formed for predicting a per member per month cost based on variables trained in early prediction models and variables of claim record data from data sources. A training dataset for the claims risk model is modified based on a preconfigured cap value and two distinctive datasets are generated, which trains the claims risk model into a capped submodel and an outlier submodel, respectively. Each submodel makes prediction of the per member per month cost and a slice model interpolates a cost predicted by the capped submodel and another predicted by the outlier submodel. The splice model redistributes the outcomes of the capped submodel and the outlier submodel. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342758 | RISK MANAGEMENT DATA CHANNEL INTERLEAVED WITH ENTERPRISE DATA TO FACILITATE ASSESSMENT RESPONSIVE TO A RISK EVENT - Various embodiments relate to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and computing architectures and data models configured to facilitate management of enterprise functions, and, more specifically, to an enterprise computing and data processing platform configured to activate risk management transformations of enterprise data in-situ, responsive to identifying a risk event, and further configured to implement a risk management data channel to facilitate analyses and responses associated with an enterprise computing device. In some examples, a method may include receiving a risk data signal, identifying a portion of the risk data signal, computing data representing a risk level, classifying data associated with a hierarchical business data object in accordance with a risk level, aggregating classified data with other data associated with other business data objects classified as a function of risk to form aggregated data, causing presentation of aggregated data as a function of risk. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342759 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUNDLED PRIVACY POLICIES - Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for determining an applicable privacy policy based on various criteria associated with a user and the associated product or service. User and product criteria may be obtained automatically and/or based on user input and analyzed by a privacy policy rules engine to determine the applicable policy. Text from the applicable policy can then be presented to the user. A default policy can be used when no particular applicable policy can be identified using by the rules engine. Policies may be ranked or prioritized so that a policy can be selected in the event the rules engine identifies two, conflicting policies based on the criteria. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342760 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILIZING CONSTRAINED MODES OF TRANSPORTATION - The disclosed computer-implemented method may include efficiently surfacing the availability of constrained transportation options such that the utilization of those options is at least partially maximized and directed to users for whom the options would be a positive user experience. During busy times, requests for transportation with a high estimated arrival time and/or to a low-demand area may not be the most efficient matches for constrained transportation options such as autonomous vehicles. Instead, waiting for a transportation request with a lower estimated arrival time and/or to a higher-demand area may be a better choice in terms of maximizing the percentage of time an autonomous vehicle spends transporting passengers and reducing the time passengers spend waiting for an autonomous vehicle. In some embodiments, dynamically altering the mode-availability radius of an autonomous vehicle may increase the utilization of the autonomous vehicle. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342761 | SYSTEM FOR MAPPING MODEL, COST, AND SCHEDULE OF LARGE-SCALE CAPITAL PROJECT - A system includes a model database configured to contain model items representing capital project components. Each model item has at least one model item code. The system includes a schedule database configured to contain schedule items representing a portion of a construction schedule. Each schedule item has at least one schedule item code. The system additionally includes a cost database configured to contain cost items representing a cost for the portion of the construction schedule and/or the capital project components. Each cost item has at least one cost item code. A rules engine is configured to receive a rule for mapping model items, schedule items, and cost items. The rule includes a code sequence related to the model item, the schedule item, and the cost item. A mapping engine communicates with the model, schedule, and cost databases to map model, schedule, and cost based on the rules. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342762 | UTILIZING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TO CROWDSOURCE FUNDS FOR PUBLIC SERVICES - A device may provide, to a user device, task data identifying tasks to be performed, and may receive, from the user device, a selection of a particular task from the tasks to be performed. The device may identify cameras associated with a particular task location, and may receive, from the user device, data identifying a location of the user device. The device may determine that the location of the user device matches the particular task location, and may receive, from the user device, task image data identifying images of the particular task location. The device may access, from the cameras, camera data identifying images of the particular task location, and may process the task image data and the camera data, with a machine learning model, to determine performance data associated with performance of the particular task. The device may perform one or more actions based on the performance data. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342763 | DISTRIBUTING ORDER EXECUTION IN A MOM SYSTEM - A method distributes order execution in a MOM system. A GOM module is capable of generating production orders with a negotiable requirement. Each LOM module is capable of offering to the GOM module local order planning functionalities for a production order due to a communication based on a bilateral negotiation exchange with the GOM module on negotiable parameters. The method includes: using past negotiation data exchanged with the LOM module to compute a module providing as output a negotiation reliability score to assign to a negotiation exchange with the LOM module; at runtime, negotiating a negotiable parameter of a specific production order with the LOM module by the specific negotiation model; at runtime, updating the specific negotiation model with tunings obtained by applying runtime data to the corresponding computed reliability module aimed at improving the reliability score; and at runtime, distributing the order execution to the LOM module. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342764 | VIRTUAL FIRM TECHNOLOGY - Virtual firm (VF) technology is disclosed, in which the abstraction of enterprise resources benefits the efficiency and scalability of the enterprises (firms). The technology includes a system including a resource abstraction layer that defines virtual enterprise resources. The resource abstraction layer is configured to map the virtual enterprise resources to actual enterprise resources. A shared enterprise resource planning system provides multiple guest ERP units, each for a particular enterprise to define workflows containing tasks. The system has a two-layer task assignment function to assign each task to a suitable virtual enterprise resources in the resource abstraction layer, and further assign the task to be executed by an enterprise resources mapped to the selected virtual enterprise resource. The task assignment can be automated. The virtual enterprise resources are shared among different enterprises. Virtualizable enterprise resources may include human workers and computational workers. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342765 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVICE INTEGRATED SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to identify a particular data item as a basis for aggregation of a report to be output, based on aggregation basis information that indicates one or more data items usable as bases for aggregating data to be contained in the report, among data available to a user. The data available to the user are identified based on service contract information that indicates one or more services available to the user and data definition information that indicates data generated for each of the one or more services. The circuitry is further configured to output the report aggregated using the identified particular data item as the basis. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342766 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOSSIER CREATION WITH RESPONSIVE VISUALIZATION - A method (and system) includes retrieving a dataset from a database, creating a report including a graphical representation of the dataset, the graphical representation of the dataset including a customizable, responsive visualization of a key performance indicator and displaying the report on a graphical user interface. The visualization of the key performance indicator displays all necessary data in a single visualization. The method (and system) provides responsive layout creating to automatically generate and arrange the visualization of the key performance indicator. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342767 | EXTERNALLY-CONNECTED SHOP FLOOR CONTROL SYSTEM - An externally-connected shop floor control (SFC) system comprising M shop floor control (SFC) devices is disclosed. By letting each of the M SFC devices be electrically connected between one test machine and one information read-out device, the SFC system is successfully implemented into a production line. Therefore, each of the M SFC devices is adopted to achieve a re-verification of pass record for a test object that is transferred from a previous-stage test machine, and is also adopted for collecting related test data of the test object transferred from a current-stage test machine. As such, the SFC system can be easily implemented into any one type of production line, so as to assist the manager of the production line in data collection, station passing control, manufacturing reports, and control of production efficiency and yield, without spending much cost of human resources and software/firmware developing. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342768 | Reserve System and Method - A reserve system and method for determining a quantity of forecasted reserve for a crew-grouping for a quantity of scheduled flights in a future time period is disclosed. The reserve system may comprise a controller configured to receive a crew-grouping and a quantity of scheduled flights for an aircraft in a future time period, and a historical data set associated with the crew-grouping for a previous time period. The controller is further configured to determine a quantity of forecasted reserve based on: an interquartile range of values in the historical data set for a quantity of actual used reserve of the crew-grouping per day for the aircraft; or the quantity of scheduled flights per day in the future time period and a transformed interquartile range of a plurality of data points associated with the historical data set; and to transmit the quantity of forecasted reserve to a crew rostering system. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342769 | CONSUMABLE WASTE IDENTIFICATION - Examples disclosed herein relate to creating a shipment order comprising a first consumable of a consumable type, calculating an expected waste cost for a second consumable of the consumable type, determining whether a shipping cost for the second consumable exceeds the expected waste cost, and in response to determining that the shipping cost exceeds the expected waste cost, adding the second consumable to the shipment order. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342770 | PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method for identifying a product removed from a cabinet includes detecting visual characteristics of the product removed from the cabinet by a camera within the cabinet. The method may include detecting an identifier on the product removed from the cabinet by an identifier sensor, and comparing the visual characteristics and the identifier to a database of product information. The product removed from the cabinet may be identified based on the comparison of the visual characteristics and the identifier to the database of product information. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342771 | METHOD FOR REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF THE USING OF CHEMICALS - A method is performed by using a master smart scale with a master-slave mode, a remote communication device and a slave smart scale to manage multiple chemicals from a remote place. The master smart scale performs an initialization procedure to obtain an initial weight of one chemical; generate an identification information by reading a radio frequency tag of the chemical; use the identification information to inform the remote communication device to open an input page for users to input a basic information into the master smart scale; and mark the basic information and the initial weight with the identification information. In the master-slave mode, the master smart scale allows receiving the information of the chemical from its slave smart scale. For inquiry, a specific page is opened with the remote communication device to receive and display a statistical data generated from the master smart scale. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342772 | METHOD FOR MAINTAINING PERPETUAL INVENTORY WITHIN A STORE - One variation of a method for maintaining perpetual inventory within a store includes: accessing a radar scan of an inventory structure within a store; accessing an optical image of the inventory structure; identifying a product type associated with the slot in a region of the optical image; retrieving a volumetric definition of the product type; locating a slot volume defining the slot in the radar scan; extracting a volumetric representation of a set of product units intersecting the slot volume in the radar scan; segmenting the volumetric representation by the volumetric definition to calculate a quantity of the set of product units occupying the slot; and updating a stock record of the store to reflect the quantity of the set of product units occupying the slot. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342773 | Product Storage and Retrieval - A inventory system for product storage and retrieval. Ordered goods are placed in bag units at a central filling center and shipped to local storage areas, where the bags are placed onto rails in a storage structure. The rails include an imaging sensor at each bag receiving location defined on the rails for obtaining a bag identifier that is affixed with the bag unit. The bag identifier and the rail address for each bag unit is stored on a local computer database. When a user wants to pick up stored goods, the user inputs the identification or order information for the goods and the computer will search the inventory to locate the goods in a specific stored bag unit. The rail adjacent the bag unit is illuminated to facilitate locating the goods. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342774 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE DEVICE-BASED ITEM ACQUISITION AND TRACKING - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for enabling mobile device-based item acquisition and tracking. One exemplary method performed on a mobile device comprises entering a wireless scan mode, detecting a signal from a tag associated with an item in a first area and in proximity to the tag, presenting information associated with the tag, and adding the information to a list. The method further comprises detecting a second tag in a second area, and sending the list to a second device. A second exemplary method performed by a processing terminal comprises receiving the list from a mobile device, entering a wireless scan mode, detecting a signal from a tag associated with an item in proximity to the tag, determining whether the item associated with the detected tag is present on the received list, and enabling the mobile device to complete a transaction to purchase the item. User interfaces are also provided for presenting information related to the above methods and receiving inputs from users to accomplish one or more related methods. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342775 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PROOF OF DELIVERY IMAGE PROCESSING - A system, device and method automate proof of delivery image processing. In embodiments, package proof of delivery images are received from workers' devices, the images are scanned and features are determined from the scanned images. Based on the determined feature, a classifier is determined for each of the plurality of images according to a classifier database. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WORKER POSITION - A location providing system is provided. The system transmits, via a communication device to a first computer device used by a consumer, notification of the work from the operator to the consumer, receives, from the first computer device, a request for receiving current location for the operator who performs the work associated with the notification, in response to the request, obtains from the storage device, the operator information associated with the work, and transmits, to the first computer device, the obtained current location. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342777 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAFE AND TIMELY DELIVERY OF A PACKAGE - A system that coordinates delivery of a package from a first location to a second location is described. The system includes a delivery coordination server and a first device located at a first location, a second device located at a second location, and a third device connected via a communication network. A first arrival notification associated with a package is received from a first device. A second arrival notification regarding an arrival of the package at the first location is sent to a second device. A pick-up notification is received from the second device indicating an intended time of pick-up of the package from the first location. Navigation data is sent to the second device at the intended time of pick-up. A delivery confirmation notification is received from the first device and/or the second device indicating that the package has been delivered to or picked up from the first location. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342778 | BEACON TRACKING - Some embodiments relate to the use of Bluetooth beacons for enhancing delivery tracking. A Bluetooth beacon may be carried by a delivery agent. A ID of the beacon may be detected by one or more sensors. Tracking of the delivery agent may be performed by determining where the ID is detected. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342779 | AGENT INTERACTION DURING OPERATION OF AN UNMANNED DELIVERY SERVICE - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for providing agent interaction during item delivery in an unmanned delivery service. In a particular embodiment, a method provides determining that a first agent of a contact center should communicate through an unmanned delivery device at a first delivery location, wherein the unmanned delivery device transports a first item for delivery to the first delivery location. The method further provides connecting a first client system operated by the first agent to the unmanned delivery device when the unmanned delivery device is at the first delivery location and exchanging communications for the agent between the first client system and the unmanned delivery device. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342780 | INITIATING DELIVERY BY MAIL USING PRE-GENERATED BARCODE - A system for initiating a delivery by mail may include a database storing a plurality of unique codes and a barcode reader for reading a barcode from a surface of an article to be delivered, the barcode corresponding to one of the unique codes. The system may further include a server operable to update the database in response to the reading of the barcode to associate delivery information for the article with the unique code corresponding to the barcode, the delivery information including at least a delivery address of the article. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342781 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING AN ADDRESSEE IDENTIFIER, FOR MAIL & OTHER PURPOSES - A system and method to create a permanent identifier for an individual that uniquely identifies the individual. While a mailing address of the individual changes during the individual's lifetime, the unique identifier does not. This allows the individual to use the identifier as the address conduit to get mail delivered to the individual wherever the individual resides. The system can receive a request from an individual to generate a one-time life-long unique identifier, using the individual's unique information. The system can also receive a current mailing address that can be associated with the unique identifier. If an old address was tagged to that identifier, the current address will override & replace the old address tagged to the identifier. Once the mailing address is associated with the unique identifier, the individual can use the unique identifier as the mailing ‘address’ instead of the actual street address. The unique identifier can be mentioned in correspondences or parcels as the ‘address’ instead of the mailing address, and the courier company can retrieve the current mailing address associated with the unique identifier. This system & method makes an individual's mailing address consistent, permanent, and unique to the individual. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342782 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING ITEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and apparatus for scheduling an item, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method can include acquiring a first time sequence corresponding to a target item in a target warehouse, the first time sequence including shipment volume information of the target item corresponding to each unit time within a first historical period. The method can further include determining, according to the first time sequence and a target period to be predicted, total shipment volume information of the target item within a target period through a shipment prediction model, the shipment prediction model including a plurality of parallel first time sequence sub-models and a weighted sub-model which is connected to an output of each of the first time sequence sub-models, and scheduling the target item in the target warehouse according to the total shipment volume information and current inventory information of the target item in the target warehouse. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342783 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATED EXTRACTION AND VISUALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY, PERSONNEL AND BUSINESS FUNCTIONS - A method of improving the performance of an information computer system for an enterprise includes cataloging information artifacts from the information computer system. The information artifacts represent data about intellectual assets and interrelationships between intellectual assets within the enterprise. Knowledge maps are created representing the cataloged information artifacts within a knowledgebase. A knowledge map relevant to a user is identified. The identified knowledge map is displayed to the user via an output. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342784 | SYSTEM METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SOFTWARE APPLICATION TO COLLECT, ANALYZE AND DISTRIBUTE DATA FOR A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY PROJECT ENVIRONMENT - A system, method and apparatus is described for a dynamic mobile application that provides a real time collection, analysis and reporting information management platform for building and construction projects, emergency services and disaster management tasks. The mobile device application includes multiple modules interconnected including a finance module, an operations module, a utilities module and a safety module. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342785 | DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL FILE-BASED ELECTRONIC WHITE BOARD IN COLLABORATIVE WORK SYSTEMS - Systems and methods may include having an integrated unified filing engine. A system may include at least one processor configured to maintain at least one table containing a plurality of items and a plurality of asset designations, and to maintain at least one electronic whiteboard containing at least a subset of the plurality of asset designations. The processor may be further configured to maintain a data structure containing a plurality of links, wherein each link associates at least one of the subsets of asset designations with at least one location on the at least one electronic whiteboard, receive via a network access device, an activation of a particular link associated with a particular asset, alter a display of at least one electronic whiteboard containing an asset designation, and retrieving a presenting a corresponding asset in response to a received selection of a particular asset designation. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342786 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A DASHBOARD FOR A COLLABORATION WORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - Systems, methods, and storage media for providing a dashboard for a collaboration work management platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment; obtain a first set of units of work where a first user is associated with first units of work within the first set but not assigned to the first units of work; and/or effectuate presentation of a dashboard displaying work information for the first units of work within the first set and indicating titles for the first units of work within the first set, statuses of the first units of work within the first set, and user information for the one or more other users assigned to the first units of work within the first set. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342787 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES ON A DECENTRALIZED RESOURCE NETWORK - A system and method for creating and for managing human resources over a decentralized human resources network is provided herein. The system has a plurality of nodes in a decentralized network in communication with one or more distributed ledgers capable of recoding data ledgers, each node having one or more processors and a memory, the memory being a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, such that upon execution of the instructions, one or more nodes in the plurality of nodes perform operations of receive a resource definition associated with an agent of a plurality of agents, receive a request from the organization for a need for at least an agent of the plurality of agents, store the request on the one or more distributed ledgers, call a function located within the distributed ledger to ascertain whether the request from the organization matches the resource definition of the at least one agent of the plurality of agents, if there are no matches, store, on the distributed ledger an open request, continuously query the function until the request from organization matches one of the resource definitions associated with an agent of the plurality of agents, if there is a match, notify the agent and the organization, and issue a smart contract to the agent from the organization and store the contract in the distributed ledger. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342788 | ELECTRONIC MATCHING FOR A HEARING - A computer-implemented method may be performed by computing device interacting with first and second remote computing devices, to perform electronic matching for a hearing. The method includes receiving, from the first computing device, a request for an attorney to cover a hearing, which may include availability requirements and attorney qualifications for the hearing. The method includes notifying the second computing device of the request. The method may further include receiving from the second computing device an indication of availability of a first attorney of interest and a match request for the hearing and determining qualifications for the first attorney of interest. Upon determining that the availability and the qualifications of the first attorney of interest match the availability requirements and attorney qualifications of the hearing, respectively, the method may include communicating a response, to the first computing device, that identifies the first attorney of interest to cover the hearing. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342789 | TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE A SCHEDULE WITH OPTIMIZATION - Techniques to improve a schedule using optimization are described. Some described techniques improve the schedule using optimization upon a user's travel booking operation and/or in response to changes in the user's relationships. The techniques include an apparatus, a method, and a computer-readable medium configured to process relationship data associated with potential candidates for a set of meetings in a schedule, relationship data corresponding to interaction indicia with each potential candidate, generate, from the relationship data, a connectivity network comprising links with the potential candidates, each link of the links corresponding to a relevance value between a user and a specific potential candidate, and populate, via an optimization unit, open meeting spaces in the schedule with meeting data based upon the connectivity network and availability data of the potential candidates, the schedule being configured to substantially maximize relevancy of the set of meetings. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342790 | VISUALIZING VEHICLE PART REPLACEMENT INFORMATION USING EXTENDED REALITY - A device having extended reality capabilities receives a video feed including one or more video frames depicting an object. The device provides the one or more video frames to a first machine learning model that identifies the object and one or more parts of the object that are depicted in the one or more video frames, and obtains positional tracking information that represents a position and an orientation associated with the object depicted in the one or more video frames relative to a coordinate space. The device identifies a plurality of parts from the one or more parts of the object that are depicted in the one or more video frames and determines, using one or more second machine learning models, information regarding the plurality of parts and information regarding one or more replacement parts. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342791 | MANUFACTURING SCHEDULES THAT INTEGRATE MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES - Systems, techniques, and computer-program products are provided to generate manufacturing schedules that integrate maintenance strategies. A manufacturing schedule can be generated by solving an optimization problem subject to operational constraints that preserve consistency in the order of the operations to be performed during the manufacture of a product, and further subject to maintenance constraints that enforce a desired maintenance strategy. The optimization problem can be solved by minimizing a makespan of a product subject to the operational and maintenance constraints. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342792 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FACILITATING A DO-IT-YOURSELF EXPERIENCE-BASED REPAIR SOLUTION - Embodiments are disclosed for facilitating Do-It-Yourself (DIY) repairs. In the context of a method, an example embodiment includes receiving, by an experience-based repair service (EBRS) host system, vehicle diagnostic information identifying one or more vehicle problems. This example embodiment of the method further includes evaluating the vehicle diagnostic information, generating, based on the evaluation of the vehicle diagnostic information, required part types and required tools for addressing the one or more vehicle problems, and generating, based on the evaluation of the vehicle diagnostic information, recommended part types for addressing the one or more vehicle problems. Finally, this example embodiment of the method further includes causing presentation of an interface facilitating purchase of required parts from each of the generated required part types, the required tools, and recommended parts from each of the generated recommended part types. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342793 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE MONITORING, CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION OF A WASTE PICKUP SERVICE - A system, method and device for waste measurement for garbage truck fleets operated by waste pickup service are provided. The waste measurement device comprises one or more visible light cameras; one or more volume sensors; and a controller. The waste measurement device is deployed in front of a hopper of the garbage truck and the device is configured to measure the waste volume in the hopper using the volume sensors. The method calculates the waste volume emptied from the waste container by at least subtracting the measurement of the volume in the hopper before loading from the measurement of the volume after loading. The system manages the waste pickup services having garbage truck fleet with the waste measurement devices. The system optimizes and monitors the system operation conditioned upon the measurements provided from the waste measuring devices. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342794 | METHOD FOR MANAGING HEALTH SERVICE SOLID WASTE - A method is described for managing health service solid waste, in which the solid waste from the generating unit is collected, sorted, transformed and packaged at a Central Waste Transformation Facility (CTR) within the generating unit which conveys the sorted waste to a processing unit that sends back to the generating unit, in return, transformed products, inputs and/or energy for use in routine activities, conferring a commercial value on waste that is customarily sent to landfill. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342795 | METHOD OF RECIRCLING AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention is in the field of a method of recircling a multitude of generic waste streams. Although many efforts are in place to recycle waste streams, typically these efforts are limited in effect. Not only is a significant part of the waste streams burned, but most of the waste, if recycled, is reduced in quality and therefore only applicable in lower value production of goods. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342796 | MESSAGE PROCESSOR WITH APPLICATION PROMPTS - A computer implemented method includes identifying a special character in a message generated by a sender. A money transfer prompt is supplied to the sender in response to the special character. A transfer amount is validated. An account transfer for the transfer amount is initiated. The message is sent to a recipient with indicia of the account transfer. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342797 | Dynamic Unauthorized Activity Detection and Control System - Systems for dynamically detecting and controlling unauthorized activity are presented. In some examples, a request for deposit may be received by a self-service kiosk. One or more items may be submitted for deposit and may be evaluated. In some examples, evaluating the one or more items for deposit may include evaluating the items to determine whether they include metal or other material not associated with valid items for deposit, evaluating security features such as watermarks, embedded threads, ink colors, and the like, to determine whether they correspond to valid items for deposit, and the like. If the evaluated items are valid items for deposit, the deposit may be processed. If not, one or more mitigating actions may be executed to capture additional information, lock a user account, or the like. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342798 | PERFORMING ENHANCED DEPOSIT ITEM PROCESSING USING COGNITIVE AUTOMATION TOOLS - Aspects of the disclosure relate to performing enhanced deposit item processing using cognitive automation tools. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a deposit item input support server, image data associated with a deposit item. Subsequently, the computing platform may apply a machine learning classification model to the image data associated with the deposit item. In doing so, the computing platform may produce one or more predicted values for one or more fields of the deposit item and one or more confidence scores for the one or more predicted values. Based on these predicted values and confidence scores, the computing platform may generate and send one or more commands directing the deposit item input support server to accept or reject the deposit item, which in turn may cause the deposit item input support server to accept or reject the deposit item. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342799 | VISIBLE AND ACCESSIBLE ESCROW SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for processing financial instruments in ATMs or other processing devices. A user can deposit financial instruments, such as cash or a check, into the ATM, to be processed to determine the monetary value of the financial instruments. Once counted and valued, the financial instruments can be dropped into an escrow chamber. The escrow chamber can have a door or gate such that the financial instruments are visible, but not accessible during the transaction. If the customer discovers an error during the transaction, the door or gate can transition to an open state allowing the customer to retrieve the financial instruments. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342800 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PAYMENT DISTRIBUTION USING LEAFBILL - A system and method for enabling an automated contract recording and payment distribution to contributors of a product line according to a process of automatic recording payment addresses, transactions, contracts and state transitions of contracts, enabling automatic payment distribution using a plurality of algorithms, digital smart contracts and digital ledgers via custom configured computer systems in a peer-to-peer blockchain computer network. A system and method to create a flexible, visible and transparent way to award individual contributors for their add-on works as part of the sell of an enhanced product. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342801 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR RESELLING DIGITAL MEDIA RIGHTS - In example embodiments, a system and method for managing the resale of digital media rights is provided. In example embodiments, user accounts that store digital media rights for digital content may be maintained. An indication that a first user having a first user account intends to transfer digital media rights for a particular digital content may is received. A verification process is performed to verify that the digital media rights of the first user are transferable. Based on an indication that a transaction has occurred, the digital media rights are transferred from the first user account to a second user account associated with a second user that is a recipient of the digital media rights. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342802 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZED INVOICE SETTLEMENT - Systems and methods for reporting invoice payments are disclosed. A financial institution computing system includes a data storage system, a network interface circuit enabling the financial institution computing system to exchange information over a network, an invoice circuit, an optimization circuit, and a transaction circuit. The invoice circuit receives invoice information from the network, which the optimization circuit uses to determine an optimized payment date and an optimized payment vehicle. The transaction circuit executes the optimized payment vehicle on the optimized payment date, and reports the invoice payment to at least one customer. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342803 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A SERVICE THROUGH BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for using a service through a blockchain system to perform: confirming, through the blockchain system by using the communication device, that a provider node providing the service is a participant in a decentralized network; and using the service provided by the provider node when it is confirmed through the blockchain system by using the communication device that the provider node is the participant of the decentralized network are provided. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342804 | BLAZE DIGITAL STORE REMOTE MANAGEMENT SERVER - A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342805 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING GRAB-AND-GO TRANSACTIONS IN A CASHIERLESS STORE - A method and system for detecting a commercial transaction through physical interactions with items, the method comprising receiving data from a plurality of sensory modules associated with one or more shelves within a container, the plurality of sensory modules including a static cameras module, a weight sensors module, and a video cameras module, wherein the data includes physical activities corresponding to items on the smart shelves in a given session. The method further comprises resolving the data from the sensory modules using probabilistic reasoning and machine learning, determining a new container state after the given session based on the resolved data, and determining a final commercial transaction based on the new container state. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342806 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF PRODUCT INSERTIONS AND PRODUCT EXTRACTION IN AN OPEN SHOPPING CART - The disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatic detection of product insertion and product extraction in an Artificial Intelligent Cart (AIC). Specifically, the disclosure relates to systems and methods of ascertaining insertion and extraction of product into and from an open shopping cart, by continuously monitoring triggered content changes. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342807 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF PRODUCT INSERTIONS AND PRODUCT EXTRACTION IN AN OPEN SHOPPING CART - The disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatic detection of product insertion and product extraction in an Artificial Intelligent Cart (AIC). Specifically, the disclosure relates to systems and methods of ascertaining insertion and extraction of product into and from an open shopping cart, by continuously monitoring triggered content changes. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342808 | UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING TO DETERMINE WHETHER AN IN-PERSON CUSTOMER FOLLOWS A MERCHANT ON SOCIAL MEDIA - A device may receive, from a point-of-sale (POS) device, transaction data associated with a transaction between a customer and a merchant associated with the POS device. The device may determine a customer email address and other data associated with the transaction, the customer, or the merchant, based on the transaction data and customer data identifying the customer, and may process the customer email address, the other data, and social media data, with a machine learning model, to identify a social media account of the customer. The social media data may include data identifying multiple social media accounts, and the multiple social media accounts may include the social media account of the customer. The device may determine, based on the social media data, whether the social media account of the customer follows the merchant, and may perform actions based on whether the social media account follows the merchant. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342809 | TAP TO PAY CREDIT BILL - Various embodiments are directed to enhancing a card payment experience by a single tap of a contactless card to a user computing device. In examples, the single tap of the card may be preconfigured to cause automatic payment of a predefined amount toward a card balance. If the single tap is not preconfigured to mean automatic card payment, the user may be presented with a notification and various payment amount options, which the user can select to pay toward the card balance. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342810 | TRANSACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for transactions associated with a mobile device are discussed. A method can include receiving a merchant identifier, sending an identification data, receiving a transaction, and processing a funds transfer. The receiving the merchant identifier is from a mobile device associated with a user registered with a central payment service. The identification data is associated with the user and the identification data includes multiple identifying data items. The transaction data details a transaction between the merchant and the user. The funds transfer is between the merchant and the user based on the transaction. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342811 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING INFORMATION FROM WEARABLE DEVICES - Systems and methods for the of use information from application programming interfaces on wearable devices in third party applications are provided. A system comprising a user device, data storage, an application programming interface and an application is provided. In this system, there is a user device that includes a health monitor. The health monitor includes sensors and associated software that enable it to obtain health information about the wearer of the user device. In this system, there is data storage on the user device that stores the health information as user health data. In this system, there is an application programming interface on the user device that enables the health monitor to share the user health data with other applications executing on the user device. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342812 | PHYSICAL SHOPPING CHART-TO-MOBILE DEVICE ASSOCIATIONS - In some implementations, a system for providing and managing associations between mobile computing device and physical shopping carts used in retail stores includes a physical shopping cart configured to transport physical goods around a store. The physical shopping cart includes a product detection system that is programmed to detect products that are placed in the physical shopping cart, a wireless transceiver to wirelessly communicate with other devices, and a cart identifier that uniquely identifies the physical shopping cart. The system further includes a mobile computing device that is programmed (i) to obtain the cart identifier for the shopping cart, (ii) to establish an association with the physical shopping cart using the cart identifier, and (iii) once the association between the physical shopping cart and the mobile computing device has been established, to output a user interface that provides a real-time summary of the products in the physical shopping cart. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342813 | Symmetric Discovery Over Audio - A first computing device broadcasts a first audio token comprising the first user computing device identifier over two or more audio frequency channels at specified intervals and listens for audio inputs via the two or more audio frequency channels at the specified intervals. The first computing device receives a second audio token generated by a second computing device and communicates the received second audio token to the one or more computing devices. The second computing device receives the first audio token generated by the first computing device and communicates the received first audio token to the one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices receive the first and second audio tokens and pair the first computing device and the second computing device and facilitate a transfer of data between the first computing device and the second computing device. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342814 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PAYING FARE - Some embodiments of the application disclose a method and apparatus for paying a fare. When a user takes a public transit means, the user terminal establishes an NFC connection with the fare-collecting device of the public transit means, the user terminal transmits the encrypted account ID of the user to the fare-collecting device, and the fare-collecting device may request a server to deduct the fare from the account of the user. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342815 | SMART CARD WITH SELF-CONTAINED CONNECTION ARCHITECTURE - Systems and methods for executing transactions with increased transactional efficiency and security via a smart payment instrument with self-contained transaction architecture are provided. Methods may include receiving information via a tactile sensor that is affixed to the instrument. Information may include a series of alphanumeric symbols. The receiving may be achieved by entering the symbols via the tactile sensor. Methods may include deciphering the information, via a payment interface component of the instrument, to generate payment data. Payment data may include a recipient and a payment amount. Methods may include transmitting to a payment gateway, via a wireless communication element embedded in the instrument, a request to execute a payment based on the payment data. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342816 | INTELLIGENT CARD UNLOCK - Various examples generally directed to unlocking a locked contactless card for use as payment in card-present transactions are provided. The contactless card is a payment card associated with a payment account. An application executing on a mobile device may be operable to enable unlocking the locked contactless card and receive an indication that the contactless card associated with the mobile device is unlocked for use in card-present transactions. The application may present information related to permitted uses of the unlocked contactless card via a graphical user interface. The permitted uses of the unlocked contactless card may be modified via the graphical user interface. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342817 | TECHNIQUES TO STORE AND PROCESS DATA FOR TRANSACTION ATTEMPTS BY TRANSACTION CARDS - Embodiments may be generally directed to techniques and systems to detect errors and anomalies in contactless transaction processing. These systems may include transaction cards, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, and transaction processing systems. | 2021-11-04 |
| 20210342818 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA ACCESS CONTROL USING A SHORT-RANGE TRANSCEIVER - Systems and methods for controlling data access through the interaction of a short-range transceiver, such as a contactless card, with a client device are presented. An exemplary system and method may include establishing a database storing information for a plurality of accounts, receiving from a client device of the second account holder an account link request to link a first account with a second account, the account link request generated in response to a tap action between a contactless card and the client device, transmitting to a client device of the first account holder a link approval request to approve the account link request, receiving from the first account holder client device, a link approval message generated in response to an indication by the first account holder approving the account link request, and transmitting to the second account holder client device an account link. | 2021-11-04 |
