46th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210357944 | APPLICATION-BASED POINT OF SALE SYSTEM IN MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEMS - Application-based point of sale systems in mobile operating systems. A first application may generate a first URL directed to a second application, a parameter of the first URL comprising an identifier of the first application. A mobile operating system (OS) may access the first URL to open the second application. The second application may receive, from a server, a virtual account number (VAN). The second application may initiate a server on a port and generate a second URL directed to the first application, a parameter of the second URL comprising the port. The OS may access the second URL to open the first application. The first application may establish a connection with the server using the specified port and receive the VAN from the second application via the connection. The first application may autofill the VAN to a form field of a payment form in the first application. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357945 | MOBILE DEVICE BASED IDENTITY VERIFICATION - Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are presented for mobile device based identity verification. An apparatus includes a data module configured to receive sensor data from a hardware device associated with a user. An apparatus includes a transaction module configured to receive transaction data associated with a transaction. An apparatus includes a verification module configured to verify an identity of a user making a transaction based on received sensor data. A transaction may be allowed in response to verifying a user's identity. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357946 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION BY USING QR CODE - The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a system for transmitting and receiving information by using a QR code. The method can receive a first QR code including second terminal identification information from a second terminal, transmit the second terminal identification information to a server, receive, from the server, encryption information of the second terminal on the basis of the second terminal identification information, generate first terminal encryption information by using encryption information of the second terminal to encrypt encryption information of a first terminal, transmit the first terminal encryption information to the second terminal, receive, from the second terminal, a second QR code that is generated on the basis of the first terminal encryption information and that includes information data, and obtain the information data by using decryption information of the first terminal to decrypt the second QR code. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357947 | TRANSACTION EXCHANGE PLATFORM WITH WATCHDOG MICROSERVICE - Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357948 | Cyber Life Electronic Networking and Commerce Operating Exchange - A cyber-life electronic commerce and system control device is disclosed having a three dimensional or other image of an area stored on a server. An operating exchange interfaces with the image to enable an individual to manipulate virtual control elements within the operating exchange. A visible light embedded communication system is used as the backbone to communicate commands from the operating exchange to a building operating system control item in order to alter the setting or status of a building operating system. The operating exchange may also be used by a consumer to virtually explore a cyber-retail location and to engage in commercial activities. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357949 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR ONLINE CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE - A computer-implemented systems and methods for online customer assistance are disclosed. The computer-implemented system comprises a user interface, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to execute instructions to receive a request for assistance from a customer via the user interface, identify at least one last-ordered product, and aggregate customer specific information, one or more previously-ordered products, and the customer specific information that may include product delivery information. Furthermore, the at least one processor may be configured to execute instructions to determine an action pattern of the customer for the at least one last-ordered product, assigning a priority to the order for the at least one last-ordered product or previously-ordered products, determine a response to the customer based on the priority of the order, and provide the response to the request from the customer device via the user interface. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357950 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR ONLINE CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE - A computer-implemented systems and methods for online customer assistance are disclosed. The computer-implemented system comprises a user interface, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to execute instructions to receive a request for assistance from a customer via the user interface, identify at least one last-ordered product, and aggregate customer specific information, one or more previously-ordered products, and the customer specific information that may include product delivery information. Furthermore, the at least one processor may be configured to execute instructions to determine an action pattern of the customer for the at least one last-ordered product, assigning a priority to the order for the at least one last-ordered product or previously-ordered products, determine a response to the customer based on the priority of the order, and provide the response to the request from the customer device via the user interface. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357951 | AUTOMATED SUPPORT FOR INTERPRETATION OF TERMS - A system and method including the reception of an input of a set of textual terms including a subject matter parameter value and an indeterminate term parameter value; automatically determining, by a machine learning process, the subject matter parameter value is subsumed within a specified data model including the indeterminate term parameter value; automatically processing the indeterminate term parameter value to execute a combination of literal, systemic, historical perspective, and teleological interpretations thereof to generate an overall assessment that includes a non-arbitrary interpretation of the indeterminate term parameter value; and presenting a representation of the set of textual terms expanded to include the non-arbitrary interpretation of the indeterminate term parameter value. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357952 | OPTIMIZATION OF SEND TIME OF MESSAGES - Introduced here are approaches for identifying the optimal send time for messages by accounting for hidden confounders, such as the content of those messages, delivery channel, etc. These approaches use a causal inference framework to discover and then remove the impact of hidden confounders. These approaches may be employed by a marketing and analytics platform (or simply “marketing platform”) that may be used to design, implement, or review digital marketing campaigns. The marketing platform can consider the send time as a treatment and then employ machine learning (ML) models that consider the send time, features of the recipient, and hidden confounders to produce a ranked series of send times with the effect of the hidden confounders marginalized. Approaches to performing offline evaluations that mimic A/B tests using data related to existing field experiments are also introduced here. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357953 | AVAILABILITY RANKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of optimizing a customer engagement includes communicating with a plurality of data providers to acquire information associated with a customer's computer-trackable use of one or more computing devices. The method additionally includes, for each customer, acquiring data associated with availability events in the information, processing the acquired data including applying a weighting factor during the processing, and calculating a weighted availability score for the customer. The method further includes generating an availability list including the weighted availability score of each customer, combining a weighted business logic score for each customer with the customer weighted availability score in the availability list, generating a ranking list wherein a plurality of customers are ranked by the combined business logic score and weighted availability score of each customer, transferring the ranking list to a customer engagement system for engaging with each customer according to their ranking order on the ranking list, and acquiring from the customer engagement system engagement data associated with the engaging for each customer in the plurality of customers. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357954 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING EXPERIENCE DIGITAL CONTENTS - A method of processing experience-content data within natural language, narratives comprises the steps of: capturing experience-content data from of one or more sources of information, analyzing the captured experience-content data so as to identify narrative structures, and linking each of the identified narrative structures to an actant category among a set of predetermined actant categories constituting an actantial scheme. The capturing step implements a conversational agent that is programmed to capture additional experience-content data, until all actant categories of the actantial scheme are filled with captured experience-content data. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357955 | USER SEARCH CATEGORY PREDICTOR - Described herein are embodiments for improving search engine results of listings of For Sale Objects (FSOs). A search engine may be improved by implementing rules that resolve ambiguity between listings for different (FSOs) that match the same search inputs. An unsupervised machine learning module may evaluate candidate rules and identify improvements that may not be obvious to a human evaluator. An ecommerce site that combines the improved search engine with the unsupervised machine learning module may dynamically evaluate search results using different candidate rules and iteratively improve search results. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357956 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AUDIENCE METRICS USING THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY-PROTECTED CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS - Methods and apparatus to generate audience metrics using third-party privacy-protected cloud environments. An example apparatus includes a data modifier to obtain a first matrix, the first matrix including first data indicative of entities and embeddings, the entities representative of at least one of search result clicks or videos watched, the embeddings representative of at least one of first classifications of the search result clicks or second classifications of the videos watched, generate a second matrix by reducing the first data in the first matrix to second data that satisfies a size corresponding to an input feature, and store the second matrix in first memory as the input feature, and a model generator to generate a demographic correction model based on the second matrix as the input feature, the demographic correction model to correct demographics corresponding to impressions logged in second memory. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357957 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ADJUST DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION OF USER ACCOUNTS TO REFLECT PRIMARY USERS OF THE USER ACCOUNTS - Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to adjust demographic information of user accounts to reflect primary users of the user accounts. An apparatus comprising: memory; and processor circuitry to execute instructions that causes the processor circuitry to at least: determine a first total score for a first panelist associated with a panelist user account based on at least one of a first impression score, a first age score, or a first gender score; determine a second total score for a second panelist associated with the panelist user account based on at least one of a second impression score, a second age score, or a second gender score; and in response to determining that the first total score satisfies a threshold, store demographics of the first panelist for the panelist user account. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357958 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AUDIENCE METRICS USING THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY-PROTECTED CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS - An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a panelist detector to identify audience measurement panelists associated with database proprietor accounts, a sign-in rate calculator to determine an actual sign-in rate of the audience measurement panelists based on first impressions represented in database proprietor impressions data and second impressions represented in panel data, an adjustment factor generator to determine a first audience adjustment factor corresponding to a first sign-in rate and a second audience adjustment factor corresponding to a second sign-in rate, and a weighting controller to generate a first weighted audience adjustment factor and a second weighted audience adjustment factor by weighting the first and second audience adjustment factors by the actual sign-in rate, the adjustment factor generator to determine a signed-out adjustment factor based on the first and second weighted audience adjustment factors. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357959 | CONTROL TOWER AND ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR VALUE CHAIN NETWORKS - A value chain system that provides recommendations for designing a logistics system generally includes a machine learning system that trains machine-learned models that output logistics design recommendations based on training data sets that each respectively defines one or more features of a respective logistic system and an outcome relating to the respective logistics system; an artificial intelligence system that receives a request for a logistics system design recommendation and determines the logistics system design recommendation based on one or more of the machine-learned models and the request; and a digital twin system that generates an environment digital twin of a logistics environment that incorporates the logistics system design recommendation, and one or more physical asset digital twins of physical assets. The digital twin system executes a simulation based on the logistics environment digital twin, the one or more physical asset digital twins. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357960 | Survey Administration System and Methods - A system for determining preference, including a client device with feedback controls, a server and addressable URIs; the device and server in communication over an electronic network and the URIs' content retrievable over the network; the server automatically receiving and storing ratings, tracking URIs, using ratings to create a preference model for URIs, and using the preference model to suggest URIs; the stored ratings include a record having a rated item URI, a rater having a unique identification, a rating value provided by the rater, and at least one metadatum for creating subsets of ratings. Also, a method for automatically creating a chimeric preference vector, the method steps including identifying a multiplicity of datasets of rated items; automatically combining the datasets to form a combined dataset; automatically identifying ratings collisions; treating ratings collisions to form a data subset; and generating a chimeric preference vector based on the data subset. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357961 | System and Method For Multi-Channel Digital Marketing Optimization - A system for multi-channel digital marketing optimization includes a memory for storing a marketing optimization program code, and a marketing optimization data; and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor executes the marketing optimization program code to create a cluster template by creating and storing within the marketing optimization data an individual business template for each of a plurality of businesses, classifying the plurality of businesses into a cluster based at least in part on one or more marketing objectives, creating and storing within the marketing optimization data a cluster template based at least in part on a combination of captured and calculated data for the plurality of businesses within the cluster. The processor executes the marketing optimization program code further to repeat the cluster template creation steps for a plurality of clusters; and to mathematically combine the cluster templates to create a plurality of target marketing templates. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357962 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FINANCING STRUCTURES USING CLUSTERING - Described herein is a system for generating financing structures. A learning engine may extract data sets associated with sellers of various products. The learning engine may be trained using the data sets. The learning engine may identify a subset of dimensions that cause a change in a determination of a final price for a given product. The learning engine may compute a value for each of the sellers with respect to each dimension. The learning engine may group the sellers into different clusters. The learning engine may generate using a model, including the subset of dimensions. The learning engine may receive a request to generate a financing structure for a specified product sold by a specified seller. The learning engine may generate financing structures for the specified product sold by the specified seller based on the generated model. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357963 | System And Method For Determining Value Of Digital Content - A novel system for performing valuations of file system objects include a processor configured to execute code and memory configured to store data and the code. The code includes an accumulator configured to accumulate secondary data associated with said file system objects, a data aggregator configured to arrange the secondary data in the memory, and a value generator configured to generate an object value indicative of the value of at least one of the file system objects to a particular entity. In a particular embodiment, the value generator creates a record in a valuation database to associate the object value with the at least one of the file system objects. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357964 | TELEMATICS SERVICE DETECTION AND ACTION MESSAGING BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR ASSISTING CAR SHARING PLATFORM - A method of causing car sharing platform user to perform vehicle actions includes training a model by analyzing historical data; analyzing a first data set to determine vehicle requirements comprising respective actions that include respective action values; displaying the actions; receiving user acceptance of the actions; analyzing a second data set to identify changes to the requirements indicating completed actions; and releasing the respective generated action value for the completed actions. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions that when executed, cause a computer system to: train a model by analyzing historical data; analyze a first data set to determine vehicle requirements comprising respective actions that include respective action values; display the actions; receive user acceptance of the actions; analyze a second data set to identify changes to the requirements indicating completed actions; and release the respective generated action value for the completed actions. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357965 | DETERMINING TRANSACTION-RELATED USER INTENTIONS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES - Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for determining transaction-related user intentions using artificial intelligence techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining data pertaining to digital behavior of a user during a transaction-related session on one or more electronic commerce websites; classifying the user into one of multiple categories by processing the obtained data pertaining to the digital behavior of the user using artificial intelligence techniques, wherein the multiple categories correspond to multiple predicted levels of user intention to complete a transaction; determining, based on the classification of the user and the obtained data pertaining to the digital behavior of the user, at least one reason why the user may not complete a transaction during the transaction-related session; and performing one or more automated actions based at least in part on the at least one determined reason. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357966 | Context-aware systems and methods for selecting smartphone applications/services and awarding reward points - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing context-aware selection and recommendation of applications and services on a mobile device. The selection of the preferred applications is based on the context of the user and the context of the applications. A comparison engine related to a recommendation module performs a similarity computation between context attribute vectors of the user and the applications. Based on the similarity computation, a rank-order is produced that determines in what order the application icons should be presented to the user. A digital wallet is also disclosed that maintains the reward points awarded to the user based on the instant principles. Unlike prevailing techniques, the reward points are awarded in a context-aware manner after reconciling the conflicting or contradictory usage habits of the user. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357967 | COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AND DISPLAYING DIGITAL COUPONS AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A system and method of operating a computing system including: a control unit configured to: generate a user transaction history based on parsing a user data set received from a transaction history database; generate a database of a collected coupon data based on the user transaction history; identify a merchant location based on a map data from a map database, and the database of the collected coupon data; identify a merchant based on a user location and the merchant location; retrieve the collected coupon data associated with the merchant based on identifying the merchant; activate the collected coupon data on a transaction card based on an activate parameter; and a storage unit, coupled to the control unit, configured to store the database of the collected coupon data and the merchant location for retrieval during an application state; and a communication unit, coupled to the control unit, configured to transmit the collected coupon data to the transaction card for display on a user interface. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357968 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GOLF COURSE MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for golf course tee time booking, score tracking, and customer relationship management are disclosed in near real-time. The system may be used for administering a loyalty program whereby loyalty points are earned and automatically redeemable for future purchases at golf courses, and for providing rate integrity. For example, the price in dollars for a deal (and the associated fees and taxes) is automatically converted into a point value which is displayed as the purchase price for the deal instead of the dollar amount. The system may be used for automated score tracking for individual rounds of golf, tournaments or leagues. The disclosed system can agglomerate tee time booking and score tracking for individual golf courses or associations of affiliated courses thereby providing customers with a centralized booking system and loyalty program. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357969 | MULTI-ACTION TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A transaction system and method, for use at merchant premises and which includes an electronic cash register ( | 2021-11-18 |
20210357970 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL MESSAGING - A method for embedding information in a digital message includes: receiving a digital message from a computing device; identifying at least one keyword associated with the digital message; identifying, using the at least one keyword, an attachment item corresponding to the at least one keyword; embedding the attachment item in a conversation thread corresponding to the digital message; and updating a table of a database to indicate the digital message and the attachment item. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357971 | Method and System for Providing Offers for Automated Retail Machines Via Mobile Devices - A mobile device with a display, processor(s), and memory: identifies a retail machine configured for wireless communications based on broadcasted information transmitted by the retail machine and including an identifier corresponding to the retail machine; transmits the identifier to a server and receives from the server an electronic communication including a promotional offer for products or services offered by the retail machine; displays the promotional offer; detects selection of a promotional offer; receives a notification from the retail machine that a product or service was provided by the retail machine for a user of the mobile device; transmits confirmation information associated with the notification to the server, receives promotion validation information from the server indicating validation of the promotional offer; and based on the promotion validation information, displays information confirming application of the promotional offer. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357972 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AUDIENCE METRICS USING THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY-PROTECTED CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS - Methods and apparatus to generate audience metrics using third-party privacy-protected cloud environments. In some examples, an apparatus comprising a model generator to generate an individualization model based on truth data indicating first true users exposed to media via first panelist client devices, a model analyzer to produce user probabilities for second panelist client devices based on the individualization model, the user probabilities indicating likelihoods of second true users being exposed to media via the second panelist client devices, a data modifier to: select a user probability from the user probabilities based on an impression, the impression associated with at least one feature and a selected device from the second panelist client devices, the user probability associated with the at least one feature and the selected device, the user probability indicating a likelihood of a set of second true users being exposed to media corresponding to the impression via the selected device, and assign the impression to the set of second true users. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357973 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-ACCOUNT ADJUSTMENT IN THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY-PROTECTED CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS - Methods and apparatus for multi-account adjustment in third-party privacy-protected cloud environments are disclosed herein. A disclosed example apparatus includes memory and processor circuitry to execute computer readable instructions to select a demographic characteristic, the demographic characteristic defining a segment of panelists, select a type of client device, determine a number of the panelists associated with the demographic characteristic and the client device, and define a multi-account adjustment factor for the demographic characteristic and the client device, the factor based on a ratio of a number of panelists to a number of user accounts, the user accounts associated with the determined number of panelists. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357974 | ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for measuring effectiveness of a media-sharing advertisement includes: obtaining delivery destination ID identified in response to an access to a first address, which is based on a first code that is recorded on a print media and includes the first address to access to a first landing page corresponding to a first business entity of the print media and includes the delivery destination ID of the delivery destination of the print media; obtaining delivery destination ID identified in response to an access to a second address, which is based on a second code that is recorded on the print media and includes the second address to access to a second landing page corresponding to a second business entity that satisfies a media-sharing condition and includes the delivery destination ID, and ID of the second business entity; and providing the first and second business entities with the obtained information. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357975 | ATTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOVING OUT-OF-HOME ADVERTISING - A method for attribution determination in a system including a plurality of vehicles having exteriors configured to convey messaging to occupants of other vehicles. Communication signals including information relating to time-stamped locations of the vehicles are received. Time-stamped location data including a plurality of the time-stamped locations is provided to a mobile location data aggregator. Anonymized identifiers associated with mobile device users within exposure zones associated with the time-stamped locations are received from the mobile location data aggregator. A control set of anonymized identifiers associated with users within a geo-fenced area but not within the exposure zones is also received. A record of conversion events is compiled. The conversion events include a first set of conversion events performed by the exposed audience and a second set of conversion events performed by the control audience. An attribution metric is determined based upon the first and second sets of conversion events. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357976 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ATTRIBUTING MULTI-CHANNEL CONVERSION EVENTS AND SUBSEQUENT ACTIVITY TO MULTI-CHANNEL MEDIA SOURCES - This paper presents a practical method for measuring the impact of multiple marketing events on sales, including marketing events that are not traditionally trackable. The technique infers which of several competing media events are likely to have caused a given conversion. The method is tested using hold-out sets, and also a live media experiment for determining whether the method can accurately predict television-generated web conversions. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357977 | METHOD FOR MATCHING INFLUENCERS TO BRANDS AND PAIRING INFLUENCER VIDEOS TO PRODUCTS FOR INTRA-VIDEO TRANSACTIONS - A method for generating advertising content includes: during a content creation period, receiving a video advertisement from an entity; packaging the video advertisement with a pointer to the entity and a checkout portal for content linked to the video advertisement to generate an augmented video advertisement; during a live period succeeding the content creation period, for a first instance of the augmented video advertisement accessed at a first computing device associated with a first user, associating a first purchase completed within the checkout portal of the first instance of the augmented video advertisement with the entity based on the pointer; and, for a second instance of the augmented video advertisement accessed at a second computing device associated with a second user, associating a second purchase completed within the checkout portal of the second instance of the augmented video advertisement with the entity based on the pointer. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357978 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE - A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar taste have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order to rank recommendations with the interface. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357979 | PROVISION DEVICE, PROVISION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A provision apparatus according to the present application includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire detected information based on information (information detected by an image sensor or a sound sensor) detected by a predetermined detection apparatus (for example, a spectacle type or ear-worn type wearable device worn by the user), a generation unit configured to generate changed information in which a detection result regarding a predetermined target is changed in the detected information in a case where context based on the detected information satisfies a predetermined condition, and a provision unit configured to provide the changed information to a user. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357980 | PEER SHARE COMMUNITY SYSTEM WITH MOVABLE DISPLAY SCREEN - An information sharing system with a display screen and a network computing system is disclosed. The display screen may be capable of either being manually moved by a person or move automatically under its own power. The apparatus also includes a power system, a communication subsystem, a memory and a computing device. The communication subsystem communicates with the computing device, the network computing system, and the memory. The network computing system has an end-user display screen. The network computing system is configured to receive media and media secondary information, associate the media and media secondary information to a unique identifier, and show the media and the unique identifier on the display screen. The networking computing system is further configured to receive the unique identifier and an end-user account, and then show the media secondary information on the end-user display screen. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357981 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETARGETING IN A VEHICULAR ADVERTISING SYSTEM - A method for retargeting in a system including a plurality of vehicles having exteriors configured to convey messaging to occupants of other vehicles. Communication signals including information relating to time-stamped locations of the vehicles are received. Time-stamped location data including a first plurality of the time-stamped locations is provided to a mobile location data aggregator. A first set of anonymized identifiers associated with mobile device users known to be within exposure zones associated with the time-stamped locations is received from the mobile data aggregator. The first set of anonymized identifiers is provided to an audience data service provider, which returns other anonymized identifiers associated with the first set of anonymized identifiers. An augmented exposed audience is formed by adding the other anonymized identifiers to the first set of anonymized identifiers. Advertisements are caused to be provided to devices corresponding to at least a subset of the augmented exposed audience. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357982 | DYNAMIC DISPLAY NETWORK FOR TRACKING DISPLAY OPPORTUNITIES - Taxis and other vehicles are used to transport passengers between locations. Particularly in the case of the ride sharing network, the scheduling server is aware of the start (pick-up) and end (drop-off) locations for each route a passenger has requested. Based upon one or both of the start and end locations, a dynamic display network may determine a target opportunity for displayed content. The dynamic display network may automatically match display content requirements to display opportunities and determine an operational area for a particular vehicle based upon planned or actual movement information received from the mobile network. The display content may be sent to a mobile device of a driver then shared with a non-networked display device of the vehicle. It may also include visual displays, sample products, brochures, in electronic or hard copy format and other display content relevant to target opportunities and/or operational areas. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357983 | SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING ADVERTISEMENTS ONLINE AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for presenting advertisements online includes recording search history, user reactions corresponding to each pushed advertisement, and application usage record of the user. Preference scores for different search words of the user are allocated and recorded based on the search history, the user reactions, and the application usage record. At least one new advertisement is presented according to words included in the new advertisement and the preference score. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357984 | METHOD OF PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT BASED ON REAL-TIME VIDEO ANALYSIS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present disclosure provides for an apparatus to connect to a display device such as a billboard. The apparatus is comprised of a camera to record live traffic and a processor and circuits to analyze the live traffic and generate classified data from the recorded traffic. The classified data may include characteristics such as vehicle type, person traits, the weather, etc. This classified data is then used by an operator, who may wish to target specific persons within the live traffic stream with a specific advertisement geared to those specific persons. The present disclosure also provides for a method of generating a targeted advertisement based on chosen characteristics of the classified data set. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357985 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PUSHING INFORMATION - The present disclosure discloses a method and device for pushing information to a target user. One example method includes identifying a plurality of users that meet a predetermined condition; selecting a target user from the identified users to be provided with information, where in the target user is selected based on a relationship strength and an influence of the identified users; and transmitting the information to the determined target user over a network, and relates to the field of information technologies. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357986 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIVATE LOCAL SPONSORED CONTENT - Systems and methods are shown for providing private local sponsored content selection and improving intelligence models through distribution among mobile devices. This allows greater data gathering capabilities through the use of the sensors of the mobile devices as well as data stored on data storage components of the mobile devices to create predicted models while offering better opportunities to preserve privacy. Locally stored profiles comprising machine intelligence models may also be used to determine the relevance of the data gathered and in improving an aggregated model for identifying the relevance of data and the selection of sponsored content items. Distributed optimization is used in conjunction with privacy techniques to create the improved machine intelligence models. Publishers may also benefit from the improved privacy by protecting the statistics of type or volume of sponsored content items shown with publisher content. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357987 | PROGRAMMATIC INGESTION AND ZONED CABLE DELIVERY OF LINEAR TV IN AD AUCTION ENVIRONMENTS - Disclosed is delivering and closing out viewership priced spots in zoned cable delivery of linear TV, assembling past measured viewership data within a zone for a TV spot in a program, by aggregating records and augmenting aggregated logs with viewers' demographic data. This includes running an automated auction for advertising, at five minutes or less before airtime, announcing the spot, providing the past viewership data augmented with demographic data, with bids accepted for a rate, accepting and selecting a winning bid, provisioning an ad corresponding to the winning bid rate for an operator to deliver to the zone, after selecting the bid and before the airtime. After airing the ad, included is processing collected delivery logs within ten minutes of receipt, calculating current measured viewership during the spot, calculating an extended price, and reporting to a winning bidder the extended price, within six hours of airing the ad. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357988 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR COUNTERFACTUAL-BASED INCREMENTALITY MEASUREMENT IN DIGITAL AD-BIDDING PLATFORM - A digital ad-buying platform uses counterfactual-based incrementality measurement by implementing randomization and/or a correction for auction win bias to avoid the need to identify counterfactual winner types in the control group. This approach can estimate impact at the individual consumer level. Confidence levels can be determined using Gibbs sampling in the context of causal analysis in the presence of non-compliance. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357989 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SERVER SIDE COOKIES BY A DEMAND SIDE PLATFORM - The present disclosure is directed to methods for identifying a user by a demand side platform (DSP) across advertiser exchanges. The method includes establishing, by a DSP, a cookie mapping for a user. The cookie mapping includes a mapping of user identifiers for the user from advertisement exchanges to a user identifier assigned by the DSP for the user. The DSP stores to the cookie mapping a first mapping to the user identifier of the DSP, comprising a first user id received by a bidder from a first exchange and a first exchange id for the first exchange. A bidder inserts a pixel into a bid for an impression opportunity to a second exchange. The pixel includes a key to the cookie mapping and a second user id for the user and a second exchange id. The second user id is received by the bidder from a second exchange. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357990 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER VALUATION AND MERCHANT BIDDING - A mediator system, which serves as a conduit between a customer and merchants, includes customer profile data. The mediator system analyzes the customer profile data, and assigns an indication to a customer represented by the customer profile data. The mediator system then provides the indication to the merchants, and then receives bids from the merchants. The bids are for establishing a connection between the merchants and the customer. The mediator system provides to a portion of the merchants, based on the bids, a connection to the customer. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357991 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Campaign Design Platform Having a Component Plug-In Framework - Systems and methods for facilitating user design of a computerized marketing system executable campaign or message thereof, include: providing a graphical user interface for user interaction with a virtual canvas; retrieving, from a database, component data useable by the virtual canvas module to visualize component icons; visibly arranging, within the virtual canvas and in response to user interaction with the virtual canvas via the user interface, the component icons into at least one of: a campaign design or a message design, wherein each component icon represents an action to be taken by the computerized marketing system in executing the campaign and/or the message thereof; and generating, by a build engine, the campaign and/or the message from and in accordance with the respective campaign design and/or message design. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357992 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ADJUST MEDIA IMPRESSIONS BASED ON MEDIA IMPRESSION NOTIFICATION LOSS RATES IN NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and apparatus to adjust media impressions based on media impression notification loss rates in network communications are disclosed. An example method includes determining a first network media impression adjustment factor based on a quantity of lost test media impression notifications for a first network in a geographic region; determining an adjusted quantity of first network user-accessed media impression notifications for the first network by applying the first network media impression adjustment factor to a quantity of successfully received user-accessed media impression notifications to generate a product and weighting the product based on a market share of first subscribers corresponding to the first network in the geographic region; and storing the weighted adjusted quantity of the user-accessed media impression notifications in association with a media identifier to credit corresponding media with a quantity of media accesses corresponding to the weighted adjusted quantity of the user-accessed media impression notifications. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357993 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FORECASTING DEMAND - Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for forecasting demand. An example method comprises generating a virtual offer for one or more combinations of a category or sub-category, location, and price range, accessing consumer data comprising one or more users and user data related to each of the one or more users, calculating a probability that a particular user would buy a particular offer in a particular time frame for at least a portion of the plurality of users and for each of the virtual offers, and determining an estimated number of units of to be sold for at least a portion of the one or more virtual offers as a function of at least the probability associated with each of the one or more virtual offers. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357994 | AUTHENTIC REVIEW PLATFORM - One or more systems and/or techniques for collecting and/or presenting reviews and/or ratings associated with items are provided. A request to perform a review procedure for a first item is received. In response to receiving the request, a first target profile associated with the first item is generated. A second client device associated with a first reviewer displays a review platform interface including one or more selectable inputs associated with one or more items. A first selectable input is associated with the first item. A request to review the first item is received from the second client device via a selection of the first selectable input. Based upon the first target profile and a first reviewer profile associated with the first reviewer, it is determined that the first reviewer is associated with a first target audience of the first item. Review instructions are transmitted to the second client device. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357995 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - The present invention is for calculating a distribution fee for when an article is transported by a moving body. According to the present invention, an article-characteristic-information acquisition unit | 2021-11-18 |
20210357996 | ITEM LEVEL DATA AGGREGATION - Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for item level data aggregation. A method includes identifying a transaction made with a third party within a set of transactions. A method includes using electronic credentials for a user to login to an account of the user at a third party. A method includes downloading item-level data from a third party that corresponds to an identified transaction in response to logging into a user's account at a third party. Item-level data identifies one or more items within an identified transaction. A method includes displaying a set of transactions to a user. A method includes displaying item-level data for one or more items within an identified transaction to a user in response to receiving input from the user relative to the identified transaction in a displayed set of transactions. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357997 | BENEFIT ALLOCATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a participation request from a participant requesting a blockchain resource; invoking a first smart contract that generates a random character sequence for the participant, the generated random character sequence satisfying a predetermined rule; publishing the random character sequence and identity information of the corresponding participant on a blockchain in a manner that identifies the correspondence; and invoking a second smart contract for allocating a benefit certificate corresponding to the blockchain resource to the participant, wherein the second smart contract is used to: obtain a target character sequence satisfying the predetermined rule that is generated later than the generation of the random character sequence and published on the blockchain; and allocate a first benefit certificate to the participant when the random character sequence matches the target character sequence; and publishing a matching result between the random character sequence and the target character sequence on the blockchain. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357998 | VibesR - The present invention relates to a new and useful improvements for a soundtrack marketplace that enables producers to upload soundtracks to the cloud for artistes and songwriters to access, purchase and use on the mobile application. The virtual live system connects musicians and music producers together to collaborate on recording a music no matter how far apart they are. | 2021-11-18 |
20210357999 | Self-Organizing Hanging System - A self-organizing hanging system generally includes at least two main components—bars and keys. The bars have at least three embodiments: standard embodiment, valet embodiment, and shelf embodiment. Each embodiment has variations of embodiments of bars and keys. Each of the bars and keys can have embodiments of magnetic elements and anti-rotation elements. The keys have additional opportunities for variations of embodiments to couple with a product support. In at least one aspect, the bars can be formed with receiver stations at predetermined spacing to cause organized placement for coupling keys with the bars. Further, the bars and keys can be coupled to appear as an integral assembly with one or more external surfaces in planar uniformity. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED E-COMMERCE SHOPPING - An e-commerce system and method for presenting product information to a viewer, where a video feed and product information associated with a product that relates to the content in the video feed can be displayed or presented to the viewer on one or more remote display devices. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358001 | SECURE REFERRAL TRANSFER SERVICE - A secure referral transfer includes receiving an offer for a connection agreement from a source, with the connection agreement defining data objects to be shared in transactions between the source and a target; receiving an acceptance of the offered connection agreement from the target; facilitating a connection between the source and the target based on the accepted connection agreement; and connecting a channel endpoint for the source and a channel endpoint for the target to facilitate a transaction. The secure referral transfer may be implemented without a direct integration of the infrastructure of the source and the target. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358002 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO CONSUMERS BASED ON GOODS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE CONSUMERS - A method includes providing, by a server, a producer interface on a producer device of a respective producer for entering campaign parameters for a respective campaign. The producer interface provides (i) a product field facilitating selection of a respective ingredient for the respective campaign, (ii) a target bid field facilitating entry of a target bid for each unit of the respective ingredient for the respective campaign, (iii) a unit of measure field facilitating selection of a type of unit of measure that is used to measure a quantity of the respective ingredient, (iv) a quantity field facilitating entry of a campaign quantity of the respective ingredient for the respective campaign, and (v) an end bid field facilitating entry of a final bid for the respective campaign. The target bid and the campaign quantity define a campaign budget. The campaign parameters define an allocation line with a dynamically selectable slope. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358003 | SHOPPING ASSISTANT WITH ACCOUNT BALANCE LIMIT DISPLAY - Systems and methods of assisting in an electronic shopping experience are disclosed. A request may be received, from a user on a device having a user interface, to search for an item listed for sale in a marketplace. A balance amount of an account associated with or available to the user at the marketplace is displayed in the user interface. The search results are limited to at least one item having a sales price less than the displayed balance amount and the at least one item is displayed in the user interface. The account may be a user account at a payment service provider. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358004 | METHOD OF CUSTOMIZING PRODUCT THROUGH TERMINAL - A method of customizing a product through a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes providing product information including customizable sections to a user, providing one or more pieces of candidate image data for customizing a first section among the customizable sections using a first user interface (UI), receiving first specific customization image data selected by the user from among the pieces of candidate image data for customizing the first section, providing one or more pieces of candidate image data, in which the first specific customization image data has been applied to the first section, for customizing a second section using a second UI, receiving second specific customization image data selected by the user from among the pieces of candidate image data for customizing the second section, and providing a final image of the product in which respective pieces of specific customization image data have been applied to all of the customizable sections when the respective pieces of specific customization image data for all of the customizable sections are received. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358005 | VIDEO CODING APPARATUS AND VIDEO CODING METHOD - A video coding apparatus including a dividing part that outputs the coding target picture divided for each coding unit (basic CU); a prediction processor that generates a prediction image by performing one of intra prediction and inter-screen prediction; a difference calculator that generates a difference image by calculating a difference between the generated prediction image and an image corresponding to the prediction image in the coding target picture; a residual coder that generates a residual coefficient by performing transform processing and quantization processing on the generated difference image; an integration unit that integrates a plurality of basic CUs included in an N×N-pixel region into one new CU, and a code string generator that generates a code string corresponding to the post-integration new CU by performing variable-length coding and arithmetic coding on coding information and the residual coefficient. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358006 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF A MARKETPLACE - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for enhancing and personalizing an interactive marketplace. The systems and methods provided herein may allow a user to receive search results that are tailored to the user's personal preferences based on social and purchasing information known about the user. In addition, the systems and methods provided herein may provide shipping updates to a buyer that include a personalized message based on location information provided by the package being shipped. In addition, the systems and methods provided herein allow merchants to provide incentives and rewards for shoppers by participating in interactive shopping games. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358007 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION AND INTEGRATED LANGUAGE MODELLING - Systems and method are provided for tracking actions from one or more users of an electronic product catalog, assigning a first token to each of the tracked actions that are unrelated to product item information, assigning second tokens to the one or more tracked actions which have catalog information or product identity, assigning third tokens to the one or more tracked actions based on at least one category of a page of the electronic product catalog, and assigning fourth tokens to at least one search queries and/or search refinement of the one or more tracked actions. The server may generate a sequence of tokens in one or more vectors for each of the one or more users, may encode profile information for the one or more users as a matrix of vectors, and may determine at least one product recommendation for the one or more users from the electronic catalog. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358008 | System and Method to Recommend a Service Provider - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for recommending a service provider. An embodiment operates by receiving a search request specifying a service request by a user and location for the requested service, retrieving prior financial transactions of the user to purchase the service from a database, and determining a preference of the user based on the retrieved prior financial transactions. The embodiment further operates by applying the preference to a model trained to output a recommended service provider and selecting the recommended service provider for display on a user's device. The model more likely recommends service providers in the location having a higher ratio of tip-to-price relative to other providers for the service in the location based on a history of prior financial transactions of a plurality of users. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358009 | SOCIAL MEDIA-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - A user may request a recommendation for an item from other users. Other users may respond to the request by recommending for or against items. Users may up-vote or down-vote the recommendations or responses of other users. The recommendations of the other users may be used to identify items and provide one or more recommendations to the requesting user. The original question and the responses may form a conversation thread. The recommendations may be inserted into the thread as responses, may be presented alongside the thread, or may be presented at the end of the thread. The recommendations may be based on one or more attributes of the user. The weight of the recommendations provided by other users may vary. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358010 | Device Ancillary Activity - Described herein is a system and method for performing ancillary activity. A device activity being performed by a user device of a user is detected. Attribute data associated with a plurality of attribute sources is accessed. A user preference indicating a preference for performing on a secondary user device a complementary activity corresponding to the device activity is inferred. Based on the inferred user preference, the secondary user device is identified according to a device status of the secondary user device, the device status indicating a device capability to perform the complementary activity. The complementary activity to be performed on the secondary user device is generated by analyzing at least one of the device activity, a device functionality of the secondary user device, and the user preference. Instructions to perform the complementary activity are transmitted to the secondary user device. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358011 | METHOD OF OPERATING A SMART SHOPPING TERMINAL FOR A SHOPPING CART, SMART SHOPPING TERMINAL, METHOD OF MANAGING A SMART SHOPPING TERMINAL FOR A SHOPPING CART, AND SERVER - The present disclosure discloses a method of operating a smart shopping terminal for a shopping cart, a smart shopping terminal, a method of managing a smart shopping terminal for a shopping cart, and a server. The method of operating a smart shopping terminal for a shopping cart comprises: forming, by a first smart shopping terminal corresponding to the shopping cart, a shopping group comprising at least the first smart shopping terminal and a second smart shopping terminal corresponding to another shopping cart; and sending, to the second smart shopping terminal, shopping status update information for the shopping cart corresponding to the first smart shopping terminal and/or receiving, from the second smart shopping terminal, shopping status update information for the shopping cart corresponding to the second smart shopping terminal. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358012 | SHOPPING LIST AND CART INTEGRATION - Techniques described herein include systems and methods for utilizing a shopping list generated by a user in one or more shopping list features. A list of items including keywords not associated with specific items may be received. A user interface may be updated to present the list of items, with a first area of the user interface corresponding to uncompleted tasks associated with a keyword of the list, and a second area corresponding to completed tasks associated with a keyword of the list. One or more sensors may receive information about an item. Input about an interaction with the user interface and a keyword of the list may be received. The user interface may be updated to move the keyword of the list from the first area to the second area. A mapping of the keyword to the item may be updated by a computer system. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358013 | PROCESSING DOCUMENTS - A system of routing a purchase order may include a purchase order identification unit configured to identifying a purchase order format associated with a client. The system may also include a routing control unit. The routing control unit may be configured to determine purchase order data based on the purchase order and the purchase order format. The routing control unit may be configured to generate a processed purchase order based on the purchase order data. The routing control unit may be configured to supplement the processed purchase order with additional purchase order data associated with the client. The routing control unit may be configured to apply purchase order security. The routing control unit may be configured to communicate, to a vendor, the processed purchase order. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358014 | BUYING PRODUCTS WITHIN VIDEO CONTENT BY VOICE COMMAND - A user registers for an account with an account management system, configures account settings to permit the account management system to receive user computing device data from a user computing device associated with the user, and logs into the account via the user computing device. The account management system receives a user voice purchase command and determines a purchase command context based on the received user computing device data. The account management system identifies a product that the user desires to purchase based on the purchase command context and directs the user computing device web browser to a merchant website to set up a transaction for the identified product. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL MEDIA SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - Disclosed are a system and process of providing social networking purchasing processes. A method includes receiving, from a posting entity and at the social networking entity, a posting or a submission of a text, an image or a video. When the submission is associated with a product within a product catalog of the posting entity, the social networking entity presents in a newsfeed of users or otherwise on the social networking entity, the text, image or video with an associated option to buy. The option to buy might be presented through a messenger application or as the user browses the posting. When there is a correlation between the posting and the product catalog, and when the user makes a purchase of the product, the user is not transitioned away from the social networking entity. Initiating a payment process occurs within the social networking entity. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358016 | A kind of E-commerce trading system platform consist of the manufacturer's M shop, the dealer's D shop and the consumer using functions - A manufacturer (M), dealer (D) and consumer (C) joint transaction system and a transaction method are provided. The system includes: a manufacturer (M) client, a dealer (D) client, a consumer (C) client, and a cloud data server, wherein the cloud data server provides a manufacturer (M) operating space to the manufacturer (M) client, a dealer (D) operating space to the dealer (D) client, and a consumer (C) operating space to the consumer (C) client. The present invention effectively combines e-commerce and real industry and commerce marketing channel systems, thereby solving serious conflict between a popular B | 2021-11-18 |
20210358017 | Systems and Methods for Electronic Payment and Order Processing for Drop Shipment Systems - Systems and methods for electronic payment and order processing for a drop shipment system. The system generates a link to associate a product with a supplier and the system. The system receives an order confirmation from a distributor for the linked product where the linked product is offered for sale on a web site of the distributor. The system transmits a drop ship order fulfillment request to the supplier for the linked product and determines a revenue share payment associated with the linked product for each of the distributor and the supplier based on a revenue share payment agreement between the distributor and the supplier. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358018 | COMMERCE SYSTEMS HAVING INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC DELIVERY FEATURES - A method includes conveying a cryptocurrency transaction to a peer-to-peer network, wherein said cryptocurrency transaction having encoded therein an email address and to convey goods or services embodied in an electronic form to the email address in response to receipt of said cryptocurrency transaction on said peer-to-peer network. The conveying of goods or services includes transmitting over the Internet in conformance with an email protocol. The goods or services includes event admission tickets, music recordings, video, text, game content, live event broadcast, software, encryption keys or passwords. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358019 | DATA-DRIVEN BASED ONLINE-LOCAL STORE MATCH - An online store offering a product that is currently unavailable can still fulfill an order for the product by querying a multi-store inventory database to see if the product is available from brick-and-mortar stores near the customer. Proximity of local stores is based on a customer location in the customer's profile. Local store selection can be based on product matching policies such as a threshold price difference for the product compared to the online store price. If the customer approves local store pickup, the service generates a voucher to purchase the product directly from the local stores, and presents it to the customer via the online presence. The customer can then redeem the voucher at any of the indicated local stores and pick up the product. When the system receives confirmation of redemption of the voucher, a credit is issued from the online store to the local store. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358020 | VOICE SHOPPING METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure relates to a voice shopping method, device, and a computer-readable storage medium, and relates to the field of voice recognition technology. The method includes: receiving a query instruction from a user by voice, and performing semantic recognition on the query instruction to determine one or more keywords of query content of the user; determining a search range of the keywords according to one or more shopping behavior records of the user; searching the keywords within the search range to obtain commodity information related to the query content, and performing voice output; and receiving an ordering instruction from the user by voice, and performing semantic recognition on the ordering instruction to determine whether an order is made. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358021 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ITEM IDENTIFICATION AND SOURCING - A device for transmitting real-time identification of a fashion item for receipt by a portable wireless computing device operated by a consumer located in a non-store location observing the fashion item, the device comprising: a Bluetooth fashion-item identification chip including, a fashion-item-use sensor which generates an item-in-use signal when detecting a predefined item-in-wear condition; a processor operably connected to the fashion-item-use-sensor, the processor being programmed to cause transmission of intermittent short pulses of a Bluetooth, low energy fashion-item-identification signal upon receipt by the processor of the item-in-use signal from the fashion-item-use sensor; a Bluetooth low energy transmitter operably linked to the processor, the Bluetooth low energy transmitter transmitting intermittent short pulses of the fashion-item-identification signal for receipt by the portable wireless computing device carried by the consumer observing the fashion-item; a battery operably connected to the fashion-item-use sensor, Bluetooth low energy transmitter, and the processor for providing power to operate the device; and a machine washable coating deposited around the periphery of the device for protecting the interior of the device from repeated exposure to water, heat, and chemicals utilized to maintain the fashion item. The device is utilized in the methods and systems of the invention for real-time identification of a fashion-item observed by a consumer in a non-store location and for real-time time purchase of the identified fashion-item via the consumer's portable electronic device | 2021-11-18 |
20210358022 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED TIERED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) - Techniques for a machine learning based tiered graphical user interface (GUI) are described herein. Aspects of the invention include receiving a set of offered products. The set of offered products is sorted into a plurality of tiers, and an initial tiered GUI is generated based on the sorting. Based on receiving customer feedback via the tiered GUI, the sorting of the set of offered products into the plurality of tiers is updated, and an updated tiered GUI is generated based on the updated sorting. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358023 | ELECTRONIC STOREFRONT SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF PROVIDING AN ELECTRONIC STOREFRONT - An electronic storefront having improved display formats for blogging, job offers, messaging, selling and social media. A system and method of providing the electronic storefront. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358024 | System and Network for Outfit Planning and Wardrobe Management - A system to manage a wardrobe and compile outfits includes a server computing device that includes a memory having stored thereon demographic data and a plurality of electronic fashion item models. Each electronic fashion item model is indicative of a fashion item. The electronic fashion item model includes a fashion item type and a fashion item color scheme. The electronic fashion item model is associated with one or more style genres. The system includes an application configured to, when executed by at least one processor, compile at least one virtual outfit. Each virtual outfit includes at least one electronic fashion item model. Each virtual outfit is compiled based on A) a selected event, B) the particular user's demographic data, and C) style genres. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358025 | VEHICLE SHARING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING AVAILABLE VEHICLES TO USER REQUESTS - Vehicle sharing systems and methods for permitting vehicles to be used by requesting users when available and facilitating payment transactions between the owners of the vehicles and the requesting users are provided. The vehicle includes one or more processors and one or more memory modules. The one or more memory modules include a computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to identify when the vehicle is not in use, create a vehicle availability schedule identifying when the vehicle is available based on when the vehicle is not in use, upload the vehicle availability schedule to a server, and receive instruction from the server to permit the vehicle to be used by a user when authorized by an owner of the vehicle | 2021-11-18 |
20210358026 | TECHNIQUES FOR ONBOARDING AND VERIFICATION OF USERS TO A SERVICES PLATFORM - Techniques and apparatus for an interactive element presentation process are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include a storage device and logic, at least a portion of the logic implemented in circuitry coupled to the storage device. The logic may operate to maintain a platform database of services selection information based on user selections of a plurality of services, receive an onboarding request from a user device to register a user with a service platform requiring background verification, determine an onboarding request result, and transmit an eligible set of the plurality of service options for presentation on a user device based on a user level of approval and services selection information. Other embodiments are described. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358027 | Visualizing Interest Charges Based on Payment Options - Systems as described herein may visualization interest charges based on payment options. Transaction information associated with a plurality of recurring payment accounts may be received. A calendar view displaying an aggregated daily balance and an aggregated interest charge may be generated. Upon receiving a transaction request with a transaction amount, a projected aggregated daily interest charge may be generated in real-time. After detecting that the projected aggregated daily interest charge exceeds a threshold amount, an alert associated with the calendar view may be generated to recommend an alternative payment method to a user device. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358028 | GROUP ACCOUNT SERVICE PROVIDING SERVER AND METHOD - According to one aspect of the present invention, a group account service providing server capable of converting a private account into a group account in real time through a terminal of the host of a comprises: an account management unit configured to convert a first account into a group account when a group account conversion request for the first account of a host of a group is generated; a transaction ledger management unit configured to record change information in a transaction ledger for the group account when the change information including at least one of a transaction occurrence event and an information occurrence event is generated for the group account; a virtual ledger management unit configured to generate a virtual ledger to be mapped to the transaction ledger when the first account is changed to the group account. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358029 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TIME TO CURE NEGATIVE BALANCES IN FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS WHILE ENCOURAGING RAPID CURING OF THOSE BALANCES TO A POSITIVE NET POSITION - A computer implemented method and system for providing financial services are described. The system and method include determining an account balance for a financial account. If the account balance is negative, notice of the negative balance is sent to the account holder in real time. After a predetermined period of time or grace period, and/or by a predetermined end time or cut-off date or time, it is determined whether the negative balance was cured. If the negative balance was not cured during the grace period, an overdraft fee is assessed to the financial account. If the negative balance was cured during the grace period, any assessed overdraft fee for the negative balance is rebated or reversed. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358030 | PREDICTING WHEN A USER IS IN NEED OF A LOAN AND NOTIFYING THE USER OF LOAN OFFERS - Techniques are disclosed to determine when a user is in need of a loan and notifying the user of loan offers. With user permission or affirmative consent, user data may be monitored for several users, which is used to build a user profile for each user. The user profile may then be analyzed to determine whether a user will require a loan within a future time period. To do so, the user data may include data from various sources, which indicate the user's interactions and behaviors such as demographic data, data indicative of user shopping habits, online browsing, life events, or other relevant behaviors. This data may then be analyzed to predict a statistical likelihood that a user will need a loan. When this statistical likelihood is exceeded, a user may be preapproved for a loan and/or a targeted notification may be sent indicating offers for certain types of loans. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358031 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE AND OPERATE AN ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE OF TRUSTED BANKS FOR PARTICIPATION IN COMMERCIAL LOANS TOO LARGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL BANK - The technology disclosed relates to creation and operation of a marketplace among trusted small and medium sized banks for participation in commercial loans too large for an individual participating bank to undertake on its own. This technology can be applied to formation of other marketplaces in which trust matters and controlled dissemination of opportunity information, as in layers or rounds, proceeds manually. Aspects of the technology disclosed can be used by initiators and participants to syndicate loans once a marketplace is established, whether the market is established applying the technology disclosed or otherwise. This technology also can be applied to syndicate other opportunities or to resell participations in syndicated loans that have closed and been funded. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358032 | AUTOMATED ROBOTIC PROCESS SELECTION AND CONFIGURATION - A system for selection and configuration of an automated robotic process includes a media input module structured to receive at least one functional media, a media analysis module structured to analyze the at least one functional media and identify an action parameter; and a solution selection module structured to select at least one component of an AI solution for use in an automated robotic process, wherein the selection is based, at least in part, on the action parameter. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358033 | APPLY AND BUY WITH A CO-BRANDED VIRTUAL CARD - A method for applying and buying with a co-branded virtual card is disclosed. The method includes receiving a customer application for a co-branded credit card at a time of purchase, performing a customer qualification for the co-branded credit card at the time of purchase, providing access to a virtual co-branded card for a qualified customer, the virtual co-branded card having a valid credit card number, a valid credit card expiration date and a valid credit card security code and authorizing the use of the virtual co-branded card to buy goods at the time of qualification. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358034 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPATCHING MULTI-REGION POWER SYSTEM - The disclosure provides a method and a system for dispatching a multi-region power system. The method includes: obtaining, by each regional system operator, basic operating parameters of the regional power system; establishing, by each regional system operator, a dispatching model of the regional power system based on the basic operating parameters; identifying, by each regional system operator, an aggregation model of the regional power system based on the dispatching model of the regional power system; reporting, by each regional system operator, the aggregation model to the cross-region system operator; establishing, by the cross-region system operator, a reduced dispatching model of the multi-region power system based on the aggregation model from each regional system operator; and solving, by the cross-region system operator, the reduced dispatching model to obtain a dispatching result of each regional power system. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358035 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED MANIPULATION RESISTANT INDEXING - A system for automated manipulation resistant indexing is disclosed. The system may be configured to calculate a total prefilter trade volume of an historical trade data set based on a lookback coefficient, wherein the historical trade data set associated with a prefiltered exchange set, calculate a composition percentage of the total prefilter volume for each element of the prefiltered exchange set, apply a first filtering function based on the composition percentage to the prefiltered exchange set to generate a first filtered exchange set, normalize the first filtered exchange set based on the total prefilter trade volume to generate a first normalized exchange set, and generate a first weighting function based on the first normalized exchange set. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358036 | Inter-Product Matrix - Lists of tradeable objects may be generated and displayed to enable a user to define a trading strategy having multiple legs. The lists of tradeable objects may be used to define and display different combinations of the tradeable objects that are included in each of the lists. Each combination of tradeable objects may define the different legs of a spread that may be tradeable on one or more exchanges. A combination of tradeable objects may be selected to display contract information associated with the different legs of the spread. The contract information for each leg may be used to define and display spread information for the legs of the trading strategy. The spread information may allow the user to view information related to the spreads for different combinations of tradeable objects in a display. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358037 | DIRECTED ORDER - A directed order process and related market center system are disclosed, wherein a market center system grants permission to order sending firms to send directed order flow to participating designated market makers. Such designated market makers create a virtual guarantee order book for each permissioned order sending firm. If an order sending firm sends a directed order to the market center that is marketable against a virtual guarantee order, then the market center system automatically pairs the orders in a two-sided directed cross order instruction, which executes against any superior interest in an electronic marketplace before crossing, all while maintaining anonymity amongst the parties. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358038 | DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING FRACTIONALIZED INTERESTS IN PHYSICAL ASSETS - Systems and methods for administering fractionalized interests in physical assets in decentralized networks are described. In some embodiments, a system may include a memory storing instructions defining a smart contract, which may be configured to be stored on a decentralized ledger. The smart contract may be configured to receive a non-fungible token comprising data identifying a physical asset. In response to receiving the non-fungible token, the smart contract may be configured to generate a plurality of fungible tokens of a token category associated with the physical asset. The smart contract may be configured to transfer ownership of the plurality of fungible tokens to a first account. The smart contract may be configured to receive, from a second account, a collection of N fungible tokens of the token category associated with the physical asset and, in response, transfer ownership of the non-fungible token to the second account. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358039 | Method and System for Internal Matching - A system and method for internal matching of electronic trading orders is provided. Orders for electronic trading are reviewed for potential matches in an internal order book of an internal matching system. If no potential matches are available, the order is listed on both the internal order book for the internal matching system and on the book of orders for the electronic exchange. If a potential match is available, the order is tentatively matched with a resting order on the internal order book. A message is sent to the electronic exchange to cancel the resting order on the book of exchange order book. If the deletion is successful, the order and the resting order are matched. If the deletion is unsuccessful, the internal order book on the internal matching system is checked again for a potential match. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358040 | Real-time Cryptocurrency Backed Payment with Code Initiation - A method includes providing, by a merchant computing device, a code representative of real-time cryptocurrency backed payment information to a user computing device to initiate a real-time cryptocurrency backed payment with the user computing device. The user computing device provides a first cryptocurrency to use in the real-time cryptocurrency backed payment, and the merchant computing device accepts a desired fiat currency. The method further includes verifying, by the user computing device, the code. The verification initiates the real-time cryptocurrency backed payment. The method further includes facilitating, by the network computing device, locking an amount of collateral cryptocurrency required to back the real-time cryptocurrency backed payment, instantly providing an amount of the desired fiat currency to the merchant computing device, and when receipt of an amount of the first cryptocurrency from the user computing device to cover the real-time cryptocurrency backed payment is confirmed, releasing the amount of the collateral cryptocurrency. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358041 | BATCHED AND SECURE STAKE REWARDS CALCULATION - A method includes determining, by a stake account manager, to distribute rewards to one or more stake accounts of a stake pool, obtaining privately stored stake account information of the one or more stake accounts and a rewards balance of the stake pool, calculating a reward amount of the rewards balance owed to each stake account of the one or more stake accounts based on the privately stored stake account information, and performing a batched and secure calculation technique on the calculated reward amounts to produce a batched and secure rewards distribution summary. The batched and secure rewards distribution summary ensures that each reward amount is calculated correctly and that the privately stored stake account information remains private. The method further includes publishing the batched and secure rewards distribution summary to the blockchain. The publishing the batched and secure rewards distribution summary deposits reward amounts to the each stake account. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358042 | STOCK RECOMMENDATION METHOD BASED ON ITEM ATTRIBUTE IDENTIFICATION AND THE SYSTEM THEREOF - The disclosure provides a stock recommendation method based on item attribute identification and the system thereof. The method includes: receiving images to be identified and obtained by scanning items; conducting classified identification and text extraction on the images to be identified, and outputting classified identification information and text extraction information; searching on a search engine by using the classified identification information and the text extraction information as search conditions respectively, and outputting corresponding stock object information; and screening out stock object information matched with user preferences from the stock object information and recommending the screened-out stock object information to a user. By embodiments of the present invention, it can match with different attributes of the items in the images scanned by the user for discovering the meaning behind the items, then, discover the stocks related to the items, and recommend the stocks that the user likes most according to user preferences. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358043 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERFACE-DRIVEN ENGAGEMENT - A method comprising navigating to a first investment interface publishing a first particular loan opportunity among different loan opportunities, the loan opportunity being based on first loan terms and first property information, receiving different loan opportunities based on the first query, providing a selection of the first particular loan opportunity, receiving details of the first particular loan opportunity, providing a first commitment from the first investor system to partially fund a first partial funding of a loan amount associated with the first particular loan opportunity, a second commitment from the second investor system being already provided to the investment system to partially fund a second partial funding, receiving an indication that a first loan is to be provided to the first property owner when the loan amount is completely funded, and receiving distributions, every day, of daily returns by the first investor. | 2021-11-18 |