50th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150356618 | TECHNIQUE FOR BILLBOARD ADVERTISING - A method for initiating an action responsive to a promotion. The method comprises causing placement of a visual indicator on a billboard, said visual indicator to indicate an existence of a promotion associated with an advertisement carried by the billboard; enabling a scanning process to cause a consumer to scan the visual indicator with a mobile device to generate scan data; and processing the scan data to initiate at least one action based on at least one pre-provisioned action a server system as part of said promotion. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356619 | SYSTEM FOR DIRECTING, MANAGING AND DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENT ON SMART MOBILE PHONES - The invention is a system for directing, managing and displaying advertisements on mobile phones wherein an audio and/or video advertisement/message replaces available ringtones and notification tones through a system application which is downloaded on/installed on/transmitted to the mobile phone of the users, ensuring that phone of a user that receives a call/message plays/runs audio and/or video advertisements/messages without any intervention by the user, and the user turns his/her phone into a new channels thus earning money/credit/advantage for himself or for other third parties. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356620 | DISPATCH SYSTEM TO REMOTE DEVICES - A method and system for presenting promotional content to a user of a communication device involves receiving information from a communication device, where the information relates to the communication device, and identifying a result relating to the information that is capable of being presented in a plurality of formats on the communication device, and dynamically selecting a format for the result from among the plurality of formats, and presenting the result in the selected format for display by the communication device. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356621 | Advertisement Management - Aspects of the disclosure relate to advertisement management that can permit, among other things, administration of delivery of advertisement assets. In one aspect, based at least on a scheduling rule, an advertisement asset associated with a promotional campaign directed to a target audience can be excluded from a delivery queue associated with a media conduit configured to convey content to the target audience. In another aspect, a second media conduit can be identified based at least on the promotional campaign in response to such exclusion. For instance, the second media conduit can be configured to convey content to an alternative audience satisfactorily similar to the target audience. In addition, if open inventory is available at the second media conduit, then the advertisement asset can be automatically scheduled in a delivery queue associated with the second media conduit. The advertisement asset so scheduled can be delivered via the second media conduit. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356622 | TARGETED MARKETING USING DYNAMICALLY VARIED RECOMMENDATIONS - Techniques are disclosed for presenting recommended marketing content that can be dynamically varied (e.g., in real time or near-real time) based on the particular content of a web page that a user is currently reading, the content that the user has previously read, or a combination of these factors. For example, the current interactions of a user with content of a web page, such as scroll position or eye fixation, can be used to identify which portion or portions of the web page content the user is currently reading and which portions of the web page content the user is skimming or skipping over. Keywords can then be generated based on the content in those portions of the web page that the user is currently reading. Next, recommended marketing content corresponding to the keywords can be retrieved and presented to the user. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356623 | System And Method For Recommending Customized Tourism Content Based On Collecting And Structurizing Of Unstructured Tourism Data - A customized tourism content recommending system is provided which collects and structurizes unstructured tourism data. The customized tourism content recommending system includes a data collecting unit, a data structurizing unit, a user emotion analyzing unit, and a schedule providing unit. The data collecting unit collects unstructured data about a tourism at one time, and the data structurizing unit structurizes the unstructured data, collected by the data collecting unit, based on one or more of a time, a place, or an occasion. The user emotion analyzing unit analyzes an emotion of a user about an individual tourism experience. The schedule providing unit reflects the analysis of the emotion analyzing unit about the user's emotion, derives a customized travel schedule from the data, structurized by the data structurizing unit, according to one or more of the time, the place, or the occasion, and provides the derived result to the user. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356624 | SOCIAL NETWORK MESSAGING WITH INTEGRATED ADVERTISING - A method for associating an advertisement with a particular message of a social media network, the method comprising the steps of: receiving message content of the message from a member of the social media network; analyzing the message content to identify content data; compare content data with data portions of a plurality of advertisements for a match there-between; selecting the advertisement based on a determined match between the content data and the respective data portion of the advertisement; and including the advertisement with the message content for subsequent access of the message by another member of the social media network. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356625 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MARKETING GIFTS THROUGH BUSINESS-TO-CONSUMER WEBSITES - In one aspect, a method of providing marketing gifts through business-to-consumer websites may include steps of: marketer selecting a business-to-consumer (B2C) website; marketer providing predetermined conditions to the B2C website to select a group of gift receivers who may be interested in the gifts provided by the marketer; marketer providing a predetermined amount of gifts to the B2C website; upon receiving the predetermined conditions, the B2C website selecting the gift receivers who may be interested in the gifts provided by the marketer; when one of the gift receivers shopping on the B2C website, the B2C website providing one or more gifts provided by the marketer to the gift receiver; the B2C website sending the gift(s) selected by the gift receiver along with the purchased items to the person. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356626 | Cognitive Media Commerce - A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing composite cognitive insights comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching and generating a sub-graph for incorporation into a cognitive graph; processing the cognitive graph, the processing the cognitive graph providing a plurality of individual cognitive insights; generating a composite cognitive insight, the composite cognitive insight being composed of the plurality of individual cognitive insights; and, providing the composite cognitive insight to a user via a set of cognitive media content, the set of cognitive media content comprising a commercial offer content element. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356627 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENABLED ADVERTISING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for social media advertising. In one aspect, a method includes associating keywords with a social media network property of an advertiser, periodically obtaining from the social media network property content on the social media network property of the advertiser, receiving a keyword for an advertisement request for a user device, determining that the received keyword is one of the keywords associated with the social media network property and in response to the determination generating an advertisement responsive to the request, the advertisement including at least some of the content obtained from the social media network property, providing the advertisement for display on a user device. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356628 | Updating Weights of Edges of a Social Graph Based on Sharing Activity of Users of the Open Web - A social graph is built which includes interactions, sharing activity, and connections between the users of the open Web and can be used to improve ad targeting and content personalization. Sharing activity between two users will affect ads or content that both users will be presented while surfing the Web. This sharing activity includes sending of links, sending of videos, sending of files, cutting and pasting of content, sending text messages, and sending of e-mails. The system includes receiving activity information, identifying nodes in a social graph related to the activity information, and updating weights of edges based on the activity information. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356629 | MULTI-CHANNEL INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM - Embodiments are directed to providing targeted messages using a plurality of communication channels and to providing targeted messages to mobile devices. In one scenario, a computer system instantiates a multi-channel communication service that is configured to provide different targeted messages using multiple different communication channels. The computer system further determines that a targeted message is to be provided to a specified user through a first communication channel, and provides the targeted message through the first communication channel. The computer system also determines that the targeted message is to be provided to the specified user through a second, additional communication channel, and provides the targeted message through the second, different communication channel. The messages may include any type of content including text, pictures, videos, links or other content. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SPAM - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for managing communication from a sender to a receiver. The method comprises receiving a deposit from the sender in favor of the receiver for communicating with the receiver, refunding of the deposit by the receiver in favor of the sender in response to the receiver responding to the communication, and forfeiting of the deposit by the receiver in response to the receiver rejecting the communication, thereby facilitating controlling of nuisance communication. In addition, embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for managing communications from a sender to a recipient. The method comprises receiving a deposit from the sender in favor of the recipient for communicating with the recipient, refunding of the deposit by the recipient in favor of the sender as an acknowledgement in response to the received communication and forfeiting of the deposit by the recipient in response to detection of at least one of spam and unsolicited communications and rejection of the same by the recipient, thereby facilitating controlling of nuisance calls. Still other embodiments of the present invention disclose a system for managing communication from a sender to a receiver. The system comprises a first communication subsystem used by the sender for at least one of sending and receiving communications, a second communication subsystem used by the receiver for at least one of sending and receiving communications, and a service provider network subsystem for facilitating communication between the sender and receiver. The service provider network comprises a host computing subsystem. The host computing subsystem comprises a billing module, wherein the billing module is capable of receiving a deposit from the sender in favor of the receiver for communicating with the receiver; and wherein the billing module is capable of refunding the deposit by the receiver to the sender in response to the receiver responding to the communication; and wherein the billing module is capable of forfeiting the deposit by the receiver in response to the receiver rejecting the communication, thereby facilitating controlling of nuisance communication. The service provider charges the receiver a fee for the services rendered to the receiver commensurate to a threshold declared and set by receiver in connection with the deposit. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356631 | SEGMENT-BASED FLOORS FOR USE IN ONLINE AD AUCTIONING TECHNIQUES - Various aspects described herein are directed to different techniques for enabling ad server systems to dynamically determine minimum floor prices for individual incoming impressions, in which the determination of the minimum floor value for a given incoming impression may be based upon the value(s) of specifically identified impression parameters associated with that particular impression. Additional aspects are directed to various feedback techniques for measuring the effectiveness of the various Entity-based and/or Segment-based floors, and for dynamically adjusting various floor computation parameter values based on measured floor metrics and heuristics. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356632 | SEGMENT-BASED FLOORS FOR USE IN ONLINE AD AUCTIONING TECHNIQUES - Various aspects described herein are directed to different techniques for enabling ad server systems to dynamically determine minimum floor prices for individual incoming impressions, in which the determination of the minimum floor value for a given incoming impression may be based upon the value(s) of specifically identified impression parameters associated with that particular impression. Additional aspects are directed to various feedback techniques for measuring the effectiveness of the various Entity-based and/or Segment-based floors, and for dynamically adjusting various floor computation parameter values based on measured floor metrics and heuristics. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356633 | ADJUSTING QOS LEVELS FOR ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON USER ANALYTICS - A device may be configured to store advertisement control information for an advertisement. The advertisement control information may indicate a target demographic for the advertisement. The device may receive the advertisement to be provided to a user device via an operator network. The device may receive user information that indicates a demographic of a user of the user device. The device may determine a quality of service level with which to provide the advertisement to the user device. The quality of service level may be determined based on the target demographic and the demographic of the user. The device may provide the advertisement to the user device, via the operator network, at the determined quality of service level. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356634 | Peer-To-Peer Email with Video and Advertising Aspects - A Peer-to-Peer (“P2P”) email and social networking system for use by plural users to exchange emails and attachments includes a mesh network that includes plural node computers, each running a P2P email client, and each constructed to transmit and receive emails. The emails are stored in mailboxes residing on each node computer, and may be encrypted during transmission, and may remain encrypted while stored at each node computer. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356635 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING ASSET VALUE BASED ON DRIVER ACCELERATION AND BRAKING BEHAVIOR - Systems and methods for optimizing asset value based on driver acceleration and braking behavior are described. The methods include collecting vehicle data, applying a weighting function to the collected data to generate a value representing the energy or fuel wasted due to acceleration and braking behavior, and tabulating the generated value over the duration of a driving event to generate a driver performance score. The methods also include evaluating the driver performance score based on a business model, and modifying subsequent driver behavior based upon the evaluation. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356636 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COLLECTIVELY GATHERING RELIABLE FACTS AND VALIDATION THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a system and a computer program product for collectively gathering reliable facts. The system receives a statement, at least one evidence related to the statement, and at least one validity indicator for the at least one evidence. The system assesses a reliability value of the at least one evidence using the at least one corresponding validity indicator. The system further determines a confidence indicator for the statement based on the at least one evidence and the corresponding reliability value. The computer program product comprises instructions which when executed by a processor of a computing device display a statement and an evidence received from the server on a display of the computing device. The instructions when executed also collect one of a validity indicator of the displayed evidence or a new evidence related to the displayed statement, which are transmitted to the server. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356637 | RETAIL STATION FOR E-DEVICE IDENTIFICATION, ASSESSMENT AND TRADE IN - A retail station for electronic device evaluation provides a connection interface that supports connection to an electronic device. Software evaluates or provides access to other software to evaluate the electronic device by querying it to collect information to determine its status and value for trade-in. Guidance is provided to aid a customer service representative in processing a trade-in transaction. Data is collected or access is granted to other software to collect data to support a trade-in transaction. Preferred methods of the invention use a station in the form of a tablet or countertop devices. The methods guide and facilitate a trade in in a retail environment, while checking data to ensure that the electronic device does not have an unclean status and providing assistance in assessing value of the electronic device. A system provides a third party the ability to support retail trade in transactions for value. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356638 | METHOD OF FACILITATING DONATIONS TO CHARITIES - A method of facilitating charitable donations includes providing an organizations database comprising a listing of charitable organizations, and an items database comprising a listing of tangible items, such as food, water, clothing, building supplies, medical supplies, and/or educational materials, available for purchase by potential donors for the charitable organizations. At least one of the tangible items is designated for donating to at least one of the charitable organizations, and potential donors can search the items database and select desired tangible items to purchase for one or more of the charitable organizations. The tangible items selected from the items database are purchased by the user and donated to the designated charitable organization. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356639 | Method and System for Use of Game for Charity Donations - A method and system for use of a game with charity donations. In one example, a donation agent interacting with a merchant website can offer an online user an option to allocate at least a portion of a payment for or price of a purchase, associated with a transaction made by the user via the merchant website, to be donated by a merchant (corresponding to the merchant website), on behalf of the user, to a charity of the user's choosing. The donation agent can disburse the calculated donation amount to the charity selected by the customer. The points earned can be combined with a college scholarship award mechanism. The game encourages people to participate in the charity in a fun way, e.g., as a hobby every day, with a large user base. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356640 | RETRIEVING REVIEWS BASED ON USER PROFILE INFORMATION - In an approach to retrieving reviews for a user based on user profile information, a computer receives user profile information for a first user. The computer receives a search term from the first user and determines review information corresponding to the search term and the user profile information. Responsive to determining review information corresponding to the search term and the user profile information, the computer retrieves the review information and transmits the review information to the first user. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356641 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELATIVE RATING - Certain embodiments are directed to systems and methods for providing a user specific relative rating system for categories of product or services. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356642 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING REQUESTS FOR MERCHANT INFORMATION - A software method and system for a merchant to demonstrate profile authenticity within an online business to business community that connects buyers (e.g., retailers, importers, distributors, auctioneers, drop shippers, resellers, flea marketers, wholesalers) to suppliers (e.g., manufacturers, exporters, importers, wholesalers). In such an online community, profile authenticity and business verification is critical for members to trust each other and consider a new trade relationship. Such trust can be developed and assured through a merchant profile verification process which examines the authenticity of a merchant's corporate information via public record review and interviews with company officers. Verified merchants are awarded the privilege to display an icon that assures merchant profile trustworthiness on their community profile, community product postings, and on other webpages outside of the online business community. The described authentication icon offers a seal of verification to merchants, thus enabling them to conduct business with higher assurance on a wholesale ecommerce trade platform, namely TopTenWholesale.com. Included in this patent are the methods of screening, software features, and processes. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356643 | Dual-Identity Review System - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and systems for anonymizing the identity of users of an online system. A request to interact with the online system is received from a viewing user. A determination is made whether the request is for interacting with another user of the online system. If the request is to interact with another users, the online system uses the real identity of the viewing user for the interaction. Otherwise, if the request is not for interaction with another user of the online system, the online system uses an anonymized identity of the viewing user. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356644 | Consumer Feedback and Incentive Method and System - A system and methods for inducing consumer feedback from consumers of businesses and products. The system gathers feedback from consumers of business by forwarding surveys based on the consumer being in proximity to the business. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356645 | SPECIALLY PROGRAMMED COMPUTER PROCESSORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - In some embodiments, the instant invention provides an improved computer system programmed for searching which includes at least the following components: a specialized computer machine, at least one processor for executing a particular program code stored in a memory, where the particular program code is configured to perform the following operations upon the execution: obtaining business information regarding a plurality of businesses and a plurality of offerings offered by the plurality of businesses; generating a rating score for each business based on consumer ratings; associating each business with the rating score; and concurrently conducting a plurality of searches of the business information based on: business identifying search parameter(s) obtained from each consumer, a geographic indication, a plurality of ranked filtering criteria, a rating score filtering parameter. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356646 | MEDICAL CODING SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED CODEBOOK INTERFACE - Techniques for use in medical coding include applying a natural language understanding engine to a free-form text documenting at least one clinical patient encounter to generate a set of one or more medical billing codes for the patient encounter. A user interface may be provided, configured to allow one or more human users to review and correct the generated set of medical billing codes. Within the user interface, in response to user selection of a first medical billing code of the generated set of medical billing codes, at least a portion of a government-authorized codebook for the first medical billing code may be displayed, and a position of the first medical billing code may be indicated in the displayed portion of the codebook. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356647 | USER AND ENGINE CODE HANDLING IN MEDICAL CODING SYSTEM - Techniques for medical coding include applying a natural language understanding (NLU) engine to a free-form text documenting a clinical patient encounter, to derive a first set of one or more medical billing codes for the clinical patient encounter and a link between each code in the first set and a corresponding portion of the free-form text. The first set of codes may be compared to a second set of one or more medical billing codes approved by one or more human users for the patient encounter, to identify at least one code in the first set that overlaps with at least one code in the second set. The code in the second set approved by the one or more human users may be retained instead of the overlapping code in the first set derived by the NLU engine. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356648 | Online Shopping by Multi Participants Via a Robot - Mobile robotic system allows multiple customers to visit authentic places without physically being there. Customers with variable requirements are able to take part in controlling a single controllable robot simultaneously; customers take part in controlling robot's movement according to their interests. A system administrator selects and defines criteria for robot's movement; the mobile robot with video and audio devices on it is remotely controlled by a server which selects the robot's movement according to the customers and system administrator criteria. The server provides information to customers; the robot's location influences the content of the information. Such robotic system may be used for shopping, visiting museums and other public touristic attractions over the Internet. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356649 | GROUP VIDEO GENERATING SYSTEM - A group video generating system includes an application that is executed on each of multiple computing devices to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) that receives from each of a plurality of participants, a video segment including content directed toward a recipient. The application combines the video segment from each participant to form a group video, and transmits the group video to the recipient. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356650 | COST OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES USING COLLABORATIVE ORDER GROUPING - Requests are received from each of a plurality of purchaser remote computing systems that each specifies at least one product or service to be provided to one of a plurality of purchasers. Based on the received requests a plurality of grouped orders can be generated that each group and aggregate products and services common to two or more of the received requests. At least one supplier that can offer products or services to fulfill the grouped order can be identified for each grouped order. Order solicitations for each grouped order can be transmitted to at least one supplier remote computing system associated with the corresponding identified at least one supplier. Bids to supply the products or services specified in the order solicitation can be received for each grouped order in response to the transmitted order solicitations. The bids can be parsed into proposals corresponding to each purchaser. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356651 | Method for group purchasing pricing with dynamic pricing - Method pertains to a system of entities that make purchases and interact either synchronously or asynchronously into a group that exercises collective buying power. It provides a process whereby individual entities can enter the group at a specified price and receive a rebate as new entities enter the group. The method is useful because of its transparency, sustainability, and ability to provide economic benefits equitably to all stakeholders and incentives to entities in the group to market the group and recruit individuals to join the group. Move over, the structure of the system improves upon the standard coupon scheme as well as the bid and offer system. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356652 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELLING TIME-BASED INVENTORY - A method for selling time-based inventory over a communications network includes permitting a seller via a graphical user interface to define a total time to be sold for a time based-inventory; permitting the seller via the graphical user interface to define a sales time interval amount smaller than the total time to be sold; dividing the total time as a function of the sales time interval amount so as to define a plurality of time intervals of the total time; and selling the plurality of time intervals via the communications network. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356653 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOURCE IDENTIFICATION IN ITEM SOURCING - A source identification service is described that identifies sources for items of interest that are provided by a network-based service and may benefit from additional sources. The source identification service may identify sources for an item of interest in response to receipt a request. In one aspect, the source identification service may conduct a search of a network-based information resource using keywords pertaining to the item of interest to obtain a listing of sources capable of providing the item of interest. A source score may be generated for respective sources and compared to a selected value to identify potential sources for further consideration. The potential sources may also be filtered based upon selected criteria to refine the list of potential sources. An offer may be provided by the source identification service inviting the source to provide the item of interest on the network-based service. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356654 | INFORMATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - When an item indicated in received order details is a designated item, an information system outputs consideration information generated based on condition information so that a purchaser can confirm the consideration information. When receiving a confirmation notification indicating that the purchaser has confirmed that he/she has understood the consideration information, the information system updates a confirmation state to a completed state. The information system outputs the confirmation state so that whether a process for finalizing the sale of the designated item is ready can be determined. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356655 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN ELEMENT TRANSLATION - The present invention generally relates to design element translation. In particular, embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for automated design element translation for user defined customizations for one product to an entire suite of products. Preferred embodiments of the invention are accomplished through the use of one or more web-based computing devices. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356656 | MARKETPLACE LISTINGS ON PROCUREMENT TOOL - In an example embodiment, a request to view items for purchase is received, and then information about one or more items available for purchase via contract is retrieved from a database. Information about one or more items available for spot purchase from a marketplace system is then obtained via interface with one or more APIs. Then the information about one or more items available for spot purchase and the information about one or more items available for purchase via contract are displayed in a procurement tool. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTION WITH A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT - A retail system configured to provide interaction between a user and product supported in a retail environment. The system includes a plurality of merchandisers, an access device, and a controller. Each merchandiser defines a product display area and has one or more light sources positioned to illuminate product. The access device has a processing system operable to select a light characteristic associated with the light sources in response to user input, and the access device is operable by a user to select a desired product. The access device is programmed to generate one or more signals indicative of the selected light characteristic and the desired product. In response to the one or more signals, the controller controls the light sources associated with the desired product to illuminate at least partially based on the light characteristic to identify a location of the desired product to the user. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356658 | Systems And Methods For Serving Product Recommendations - Example systems and methods for serving product recommendations for key performance indicator (KPI) optimization are described. In one implementation, a method selects at least a first item from a set of items such that a first performance indicator among a plurality of performance indicators is improved as a result of a user purchasing the first item in response to viewing at least the first item on a webpage of a website. The method also displays a graphic or textual representation of at least the first item on the webpage as a recommendation to the user. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356659 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MERCHANT REFERRALS TO CONSUMERS - A method for processing a consumer referral includes: storing, a plurality of location data entries, each entry including data related to a geographic location including a location identifier and location data; storing a plurality of referral data entries, each entry including data related to a referral including a referral identifier and one or more specific location identifiers; receiving a referral request, the request including a specific referral identifier encoded in a machine-readable code displayed at a specific geographic location associated with the specific referral identifier; identifying a specific referral data entry where the included referral identifier corresponds to the specific referral identifier; identifying a specific location data entry where the included location identifier corresponds to one of the one or more specific location identifiers included in the identified specific referral data entry; and transmitting the location data included in the identified specific location data entry in response to the request. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356660 | SIMPLIFIED ORDERING UPON ENTERING PREMISES - A computing system includes an on-premises server system and on-premises wireless access point (WAP) providing wireless local area network (WLAN) coverage to the physical premises of a store. The computing system obtains an identifier of a wireless device included in wireless communications received from a wireless device via the on-premises WAP over the WLAN. The computing system identifies a target customer profile from among customer profiles stored at a database based on the identifier of the wireless device associated with the target customer profile. The computing system determines an in-store message that identifies a recommended on-sale item that is selected based on the target customer profile. The in-store message is sent to the wireless device that identifies the recommended on-sale item and includes a selector that enables the customer to purchase the item using the customer's financial information previously associated with the target customer profile. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356661 | COSMETIC MATCHING AND RECOMMENDATIONS - Using use hardware sensors and computer analysis on data captured by the hardware sensors to provide personalized, consistent, and objective cosmetic recommendations to a user. Embodiments include using a hardware sensing device to capture a scan a of user's face, and identifying attributes of the user's face from the scan, to provide one or more cosmetic recommendations. In such embodiments, the recommendations may be based on performing an analysis to determine a skin tone of the user's face and/or a bone structure of the user's face from the scan. Embodiments also include using a hardware sensing device to capture a scan of a subject cosmetic product, and identifying attributes of the subject cosmetic produce from the scan, to provide one or more cosmetic recommendations. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356662 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION SENSING TO FACILITATE BEST PRICING OPTIONS - Systems and methods are provided for purchasing merchandise items at a desired purchase price. In accordance with certain embodiments, systems and methods are provided for specifying a desired purchase price for a merchandise item. Embodiments of the present disclosure may also provide systems and methods for completing purchases of the merchandise item when the purchase price of the merchandise item is less than or equal to the desired purchase price. Other embodiments of the present disclosure may also provide systems and methods to determine and/or adjust the purchase price for a merchandise item and notify the customer when the adjusted purchase price is less than or equal to the desired purchase price. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356663 | NETWORK-BASED MARKETPLACE SERVICE FOR FACILITATING PURCHASES OF BUNDLED SERVICES AND PRODUCTS - An apparatus for facilitating purchases of services and products includes an application server providing a network service and maintaining a service offer database that comprises a plurality of information records respectively associated with a plurality of service offers. Each information record comprises an indication of a primary service, a purchase price, a payment amount for the primary service, and compensation information for the primary service. At least one of the service offers is for a bundled set that includes the primary service and one or more products. Upon being accessed by user operating a client system, the network service is operable to receive an indication of a service offer being selected for purchase by the user, receive purchase information from the user specifying a funding source, and issue a request to the funding source for funds corresponding to the purchase price of the information record associated with the service offer. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356664 | System And Method For Pre-ordering And Delivery Of Concession Products At Entertainment Venues - A system and method for preordering and delivery of concession items is disclosed that enables users to pre-order food and other concessions either prior to arriving to a venue or in real time from the venue itself. The system allows for the installation of hardware having software loaded thereon for organizing fulfillment of orders and assigning storage locations and in some aspects, the system enables users to pick up orders from lockers or kiosks in a self service scenario. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356665 | PRE-PURCHASE MECHANISM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - An onboard computing device of autonomous vehicle interacts with computers utilized by one or more merchants to enable users to pre-purchase items from the one or more merchants while en route to a destination. Merchant computing devices may employ dynamic promotions to incent the user to prep-purchase items and to reroute to a destination of the respective merchant. Once a user pre-purchases an item from a merchant, the merchant may prepare the item for the user's arrival by, for example, prepackaging the item, or manufacturing or assembling the item, while the customer is en route (i.e., before the user's autonomous vehicle arrives at the destination). The merchant computing device may send a pre-purchase confirmation to the onboard computing device of the user, which may indicate where the user's autonomous vehicle should park and/or where the pre-purchased items are being held for pick up. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356666 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION OF A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT - A system to manage inventory of product supported within a product display area of a retail environment. The system includes a database that has product information associated with product supportable in the product display area. The product information of each product is at least partially defined by a graphical representation of the product. The system also includes an access device that is in communication with the database and that has a microprocessor programmed to access a visual snapshot of the product display area. The visual snapshot is indicative of product actually supported in the product display area, and the microprocessor is further programmed to manage inventory of the product display area based on a comparison of the graphical representation of the product and the visual snapshot of the product display area. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION SENSING FOR PURCHASES - Systems and methods are provided for assisting a customer with purchasing a merchandise item in a store. Assisting the customer may include determining a location of a customer (i.e., customer device) in the store, identifying merchandise items located adjacent to the customer, receiving selection of a merchandise item for purchase from the identified merchandise items, receiving payment authorization information for the purchase, and initiating delivery of the merchandise item to the customer. Additionally, systems and methods are provided for inventory management in a store. Consistent with certain embodiments, computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for selecting a sensor, receiving a sensor identifier and a position of the sensor, receiving merchandise identifiers for merchandise items located near the sensor, and storing the merchandise identifiers in association with the sensor identifier. Additionally, systems and methods are provided for providing directions to a customer for locating a selected merchandise item in the store. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356668 | CROSS STORE CUSTOMER RECOGNITION - A first on-premises computing system of a first premises identifies a wireless device identifier of a customer, serves a customer registration interface to the customer's wireless device, and receives customer profile information input by the customer via the customer registration interface. The first on-premises computing system transmits a customer profile for the customer to a remote computing system via a wide area network (WAN) for storage at a remote database to establish a pre-registered customer profile. A second on-premises computing system physically located at or in a second premises, detects the wireless device of the customer physically present at or in the second premises, downloads the pre-registered customer profile from the remote database to the second on-premises computing system, and serves a customer-specific interface to the wireless device for the second premises which is modified particularly for the customer based on information in the pre-registered customer profile. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356669 | DESIGNING NAIL WRAPS WITH AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A portable device that is able to capture images and provide the functionality for editing, scaling and/or cropping images such that a modified image is suitable to be reproduced on a nail wrap is disclosed. Software running on the portable device can provide users with the ability to order and/or purchase nail wraps that they have created. A user may have nail wraps delivered from a nail wrap provider to their home or place of business, or they may have their nail wraps sent directly to a salon. The electronic device may implement augmented reality to show a user how their nail wraps will appear when applied. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356670 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING MEDIA PLAYBACK IN ONLINE AUCTIONS - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating media playback in online auctions. A method may include detecting an indication of an auction event associated with an online vehicle auction for a first vehicle. The method may also include determining current auction information associated with the online vehicle auction. The method may further include determining auction event information associated with the auction event. Additionally, the method may include identifying, based at least in part on the current auction information and the auction event information, one or more media files for playback on a bidder device. The method may also include transmitting, to the bidder device in response to the indication of the auction event, the one or more media files for playback on the bidder device according to a determined sequence, which may result in acoustic output of one or more auctioneer phrases. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356671 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED COST OF SALE BIDDING - The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods for automatically managing cost of sale (COS) bidding for merchants (alternatively referred to herein as “vendors”). Described herein are automated COS bidding processes (or automated COS bidding logic, modules, or engines) utilized such that merchants need not actively manage their bids (i.e., fees associated with displaying item listings). As described herein, embodiments automate merchant bids using a formula based, at least in part, on the price of the item, the cost of selling from the advertiser, and historical performance data. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356672 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING MEDIA PLAYBACK IN ONLINE AUCTIONS - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating media playback in online auctions. A method may include detecting an indication of an auction event associated with an online vehicle auction for a first vehicle. The method may also include determining current auction information associated with the online vehicle auction. The method may further include determining auction event information associated with the auction event. Additionally, the method may include identifying, based at least in part on the current auction information and the auction event information, one or more media files for playback on a bidder device. The method may also include transmitting, to the bidder device in response to the indication of the auction event, the one or more media files for playback on the bidder device according to a determined sequence, which may result in acoustic output of one or more auctioneer phrases. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356673 | Ghost Bidding and Serious Bidder Detection in Automated Auctions - Potential ghost bidding and non-serious bidding in an automated auction is detected and alerted to a user by retrieving by a computer one or more historical automated auction records related to an offering party in a current automated auction; detecting by a computer the retrieved records that a same or similar item is being offered in the current automated auction that has been offered in a previous automated auction; responsive to the detecting, increasing a ghost bidding likelihood parameter by a computer; determining by a computer that a bidder in the current automated auction also bid in one or more of the historical automated auctions; responsive to the determining, increasing by a computer the ghost bidding likelihood parameter; and alerting a user of the current automated auction of the ghost bidding likelihood parameter for each determined bidder. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356674 | UNIVERSAL LEDGER - The present invention provides systems and methods for tracking obligations incurred between individuals. The method may include receiving a request from a first party, where the request includes an expense incurred by the first party for the benefit of a second party. The method may also include providing a notice of the request to the second party and receiving an acceptance from the second party to assume an obligation associated with the expense. The method may further include associating the obligation with the second party and associating a benefit with the first party. The obligation and/or benefit may be substantially equal in value to the expense. The method may additionally include interfacing with a social network service to provide the social network service with information about the obligation and/or the benefit. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356675 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING CHANGED MONITORING CONDITIONS AND/OR REQUIREMENTS USING DYNAMICALLY-MODIFIABLE CONTROL LOGIC - The technology performs obligations fulfillment monitoring. An input data stream of data messages is received including transaction data and reference data, obligation control logic, and a set of obligation parameters associated with the obligation control logic. An event data processor processes the input data stream using a current version of the obligation control logic and the set of obligation parameters. Subsequently, the event processor receives information to implement and execute obligation control logic that is dynamically-modified and different from the current version of the obligation control logic. The event processor generates and outputs an obligation fulfillment message based on the dynamically-modified obligation logic and transmits to an interested entity. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356676 | EQUITY INDEX BASED ON STABILITY OF ROE - Systems and methods to provide a stock index are based on return-on-equity (ROE). The variance of ROE is obtained and/or determined per stock. Low variance is considered an indicator of stability. The weights for the stocks in the stock index are chosen and/or adjusted to minimize the variance of the ROE of the stock index. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356677 | PRIVATE FUND EXCHANGE SYSTEM - The technology relates to allowing investors to electronically invest in private market investments, such as a private equity fund. System and methods described herein relate to an electronic private marketplace where investors can participate in a rule-based system for establishing and investing in private market assets, such as a private equity fund, during predetermined time periods for various buying and selling activities in the private marketplace. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING MARKET DATA OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS - Embodiments described herein relate to systems, methods, and computer readable instructions for processing data in financial interests, using automated electronic systems configured for aggregating market data relating to financial interests across multiple networked venues, including order books, venues, marketplaces, exchanges, alternative trading systems, and/or other markets, and/or various types thereof. Embodiments described herein may provide a consolidated view of market data specific to a market participant that may include generic data visible and accessible to other market participants and specific data visible and accessible only by the market participant. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TRADING OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS - A derived order gives a participant simultaneous access to liquidity across multiple books, destinations, or marketplaces. The derived order can be placed and anchored in one trading venue and simultaneously replicated in another trading venue. A participant can place the derived order in the lit book as an anchor book and replicate the order in the hybrid book and/or the dark book, or alternatively, the participant can place the derived order in the hybrid book as an anchor book and replicate the order in the dark book. A trading engine can be configured to replicate an order in different books and guarantee that each order is only executed once. When an order is replicated, the trading engine can check the stored record to see where the order was placed, and then adjust or cancel an order in one book when it is being fulfilled in a different book. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356680 | AUTOMATED TRADING SYSTEM IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING EXCHANGE - An electronic exchange system network includes a trader site having an automated trading system capable of submitting orders to an exchange site. The automated trading system determines whether an order should be submitted based on, for example, the current market price of an option and theoretical buy and sell prices. The theoretical buy and sell prices are derived from, among other things, the current market price of the security underlying the option. A look-up table stores a range of theoretical buy and sell prices for a given range of current market price of the underlying security. As the price of the underlying security changes, a new theoretical price may be indexed in the look-up table, thereby avoiding calculations that would otherwise slow automated trading decisions. In addition, a system of checks may be conducted to ensure accurate and safe automated trading. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356681 | System and Method for Dynamically Determining Quantity for Risk Management - A system and method for dynamically determining quantity for risk management are described. According to one example embodiment, as a trader positions an order icon at a desired price or price-derivative value on a graphical interface, an order quantity for the order is dynamically determined based on the order price and a selected risk management formula. A trader can change the price or the price-related value for one or more orders by moving the order icons relative to a price axis on a graphical interface. In such an embodiment, the initially calculated order quantity for each order will be dynamically recalculated based on the modified orders for the trading strategy. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356682 | AUTOMATED TRADING SYSTEM IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING EXCHANGE - An electronic exchange system network includes a trader site having an automated trading system capable of submitting orders and/or quotes to an exchange site. The automated trading system determines whether an order or quote should be submitted based on, for example, the current market price of an option and theoretical buy and sell prices. The theoretical buy and sell prices are derived from, among other things, the current market price of the security underlying the option. The theoretical buy and sell prices are calculated when underlying factors that contribute to the theoretical prices change. Computation times of the theoretical prices may be reduced by using precalculated values and/or using interpolation and extrapolation. Other techniques may be used in addition or in the alternative to speed automatic decision-making. In addition, a system of checks may be conducted to ensure accurate and safe automated trading. The automated trading system may be capable of automatically submitting orders in connection with the underlying security in order to hedge part of the delta risk associated with the automated option trades. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356683 | User Interface for Semi-Fungible Trading - A user interface and method are disclosed for providing trading between a plurality of semi-fungible and non-fungible goods. A plurality of book axes are displayed in a single interface, each book axis representing a market for a particular good. Orders for goods are displayed as marks on the axes to display the relative value of the orders. A value axis is provided that relates the value of the goods from each market to each other. Thus, a single interface provides the means to relate the values of different semi-fungible goods. The value axis may be displayed in units of price, or a custom value designated by a user or pre-defined by the interface. Quantity information is represented in the interface through the display of a dimension of an order icon. Precise information about each order is displayed either in a panel view or a pop-up window. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356684 | Financial Portfolio Analysis Systems and Methods - Provided are systems and methods relating to financial portfolio analysis, including a computer processing structure configured to compare an investment to a metric that may be selected from a list or may be specially constructed as a hybrid, weighted metric from a plurality of indexes and other sub-metrics. The computer processing structure is specially adapted to apply SPC-like statistical analysis to one or more investments in view of the selected metric, and to optionally provide alerts when statistically significant events occur. The computer processing structure may also be specially adapted to output a variety of reports that may be color coded to indicate degree of compliance with predetermined criteria and to highlight issues and raise questions. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING EXTREME WEATHER INSURANCE DATA - According to some embodiments, information about an insurance claim associated with a base insurance policy and a weather event may be received. Based on the received information, it may be determined if the insurance claim is associated with an amount of loss that exceeds limits of the base insurance policy and stretch endorsement. It may also be determined if the insurance claim is associated with a type of loss covered by an extreme weather endorsement of the base insurance policy and associated stretch endorsement. Further, it may be determined if the extreme weather endorsement is associated with the insurance policy and if the weather event satisfies an extreme weather trigger condition. If the limits are exceeded, the type of loss is covered, the extreme weather endorsement is associated with the insurance policy, and the weather event satisfies the extreme weather trigger condition, payment in connection with the insurance claim may be facilitated. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356686 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING DAMAGE TO INSURED PROPERTIES OR STRUCTURES - Methods and systems for processing data associated with potential damage to a portion of the property. One or more sensors may be disposed in proximity to the portion of the property, where the one or more sensors are configured to sense physical force applied to the portion. A controller module calculates mechanical force data based on the sensor data and estimates an amount of damage to the portion of the property based on the mechanical force data. In some aspects, an insurance provider can use the estimated amount of damage to perform insurance coverage functionalities, estimate damage to additional properties, maintain a damage history for the property, and notify customers of suggested improvements to the property. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356687 | Systems and Methods for Identifying a Subrogation Opportunity for a Potential Subrogation Claim - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for determining a subrogation score for a potential subrogation claim. The systems and methods described herein provide a user, such as a claims adjuster, with the tools to retrieve and communicate information related to one or more products likely to have caused a property loss. The systems and methods may further determine a subrogation score indicative of subrogation opportunity for a potential subrogation claim relative to the one or more products. The subrogation score may be based on information in at least one database. The subrogation score may be provided to the user such as an insurance carrier. The user may then decide whether to proceed with further investigative analyses (e.g., component testing of the one or more products) pursuant to a potential subrogation claim. Additional systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate the insurance carrier's submission of the one or more products for component testing. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356688 | GLOBAL DESCRIPTOR REPOSITORY - The subject disclosure relates to systems and methods for creating and managing a descriptor repository. In certain aspects, a method of the subject technology includes steps for receiving a descriptor label for a merchant, receiving a plurality of descriptor definitions for the descriptor label, and storing the plurality of descriptor definitions in a database. In certain aspects, a method of the subject technology can further include steps for receiving relevance indications for one or more of the descriptor definitions, and associating one or more of the descriptor definitions with the descriptor label based on the one or more relevance indications. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356689 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM IN WHICH DATA RECEIVED FROM DATA COLLECTION TERMINALS ARE CONVERTED FOR EFFICIENT SEARCHING - A data processing system in which data received from a plurality of data collection terminals are converted for efficient searching includes a first data collection terminal configured to collect transaction data in a first format and convert the transaction data into a structured format, a second data collection terminal configured to collect transaction data in a second format and convert the transaction data into the structured format, a central server connected to the first and second data collection terminals over a first network and configured to collect the transaction data in the structured format from the first and second data collection terminals and store the collected transaction data in a storage unit, and a client device connected to the central server over a second network. The client device issues one or more queries according to the structured format to the central server. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356690 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT CHANGES IN MERCHANT IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION - A system and method to detect changes in transaction parameters for the identification of a store of the merchant in a payment processing network. The system is configured to monitor input data, such as acquirer's merchant master file (AMMF), transaction records, to detect transaction parameters of a processing entity that partially match with the transaction parameters associated with an external, persistent identifier of the merchant and/or the store of the merchant, determine a change or difference introduced in the detect transaction parameters, and update the set of transaction parameters associated with the persistent identifier of the store of the merchant that can be used to identify the set of transaction parameters of the store in a communication external to the communication system of the payment processing network. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELATIVE RATING OF ARTISTIC WORKS - Certain embodiments are directed to systems and methods for providing a user specific relative rating system for categories of artistic works. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356692 | TUNING CROWDSOURCED HUMAN INTELLIGENCE TASK OPTIONS THROUGH FLIGHTING - Different options associated with the performance of intelligence tasks are flighted. Different versions of applications that provide the context within which intelligence tasks are performed are sourced for each of the different combinations of options. Subsets of the human workers are selected and provided such different versions of such applications. Correlations are made between those applications that were selected by individual workers and the options that such applications represented, and further between intelligence task results, including, optionally, an evaluation of the quality of such task results, and such options. Options, and the settings thereof, which affect and optimize the intelligence task results generated by workers, are, thereby, more efficiently identified. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356693 | PROVIDING EVENT-ATTENDANCE-RESPONSIVE NOTIFICATIONS VIA A HYBRID ARCHITECTURE - A method and system is presented for providing event-attendance-responsive notifications via a hybrid architecture including a computer system and a social networking platform separate from the computer system. As an example, the computer system may obtain, from the social networking platform, profile-related information indicating characteristics of the social networking platform users. The computer system may determine a set of users of the social networking platform that have similar characteristics as one another based on the profile-related information. The computer system may predict that a user of the set of social networking platform users is or will be attending an event. The computer system may cause a notification regarding an attendance status of the user with respect to the event to be presented to at least one other user of the set of social networking platform users as one another. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356694 | CUSTOMER FACING DISPLAY WITH CUSTOMER INTERACTION FOR ORDER SPECIFICATION - An on-premises computing system of a public accommodation detects presence of a customer by obtaining an identifier wirelessly transmitted by a wireless device carried by that customer. The identifier is received from the wireless device via a wireless local area network access point of the on-premises computing system. A customer profile is established, updated, and/or retrieved at a database system by the on-premises computing system based upon the identifier of the wireless device. A customer-facing display device displays a customer ordering GUI to the customer that includes selectors that enable the customer to select options associated with menu items that have been added to a pending order by an employee. The options include customer-specific options that are based, at least in part, on information contained in the customer's profile. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356695 | Automated Entry - Automated entry to properties is provided. A user selects a property for automated entry. It is confirmed whether the property is available for automated entry by the user. Automated entry to the user is enabled when automated entry is available for the user and when the user is within a predetermined distance from the property. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356696 | AUTOMATED DOCUMENT FILLING AND SIGNING PROCESS - A system that includes a processor and an interface, wherein the interface is arranged to receive, content item information indicative of content items to be filled in multiple locations of a document, to receive content provider information about at least one content provider that is expected to provide the content items and to send, using the content provider information, to a system of each one of the least one content provider, a request to provide at least one content item associated with the content provider; and wherein the processor is arranged to verify a completion of a provision of all the content items. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CENTRALIZED LITIGATION DATA MANAGEMENT - A computer system tracks litigation cases at an insurance company. The computer system provides centralized storage for litigation case data, and causes display devices to display data related to the litigation cases. The data may relate to amounts recovered by the insurance company in subrogation actions, amounts recovered by the insurance company in connection with frivolous claims that it is forced to defend, and/or costs incurred by the insurance company in bringing an interpleader action. The computer system may limit access to retrieved litigation data to authorized individuals and/or to authorized subject areas. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356698 | PARTIAL ACTIVATION OF LICENSE ACROSS MULTIPLE MACHINES - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for partial activation of a license across multiple machines are provided. A user buys a license for multiple seats that he needs to activate on multiple machines For simple management the license is identified by a single activation key that covers all purchased seats. Whenever user activates some number of available seats on some computer, licensing system links unique activation information for the specific machine to the license registration record in the licensing database. This additional information is used to track number of used and available seats for the license and it allows to correctly deactivate part of the seats based on the specific computer on which it was activated. Licensing records exposed to outer systems (finance, etc. . . . ) are still represented as single item, even though customer may have hundreds of individual installations covered by it. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356699 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING OF PARTICIPANTS INTO GROUPS - A dynamic scheduling system according to various embodiments is configured to optimize pairings of one or more students with one or more teachers, one or more classrooms, and one or more activities. In various embodiments, the system is configured to optimize the pairings based at least in part on one or more needs of the one or more students, as well as teacher, classroom, activity and resource availability. In particular embodiments, the system is configured to factor in a plurality of needs for each particular student while weighing the plurality of needs of each particular student against the needs of other students when optimizing the pairings. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356700 | EDUCATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING CREDITS TO BE ADMITTED BASED ON TALENTS AND CAREERS - Provided are an education management system and an education management method which enable talents and careers to be admitted as credits, the education management system connected to a user terminal and an authentication server through a network, including: a receiving unit configured to receive career data from the user terminal; a career assessment unit configured to assess career matters included in the career data on the basis of predetermined standards; and a credit-awarding unit configured to give credits corresponding to grades resulting from career assessment for a student's major to the career matters. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356701 | MONITORING AND ADAPTING A PATIENT'S MEDICAL REGIMEN AND FACILITATING COMMUNICATION WITH A CAREGIVER - A user engagement system such as a medical regimen monitoring the adherence of a patient. The user engagement system customizes the medical regimen to meet the needs of the patient. The system includes a predictive engine for generating a set of recommended attributes for the regimen by analyzing a set of user information, an implementation engine for displaying the regimen to the user and monitoring adherences, and a responsive engine for adapting the regimen to improve an adherence level upon the patient falling below a threshold level by determining a set of revised attributes likely to improve adherence. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356702 | Integrated Systems and Methods Providing Situational Awareness of Operations In An Orgranization - A system which comprises a series of native applications, suited to run on mobile devices, and a series of web-based applications for which functionality and processing are optimized. The native applications and the web-based applications are coordinated to optimize processes of acquiring, storing and disseminating data for speed, integrity and security. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356703 | ARRANGING A TRANSPORT SERVICE BASED ON COMPUTED VECTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS - A system and method for arranging a transport service is described. A server can determine, for each driver device of a plurality of driver devices in a given area, a first vector for that driver device based, at least in part, on a position of each client device of a set of client devices in the given area relative to that driver device. A request for transport service is received from a client device from the set of client devices. The server can determine, for each driver, a second vector for that driver based on the first vector and a position of the requesting client. A driver device is selected from the plurality of driver devices to perform the transport service based, at least in part, on the second vectors of the plurality of driver devices. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356704 | GOOD PLANAR MAPPINGS AND CONTROLLING SINGULAR VALUES WITH SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING - A computer implemented method and system for simulating deformation of at least one physical object, the method using a processor to generate steps of: mapping the object using: a mesh of base-shapes, or, basis functions; controlling distortion of the deformation, by constraining or minimizing at least one of: isometric distortion, conformal distortion, and singular values of differentials of the mapping; and displaying the deformation via a display device. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356705 | SYNCHRONIZED ZOOMING ACROSS MULTIPLE PLOTS - Systems and methods include manipulating multiple data plots. The multiple data plots each have horizontal and vertical dimensions and include active and inactive zoom plots. After determining whether the inactive zoom plot is to be synchronized with the active zoom plot in the horizontal or vertical dimension when zooming the active zoom plot and an indication that the active zoom plot is to be zoomed to an active zoom area, an active area zoom is performed based on the indication using a zoom start point and a zoom end point in the horizontal or vertical dimension. A corresponding inactive zoom plot is zoomed by rescaled in the horizontal or vertical dimension by converting the zoom start and end points to corresponding inactive zoom start and end points in the inactive zoom plot using a preset transfer function if the inactive zoom plot is to be synchronized. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356706 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALING VISUALIZATIONS - A system for scaling visualizations may include a human machine interface (HMI) configured to display a visualization on a screen, a secondary display device configured to display a scaled visualization such that the scaled visualization is determined based at least in part on the visualization, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive an indication that the secondary display device has been coupled to the HMI, present two or more scaling mode options on the screen or the secondary display device, receive an input that corresponds to one of the scaling modes, generate the scaled visualization by applying a scaling factor to the visualization, wherein the scaling factor is based at least in part on the input, and facilitate sending the scaled visualization to the secondary display device. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356707 | JAGGED EDGE REDUCTION USING KERNEL REGRESSION - An image decoder includes a base layer to decode at least a portion of an encoded video stream into a first image having a first image format. The image decoder can generate a color space prediction by scaling a color space of the first image from the first image format into a color space corresponding to a second image format. The image decoder includes an enhancement layer to decode the encoded video stream to generate a second image in the second image format based, at least in part, on the color space prediction. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356708 | TARGET IMAGE GENERATION UTILIZING A FUNCTIONAL BASED ON FUNCTIONS OF INFORMATION FROM OTHER IMAGES - An image processing system comprises an image processor configured to construct a designated functional based on a plurality of functions each associated with a corresponding portion of image information relating to at least first and second images, and to generate a target image utilizing the constructed functional. For example, the functions may comprise a set of functions f | 2015-12-10 |
20150356709 | INTERPOLATION METHOD AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE - A method for estimating occlusion in a virtual environment comprising at least two objects and observed from a viewpoint. Thereafter, a second item of information representative of the distance separating a second fragment of a second object from the viewpoint according to an observation direction is computed; the second item of information is compared with a first item of information representative of the distance separating a first fragment of a first object from the viewpoint according to the observation direction and is stored in a first buffer memory. If the second item of information is less than the first item of information, then a third item of information representative of attributes associated with the second fragment is estimated, the second item of information is stored in a second buffer memory and of the third item of information is stored in a third buffer memory. If the second item of information is greater than the first item of information, then the first item of information is stored in the second buffer memory. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356710 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING AN IMPROVED COLOR IMAGE WITH A SENSOR WITH A COLOR FILTER - The invention relates to an image processing device for processing image data from a digital camera comprising an image sensor with a regular pixel arrangement and an associated color filter with a predetermined color pattern. Said image processing device is designed to carry out all image processing operations with respect to a pixel of interest using image data from a single predetermined environment comprising several pixels. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356711 | CONTROL DEVICE - A control device includes a flatness calculator and control-value logic. The flatness calculator calculates flatness of an image corresponding to an image signal. The control-value logic determines a control value based on the flatness. The control value controls a size of an operation region on which a first-order infinite impulse response (IIR) filter is to process the image signal to reduce noise. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356712 | MODEL-BASED TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION WITH CORRELATED MEASUREMENT NOISE - The present invention is directed to a novel tomographic reconstruction framework that explicitly models the covariance of the measurements in the forward model using a mean measurement model and a noise model. This more accurate model can result in improved image quality, increased spatial resolution, and enhanced detectability—in particular, for imaging scenarios where there are features on the order of the correlation length in the projection data. Applications where these methods might have particular benefit include high resolution CBCT applications as in CBCT mammography (where very fine calcifications are difficult to resolve due to detector blur and correlation), musculoskeletal imaging (where fine bone details are important to the imaging task), or in temporal bone imaging where the fine detail structures of the inner ear are also difficult to resolve with standard imaging techniques. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356713 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A device includes: an image acquisition device acquiring a taken image in which a subject is imaged; a smoothing device generating a smoothed image by smoothing the taken image; a noise extraction device extracting a difference noise component from a difference between the taken image and the smoothed image; a noise addition device adding the difference noise component to the smoothed taken image; a map acquisition device acquiring a blurring strength map that represents a distribution of blurring strengths for the taken image; and an image combining device combining the taken image with the smoothed image on the basis of the blurring strength map, and generating an output image. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356714 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING DIGITAL DISPLAYS WITHOUT OPTICAL CORRECTION DEVICES - A computer implemented system and method to produce display screen images intended to be seen clearly by users with various eye problems such as myopia and astigmatism. Here the system receives input regarding the desired optical correction needed to allow the user to see the image clearly, such as by determining the distance to the user and also optionally calibrating the system according to the degree of optical correction needed by the user. In some embodiments, the display screen may have a plurality of pixel addressed light deflectors configured to change the angle of light emitted by the display screen at various locations in order to bring the computer generated image in better focus. In other embodiments, the system may convolute the display images in order to compensate for eye abnormalities such as astigmatism. In other embodiments, both light deflectors and image convolution methods may be used. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356715 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND GUI CONFIGURATION COMMAND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - There is provided an image processing device including a first housing, a second housing, a first display device, a second display device, a video input terminal, a video output terminal, a storage unit, a video combining unit, a configuration control unit, a first GUI control unit, a second GUI control unit. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356716 | SYSTEM FOR BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION WITH 3D CAMERA - A system for background image subtraction includes a computing device coupled with a 3D video camera, a processor of the device programmed to receive a video feed from the camera containing images of one or more subject that include depth information. The processor, for an image: segments pixels and corresponding depth information into three different regions including foreground (FG), background (BG), and unclear (UC); categorizes UC pixels as FG or BG using a function that considers the color and background history (BGH) information associated with the UC pixels and the color and BGH information associated with pixels near the UC pixels; examines the pixels marked as FG and applies temporal and spatial filters to smooth boundaries of the FG regions; constructs a new image by overlaying the FG regions on top of a new background; displays a video feed of the new image in a display device; and continually maintains the BGH. | 2015-12-10 |
20150356717 | A LABEL INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A label inspection system fixture ( | 2015-12-10 |