51st week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 47 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150363769 | Cryptocurrency Real-Time Conversion System - A system comprises a memory operable to store a set of conversion rules. The system also comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor is able to receive an electronic request for a cryptocurrency conversion requesting a conversion of a first currency into a second currency, wherein the second currency is a cryptocurrency. The processor is further able to retrieve price data associated with the first and second currencies and determine whether the conversion is optimal. In response to determining the conversion is optimal, the processor determines a plurality of exchange rates associated with converting the first currency into the second currency and determines an optimal exchange rate of the plurality of exchange rates. The processor is further able to initiate, essentially simultaneously as the determination that the conversion is optimal, converting the first currency into the second currency. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363770 | Cryptocurrency Transaction Payment System - A system comprises a memory operable to store a customer account associated with a customer and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor is able encode cryptocurrency information associated with the customer account onto a payment instrument. The processor is also able to receive a request for a cryptocurrency transaction from the customer using the payment instrument. In response to receiving the request, the processor is able to determine cryptocurrency information associated with the customer account and determine cryptocurrency information associated with a recipient. The processor is further able to associate the first amount of cryptocurrency with the customer account and initiate a transfer of the first amount of cryptocurrency to an account associated with the recipient. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363771 | MOBILE CHECKOUT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A mobile checkout system and method for completing a purchase transaction to purchase items from an internet merchant. A user browses and selects items for purchase from the merchant through a shopping application or browser. During the processing of the transaction, a checkout application installed on a mobile communication device is launched. The checkout application receives a checkout token created by a checkout server that identifies the purchase transaction. The checkout application uses this token and communicates with the checkout server to cause the checkout server to complete the purchase transaction, in which payment data is securely transmitted using a cryptogram. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363772 | CRYPTOCURRENCY ONLINE VAULT STORAGE SYSTEM - A system may include a memory and processor. The processor may be configured to receive an electronic request to store a private key associated with a cryptocurrency. The processor may also be configured to generate a first vault key based at least in part upon the private key and generate a second vault key based at least in part upon the private key. The processor may also be able to facilitate the storage of the first vault key at a first data center and facilitate the storage of the second vault key at a second data center. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363773 | Cryptocurrency Aggregation System - A system includes a memory and a processor. The memory may store a customer account associated with a customer and an enterprise account associated with an enterprise. The processor may be communicatively coupled to the memory and may cause the system to receive a request to deposit a first amount of a cryptocurrency in the customer account from the customer. The processor may also cause the system to determine a public key associated with the customer account and receive the first amount of the cryptocurrency. The processor may further cause the system to determine a first value approximately equivalent to the first amount of cryptocurrency and associate the first value with the customer account. The processor is further able to aggregate the first amount of cryptocurrency with an aggregated amount of the cryptocurrency in the enterprise account and facilitate securing the public key in the enterprise account. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363774 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERMISSIONS MANAGEMENT WITH ENHANCED SECURITY - Intercommunicating applications (“apps”) on a computational device (typically, but not necessarily, a mobile device) facilitate completion of an eletronic transaction via interaction with a device user and a remote permissions-management server. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363775 | KEY PROTECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Proposed are a key protection method and system. The method comprises: a: receiving by a mobile terminal a registration instruction, generating a user's public key and private key, and sending the user's public key to a third-party e-business verification server, if the mobile terminal respectively passes identity verifications of the mobile bank server and a comprehensive pre-position bank server; b: performing a verification by the mobile bank server on user's trade information, and performing a trade by the comprehensive pre-position bank server if the verification is successful; c: generating by the mobile terminal an updated parameter for protecting a private key after the trade is performed, sending to the mobile bank server, receiving a successful updating result from the mobile bank server and encrypting and storing the user's private key. The present invention can increase the difficulty of an attack, and improve security. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363776 | System and Method for Managing a Payment Transaction - An improved system and method for managing payment transactions whereby a paying entity and payment receiving entity perform the payment transaction using a transaction server of a payment management service provider that receives a keyword and performs a sequence of steps corresponding to a transaction scenario of a plurality of transaction scenarios corresponding to the keyword. As part of the sequence of steps the transaction server calls a phone of the paying entity to receive payment information that is provided using a keypad or voice commands. The transaction server provides the payment information to a payment processing service provider to authorize the transaction and provides transaction authorization information received from the payment processing service provider to the paying entity and payment receiving entity. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363777 | CRYPTOCURRENCY SUSPICIOUS USER ALERT SYSTEM - The system includes a memory and a processor. The memory may store user profiles of an enterprise. The processor may be communicatively coupled to the memory and may receive a request from a user to perform a cryptocurrency transaction with a third party. The processor may retrieve block chain information associated with the cryptocurrency transaction and determine whether one of the user profiles is associated with the user based on the retrieved block chain information and a stored cryptoidentifier associated with one of the user profiles. The processor may further determine whether one of the user profiles is associated with the third party based on the retrieved block chain information and at least one stored cryptoidentifier associated with one of the user profiles. The processor may determine whether the cryptocurrency transaction is suspicious based on the associated user profile and communicate an alert to the enterprise. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363778 | CRYPTOCURRENCY ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEM - A system includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor may communicate with an electronic payment service, the electronic payment service providing a virtual account associated with the customer and determine that the customer initiated a request for a financial transaction, the financial transaction configured to transfer an amount of currency from the virtual account to a destination. The processor is also able to validate the financial transaction based at least upon data received from the electronic payment service and determine the customer account is associated with the virtual account based at least upon data received from the electronic payment service. The processor also may determine a quantity of cryptocurrency equivalent to the amount of currency (the quantity of cryptocurrency associated with the customer account) and transfer the quantity of cryptocurrency to the electronic payment service. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363779 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGES THROUGH PERSONAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method and system for purchase transactions using a personal communication network are provided. The method includes receiving registration data for a seller to use a payment platform, receiving item information relating to an item for sale, and receiving a selection of at least one of one or more messaging accounts associated with the seller and one or more of a plurality of personal communication network accounts associated with the seller. The method also includes generating an address of a hosted website configured to display item information and transmitting the generated address to the one or more of the personal communication network accounts. The method further includes receiving an authorization to pay the seller from a consumer account and transferring value from a consumer account to a seller account within the payment platform. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363780 | CREDIT CARD IMAGING FOR MOBILE PAYMENT AND OTHER APPLICATIONS - A mobile payment device includes a contactless payment module, a processing module, and a display module. The contactless payment module is coupled to execute a credit payment transaction. The processing module is coupled to detect the executing of the credit payment transaction and retrieve credit image data based on the detecting. The display module is coupled to process the credit image data into a displayed credit image. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363781 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING PAYMENT CREDENTIALS - The invention provides systems and methods for providing payment credentials usable in a transaction. A method conducted at a token processor, the token processor receives a request for single-use payment credentials from a communication device of a consumer. In response, the token processor obtains or generates single-use payment credentials and obtains or generates a loyalty identifier which is uniquely associated with the consumer. The token processor then transmits the single-use payment credentials and the loyalty identifier to the communication device as a combined single-use payment token capable of being presented using the communication device. In some embodiments, the loyalty identifier is the same for all requests by the consumer for single-use payment credentials, such that the loyalty identifier is usable by a merchant in updating a record of the consumer. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363782 | CRYPTOCURRENCY TRANSACTION VALIDATION SYSTEM - The system includes a memory and a processor. The memory may store a customer profile associated with a customer. The processor may be communicatively coupled to the memory and may receive a request from the customer to perform a cryptocurrency transaction with a third party. The processor may calculate a risk score for the cryptocurrency transaction and determine a number of required validations to confirm the cryptocurrency transaction based at least in part upon the risk score. The processor may further receive a number of validations from a plurality of miners and compare the number of received validations to the number of required validations. The processor is further able to determine whether the number of received validations complies with the number of required validations. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363783 | CRYPTOCURRENCY RISK DETECTION SYSTEM - The system includes a processor operable to receive a request from a customer to perform a cryptocurrency transaction with a third party. The processor may also retrieve block chain information associated with the cryptocurrency transaction. The processor may also determine the amount of cryptocurrency associated with the cryptocurrency transaction. The processor may further calculate a risk score for performing the cryptocurrency transaction based at least in part upon the block chain information and the amount of cryptocurrency. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363784 | Systems and Methods for Authenticating and Providing Payment to A Supplier - An authentication and payment system for paying a supplier via a network may include a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program logic stored thereon having a code for an authentication and payment application executable by a processor of a computing device. The code may be programmed to perform a step of receiving a first set of specific data elements from a payer regarding an authorized purchase by the payer from the supplier. The code may be further programmed to receive a second set of specific data elements from the supplier. If the first set of specific data elements matches at least a portion of second set of specific data elements, the code may be programmed to generate and send a single-use number to the supplier. The single-use number may be usable as a credit card number for only one purchase. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363785 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSUMER AUTHENTICATION USING BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRICS - A computer-based method for consumer authentication of payment card transactions using behavioral biometrics uses a computer device including a processor and a memory. The method includes identifying behavioral biometric profile data of an approved cardholder that is approved to use a payment card issued by an issuer. The method also includes receiving behavioral biometric sample data of a suspect consumer collected during a payment card transaction in which the suspect consumer presents the payment card for use. The method further includes comparing the behavioral biometric sample data of the suspect consumer to the behavioral biometric profile data of the approved cardholder. The method also includes computing an authentication value based at least in part on the comparing. The method further includes authenticating the suspect consumer as the approved cardholder based at least in part on the authentication value. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363786 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR FINGERPRINTING SIGNATURES AND ENHANCED SIGNATURE CAPTURING FOR CHARGE CARD TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method and a system for fingerprinting signatures and enhanced signature capturing for charge card transactions on mobile communication devices identify and transform a signature into a normalized representation such as a bytestream including coordinate data and combine the normalized representation with some transaction information into combined data. The combined data is further transformed into fixed length data stored for further analyses or uses. Upon the receipt of a dispute, the stored representation(s) of the signature and some of the stored transaction information of the transaction in dispute may be transformed into a first fixed length data. The first fixed length data may be further compared with the stored fixed length data obtained at the time of the transaction to resolve the dispute. The representations of signatures of multiple transactions may be used to determine whether these multiple transactions belong to the same category or to different categories. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363787 | HANGOUT BASED VIDEO RESPONSE UNIT FOR CONTACT CENTERS - The present disclosure includes an apparatus and method for automated human-computer interaction. In some embodiments, the automated human-computer interaction occurs in a virtual environment and includes multimedia communications. Video, audio, and/or textual interactions are among the various forms of communication supported during the automated human-computer interaction. In some instances, the automated human-computer interaction occurs in a virtual environment to assist a customer during a customer service call. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363788 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTED SALES, SERVICE AND REPAIR OPERATIONS - The systems and methods of the present disclosure are generally related to managing distributed sales, service and repair operations. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to managing a distributed network of sales, service and/or repair operations that include automated features. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363789 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAYMENT CARD INDUSTRY COMPLIANCE - A system for providing Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance for a contact center is disclosed. The system includes a monitoring module configured to monitor a communication session between an agent and a customer. At least one image associated with the agent's computer screen is captured during the communication session. An analysis module is configured to compare the at least one image with at least one predefined image. A control module is configured to control a recording of information associated with the communication session based on the comparison. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363790 | Asset tracking and counterfeit detection system - A system that combines covert taggants with a cloud based IUID tag tracking system to protect items form counterfeiting, piracy, and diversion. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363791 | BUSINESS ACTION BASED FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A business action fraud detection system for a website includes a business action classifier to classify a series of operations from a single web session as a business action. The system also includes a fraud detection processor to determine a score for each operation from the statistical comparison of the data of each request forming part of the operation against statistical models generated from data received in a training phase and the score combining probabilities that the transmission and navigation activity of a session are those expected of a normal user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363792 | Product Purchase Study Combining Active and Passive Purchase Data Sources - A method, implemented by a processor, for combining multiple data sources in a product purchase study includes acquiring, by a processor, first product purchase data for a product from a first data source, the first product purchase data uniquely identifying the product; sending, by the processor, the first product purchase data to a remote server; receiving, by the processor, a signal from the remote server based on the first product purchase data, the signal comprising a request for additional product purchase data; acquiring by the processor in response to the request, second product purchase data from a second source independent of the first source to the remote server; and sending the second product purchase data to the remote server. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363793 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING AND USING RETAIL ITEM INSPECTION DATA - Systems and methods for collecting and using retail item inspection data are provided. Consumer inspection data for a retail item (e.g., a product or service) are collected at an offline location and received at a computing system. The consumer inspection data indicate a number of consumer inspections of the retail item at the offline location. The computing system uses the consumer inspection data to generate an inspection-related metric for the retail item. The inspection-related metric is a function of the number of consumer inspections of the retail item at the offline location. The inspection-related metric can be exposed to content a content provider of online content (e.g., to help determine an offline impact of online content) and/or a retailer or merchant at the offline location (e.g., to help in pricing the retail item or to diagnose issues in poor sales performance). | 2015-12-17 |
20150363794 | CONTENT PLACEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON PATH ANALYSIS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to generate content placement recommendations are provided. One method includes determining conversion path data and determining, for each of a plurality of domains: (1) a first metric based on a first set of the conversion paths for which interactions related to the domain are earlier in the conversion paths than one or more last interactions prior to the conversion actions; (2) a second metric based on a second set of the conversion paths for which interactions related to the domain are one of the one or more last interactions prior to the conversion actions; and (3) an analysis metric based on the first metric and the second metric. The method further includes generating one or more recommendations for obtaining content placements in one or more of the domains based on the analysis metrics for the domains. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363795 | System and Method for gathering, identifying and analyzing learning patterns - The present invention describes a community based computerized method and system which automatically gathers, acquires and collects students' usage data in a dynamic knowledge base as they perform their routine learning assignments from any educational source (e.g. printed textbooks, e-textbook etc.), for the purpose of assessing their achievements, competencies, areas of interest, preferences and requirements, and then providing automatically generated students-related information and services which are based on this knowledge, such as custom study guides, preparation plans for exams and academic skills assessment reports. The system also provides insights, trends and behavioral patterns within students' groups, which are identified and deduced from actual activities of users, such as learning habits, areas of interest, and demand for new and existing educational learning sources. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363796 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES FOR PRESENTATION ON DIGITAL SIGNAGE SYSTEMS - A method for retrieving filtering social media messages from a local retailer's social media accounts. The filtering of social media messages retains localized content for the particular retail location and provides the social media content in a format suitable for display on the retail store's digital signage display devices. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363797 | Vehicle Test System - A method of using private vehicles for testing is provided, where the method includes the steps of (i) transmitting a request to users of the vehicle/technology to be tested, (ii) transmitting test protocols and/or software updates to users that accept the request to participate in the test, (iii) monitoring a set of vehicle performance characteristics during the test, (iv) transmitting a data log generated during the test for each participating user/vehicle, and (v) issuing participation rewards, such as a coupon for goods and services offered by the vehicle's manufacturer, to test participants. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363798 | METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ESTIMATING PURCHASE BEHAVIOR OF CUSTOMER IN STORE OR ACROSS STORES - A technique that can estimate purchase behavior of a customer in a store is provided. The technique includes acquiring article information on at least one article that a target customer purchases in the store, and layout information on each store and shelving allocation information on each store. The technique includes reading at least one of previous path information on actual travel of one or more customers in the store, and previous path information on actual travel of the target customer in the store or across the stores. The technique includes estimating a traffic line of the target customer in the store or across the stores, according to a tendency acquired from the path information read, based on each piece of the information acquired. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363799 | Updating a Social Graph Based on Recency of 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. A technique can include a sender sending a first link to at least one recipient. When a first node representative of the sender in a social graph is not identified and after receiving the activity information, creating a second node to represent the sender in the social graph. The social graph can be updated based on a recency of the sharing activity. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363800 | MERCHANT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IN A COMPUTER NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods of evaluating merchant performance in a computer networked environment are provided. A data processing system can obtain ecommerce traffic data identifying a product, and can obtain, separately from the ecommerce traffic data, catalog data not present in the ecommerce traffic data. Subsequent to obtaining the ecommerce traffic data and the catalog data, the data processing system can receive a query for a report. The query can include a key identifying the product. Using the key and responsive to the query for the report, the data processing system can direct a plurality of report generation servers to join at least part of the ecommerce traffic data with at least part of the catalog data to create joined data. The data processing system can generate the report, including the joined data, and the data processing system can provide the report to a merchant computing device. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363801 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE BEHAVIOR OR STATE OF A NEGATIVE OCCURRENCE CLASS - A method and apparatus are presented for predicting the behavior or state of a negative occurrence class by scoring histories of members of the negative occurrence class against pasts of members of a positive occurrence class. The method and apparatus predicts the members of the negative occurrence class that are most likely to next transition to members of the positive occurrence class. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363802 | SURVEY AMPLIFICATION USING RESPONDENT CHARACTERISTICS - Survey accuracy of small sample sizes may be amplified by including, excluding, or weighting survey responses of respondents responsive to characteristics of the respondent being correlated with or not correlated with characteristics of the population determined from aggregated behavioral histories of the population, resulting in favoring survey results of individuals that are truly representative of the larger population and excluding results from outliers. Search queries from devices in a particular region may be aggregated to identify common searches, building a model of characteristics of the regional population without requiring any private or confidential data of the population. Surveys may be given to a small number of individuals in the region, and if the individual's characteristics match the modeled regional characteristics, then the individual's survey responses may be used to build a statistical estimate of responses from the region, at a higher degree of confidence than allowed by mere random sampling. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363803 | BUSINESS INTRODUCTION INTERFACE - Methods for searching within one's social network for business leads and the presentation and facilitation of introduction requests associated therewith are provided. In particular, a user may log into a website to search their social network based on introduction parameters. In response, a set of introducers who can connect the user to individuals matching the introduction parameters are provided and stored. Subsequently, an indication is presented to each introducer such that each introducer is made aware that the user is requesting an introduction to someone within the respective introducer's network. Upon viewing the indication, the introducer may select an individual matching the introduction parameters and transmit to that individual an introduction request. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363804 | LEAD ANALYSIS BASED ON PATH DATA - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to evaluate leads based on path data are provided. One method includes receiving lead data and determining path data representing one or more paths including one or more interactions leading to submission of the lead data. The method further includes determining a cost metric representing a cost to a content provider of the one or more interactions leading to submission of the lead data, a delay metric between a first interaction of the one or more interactions and submission of the lead data, and an engagement metric relating to a level of engagement of the device identifier with one or more resources associated with the content provider prior to submission of the lead data. The method further includes generating an effort score based on a combination of the cost metric, the delay metric, and the engagement metric. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363805 | Systems And Methods For Setting Product Prices - A dynamic pricing algorithm is used to price a large set of items so that their aggregate margin is above a pre-specified level even under uncertain demand. The algorithm automatically hedges the profit loss associated to low-margin items with profit gains associated to higher-margin items, and does so even when the realized demand is different than the expected one. The algorithm leverages the separability of a re-formulation of the robust counterpart of the nominal revenue maximization problem. This separability results into a nested bisection algorithm where each iteration in the procedure requires only computation of a number of independent, one-dimensional optimization problems, one for each product to price. The algorithm is easily implemented in a parallel architecture such a multi-core computer or a cluster of computers, where each core handles an independent one-dimensional problem corresponding to an item and its data is stored locally | 2015-12-17 |
20150363806 | PRODUCT PRICING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC INFORMATION LABEL SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - An apparatus and method for determining a product price for an electronic information label (EIL) system. The apparatus identifies customer interest in a particular product based on customers and their behaviors that express interest of a product, and determines a price for the product based on the customer interest. The apparatus may first determine a basic price of the product according to an existing method, and then determine a final price by adjusting the basic price, taking into account customer interest, and, if needed, the sales of the product. The determined product price may be transmitted to the EIL system and then be displayed on an EIL tag. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363807 | METHOD FOR ENCOURAGING SOCIAL CONSUMPTION OF COUPONS - The invention is a recommendation process that can be used by operators of a coupon recommendation system to utilize information about the social interactions between users of mobile devices in order to supply coupons to users who are potential customers of a business in a manner that maximizes the chances that the offered coupon will be consumed. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363808 | GAMIFIED AND/OR REACTIVE CONSUMER INCENTIVES FOR MASS ADOPTION OF CREDIT, CHARGE AND/OR DEBIT CARDS, AND ACCESS TOKENS, USING ONE TIME PASSWORD (OTP) AUTHENTICATION - A system and method are provided for enabling a mass audience of network-connected users of computing and mobile communicating devices to employ financial instruments, including credit cards, debit cards or other physical transaction tokens, which are enabled to engage in one-time password (or passcode) (OTP) transaction validation, to participate in contests and sweepstakes as part of the OTP-enabled transaction validation process. The disclosed schemes make use of an emerging technology that allows powered credit cards to generate unique and/or random four or more digit numbers as OTPs. The disclosed schemes gamify the use of these transaction vehicles by awarding prizes for their use. The time sensitive and randomly associated nature of the OTP provides an additional layer of security for the financial transactions. The consumer or customer is not required to memorize, for entry at the point of a transaction. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363809 | Endorsements Used in Ranking Ads - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for an advertisement from a user device associated with a first user, and identifying advertisements responsive to the request. A determination is made that one of the advertisements describes a good or service that is associated with an endorsement provided by an endorser, and the endorser is recommended by a second user that belongs to a same social network as the first user. The advertisements are ranked based on one or more signals associated with each advertisement, wherein one of the signals for the one advertisement is the endorsement and is used in the ranking in response to the determination. The ranked advertisements are provided in response to the request. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363810 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO TRANSMIT DATA AMONG A PLURALITY OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS IN PROCESSING BENEFIT REDEMPTION - Communication systems and methods to transmit data among a plurality of computing systems in processing benefit redemption, including a portal configured to communicate with transaction terminals, reward hosts and issues processors. In response to a reward balance inquiry from a transaction terminal, the portal communicates with a respective reward host to obtain the balance, communicates with an issuer processor to obtain a one-time use account number, and provides the transaction terminal with the balance and the account number. The transaction terminal an authorization request for a payment transaction made using the account number. In response to the authorization request being received in the issuer processor, the portal communicates with the issuer processor to identify the payment transaction and communicates with the reward host to perform a reward redemption to support the payment transaction. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363811 | SYSTEM FOR ADMINISTERING MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF GAMING AND DATA FROM A SINGLE ENGINE - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for gaming a person's connections with a brand. By collecting data in response to targeted questions, a brand owner can quickly understand what the user knows and feels about his brand, both on factual and emotional. By awarding points for answering questions, the user can unlock areas of the system, allowing access to awards, such as vouchers, which can be redeemed for real world prizes. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363812 | COUPON CONSOLIDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for presenting a plurality of coupons at a retail check-out includes a server having a database storing coupon data related to a plurality of coupons, each associated with at least one product. The coupon data for each includes at least a product ID and a redemption value. A user interface is operated and displayed by a customer computing device and is configured to accept an input by the customer of an identification code for each of a plurality of customer-selected products and send the identification codes to the server. The server is configured to search the database for coupons associated with the customer-selected products, create a single machine-readable consolidated coupon code from coupons located in the search, and send the consolidated coupon code to the customer computing device for presentation to a cashier to obtain the redemption values during a purchase of the customer-selected products. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363813 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ELECTRONICALLY VERIFYING REQUIRED PROOF-OF-PERFORMANCE TO SECURE PROMOTIONAL REWARDS - A proof-of-performance verification system may include a receipt processing facility that receives a receipt image, wherein the receipt processing facility optionally enhances the receipt, converts the receipt image to text, and matches the text to a product or service description in accordance with a terminology database, a proof processor that electronically matches a user-selected reward offer against the product or service description to facilitate offer redemption, and at least one of a payment facility that distributes the offer redemption funds and a rewards facility that communicates incentive rewards to a central location. Related user interfaces, applications, and computer program products are disclosed. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363814 | System and method for financial card with integrated offer receipt and reward acceptance associated therewith - A method and system for generating and providing a pre-paid, debit or credit card or other financial instrument card with integrated and associated financial offer receipt, merchant-funded offer, rewards, incentives for consumers to do certain activities for a merchant or manufacturer such as follow them on social media channels and reward acceptance aggregation capabilities associated therewith. The pre-paid, debit or credit card or other financial instrument card may be provided with a financial offer, discount or other benefit in relation to a particular purchase or a general offer, discount or other benefit from a merchant or merchants and may be employed to effectuate the purchase and accept both the benefit of the financial offer or discount and further accept and aggregate additional rewards. The incentive or benefit may also be for an action that they conduct or as an incentive to follow social media or other social interactive forums, gaming type rewards, gaming to win rewards; and additional offers or offer upgrades as they spend at merchants or elsewhere. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363815 | COMMUNICATION OF REWARD DATA BETWEEN APPLICATIONS - There is provided a scheme of communicating reward data from a first application running on a data processing device ( | 2015-12-17 |
20150363816 | LOCATION BASED DISCOUNT SYSTEM AND METHOD - An apparatus and method of delivering discounts and/or promotions to a consumer based on the presence of the consumer at a physical location. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363817 | Method and System for Online Audience Development and Advertising - This invention is a method and system of audience delivery for content providers to build or share their audiences directly with content creators. A mobile video and audience engagement product connects content creator platforms and content provider platforms. This invention provides a quantifiable high quality discovery and appeal for the audience of content providers, to the specifications of content creators who seek to acquire audience attention from content providers. The invention integrates and delivers to content providers and content creators a simultaneous, mutual, and measurable value previously unavailable. The invention delivers unique data metrics. The invention allows discovery and distribution of multi-channel and multi-content distribution, with a numerical score for how appealing a campaign is to viewers. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363818 | Digital display platform for promotional/advertisement/gaming inclusive of static and motion graphic images with method of use - A Motion Poster or Moster is the creation or recreation of a static movie poster, flyer or banner with the objective of bringing them to life through digital movement and animation. Mosters can be played on a video player, monitor, television, computer, phone, cellphone, LED, pad/tablet, gas pump display, sticker, label, over-sized screen or projected and can be watched lenticularly, (auto)stereoscopically, or in 2 d, 3 d, 4 k, 8 k, HD, Blu-ray, IMAX, curved or by hologram. In addition, the use of touch-sensitive and voice-activated screens may be used for interaction with the advertisement. Locations for display may be at bus stops, restaurants, car dealerships, billboards, theaters, homes, shopping malls, retails stores or from local or remote video players streaming from local or remote cloud locations. Mosters are intended to invoke a feeling, emotion or desire through motion and expression that a static marketing poster is incapable of expressing. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363819 | System for Tracking and Analyzing Display Case Usage - A system for tracking and analyzing display case usage is disclosed. The system preferably includes a display case having a door and a transparent liquid crystal display (LCD) housed within said door. A CPU is preferably in electrical connection with the transparent LCD as well as a door sensor. The CPU is adapted to store information regarding the content being shown on the LCD and whether the door is open or closed. A network connection allows the CPU to transmit this information to a remote location. A temperature sensor can also be in electrical connection with the CPU in some embodiments and this data can also be stored and transmitted to a remote location. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363820 | REAL-TIME DIGITAL ASSET SAMPLING APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The real-time digital asset sampling apparatuses, methods and systems (“RDA”) transform ad bidding requests via RDA components and/or the like into ad pricing indices, financial instruments and/or the like. In one implementation, the RDA may determine a digital asset market bid sampling distribution for a digital asset associated with a plurality of attribute parameters; submit a digital asset pricing bid to an exchange platform; determine a current digital asset price based on bidding result of the digital asset market bids sampling; and aggregate the determined current digital asset price to generate a digital asset price index for the digital asset associated with a plurality of attribute parameters. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363821 | KEYWORD RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ORGANIC KEYWORD ANALYSIS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to generate recommendations based on organic search term analysis are provided. One method includes determining conversion path data for a content provider. The method further includes determining a plurality of organic search keywords within the conversion path data. The method further includes analyzing the plurality of organic search keywords within the conversion path data to generate an analysis metric for each of the plurality of organic search keywords. The method further includes generating one or more recommendations for organic search keywords to add to the set of paid keywords based on the analysis metrics for the plurality of search keywords. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363822 | SPLITTING A PURCHASE PANEL INTO SUB-GROUPS - A method for acquiring and processing product purchase data for purchase of a product includes defining a product class encompassing the product; designating sub-groups of a panel including an exposed sub-group and a control sub-group and a time period of a product purchase study, the exposed sub-group comprising panelists provided with first advertisements related to the product, the control sub-group provided with second advertisements not including the first advertisements; receiving, by the processor, first product purchase data for the product and first advertisements watched data from panelists of the exposed sub-group for items of the product class; performing, by the processor, a first correlation the first product purchase data and the first advertisements watched data to determine an existence of a connection between watching the first advertisements and purchasing the product; receiving, by the processor, second product purchase data for the product from the control-subgroup; and performing, by the processor, a second correlation of the second product purchase data and the first correlation results. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN USERS AND MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - In accordance with a method for determining a likelihood that two or more communication devices are associated with a common user, clickstream data from a plurality of clickstream events is received from each of a plurality of communication devices in response to a web page being loaded by each of the communication devices. The clickstream events received over a period of time are arranged into a datastream such that each of the datastreams contains clickstream events from only a single communication device. Based on the clickstream data in the clickstream events, potentially matching pairs of datastreams are identified that contain clickstream events from a common user using different communication devices. A statistical analysis is performed on the potentially matching pairs of datastreams in accordance with a statistical model in order to determine a likelihood that each of the potentially matching pairs of datastreams contain clickstream events from a common user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363824 | Method and System for Tracking Advertisement Effectiveness - A method and system for tracking advertisement effectiveness is provided as a means to increase the efficiency of advertising campaigns. The method and system accomplishes this by combining consumer demographic and purchasing data signals with advertisement exposure data signals to control the allocation of advertising campaign resources. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363825 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REGISTRATION WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS - A method, system and program product comprises communicating with a server system of a service provider. The server system has registration of a user for a service of the service provider. The server system produces a listing of other services provided by other service providers. The listing is generated at least in part by information in the registration. The listing is displayed for selection by the user. The listing includes a check-box for each of the other services for user selection. The server system receives at least the user selected check-boxes. The server system prepares registration information for the user from the registration and communicates the prepared registration information to each of the selected other service providers. The prepared registration provides a registration for the respective other service for the user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363826 | DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENTS WITH LOCATION INFORMATION - Advertisement content associated with an entity having a physical location is selected for display to a user by a client device. A proximity of the client device to the physical location is determined. In response to determining the proximity between the client device and the physical location, an advertisement is generated that includes the advertisement content and an indicator of the physical location. The generated advertisement is sent to the client device for display to the user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363827 | SELECTING CONTENT FOR PRESENTATION TO A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER BASED ON WHETHER THE USER IS TRAVELING - A social networking system maintains a home location associated with a user and determines a current location associated with the user. By comparing the home location to the current location, the social networking system determines whether the user is traveling. For example, if the current location is greater than a threshold distance from the home location, the social networking system determines that the user is traveling. When selecting content for presentation to the user, the social networking system accounts for whether the user is traveling. For example, advertisement requests including targeting criteria that a user is traveling are selected as eligible for presentation to a user determined to be traveling. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363828 | TRAFFIC ADAPTIVE DIGITAL BILLBOARD CONTROL SYSTEM - A digital billboard control system and a method of controlling a digital billboard with real-time displays are each provided with a traffic monitoring module for monitoring traffic within a predetermined area adjacent each digital billboard in real-time, a network interface for communicating with a remote terminal, and a data processing controller operably interfaced with the real-time display, the traffic monitoring module and the networking interface. The controller receives real-time traffic data from the traffic monitoring module, and determines at least one traffic pattern adjacent the or each digital billboard from the received data. The controller outputs media content data to the real-time display according to a comparison between the determined traffic pattern and at least one predetermined context criteria, and communicates the determined traffic pattern and data representative of the media content data to the remote terminal in real-time for feedback about media data consumption by adjacent traffic. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363829 | Printing, displaying, and etching advertisements on various media - Advertisement systems and methods for distributing advertisements are provided. An advertising system according to one embodiment includes an advertisement server configured to manage the ordering and printing of advertisements at predetermined locations and at predetermined times. The advertising system also includes a plurality of printing devices operating at the predetermined locations, each printing device configured to print an advertisement on an item associated with a purchase. A network is configured to enable communication between the advertisement server and the plurality of printing devices. The printing devices are configured to print the advertisements according to the plurality of predetermined times based on when at least one advertiser intends for the advertisements to be printed. Other implementations of advertisement systems include three-dimensional printing or etching of advertisements and displaying advertisements on electronic devices. Advertising may also be based on weather conditions, traffic conditions, or other conditions. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363830 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE INFORMATION BASED ON PREDICTED ROUTE OF TRAVEL - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to determine a current location of a user, predict a change of direction of the user, and provide at least one advertisement to the user based on the predicted change of direction of the user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363831 | TAP TO SUBSCRIBE TO TEXT MESSAGE ALERTS - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for providing text message alerts. A telephony interface module receives an alert enrollment request from a client device. The alert enrollment request is received through a first type of communication channel. The alert enrollment request includes a protocol specific portion that includes a communication endpoint identifier assigned to the client device. A data database management module links the communication endpoint identifier to an opt-in record. A text message interface module communicates, based on the client device identifier being linked to the opt-in record, an alert to the client device through a second type of communication channel. The alert is addressed to the client device based on the communication endpoint identifier linked to the opt-in record. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363832 | RADIO FREQUENCY EVENT RESPONSE MARKETING SYSTEM - An interactive marketing system includes devices and methods that provide customers with real-time product information and supplemental specification materials, usage information, comparison information, and other product and service resources related to a product. A potential customer accesses an RFID-tagged item, and a reader detects the item and triggers video and audio displays with information regarding the identified product. Customers interact with the product and service materials to review product information, evaluate product reviews, and view and listen to lifestyle and demonstration videos. Customers can also access product information to configure the product in a variety of sizes, colors, styles, and the like. Brand owners can communicate product information, product reviews, and additional information regarding the product, its features, and its use directly to the customers in real-time. The system facilitates purchasing metrics, tracks and controls inventory, and provides product logistics. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363833 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING TRANSACTIONS - A method comprises receiving, by a computer-based system for processing a transaction, a notification that a transaction account holder has taken an action, taking, in near real time, an action in response to the action taken by the transaction account holder, and/or communicating with a web-client associated with the transaction account holder in response to the action taken by the transaction account holder. The communicating with the web-client may occur in near real time. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363834 | ELECTRONIC PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETED SOCIAL NETWORK - An electronic platform system for a targeted social network that is coupled to a data mining engine, comprises a store platform that displays selected electronic stores from a plurality of electronic stores, wherein the selected electronic stores is selected by the data mining engine according to the user and a user group of the user, and a payment platform that enables the user to purchase goods directly from the store platform. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363835 | UTILIZING HEURISTIC BIDDING TO DETERMINE INVENTORY BID LANDSCAPE OF AN ACTIVE REAL-TIME DISPLAY CAMPAIGN - Systems and methods for determining a bid landscape for a content placement campaign are provided. A system identifies, for a content placement provider, serving parameters that define an inventory of content serving opportunities. The system creates bid buckets that have bid ranges. The system identifies a portion of the inventory to participate in bid discovery. The system selects, for each opportunity identified to participate, a bid value from within a bid bucket of the bid buckets. The bid value is provided as a bid for an auction to serve content in the opportunity. The system stores, for each of the identified content serving opportunities, the selected bid value and a result of the auction in which the selected bid value was provided as a bid. The system then determines an impression rate for each identified bid bucket and generates, from the determined impression rates, a bid landscape for the inventory. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363836 | HIERARCHICAL RESALE SYSTEM FOR TELECOMMUNICATION PRODUCTS - Systems and methods for a hierarchical resale system for telecommunications services are described. In an embodiment, a computerized method for managing events in a hierarchical resale model for telecommunication products may include receiving, via an electronic interface, access information for accessing an event response system of a down-level provider; identifying, using a data processing device, an event requiring a response from the down-level provider; accessing, using a network interface, the event response system of the down-level provider; and generating, using the data processor, an event response for transmission by the event response system of the down-level provider. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363837 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR PRESENTING ADVERTISEMENTS DURING BACKGROUND PRESENTATION OF MEDIA CONTENT - In accordance with some embodiments, methods for presenting advertisements during video presentation are provided, the methods comprising: receiving a media content item to be presented, wherein the media content item comprises video content that includes audio data to be presented during presentation of the video data; determining that a video presentation application is in a presentation mode that inhibits video data; receiving an advertisement to be presented during presentation of the media content item; causing the media content item to be presented in the presentation mode; causing the advertisement to be presented during presentation of the media content; detecting a user action indicative of user attention to at least a portion of the presented advertisement; and performing a further action in response to detecting the user action, which causes information other than the advertisement to be presented by the user interface. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363838 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORMATION OF RAW DATA TO ACTIONABLE DATA - Embodiments of systems and methods disclosed herein provide solutions for predicting vehicle invoice pricing, trim, and options by starting from scratch (raw data), transforming the raw data into actionable data, and comprehensively exploring all possible option combinations that can match a vehicle's Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). Embodiments implement algorithms that determine the trim of a vehicle and intelligently analyze all possible option combinations that would result in a target MSRP while avoid searching unnecessary vehicle configurations. The algorithms can be used to predict the trim, invoice, and options of a vehicle based on the vehicle's VIN and MSRP. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363839 | Donation Per Email Open and Click in E-Mail, Charged to E-Mail Sender - Donating money to a charity by a sender of a message is carried out per opening of a received email and/or per selecting a link in a received message. This is done through a trusted system that is used by both a sender of a message, such as an email, and a recipient who recognizes that a message comes through the trusted system in embodiments of the disclosed technology. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363840 | Systems and Methods for Recommending Merchants to Consumers - A computer-implemented method for recommending a merchant to a consumer is implemented by a merchant evaluation computer system in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of transaction data associated with a first merchant of a plurality of merchants, receiving a plurality of review data associated with the merchant, analyzing the plurality of transaction data and the plurality of review data to generate integrated consumption data at the merchant evaluation computer system, determining a relative ranking of the plurality of merchants by comparing integrated consumption data for each merchant of the plurality of merchants, and providing a ranked list of merchants to a consumer based at least in part on the relative ranking. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363841 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Generating Ratings for Material Transportation - The present invention relates to a method, system, and apparatus for providing material transportation efficiency ratings, including receiving haul data for a plurality of hauls made by a plurality of vehicles. The haul data for each haul of the plurality of hauls comprises a haul volume, a haul distance, a haul cost, and a haul time. The method also includes generating, with at least one processor and based on the haul data, a plurality of efficiency ratings comprising an efficiency rating for at least one of the following: each driver associated with the plurality of vehicles, each transportation entity associated with the plurality of vehicles, each haul of the plurality of hauls, or any combination thereof. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363842 | PRICE-COMPETITIVENESS ANALYSIS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to analyze user path data and determine price-competitiveness of offers reflected therein are provided. One method includes receiving user path data representing a plurality of user paths, each including one or more sales interactions in which a user was presented with an offer to purchase an item at an offer price. One or more user paths include conversion events in which the user purchases the item. The method further includes receiving competitive price data indicating one or more prices at which the item was offered for sale by one or more third party entities and determining a price-competitiveness metric for at least one of the sales interactions based on a comparison of the offer price with the competitive price data. The method further includes providing data based on the price-competitiveness metric to the content provider. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363843 | DYNAMIC PROVISIONING OF PICK-UP, DELIVERY, TRANSPORTATION, AND/OR SORTATION OPTIONS - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for programmatically determining/identifying for determining a delivery time and/or cost for an item to be delivered and allowing customer selection of one of the delivery windows. One example embodiment may include a method comprising receiving customer location information/data indicative of a customer location, querying at least one of (a) a historical database, (b) a dynamic database, (c) predictive database, or (d) a combined database to determine a cost associated with each of the one or more time frames/periods and whether any pick-up, transportation, sortation, and/or delivery criteria associated with the cost, and providing the one or more time frames/periods and the cost associated with each of the one or more time frames. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363844 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN A NETWORK OF BUSINESSES - A method for facilitating transactions between a network of businesses includes determining, for a given time period, a first invoice directed from a first business to a second business, and a second invoice directed from the second business to the first business. The method further includes aggregating the first and second invoices to determine a net payment needed to pay both the first invoice and the second invoice. The net payment is transferred between the first business and the second business. The method further includes updating an accounting platform for each of the first business and the second business to indicate that the first invoice and the second invoice have been paid. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363845 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO GENERATE A PORTABLE CONTRACT DOCUMENT - A method and system to generate a portable contract document are provided. The system may include a description module, a price module and a contract document generator. The description module may be configured to receive, from a potential buyer, identification information associated with a sale item. The price module may be configured to receive, from the potential buyer, a price information associated with the sale item. The contract document generator may be configured to respond to a request by the potential buyer by automatically generating a contract document for a sale of the sale item, utilizing the identification information and the price information. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363846 | Systems and Methods for the Multi-Dimensional Organization of Items - The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for organizing items, such as merchant products and/or services, comprising storing identifying information of a plurality of items in an electronic storage unit, and generating a toroidal relationship among said identifying information. Next, the identifying information can be organized per the toroidal relationship. The organized identifying information can then be made accessible to a user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363847 | STORES IN ON-LINE MALL WITH COMMON FACADE - A method for providing an on-line mall with multiple communities. The method provides multiple communities within an on-line mall environment. Multiple stores are provided within each of the multiple communities, with each store being associated with a merchant with merchandise directed to its community. At least a partially common façade is provided for multiple stores within a particular community. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363848 | INTERNET SERVICE REGARDING AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM OF INTERACTIVE-BIDIRECTIONAL TRADE, IN REAL TIME, FOR TOURISM PRODUCTS-SERVICES - The present patent is referred to an innovative internet service regarding an interactive-bidirectional trade, in real time, for price negotiations of tourism products-services (accommodation, food, tickets, recreation activities or any other touristic product-service), correlating the offer of an amount of money from the user client-buyer, interested to buy the tourism product-service, with the offer of the user client-seller that provides the touristic product-service trying to meet the specifications set by the user client-buyer (regardless of what kind of software platform will be used). In this way the user client-buyer creates a business negotiating environment for tourism products-services that it starts from him, is customized at all levels by him and the final product of this procedure goes back to him. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363849 | DUAL CROWDSOURCING MODEL FOR ONLINE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN - Systems and methods for facilitating a design contest between clients and designers are provided. A client can provide a profile of a new design job. The design job can be published for bidding from designers. The bids can be received and ranked according to the preferences of the client. A prize can be awarded to winning designers. The client can receive the winning designs and use them to complete the new design job. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363850 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING ORDER, TRANSACTION SERVER AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure provides a method for processing a transaction order of virtual resources. The order for the virtual resources is received by a server from a first client, and the order records a specified quantity of the virtual resources to be purchased. All commodities including the virtual resources offered for sale are acquired from a database of a transaction system. All the commodities are traversed to select a commodity combination matching the specified quantity. The commodity combination comprises one or more of the commodities. A corresponding suborder is generated for each commodity in the selected commodity combination. The suborder is processed according to demand. Also provided are a transaction server and a computer readable storage medium. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363851 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE SELECTION OF CLOUD SERVICES BASED ON PRICE AND PERFORMANCE - A system and method is provided for generating and using purchase strategies based on the price, performance, and/or other information related to cloud services to optimize the selection of such services. The purchase strategies may comprehensively describe various cloud services in real-time so that customers may purchase cloud services using up-to-date, real-time information. The purchase strategies may, for example, describe pricing, performance, availability, and/or other attributes of various cloud services. A purchase agent may use the purchase strategies, one or more purchase rules, and/or other information to generate a purchase specification that specifies one or more cloud service instances that should be purchased. The purchase agent may leverage unique properties of spot instances to make favorable purchase decisions. For example, the system may determine bid prices that should be made to obtain certain spot instances. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363852 | VIRTUALIZED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OFFERING VIRTUAL PRODUCTS OR SERVICES - In a virtualized distribution system for offering virtual products or services to clients over a distributed network a service provider manages physical resources. One or more orchestration servers having access to the physical resources run cloud management software that maintain a service providers portal to permit the service provider to manage the physical resources and accounts for distribution partners, a partner portal to permit the distribution partners to create virtual products or services using the available physical resources and establish a virtual presence on said distributed network, and a client portal for offering to clients the virtual products or services created by the distribution partners through their virtual presence. In this way product distribution can be offered as a service, which emulates the manner in which real products and services are distributed through a traditional distribution chain. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363853 | SYSTEM, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CORRECTIVE EYEWEAR - A method of providing corrective eyewear is disclosed, the method including providing a kiosk having a plurality of eyeglass frame. The plurality of eyeglass frames vary in at least one of a dimension and a size from one another and each of the plurality of eyeglass frames has at least one reference dimension on a body of the eyeglass frame. The method further includes receiving a digital image of the consumer wearing a selected eyeglass frame and determining a pupillary distance of the consumer based on the digital image and the at least one reference dimension of the consumer-selected eyeglass frame. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363854 | SALES SYSTEM AND A CLOUD SERVER - A sales system includes a terminal device and a cloud server. The cloud server transmits a plurality of patterns and plural representations of food materials to the terminal device. The terminal device generates, according to user operation of an input unit thereof, a pattern selection associated with a selected one of the patterns. The terminal device generates, according to user operation of the input unit, a material selection associated with a selected one of the food materials and associated with an arrangement of the selected food material for constituting the selected pattern, and transmits the material selection to the cloud server, so as to generate an order of food product related to the material selection. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363855 | Systems and Methods for Automatic Popular Configuration Generation - Embodiments of systems and methods disclosed herein provide solutions for determining popular configurations in an automated and balanced manner, useful in facilitating consumers in making their purchase decisions on high value items such as vehicles. In particular, in certain embodiments, a user may utilize a vehicle data system to obtain pricing data corresponding to automatically generated vehicle configurations. When the user is presented with the pricing data associated with the automatically generated vehicle configuration the user may additionally be presented with an upfront price offered by a dealer. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363856 | PORTABLE WIRELESS INFORMATION UNIT FOR PROVIDING DATA TO AND RECEIVING DATA FROM MOBILE DEVICES - An information unit associated with assets in a building that can more effectively integrate with mobile wireless devices carried by users to provide information about product or assets being sold on a store shelf or stored in a warehouse. A housing enables self-contained capability for the information unit and enables autonomous operation and physical association with product or assets located throughout a store or warehouse. A short-range wireless module supports interaction with mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, and/or data enabled glasses) carried by customers and employees. A touch sensitive screen supports direct interaction by customers and employees, displaying information and receiving physical input. A product/asset information module provides data for display and/or announcement on the unit about associated products or assets. The product/asset information can include: product information, asset information, processing steps for handling assets, coupons, recipes, and remote information access via website URLs, location information. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363857 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND/OR DISTRIBUITION OF MUSIC AND OTHER FORMS OF USEFUL INFORMATION - The present invention relates generally to the field of telecommunications systems and methods. More specifically, the present invention is directed to systems and methods for identifying and/or distributing music and other types of useful information for users in a very simple and convenient manner. A variety of systems and methods are disclosed which provide users with quick and convenient access to various forms of information, such as, for example, audio information including music and news items as well as coupons and other information. The systems and methods allow users to store data representative of a time of transmission and preferably a source of transmission so that data of interest may be identified for ordering an/or downloading. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363858 | E-COMMERCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - In a method for identifying a product having a combination of attributes, a computer receives data indicative of a selected product, retrieves product data based on selected product, and generates a product grid corresponding to the selected product. The product grid includes a plurality of rows, each corresponding to a value of a first attribute. The product grid further includes a plurality of columns, each corresponding to a value of a second attribute. The product grid further includes a plurality of cells formed by the intersection of the plurality of rows and the plurality of columns, wherein each of the plurality of cells represents the product having a value of the first attribute that corresponds to the intersecting row and a value of the second attribute that corresponds to the intersecting column. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363859 | INFER PRODUCT CORRELATIONS BY INTEGRATING TRANSACTIONS AND CONTEXTUAL USER BEHAVIOR SIGNALS - Systems and methods for determining correlation scores for product pairs are provided. Contextual user behavior indicator data relating to a plurality of user behavior indicator types is received. A correlation score is computed for a first product and a second product for each user behavior indicator type from the plurality of user behavior indicator types. A final correlation score is computed for the first product and the second product by combining the computed correlation scores for each user behavior indicator type. The computed final correlation score for the first product and the second product is stored into a first data storage. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363860 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOUSLY IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL FOOD PREFERENCES AND AUTOMATICALLY CREATING PERSONALIZED FOOD SERVICES - A system and methods for continuously identifying individual food preferences and automatically creating personalized food services are disclosed. The system includes a data collection unit configured to collect, extract and structure raw data of user from a multiplicity of information sources. The system further includes a data processing and analytics unit comprising a multiplicity of specialized units configured to identify one or more user preferences and create preferable products for the user based on the structured data provided by the data collection unit; as well as user interface, presentation, and device access units configured to optimize a layout of application-specific information and user interfaces for specific types of web-enabled devices of the user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363861 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED PERSONALIZATION USING BEACON TECHNOLOGY - A system and method are disclosed for providing a targeted recommendation for a product or service. At least one database is accessed that includes software application information associated with at least one respective software application provided to each of a plurality of users, profile information of the users, user interest history information and inventory information associated with at least one product and/or service. Electronic use information associated with one of the software applications within a location at a given time is received and processed to associate the one respective software application with a respective one of the plurality of user devices. At least some of the electronic inventory information associated with one of the merchants is determined and a recommendation of a product and/or service associated with the one merchant is made. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363862 | FINANCIAL PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FOR A CONSUMER - A computer-implemented method comprising: comparing, by one or more computer systems, personal profile information of a consumer to financial product information for financial products; identifying, based on the comparing, one of the financial products with a higher relevance to the consumer relative to relevances of others of the financial products; and generating, based on the identified financial product, a financial product recommendation specifically for the consumer. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363863 | MODES, CONTROL AND APPLICATIONS OF RECOMMENDATIONS AUTO-CONSUMPTION - A method includes acts for filtering auto consumption recommendations and auto consumption actions. The method includes receiving from a recommendation system, a recommendation of an asset for consumption. The asset for consumption is evaluated in the context of one or more filter rules regarding auto consumption. The filter rules are configured to filter recommended assets from being consumed when certain criteria are met or to permit recommended assets to be consumed when certain criteria are met. As a result, the method includes identifying one or more constraints on how recommended asset should be consumed. The method further includes filtering consumption of the recommended asset based on the one or more constraints. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363864 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROPOSAL TO FURNISHING AND DECORATIONS BUYER - Disclosure herein is related to a system and a method for providing proposal to furnishing and decorations buyer. The system provides a serving system. In the serving system, a style category can be determined when analyzing the elements selected by a user using a terminal device. Then an arrangement plan for the selected furnishing and decorations is proposed. In the method, a process begins as receiving selection data from the terminal device. The selection data is such a shopping list made by a product exhibit platform. The elements in the list are referred to render a style category as compared to a database. At least one proposal, including furnishing arrangement, layout design, and combined photos, for the user's reference is therefore decided according to the style category. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363865 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE PURCHASE RECOMMENDATIONS - A vehicle data system may receive, via a website, a user query about a vehicle or features of a vehicle that may not actually exist. The vehicle data system can transform a set of features representing a query vehicle associated with the user query into a query vehicle feature vector, compare the query vehicle feature vector with one or more inventory vehicle feature vectors representative of one or more dealer inventory vehicles, determine a similarity score between the query vehicle and the one or more dealer inventory vehicles, and generate at least one recommendation based on the similarity score, for instance, a great match and/or a good match to the vehicle that the user has inquired about. The at least one recommendation can be presented via the website in real time. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363866 | Electronic Device For Re-Ordering Items - In some cases, a method may include receiving electricity usage data from a re-ordering device and determining usage information for an appliance that is electrically connected to the re-ordering device based on the electricity usage data. The method may also include determining, based on the usage information and order history information for a customer, an estimated remaining quantity of an item that is associated with an appliance type of the appliance. The method further includes comparing the estimated remaining quantity of the item to a threshold associated with the item. In response to determining that the threshold associated with the item is satisfied, the method includes decrementing the estimated remaining quantity of the item. In response to determining that the threshold associated with the item is not satisfied, the method includes generating order data for automated re-ordering of the item for delivery to the customer. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363867 | Purchase Optimization Service - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for purchase optimization service. A processor can execute a purchasing optimization service. Service preferences for purchasing using the purchasing optimization service can be defined. A purchase request that includes a request to purchase an item using the purchase optimization service can be received. Purchase preferences specific to the purchase request can be defined, and two or more purchase options determined based upon the service preferences, the purchase preferences, and the purchase request can be determined. A purchase option from the two or more purchase options can be determined, and the item can be purchased using the purchase option. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363868 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, SERVERS, AND CLIENTS FOR INVENTORY EXCHANGE - According to the embodiments described herein, an inventory exchange client can include one or more processors communicatively coupled to client memory, a client communication module, and a display. The memory can store machine readable instructions. The one or more processors can execute the machine readable instructions to store inventory information on the client memory. The inventory information can include a product instance. Updated inventory information can be received via the client communication module. The product instance can be updated according to the updated inventory information. The dynamic web page can be populated with identification objects. The identification objects can be associated with the inventory information. A product order request can be transmitted to an inventory exchange server. The product order request can be encoded to initiate a product transaction via the inventory exchange server. | 2015-12-17 |