51st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130339102 | PROPOSAL EVALUATION SYSTEM - Described herein are techniques and mechanisms for evaluating proposal documents. According to various embodiments, a proposal document may represent a proposal for business action. The proposal document may be processed via a processor to determine a plurality of scores for the proposal document. Each of the plurality of scores may evaluate the proposal document in accordance with a respective one or more criteria. The plurality of proposal scores may be aggregated via the processor to create a composite score for the proposal document. The composite score may represent a measure of quality associated with the proposal document. The composite score may be stored on a storage medium. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339103 | METHOD FOR MEASURING AND IMPROVING ORGANIZATION EFFECTIVENESS - A method of evaluating the effectiveness of an organization. The method includes participants generating responses to a set of organizational statements as part of a one-day event. The participants are able to interact with each other during various phases of the one-day event in order to generate responses. The responses are entered into a software program running on a computer-based platform, and the software program operates on the responses to generate output results (evaluation results . . . e.g., scores associated with various organizational categories) as part of the one-day event. The results may be used to measure and benchmark effectiveness of the organization and to formulate suggestions and actions to be taken by the organization to improve the effectiveness of the organization. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339104 | TECHNICAL PLATFORM - A technical platform for providing technical services comprises a hardware arrangement which is operable to sense real-time data and/or signals occurring within at least one facility, and to transmit the real-time data and/or signals through communication medium, wherein the hardware arrangement is operatively connected to control and/or infrastructure layers for implementing overall control and responses to the real-time data and/or signals, and a pre-programmed service layer which is operable to receive and utilize the responses for management purposes for providing the technical service. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339105 | USING STRUCTURED COMMUNICATIONS TO QUANTIFY SOCIAL SKILLS - Embodiments for using structured communications to quantify social skills and social behavioral factors. Communications between at least two devices are intercepted and/or relayed by a computer system wherein a portion of the communications correspond to an audible source and wherein the forwarding or processing of communications is based on a combination of historical, contextual and/or commanded information derived from current and past communications by the computer system. Primary statistics are measured based on the communications and contextual information. Secondary statistics are derived related to a user wherein the secondary statistics quantify social skills and behavioral factors of the user in one or more dimensions against one or more profiles or roles. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339106 | LOCATION-BASED VOTING - Location-based voting is disclosed, wherein a user of a preference system submits content and associated location information. The location information may be used to show, to one user, content submitted by other users within some region (e.g., city, state) and/or within some proximity to the one user. The one user can vote on the content, and his or her vote may have more weight depending on his or her own location. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339107 | METERLESS REMOTE PARKING MONITORING SYSTEM - A meterless remote parking monitoring system, incorporating a plurality of vehicle detector and Radio Frequency Identification Reader (RFID) units deployed in individual parking spaces; a plurality of Cellular Gateway Radios, each Cellular Gateway Radio being connected to one of said plurality of vehicle detector and Radio Frequency Identification Units; a Command and Control Server; the plurality of Cellular Gateway Radios being connected to said Command and Control Server via the internet | 2013-12-19 |
20130339108 | MANAGING DEMAND CHARGE TARIFFS FOR ELECTRIC POWER - A method for demand charge management at public charging stations may be provided. The method may comprise collecting information related to electric vehicle (EV) charging from a plurality of interested parties by an infrastructure service cloud, computing charge rate offers based on the collected information by the infrastructure service cloud, transmitting the computed charge rate offers to a driver of an EV by the infrastructure service cloud, and reserving a charge spot for the driver using the infrastructure service when the driver accepts an offer. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339109 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CELEBRITY ENDORSED CONTENT - An advertising engine, system and method for formulation of endorsed advertising. The engine, system and method includes at least one computerized storage vault including a plurality of media assets correspondent to each prospective endorser for the endorsed advertising, and a graphical user interface for presentation of the plurality of media assets having a multi-layer format. The graphical user interface may include a library that presents at least a first layer including available ones of the prospective endorsers, and at least a second layer including ones of the media assets correspondent to each of the prospective endorsers, and a recommendation engine that presents at least ones of the media assets correspondent to a plurality of ranked ones of the prospective endorsers from the vault responsive to a request for the endorsed advertising. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339110 | MONETARY DISTRIBUTION OF BEHAVIORAL DEMOGRAPHICS AND FAN-SUPPORTED DISTRIBUTION OF COMMERCIAL CONTENT - A method includes identifying a media file for distribution and identifying a plurality of commercial messages as possible content that can be associated with the media file when it is distributed. Votes from a plurality of customers can be received, with each vote reflecting a customer's preference for at least one of the plurality of commercial messages. The votes can be calculated and at least one preferred commercial message can be designated based on the calculation. At least one preferred commercial message can be associated with the media file to create a combined media file and the combined media file can be distributed and/or made available for distribution. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339111 | ADVERTISEMENT INCENTIVIZED GAMES - Disclosed are computer-implemented methods and systems for advertisement of products or services within electronic games, such as brain fitness games, games of skill, or development games. In general, these methods and systems enable incorporation of advertisement images or videos as a background and/or as a major subject of the electronic games. In an example, the method may comprise receiving a user request to initiate the electronic game for a user, providing a graphical interface of the electronic game, and providing, within the graphical interface, one or more graphical objects representing the product. The graphical objects may constitute at least one subject of the electronic game or be a background image or video. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339112 | Method and Apparatus for Network Code Assignment Responsive to Transaction with Option for Game Play Award - A system and method for execution on a computer network such that upon sale of a product or service of a qualifying product or service from a network accessible e-commerce site, the purchaser is provided credits or a code redeemable for credits. The purchaser provides payment for the goods or services and a portion of the payment is provided to a game/promotion provider. The system sends purchase data including data regarding the credits or code to a game server associated with a game or promotion. The promotion includes a game playable with the credits or code redeemable for credits. Monitoring of game play occurs and responsive to the purchaser meeting one or more predetermine criteria the system presents an award to the purchaser based on the number of credits remaining after meeting the one or more predetermined criteria. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339113 | SYSTEMS AND/OR METHODS FOR MANAGING "SHOW-ROOMING" PRACTICES - Certain exemplary embodiments relate to systems and/or methods for managing “show-rooming” practices of consumers, e.g., where consumers interact with a product at a sometimes convenient brick-and-mortar location, only to later purchase the product from a different (and typically online) provider. Distinct special offers (e.g., in the form of price adjustments) may be presented to potential show-rooming consumers, e.g., via a mobile device operated by those consumers. In certain exemplary embodiments, the distinct special offers may be generated based on, for example, pricing information gathered from competitors, rules specified by the brick-and-mortar location, characteristics or habits of a particular consumer using a particular device, recent trends, etc. The rate at which browsing consumers buy products for which they are presented with special offers, etc., may be monitored and fed back into the system, e.g., to help provide a more finely tuned special offer that helps preserve profit for the seller. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339114 | USER DASHBOARD IN AN INTERPERSONAL ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING SYSTEM - An interpersonal electronic advertising system is described. The system is configured to enable an ad suggester to select and send ads for a product or service to an ad recipient. The interpersonal ad can lead to a purchase of the product or the service by the ad recipient and in response the system can compensate the ad suggester. The system can include a dashboard interface allows a user to monitor their system activities. Via the dashboard interface, a user can receive information related to one or more of 1) interpersonal ads sent to ad recipients, 2) interpersonal ads received from other users, 3) earned revenues including revenues derived from sent interpersonal ads and revenues resulting derived from user referrals, 4) their status within the system and 5) a status of each interpersonal ad that they have sent. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339115 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE SHOPPING USING A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - A computer-implemented method for interactive shopping by a customer includes providing a downloadable user interface readable on a mobile electronic device that receives shopping list data representing items in a shopping list associated with the customer and receives coupon data representing coupons held by the customer for one or more of the items in an inventory of items for sale at a retail store. The shopping list includes items selected by the customer from the inventory of items. The method may further include receiving a request to checkout from the customer and, in response thereto, consummating a sale of the items in an electronic shopping cart by discounting a price of each item in the electronic shopping cart for which the customer holds coupons by an amount corresponding to the respective coupons. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A TRANSACTION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for determining transaction information for a purchase are provided. A system for determining transaction information for a purchase includes a processor having a user account module configured to receive order information associated with a user account. The order information is associated with a purchase and is received via the user account. The system also includes a payment module configured to receive payment information. The payment information does not identify the purchase, and does not identify the user account. The system also includes a token management module configured to determine that the payment information is associated with the purchase, and to determine transaction information associated with the purchase based on the order information and based on the payment information. The user account module is further configured to transmit at least a portion of the transaction information to the user account. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339117 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INCENTIVIZING GIFTING - A system and method allows a consumer to gift an incentive and/or offer to a recipient, which can be applied to a transaction conducted by the recipient. The incentives are given and redeemed without requiring issuance or utilization of a gift card that is distinct from payment instruments (such as a debit or credit card) utilized by the recipient prior to receiving the incentive. Instead, the monetary value of the incentive given by the purchaser is transferred from an account owned by the purchaser to an intermediate account owned by a third party. When the recipient redeems the incentive, the monetary value of the incentive is automatically transferred from the intermediate account to an account owned by the recipient. In this manner, the purchaser does not have to give either a physical or virtual incentive card and hence, the incentive is not subject to gift card regulations. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339118 | BULK PURCHASING BY AD HOC CONSUMER GROUPS - A central server allows a leader member to create a desired purchasing deal for a desired product or service. The leader member uses social networking applications at the central server and other means to market the desired purchasing deal to like minded consumers who join a purchasing group at the central server that follows the desired purchasing deal. The leader member also uses the central server and other means to market the desired purchasing deal to potential retailers, who register interest in the desired purchasing deal at the central server. As the size of the purchasing group increases, the leader member negotiates deeper and deeper discounts with the interested retailers until the purchasing group and a selected retailer are both satisfied with the deal. The system then facilitates the closing of the deal, which results in the consumers receiving the product or service and the retailer getting paid. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339119 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING OFFER ELIGIBILITY USING A PREDICATE LOGIC TREE AGAINST SETS OF INPUT DATA - Example computer executable instructions for determining a consumer's offer eligibility using a predicate logic tree against sets of input data are provided. In particular, the disclosed examples recite a rewards engine capable of determining a consumer's offer eligibility using a predicate logic tree against sets of input data. The rewards engine applies rules that are relevant to a particular deal offered by a retail establishment to the consumer's records to determine the consumer's offer eligibility. In some examples, the rewards engine sorts or partially sorts some or all of the consumer's records to determine the consumer's offer eligibility. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339120 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING OFFER ELIGIBILITY USING A PREDICATE LOGIC TREE AGAINST SETS OF INPUT DATA - Example computer executable instructions for determining result eligibility using a predicate logic tree against sets of input data are provided. In particular, the disclosed instructions identify a plurality of rules that have a logical relationship and select input data for analysis under the plurality of rules. The instructions evaluate a set of requirements defining the plurality of rules against the input data and resolve the logical relationship of the plurality of rules to determine result eligibility. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339121 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED EVENT ENTRY AT TRANSACTION COMPLETION - The present invention generally relates to the entry of events (e.g., donations, contests, rewards programs). Specifically, this invention relates to a system and method for providing automatic entry into an event at the completion of a transaction. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339122 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN INTEGRATED SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - Systems and methods for facilitating retail inventory management, marketing, shopping, research, and data gathering operations via a unified application framework are described. These systems may provide an integrated shopping experience such that users are exposed to relevant product information, promotion information, and merchant information through a single application and via a unified framework. A customer device as described may be configured to interface over a network with one or more network devices to access information on retailers, product offerings, coupons, rebates, loyalty rewards, other purchase incentives, and/or the like. Some examples further include a back office interface accessible by suppliers, retailers, manufacturers and/or the like. The back office interface may enable suppliers, retailers, manufacturers, and/or other parties to upload content, such as, product information, advertisements, coupons, rebates, and/or the like, such that the uploaded content may be accessible by users of the mobile application provided by some example embodiments. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339123 | GROUP NATURE VERIFICATION FOR PROVIDING GROUP INCENTIVES - Technologies are provided for verifying the group nature of a consumer request to provide a group incentive. In some examples, a consumer may purchase goods and services from a merchant over a network, and may request to take advantage of a group incentive associated with an established group. The merchant may verify that the consumer is a member of the established group before allowing the consumer to receive or use the group incentive. Upon receiving the request associated with the group incentive, the merchant may identify attributes of the consumer and/or the group the consumer claims to belong to. If the attributes match a commonality criterion, the incentive may be authorized. Additionally, the merchant may require a physical appearance of the consumer along with other group members in order to utilize the group incentive. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339124 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING VALUE USING REWARDS - A method and system for transferring gift points to a recipient. An exchange computer redeems reward points designated by a user from a user reward point account stored on an associated reward server computer. The exchange computer requests a stored value issuer computer to fund a stored value account on behalf of the recipient in an amount equal to the gift points, the stored value account identified by a stored value account number. The exchange computer generates a bar code symbol encoded with a designation of the gift points and the stored value account number. The exchange computer sends to the recipient an online link to the bar code so that the recipient operating a computing device can use the online link to retrieve the bar code from the exchange computer. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339125 | METHOD AND PROCESSES FOR SECURE REAL TIME PURCHASE VALIDATION AWARD SYSTEM - A method and processes for a secure real-time processing of purchase validation award requests is described. The method includes processes to submit purchase information on a real-time basis and to check on the status of the processing of the submitted purchase validation award system request also on a real-time basis. The method uses a computer information network to perform the required processes. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339126 | CAMPAIGN PERFORMANCE FORECASTING FOR NON-GUARANTEED DELIVERY ADVERTISING - Advertisement (“ad”) campaign forecasting may predict results for the campaign and the ads included in the campaign. The results may include a forecast for impressions, clicks, conversions, and/or interactions with the ads. The forecasting may be utilized for display advertising with non-guaranteed delivery (“NGD”) systems in which a bidding platform allows advertisers to bid for ad impressions, clicks, and/or conversions. Forecasting results may be used by advertisers to manage and optimize campaigns. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339127 | INTERPERSONAL TIMING IN AD RANKING - An interpersonal electronic advertising system is described. The system is configured to enable an ad suggester to create and send an interpersonal ad for a product or service to an ad recipient. The interpersonal ad can lead to a purchase of the product or the service by the ad recipient and in response the system can compensate the ad suggester. In particular embodiments, the system can be configured to output one or more interpersonal ads to an ad recipient at any one time. The amount of ads that can be output at a time can be limited to a particular number where a number of available interpersonal ads is greater than the particular number. The system can be configured to rank the available interpersonal ads and output the better ranking interpersonal ads first. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339128 | PROMOTION SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND RELATED METHOD - Promotion systems and related methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes: at least one computing device configured to manage a promotion for an organization by performing actions including: providing the promotion to a user, the promotion including: an enticement to purchase a product or a service at a local location of the organization; and a unique identifier for the user and the promotion; tracking whether the user utilizes the promotion to purchase the product or the service at the local location; and providing data about the purchase of the product or the service to the organization in response to the user executing the purchase, the data about the purchase of the product including data about the promotion, data about the user, and data about the local location. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339129 | COMBINING SEGMENTS OF USERS INTO VERTICALLY INDEXED SUPER-SEGMENTS - Techniques are described herein for combining segments of users into super-segments. The interests of the segments in online ad campaigns in which they participate are compared to determine subsets of the segments whose interests are correlated to an extent that exceeds a designated threshold. The segments in each subset are combined to provide a respective super-segment. Each online ad campaign corresponds to a specified category, such as telecommunications, auto, finance, retail, entertainment, travel, etc. For each super-segment, the cumulative interest of the segments therein for each category are determined The cumulative interests for each super-segment are used to determine which super-segment(s) are to be targeted for receiving a specified online advertisement. For instance, the cumulative interests of the respective super-segments in the category most closely related to a subject matter with which the specified online advertisement is associated may be compared to determine which super-segment(s) are to be targeted. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339130 | INTERPERSONAL AD RANKING - An interpersonal electronic advertising system is described. The system is configured to enable an ad suggester to create and send an interpersonal ad for a product or service to an ad recipient. The interpersonal ad can lead to a purchase of the product or the service by the ad recipient and in response the system can compensate the ad suggester. In particular embodiments, the system can be configured to output one or more interpersonal ads to an ad recipient at any one time. The amount of ads that can be output at a time can be limited to a particular number where a number of available interpersonal ads is greater than the particular number. The system can be configured to rank the available interpersonal ads and output the better ranking interpersonal ads first. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339131 | SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVELY COMMUNICATING PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION TO A PERSON - A system for selectively communicating promotional information to a person, includes a sensing system, a storage device, a controller, and a projection device. The sensing system measures a detectable feature associated with the person sensed by the sensing system and the storage device stores a plurality of promotional segments. The controller uses the measured detectable feature associated with the person for selecting one of the stored promotional segments and causing the projection device to project to the person at the predetermined location the selected promotional segment. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339132 | Single-Source Data Analysis of Advertising and Promotion Effects - A system constructed using one or more of the techniques described includes a collective set of data structures, information tools, and computational and machine methods useful to store, append, interact with, retrieve, process, and present data and information in a fashion that enables associations to be made between the entities and longitudinal purchase data to ascertain the effectiveness of advertising, promotions, or both. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339133 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a customer guiding information management unit configured to obtain a content ID used to identify an application introduction source site and an individual identification ID used to identify a user terminal which has accessed the introduction source site and manage the content ID and the individual identification ID as customer guiding information, and a result measurement unit configured to obtain information including an individual identification ID of a user terminal which has downloaded an application, compare the information with the customer guiding information managed by the customer guiding information management unit, and measure a result of the introduction source site identified by the content ID included in the customer guiding information. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339134 | Method and System for Auditing Advertising Agency Performance - Computerized techniques are disclosed for automatically converting buy data from advertising agencies into a common format for storage in a database. The commonly formatted buy data can be automatically analyzed to assess advertising agency performance in executing advertising plans on behalf of their client companies. The buy data can be representative of original buys, final buys, and/or actual buys. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339135 | CAMPAIGN REWARD SYSTEM WITH CAMPAIGN MODIFICATION - A campaign offer system provides an offer with the use of a mobile device. A service provider includes one or more servers with engines and attached storage. The service provider is configured to be in communication with a mobile application running on a user mobile device of a user. The service provider is in communication with an advertiser and a retailer. A retailer gateway communicates with a retailer checkout system via existing retailer checkout system peripheral device communication protocols without a need to modify the communications protocols or modify a retailer checkout system software code. An advertiser creates an offer campaign with details of the offer campaign stored in the database. The details include at least one of, offer distribution rules and offer redemption rules. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339136 | DETECTION OF EVENTS FROM BURSTS OF ACTIVITY INDICATORS - An event detection machine may access time-stamped activity indicators from a database, and the event detection machine may determine that a first burst of activity indicators is repetitive of a second burst of activity indicators. Such a determination may be based on the first and second bursts each including a keyword that is shared in common between the first and second bursts. The event detection machine may determine that these bursts of activity indicators is representative of a repetitive event that is characterized by the keyword shared in common among the bursts of activity indicators. Based on such a determination, the event detection machine may generate or modify a data structure that indicates a time period as encompassing the repetitive event that corresponds to the keyword shared in common between the first and second bursts of activity indicators. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339137 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SPONSORED APPLICATIONS IN EMAIL - A method and system for providing targeted applications within an electronic message interface. The method comprises retrieving content from a user's electronic message in the electronic message interface, parsing and interpreting the user's context from the content, and accepting bidding on the user's interpreted context from one or more applications, the one or more applications including triggering conditions related to the user's interpreted context. The one or more applications are ranked based on the bidding. The method further comprises loading the one or more applications into the electronic message interface based on the ranking, and providing one or more follow-up transactions associated with the one or more loaded applications based on the user's interpreted context. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISEMENTS WITH MEDIA - Systems and methods have been developed for displaying contextually relevant advertisements to users as media objects are being rendered. One or more data sources with contextual information for different portions of each media object are maintained. From this contextual information, keywords may be generated and used to locate contextually-related advertisements. The advertisements are selected based on contextual information about the media object in order to match or otherwise be contextually relevant with the media content being rendered. As the subject matter of the media object changes during rendering, different advertisements related to the new context are provided that replace the prior advertisement. The advertisements are displayed in an area that could be used for other purposes when the rendering device is not rendering media objects. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339139 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NONSTANDARD CREATIVE CONTENT AUCTIONING - The present design includes a method and apparatus for programmatically providing graphic content to a user device. The method includes evaluating a target display and if the target display is configured to receive content, altering code on the target web site, storing target display information, providing target display information, including information about at least one nonstandard region, to at least one bidder, facilitating an auction of the at least one nonstandard region to the at least one bidder, and establishing a winning bidder and displaying graphical content associated with the winning bidder in the one nonstandard region on the target display on the user device. These functions may be provided using a server arrangement. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339140 | Systems and Methods for Assessing Exposure Value of Out of Home Advertising Assets - Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for assessing an exposure value of an asset, such as an out of home advertising asset. In one implementation, location information for an asset at positioned at a location point is obtained. The location information reflects viewing conditions of the asset. Digital elevation model data is obtained for a region in which the location point of the asset is positioned. A viewshed is generated based on the location information and the digital elevation model data. Exposure value information is generated by intersecting the viewshed with transport information. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339141 | Single System for Authenticating Entities Across Different Third Party Platforms - Some embodiments provide an independent authentication system for authenticating entities that have registered accounts across different online service providers on behalf of the service providers. The authentication system maintains a database of previously verified entity information. A service provider requests authentication by providing the authentication system with unverified and basic identifying information used by an entity when registering with the service provider. The authentication system attempts to match the registration information against previously verified information for a known entity. When a match is found, the authentication system generates a series of challenge questions. The questions are submitted to the entity through the service provider and answers are processed in order to authenticate the entity. Authentication is thus provided on behalf of the service provider without the service provider accessing the previously verified information and without the service provider independently verifying the information within the generated challenge questions. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339142 | ONLINE CONTENT BASED ON INTERNET ACTIVITY - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media that may be used to provide advertisements to a second user based on the first user's online interactions. One method receiving, at an advertising system comprising at least one server computing system, web pages that were visited by a first user that is connected to a second user on an online social network. The method further includes determining, using the advertising system, an advertisement to be provided to a second user based on the web pages that were visited by the first user. The method further includes providing, using the advertising system, the advertisement for presentation to the second user. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339143 | CAMPAIGN REWARD SYSTEM WITH TARGETING OF USERS FOR OFFERS - A campaign offer system provides an offer with the use of a mobile device. A service provider includes one or more servers with engines and attached storage. The service provider is configured to be in communication with a mobile application running on a user mobile device of a user. The service provider is in communication with an advertiser and a retailer. A retailer gateway communicates with a retailer checkout system via existing retailer checkout system peripheral device communication protocols without a need to modify the communications protocols or modify a retailer checkout system software code. An advertiser creates an offer campaign with details including at least one of, offer distribution rules and offer redemption rules for targeting users for offers. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339144 | Promotion Management Queue - The present disclosure provides a system and method for displaying and managing promotions. In a more preferred embodiment, there comprises an online promotion queue displaying and prioritizing relevant promotions to members of an organization or entity. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339145 | TRACKING AND SUMMARIZING PURCHASE INFORMATION - Embodiments track and summarize a user's purchasing activity. Tracking a user's purchasing activity, according to some embodiments, involves accessing user emails and payment transaction data, parsing the emails and payment transaction data to obtain relevant purchase data, and/or obtaining relevant purchase data via other channels from the user, merchants, financial institutions, and other entities. Summarizing a user's purchasing activity, according to some embodiments, involves generating a summary report organized around the user's individual purchase transactions. The summary reports, for example, help users track and manage their purchases, such as by enabling users to keep track of which items were purchased from which merchants and for how much, and whether the items have been shipped, delivered, canceled, etc. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339146 | COMPENSATION MODEL FOR NETWORK SERVICES - A compensation model is disclosed for compensating a network service provider. A networked system is also disclosed for presenting advertising during on-line interactions between a user and a service of a network (e.g., the Internet, interactive cable, and/or a LAN). Advertisements (ads) are presented to a networked user unrequestedly during user interactions with the service. The user can activate the ads (via hyperlinks) for receiving additional advertising. The system gathers user data and/or develops user profiles for selectively presenting ads, promotionals, discounts, etc. targeted to receptive users. In exchange for viewing such selective presentations, on-line access to the service is provided, the service including, e.g., (a) playing on-line interactive games (e.g., blackjack and poker), (b) providing access to the network itself (e.g., an Internet service provider), and/or (c) providing access to substantially any interactive service accessible via (b). The system can provide free/reduced cost network services to the user for viewing unrequested advertising. The system can be provided for a casino. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339147 | CUSTOM CONTENT AND ADVERTISING - A device may select an advertisement in response to a search query, where the advertisement is selected based on a custom content search index. The device may further provide the selected advertisement for display with custom content search results generated based on the custom content search index. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339148 | GEOGRAPHIC AND KEYWORD CONTEXT IN EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS - A computer-implemented method includes generating, using an embedded client application, a keyword context for a container document holding the embedded client application; generating, using the embedded client application, a geographic context associated with a device on which the container document is displayed; submitting the keyword context and the geographic context to a remote server; and displaying an interactive application using information obtained in response to the submission of the keyword context and geographic criteria. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339149 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide an electronic marketplace that matches units of content from secondary content providers with suitable vacancies from primary content providers. Vacancies may constitute, or be included in, any digital transmission containers, such as a television or radio programming, web pages, and the like. Specifically, the electronic marketplace automatically matches content offered by secondary content providers with vacancies offered by primary content providers thus filling the vacancies in these containers through a real-time content trading, placement, and distribution system. To do so, attributes associated with the vacancies and with units of secondary content are used to trade and match suitable vacancies with suitable content. This invention enables both secondary content owners and vacancy owners (primary content providers) to obtain the full commercial benefit of their secondary content and containers. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339150 | Methods for information transformation and exchange - Methods for sellers of goods and services for providing information relating to existence and features of what they provide, to buyers using a system as herein described that enables a buyer to identify and obtain collections of information that comprise a subset of the contents of a database having multiple records provided by a plurality of sellers. A seller may use a conventional home or office computer including without limitation PC's and MACINTOSH™ computers to transmit information to a system as provided, which is accessible to users also via a conventional home or office computer. A user specifies desired criteria and the system provides the user a subset of information upon which further decisions by the user can be made. In some embodiments, systems and methods provided relate to information concerning the inventory of new home construction in a selected region, which region may include a general metropolitan area. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339151 | Method for communicating spatially localized information to a mobile terminal - The invention concerns a method for communicating data representing spatially localized information to a mobile terminal ( | 2013-12-19 |
20130339152 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide an electronic marketplace that matches units of content from secondary content providers with suitable vacancies from primary content providers. Vacancies may constitute, or be included in, any digital transmission containers, such as a television or radio programming, web pages, and the like. Specifically, the electronic marketplace automatically matches content offered by secondary content providers with vacancies offered by primary content providers thus filling the vacancies in these containers through a real-time content trading, placement, and distribution system. To do so, attributes associated with the vacancies and with units of secondary content are used to trade and match suitable vacancies with suitable content. This invention enables both secondary content owners and vacancy owners (primary content providers) to obtain the full commercial benefit of their secondary content and containers. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339153 | CUSTOMIZATION OF MULTIMEDIA - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing customized multimedia content to a user. Multimedia content is provided to a further user. The multimedia content comprises non-customizable, non-advertisement primary content and a customizable advertising opportunity. The further user may customize the advertising opportunity to produce customized multimedia content, which may then be sent, or shared with the user (for consumption by that user). Customization may include selecting an advertisement and including the selected advertisement in the advertising opportunity or selecting an advertising policy for the advertising opportunity. The advertisements (or policies) may be based on preferences (e.g., likes, dislikes, hobbies, interests) of the user. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339154 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING PERSONALIZED OFFERS - System and methods for delivering personalized offers are provided. In particular, based on an identification of a user from a plurality of users associated with a portal, items and inducements for an offer can be generated and delivered to the user. This involves identifying other user associated with the item and the portal and projecting a degree of interest for the user in the item based on similarity data between the plurality of users. The similarity data can be utilized and generated using a collaborative filter engine. Once items and corresponding inducements are identified, a communication can be provided for the user that facilitates access to information regarding the item and the associated inducement. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339155 | USER ADVERTISEMENT SPACE - The disclosure relates to providing advertisements to users of an online service. A method for providing advertisements to users of an online service is provided, including receiving, from a user of the online service, information related to content of the user provided via the online service to other users of the online service; associating at least some of the information with an advertisement space related to the content; providing, by the online service, advertisements based on the information associated with the advertisement space; selecting at least some of the provided advertisements for display in the advertisement space; and displaying the advertisement space to one or more of the other users viewing at least some of the related content. Furthermore, a server for providing advertisements and an online service hosted by the server are defined. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339156 | Method and Apparatus for Selecting an Advertisement for Display on a Digital Sign According to an Approaching Object - Selecting when to display one of a plurality of advertisements on a digital sign. An embodiment of the invention gathers video analytics data from a plurality of objects that pass by a sensor, and analyze the gathered video analytics data to determine a type for each of the objects. The embodiment then trains advertising models based on the determined types and selects an advertisement from a plurality of advertisements for display on the digital sign based on the trained advertising models. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339157 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINANCING PROMOTIONAL SERVICES - Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for online marketing, scheduling and booking of service appointments as well as financing of promotional services. In one example, the system enables a service promoter and a service provider to execute a secured financing transaction pursuant to which a service promoter provides an agreed upon amount of monetary funds to a service provider in exchange for the right to promote to users a plurality of service offers from the service provider. The system then promotes service offers from the service provider and facilitates booking of service appointments for users with a service provider based on promoted service offers. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339158 | DETERMINING LEGITIMATE AND MALICIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS USING ADVERTISING DELIVERY SEQUENCES - Known legitimate and malicious display advertisements are selected, and the ordered sequence of entities involved in the delivery of each display advertisement is observed and used to generate advertisement delivery sequences. The entities include the various servers, publishers, and advertising networks that are involved in the delivery of a display advertisement. Attributes of the entities in each sequence are determined and used to generate a set of rules that identify a display advertisement as legitimate or malicious based on the attributes of the advertising delivery sequence associated with the delivery of the display advertisement. The generated rules are used to identify possible malicious advertisements, and to identify one or more sources of malicious display advertisements. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339159 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF IMPLEMENTATION - A social networking system that allows video chatting in combination with other interactive social activities such as, for example, shopping, picture sharing and viewing streaming videos, amongst others, is disclosed. The method is implemented in a computer infrastructure. The method includes initiating a user session, and sharing the user session with an initiating user and one or more additional users, in real time. The sharing includes: viewing same item information, associated with a virtual store, on computing devices of the initiating user and the one or more additional users; and communicating amongst the initiating user and the one or more additional users by video chatting during the viewing. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339160 | APPLICATION MARKETPLACE FOR ONLINE ADVERTISING APPLICATIONS - A method of managing access to advertising configuration objects in an online advertising platform includes defining a set of application programming interface (API) services. Each API service performs actions with respect to one or more of the advertising configuration objects, each of which has one or more configuration fields. Permissions associated with individual users of the online advertising platform are received, with each permission indicating an ability of a respective user to interact with one of the advertising configuration objects via one of the API services. Interaction is facilitated between users and an application that communicates with and provides field-specific instructions to the online advertising platform via the API services. The ability of the application to cause execution of the field-specific instructions is based on the permissions associated with the particular user interacting with the application. A system for implementing the method is also provided. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339161 | CONTROLLING WEB PAGE ADVERTISEMENT THROUGH INCENTIVES AND RESTRICTIONS - A resource provider receives a request for a resource and receives an indication of an advertising format, the advertising format defining at least one of a layout or content of an advertisement, and the advertising format specified by a browser that issued the request for the resource, where the advertising format is different than a format of the resource. The resource provider generates a response to the request that is compliant with the advertising format, wherein generating the response comprises selecting a resource version from a plurality of resources versions that are each compliant with the advertising format. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339162 | DETOURING IN SCRIPTING SYSTEMS - A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives third party code for execution in a host environment, wherein the third party code corresponds to a dynamic programming language, and wherein the third party code has at least one object reference to a first object that is used by the third party code. A detouring component automatically replaces the first object referenced by the third party code with a proxy object such that the third party code at runtime calls the proxy object instead of the first object. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339163 | Food Recommendation Based on Order History - A computer-based system recommends food items to a consumer based on food items previously purchased by the consumer and by other consumers. Consumers may purchase food online, such as by purchasing meals from the online menus of restaurants. The system analyzes words in the names and descriptions of the purchased meals to develop profiles for the consumers, where each consumer's profile represents that consumer's food preferences. In particular, if a word (such as “chicken”) or multi-word term (such as “pasta primavera”) appears more frequently in the purchase history of one consumer than in the average purchase history of all consumers tracked by the system, then the system concludes that the consumer prefers the corresponding food item. The system recommends that the consumer purchase food items whose names and/or descriptions contain the same or similar words as the food items that the consumer's profile indicates are preferred by the consumer. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339164 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE PREDIAL - A method for adapting the amount of predial delay in a terminal, such as an automatic teller machine (ATM) system, based upon actual connection times with a host over a telecommunications network experienced by the ATM in a particular installation. The ATM may adjust the point in the customer transaction process at which it initiates a connection with a host in order to decrease the wait time experienced by a customer while a connection with the host is established, as well as wait time by the host after a connection is established while a transaction request message is being prepared. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339165 | PAYMENT VEHICLE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON PAYMENT RULES - Systems and methods for providing payment vehicle recommendations are provided herein. In the systems and methods, a transaction associated with one of a transaction amount and purchase items is identified based on the transaction data; one or more payment rules associated with the transaction are identified; the terms of the one or more payment rules are compared with the transaction amount or purchase items; the most favorable payment vehicle for the transaction is determined based on the comparison of the terms of the one or more payment rules and the transaction amount or purchase items; and a recommendation of at least one payment vehicle is provided based on the determination of the most favorable payment vehicle on a display of a mobile device of a user. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339166 | USER-CONFIGURABLE ACTIVATION OF CARD APPLETS - Card applets associated with an electronic wallet are activated and deactivated based on user-defined rules. Based on the rules and a device state, a card emulation state and card applet states are modified to enable or disable completion of transactions. The transactions are between a computing device and a reader such as a point-of-sale terminal. In some embodiments, a user designates a plurality of the card applets as fast cards capable of completing a transaction via near-field communication (NFC) interaction without user input at a time of the transaction. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339167 | Payment Processing For Qualified Transaction Items - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a portable consumer device (e.g., a plastic card) that includes a coupon code and an account number (e.g., embedded on a magnetic stripe or a chip) where the portable consumer device is configured to apply a coupon to goods and services purchased at a merchant (e.g., store). Upon identifying the goods and services under a particular category specified by the coupon code (e.g., healthy food category), a user may pay for a predetermined portion (e.g., 50%) of the goods and services under the particular category using the portable consumer device. The user may pay for the remaining portion using a benefits card (e.g., state benefits card). As such, by allowing the user to pay for the predetermined portion using the portable consumer device, the user has incentive to purchase goods and services that fall under the particular category. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339168 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Transactions Between a Seeker and a Proffered Provider of an Urgent Goods or Service - A computerized urgent goods and services fulfillment system facilitates followups between a seeker and a selected proffered provider of an urgent service or goods (URGS) requested by the seeker. The fulfillment system includes a server and a database for storing provider data. The server confirms that the URGS was provided by the selected proffered provider. The server then facilitates one or more followup transactions between the selected provider and the seeker, such as compensation or loyaltization. The server may also enable the seeker to update the provider's rating. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339169 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DYNAMIC PRICED OFFERS UTILIZING CONDITIONAL PLEDGING - A method and system for group having and selling is provided, where dynamic priced offers are managed utilizing conditional pledging. In some embodiments, a dynamic priced offer management system includes an end user communication device in data connection with the system server, the server including a file with instructions to execute commands to enable execution of the offer management, a system database including is memory having stored thereon system data, offer data, and user data; a dynamic pricing module including instructions to execute commands to enable dynamic price offer management and a conditional pledging module including instructions to execute commands to enable conditional pledging. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339170 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RENTING PROPERTY - The invention is a system and a method for renting portable property. The invention includes entering identification of an article onto the Internet. Receiving a plurality of requests via network from potential lessees to rent the article for requested rental periods then occurs. Sorting occurs for the requests to rent the article according to a chronology of the requested rental periods. Then, agreeing via network to rent the article to a plurality of lessees occurs. Transferring possession of the article from a lessor to a first lessee occurs such that the first lessee is the first in the chronology of the sorted, requested rental periods. Transferring sequentially the article between lessees according to the chronology of the sorted, requested rental periods is performed. Monitoring each rental and transfer of the article is done. Then, distributing a payment for each rental of the article occurs. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339171 | AUCTION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - Once a product in an auction has been purchased, a message relay ( | 2013-12-19 |
20130339172 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HOLDING A TWO-STAGE LIVE AUCTION FOR ON-SITE AND ON-LINE BIDDERS - A method and apparatus are provided for conducting a live auction that combines various features of traditional and online auctions. According to one aspect of the present invention, the live auction includes a live, in-person auction component and a real-time online bidding environment component. Bidding information associated with an item in the online bidding environment is updated to reflect a current bid associated with the item in the live, in-person auction. During the live, in-person auction, a bid is be accepted from an online bidder in the online environment that reflects the online bidder's bid price for the item. Subsequently, the system bids on behalf of the online bidder against other online bidders as well as one or more live bidders that are participating in the live, in-person. As such, the live auction enables real-time online bidding in a live, in-person auction. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339173 | Consumer-to-Business Exchange Auction - Systems and methods for implementing an item exchange service are usable to aid users in exchanging old items for newer items. According to one embodiment, a system can be operable to receive a request to offer a vehicle in an auction, calculate a base exchange value for the vehicle and provide, to one or more vehicle resellers, auction information associated with the vehicle. Additionally, the system may be configured to receive an exchange bid for the vehicle, determine a final exchange value of the vehicle, and provide the final exchange value of the vehicle to a seller of the vehicle. Further, the system may be configured to allow the seller to determine a course of action regarding disposing of the vehicle after conclusion of the exchange auction. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339174 | Energy efficient homeownership mortgage program - A program for encouraging homebuyers and current homeowners to purchase more efficient HVAC equipment at the time they purchase a home or refinance a home loan is described. Realtors, bankers, lenders, mortgage brokers, and like individuals involved in the purchase or refinancing of a home present an opportunity to purchase energy efficient HVAC equipment to a client at a time when the purchase price of the equipment can be included in the mortgage or refinance loan. The realtors, bankers, lenders, mortgage brokers, and other individuals presenting the opportunity to the client act as marketers or salespeople for the program and the new equipment. These new salespeople work with a facilitator who coordinates the efforts of everyone involved in the transaction. The program provides the client with lower total homeownership costs through utility and maintenance savings. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339175 | ON DEMAND INFORMATION NETWORK - In one example, a user interface may be configured to receive input from a hosting device, a transmitter may be configured to solicit competing bids to subscribing devices for a requested service based on the input from the hosting device, a queue may be configured to store bids from third-parties in response to the transmitted request for bids for the requested service, and a receiver may be configured to receive a manifestation of the requested service from one of the third-parties whose received bid was accepted. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339176 | Systems and Methods for Matching a Seeker with a Proffered Provider of an Urgent Goods or Service - A computerized urgent goods and services fulfillment system matches a seeker with a provider of an urgent service or goods (URGS). The fulfillment system includes a server and a database for storing provider profiles. The server proffers one or more providers of URGS requested by a seeker. The server may proffer additional service or goods associated with the requested URGS. The server confirms the seeker's selection of a provider. The server tracks at least one of proximal data and temporal data associated with the seeker and/or the selected provider. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339177 | EXPENSE TRACKING, ELECTRONIC ORDERING, INVOICE PRESENTMENT, AND PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for tracking and billing expenses throughout a transaction, such as the sale or management of a real estate property. In one embodiment, a budget is created that details expected incomes on the property and costs associated with the sale or management of the property. The budget may be developed in accordance with specifications, such as line item maxima or total budget maxima, developed by the owner of the property. After a vendor has delivered goods or services described in the budget, the vendor creates an electronic invoice. Payment is delivered to the vendor through an Automated Clearing House system. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339178 | PRESENTING AN IMAGE OF ASSEMBLED COMPONENTS - A ring design machine receives one or more selections of gemstones and one or more selections of settings and allows a user to “mix and match” gemstones and settings and view a selected gemstone in a compatible setting for that gemstone. To present the gemstone in the setting, the ring design machine presents a combination image that depicts the gemstone in the setting. The ring design machine, which may be implemented using a computer programmed by software, may present the combination image to the user in response to receiving a selection of the gemstone and a selection of the setting from the user via a network. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339179 | Wine Classification Systems and Methods of Pairing Wines and Foods - Disclosed are systems for and methods of categorizing wines, recommending sipping wines, pairing wines with foods, and arranging wines in a systematic display. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods evaluate and incorporate individual taste profiles. Defining a set of wine flavor characteristics facilitates comparisons and categorization. Recommendations are facilitated by substantially correlating the individual taste profiles to the wine flavor characteristics. Likewise, wine-food pairings are facilitated by substantially correlating the known food flavors to the wine flavor characteristics. Computer-implemented embodiments allow authorized user input and consumer access via wireless devices. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339180 | COLLECTION CREATOR AND ORGANIZER FOR SOCIAL MEDIA - A multimedia content sharing system permits users to collect multimedia items into collections, collaborate on collections with other users and share items with others in collections. The multimedia content sharing system provides recommendations of other items and collections that a user may wish to follow. The multimedia content sharing system provides easy editing of a user's collections by a drag and drop interface. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339181 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information management device which communicates with a mobile terminal, including a creating unit which creates advice information to be displayed on the mobile terminal for giving advice to a customer; a transmitting unit which transmits the advice information to the mobile terminal; and a requesting unit which transmits, to the mobile terminal, a deletion request for deleting the advice information, at a predetermined timing after transmission of the advice information. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339182 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A SUPPLEMENTAL PRODUCT TO OFFER FOR SALE DURING A TRANSACTION - According to some embodiments, a supplemental product or service may be offered to a user during a transaction, either in addition to products and/or services the user is purchasing, or as a replacement to one or more of the products and/or services that the user is purchasing. The functionality may be implemented, for example, in a retail embodiment where a user is purchasing products and/or services at a cash register or other point-of-sale terminal. One or more embodiments may be implemented online where a user is purchasing products and/or services using a computer, terminal, telephone or other client or user device and accessing a World Wide Web site, online catalog, interactive voice response unit or system, etc. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339183 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A DONATION - The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing an online donation. For example, in one embodiment, a method for performing an online donation is disclosed that includes creating an organization account for enabling users to donate to an organization, populating a wish list with items desired by the organization, displaying one or more items on the wish list in response to receiving a user request to donate to the organization, and purchasing one or more items on the wish list for the organization in response to a user donation. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339184 | Method and System For Selling Items To Be Worn - Embodiments of the disclosed technology relate to systems and methods for beginning and completing a physical store transaction for an item, or items, to be worn. The transaction is directed by a purchaser using in-store indicators, conveyance windows, electronic devices, and/or by an act of moving unique identifiers, attached to items to be worn, electronic devices or the purchaser. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339185 | System and Method for Location Based Inventory Management - Provided is a distributed system and method for enabling new and useful location dependent features and functionality to mobile data processing systems. Mobile data processing Systems (MSs) interact with each other as peers in communications and interoperability. Data is shared between mobile data processing systems to carry out novel Location Based eXchanges (LBX) of data for new mobile applications. Information transmitted inbound to, transmitted outbound from, is in process at, or is application modified at a mobile data processing system triggers processing of actions in accordance with user configured permissions, charters, and other configurations. In a preferred embodiment, a user configurable platform is provided for quickly building well behaving LBX applications at MSs and across a plurality of interoperating MSs. Tools, triggered interfaces and integrated applications are disclosed for a breadth of MS LBX configurations and functionality. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339186 | Identifying Fraudulent Users Based on Relational Information - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first event profile that includes a seed event parameter and a first event parameter, calculating fraud scores for the first event parameter, accessing a second event profile that includes a second event parameter that corresponds to the first event parameter, calculating a fraud score for the second event parameter, and then identifying the second parameters as being associated with fraud. Fraud scores may be calculated based on the attributes of a parameter, the relation of the parameter to the seed parameter, and the fraud scores of any corresponding parameters. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339187 | System for Delivering Invoices Over a Secure Messaging Network - A system for delivering invoices over the SWIFT Network to a community of buyers comprises an invoice viewer at each buyer's location, each connected to a shared data center over the Internet. The shared data center comprises a SWIFT interface and BIC for receiving, and a database for storing, invoice objects for each buyer. At a first invoice object includes identification of a first buyer and at least a second invoice object includes identification of a second buyer. A group of buyer records associated each unique buyer with unique access credentials. A delivery application provides a connecting buyer's invoice objects in response to a web services call from the connecting buyer. An invoice viewer generates the web services call, receives the response, and renders a user interface displaying information from each interface object. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339188 | GIFT TOKEN - Systems and methods are disclosed for giving gifts in the form of secure tokens. A gift can be given from a user of a payment provider to a gift recipient. The recipient can be a member of the user's family, a friend, or any other person or entity. The recipient can use the token to purchase a product using a checkout though the payment provider. The purchase can be made without requiring the user to create the user's own payment provider account. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339189 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS - A method of facilitating transactions comprises gathering and storing, in a collection, data relating to an item, gathering and storing, in the collection, information from communications, relating to a purchase transaction sequence regarding the item, parsing the collection to extract items of data or information and incorporating at least a portion of the extracted items into transaction documents relating to the purchase transaction sequence, and providing transaction documents to at least one of prospective buyers or prospective sellers, through a platform adapted to facilitate communication between prospective buyers and prospective sellers. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339190 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A DIGITAL INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING RETAIL SEARCH RESULTS - A user interface for displaying retail search results is disclosed. The system and methods allow users to search for a plurality of retail items while simultaneously viewing a plurality of search results for each of the plurality of retail items. This interface allows users to easily compare the search results for each retail item, and to purchase a plurality of retail items simultaneously. In one example of the present disclosure, users may enter a plurality of retail items into a shopping list. The system may then display multiple results for each item on the shopping list in a carousel-like user interface, so users may view a plurality of results for a plurality of items simultaneously. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339191 | Engine, System and Method of Providing a Second-Hand Marketplace - The present invention provides a system for transacting the sale of second-hand items by, in part, using a matching engine for presenting a product to a user in accordance with at least one user attribute and at least one product attribute related to the at least one product, providing a transaction manager for accepting funds from the user in exchange for the at least one product, which funds may be stored in a trust account. User attributes may also be associated with a size gauge where at least one image of the user and the size gauge may be presented to the matching engine. The system may also present a product based on social media interaction between the user and the seller of the product. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339192 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LONGTERM INVENTORY DISTRIBUTION FINANCING AND MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure is directed to various computational systems for structuring, financing, and/or managing inventory transfers from an original supplier to a servicing entity. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339193 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INVENTORY SHORT TERM DISTRIBUTION FINANCING AND MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure is directed to various computational systems for structuring, financing, and/or managing inventory transfers from an original supplier to a servicing entity. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339194 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING PACKAGE SERVICE SUBSCRIPTIONS ONLINE - A method allowing service subscribers to modify service subscriptions includes receiving an order for a feature package including multiple features and automatically generating a change request upon identifying an existing feature for the subscriber among the features in the feature package Change requests may be generated automatically until the order includes new features exclusively. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339195 | PORTABLE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CARRYING-ORIENTED INFORMATION INPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A portable information processing apparatus includes a display configured to display information, a sending unit configured to send the information to an exterior, a commodity display unit configured to display multiple pieces of commodity information on the display, a designated commodity storage unit configured to store the information of a designated commodity in displayed commodities, an order inexistence designating unit configured to designate ordering inexistence and a printing information output unit configured to send the information of the ordering inexistence as printing information from the sending unit to an external printing apparatus in a situation that the ordering inexistence is designated by the ordering inexistence designating unit. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339196 | ONLINE SHOPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An online shopping system and method in which an order unit selects from a shopping platform system the commodity to purchase and provides a receiver unit data, and then the shopping platform system uses the personal financial data of the order unit to apply to a payment unit for a billing-recognition payment data and finds out a membership corresponding code subject to the membership code of the membership card provided by the receiver unit so that a delivery unit can use a data reader to read the membership code and matching the membership code with the membership corresponding code and then handle the commodity to the receiver unit when matched, and at the same time, the deliver unit provides a confirmed signal to the shopping platform system to claim the payment unit to pay the money. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339197 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MARKETPLACE LISTINGS USING A CAMERA ENABLED MOBILE DEVICE - Computer-implemented systems and methods for generating marketplace listings using a camera enabled mobile device are described in which a request is received via a camera enabled mobile device to list one or more sale items. An image taken by the camera enable mobile device and depicting the one or more sale items is received. Image recognition is performed on the received image to identify the one or more sale items. Based on the identification of the one or more sale items depicted in the image, a set of descriptive data is automatically generated. The one or more sale items are listed on a marketplace using the image and the automatically generated set of descriptive data. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339198 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ONLINE SHOPPING - Systems, methods, or media is directed to managing an outfit over a network. A navigation of an electronic media source is provided with a virtual closet widget representative of outfit data for display on at least one device. An activation component is provided within the virtual closet widget to configure a panel. The panel provides a selectable catalog of items that are configured to be added into the outfit data. In response to adding an item, a visual indication of the item on the virtual closet widget is provided, wherein the item comprises at least one unset attribute for setting through the virtual closet. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339199 | INVENTORY EXCHANGE FOR MANAGING INVENTORY ACROSS MULTIPLE SALES CHANNELS - A system, method, and computer readable medium are provided to manage an inventory across multiple sales channels. A first set of items from an inventory is listed on a first sales channel according to a business rule. A second set of items from the inventory is listed on a second sales channel according to the business rule. Order events from the first sales channel and the second sales channel are tracked. The order events may indicate a transaction involving an item from the inventory. The business rule may be used to rebalance items still offered for sale on the first sales channel and the second sales channel. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339200 | Fair Distribution Of Power Savings Benefit Among Customers In A Computing Cloud - A technique for fairly distributing power savings benefits to virtual machines (VMs) provisioned to customers in a computing cloud. One or more VMs are provisioned on a target cloud host in response to resource requests from one or more customer devices. Host power savings on the target host are monitored. The host power savings are used as a variable component in determining per-customer cloud usage for accounting purposes. The host power savings may be reflected as power related cost savings in a generated cloud usage calculation result that may be distributed proportionately to the VMs based on VM size and utilization. VMs of relatively larger size and lower utilization may receive a higher percentage of the cost savings than VMs of relatively smaller size and higher utilization. | 2013-12-19 |
20130339201 | Fair Distribution Of Power Savings Benefit Among Customers In A Computing Cloud - A technique for fairly distributing power savings benefits to virtual machines (VMs) provisioned to customers in a computing cloud. One or more VMs are provisioned on a target cloud host in response to resource requests from one or more customer devices. Host power savings on the target host are monitored. The host power savings are used as a variable component in determining per-customer cloud usage for accounting purposes. The host power savings may be reflected as power related cost savings in a generated cloud usage calculation result that may be distributed proportionately to the VMs based on VM size and utilization. VMs of relatively larger size and lower utilization may receive a higher percentage of the cost savings than VMs of relatively smaller size and higher utilization. | 2013-12-19 |