52nd week of 2019 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20190392463 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES AND DEVICES FOR FACILITATING PROVISIONING OF STATISTICAL DATA FOR A QUESTIONNAIRE - Disclosed herein is a system for facilitating provisioning of statistical data for a questionnaire. Accordingly, the system may include a communication device configured for receiving questionnaire data from at least one administrator device. Further, the communication device may be configured for transmitting at least one questionnaire to one or more participant devices associated with one or more participants. Further, the communication device may be configured for receiving response data corresponding to the at least one questionnaire from the one or more participant devices. Further, the communication device may be configured for transmitting a visual statistical representation to the at least one administrator device. Further, the system may include a processing device configured for generating the at least one questionnaire based on the questionnaire data. Further, the processing device may be configured for analyzing the response data to generate the visual statistical representation for the at least one questionnaire. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392464 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF POLLING WITH LINKED POST-VOTE ACTIONS - Systems and methods as disclosed herein provide polls having linked post-vote actions. A polling query having two or more options is presented on a user interface (UI) of a mobile electronic device of a user. Each option presented is linked to a post-vote action. Additionally, a selection of an option from the two or more options in the polling query is received on the mobile electronic device of the user. A post-vote action that is linked to the selected option is determined. Further, the post-vote action that is linked to the selected option is presented on the UI of the mobile electronic device of the user. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392465 | Resident Community Management System - Systems and methods are provided for managing a plurality of resident communities having a plurality of rooms for occupancy, the system accessible by a plurality of individual users. The system may include a memory device that stores a set of instructions for operating the system. The system further stores room data relevant to the resident communities, assigns room data to individual rooms based on historical occupancy rates and rental price rates, and compares individual room data by one of a plurality of room groupings to calculate a recommended price for each room based on a weighted room data average. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392466 | Resident Community Management System - Systems and methods are provided for managing a plurality of resident communities having a plurality of rooms for occupancy, the system accessible by a plurality of individual users. The system may include a memory device that stores a set of instructions for operating the system. The system further stores room data relevant to the resident communities, assigns room data to individual rooms based on historical occupancy rates and rental price rates, and compares individual room data by one of a plurality of room groupings to calculate a recommended price for each room based on a weighted room data average. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392467 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT DIGITAL SUPPLY AND DEMAND PRICING - A system includes a product inventory engine (PIE) module and an intelligent pricing engine (IPE) module. The PIE module is configured to: receive data on an inventory of an item from one or more scanning devices; receive supply data for the item in a specified period of time; and determine an inventory level of the item based on the data and the supply data. The IPE module is configured to: receive a set of rules regulating the item; generate a decision on a price change for the item based on the inventory level of the item and the set of rules; and send the decision to one or more entities. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392468 | FACILITATING THIRD PARTY UTILIZATION OF PERSONAL COMPUTING RESOURCES IN EXCHANGE FOR SOFTWARE USAGE - A method for facilitating utilization of processing resources of a plurality of user electronic devices for mining of cryptocurrency. A user application on each user device includes code for a cryptocurrency mining module and code for functionality different from cryptocurrency mining. Various mining activity data indicative of an extent to which each of the plurality of user electronic devices is utilized by a cryptocurrency mining pool to perform cryptocurrency mining operations is received. The method further includes receiving, from at least one of the cryptocurrency mining pool and a cryptocurrency server separate from the cryptocurrency mining pool, an aggregate amount of cryptocurrency. The aggregate amount cryptocurrency may be exchanged, by communicating with a cryptocurrency exchange server, for an aggregate amount of currency other than cryptocurrency. The method further includes allocating the aggregate amount of currency among user accounts respectively associated with the user electronic devices. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392469 | Incenting A Consumer To View An Online Advertisement of A Merchant With Whom The Consumer Was Unlikely To Have Multiple Prior Transactions - After a first transaction but before any subsequent transaction, a merchant communicates an incentive containing a URL to a customer to make a donation to a charity in exchange for a future transaction. The customer uses the URL to accesses and use the incentive. Data may be collected about all customers, either expressly, or from offline or online transactions between the customers and the merchants, and the data may be stored in a data storage area. All data in the data storage area may be utilized by logic tool, which may provide information, such as details of consumer behavior and analytic reporting. Matches between transactions between merchants and customers, and corresponding online activities of the customers that pertain to the merchants may be identified and used to determine the accuracy of a level of certainty of each such match to assess the efficacy of the incentive. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392470 | Distribution System and Method - A service that allows users to: (a) direct distributions of valuable computation services to designated companies, charities or individual recipient parties, (b) allow those recipient parties to retrieve such distributions of valuable computation services; and (c) at the time of providing such valuable computation services, allow system users to identify themselves to the recipient parties or keep themselves anonymous. The results of these valuable computation services may be redeemed as cryptocurrency rewards, service credits, cash payouts and combinations thereof. A related method is also disclosed. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392471 | Equality network mobile app or equal economy process - A social network software designed to increase income equality. In other words, a social network that pays individual users with equality IF they make a sale. I want to solve income inequality with the proper team of skilled and talented people. Therefore, having an issued patent can help secure the investment so we can help other countries, and ours, have better access to food, education and health care. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING FRAUD IN THE PROVISION OF A DEAL FOR A SERVICE ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method for detecting and accounting for the improper use of a deal code on a mobile device. When the user initially configures the mobile device, the third-party provider receives information from the mobile device that includes user information, mobile device information, a deal code associated with a third-party service, information about an application program preloaded on the mobile device associated with the service, and a hash value that is at least partially calculated based on the foregoing. The third-party service provider calculates a second hash value at least partially based on the received information and based on other predetermined information and compares the first hash value to the second hash value. Based on the comparison, the system determines if use of the deal code is improper and, if so, tracks the user and mobile device information to prevent improper use of the deal code. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392473 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A CUSTOMER SERVICE - The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for providing customer service. The system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions. The system may also include one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive customer data and location data from a client device. The one or more processors may also execute the software instructions to identify a customer and a merchant based on the received data. The one or more processors may also execute the software instructions to determine an applicable customer service option based on at least the identified merchant and the identified customer, the customer service option including at least an option to activate a credit card secondary benefit, and transmit a notification to the client device, the notification including the customer service option when the identified customer is eligible for the determined customer service option. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392474 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREDITING ACCOUNT - A method and system for crediting a financial account of a user with an amount is provided. The amount is maintained in a lock mode for a set time period in the account. The crediting of the amount is based on a registration request received from the user. The user further provides the amount that the user wants to maintain in the account. Reward points are determined based on transaction history of a transaction card associated with the account and are blocked in the account based on the registration request. The reward points are settled as and when the user performs transactions in the set time period by way of the transaction card. The amount that is equivalent to the reward points is credited in the account of the user when the reward points are settled in the set time period. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392475 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC LOYALTY-BASED TRANSACTIONS OVER ELECTRONIC MONETARY EXCHANGE NETWORKS - Computer-implemented systems and methods for initiating a transaction, the transaction generating a validation request to verify a customer's identity, the validation request requesting a first unique randomized identifier from a mobile payment cloud; transmitting the first unique randomized identifier to a customer device, the first unique randomized identifier being forwarded to the mobile payment cloud as a second unique randomized identifier to validate the transaction; receiving an authentication from the mobile payment cloud based on a result of validating the transaction; transmitting a customer identification code and the cash value to an interbank network as an interbank transaction request; receiving a response from the interbank network regarding the interbank transaction request; and processing the transaction based on the response from the interbank network. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392476 | DISPLAYING AN ADVERTISEMENT IN RESPONSE TO USER INPUT USING A NON-BROWSER BASED APPLICATION - A method and system for customizing a mobile application running on a mobile communication device of a user. In one implementation, the method includes providing the mobile application to the mobile communication device of the user, the mobile application having a generic platform; determining a special interest group (SIG) that is affiliated with the user; and customizing the generic platform of the mobile application based on information specific to the special interest group (SIG) that is affiliated with the user. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392477 | DWELL TIME BASED ADVERTISING - A method for online advertising, is provided, including: receiving a request for a web page from a client device; in response to the request, selecting an advertisement for presentation on the web page, and transmitting the web page to the client device; determining a duration of exposure of the advertisement when the web page is presented on the client device; determining a level of performance of a guaranteed presentation amount associated with the advertisement, the level of performance based on the duration of exposure of the advertisement. In another embodiment, a plurality of candidate advertisements are identified for presentation on a requested web page; for each candidate, an expected cost per time unit (eCPTU) of exposure is determined; one candidate advertisement is selected for presentation on the web page based on the eCPTU's; the web page is transmitted to a client device. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392478 | Automated Generation of Personalized Mail - An embodiment may involve receiving input information related to an offered product or service, two or more layouts of a print advertisement for the offered product or service, demographics of potential buyers of the offered product or service, and online behavior of the potential buyers. The information may be normalized into a predefined schema for a machine-learning-based recommendation engine operated by a computing device. The embodiment may further involve determining respective selections of the two or more layouts for the potential buyers. The machine-learning-based recommendation engine may select a layout for a potential buyer based on the offered product or service, content and organization of the layout, demographics of the potential buyer, and online behavior of the potential buyer. The embodiment may also involve transmitting, to a printing system, one or more output files representing the offered product or service, the layout, and the potential buyer. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392479 | METHOD FOR DISCOVERING SALES EVENTS - A method for discovering sales events, comprising receiving an event from a seller, receiving a first set of information from the seller, storing the first set of information in a database, placing a limit on the event, receiving an activation request from the seller, and activating the event. The method may further include receiving a request from a buyer, receiving a second set of information from the buyer, generating a list of one or more events based on the second set of information, receiving a selection from a buyer, wherein the selection includes at least one of the one or more events, and generating an optimized route to each of the at least one of the one or more events. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392480 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GUIDING SERVICE FLOW - In an implementation, guiding a service flow is described. Historical behavior data of one or more users who use a target service is obtained for the target service. The historical behavior data is analyzed to obtain one or more user features. One or more target users are selected from one or more users who do not use the target service based on the one or more user features. Each target user has at least one of the one or more user features. Service flow guiding information is sent to each target user. The service flow guiding information guides each target user to use the target service. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392481 | Dynamic Content Aggregation - Information regarding display of selected content items in assigned slots is provided. The information is based on a selected template that includes areas for groups of slots for related content items, such as content items that are targeted to a common targeting object. Candidate content items, identified based on targeting or other distribution information, are assigned to selected slots to determine at least part of the information regarding display of the selected content items. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392482 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHY-BASED TARGETED MARKETING OF ACTIVE OBSERVERS - A digital observation platform for coordinators, merchants, retailers, and users to establish, utilize and fulfill an observation campaign suited to verify digital-world implementations surrounding observable standards, conditions, rules, guidelines, and/or restrictions of presentation data. The observable data points may be part of an overall strategy in a digital observation campaign established by an observation campaign coordinator. Such a strategy may often involve determining data points like specific product placement, product pricing, and product incentives at the website location. Verifiable parameters may include specific observable and verifiable digital-world data such as where a product ad is placed on a web page, timing of the display, demographics of who observes the display, the nature of the underlying content in which the ad is displayed, placement rate and count, and product differentiation. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392483 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONTEXT SENSITIVE OVERLAYS - Techniques for context sensitive overlays, comprising a social networking application. The social networking application may include, among other components, a social networking overlay management component to receive a request from a mobile device to determine a list of aggregate overlay information and user context information, and providing the list of aggregate overlay information and user context information to the mobile device, a context determination component to determine the user context information representative of at least one user context based at least partially on user profile information, location information, calendar event information, and/or external event information, and an overlay selection component to generate the list of aggregate overlay information based at least partially on the user profile information, overlay promotion information, and user context information | 2019-12-26 |
20190392484 | SMART METHODS AND ALGORITHMS FOR TIME-BASED VALUATION OF ONLINE SEARCH KEYWORDS - A lifetime value estimation of a web-based advertisement can be generated at the time of creation of a reservable listing in response to the advertisement, even when little to no information about conversion of the reservable listing is available. In a case that there is no information about a conversion time for a listing, the estimation of the lifetime value is done by calculating a real conversion rate from an advertising platform-dependent historical conversion rate, an average percentage of converted listings that converted from unreserved to reserved within a set period of days, and a scaling multiplier. Where there are relatively few conversions, the estimation of a lifetime value for the advertisement can be done using a weighted average of a campaign-level global conversion rate, which encompasses a large number of keywords that have seen conversions, and a keyword-level local conversion rate. The resulting estimated valuation, by either method, is used to submit a keyword bid to an online advertising service for display alongside a user's search results. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392485 | GENERATION OF INCREMENTAL BIDDING AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ELECTRONIC ADVERTISEMENTS - Methods and systems are described herein for incremental bidding for electronic advertisements. A computing device generates, for a user during a first time period, first randomized bids for available impression opportunities, the first randomized bids based upon an estimated value and a first random factor and using a context of bid requests. The computing device transmits the first randomized bids to a remote device. The computing device determines whether interaction events associated with impression opportunities occurred. The computing device estimates second randomized bids based upon an estimated value and a second random factor and using the context. The computing device estimates a relative incrementality of a bidding policy based upon the second randomized bids over a bidding policy based upon the first randomized bids, and optimizes the bidding policy based upon second randomized bids. The computing device changes a production bidding policy based upon the optimized policy. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392486 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED CALL-TO-ACTION ELEMENTS - Embodiments for managing call-to-action elements by one or more processors are described. User data is received from at least one data source associated with the user. Based on the user data, a label for a call-to-action element to be rendered by a computing node is determined. A signal representative of the determined label for the call-to-action element is generated. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392487 | System, Device, and Method of Automatic Construction of Digital Advertisements - System, device, and method of automatic construction of digital advertisements. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) unit is configured to receive as input: digital copies of past advertisements, and data of their performance results; as well as brand guidelines and a creative brief for automatic generation of a new advertisement. The AI unit generates a set of advertisement elements, such as logo, headline, a sub-headline, call-to-action, legal content, and an image; based on analysis of the input and detection that these particular advertisement elements correspond to previous performance results that are beyond a pre-defined threshold. An automatic advertisement generation unit generates a new advertisement by digitally placing the set of advertisement elements onto a canvas. Optionally, the system automatically generates on-the-fly in real-time a user-tailored advertisement, that is based on analysis of past performance of advertisements that were shown by the same advertiser to this particular end-user. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392488 | NATIVE ONLINE AD CREATION - Native online sponsored content creation is disclosed. A selection of a set of native hierarchical content elements may be received. Each of at least a subset of the native hierarchical content elements in the selected set may be mapped to one or more corresponding sponsored content elements. A template may be generated based at least in part on the mapping. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392489 | Blockchain Tracking and Managing of A Transaction Incented By A Merchant Donation To A Consumer Affinity - Merchants provide incentives for customer transactions on accounts issued to them by issuers. Incentives include a merchant making a donation to entities with whom the merchants and/or the consumers have an affinity such as residence in the community. Each merchant can define the donation to be percentage of the transaction amount. Cryptographically secure chains are provided for uniquely labeling each such transaction and each such donation by way of incorporating role-based digital wallets and multiple synchronized transactional blockchains. Where the donations are used to purchase an Internet-of-Things (IOT) enabled system, real and/or near-real time usage information can be received and transmitted to the logical addresses of the customers and or the merchants so as to confirm efficacy of the donations. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392490 | AUTOMATED PERSONALIZED CUSTOMER SERVICE UTILIZING LIGHTING - Systems and methods for automated personalized customer service are disclosed. In embodiments, a method comprises: determining, by a computing device, at least one object from a plurality of objects within a venue matches a search query received from a user; assigning to the user, by the computing device, a select lighting type from a plurality of available lighting types, wherein the select lighting type is not available for the computing device to assign to other users while assigned to the user; providing, by the computing device, a notification to the user regarding the select lighting type; selecting, by the computing device, a target lighting device from a plurality of lighting devices within the venue, the target lighting device being associated with the at least one object; initiating, by the computing device, a first illumination event of the target lighting device based on the select lighting type. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392491 | INTEGRATED CUSTOMER SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR FIELD-CENTRIC BUSINESS SECTORS - A computer network, including at least one server computer having a non-transitory computer readable medium programmed to connect customers needing product or service support with an advisor. Each advisor has a device programmed to interface with the at least one server computer. Then at least one server computer includes a database of registered advisors and a database of active customers. Then at least one server computer is programmed to initiate a customer service session upon receiving a request from a first customer computing device. A telecommunications system that connects customers to advisors that includes voice, video, and text, ticket submission that interacts with the computer network to create support tickets and provides call tracking features. A method allows advisor managers to create teams of advisors, create a custom greeting for the team, create ring schedules for team members, and share the team phone number with customers via text message. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392492 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCALING PRODUCT ACTIVATION USING MACHINE VISION - A system for automatically scaling product activation using machine vision, wherein the system includes a data processing arrangement including a database that is coupled via a data communication network to one or more users, wherein the system is configured: to generate user submissions for voting purposes using a machine vision inspection algorithm and implementing a crowd curation algorithm based on the ratings on the submissions by the other users. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392493 | Direct-To-Business Feedback Communication And Database Management System - A method and a direct-to-business feedback communication and database management system (DTBFCDMS) for communicating enhanced feedback from a customer directly to a business entity in real time is provided. The DTBFCDMS controls a client application deployed on a customer device and renders a customer feedback interface (CFI) on the customer device. The DTBFCDMS renders information of a business entity in response to a search query received from the customer device, renders feedback categories on the CFI, receives feedback of one or more media types associated with a selected feedback category from the customer device via the CFI, stores the feedback in one or more client databases, extracts feedback elements from the feedback, weights each feedback element based on weighting criteria, generates a score for the feedback based on the weighting of each feedback element, and transmits the feedback with the generated score directly to the business entity in real time. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392494 | SYSTEM AND METHOD RELATING TO PART PRICING AND PROCUREMENT - A computer-implemented method for enabling a user to operate a predictive model for calculating a target price relating to a purchase of a selected part. The method may include the steps of: determining a part family, wherein the part family includes a plurality of parts having a common characteristic; for each of the plurality of parts within the part family, obtaining cost data; for each of the plurality of parts within the part family, obtaining feature data; performing a correlation analysis between the feature data and the cost data for the parts within the part family; developing the predictive model from a result of the correlation analysis; and calculating the target price for the selected part using the predictive model. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392495 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING PRODUCTS - Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatus, and computer readable medium for receiving a first information relating to a plurality of available products for exchange/rent and available time period associated with each product of the plurality of available products, displaying the plurality of available products in a calendar view including visual representations of the available time period associated with each product, receiving, from a requester, a request for a temporary exchange of an offered product from the requester for a requested product of the plurality of available products, receiving, an acceptance of the request, and transmitting a second information indicating the temporary exchange of the offered product for the requested product. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392496 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HAIR-SERVICE BASED DIGITAL IMAGE SEARCHING AND RANKING - In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing a hair-service based digital image search engine and ranking comprising the step of providing a hair-service search engine, wherein the hair-service search engine receives a digitalized hair-style portfolio from a hair stylist. The hair-style portfolio comprises a set of hair-style digital images. The set of hair-style digital images comprises one or more views of a set of hair-stylist customers. The method receives a set of tags for each hair-style digital image of set of hair-style digital images. Each tag comprises a hair-style descriptor of the hair style depicted in the hair-style digital image. The method receives a hair stylist contact information. The method stores the digitalized hair-style portfolio, the set of tags and the hair stylist contact information in a digitalized hair-style portfolio database; receives a hair-style search from a user. The method parses the hair-style search ad generating a set of terms. The method matches the set of terms with the set of tags associated with a set of tags of a closest matching hair-style digital image of set of hair-style digital images. Based on the match between the set of terms with the set of tags, the method accesses a database of digitalized hair-style portfolios and obtains the closest matching hair-style digital image. The method communicates the closest matching hair-style digital image and the hair stylist contact information to the user in the form of a search result. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392497 | UNPAID ITEM RISK MANAGEMENT - In an example embodiment, information about a buyer in an ecommerce system is obtained. An unpaid item risk assessment is calculated for the buyer, the unpaid item risk assessment calculating a risk that the buyer will not pay for an item on which the buyer bids. A bid limit is then established based on the unpaid item risk assessment. A bid from the buyer may then later be blocked based on the bid limit. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392498 | RECOMMENDATION ENGINE AND SYSTEM - A method and system including receiving a first set of document files comprising textual terms relating to a plurality of first users; receiving a second set of document files relating to a second user from one or more data sources, the second set of document files including a plurality of textual terms associated with the second user from a combination of documents; determining whether the second set of document files is similar to one or more documents in the first set of document files based on a collaborative filtering process of the textual terms derived from the second set of document files and the first set of document files; generating an indicator that indicates a level of similarity between the second set of document files and the one or more documents in the first set of document files; and outputting a user interface displaying the generated indicator. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392499 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR GENERATING A MEMORIAL PRODUCT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating memorial products using a memorial product design and ordering system (the “design system”). The design system may generally be configured to provide users with a platform, tools, design elements, automated processes, and/or the like for designing, customizing and ordering memorial products. The design system may be configured to present users with graphical or virtual representations of physical memorial products (“virtual product templates”) that may be customized by specifying product characteristics and adding various design elements. In some embodiments, the virtual product templates may be and/or may include photo-realistic and/or three-dimensional (3D) representations of the actual physical memorial products. In this manner, the design system may be configured to provide a customer with a realistic user experience from a virtual and/or online design tool. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392500 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH A REMOTE DEVICE - Systems and methods for using logic design processing to create an integrated circuit (IC). A method for creating an IC with a client device that is configured to perform all of the steps of receiving technology options and operating system options for the IC, selecting one of the technology options and one of the operating system options, receiving a subset of processor cores matching the selected technology option and the selected operating system option, identifying a particular processor core from among the subset of processor cores, customizing the particular processor core by adjusting at least one of default values for a system clock, a memory configuration, or a cache value based on the selected technology option to create a customized processor core configuration, presenting the customized processor core configuration in a graphical format and, in response, confirming the customized processor core configuration as a desired core configuration to be built, and sending device instructions to build an IC based on the desired core configuration. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392501 | IDENTIFYING PRODUCT ITEMS BASED ON SURGE ACTIVITY - Various embodiments described herein assist in identifying one or more product items of interest (e.g., high demand product items) based on surge activity, such as user buying surges, user selling surges, and user product listing (e.g., electronic or online listing) surges on an online marketplace system, and can further notify one or more users of selling opportunities of the identified products items of interest. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392502 | MULTIPLE FORMAT SEARCH RESULT SETS - A search application can return results including items listings posted to a website. An item listing can be posted to the website in a first format for a first time period and posted to the website in a second format for a second period of time. Responsive to a query for an item, results can be displayed in both the first format and the second format in a user interface. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392503 | SYSTEM, METHOD, and COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING USER MAXIMUM BENEFIT IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - The present invention generally relates to a system, method, and computer program for providing maximum savings in electronic commerce. Specifically, during a shopping experience, several products or service inputs, such as: electronic coupon codes, sales taxes, cashback rebates, etc. are calculated and compared against numerous competitor retailer stores to ascertain the lowest price. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392504 | USING A COMBINATION OF BATCH-PROCESSING AND ON-DEMAND PROCESSING TO PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods described herein, which utilize a combination of batch-processing and on-demand processing to provide recommendations, can include database(s) that store client data, item data, and executable code for composable algorithms that utilize the client data and/or the item data to provide recommendations. The system also includes a batch-process results data store that stores results of composable algorithms executed using batch-processing. Additionally, the system includes an algorithm engine that accepts calls to composable algorithms and output results thereof. The algorithm engine determines which called composable algorithms are designated as being executable using batch-processing, and which are designated as being executable using on-demand processing. The algorithm engine returns results of called composable algorithms designated as being executable using on-demand processing by executing the executable code thereof, and returns results of called composable algorithms designated as being executable using batch-demand-processing by obtaining the results from the batch-process results data store. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392505 | ITEM INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SHOPPING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, SHOPPING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND CARRIER - An item information acquisition system includes a carrier and an acquirer. The carrier includes a placement section, a projection, and an image capturing section. The placement section includes a placement surface on which an item as a carriage target is to be placed. The projection protrudes from the placement section in a direction transverse to the placement surface. The image capturing section is held by the projection and has an image capturing range corresponding to at least the placement surface. The image capturing section is disposed spaced away from an entire perimeter of a peripheral edge of the placement section when viewed in a direction orthogonal to the placement surface. The acquirer is configured to identify, based on the image captured by the image capturing section, the item placed on the placement surface and acquiring item information on the item. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392506 | METHOD FOR MANAGING CLICK AND DELIVERY SHOPPING EVENTS - One variation of a method for managing virtual shopping lists includes: dispatching robotic systems, deployed in store, to autonomously scan inventory structures within this store; deriving current stock conditions of this store based on scan data recorded by these robotic systems; initializing a virtual shopping list for a user; in response to receipt of selection of a first product, from a population of products, isolating a subset of stores, in the set of stores in the geographic region, associated with current stock conditions indicating presence of the first product and products previously added to the virtual shopping list; in response to the subset of stores including at least one store, adding a first identifier of the first product to the virtual shopping list; and specifying a particular store, in the subset of stores, for fulfillment of a set of products on the virtual shopping list. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392507 | OUT-OF-STORE PURCHASE ROUTING SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA - Systems, methods, and media for picking-up and delivering products are disclosed. Some embodiments route shoppers to acquire products for multiple customers orders from multiple suppliers using a variety of transportation modes. The transportation modes may differing maximum weight carrying and volume carrying capacities, maximum vehicle speeds. Moreover, some embodiments may account for a different number vehicles for each transportation mode and may further account for the availability of shoppers and vehicles. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392508 | PERSONALIZED WEBPAGE GIFTING SYSTEM - A personalized webpage gifting system is provided that includes a server that generates a graphical user interface (GUI) on a computing device for receiving recipient information associated with a recipient and one or more participants from a host. Using this information, the server creates a personal uniform resource locator (URL) based upon at least a portion of the recipient information, and generates a personalized webpage addressed by said personal uniform resource locator, the personalized webpage comprising personalized content for the recipient received from the host and the one or more participants. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392509 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A VEHICLE SHARING REWARD PROGRAM - Device and method for implementing a vehicle sharing reward program. The present invention provides for a cost-sharing plan where two or more constituencies share the rental cost associated with a user who rents a shared vehicle in a vehicle sharing program. This results in a reimbursement of the rental cost to the user. When enrolling in the vehicle sharing reward program, the user is given a health prescription to adhere to on any trip taken while using a shared vehicle. On a selected travel route, the user visits a vehicle sharing station, where the sharing station includes a kiosk that the user uses to check-in and upload relevant information such as distance traveled and locations visited. By complying with the health prescription issued to the user, the user can have its total rental cost reimbursed. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392510 | Method and Apparatus for Integrated Image Capture for Vehicles to Track Damage - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for building a consolidated searchable database of vehicle images that were captured at a plurality of different sites. The database can be searched to track vehicle condition over time and over a plurality of transactions involving the vehicles. From this information, a determination can be made as to whether damage first arose on a vehicle during a particular transaction for the purpose of allocating responsibility for payment of repair costs. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392511 | BID MATCHING FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED GOODS/ASSETS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A bid matching for blockchain-based goods/assets system that allows users to participate in efficient and optimized auctions of blockchain-based assets/goods is disclosed. Instead of paying the current price for a blockchain-based item by signing and executing a transaction immediately, buyers pre-sign a crypto-transaction for a given future price of the item. The buyer sends the pre-signed crypto-transaction for future execution when the price of the blockchain-based good/asset matches (or falls below) a price that the buyer specified in the pre-signed transaction. Instead of executing bids on-chain, the bid matching for blockchain-based goods/assets system enables execution of an off-chain service that allows users to bid on one or more blockchain-based items with pre-signed transactions that are instantaneous and not dependent on network conditions. After an auction has ended, a winning bid is selected and executed automatically to consummate the purchase of the blockchain-based assets/goods. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392512 | ELECTRONIC NEGOTIATION SYSTEM - An electronic auction tool for generating quotes and rankings associated with a seller is described herein. In response to receiving a request for a product from a buyer, one or more sellers may choose to participate in a negotiation for fulfilling the request. The system may receive a request for a product and/or service from a buyer that stipulates a number of bidding rounds during which the seller(s) may submit a limited number of quotes during a limited period of time. Additionally, a rank associated with the seller(s) may be generated based on historical transaction data. Further, a price-matching quote round may be conducted, during which the seller may have an opportunity to modify the submitted quote to match the quote with a lowest bid submitted by the other participating sellers. By using the structured and automated techniques described herein, the incentive to submit last minute quotes may be eliminated, and system resources of the electronic auction tool may avoid being inundated with last minute requests by sellers during a bidding round and/or the negotiation being indefinitely prolonged due to the arrival of new quote offers by one or more competing sellers. Further, an accurate and dynamic seller ranking may be determined in real-time without burdening system resources with analyzing unnecessary and biased data points. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392513 | FINANCIAL ACCOUNT AUTHENTICATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for account authentication. A method includes receiving a user request to include financial data describing a financial account in an interface, the financial account being associated with a financial institution. The method further includes redirecting the user to a first webpage associated with the financial institution, where the user inputs into the first webpage login credentials for accessing the financial account. The method further includes, in response to the user inputting into the first webpage login credentials for accessing the financial account, receiving, from the financial institution, an access token other than the login credentials for accessing the financial account. The method further includes storing the access token for use in accessing and aggregating financial data describing the financial account. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392514 | ADAPTIVE RISK-BASED VERIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION PLATFORM - In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method to perform an adaptive risk-based assessment of a user is disclosed. A method includes receiving a request from a user to perform an action at an electronic marketplace, retrieving a plurality of risk assessment factors associated with the action and the user, performing a risk assessment process on the risk assessment factors to identify a risk mitigation process, requesting that the user perform the identified risk mitigation process, and allowing the user to perform the action in response to the user completing the risk mitigation. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392515 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE TEMPORAL ARRANGEMENT OF DATA - A device and method for management of an account. An event placement timeline is displayed. Account events are shown along the timeline. A preferred event time range or “safe zone” is shown along the timeline. The “safe zone” is the portion of the month during which it is safe to schedule certain events, like bill payments, with lower risk of NSF, overdraft or the like. The user moves a movable object into the “safe zone” to reschedule the account event in the “safe zone”, and the settings of the account are modified to automatically execute the account event at that time. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392516 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SEPARATE INTEREST RATE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TRANSACTION - Systems and methods for providing a separate interest rate for an individual transaction are disclosed. A system may provide a service associated with a account having an account balance and an associated first interest rate. The system may include a service device having one or memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform a separate interest rate service process. The process may include providing a separate interest rate service offer to a client device and receiving a separate interest rate selection from the client device. The process may also include determining a selected portion of the account balance corresponding to an amount to which a second interest rate, different from the first interest rate, is to be applied based on the separate interest rate selection. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392517 | GRAPHICAL USER MECHANISM FOR BACK-EVALUATING CREDITING METHODS WITH SELECTIVE REPLACEMENT - Aspects of the disclosure relate to apparatus and methods for a graphical user mechanism (“GUM”) for back-evaluating potential crediting methods. The crediting methods may include selective replacement. The GUM may include a first and a second database and a first and a second fusion matrix stored in memory of a computer system. An input/output (“I/O”) component of the computer system may receive a selection of a start date, an end date, and a premium level. A processor of the computer system may calculate percentage yields based on the databases, the fusion matrices, and the selections. The GUM may display the resultant percentage yields in graphical format on a display of the computer system for easy evaluation. The GUM may receive additional selections, and, in response to a trigger, calculate and display updated results. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392518 | PRE-MATCHING ORDERS AT WIRE RATE IN A CENTRAL LIMIT ORDER BOOK - Systems and methods are provided to increase the rate at which a system can accept and process data transaction request messages. The system includes a pre-processer that filters incoming data transaction request messages prior to transmitting the messages for further processing, for example, by a matching engine. The pre-processer quickly identifies whether a new arriving data transaction request is transactable. If the new arriving data transaction request is not transactable, then the data transaction request will be transmitted and stored in a main data structure and not transmitted to the matching engine | 2019-12-26 |
20190392519 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME PRE-TRADE RISK ASSESSMENT - Systems and methods are disclosed that provide real-time pre-trade risk assessments for multiple parties. In one embodiment, systems and methods can be configured to receive a market order data packet, wherein the market order data packet comprises order information for a market order to be made at a liquidity venue. The market order data packet comprises a header portion and a payload portion, and the header portion comprises at least a portion of the order information. An order symbol is determined based on order symbol information in the header portion. Risk parameters are retrieved associated with the order symbol. It is determined whether or not a risk threshold is exceeded based on the risk parameters and the order information. A final market order data packet is generated for transmission to the liquidity venue based on the determining whether the risk threshold is exceeded. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392520 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTINGENCY NET ASSET VALUE PRICING - Systems and methods for contingency NAV pricing are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for contingency Net Asset Value (cNAV) pricing may include (1) receiving a daily Net Asset Value (NAV) for a fund and performance data for a plurality of benchmarks; (2) selecting one of the plurality of benchmarks that has a benchmark performance that is similar to a fund performance of the fund for a period of time; (3) determining a correlation factor between the fund performance and the selected benchmark performance; and (4) calculating a cNAV based on a prior day's NAV for the fund, a movement for the selected benchmark, and the correlation factor in response to a daily NAV for the fund being unavailable. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392521 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING FINANCIAL PRODUCTS RELATED TO A FUTURE EVENT OR CONDITION - Some embodiments relate to configuring and managing financial instruments such as binary options having a financial value based on the outcome of at least one a weather-related event. In some embodiments, a binary option may be specified. The binary option may have a financial value tied to one or more weather outcomes, location parameter(s), and time parameter(s). The binary option may be issued and traded on a primary and secondary market. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392522 | DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING - A computer system includes a front end interface configured for data communications over a network with data producer terminals, multiple distributed data processors coupled to the front end interface by a data messaging infrastructure, the multiple distributed data processors including a first distributed data processor and a second distributed data processor, and an information bus coupled to the multiple distributed data processors and to multiple independent consumer modules. The first processor receives and processes data order messages for the first security, and maintains a first order book that stores outstanding orders for the first security. The second processor receives and processes received data order messages for the second security, and maintains a second order book that stores outstanding orders for the second security. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392523 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING DATA TRANSACTIONS - Methods, apparatus, and systems for processing data transactions use a sequencer communicating with a plurality of data processors and provide improved performance and lower latency. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392524 | TRAILBLAZER METHODS, APPARATUSES AND MEDIA - At a first time, an indication of a selection of a contract, expiring at a second time and associated with a commodity, is received. A set of physical stacks associated with the contract is accessed. Based upon the first time, the second time, and a periodic sampling rate, a marginal cost profile for the commodity is generated. The marginal cost profile is a set of values relating to an estimate of a marginal cost of production for the commodity at a set of times between the first time and the second time. A display signal, adapted to form the basis for a visual display, is generated. The display signal includes a first component relating to at least one physical stack from the set of physical stacks, and a second component relating to the marginal cost profile. The display signal is stored in a memory and transmitted from the memory. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AUTOMATIC SPREAD TRADING - The present embodiments are provided to facilitate the automatic trading of spreads in a fast and accurate manner. One or more market data feeds that contain market information for tradable objects are received at an exchange. A spread data feed is generated in response to the market data feeds and from one or more spread setting parameters, which can be entered by a user. The spread data feed is preferably displayed in a spread window as bid and ask quantities associated with an axis or scale of prices. The user can enter orders in the spread window and the legs will be automatically worked to achieve, or attempt to achieve, the spread. In addition, other tools disclosed herein may be utilized to assist the user in making such trades. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392526 | GRAPHICAL USER MECHANISM FOR BACK-EVALUATING POTENTIAL CREDITING METHODS - Aspects of the disclosure relate to apparatus and methods for a graphical user mechanism (“GUM”) for back-evaluating potential crediting methods. The GUM may include a first and a second database and a first and a second fusion matrix stored in memory of a computer system. An input/output (“I/O”) component of the computer system may receive a selection of a start date, an end date, and a premium level. A processor of the computer system may calculate percentage yields based on the databases, the fusion matrices, and the selections. The GUM may display the resultant percentage yields in graphical format on a display of the computer system for easy evaluation. The GUM may receive additional selections, and, in response to a trigger, calculate and display updated results. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392527 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY - A software method to effectuate value enhancement riders that attach to indexed universal life insurance policies. The system enables the policy to substantially expand the policies notional values exposed to market volatility. The enhancement rider(s) come in three forms: a premium based enhancement rider, an accumulated value based enhancement rider and a combination of the two riders. Policy owners can opt in and opt out of the rider(s) annually. The software system nests insider a carrier's home office policy administration system and performs all the operational and maintenance functions that the rider(s) requires to function properly. Importantly these rider(s) dramatically affect the operating parameters of the policy. These rider(s) change the mundane accumulation performance associated with that of typical indexed life insurance policy into the financial industry's leading source of cash accumulation. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392528 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A PET HEALTHCARE PLAN - A computer implemented system for determining and generating a patient healthcare plan may include: a computing platform having a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, and input logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to receive input from the user, wherein the input comprises data for populating a patient data record stored in the memory; identification logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to identify from a database an impact factor corresponding to the data populating the patient data record; calculation logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to calculate a healthcare cost for a time period based on the identified impact factor; and generating logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to generate a patient healthcare plan having a healthcare item and having a number of healthcare credits that are accrued over the time period. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392529 | SENSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVITY EVALUATION - Systems and methods are discussed for providing sensor enhanced safety, recovery, and activity evaluation systems. Sensors that monitor user activity and behavior are worn by a user and/or placed in the user environment. Data from the sensors are processed to obtain a safety, recovery, and/or activity evaluation. Based on the evaluation, recommendations or adjustments to the terms of an insurance policy covering the user, the user's employer, or a facility providing health care to the user, aer generated, to accurately reflect the risks associated with the user, employer, and/or facility. In embodiments, an alert may be generated when a failure to conform with activity guidelines is detected. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECENTRALIZED REGULATION AND HIERARCHICAL CONTROL OF BLOCKCHAIN ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a decentralized block chain regulation architecture. The invention utilizes the collective nature of block chain communication to perform key regulatory and control functions. Instead of relying on a centralized regulatory source, the present system allows the block chain structures themselves to simultaneously function as both regulated and regulatory chains for one another to form an interconnected network of decentralized, regulatory chains. Further, the system allows for control of non-compliant block chains, wherein regulatory chains may issue commands to the non-compliant chains, rewrite data, overwrite an incorrect consensus, or deactivate a chain and remove it from a block chain environment before propagation of an error. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392531 | SOCIAL CONNECTION RECOMMENDATION BASED ON SIMILAR LIFE EVENTS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for a social connection recommendation based on a similar order of life events. The computer may determine a plurality of life events for a user and a set of other users through an opt-in fashion. The plurality of life events for the user and the plurality of life events of the set of other users may be compared. It may be determined whether a correlation exists between the user and at least one individual from the set of other users. In response to determining the correlation exists between the user and the at least one individual from the set of other users, a recommendation may be provided to the user for a social connection between the user and the at least one individual from the set of other users. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392532 | WELL EXPLORATION, SERVICE AND PRODUCTION APPLIANCE ARCHITECTURE - A well exploration, services and production architecture for access to one or more well exploration, services or production (ESP) applications may be configured such that standardization of the one or more components provides for operability across multiple platforms. A deployment blueprint may specify parameters that must be met by a well ESP appliance deployed to provide access to one or more well ESP applications. Deployment rules may be based on the deployment blueprint that provides for order of deployment of components and constraints associated with packaging the components, including one or more well ESP applications, in a container. A user interface accesses the well ESP applications of the well ESP appliance based on an authorization or verification of the user. To maintain access to all data by all users, data storage for all processes of any components, including the well ESP applications, is hosted at a remote file storage system. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392533 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING FAULT PATTERNS FROM SENSOR DATA IN PRODUCT VALIDATION AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES - A method is provided for monitoring at least one process and for determining fault patterns of faults occurring in the at least one process, wherein a parameter table with characteristic fault patterns is generated for a number of partial processes of the at least one process, wherein the parameter table is generated on the basis of historical sensor data, wherein the historical sensor data describes a number of historical curves which have at least two dimensions and are respectively assigned to a partial process, and wherein the historical curves for each partial process comprise historical OK curves (okay) and historical NOK curves (not okay), wherein the historical NOK curves represent faulty partial processes. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392534 | POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides a power management apparatus ( | 2019-12-26 |
20190392535 | GENERATING VALUATION GAIN USING SEASONALITY DATA - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a valuation gain amount by receiving, by a server data corresponding to previously sold real-estate property listing is retrieved from a market database and calculating valuation data for each of the previously sold real-estate property listings for portions of a specified time period. Seasonality data is further extracted from the valuation data for each of the portions. The system receives adjustments from a client device to the seasonality data. The adjustments may relate to future real-estate property trends. A plurality of valuation gain amounts for a new real estate property listing is determined based on the adjusted seasonality data. The system generates a visualization representing a graphical trend and causes presentation of the visualization on a graphical user interface of a client device. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392536 | Method and System for Creating and Managing a Smart Contract on a Distributed Ledger - The invention relates to a system and method for creating and managing smart contracts on a blockchain. More specifically, the invention relates to a method and system that provides a set of tools for users to create, monitor, manage, modify, terminate, trigger disputes, communicate with contracting parties, and if necessary resolve a dispute over a smart contract. Additionally, the system also records and manages contract history documents and records them with the smart contract such that if there are disputes that need to be handled, the system can provide the parties and third parties with an complete set of contract documents including historical contract documents to aid in the resolution of the dispute. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392537 | Processes for Electronic Administration of Justice Via AI-Gated eMIRANDA Application & Tangible Electronic Devices Generating Self Authenticated Outputs - Artificial Intelligence having legal safety precautions and preventative measures (gates to preclude unmonitored self-learning from altering Justice-diven outcomes) drives electronic media otherwise fully automated, and the like homunculi for the administration of aspects of a unified legal engine for delivery of purely objective justice based solely on Rules of Law, the MIRANDA warnings and concomitant Constitutional Rights being preserved and all of the proceedings recorded and made available to all with discrimination. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392538 | PRIORITIZATION AND AUTOMATION OF BILLING DISPUTES INVESTIGATION USING MACHINE LEARNING - The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method, which includes receiving a dispute information pertaining to a billing dispute by a processor, from a device associated with a customer. The method includes computing, by the processor, a score based on the dispute information, for determining validity of the billing dispute. The billing dispute is categorized based on the score computed for the dispute information. One or more actions are subsequently presented to one or more parties associated with the dispute information for resolving the billing dispute. The processor is also configured to prioritize the one or more actions based on the score computed. The present disclosure also provides a system capable of implementing the aforesaid method for prioritizing and resolving the billing disputes in an automated manner. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392539 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GROWING AND RETAINING THE VALUE OF BRAND DRUGS BY COMPUTER PREDICTIVE MODEL - The present invention is directed to a brand value growth and retention system for brand drugs commercialized by brand drug advertisers through a brand drug's lifecycle during patent exclusivity and after loss of exclusivity. The brand value growth and retention system iteratively analyzes combined computational models of consumer, healthcare provider retailer and payor segment data to produce brand drug promotional campaigns that are predictive with modifying parameters that transform the promotional campaigns over time. As a result, the brand drug promotional campaign generates an increased number of brand drug purchases while predicting the point where incremental promotional campaign investments produce a diminishing number of incremental brand drug purchases. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392540 | SCHOOL AND PARENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A communication system for initiating notifications between parents, school personnel, and school bus drivers, the communication system includes a network having a server to receive and transmit data; a first electronic device having a first identifier assigned to a school bus; a second electronic device having a second identifier assigned to a parent; a third electronic device associated with a school; and a communication platform being accessible by the first, second, and third electronic devices to facilitate communication between the first, second, and third electronic devices; the communication platform is to receive information from one of the first, second, and third electronic devices and transmit the information to other of the first, second, and third electronic devices. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392541 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING REPORTS - A method for generating reports includes outputting a prompt prompting at least one user to input at least one information input; receiving the at least one information input by the at least one user; processing the at least one information input and generating a documentation report and a recommendation report based on the at least one information input; and outputting the documentation report and the recommendation report. A system for carrying out the above method is also described. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392542 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING RECORDED DATA FOR STORAGE USING COMPUTER-AIDED DISPATCH INFORMATION - Computer-implemented methods and systems for processing recorded data for storage is provided. An auditable device, such as a digital video camera, stores a set of recorded data. The auditable device also stores auditable event entries that represent auditable events detected by the auditable device. One type of auditable event is the receipt of information from a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system that indicates an event. The auditable device marks at least one subset of the set of recorded data based on the auditable event entries, and uploads the marked at least one subset of the set of recorded data to an evidence management system. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO PARKING ZONE - A server device includes: a receiver configured to receive, from a management device installed in a parking zone, information about a vehicle, which enters the parking zone, obtained from an exterior of the vehicle and wireless identification information obtained from a mobile terminal in the vehicle; a controller configured to generate first encryption information corresponding to the vehicle, by using the information about the vehicle and the wireless identification information; and a transmitter configured to, when a parking area is assigned to the vehicle, transmit information about the parking area to the mobile terminal. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392544 | TRAFFIC SECTION FEE PAYMENT METHOD, FEE SYSTEM, AND PAYMENT SYSTEM - A client device obtains and records inbound station information. The client device sends first electronic credential information to an inbound charging apparatus, where the first electronic credential information comprises authentication information generated by a payment system based on a user identity in the client device. The client device sends second electronic credential information and the inbound station information to an outbound charging apparatus, where the second electronic credential information comprises authentication information generated by the payment system based on the user identity in the client device. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392545 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INDOOR NAVIGATION FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES - Systems and methods for providing indoor navigation to emergency services are disclosed. The methods involve storing at least one electronic map of a facility and at least one annotation for the at least one electronic map. The at least one annotation can be representative of a service resource within the facility. The method also involves receiving a traversed area from at least one computing device within the facility during an event; determining a total traversed area based on the traversed area from each of the at least one computing device during the event; and providing the at least one annotation and the total traversed area within the at least one electronic map to be displayed on at least one graphical user interface. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392546 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS - A data processing system includes a producer processor that produces a sequence of data outputs for use by consumer processors of the data processing system. The system also includes a memory for storing a sequence of data outputs produced by the data processor. The data processor encodes data outputs as encoded blocks of data, storing a particular encoded block of a first frame in a first location in the memory and an indication of the first location. The data processor stores a corresponding encoded block of a second data output in a second location and updates the indication to the second location. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392547 | Determining Appropriate Medical Image Processing Pipeline Based on Machine Learning - Mechanisms are provided to implement an automated medical image processing pipeline selection (MIPPS) system. The MIPPS system receives medical image data associated with a patient electronic medical record and analyzes the medical image data to extract evidence data comprising characteristics of one or more medical images in the medical image data indicative of a medical image processing pipeline to select for processing the one or more medical images. The evidence data is provided to a machine learning model of the MIPPS system which selects a medical image processing pipeline based on a machine learning based analysis of the evidence data. The selected medical image processing pipeline processes the medical image data to generate a results output. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392548 | VIDEO SIGNAL SWITCHING FOR USE WITH AN EXTERNAL GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT DEVICE - An apparatus for video signal switching for use with an external graphics processing unit device includes an input unit of an information processing device configured to input a first video signal from an external device comprising a graphics processing unit (“GPU”) and an input/output interface, a processing unit of the information processing device configured to output a second video signal, and a switching unit configured to determine a route for a video display signal that is output to a display unit, the route selected from an external route along which the first video signal is output to the display unit without going through the processing unit and an internal route along which the second video signal is output to the display unit. A computer program product and a system perform the functions of the apparatus. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392549 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, EXTERNAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electronic apparatus includes a locking unit to selectively lock a physical connection with an external apparatus and a control unit to control an operation mode of the electronic apparatus, according to a connection state with the external apparatus, in which the control unit controls the locking unit to lock the connection with the external apparatus, when the electronic apparatus is in an operation mode of using a graphic processing unit of the external apparatus. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392550 | IMAGE PROCESSING USING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK - The present disclosure provides a system of analysing an object in an image. The system comprises a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory has application programs that are executable by the processor, wherein the processor executes the application programs to perform a method of analysing the object in the image. The method comprises the steps of determining an image tensor of the image; determining context information of the image; determining a context tensor of the determined context information; combining the image tensor and the context tensor to form a combined tensor; and estimating an attribute of the object based on the combined tensor. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392551 | METHOD FOR 3D WAVEFORM MAPPING OF FULL-PARALLEL STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a method for 3D waveform mapping of full-parallel structure, first, a 3D waveform mapping database is created according to the size of a 3D waveform image, the number of bits of probability value and the ADC's resolution of data acquisition module, then the 3D waveform mapping database is divided into M | 2019-12-26 |
20190392552 | SPINE IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD - A spine image registration method includes: obtaining a CT image and an MRI image corresponding to a spine; inputting the CT image into a first model to identify at least one first vertebral body of the spine in the CT image; inputting the MRI image to a second model to identify at least one second vertebral body of the spine in the MRI image; marking the first vertebral body with at least one first landmark and marking the second vertebral body with at least one second landmark; matching the first landmark with the second landmark to obtain a corresponding relationship; performing a registration on the CT image and the MRI image according to the corresponding relationship, and generating a registered image according to the content of the CT image and the content of the MRI image located in the same coordinate space; and outputting the registered image. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392553 | Method and System for Rendering Image on Conical Surface - Provided are an automated process and system for rendering an image on a conical surface, the process comprising: transforming a two-dimensional (2D) planar representation of an image to a 2D planar representation of the image configured for a conical shape; applying the 2D transformed representation onto a planar template; and manufacturing a conically-shaped object from the planar template on which the 2D transformed representation has been applied. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392554 | INPUT SCALING TO KEEP CONTROLLER INSIDE FIELD OF VIEW - Methods and devices for scaling virtual movement may include receiving from a positional tracking system attached to the computer device, a current physical location of a body part of a user being tracked for providing an input to a virtual reality simulation. The methods and devices may include determining a start position based at least upon the current physical location of the user for scaling virtual movements in the virtual reality simulation corresponding to received physical movements of the user. The methods and devices may include determining a scale factor to apply to the physical movements from the start position to generate scaled virtual movements of the physical movements. The methods and devices may include transmitting the scaled virtual movement for presentation on a display. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392555 | System and Method for Generating High-Resolution Stereo Image and Depth Map - A system and method for generating high-resolution stereo images and depth map in multi-camera systems having multiple cameras with different resolutions and view angles. One method is to improve the lower resolution image and combining it with the higher resolution image, then the resulting image is processed by extensive algorithms to ensure utmost high quality. The system can also handle non-planar image contents. The process is to generate a crude depth map first and then divide the map into multiple layers. Each layer will be separately registered. The results from the registered layers will be merged to improve the depth map generation. The improved depth map could be repeatedly fed back to the beginning of the process to further improve the registration performance. The system and method can generate stereo images using uncalibrated cameras with different views and resolutions. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392556 | METHOD, CHIP, PROCESSOR, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - The present disclosure provides an image processing method. The method includes reading R rows of data of the image into a first storage buffer, R is an integer greater than 1; upsampling and filtering the R rows of data to obtain M rows of processed data, M is the upsampling multiple in the upsampling and filtering process, and M is an integer greater than 1. The method further includes reading a next row of data of the image into the first storage buffer after processing the R rows of data, the next row of data and the original R−1 rows of data in the first storage buffer are used as the R rows of data for the next upsampling and filtering process; and outputting the M rows of processed data. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392557 | Transforming Digital Images to Create Material Swatches with a Capture Guide - A material data collection system allows capturing of material data. For example, the material data collection system may include digital image data for materials. The material data collection system may ensure that captured digital image data is properly aligned, so that material data may be easily recalled for later use, while maintaining the proper alignment for the captured digital image. The material data collection system may include using a capture guide, to provide cues on how to orient a mobile device used with the material data collection system. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392558 | STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD - An HMD includes an attitude calculating unit, an attitude correcting unit, an image generating unit, and a display control unit. The attitude calculating unit may calculate a first attitude of the HMD based on an angular rate detected by an angular rate sensor. The attitude correcting unit may correct the first attitude to calculate a second attitude, based on an acceleration detected by an accelerometer and a rotation amount per predetermined time of the HMD. The image generating unit may generate an image according to the second attitude. The display control unit may cause a display to display the image. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392559 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECONSTRUCTING OBSTRUCTED FACE PORTIONS FOR VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT - A method and a system for reconstructing obstructed face portions are provided herein. The method may include the following steps: obtaining off-line 3D data, being 3D data of a head of a person not wearing a face-obstructing object, being an object which obstructs a portion of the face of the person; obtaining in real time, real-time 3D data, being 3D data of said head, wherein said person wears said face-obstructing object; applying a 3D transformation to at least a portion of the off-line 3D data, based on the real-time 3D data, to yield reconstructed real time 3D data, being real-time 3D data related to the obstructed face portions; and merging the reconstructed real time 3D data into the real-time 3D data. The system may implement the aforementioned steps over a computer processor. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392560 | Image Saturation Processing Based on Depth - A method and a device for processing an image saturation based on depth of field, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium are provided, for processing scene data collected by an imaging device. The scene data includes a first scene image. The method includes the following. The scene data is processed to determine whether a portrait exists in a scene. In response to determining that the portrait exists, the scene data is processed to identify a portrait region. The first scene image is processed to reduce a saturation of the portrait region. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392561 | Image Processing Method, Image Processing Device and Electronic Device - The present disclosure provides an image processing method, an image processing device and an electronic device. The image processing method is configured to process scene data acquired by an imaging device. The scene data includes a first scene image. The method includes: processing the scene data to obtain a scheme of the first scene image; and processing the first scene image corresponding to the scheme, to enhance contrast between the scheme of the first scene image and a remaining part of the first scene image. | 2019-12-26 |
20190392562 | HEADS UP DISPLAY (HUD) CONTENT CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGIES - A system and methodologies for controlling the content of a heads up display to provide increased visibility of naturally occurring contours and surfaces in the environment is provided. Depth information is provided along with predefined lighting conditions in order to output an image by the HUD with enhanced feature contours. | 2019-12-26 |