Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090070701 | MULTIPLE UI PARADIGMS WITHIN A SINGLE APPLICATION - A user interface (UI) with multiple UI paradigms. Each of the multiple UI paradigms is substantially different from the other UI paradigm(s). The substantially different UI paradigms are within a single application. A switching mechanism, which is also a part of the single application, enables a user to relatively rapidly switch between the different UI paradigms. | 03-12-2009 |
20090083088 | SYNCHRONIZING DATA BETWEEN BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - Architecture for synchronizing data between business applications according to a multi-master arrangement. Changes to business entities can be snapshot changes, delta changes, and long-running process changes, the latter which can be derived from the first two. The architecture includes automatic error retry logic, such that when synchronization errors occur, the logic can be replayed to resolve the errors, when conditions have changed where the errors can be resolved. This also applies to when one error causes a cascading set of errors. By replaying one error, the other errors will be resolved. Backup and restore of a participating application is also provided such that a new data change in a non-backup-restored application will automatically be synchronized to the recently-restored system. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083740 | ASYNCHRONOUS EXECUTION OF SOFTWARE TASKS - A service broker for asynchronous execution of software. The broker functions include dynamically loading working modules from a specified directory, publishing the working module commands, receiving service requests from clients, and upon successful authentication and authorization, dispatching the requests to module command queues for scheduling and execution. The modules are invoked in separate domains so that management functions can control the modules independently. A management application facilitates interactive user scheduling of the actions being invoked. This can also be accomplished automatically according to business rules, for example. The management application also facilitates checking the progress on an action that is occurring, displaying errors that occur during the command execution, results of an action can also be displayed, and scheduling of requests. | 03-26-2009 |
20090327083 | AUTOMATING ON-LINE ADVERTISEMENT PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION - A method and system for generating a price landscape for an advertiser for bids placed by the advertiser for advertisement space is provided. A price landscape system generates a price landscape based on information provided by an advertisement placement service that may include overall price estimation data and advertiser-specific performance data. The price landscape system generates price landscape data for an advertiser that combines the overall price estimation data and the advertiser-specific performance data to provide a more accurate assessment of the advertiser's expected performance than can be determined from the overall price estimation data or the advertiser-specific performance data alone. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327331 | AD SYSTEM THAT INTERACTS WITH PLURAL AD ENGINES - An ad system allows a user to create and manage an ad campaign that is administered by two or more ad engines. The ad system interacts with the ad engines using a channel abstraction interface module. For each ad engine, the channel abstraction interface module translates ad information from an engine-agnostic format that is associated with the ad system to an engine-specific format that is associated with the ad engine. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327427 | METHOD OF AGGREGATING BUSINESS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method and system for facilitating relationships across multiple networks is described. The meta-network includes relationship information describing users, the networks to which such users belong, and the relationships that they have established within such networks. When a relationship is established in a network, it can be used to propagate relationships across any number of networks with the same or different users. The meta-network enhances the users' ability to search for information and manage their relationships across multiple networks. A user can search for other users according to one or more user-specified attributes. One or more users satisfying the user-specified attributes are identified, and a similarity measure may be determined for each of the identified users. A mapping interface is displayed to the user to enable the user to visually compare the identified users having a similarity measure within the displayed range. The mapping interface allows the user to invite one or more of the displayed users to establish a relationship with the user. | 12-31-2009 |
20100275256 | Switching an Application, User, and Security Context Based on Device Orientation - A computer is adapted for changing one or more of the application, security, or user contexts based on the orientation of a component, such as a monitor. Changing the context responsive to the reorientation allows two or more users to use the same hardware to complete a transaction requiring at least two perspectives, for example, buyer and seller. In the background, transaction end points may be changed as well as establishment of a secure channel for supporting confidentiality of a user and their personal information. The computer so equipped may be applicable to many situations involving two parties, such as hospitals, personnel/human relations, banking, government benefits, and retail. | 10-28-2010 |
20110196716 | LEAD QUALIFICATION BASED ON CONTACT RELATIONSHIPS AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE - A lead qualification system receives from a potential customer lead information that includes an identification of the potential customer. The lead qualification system then identifies attributes of the potential customer. To qualify a lead, the lead qualification system may generate a lead score based on an experience score and a contact score. To generate the experience score, the lead qualification system may analyze sales history and other information of customers that have attributes similar to the potential customer. To generate the contact score, the lead qualification system may analyze the business relationships between people of the sales organization and the potential customer. The lead qualification system may generate the lead score by combining the contact score and the experience score. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196924 | IDENTIFYING INTERMEDIARIES AND POTENTIAL CONTACTS BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS - A contact identification system provides a network of members with each member of a network having a relationship with one or more other members of the network. The contact identification system identifies relationship paths between a first member of a first network and a second member of a second network by traversing relationships to identify relationship paths that include a common member that is common to both the first network and the second network. The contact identification system generates an intermediary score for each identified relationship path to indicate whether the identified relationship path includes an intermediary who can effect a successful introduction between the first member and the second member. The contact identification system then identifies as potential intermediaries the common members based on generated intermediary scores. | 08-11-2011 |
20110208786 | PRESENTATION OF A WEB-BASED VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF A STRUCTURED DATA SOLUTION - Information from a business application system, such as an ERP system, may be published to a business application user-generated web page for display to an end user and for collecting information from an end user to make available for download into the business application system. The user-generated web page may be defined as a web-based visual representation of a structured data solution, which may define data, data presentation, and data binding metadata for enabling a solution scenario, such as vendor enrollment, sourcing, time entry, job listings, vendor-managed inventory, sales lead capture, purchase order/invoicing, service contract renewal, and customer support requests, and the like. Business application users may be enabled to connect with potential and existing customers, partners, and vendors from within the business application system via the web-based visual representation, and additionally, may capture interactions directly into the business application system without IT dependency. | 08-25-2011 |
20110209045 | Web-Based Visual Representation of a Structured Data Solution - Information from a business application system, such as an ERP system, may be published to a business application user-generated web page for display to an end user and for collecting information from an end user to make available for download into the business application system. The user-generated web page may be defined as a web-based visual representation of a structured data solution, which may define data, data presentation, and data binding metadata for enabling a solution scenario, such as vendor enrollment, sourcing, time entry, job listings, vendor-managed inventory, sales lead capture, purchase order/invoicing, service contract renewal, and customer support requests, and the like. Business application users may be enabled to connect with potential and existing customers, partners, and vendors from within the business application system via the web-based visual representation, and additionally, may capture interactions directly into the business application system without IT dependency. | 08-25-2011 |
20110209049 | DATA BINDING FOR A WEB-BASED VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF A STRUCTURED DATA SOLUTION - Information from a business application system, such as an ERP system, may be published to a business application user-generated web page for display to an end user and for collecting information from an end user to make available for download into the business application system. The user-generated web page may be defined as a web-based visual representation of a structured data solution, which may define data, data presentation, and data binding metadata for enabling a solution scenario, such as vendor enrollment, sourcing, time entry, job listings, vendor-managed inventory, sales lead capture, purchase order/invoicing, service contract renewal, and customer support requests, and the like. Business application users may be enabled to connect with potential and existing customers, partners, and vendors from within the business application system via the web-based visual representation, and additionally, may capture interactions directly into the business application system without IT dependency. | 08-25-2011 |
20140100980 | MULTIPLE UI PARADIGMS WITHIN A SINGLE APPLICATION - A user interface (UI) with multiple UI paradigms. Each of the multiple UI paradigms is substantially different from the other UI paradigm(s). The substantially different UI paradigms are within a single application. A switching mechanism, which is also a part of the single application, enables a user to relatively rapidly switch between the different UI paradigms. | 04-10-2014 |