Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090281890 | ONLINE ORDERING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for facilitating an on-line purchase of at least one item on behalf of a consumer are disclosed. A consumer may shop and purchase at least one item on a consolidated shopping (CS) website displaying one or more items available for purchase on one or more different merchant websites. The CS website provides consumers with advanced searching that takes into consideration a personal profile of the consumer, the consumer's previous shopping history, transactional data relating to a group of similar consumers, and the like. A host computer providing the CS website may access a merchant website selling the requested item, and order the requested item on behalf of the consumer, and charging a transaction fee, listing fee, receiving a rebate and/or offering a rebate for performing such. One embodiment allows a consumer to purchase/order multiple items from multiple websites in a single purchase request to the CS website. | 11-12-2009 |
20090281927 | ONLINE ORDERING FOR A CONSUMER - Systems and methods for facilitating an on-line purchase of at least one item on behalf of a consumer are disclosed. A consumer may shop and purchase at least one item on a consolidated shopping (CS) website displaying one or more items available for purchase on one or more different merchant websites. The CS website provides consumers with advanced searching that takes into consideration a personal profile of the consumer, the consumer's previous shopping history, transactional data relating to a group of similar consumers, and the like. A host computer providing the CS website may access a merchant website selling the requested item, and order the requested item on behalf of the consumer, and charging a transaction fee, listing fee, receiving a rebate and/or offering a rebate for performing such. One embodiment allows a consumer to purchase/order multiple items from multiple websites in a single purchase request to the CS website. | 11-12-2009 |
20130024291 | Online ordering system and method - Systems and methods for facilitating an on-line purchase of at least one item on behalf of a consumer are disclosed. A consumer may shop and purchase at least one item on a consolidated shopping (CS) website displaying one or more items available for purchase on one or more different merchant websites. The CS website provides consumers with advanced searching that takes into consideration a personal profile of the consumer, the consumer's previous shopping history, transactional data relating to a group of similar consumers, and the like. A host computer providing the CS website may access a merchant website selling the requested item, and order the requested item on behalf of the consumer, and charging a transaction fee, listing fee, receiving a rebate and/or offering a rebate for performing such. One embodiment allows a consumer to purchase/order multiple items from multiple websites in a single purchase request to the CS website. | 01-24-2013 |
20140095359 | ONLINE ORDERING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for facilitating an on-line purchase of at least one item on behalf of a consumer are disclosed. A consumer may shop and purchase at least one item on a consolidated shopping (CS) website displaying one or more items available for purchase on one or more different merchant websites. The CS website provides consumers with advanced searching that takes into consideration a personal profile of the consumer, the consumer's previous shopping history, transactional data relating to a group of similar consumers, and the like. A host computer providing the CS website may access a merchant website selling the requested item, and order the requested item on behalf of the consumer, and charging a transaction fee, listing fee, receiving a rebate and/or offering a rebate for performing such. One embodiment allows a consumer to purchase/order multiple items from multiple websites in a single purchase request to the CS website. | 04-03-2014 |
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20150226049 | ASSESSMENT, MONITORING AND CONTROL OF DRILLING OPERATIONS AND/OR GEOLOGICAL-CHARACTERISTIC ASSESSMENT - In monitoring/control of drilling operation a dimensionality of a full-scale model (e.g., characterizing variables related to cuttings transport, gas migration and/or the like) is reduced and data from a plurality of geographically distributed (e.g., depth varying) sensors is received, and a surrogate model is used to estimate variables in real-time. Use of the surrogate model may enable, e.g., particle-filtering processes to be employed during the estimation while still allowing for real-time estimations, avoiding excessive use of reasonable computational resources (e.g., memory and processing speeds) and/or the like. Operating controls or the like may then be set based on the estimated variables. For example, drilling control parameters may be adjusted based on estimated variables to avoid lost circulation, kicks, stuck pipe, and catastrophic events, optimize drilling parameters such as rate of penetration, improve drilling success probabilities and efficiency and/or the like. | 08-13-2015 |
20150308204 | CONTROL OF MANAGED PRESSURE DRILLING - A method is provided for controlling a managed pressure drilling system. The method comprises providing a fast system interpretation model for the operation of the managed pressure drilling system, obtaining real-time measurements from one or more sensors regarding the operation of the managed pressure drilling system, using the measurements to calibrate the fast system interpretation model for the managed pressure drilling system in real-time and using a predictive controller to run the calibrated fast system interpretation model to a time horizon in the future. | 10-29-2015 |