Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120117005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT ASSISTANCE - A system and a method for a service engine providing distributed intelligent assistance to a user are described herein. The method comprising steps of receiving and displaying a user inquiry from the user, the user inquiry having a linguistic pattern including a verb; generating and displaying a follow up question based on the user inquiry; receiving and displaying a follow up answer from the user; and generating and displaying a response based on the user inquiry and the follow up answer. | 05-10-2012 |
20130030903 | SIMULATED ENVIRONMENTS FOR MARKETPLACES, GAMING, SPORTING EVENTS, AND PERFORMANCE EVENTS - Systems and methods of simulated objects in simulated environments for marketplaces, gaming, sporting events and/or performance events are disclosed herein. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method to control a simulated object that is associated with a physical location in a real world environment. One embodiment includes enabling access of the simulated object in a simulated environment by a user via a device responsive to determining that a location data or timing data satisfies a criterion. The simulated environment can include a marketplace associated with the physical location in the real world environment where the simulated object represents virtual goods or real goods associated with the marketplace. | 01-31-2013 |
20130290317 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OPTIMIZED FOR MICRO CONTENT - A system and a method for microcontent natural language processing are presented. The method comprising steps of receiving a microcontent message from a social networking server, tokenizing the microcontent message into one or more text tokens, detecting the language of the microcontent message and selecting the property dictionary for part-of-speech tag, part-of-speech tagging the microcontent message to identify related pronouns and nouns based on the selected dictionary, and extracting topics form the microcontent messages and assigning confidence values to the topics. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293580 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING TARGETS IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are disclosed for facilitating electronic commerce in an augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting, by a mobile device, presence of the physical product or the real life service; and presenting, on the mobile device, information to conduct the transaction of a physical product or a real life service via the augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting one or more targets in the augmented reality platform using a select area in a perspective of a user, the perspective being captured by a mobile device; and prompting the user to choose an object of interest from the one or more detected targets. Among other advantages, embodiments disclosed herein provide an intuitive and integrated user experience in shopping using augmented reality devices, thereby reducing the consumer user's effort in conducting such activities, reducing necessary sales personnel and their working hours, and increasing sales. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297460 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS OF A PHYSICAL PRODUCT OR REAL LIFE SERVICE VIA AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are disclosed for facilitating electronic commerce in an augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting, by a mobile device, presence of the physical product or the real life service; and presenting, on the mobile device, information to conduct the transaction of a physical product or a real life service via the augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting one or more targets in the augmented reality platform using a select area in a perspective of a user, the perspective being captured by a mobile device; and prompting the user to choose an object of interest from the one or more detected targets. Among other advantages, embodiments disclosed herein provide an intuitive and integrated user experience in shopping using augmented reality devices, thereby reducing the consumer user's effort in conducting such activities, reducing necessary sales personnel and their working hours, and increasing sales. | 11-07-2013 |
20140129324 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY PLACING AND SCHEDULING OF PROMOTIONAL ITEMS OR CONTENT BASED ON MOMENTUM OF ACTIVITIES OF A TARGETED AUDIENCE IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are disclosed for dynamically placing, scheduling, and adjusting promotional items based on momentum of activities of a targeted audience in a network. An example method comprises selecting a group of users from a user population in a network. The selection can be based on a degree of association between (i) multiple key words and (ii) profile data or past activities from the user population. The method further comprises monitoring activities performed in the network by the group of users. The method further comprises identifying a topic from the activities. The method further comprises determining momentum for the topic. The momentum can be proportional to (i) a number of how many users whose activities mention the topic and (ii) a frequency of how often the topic is mentioned. The method further comprises selectively delivering promotional content to the group of users based on the momentum for the identified topic. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129331 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING MOMENTUM OF ACTIVITIES OF A TARGETED AUDIENCE FOR AUTOMATICALLY OPTIMIZING PLACEMENT OF PROMOTIONAL ITEMS OR CONTENT IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are disclosed for predicting momentum of topic in the future in automatically optimizing placement of promotional items or content (e.g., advertisements) in a network. An example method comprises selecting a group of users from a user population in a network based on, for example, a degree of association between (i) multiple key words and (ii) profile data or past activities from the user population. The method further comprises monitoring activities performed in the network by the group of users. The method further comprises identifying a topic from the activities, and determining momentum for the topic. The method further comprises predicting a future momentum for the identified topic based on observing additional topics which are related to the identified topic and have momentums with a rate of growth that exceeds a positive or negative threshold. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136544 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OPTIMIZED FOR MICRO CONTENT - A system and a method for microcontent natural language processing are presented. The method comprising steps of receiving a microcontent message from a social networking server, tokenizing the microcontent message into one or more text tokens, detecting the language of the microcontent message and selecting the property dictionary for part-of-speech tag, part-of-speech tagging the microcontent message to identify related pronouns and nouns based on the selected dictionary, and extracting topics form the microcontent messages and assigning confidence values to the topics. | 05-15-2014 |
20140222558 | FACILITATING ELECTRONIC COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are disclosed for facilitating electronic commerce in an augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting, by a mobile device, presence of the physical product or the real life service; and presenting, on the mobile device, information to conduct the transaction of a physical product or a real life service via the augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting one or more targets in the augmented reality platform using a select area in a perspective of a user, the perspective being captured by a mobile device; and prompting the user to choose an object of interest from the one or more detected targets. Among other advantages, embodiments disclosed herein provide an intuitive and integrated user experience in shopping using augmented reality devices, thereby reducing the consumer user's effort in conducting such activities, reducing necessary sales personnel and their working hours, and increasing sales. | 08-07-2014 |
20140337332 | SEARCH AND SEARCH OPTIMIZATION USING A PATTERN OF A LOCATION IDENTIFIER - Systems and methods for search and search optimization using a pattern in a location identifier is disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of search and search optimization. The method includes, detecting a set of location identifiers that have a pattern that matches a specified pattern and identifying a set of search results as having content related to the semantic type. The specified pattern can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium and corresponds to a semantic type. The set of search results can include objects associated with the set of location identifiers having the specified pattern. | 11-13-2014 |