06th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
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20100036714 | CUSTOMER-SPECIFIC MERCHANDISING PROGRAM - The invention is directed to facilitating the planning and ordering of a merchandising unit and associated products. A merchandising unit planning screen is presented that displays a representation of a merchandising unit having holders for holding and displaying the products. A product menu is provided for each holder to allow selection of a product from a set of products for each respective holder. Available choices in the product menu of at least one holder are constraining to a subset of the set of products based on predetermined criteria. For each holder for which a product has been selected, a product quantity is determined based on a capacity of the respective holder. An order is generated based on the selected products. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036715 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING PRODUCTIVITY OF A TEAM - The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for estimating the productivity of a team for a project. The project includes various activities that are performed using an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) tool. The method includes identifying the level of language of the ETL tool from a first predefined table, which represents the relationship between the level of language and the generation of language of the ETL tool. The method further includes assigning a rule number to the activities performed by the ETL tool for the project. Thereafter, the productivity of the team is calculated based on the level of language, the rule number of the activities, and the time taken by the team to complete the project. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036716 | ELECTRONIC TOLL SETTLEMENT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - The present invention relates to an electronic toll settlement device of a vehicle, more particularly, to a technology which settles an insufficient amount from a mobile communications server and delivers to a toll settlement server through a mobile communications terminal when the balance of a high-pass terminal is worth less than a toll. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036717 | Dynamic Information System - A method for presenting dynamic advertising comprises providing an advertising presentation device; regularly receiving electronic context data related to the advertising presentation device; on the basis of the context data, automatically generating context-based advertising; and causing the advertising presentation device to present the context-based advertising. The method is useful in particular for mobile advertising presentation devices, as it enables advertising to be dynamically generated based on regularly received context data such as presentation device location, date/time, user input at the advertising presentation device. Increased relevance of the advertisement to the observer is therefore provided. A system for presenting dynamic advertisements comprises an advertising presentation device; a controller in communications with the advertising presentation device, the controller for: regularly receiving electronic context data related to the advertising presentation device; automatically generating context-based advertising on the basis of the context data; and causing the advertising presentation device to present the context-based advertising. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036718 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC OPTIMAL ADVERTISING DETERMINATION WITHIN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code includes receiving advertising criteria, collecting advertisement cost data, and detecting virtual universe (VU) data. Additionally, the method includes determining optimal advertisement parameters based on the advertising criteria, the advertisement cost data and the VU data, and at least one of displaying the optimal advertisement parameters and invoking an advertisement in the VU in accordance with the optimal advertisement parameters. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036719 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE CONTENT DELIVERY - Apparatus, systems, and methods for online content delivery are disclosed that operate to present an advertisement to a plurality of users, the advertisement associated with an advertiser and comprising a plurality of software components where at least one software component of the plurality of software components is an interactive software component; track use of the interactive software component by the plurality of users; calculate an aggregate value based on a value associated with each use of the interactive software component; and charge the advertiser an advertising fee corresponding to the aggregate value. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036720 | UBIQUITOUS INTENT-BASED CUSTOMER INCENTIVE SCHEME - System(s) and method(s) are provided to compensate an agent in exchange for the agent's intent in transacting with a service platform. Compensation can be effected in online and offline domains, and intent can be conveyed online or offline. Compensation is funded through advertisement spending, and advertisement impressions facilitate compensation delivery. The service platform that compensated the agent extracts intent through explicit or implicit expressions which can be collected online or offline. Offline expressions can be delivered through wearable indicia. Compensation can be delivered wirelessly offline or online to a device operated by the agent. Agent and agent's device(s) registration afford service platform to deliver adaptive compensation customized to the agent, and advertisement(s) with format and content optimized for the agent's device. To drive agent's commercial transactions, offline location services and online location information facilitate delivery of advertisement and associated compensation based in part on agent's intent and location. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036721 | Method of Increasing Customer Loyalty With A Merchant - A method of increasing customer loyalty and sales with a merchant includes providing a carrier to obtain demographic and contact information about a customer and enter the customer as a participant in a rewards program. This carrier also grants the loyalty program permission to market to them through any contact means they are given. The customer information is matched with a participant number. Promotional materials are sent to the participant wherein the promotional materials include a participant identifier and a promotional code wherein the promotional material is presented to a merchant to obtain points in the rewards program based upon the participant's activity with the merchant such that a card is not required to participate in the rewards program. The results of all marketing is analyzed to determine future customized marketing to target existing and potential customers with similar demographic profiles as merchants existing best customers. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036722 | AUTOMATICALLY PRESCRIBING TOTAL BUDGET FOR MARKETING AND SALES RESOURCES AND ALLOCATION ACROSS SPENDING CATEGORIES - In one embodiment, a software facility is provided that uses a qualitative description of a subject offering to automatically prescribe both (1) a total budget for marketing and sales resources for a subject offering and (2) an allocation of that total budget over multiple spending categories—also referred to as “activities”—in a manner intended to optimize a business outcome such as profit for the subject offering based on experimentally-obtained econometric data. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036723 | Sweepstakes Incentive Model and Associated System - A sweepstakes incentive model and associated system for a distributed processing system are disclosed that identify the capabilities of distributed devices connected together through a wide variety of communication systems and networks and aggregate these distributed device capabilities to accomplish desired distributed workload objectives. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036724 | Digital entertainment service platform - The present invention is directed to an open business platform that provides an end-to-end solution for managing, distributing, and/or retailing digital media assets from various content suppliers. In one or more embodiments, the present invention provides an integrated system that permits media content suppliers to deposit their media assets with the system where they are prepared by a content management system for distribution to consumers via a secure distribution system. The media content suppliers may then track and control the use of their media assets through a subscriber management system for managing consumer accounts, a licensing server for issuing licenses restricting the use of media content, and a royalty reporter for determining and reporting royalties to the various content suppliers. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036725 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PREDETERMINED SERVICE TO A DOMAIN REGISTRANT BY A TLD REGISTRY - The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a predetermined service to a domain registrant by a TLD registry through a first service provider The first service provider is required to be used for the predetermined service ( | 2010-02-11 |
20100036726 | METHOD OF REDUCING COST PER ACTION OF AN INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT CAMPAIGN, AND OPTIMIZING TO THE MAXIMUM THE NUMBER OF ACTIONS PERFORMED BY WEB SURFERS - The invention concerns a cost-reduction method per action performed during an online interactive advertising campaign. The method implements the following steps:
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20100036727 | Method of Tracking the Impact of Paid Search on Offline Sales - A method whereby internet search keyword(s) can be associated with a purchase at an offline merchant. The process empowers the merchant to optimize bids to invest more money in keyword(s) with a stronger return on investment and less money in keyword(s) with a lower return on investment. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036728 | Real time navigation and advertising platform for public transportation - Invention is provided for navigation and orientation for all types of passengers traveling in public transportation. Segmentation methods for digital advertising based on location and number of passengers. Method for delivering audio and visual advertisements in real time into public transportation vehicles. Method for delivering public transportation positioning information, including arrival times, remaining times, past and future stops, stop numbers, current position, street and neighborhood names, waypoints, connections with other public transportation means, and news headlines. Method for embedding advertisements in any form, including banners, skins, pop-ups, video, audio, text and animation, in information screens inside public transportation. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036729 | IMMERSIVE ADVERTISEMENTS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - The invention generally relates to systems and methods for advertising, and, more particularly, to systems and methods for providing immersive advertising in a virtual universe. In one aspect of the invention, there is a method for presenting a virtual universe advertisement (VU-ad) in a virtual universe (VU), receiving input from a user associated with a user avatar of the VU, and altering the VU-ad in response to the input. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036730 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and method for increasing displaying time of online advertisements. Upon receiving a search request including one or more search terms, a search engine may identify a list of search results and display the search results on one side of a result page. The search engine may also obtain a list of advertisements and display the list of advertisements on the other side of the result page. When a user scrolls down to look at search results at a lower portion of the result page, the list of advertisements may be moved down, following the movement of the screen, so that at least a part of the list of advertisements may keep being displayed on the current screen. Since the online advertisements are visible to the user for a longer time, there are more opportunities for the online advertisements to get the user's attention, and consequently more opportunities for the user to click on an advertisement. As a result, the efficiency of online advertising may be improved. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036731 | ANIMATED AUDIBLE CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISING - A system is disclosed that includes a processor and a memory including instructions that are executable by the processor. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to identify advertisement data associated with an advertisement campaign based on one or more features of a web page requested by a client device. Based on stored user interaction data associated with the client device and the identified advertisement data, a textual component of an advertisement is generated. An animated component is generated based on the textual component, and a text-to-speech conversion is performed on the textual component in order to generate an audible component. The textual component, the animated component, and the audible component are sent to the client device. The animated component and the audible component are initially dormant and are presented at the client device in response to a first client device user action. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036732 | System for Email Advertising - A system for breaking down, collecting, and analyzing specific keywords included in sent emails where value is assigned to such keywords, which in turn compares the subject category that is most relevant to that email. From there, the advertisements are pulled from this subject category to include within the particular email. In this manner, the advertisements are tailored to individual sent emails based on the content contained within the email message. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036733 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and method for improving precision of online advertisement targeting. Upon receiving a search request including one or more search terms, a search engine may identify a list of search results and display the search results in a first portion of a result page. The search engine may also obtain a list of advertisements and display the list of advertisements in a second portion of the result page. If a user is interested in a part of the result page, which may be a search result or an advertisement, he may mouse over it or click on the link to open the web page and get more information. A user activity analyzing module may collect information about the user's browsing activities on the result page, analyze the user's interest, and send one or more supplemental search terms to the search engine, so that the search engine may dynamically update the advertisement list with the supplemental search terms. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036734 | Delivering Advertisement Messages to a User by the Use of Idle Screens of Electronic Devices - A method is disclosed by the use of an idle display screen of an electronic device to render one or a plurality of advertisement messages. The method requires no extra effort from a user since the displayed message is replaced by a default display screen when the first user's input action is received. The displayed message is being removed into an icon displayed in the default screen in a notable means to the user. In one embodiment, a display plane with the advertisement message is reduced progressively and is moved into the icon in a visible way to the user with a visible trajectory of the movement on the screen. The user attracted by the displayed message may actuate the icon containing at least the displayed message for a review. Further, the icon may include other advertisement messages. In another embodiment, an idle screen such as for example, a blanket screen is displayed when the device is idle. An advertisement message is displayed immediately after the user's first input action is received. The message is then removed into the icon in a user notable means. The user's reactions to the displayed messages are monitored and the messages to be displayed are adjusted in accordance with the user's reactions. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036735 | TRIGGERING IMMERSIVE ADVERTISEMENTS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - The invention generally relates to systems and methods for advertising, and, more particularly, to systems and methods for triggering immersive advertising in a virtual universe. In an embodiment, a method includes: obtaining tolerance data about a user who triggers a virtual universe advertisement (VU-ad) in a virtual universe (VU); and presenting a variation of the VU-ad to the user based upon the tolerance data. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036736 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REVENUE SHARING WITH A FITNESS CENTER - Systems and methods for revenue sharing with a fitness center are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, to incentivize purchase of internet and/or web-enabled exercise equipment by a fitness center. One embodiment can include, assessing a fee from a user of the internet and/or web-enabled exercise equipment, collecting at least a portion of the fee from the user, and sharing the at least a portion of the fee with the fitness center where the internet and/or web-enabled exercise equipment is physically located. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036737 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR TARGETED MOBILE ADVERTISEMENT - A method and system for delivery of targeted mobile advertisement, the method: associating an advertising client with a data façade on a mobile device; passing subscription filters from the advertising client to the data façade; receiving at the mobile device, advertisements related to the subscription filters; communicating between an advertisement application and the advertising client to request an advertisement; selecting at the advertising client an advertisement for the advertising application; and returning the advertisement to the advertising application. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036738 | System and Method for Advertising Goods and Services in Print Media - This disclosure describes a hyper-targeted print media advertising system and method that utilizes a relatively new printing technology known as variable data presses. The systems and methods described herein utilize an on-line self-service platform that allows advertisers to design, target, schedule and pay for advertisements in print media (e.g., newspapers) allowing the print media to service handle a far larger number of advertisements than normal since different readers can receive a different set of advertisements. Further, advertisers using the system and methods described herein will be able to target their ads much more precisely geographically, demographically and/or psycho-graphically that has been possible heretofore. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036739 | Mobile Billboard Advertising System and Apparatuses - A novel advertising method at least includes: receiving at least one advertising placement offer for the placement of an advertisement, the offer including proposed consideration; accepting an advertising placement order; and displaying an advertisement which is the subject of an accepted advertising placement order on a plurality of mobile, changeable advertising message displays carried by a plurality of coordinated automobiles, which changeable displays are capable of displaying more than one separate advertising message at different times. Each changeable advertising message display at least includes: a visual display; a multiple advertising message generator coupled to the visual display, the multiple advertising message generator adapted to generate a plurality of different advertising messages; and an advertising message selector adapted to select a current advertising message to be displayed. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036740 | SELF SERVICE ADVERTISING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention relates to self service advertising method, which comprises: (a) displaying a web page in a normal mode, wherein the page comprises content and active advertisements that are displayed in specific advertising spaces within the web page; (b) providing the same web page in an advertiser mode, wherein the page is displayed with the same content and content placement as in said normal mode, while those advertising spaces that are offered for future advertising are shown without their active advertisements and in their exact same placement in the document as in said normal mode, and wherein each advertising space comprises at least a link for guiding an advertiser to a process for self placing an advertisement within said advertising space; and (c) a predefined virtual button or link within said web page in both said normal and advertiser modes for effecting switching between said normal and advertiser modes. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036741 | APPLICATION CURRENCY CODE FOR DYNAMIC CURRENCY CONVERSION TRANSACTIONS WITH CONTACTLESS CONSUMER TRANSACTION PAYMENT DEVICE - Data is wirelessly reading from a consumer's smart card and then parsed to derive the consumer's account upon which a transaction is to be conducted between a merchant and an Application Currency Code (ACC) corresponding to a second currency. The amount of the transaction is converted from the merchant's local currency to the second currency and included in an authorization request sent to the merchant's acquirer. A receipt for the amount of the transaction in the second currency is rendered if the transaction is authorized. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036742 | ELECTRONIC MONEY SYSTEM, AMOUNT-OF-MONEY CHANGE INFORMATION TRANSMITTER, SERVER, AND AMOUNT-OF-MONEY CHANGE INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD - An electronic money terminal is provided to confirm whether a currency terminal has executed money amount change processing when there is no response after transmission of money amount change information to the currency terminal. The electronic money terminal reads and stores a value balance before transmission of money amount change information from an electronic money card. Then, the electronic money terminal transmits the money amount change information to the electronic money card. The electronic money terminal waits for a response from the electronic money card for a predetermined time and, if no response is transmitted, the electronic money terminal forcibly reads a current value balance in the electronic money card. The electronic money terminal compares this value balance with the value balance read before transmission of the money amount change information, determines that the money amount change information has not been carried out in the electronic money card if both the value balances are equal to each other, and determines that the money amount change information has been carried out in the electronic money card if they are different from each other. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036743 | TRANSACTION PROCESSING PLATFORM FOR FACILITATING ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF PLURAL PREPAID SERVICES - A transaction processing platform capable of facilitating the distribution to consumers of various types of prepaid products is disclosed. The transaction processing platform is configured to interface with one or more providers of such prepaid products in order to facilitate the procurement or activation of the products. The platform includes a conduit interface through which service request messages are received and respectively utilized to generate transaction requests for corresponding types of prepaid services. A supply interface arrangement, operatively coupled to the conduit interface, is configured to route a first of the transaction requests through a first supply interface associated with a first type of prepaid service. The supply interface arrangement also routes a second transaction request through a second supply interface associated with a second type of prepaid service. The platform is also configured to provide supplier response information received through the supply interfaces to the conduit interface. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036744 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE GLOBAL DONATION OF ITEMS AND SERVICES - The present invention is a method and system for facilitating the global donation of items and services from a donor located anywhere in the world to a recipient with specific characteristics located anywhere in the world that substantially matches the desired criteria of the donor whereby the interface between the donor and the recipient is an Internet portal or website. The objective of the method and system is to empower the donors and to ensure that donations reach those that the donor had intended more efficiently and directly in comparison to the types of charitable organizations and government run programs that currently exist. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SALE AND DELIVERY OF GIFT CARDS - A system for selling gift cards to consumers and delivering the gift cards to the consumers includes an Internet accessed website. An order form on the website allows the consumer to enter appropriate identification apparatus, credit card information and desired pickup day or delivery instructions. The purchaser then receives a confirmation number. The identification and credit information is then sent to the seller and used to obtain approval of the credit information on the order from a third party processor. The seller advises the consumer if the credit is not approved. Otherwise the consumer can pick up the gift cards at the seller's facility upon presentation of the confirmation number, identification and credit card. Alternatively, the seller will deliver the gift cards to the consumer. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036746 | Virtual on-line pre-shopping system and method - An electronic pre-shopping system and method, for an on-line retail outlet and/or an electronic portal to various online retail outlets is provided. The system and method provides the consumer the option of pre-shopping for a gift item from an on-line retail outlet. The system and method provides the consumer the capability of accessing the retail outlet website, selecting a gift item from the website, selectively extracting from a website page the gift item product retail information, associating the gift item with future special occasion of a recipient of the gift item, storing the gift item product information along with the recipient special occasion information into a database, securing payment for the gift item, and delivering the gift item to the recipient within the time period required for the special occasion. The system further provides the consumer the with a user interface that provides the consumer the option of paying for the gift item immediately or at a predetermine date in the future. The user interface further provides the consumer the capability of pre-shopping for a gift item from any online retail store through a software proxy process. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036747 | INTERACTIVE PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR THAT ALLOWS MODIFICATION TO AUTOMATED SELECTIONS - A product configurator includes a constraint based network that includes a plurality of nodes. The configurator receives one or more user selections and generates one or more automatic selections to form a complete configuration. The configurator receives a request to change the configuration after forming the complete configuration, and retracts the automatic selections. For each of the retracted automatic selections, the configurator determines if the retracted automatic selection is a configuration-defining selection and reasserts the configuration-defining selections. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036748 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO MEDIA FILES - Access to selected content in different file formats can be managed by conducting, in a single purchase transaction, a user purchase of access rights that allow a user to acquire multiple copies of the same selected content in media files having different file formats. An authorization signal is communicated to a content provider or multiple content providers who did not conduct the purchase transaction. The authorization signal contains information that allows the content provider or the multiple content providers to authorize the user to acquire multiple copies of the same selected content in different file formats without requiring the user to conduct multiple transactions. Each copy of the selected content acquired from a content provider is in a media file having a different file format. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036749 | Online Machine Data Collection and Archiving Process - An online machine data collection and archiving process generates a machine data profile of a customer computer accessing a transaction form of a merchant web site and links the machine data profile and a transaction record with customer identifying information using a unique transaction identification string. The process preferably captures parameters typically communicated as a part of web accesses, such as an IP address, an HTTP header, and cookie information. The process additionally causes the customer computer to process self-identification routines by processing coding within the merchant transaction form, the self-identification routines yielding further profile parameters. The process further includes a routine for bypassing an intervening proxy to the merchant web site to reveal the true IP address of the customer computer. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036750 | System and method for displaying real estate properties for sale, real estate properties wanted and/or areas in which properties are for sale and/or desired - A system and a method display real estate properties for sale, real estate properties wanted and/or areas in which properties are for sale and/or desired. The system and the method are used without defining whether the user is a buyer and/or a seller. Parameters selected by the user are compared with properties for sale and properties wanted stored in a database to generate a list of properties for sale and properties wanted that match the parameters. The parameters selected by the user may have a user-defined geographical location that may be established by the user choosing points of longitude and latitude. The system and method may indicate a real-time supply and/or demand of specific property types. The system and method may be global in scope and may function in any currency. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036751 | Architecture For Instantiating Information Technology Services - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for information technology (IT) services lifecycle management. A services architecture provides a plurality of services that are capable of being ordered. A design service captures declarative specifications of services as service models. A catalog service receives the service model and combines the service models into a plurality of service offerings to provide a catalog of orderable services. An order configuration service receives an order for at least one orderable service selectable from the catalog of orderable services. An order processing service instantiates the at least one orderable service in two phases, thereby generating an instantiated ordered service. An order fulfillment service fulfills the order in accordance with the instantiated ordered service. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036752 | Method and system for associating a pre-selected order with a customer account via a website for expediting the in-store ordering process and subsequent order fulfillment by way of an internet-connected terminal - A novel retail method of and system for (a) vendor(s) to enroll store(s) and manage an on-line catalog/menu of available goods/services through use of a website, (b) a customer to pre-select one or more “favorite” orders offered by vendor(s) through the use of a website, (c) a customer to subsequently initiate the ordering of one or more such pre-selected favorite(s) when at an Internet-connected terminal located at such a vendor's premises, with the system connecting one or more of the on-site ordering devices to an application that matches the customer to his/her pre-selected order(s) for the customer to then confirm (or cancel to abort the transaction) the specific pre-selected order to fulfill and alerts the order fulfillment personnel at store from where the order was initiated, and then (d) debits the customer's pre-paid account while providing a means of crediting the vendor providing the goods and/or service. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036753 | PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A product customization system and method are provided in which a consumer can insert user content, such as images or text, onto a product, such as a shoe, and then view the customized product before purchasing the customized product. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036754 | STOCKED PRODUCT SENSING SYSTEM - A stocked product sensing system that can be used with a product display, displaying product items on one or more shelves thereof, to determine the level of product availability and/or configuration of product items on one or more shelves of the product display. According to one embodiment of this invention, the stocked product sensing system utilizes capacitive sensing at the shelf-level. According to another embodiment of this invention, the stocked product sensing system utilizes optical sensing at the shelf-level. The stocked product sensing system of this invention may utilize a store-level management system and/or a central management system and generate low stock alarms based on user-defined criteria in a software system. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036755 | Recall System and Method for RFID Medical Item Tracking System - A medical item recall system for medical items at one or more medical facilities at which the medical items are consumed and/or distributed to patients provides each of the medical items has stand-off readable tags, such as RFID tags. The system comprises medical facilities storage devices at the one or more medical facilities containing medical items, the medical items being identified via the stand-off readable tags and associated with individual medical facilities storage devices. The system further comprises an inventory management system that receives recall information for the medical items, receives content information concerning the medical items contained in each of the medical facilities storage devices, and issues reports for locations of medical items matching the recall information. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036756 | Universal transaction code (UTD) used to standardize the method of capturing, storing, and retrieving transaction data - A new standardized Universal Transaction Code ( | 2010-02-11 |
20100036757 | ELECTRONIC CREDIT DEFAULT FUTURES MARKET - Systems and methods are provided for providing a credit default futures market. A system providing the credit default futures market includes a processor, memory and an interface. The interface is configured to display credit default futures contracts that subscribe to a set of standard terms and conditions. The processor is configured to settle certain credit futures contracts in kind and other in cash, depending on, at least in part, the maturity date of the futures contract. A method is presented for electronically clearing and settling probability of default futures contracts. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING FEES FOR A CARD - A processing system is operable for issuance and processing of cards with fee options applicable to a group of fee types. In one embodiment, the processing system includes a processing module, a secure card network, an issuer fee database and card account database. The card issuance database is operable to store a fee record associated with a card, wherein the fee record includes the fee options configured to apply to the group of fee types. The card account database is operable to store a card account record for the card, wherein the card account record includes a universal fee access counter for tracking parameters associated with the fee options configured to apply to the group of fee types. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036759 | Content Provisioning and Revenue Disbursement - A method for provisioning content to users, including for each of a plurality of items of media content, maintaining information about one or more owners of the item of media content, and maintaining information about one or more providers of the item of media content, for each of a plurality of users, maintaining information about items of media content acquired by the user and about player devices owned by the user, for each of a plurality of time periods, maintaining a history log of items of media content played by one or more of the plurality of users during the time period, receiving a request from a user to play a designated item of media content on a designated player device, during a current time period, identifying an appropriate provider of the designated item of media content, according to a location of the user and according to the designated player device, causing the identified provider of the designated item of media content to transmit the designated item of media content to the user's designated player device, updating the history log for the current time period to reflect the user having played the designated item of media content, and calculating revenue disbursement among the owners of the plurality of items of media content, and the providers of the plurality of media content, for the current time period, based on the history log of the current time period. A system is also described and claimed. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036760 | FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTIVE ACCRUAL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING AND FACILITATING COMPLIANCE WITH TAXES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS - A computer-based system and method calculates and facilitates revenue accrual, for making larger, less frequent payments of estimated taxes or other obligations. Payer preferences are applied to satisfy variable payment intervals, amounts, and available resources. The obligation, required payments, and set-aside schedules are recalculated as needed, under payer and/or system control. Excess accruals are minimized; set-aside schedules are configurable. The system may be self-contained, handheld, or accessed remotely. Automatic datalinks move information and command fund transfers from the payer's bank, to accrue funds and make payments to other accounts. A service host may support a plurality of payers to make set-asides and payments at various levels as needed, on an individual or batch basis, including individual taxpayer enrollment for batch file tax payments by service providers. Some embodiments can be embedded to enhance the capabilities of other systems. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036761 | MULTI-COMPANY BUSINESS ACCOUNTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAME INCLUDING ACCOUNT PAYABLE - In at least one embodiment of the present invention, a computer implemented method for Account Payable (AP) accounting for a multi-company group is provided. The method comprises recording a voucher with a multi-company accounting system including entering input voucher detail lines into the system. At least two of the input voucher detail lines are associated with two distinct companies of the multi-company group. The system automatically adds at least a pair of multi-company generated balancing lines associated with the voucher for balancing money owed by each of the distinct companies to define an outstanding balance associated with each of the distinct companies. A payment is recorded in the system to reduce the outstanding balances and system automatically adds a pair of multi-company generated “Due To/Due From” lines as “Due To/Due From” entries to balance the money owed between the distinct companies. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036762 | System and Method for Tracking a Billing Cycle - A system for tracking a billing cycle in a billing system includes a data tracking engine and a rule-based engine. The rule-based engine retrieves information from the billing system during the billing cycle based on a set of rules, and provides the data to the data tracking engine. The data tracking engine generates status information and reports based on the data. The status information and reports can be accessed via a web client to monitor the billing cycle. Additionally, the rule-based engine identifies events in the billing cycle and generates a notification to alert a person if the event is not successfully completed according to a billing schedule. The notification can be accessed via a web client or a wireless communications device. The rule-based engine can subsequently issue an escalated notification to alert another user if the event has not successfully completed at a later time. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036763 | PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR ORDER DISTRIBUTION - Systems and methods for trading financial instruments through multiple trading intermediaries are described. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036764 | OPERATION OF INTERNET WEBSITES - A method and system for facilitating the operation of an Internet website is provided. The method employed by the system may include receiving, at an exchange, information about a publisher's website for which the publisher wishes to sell shares and communicating the information to an investor. The investor may then generate a purchase order for purchasing a number of shares in the publisher's website. A money amount may then be transferred from an account associated with the investor to an account associated with the publisher. At a later time, dividends may be paid to the investor or an investor may sell his shares in the website to a different investor. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036765 | Method for valuing forwards, futures and options on real estate - A system and method for matching buy and sell orders is provided. A daily cash index of real estate values for a local region is maintained and a trading instrument representative of an interest in real estate in the local region is created. In this regard, a cash settlement of the trading instrument is a function of the daily cash index on the date of said cash settlement. In addition, a plurality of buy orders relating to the instrument are generated; a plurality of sell orders relating to the instrument are generated; and the buy and sell orders are matched to determine a purchase and sale of the instrument. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036766 | Method, Apparatus, and Interface for Trading Multiple Tradeable Objects - An interface for trading multiple tradeable objects includes a price axis or scale. A first indication of quantities represented in a market for a first tradeable object is displayed in association with the price axis or scale. A second indication of quantities represented in the market for a second tradeable object is displayed in association with the price axis or scale. The first tradeable object may be different than the second tradeable object. Alternatively, the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object may be the same, but the indications of quantity may be provided from different sources, such as different exchanges. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036767 | Reserving amount of payment from financial account balance - In response to a payor planning a specific payment for a given amount to a payee, the given amount is reserved from a balance of a financial account of the payor from which the specific payment is to be made. As such, the given amount reserved from the balance is only available for settling the specific payment and is otherwise unavailable. After the payor has planned the specific payment for the given amount to the payee, in response to the specific payment for the given amount actually being made to the payee, the given amount reserved from the balance of the financial account is used to settle the specific payment for the given amount being made to the payee. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036768 | SHARE OF WALLET BENCHMARKING - Signals are received representing transactions made by a customer or domestic unit during a given period from a plurality of financial institutions. The transactions affect one or more accounts of the customer or domestic unit at each of the plurality of financial institutions. Data are stored representing the transactions in a machine readable storage medium. At least one benchmark is computed. The benchmark is in part based on a portion of the data corresponding to one or more of the accounts of the customer or domestic unit at a first one of the plurality of financial institutions and in part based on the data corresponding to all of the one or more accounts of the customer or domestic unit at all of the plurality of financial institutions. Data representing the benchmark are transmitted to the first financial institution. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036769 | ACCOUNT HOLDER DEMAND ACCOUNT UPDATE - Account holder identification is used to access and retrieve the account holder's accounts and attributes thereof. A user interface receives a selected account for which merchants having conducted transactions on the selected account are retrieved and displayed on the user interface. The account holder selects which merchants are to receive updated attributes of the selected account, such as a new expiration, a new billing address, a new credit limit, a name change of the account holder, etc. Each user selected merchant is notified of the user selected attributes of the user selected account | 2010-02-11 |
20100036770 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CREDIT CARDHOLDER WITH MULTIPLE FUNDING OPTIONS - A method and a system for providing a payment cardholder with multiple funding source options for a payment card are provided herein. First, a managing platform associates at least two funding sources with the payment card. The funding sources include a first funding source and a second funding source. Next, the first funding source is designated as a default funding source and a set of pre-defined routing rules for funding transactions made with the payment card. Then, the managing platform intercepts each transaction of the payment card and routes the transactions to an issuer funding system for the first funding source using the managing platform. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036771 | System, method an computer program product for processing automated clearing house (ACH) historical data - A system, method, and computer program product for processing automated clearing house (ACH) historical data is provided. The system includes a storage device, a processor, a reconciler component, a risk management component, a pattern matching component, a distribution component, and a display device. The storage device stores ACH historical data from depository financial institutions (DFI) and an ACH operator. The reconciler component identifies related ACH transactions. The risk management component calculates and displays return exposure. The pattern matching component detects rules violations and sends alerts to the DFIs. The distribution component generates and displays a time distribution of ACH returns. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036772 | SECURE ELECTRONIC COUPON DELIVERY TO MOBILE DEVICE - A system, method, device and interface for providing and redeeming an electronic coupon that provides for authenticating access of a user to an electronic coupon server, receiving selection from the user of at least one of an event, transportation, secured location, good, authorization, and service, generating a reservation number corresponding to the selection, encrypting the reservation number based on a first string of characters that is uniquely associated with a mobile device that will be utilized for redeeming the electronic coupon, transmitting the encrypted reservation number to the mobile device, retrieving a second string of characters from the mobile device, wherein the second string of characters corresponds to the first string of characters, decrypting the encrypted reservation number on the mobile device using the retrieved second string of characters, generating the electronic coupon from the decrypted reservation number, and presenting the electronic coupon to an authentication device for redemption. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036773 | INTEGRATED WIRELESS RESONANT POWER CHARGING AND COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - A power delivery system wirelessly deliver electric power and a communication signal to a target device. The power delivery system includes a power transmitting unit having a power source operable to source alternating current power and a sending resonant coupling component operable to couple the alternating current power to a coil for wireless power transmission by a non-radiated magnetic field at a target resonant frequency. The power transmitting unit is capable of dynamically tuning the wireless power transmission to the target resonant frequency wherein the target resonant frequency is specified dynamically. A communication module couples to the power transmitting unit and is operable to couple the communication signal to the non-radiated magnetic field. Operations may include target device authentication, target resonant frequency information communication, billing, and device management. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036774 | Method for User Registration with a Proxy for Further Work with One of the Server Units - The invention relates to digital data processing to be used in commercial application. A method for user registration with a proxy for further work with one of the server units comprises an establishing a protected link by a proxy between a user registration control bank server (UR) via the bank's processing center with respective remote banking or financial user card serving terminals (UCST), link of the bank's issued card database server (BICD) with the bank's processing center, and between the user registration control bank server (UR) and at least one of the server units, herein the user get at least one set of code symbols after registration, which is also sent to at least one of the server units for further user identification in it in case of his requesting said server unit, the user is registered and given at least one set of code symbols at a respective remote banking or financial user card serving terminals (UCST) in which the card's details are entered for further verification at the bank's issued card database server (BICD), and the user registration control bank server (UR) immediately transmits the user registration details to the respective server unit. Alternatively registration with the use of the BICD server of a respective bank card issuer is performed. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036775 | FOREIGN CURRENCY GAIN/LOSS ANALYSIS FOR FOREIGN CURRENCY EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT - Tools for analysis of foreign currency gain/loss are described. An analysis tool obtains multicurrency accounting data from one or more systems. Based on a selected exposure period, exchange rates for the exposure period, and the obtained accounting data, the analysis tool can compute an expected foreign currency gain or loss for the exposure period. Exposure for the beginning and ending of the exposure period are computed, and can be compared to generate a delta exposure for the exposure period. The analysis tool then generates an expected foreign currency gain and/or loss for the exposure period, and reports the expected gain/loss. The report indicates actual foreign currency gain/loss balances from accounting records for the exposure period compared to calculated expected foreign currency gain/loss for analysis. Material exceptions between the actual balance and calculated expected balance can be isolated for further investigation to test multicurrency accounting practices in place within the enterprise. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036776 | Automatic Design And Sale Of Complex Multi-Vendor Electronic And Mechanical Systems - The automation of design and sale of electronic and mechanical components is accomplished by allowing a user to design a plan for their electronic and mechanical component needs using specialized software. The software utilizes predefined models of components to aid the user in designing a system where all the components are compatible, even in cases where the components are made by different manufacturers. This is accomplished by creating a model for each proposed piece of equipment in the system, the model having properties and rules, wherein the rules define conditions and actions. Then an object is created for each piece of equipment in the system. Selections for values for the properties are received for each of the pieces of equipment. Any rules that have as a condition the properties for which value selections are received are executed. Finally, testing may be undertaken to determine if a proposed configuration is valid by examining results of the rule execution. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036777 | Method and system for postal payments and addressing - Methods and systems for postal payments and addressing are described. In one embodiment, an electronic communication identifier associated with a postal item may be accessed for automated payment. Source user data associated with the postal item may be accessed. A user associated with an electronic communication associated may be identified. Information from the identification of the user may be utilized for addressing or otherwise delivering the postal item, or for securing a payment approval, or for otherwise verifying previous blanket approval for payments. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036778 | MONITORING OF THE UTILISATION TIME OF A PALLET - The present invention relates to a method for visually monitoring the utilization time of a handling pallet. By limiting the utilization time, the present invention guarantees the quality and the maintenance of said pallet, and implements an insurance covering any risk in case of accident or damage. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036779 | USER-CONTROLLABLE LEARNING OF POLICIES - Various embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method for updating a policy that is enforced by a computer program. In one embodiment, a computer communicates, to a user, data regarding one or more decisions made by the program over a period of time according to a policy. Each decision is made on the particular policy in force at the time the decision is made. Policy data for the policy is stored in a machine readable format. The user feedback data indicative of feedback by the user regarding the one or more decisions is stored. The computer identifies and ranks one or more potential variations to the policy based on a score of an objective function for each potential variation. The computer communicates, to the user, one or more suggested modifications based on the ranking of the one or more potential variations to the policy. The computer modifies the policy data based on one or more selections by the user in response to the transmission of the one or more suggested modifications. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036780 | MACHINE LEARNING - Computer implemented machine learning methods are described. A co-operative learning method involves a first rule based system and a second rule based system. A rule base is generated from input data and recursion data is used to recursively update the rule base as a result of newly received input data. Rule data defining at least one rule and associated data are sent to the second system which determines whether to update its rule base using the transmitted rule data, and if so the recursion data is used to recursively determine the updated rules for its rule base. A father machine learning method for a rule based system, involves receiving time series data, determining whether the data increases or decreases the spatial density for previously existing rules, and if so then creating a new cluster and associated rule, otherwise a new cluster is not created. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036781 | APPARATUS AND METHOD PROVIDING RETRIEVAL OF ILLEGAL MOTION PICTURE DATA - Provided are an apparatus and method for detecting illegal motion picture data. The apparatus includes a key frame extractor for extracting a plurality of key frames from motion picture data, a characteristic value file generator for detecting characteristic values of the extracted key frames and generating a characteristic value file, and an illegality determiner for measuring degree of similarity between a previously stored learning model file and the characteristic value file and determining whether or not the motion picture data is legal according to the degree of similarity. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036782 | METHODS FOR FEATURE SELECTION USING CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLE BASED GENETIC ALGORITHMS - Methods for performing genetic algorithm-based feature selection are provided herein. In certain embodiments, the methods include steps of applying multiple data splitting patterns to a learning data set to build multiple classifiers to obtain at least one classification result; integrating the at least one classification result from the multiple classifiers to obtain an integrated accuracy result; and outputting the integrated accuracy result to a genetic algorithm as a fitness value for a candidate feature subset, in which genetic algorithm-based feature selection is performed. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036783 | Method of and apparatus for combining artificial intelligence (AI) concepts with event-driven security architectures and ideas - User authentication apparatus controlling access to systems, inputs owner's login name and password and then extracts the owner's timing vectors from keystroke characteristics with which the owner forms a training set. A semantic network uses multiple links to indicate that different pattern components of user's behavioral access create different kinds of relationships and “symbolic representations”. A neural network is trained by using each of the owner's timing vectors in the training set as an input. When a user inputs the owner's login name and password, it's checked and the user's timing vector is extracted to type the user's password if checked and demoted in confidence level if otherwise. The user's timing vector is applied to neural network and difference between the input/output is compared with a predetermined threshold; and if the difference is greater than the threshold, is prohibited. Preferably this is aided by response time to personal questions. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FINDING HIGH QUALITY CONTENT IN SOCIAL MEDIA - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for identifying high quality content in a social media environment. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises retrieving a content item and retrieving a plurality of quality features associated with said content item wherein said quality features comprise intrinsic, usage and relationship features. The method then performs an analysis of said content item against said quality features and generates a quality score based on said analysis. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036785 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMICALLY MEASURING PROPERTIES OF OBJECTS RENDERED AND/OR REFERENCED BY AN APPLICATION EXECUTING ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A system, method and computer program product for dynamically measuring attributes of objects rendered and/or referenced by an executing software application without having to change and recompile the original application code. The system includes a staging environment that monitors the execution of the application and indexes items of graphical and/or audio information generated by the application into a first database. A second database is populated with one or more business rules, wherein each business rule is associated with one or more of the indexed objects. The system further includes a run-time environment that identifies items of graphics and/or audio information as they are generated by the application during run-time, uses the second database to determine if an identified item is associated with a business rule, and, responsive to a determination that an identified item is associated with a business rule, measures the object and its related attributes. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036786 | REAL-TIME AD-HOC SPAM FILTERING OF EMAIL - Embodiments are directed towards employing a multi-pass ad-hoc spam message filtering approach that dynamically generates a temporary classifier during a first pass based on a result of a previously applied message filter that sorts messages into various folders for a user. The first pass scans messages in a user's mail folders, and reads various information within the messages, including, but not limited to sender information, headers, including a subject, an originating network address, message contents, attachments, and the like. After creating a classification model, the classifier with its model is used in a second pass on the message folders to retrospectively inspect the messages and present to the user a list of messages that might be misclassified. The classification model is maintained within memory on a user's client device, as memory resident only, and is not stored on disk or within another persistent data store. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036787 | Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solver That Recreates Structure Across Sessions - A dynamic constraint solver for solving a constraint satisfaction problem model receives a request for a current solving session to recreate a first solving session for the model. The solver then collects a deferred port list comprising one or more ports in the model that need a sub-problem and creates one or more runtime constraints for the model. For each of the created runtime constraints, the solver propagates the constraint and determines if the propagation generates a conflict. If the propagation generates a conflict, the solver dismisses the constraint and reverts the model to a state before the constraint was propagated. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036788 | Database-based inference engine for RDFS/OWL constructs - An un-indexed, partitioned temporary table and an exchange table are used in the inferencing of semantic data in a relational database system. The exchange table has the same structure as a semantic data table storing the semantic data. In the inferencing process, a new partition is created in the semantic data table. Inference rules are executed on the semantic data table, and any newly inferred semantic data generated is added to the temporary table. Once no new data is generated, the inferred semantic data is copied from the temporary table into the exchange table. Indexes that are the same as indexes for the semantic data table are built for the exchange table. The indexed data in the exchange table is then exchanged into the new partition in the semantic data table. By use of the un-indexed, partitioned temporary table, incremental maintenance of indexes is avoided, thus allowing for greater efficiency. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036789 | SOFTWARE FOR FACET CLASSIFICATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A semantic infrastructure (SI) system is provided to interface with an information asset management tool, such as a document management system. The SI is a semantic layer that links together structured, unstructured and tacit information. The SI determines a set of valid terms associated with remaining facets based on the term selection for a first facet and in accordance with predefined facet relationships. The present invention links the content of documents to an enterprise view and to a corporate file plan. The SI includes a database storing assets each associated with a plurality of facets. Embodiments of the present invention provide a unified approach, i.e., an approach that can provide file classification, taxonomies, metadata, thesauri and data model functionalities, to better describe and organize information assets using a single database employing a faceted classification system. A stored metadata instance is mapped to an externally supported metadata format. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036790 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR FACET ANALYSIS - Automated facet analysis of input information selected from a domain of information in accordance with a source data structure is described. Facet analysis may proceed by discovering at least one of facets, facet attributes, and facet attribute hierarchies of the input information using pattern augmentation and statistical analyses to identify patterns of facet attribute relationships in the input information. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036791 | EXAMINATION VALUE PREDICTING DEVICE USING ELECTROPHORESIS WAVEFORM, PREDICTION METHOD, AND PREDICTING PROGRAM - A test value prediction apparatus, a test value prediction method, and a test value predicting program, capable of accurately predicting the amount of a specific substance, the presence or absence of a disease, and the like, using electrophoresis waveform. The test value prediction method is a method wherein, electrophoresis waveform data formed by mobilities and absorbance values corresponding to the mobilities and a prediction equation for predicting the amount of a specific substance in an analyte or the presence or absence of a disease in the living body from which the analyte was obtained are recorded in the recording unit; the prediction equation is a regression equation in which the explanatory variable is an absorbance value corresponding to a mobility in corrected waveform data generated as a result of electrophoresis waveform data on a plurality of analytes being subjected to normalization and area correction, and the criterion variable is the amount of the specific substance or the presence or absence of a disease; and the test value prediction method includes first step (S2) of generating corrected waveform data by performing normalization and area correction on the electrophoresis waveform data recorded in the recording unit, and the second step (S4) of calculating a prediction value of the amount of the specific substance by substituting the absorbance value corresponding to the mobility, i.e., the explanatory variable of the prediction equation recorded in the recording unit, with an absorbance value from the corrected waveform data generated from the electrophoresis waveform data recorded in the recording unit. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036792 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Computer Program - An information processing apparatus includes information input units, an event detecting unit, and an information-integration processing unit. Observed values including user identification data are obtained based on image and sound information from the information input units such as a camera and a microphone. Target data set with plural user confidence factors is updated and user identification is then performed. The user identification information in the observed values is used for updating the simultaneous occurrence probability of candidate data by which targets are corresponded with respective users. The updated value of such probability is used for calculating the user confidence factors corresponding to the targets. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036793 | Method and System for Geospatial Forecasting of Events Incorporating Data Error and Uncertainty - A system and method for geospatial forecasting of events that incorporates data error and uncertainty can be provided. The geospatial forecasting system can include a boundary module that is configured to define a geospatial boundary. A layer information and event information module can be provided that is configured to store layer information and event information related to the geospatial boundary. The event information can include location, or position, data about an event. Furthermore, a layer information and event information uncertainty module can be provided that is configured to incorporate data error into the layer information and event information. Finally, a geospatial forecasting module can be configured to receive the layer information and event information with the incorporated data error and process the layer information and event information to determine one or more future events. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036794 | CASE GENERATION APPARATUS AND CASE GENERATION METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a case generation program that allows a computer to execute a process of generating a case having one or more design variable values and one or more object variable values corresponding to the design variable values, the process including: acquiring, from a storage section, a plurality of past cases which are obtained through a past evaluation process; predicting the object variable value of the past cases from the design variable values of the acquired past cases; calculating a prediction error and confidence as the prediction result of the past cases; selecting a reference case being a past case used as a reference of the generation based on the calculated prediction error and the confidence; determining a new design variable value based on the design variable value of the selected reference case; and determining a new case based on the new design variable value. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036795 | Classification of Fabrics by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy - A method for classifying textile samples and unknown fabrics into known categories using spectroscopy, chemometric modeling, and soft independent modeling of class analogies (“SIMCA”). The method involves collecting spectral data, preferably diffuse near infrared reflectance data, for a library of known fabric samples, creating a database of principal component analyses for each type of fabric, and using SIMCA to classify an unknown fabric sample according to the database. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036796 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LOG STORING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A ticket generating unit generates, for a processing request received from a user and an entity containing a series of processes to be executed based on the processing request, a ticket containing request identification information for identifying the processing request and user information for identifying the user. An execution processing unit executes, upon receiving the processing request and the ticket, requested processing according to the entity. A log managing unit records log information related to the processing executed by the execution processing unit, in a log storing unit in a reduced manner. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036797 | SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE - Systems and methods for populating a database. An ontology is parsed to determine a plurality of keywords. A string-based search engine is utilized to perform a search of documents on a network based on the determined keywords, and at least one document is retrieved. A relation is established between the retrieved document and the ontology, and it is determined if the at least one document is to be stored in the database based on the established relation. If so, the document is stored in the database. The database can be used as part of a standalone or plug-in search engine for retrieving online documents. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ACCESSING DRM FILES AND NON-DRM FILES IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method of accessing digital rights management (DRM) files and non-DRM files in a mobile device includes providing an intermediate interface between one or more application modules of the mobile device and a file system of the mobile device, and providing a DRM module between the intermediate interface and the file system. The method further includes determining if the file is controlled by DRM through the intermediate interface when a selected application module sends a file request to the file system to access the file, processing the file request using the DRM module to verify if the file is controlled by DRM, and returning a processed result to the selected application module. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036799 | QUERY PROCESSING USING HORIZONTAL PARTIAL COVERING JOIN INDEX - A computer implemented system and method includes obtaining a query referring to rows in a relational database. A sparse index of the database that has a set of rows that is a subset of the rows referred to in the query is obtained. Rows referred to in the query that are not in the sparse index are then obtained and a union of such rows and the rows of the sparse index is performed to obtain a complete row set for processing the query. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036800 | AGGREGATE JOIN INDEX UTILIZATION IN QUERY PROCESSING - A system and method include obtaining a query and identifying an aggregate join index (AJI) at a high level of aggregation. The dimension table may be rolled-up with the grouping key being the union of the grouping key in the AJI and the grouping key of the query. The identified AJI is joined with the rolled-up dimension table to obtain columns in the query that are not in the identified AJI. The joined AJI and rolled-up dimension table are then rolled up to answer the query. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036801 | STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE FUNCTION IN-LINING - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to query language function in-lining. In general, data characterizing a query in accordance with structured query language format is received. A determination is made as to whether the query includes qualified function calls. If the query includes the qualified function calls, operations are performed that include: mapping available values from the qualified function calls to available parameters of the qualified functions referred to by the qualified function calls; replacing the qualified function calls with data derived from a body of code to be executed when a corresponding function is called, where the replacing is to generate a modified query and the data derived from the body of code is based on the mapping; and providing the modified query to be executed as a substitute for an original version of the query. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036802 | Repetitive fusion search method for search system - Provided in the present invention is a repetitive fusion search method for a search system, in which: a search interface | 2010-02-11 |
20100036803 | ADAPTIVE FILTER INDEX FOR DETERMINING QUERIES AFFECTED BY A DML OPERATION - Techniques are disclosed for creating and using a filter index in order to identify registered queries whose result sets are likely to have been changed by changes made to tables. The filter index entries are based on filter conditions. The filter conditions are created based on predicates contained in the registered queries. The filter conditions may include exclusive predicates and join predicates. Join predicates that join a table T | 2010-02-11 |
20100036804 | Maintained and Reusable I/O Value Caches - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for maintaining I/O value caches for database queries. Each maintained cache may be configured for use with a particular database query. Each cache may be persistently maintained in a system, meaning the cache is not automatically deleted after some period of time, and may thus be used to process subsequent instances of the same query. By use of the maintained cache, executing subsequent instances of the query may be avoided, thus saving time and system resources. Further, the maintained cache may be adapted to process other queries having similar characteristics to the initial query. The data included in each cache may be refreshed as required by changes to the underlying data. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036805 | System Maintainable and Reusable I/O Value Caches - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for maintaining I/O value caches for database queries. Each maintained cache may be configured for use with a particular database query. Each cache may be persistently maintained in a system, meaning the cache is not automatically deleted after some period of time, and may thus be used to process subsequent instances of the same query. By use of the maintained cache, executing subsequent instances of the query may be avoided, thus saving time and system resources. Further, the maintained cache may be adapted to process other queries having similar characteristics to the initial query. The data included in each cache may be refreshed as required by changes to the underlying data. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036806 | Systems and Methods to Facilitate Search of Business Entities - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate search of listings of businesses according to opening date or age of the businesses at their current business locations. For example, a user may submit a search request for listings of new businesses (e.g., the businesses having the “Grand Opening” status) at a location specified by the user. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036807 | Systems and Methods to Sort Information Related to Entities Having Different Locations - Systems and methods sort location dependent information based on selecting multiple groups of information according to location, ordering the groups based on location, and ordering the information within the groups based on at least one or more other criteria. The size(s) of the areas used to select the groups may be predetermined, or dynamically determined (e.g., based on clustering of information along distance to a location of interest). | 2010-02-11 |
20100036808 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING MEDIA CONTENT BASED ON AN EDITING FILE - Various embodiments described herein provide users with a fast and efficient way for identifying scenes for editing purposes. At least one embodiment is a method for searching media content based on identification data embedded in an editing file. The method comprises receiving the editing file and extracting identification data from the editing file, wherein the identification data is uniquely associated with particular media content. The method further comprises searching one or a plurality of media content based on the identification data and identifying matching media content, performing a secure download of the identified media content, and performing playback of the media content based on special effects specified in the editing file, wherein the media content is unmodified during playback. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036809 | TRACKING MARKET-SHARE TRENDS BASED ON USER ACTIVITY - A method of determining market-share trends includes: specifying values for switching between pairs of search tools for a user; determining values for a transition matrix between the search tools from the switching values; determining steady-state values from the transition matrix for characterizing a steady state arising from a sequential operation of the transition matrix, wherein the steady-state values characterize market-share trends for the search tools; and saving one or more values for the steady state values. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036810 | AUTOMATED TOPOLOGY-BASED STATISTICS MONITORING AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS - A computer is programmed to parse a network that interconnects databases in a distributed database system, into a number of paths, wherein each path starts in a source database that is a source of changes and ends in a destination database that uses the changes to replicate the source database. The computer identifies databases that occur within each path in the network, and queries the identified databases to obtain statistics for each path. Statistics along each path are analyzed automatically, to identify a component in each path as a candidate for further investigation. The identified component may be marked as a bottleneck e.g. if there are no other paths connected to it. Alternatively the identified component may be a source of changes for another path that has a bottleneck or that has another candidate for further investigation. The identified bottleneck is displayed to the user with recommendations for improvement. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036811 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE HEALTHCARE INFORMATION COLLECTION - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for mobile, location-based access to healthcare provider information. A mobile healthcare information system includes a healthcare provider module transmitting healthcare provider information within a certain range of the healthcare provider module, the provider information identifying a type and a location of a healthcare provider. The system also includes a user module providing access to available healthcare provider information within a certain range of a location of the user module. The user module receives the healthcare provider information for query and output to a user. The user module is a portable module providing location-based healthcare provider information to the user. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036812 | Method and apparatus for generating and providing relevant information related to multimedia content - A method of generating relevant information related to multimedia content at a client that reproduces the multimedia content includes accessing a blog service connected to the client, selecting the first content of the multimedia content, for which relevant information is to be generated, by using the blog service, generating the relevant information using a template according to the type of the relevant information generated with respect to the first content, and transmitting the generated relevant information to a server. | 2010-02-11 |
20100036813 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SECURELY PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MAIL - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for securing processing electronic mail in encrypted form and enabling access to the encrypted emails. The emails are received and stored with a common encryption key in a database. The emails can subsequently be access via the common decryption key by accessing the database. | 2010-02-11 |