13th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100082336 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING A FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CHANGE - A logarithmic frequency spectrum within a predetermined time range is calculated from a speech signal. The logarithmic frequency spectrum has a frequency element at equal intervals along a logarithmic frequency axis. A logarithmic frequency spectrogram is calculated by connecting a plurality of logarithmic frequency spectrums. A value of the frequency element along a straight line on the logarithmic frequency spectrogram is voted onto a Hough plane. The Hough plane has a voted value in correspondence with a gradient of the straight line. The voted value above a threshold and the gradient corresponding to the voted value are extracted from the Hough plane. A fundamental frequency change is calculated using the voted value and the gradient extracted. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082337 | ADAPTIVE SOUND SOURCE VECTOR QUANTIZATION DEVICE, ADAPTIVE SOUND SOURCE VECTOR INVERSE QUANTIZATION DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an adaptive sound source vector quantization device capable of improving quantization accuracy of adaptive sound source vector quantization while suppressing increase of the calculation amount in CELP sound encoding which performs encoding in sub-frame unit. In the device, a search adaptive sound source vector generation unit ( | 2010-04-01 |
20100082338 | VOICE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VOICE PROCESSING METHOD - A voice processing apparatus, which processes a first voice signal, includes: an acoustic analysis part which analyzes a feature quantity of an input second voice signal; a reference range calculation part which calculates a reference range based on the feature quantity; a comparing part which compares the feature quantity and the reference range and outputs a comparison result; and a voice processing part which processes and outputs the input first voice signal based on the comparison result. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082339 | Wind Noise Reduction - By monitoring the wind noise in a location in which a cellular telephone is operating and by applying noise reduction and/or cancellation protocols at the appropriate time via analog and/or digital signal processing, it is possible to significantly reduce wind noise entering into a communication system. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082340 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MASK OF THE SYSTEM - The speech recognition system of the present invention includes: a sound source separating section which separates mixed speeches from multiple sound sources; a mask generating section which generates a soft mask which can take continuous values between 0 and 1 for each separated speech according to reliability of separation in separating operation of the sound source separating section; and a speech recognizing section which recognizes speeches separated by the sound source separating section using soft masks generated by the mask generating section. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082341 | Speaker recognition device and method using voice signal analysis - A device includes a speaker recognition device operable to perform a method that identifies a speaker using voice signal analysis. The speaker recognition device and method identifies the speaker by analyzing a voice signal and comparing the signal with voice signal characteristics of speakers, which are statistically classified. The device and method is applicable to a case where a voice signal is a voiced sound or a voiceless sound or to a case where no information on a voice signal is present. Since voice/non-voice determination is performed, the speaker can be reliably identified from the voice signal. The device and method is adaptable to applications that require a real-time process due to a small amount of data to be calculated and fast processing. Furthermore, the device and method can be variously applied to portable devices due to low power consumption. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082342 | Method of Retaining a Media Stream without Its Private Audio Content - A method is disclosed that enables the handling of audio streams for segments in the audio that might contain private information, in a way that is more straightforward than in some techniques in the prior art. The data-processing system of the illustrative embodiment receives a media stream that comprises an audio stream, possibly in addition to other types of media such as video. The audio stream comprises audio content, some of which can be private in nature. Once it receives the data, the data-processing system then analyzes the audio stream for private audio content by using one or more techniques that involve looking for private information as well as non-private information. As a result of the analysis, the data-processing system omits the private audio content from the resulting stream that contains the processed audio. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082343 | SEQUENTIAL SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH TWO UNEQUAL ASR SYSTEMS - Sequential speech recognition using two unequal automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems may be provided. The system may provide two sets of vocabulary data. A determination may be made as to whether entries in one set of vocabulary data are likely to be confused with entries in the other set of vocabulary data. If confusion is likely, a decoy entry from one set of the vocabulary data may be placed in the other set of vocabulary data to ensure more efficient and accurate speech recognition processing may take place. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082344 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE RATE OF SPEECH AND SPEECH PREFERENCES FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS - Algorithms for synthesizing speech used to identify media assets are provided. Speech may be selectively synthesized form text strings associated with media assets. A text string may be normalized and its native language determined for obtaining a target phoneme for providing human-sounding speech in a language (e.g., dialect or accent) that is familiar to a user. The algorithms may be implemented on a system including several dedicated render engines. The system may be part of a back end coupled to a front end including storage for media assets and associated synthesized speech, and a request processor for receiving and processing requests that result in providing the synthesized speech. The front end may communicate media assets and associated synthesized speech content over a network to host devices coupled to portable electronic devices on which the media assets and synthesized speech are played back. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082345 | SPEECH AND TEXT DRIVEN HMM-BASED BODY ANIMATION SYNTHESIS - An “Animation Synthesizer” uses trainable probabilistic models, such as Hidden Markov Models (HMM), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), etc., to provide speech and text driven body animation synthesis. Probabilistic models are trained using synchronized motion and speech inputs (e.g., live or recorded audio/video feeds) at various speech levels, such as sentences, phrases, words, phonemes, sub-phonemes, etc., depending upon the available data, and the motion type or body part being modeled. The Animation Synthesizer then uses the trainable probabilistic model for selecting animation trajectories for one or more different body parts (e.g., face, head, hands, arms, etc.) based on an arbitrary text and/or speech input. These animation trajectories are then used to synthesize a sequence of animations for digital avatars, cartoon characters, computer generated anthropomorphic persons or creatures, actual motions for physical robots, etc., that are synchronized with a speech output corresponding to the text and/or speech input. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082346 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS - Algorithms for synthesizing speech used to identify media assets are provided. Speech may be selectively synthesized form text strings associated with media assets. A text string may be normalized and its native language determined for obtaining a target phoneme for providing human-sounding speech in a language (e.g., dialect or accent) that is familiar to a user. The algorithms may be implemented on a system including several dedicated render engines. The system may be part of a back end coupled to a front end including storage for media assets and associated synthesized speech, and a request processor for receiving and processing requests that result in providing the synthesized speech. The front end may communicate media assets and associated synthesized speech content over a network to host devices coupled to portable electronic devices on which the media assets and synthesized speech are played back. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082347 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONCATENATION OF WORDS IN TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS - Algorithms for synthesizing speech used to identify media assets are provided. Speech may be selectively synthesized form text strings associated with media assets. A text string may be normalized and its native language determined for obtaining a target phoneme for providing human-sounding speech in a language (e.g., dialect or accent) that is familiar to a user. The algorithms may be implemented on a system including several dedicated render engines. The system may be part of a back end coupled to a front end including storage for media assets and associated synthesized speech, and a request processor for receiving and processing requests that result in providing the synthesized speech. The front end may communicate media assets and associated synthesized speech content over a network to host devices coupled to portable electronic devices on which the media assets and synthesized speech are played back. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082348 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT NORMALIZATION FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS - Algorithms for synthesizing speech used to identify media assets are provided. Speech may be selectively synthesized form text strings associated with media assets. A text string may be normalized and its native language determined for obtaining a target phoneme for providing human-sounding speech in a language (e.g., dialect or accent) that is familiar to a user. The algorithms may be implemented on a system including several dedicated render engines. The system may be part of a back end coupled to a front end including storage for media assets and associated synthesized speech, and a request processor for receiving and processing requests that result in providing the synthesized speech. The front end may communicate media assets and associated synthesized speech content over a network to host devices coupled to portable electronic devices on which the media assets and synthesized speech are played back. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082349 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS - Algorithms for synthesizing speech used to identify media assets are provided. Speech may be selectively synthesized form text strings associated with media assets. A text string may be normalized and its native language determined for obtaining a target phoneme for providing human-sounding speech in a language (e.g., dialect or accent) that is familiar to a user. The algorithms may be implemented on a system including several dedicated render engines. The system may be part of a back end coupled to a front end including storage for media assets and associated synthesized speech, and a request processor for receiving and processing requests that result in providing the synthesized speech. The front end may communicate media assets and associated synthesized speech content over a network to host devices coupled to portable electronic devices on which the media assets and synthesized speech are played back. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082350 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SYNTHESIZED SPEECH - An approach providing the efficient use of speech synthesis in rendering text content as audio in a communications network. The communications network can include a telephony network and a data network in support of, for example, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. A speech synthesis system receives a text string from either a telephony network, or a data network. The speech synthesis system determines whether a rendered audio file of the text string is stored in a database and to render the text string to output the rendered audio file, if the rendered audio is determined not to exist. The rendered audio file is stored in the database for re-use according to a hash value generated by the speech synthesis system based on the text string. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082351 | UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROLLER AND CONTROL CODE SETUP METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a universal remote controller that transmits and informs the learning of control codes, the setup of the control codes, and the setup of preference channels by voice commands, learns a voice command or key value input according to the voice command transmitted, and registers the leaned key value as the control code. A control codes setup method includes detecting input of a voice command or a specific key signal requesting a control codes setup in a standby mode, starting, when the voice command or specific key signal is detected, a control codes setup mode and transmitting a control codes setup method step by step by voice information, recognizing a voice command or key signal input by a user according to the voice information transmitted, and starting a standby mode after registering and storing the control codes matching with the recognized voice commands or key signals and transmitting voice information on the registering and storing of the control codes. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082352 | SCALABLE LOSSLESS AUDIO CODEC AND AUTHORING TOOL - An audio codec losslessly encodes audio data into a sequence of analysis windows in a scalable bitstream. This is suitably done by separating the audio data into MSB and LSB portions and encoding each with a different lossless algorithm. An authoring tool compares the buffered payload to an allowed payload for each window and selectively scales the losslessly encoded audio data, suitably the LSB portion, in the non-conforming windows to reduce the encoded payload, hence buffered payload. This approach satisfies the media bit rate and buffer capacity constraints without having to filter the original audio data, reencode or otherwise disrupt the lossless bitstream. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082353 | REWARD SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A DIGITAL WORKFLOW - A system and method for allowing content providers to manage aspects of a distributor's digital workflow is disclosed. The system is effective to receive priority flags and associate the flags with items submitted by the content provider making the priority designation. Those items flagged for priority can be queued for priority processing. The total number of priority flags or requests can be limited by the rate at which items can be processed. The limited nature of the priority requests can make the priority flags valuable. The system and method can leverage that value to encourage desired conduct by awarding priority flags to content providers that comply with a stated policy. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082354 | USER DEFINITION AND IDENTIFICATION - Methods and system for user definition and identification are described. In one embodiment, a user selection criterion for an application associated with a target service provider may be accessed. User relationship information of a source user within a source service provider may be accessed. The user relationship information may define a relationship between the source user and a plurality of users of the source service provider. One or more target users of the plurality of users may be identified for the application based on the accessing of the user relationship information and the user selection criterion. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082355 | Forecasting levels of currency usage and need - A target level of funds may be defined to specify an ideal level of currency stored in a currency handling device for efficient operation. The target level may be modified based on forecasted currency usage needs. Forecasts may be conducted based on historical usage data, user input and seasonal/event considerations. When a level of funds exceeds the target level by a specified amount, a transport request may be generated. When a level of funds underruns the target level by a specified amount, a change order request may be generated. In one or more arrangements, recommendations for target levels, transport requests and change order requests may be provided for user confirmation instead of automatically executing the recommendation. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082356 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING PERSONALIZED CAREER PATHS - A candidate's career information is obtained. The career information comprises one or more of employment history information and education information. If the candidate's career information comprises employment history information, the employment history information is compared with stored employment history information of a plurality of individuals. If the candidate's career information comprises education information, the education information is compared with stored education information of a plurality of individuals. Stored career information meeting a similarity threshold is identified from one or more of the comparing steps. The similarity threshold relates to similarity between (1) the stored employment history information and the candidate's employment history information, and/or (2) the stored education information and the candidate's education information. The similarity threshold can also relate to a candidate's actions (e.g., apply history). A career path for the candidate is then determined based on the stored career information that has met the similarity threshold. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082357 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING ACTIVITY COORDINATION SERVICES - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided, which may provide activity coordination service. An apparatus may include a processor configured to maintain data regarding a user's previous activities and contacts invited to those previous activities. The processor may be further configured to retrieve the maintained data in response to creation of a new activity by the user. The processor may also be configured to determine one or more suggested contacts to invite to the new activity based at least in part upon the maintained data. The processor may additionally be configured to provide the one or more suggested contacts to the user. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082358 | GENERATION OF FORMAL SPECIFICATIONS OF TRADING PARTNER AGREEMENTS - Systems and methods are provided for generating a formal specification of a trading partner agreement for sharing between trading partners. The trading partner agreement that is established between at least two of the trading partners is analyzed. A set of contracts, a set of protocols, and a set of service level agreements associated with the trading partner agreement is identified. A single formal specification of the trading partner agreement is generated. The single formal specification comprises the set of contracts, the set of protocols, and the set of service level agreements using a markup language. Each of the set of contracts, the set of protocols, and the set of service level agreements are expressed in a markup language notation. The single formal specification is usable by multiple trading partners. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082359 | Multi-Granular Age Range Products For Use in Online Marketing - Particular embodiments of the invention are directed to generating marketing-based age range products for use in age-targeted online marketing. The age range products may include multi-granular age range products generated by combining age ranges at different levels of granularity. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082360 | Age-Targeted Online Marketing Using Inferred Age Range Information - Particular embodiments of the invention are directed to generating marketing-based age range products based at least on inferred data regarding the age of various network users. The age range products may be used for age-targeted online marketing. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082361 | Apparatus, System and Method for Predicting Attitudinal Segments - An apparatus, system, and method are presented for predicting attitudinal segments. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a set of data elements associated with an individual, calculating a score for one or more attitudinal dimensions to associate with the individual in response to the set of data elements, calculating an attitudinal segment to associate with the individual in response to the score for the one or more attitudinal dimensions, and generating an output configured to associate the attitudinal segment with the individual. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082362 | Method and Apparatus for Assessing Salient Characteristics of a Community - A computer system and method comprising census data on neighborhood level communities, each data point representing a quantitative value indicative of one of a plurality of components of community health. Executable instructions combine with weighted importance, the quantitative indicator values into a plurality of components of community health. Each component represents a quantitative value associated with one of a plurality of determinants of community health. Executable instructions combine with weighted importance, the quantitative component values into a determinant of community health. Each of the determinants represents a quantitative contribution to an overall health index of the community. The index is computed from the determinants and can be compared with similarly computed indices for other communities. The indices, determinants, components, and indicators for a given community can be compared across communities and correlated with data on specific health outcomes across communities to identify health outcome disparities. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE A QUALITY OF DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE - A system and method to manage a quality of delivery of healthcare to a patient. The method includes tracking completion of a portion of a protocol associated with one of a series of candidate hypotheses to deliver healthcare to the patient; tracking a change in a quality of care metric directed to the patient with completion of a portion the protocol, the quality of metric including at least one of a time to rate of reduction in a health risk to the patient and a time to or rate of reduction in symptom or abnormal biometric data of the patient; and outputting an alert in response to the quality of care metric exceeding a threshold. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082364 | Medical Information Management - Method and system for detecting a device connection, receiving device identification information, receiving a code based on a subject information and the location information, receiving glucose data over the detected device connection, and storing the received glucose data with a generated code in a predetermined file format are provided. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082365 | Navigation and Visualization of Multi-Dimensional Image Data - An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for navigating, analyzing, annotating, and interpreting images. The apparatus may receive medical images comprising a volume, identify a display protocol (for the medical volumes) that comprises one or more configurable and editable stages, and execute the display protocol using at least a portion of the medical volumes. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082366 | System and Method For Determining The Qualifications Of A Patient For A Specific Care And Quantifying The Appropriateness Of Its Application - A system and method is provided for determining a patient's need for a specific clinical care or component and its appropriateness for the patient's needs. The system and method can comprise gathering scores for a plurality of categories having one or more questions directed to one or more characteristics of a patient. The questions can generally be directed toward understanding the patient's needs and the compatibility of the specific clinical care and the patient. The scores for each category can be used to obtain a final score, which is then evaluated to determine the qualifications of the patient for the specific care or component. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082367 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A HEALTH MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - There is provided a system and method utilizing an integrated communications platform that in one embodiment, provides a pharmacist-assisted medication therapy management program involving a behavioural targeting algorithm to personalize mobile messages designed to increase medication adherence and to improve health outcomes among patients living with chronic disease. The integrated communications platform provides a mobile messaging platform that sends scheduled reminders to persons living with such chronic diseases to take their medication. In this way, the messages can be received anywhere and at any time to improve the link between the patient and the system. The algorithm uses scientific measurement tools to segment beliefs by disease type and stage and through the distribution of the system by medical professionals such as pharmacists provides a unique point of customer contact to allow pharmacists to engage patients and improve medication adherence and overall health. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082368 | WRONG SITE SURGERY PREVENTION SYSTEM - Compliance with pre-operative policies and procedures is ensured to prevent wrong site surgeries. Data related to a scheduled procedure is stored on a device. The data includes at least (1) indicia of personal identification for a patient and one or more participants in the scheduled procedure, and (2) information about the scheduled procedure. An input is received on the device that associates the patient with the data stored on the device. The patient and each of the one or more participants are then prompted to verify the indicia of personal identification and information about the scheduled procedure on the device. When the patient and one or more participants have all verified their respective indicia of personal identification and the information about the scheduled procedure, the device is operable to enable operating room functionality. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082369 | Systems and Methods for Interconnected Personalized Digital Health Services - Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for providing personalized, interconnected digital health services. Certain embodiments provide a digital health services system. The system includes an access portal providing access to health information for a patient from a plurality of clinical data sources. The system also includes a shared registry and repository storing information from the plurality of clinical data sources for interconnection and access via the access portal. The system further includes digital health information and services generating a personalized care plan for the patient based on health information from the shared registry and repository in conjunction with one or more rules applied to the health information to match the care plan with the health information for the patient and to track patient outcomes based upon compliance with the recommended care plan. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082370 | CLINICAL EVENT TRACKING AND ALERTING SYSTEM - Clinical information tracking and alerting systems are disclosed herein. An example method of providing feedback to healthcare practitioners includes receiving a subscription to clinical information associated with a patient from a healthcare practitioner; searching a database of shared clinical information to identify recently entered clinical information, wherein searching the database is automated to be performed according to a schedule; determining whether the recently entered clinical information includes medical data associated with the patient; and publishing the medical data associated with the patient to the healthcare practitioner. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082371 | Patient Document Privacy And Disclosure Engine - A system and method is provided for managing health care information. A data network system includes a document parser, upon request, parses a patient's record into a plurality of categorized biographical and/or clinical data entries, where each of the categorized biographical and/or clinical data entries may be associated with a code identifier. A mapper may map each of the code identifiers to a configurable patient privacy flag and to a corresponding user permission level. The patient's mapped categorized biographical and/or clinical data entries may be checked by a configurable rule engine, and be displayed to the user as viewable layers with the same or less restrictive permission level than that of the user's role. The unapproved data may be turned off as non-viewable layers. The patient's mapped biographical and/or clinical data entries may be stored into a repository database for later retrieval. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082372 | NETWORK-BASED HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT - A web- or network-based healthcare management tool is provided. The innovation provides for a browser-based version of a client that enables clinicians, from remote locations, to securely review patient data retrieved from a healthcare data store. Remote locations include, but are not limited to, from outside the hospital (e.g., at home) or from inside the hospital but in an office or lab that does not have intranet access to the healthcare data store. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082373 | Method for Renewing Medical Prescriptions - The invention provides a method for renewing a prescription for a pharmaceutical via an electronic network. A renewal request is generated for a renewal of a prior prescription. The request is transmitted to a prescriber for review and authorization. Once an authorized renewal prescription is received from the prescriber, a dispenser is notified to fill the renewal prescription. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082374 | EVENT TICKET PURCHASING - A method may include aggregating information regarding events, where for each event the aggregated information includes an event name, an event time, and an event venue. The method may further include receiving a request for a list of events or a list of venues from a user device and obtaining, from the user device, a profile of a user of the user device. The method may further include generating, based on the profile and the aggregated information regarding events, the generated list of events or the list of venues and sending, to the user device, the list of events or the list of venues. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082375 | ASSET INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR UNDERGROUND STORAGE - A technique facilitates asset integrity management of underground storage assets, such as underground carbon dioxide storage sites. The technique comprises establishing a paradigm for asset integrity management comprising element fields related to elements such as asset life cycle, implementation procedures, technologies, tools, and methods to obtain and evaluate data, and control/mitigation measures. Data related to the element fields is processed based on relationships established by the paradigm. Based on the analysis, information related to the integrity of the underground storage asset is output lot-use in managing the underground storage asset. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082376 | SUGGESTING THINGS TO DO DURING TIME SLOTS IN A SCHEDULE - Architecture for suggesting activities to be performed during time slots of a user schedule, such as a calendar application. In one implementation, a personal activity is suggested for a free time slot. In another implementation, a personal activity can be suggested for both a free time slot and a full time slot. The architecture can also apply filtering to generate suggestions based on user location, preferences (stated or learned), user history, user interaction with content and candidate activities, targeted advertising, and so on. The filtering can be applied to disparate sources of activity information to provide relevant activities for suggestion to the user. Revenue models can be applied as well. The architecture can be deployed as a client/server topology or solely on the client. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082377 | Risk Evaluation of Conflicts in Separation of Duties - In one embodiment, there is provided a computer implemented method for evaluating risks of conflicts in separation of duties matrices. The computer implemented method receives a set of input data comprising a set of task information and a set of employee information to form received input, generates a risk control matrix from the received input, having a risk associated with each risk control of the risk control matrix, and generates an “n×n” weighted separation of duties matrix from the risk control matrix, wherein (Ti,Tj) represents a task pair, and Risk(Ti,Tj) represents a risk value of a conflict of the task pair (Ti,Tj). The computer implemented method further generates a task to employee assignment (p | 2010-04-01 |
20100082378 | Business Process Optimization And Problem Resolution - One embodiment provides a system for optimizing business processes comprising an analyzer component configured to retrieve testing data on a business application, wherein the testing data is generated before deployment of the business application. The analyzer component is further configured to retrieve actual data on the business application, wherein the actual data is generated during deployment of the business application. The analyzer component is further configured to analyze the actual data and the testing data to identify at least one business process from the actual data, wherein an identified business process from the actual data is attempted to be matched with a baseline business process defined during testing. The system further comprises a report generator configured to output results from analysis of the actual data and the testing data. Output results may be used to optimize testing and to correlate problems encountered in the field with situations encountered during testing. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082379 | INFERENTIAL BUSINESS PROCESS MONITORING - Methods, systems and computer program products for inferential business process monitoring. Exemplary embodiments include an inferential business process monitoring method, including deriving an optimal set of key performance indicators from a service level agreement specification, determining metrics to compute the key performance indicators from the service level agreement specification, assigning and configuring monitoring agents to retrieve the metrics to obtain the key performance indicators, deploying the monitoring agents and delivering key performance indicator metrics observed by the monitoring agents. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082380 | MODELING AND MEASURING VALUE ADDED NETWORKS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for modeling and measuring value added networks. Value added networks are modeled in accordance with a structured data model that defines data formats for business capability attributes. The structured data model can include a capability modeling schema having data format definitions that define how business capability attributes are to be represented. Value added networks can also be mapped such that users can visualize and navigate a value added network. A pre-defined resource vocabulary is utilized to assist in determining if a business capability change is worthwhile. The pre-defined resource vocabulary provides a mechanism for a plurality of participants in a value added network to consider business capability changes in a uniform, repeatable, and consistent manner. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082381 | LINKING ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES TO PERFORMING CAPABILITIES - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for linking organizational strategies to performing capabilities. Embodiments of the invention include determining what impact proposed capability changes in an initiative/program/project for an organizational strategy have on the organizational strategy's performance. Schema-based representations of organizational strategies and initiatives are used to provide a common vocabulary for describing changes to organizational strategies. Proposed changes can be evaluated against an impact/value contribution curve, potentially on an ongoing basis, to determine their benefit. Corrective action can be taken when operations/tactics are trend outside of specified metrics | 2010-04-01 |
20100082382 | FORECASTING DISCOVERY COSTS BASED ON INTERPOLATION OF HISTORIC EVENT PATTERNS - A computer-implemented method of forecasting discovery costs captures historical business events, which are aggregated and statistically analyzed by matter type and business event types. Statistical data is used to calculate probabilities of occurrence of future business events and to extrapolate occurrence of those future business events. The method forecasts an extrapolated volume of production at the time of a forecasted export event. The method further forecasts costs for future discovery from the extrapolated volume of production. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082383 | Single Step Flight Schedule Optimization - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes generating a first graph including possible flight segments between airline stations for an airline and determining a set of permissible crew pairings based on a traversal of the first graph. The method also includes generating a second graph comprising the determined set of permissible crew pairings and determining a set of permissible aircraft routings based on a traversal of the second graph. The method includes generating a set of optimized aircraft routings using an integer-programming algorithm that accepts the determined set of permissible aircraft routings as input, and outputting the set of optimized aircraft routings for use in a flight schedule. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082384 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPREHENSIVE CONSUMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - A comprehensive consumer relationship management system is disclosed. The comprehensive consumer relationship management system includes dispute resolution, customized data modeling, advertising assistance, and secure communications. By providing value added features, the comprehensive consumer relationship management system may strengthen consumer relationships by, for example, creating detailed data analysis to aid in making business decisions and facilitating secure communications among diverse consumers. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TEMPERATURE OF BUSINESS COMPONENTS FOR FINDING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION OPPORTUNITIES - Temperature of one or more business components are determined by determining temperatures for metrics associated with a business component using benchmark data. The determined temperatures for metrics are aggregated into a representative temperature for a business component using a selected algorithm. A spectrum of colors is provided to represent the range of temperatures and the representative temperature is represented as a color from the spectrum of colors. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION OPPORTUNITIES BY ANALYZING SERIES OF HEAT MAPS BY DIMENSION - A method and system for analyzing business performance and opportunities by generating one or more series of heat map views of business components by a plurality of dimensions associate information related to a plurality of dimensions with one or more business components; define one or more dimensions from the plurality of dimensions; generate one or more series of heat map views of the said business components by said defined one of more dimensions; and present said series of heat map views of the business components. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082387 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION OPPORTUNITIES BY USING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SHORTFALL ANALYSIS OF AN ENTERPRISE - A method and system for determining one or more shortfalls of one or more business components by multiple dimensions for business transformation, in one aspect define a plurality of shortfall types associated with a plurality of business components, define a plurality of dimensions of the plurality of business components, construct a shortfall assessment model for the plurality of dimensions, load a business model associated with the plurality of business components, compute shortfall assessment by performing a daisy chain analysis using the shortfall assessment model and the business model for said plurality of shortfalls and associated shortfall types, and presenting the shortfall assessment using visualization. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082388 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) INFRASTRUCTURAL ELEMENTS - The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for managing the Information Technology (IT) infrastructural elements of multiple organizations. The system monitors various IT infrastructural elements, such as networks, operating systems, databases, and software applications of multiple organizations. Alerts corresponding to various issues related to the IT infrastructural elements are generated. Based on the alerts, the system provides information related to the issues to a support team for solving them. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082389 | POSTAL SERVICE REVENUE PROTECTION WITH REAL-TIME PROCESSING - Methods and apparatus for weighing an article, such as a mail piece, while the article is moving at high speed, and for checking that the correct amount of postage has been paid for delivery of the article. An article ( | 2010-04-01 |
20100082390 | DIGITAL DASHBOARD REPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A reporting system for displaying to a user a plurality of key financial performance metrics about a practice, said reporting system comprising one or more user computers, each of said user computers having a practice digital dashboard for displaying said plurality of key financial performance metrics, wherein said practice digital dashboard includes one or more selectable data analysis interfaces to present said plurality of key financial performance metrics in a grid of one or more tables, graphs, or charts; one or more data servers in communication with each of the user computers, each data server comprising a set of billing and collection information for said practice and one or more functions for computing said plurality of key financial performance metrics from said set of billing and collection information for said practice; and a network allowing communication between said one or more user computers and said one or more data servers. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082391 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR APPOINTMENT MESSAGING - Appointment information for a user may be entered at a computer. A first signal may be sent from the computer, via a network, to a server remote from the computer, the content of the first signal including for example data related to the appointment information. Sending the first signal may be triggered by completion of the entering appointment information for the user. The content of the first signal may be processed at the server according to the appointment information, and a message may be sent from the server to the user relating to the appointment. A response to the message may be received from the user. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082392 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION FOR ALLOCATION OF ADVERTISING RESOURCES - An advertising distribution system mediates and distributes advertising opportunities, especially insertions of ads on web pages, according to advertisers' representative targeting profiles. The number and characteristics of future ad impressions is forecast. A portion is allocated to guaranteed-delivery advertiser contracts and the remainder is offered on a spot market. A division between guaranteed and spot market allocations is sought to maximize revenue, taking into account a value associated with meeting the advertisers' representative profiles. The value of representativeness can be inferred from the marginal revenue of a spot market sale, and optionally weighted. The guaranteed and spot market revenues for all possible efficient allocations produces a curve. An operating point on the curve is determined by selecting a weighting factor or selecting a proportion of total revenue that shall be attributable to representativeness. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082393 | DISPLAY ADVERTISING CONTRACT PRICING - Example embodiments described herein may relate to pricing contracts for a display advertising system utilized, for example, in Web-based advertising. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082394 | Flight Schedule Constraints for Optional Flights - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving a number N | 2010-04-01 |
20100082395 | Systems and methods for analyzing a portfolio of intellectual property assets - Methods and systems consistent with embodiments of the present invention provide flexible analysis of a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) assets. IP assets may include, for example, granted patents, registered trademarks, copyrights, patent applications, trademark applications, etc. Analysis consistent with the present invention may include, for example, forecasting worldwide cost estimates for a portfolio of IP assets. An IP portfolio may consist of one or more families of assets. For example, a patent family may include granted patents and related patent applications filed in countries and regional patent offices around the world. Furthermore, IP assets may be categorized into groups. For example, IP assets may be grouped by technology group, company division, patent manager, etc. In certain embodiments, an IP asset may be part of several groups. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082396 | Event Synchronized Reporting in Process Control Systems - Methods, systems, and computer-executable instructions for event synchronized reporting in an process control system are disclosed. Events may be synchronized by a synchronization parameter, whose instances of occurrence may be non-contiguous in time. Examples of synchronization parameters may include a work shift, a work group, an individual's on-duty time, a logged-on period of an individual, the execution times of a process control entity, a batch run type, and a procedure or sub-unit of a batch run. Instances of occurrence of the synchronization parameter may be recorded into a process control event database. Event synchronized reports may contain at least one synchronization value based on both the instances of occurrence of the synchronization parameter as well as historical process control data. Data from various historian databases may be accessed from process control system tools and integrated into a single report. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082397 | PREDICTIVE GEO-TEMPORAL ADVERTISEMENT TARGETING - A method, system, and medium are provided for targeting advertisements to users of mobile devices based on geo-temporal models. Time-stamped location information is collected for a mobile device and a dynamic geo-temporal model is constructed and updated when new data is collected according to a sample design. Using the geo-temporal model, device location and instances of user interaction with the device can be predicted, and advertisements can be provided based on the predicted location. Advertisements can be cached on the mobile device for later presentation, and the sample design can be updated to improve efficiency and accuracy in the modeling system. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082398 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT DATA - A system is described for providing contextually relevant data. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The processor may receive a query associated with a user. The processor may determine a spatial context, a temporal context, a social context and a topical context of the query. The spatial context may represent the location of the user, and the temporal context may represent a time of the query. The topical context may represent an item of interest to the user, and the social context may represent an item of interest to other users associated with the user. The processor may identify a plurality of search results for the query searched for. Each search result may be associated with one or more of the spatial context, the temporal context, the social context and the topical context. The processor may provide the identified search results to the user. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082399 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING ADVERTISEMENTS IN A NETWORK-BASED ENVIRONMENT - The present invention is directed to a system and method for distributing advertisements in a network-based advertisement campaign. The method and system includes determining a number of advertisement placements for a contract within a contract time interval where the advertisement placements may be presented to users having defined characteristics. The method and system includes reviewing forecasting information regarding user traffic, including forecasting information for predicting a volume of users having the defined characteristics. The method and system includes, in response to the forecasting information, procuring advertisement placements consistent with the contract during the contract time interval and distributing the advertisements in a network-based output. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082400 | SCORING CLICKS FOR CLICK FRAUD PREVENTION - Machine learning techniques are employed to build and evolve classifiers (e.g., decision trees or other rule-based classifiers) which generate scores representing confidence values associated with particular paths through a classifier (rather than discrete class labels), and then compare those scores to tunable thresholds to effect classification. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082401 | FORECASTING FOR ADVERTISING INVENTORY ALLOCATION - Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system for managing online advertising, and in particular, to pricing of advertising inventory and its allocation to advertising campaigns. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082402 | ESTIMATING ON-LINE ADVERTISING INVENTORY VALUE BASED ON CONTRACT DELIVERY INFORMATION - Disclosed are apparatus and methods for pricing on-line advertisement inventory. In one embodiment, a method for pricing on-line advertisement inventory includes (i) providing a model for determining a value of an individual impression as a function of its user target attributes based on historical bookings for a plurality of impressions, wherein each impression corresponds to a plurality of user target attributes for which an on-line advertisement can be displayed, (ii) receiving a request for a price of a new product, and (iii) determining the price of the new product based on the average of individual impression values that are determined by using the model on a plurality of user target attributes of a plurality of individual impressions that serve the new product. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082403 | ADVOCATE RANK NETWORK & ENGINE - This disclosure describes systems and methods for providing real-time and customized advocacy to consumers over a network. Customizing advocacy is done by selecting one or more advocates most likely to induce a potential customer to engage in a transaction with a product, brand, or service. To select these one or more advocates, an advocate ranking is generated, wherein advocates are ranked by a total advocacy value (an estimation of the likelihood that an advocate will induce a potential customer to engage in a transaction with a product, brand, or service). The total advocacy value is determined by monitoring data regarding advocates, and applying that data to a model. The data can be derived from the interactions of real world entities (RWEs) with the network as well as from information objects (IOs) accessible by the network. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING DATE CONSTRAINTS IN AN ADVERTISEMENT SERVING SYSTEM - Generally, embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, systems and computer program products for utilizing date constraints in an advertisement serving system. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a request for one or more advertisements that satisfy one or more constraints. A set of advertisement contracts is generated, wherein the set of advertisement contracts comprise one or more advertisement contracts that satisfy the one or more constraints. The contractual time period for a given advertisement contract in the set of advertisement contracts is then determined. A subset of advertisement contracts is then generated, wherein the subset of advertisement contracts comprises the advertisement contracts in the set of advertisement contracts that are active on a given date. The subset of advertisement contracts is then inputted into an optimization algorithm and one or more advertisement contracts are selected by the optimization algorithm. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082405 | Multi-period-ahead Forecasting - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for multi-period-ahead forecasting. One embodiment is a method that applies a first forecasting algorithm to static historical data to generate a first forecast into a future time period and applies a second forecasting algorithm to dynamic data obtained for a current time period to generate a second forecast. The first and second forecasts are combined to generate forecasts for future time periods. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL ESTATE REFERRALS - The present invention discloses a system and method for providing agent referrals for real estate transactions. The system and method provides buyers and/or sellers with a real estate agent referral based on the type of real estate involved in the transaction and/or preferences of the buyer/seller. The real estate agent provided through the referral will be the highest performing real estate available with the performance of the real estate agent based on criteria received from the seller/buyer and transaction history of the real estate agent. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINANCIAL TRANSFORMATION - Financial transformation in one aspect establishes a hub and spoke network of models including at least a process model as the hub and at least components model, value driver model, applications model, solutions models as the spoke connected to the process model. A plurality of correlations is inferred among said models using daisy-chain analyses that navigate the hub and spoke network of models, and heat map is generated. Heat map analysis, application shortfall analysis, organization shortfall analysis, solution analysis, and business case analysis are performed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082408 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUILDING AN OFFER OF OPTIONAL SERVICES FOR A GIVEN SERVICE OR PRODUCT - A method is provided for guaranteeing a set of valid additional services or products to offer to a user, which additional services or products are associated with a main service or product. The method includes building an affinity matrix of a plurality of additional services and products to attribute an affinity level between each additional service or product with at least one other additional service or product based on the association with the main service or product, determining a coherence level between the additional services or products and the main service or products such that an additional service or product can be marked as valid if the coherence level meets a predetermined level, and generating the set of valid additional services or products to offer to the user based on the affinity level and the coherence level. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082409 | NABST market mechanism - Enables self-serving consumer to indicate personal element of demand for a particular product so they are alerted to modified supply (promotion) for the product. Potential buyers use input in the form of MMS protocol or SMS protocol to communicate a proprietary code (identifying the store of product observation and a product of interest) to a communications host. The store and product information, together with a return address for responsive communications concerning the product, is stored in a third-party database. A seller interested in demand in their establishment could access the database and retrieve aggregate buyer-segmented product demand information for the consumer they target. The seller could effectively design incentive schemes and communicate promotional information by SMS protocol to the potential buyer via the communications host. The system is highly targeted, enhances economic communication of unsatisfied demand and delivers promotional supply information to self-targeted consumers with protection from unsolicited seller spam. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082410 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - Methods, apparatus, and systems to determine a niche market of items or services, the first phase of which identifies a gap between demand and supply for a set of items. Session logs may be evaluated to compare transactions involving a specific item to those of a larger group of items. The resultant information identifies areas of high demand, but with low availability. The niche market information may be provided as direct merchandising items for sellers. In one example, the method generates niche market item web pages in specific categories. Additional methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082411 | DYNAMIC ADVERTISEMENT MANAGEMENT - A method and system for generating digital advertisements is provided. A method employed by the system may include receiving template information that that defines dynamic elements of the advertisement, receiving data associated with the dynamic elements, generating browser code based on the template information and the data, and communicating the browser code to a browser. The method may also include receiving a second template that includes a creative applet reference and combining the template information with the browser code. The second template may also include a reference to an alternate image that is rendered when an image defined by the creative applet cannot be rendered. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082412 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING AN ADVERTISEMENT PLAN FOR ALLOCATING ADVERTISEMENTS TO A CONTRACT IN A NETWORK-BASED ENVIRONMENT - The present invention is directed to a system and method for optimizing an advertisement plan for allocating advertisements to a contract in a network-based environment. The system and method includes determining a shadow price for an advertisement placement where the advertisement placement is associated with a user having defined characteristics. The system and method includes determining a contract price for the advertisement placement relative to a plurality of advertisement contracts for the user having the defined characteristics. The system and method includes determining an advertisement plan for allocating an advertisement to a given contract on the basis of the shadow price and the contract price. The system and method includes presenting a given advertisement associated with the given contract according to the advertisement plan on network-based output. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082413 | Risk-and-return based advertisement selection and scheduling - Method and system embodiments of the present invention employ risk and return estimates in order to select and schedule display of advertisements. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to an advertising system that includes an advertising-selection-and-scheduling component and an information-provision system. The advertising-selection-and-scheduling component selects advertising for inclusion in information provided to users, prepares a schedule based on risk associated with including the selected advertising in the information provided to the users according to the schedule and based on return expected from including the selected advertising in the information provided to the users according to the schedule, and stores the prepared schedule in a computer-readable medium for subsequent access by the information-provision system. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082414 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a display device is configured to select an arbitrary mode among a plurality of types of power saving modes to effect performance of the display device in response to a taste. The display device achieves power saving cooperation. A setting storage module is configured to store setting states of the types of power saving modes. A display output module responds to an operation input to display the on, off, or selection states of the types of power saving modes. An execution change control module responds to the operation input to individually change the release or continuation of each type of the power saving modes. The execution change control module forcibly executes the types of power saving modes when a predetermined condition is met. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082415 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF SELECTIVE MESSAGE CACHING TO SUPPORT RULES IN A TRADING PARTNER COLLABORATION MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are provided for selectively cache trading partner transaction messages in a trading partner collaboration environment. At least one trading partner transaction message is received. A determination is made as to whether at least one trading partner business rule requires data from the transaction message. If at least one trading partner business rule requires data from the transaction message, at least a portion of the transaction message in a transaction history cache is selectively cached. Another determination is made as to whether the transaction message is associated with a trading partner business rule. If the transaction message is associated with a trading partner business rule the transaction message is processed based on the associated trading partner business rule and previous transaction message data residing in the transaction history cache. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082416 | Subcred - A method and system for subscribing credit using subscribing credit plans wherein user choose a subscribing credit plan with a limited working life one to three years then apply for the service plan chosen. If approved subscriber is required to deposit up to ten percent of the service plan depending on the lender, pay an activation fee and or a monthly subscription fee in order to have access and use the credit amount applied for. There is no accruing interest on outstanding balance or deposit made to start an account. A lender may offer extra credit as a bonus in exchange to add interest on the outstanding bonus balance or it is subject to accrued interest, when part or whole bonus is used. Payment on outstanding balance over $50 is 2%-5% minimum, balance $50 and under is 25%-50% plus the subscribing fee. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082417 | DATABASE FOR FINANCIAL MARKET DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL - A multi-session write-once computer tick database operable to store financial market data or “tick data.” The tick database stores market information regarding discrete market transactions in individual ticks. For example, information related to stock trades, and quotes may be stored in the database. The individual ticks vary in length dependent on the information available regarding the particular transaction. Null values are not stored in the database. Various field identifiers may be stored in the tick to identify the various metrics or parameters relevant to the transaction that are also stored in the tick. In various embodiments, one metric or parameter is associated with each field identifier. Different transactions may have different number of field identifiers stored within the tick, accordingly, different ticks may differ in length. The information stored within the ticks may be subsequently retrieved. When market data is retrieved using the embedded three-part hierarchal key structure, it may be stored in a cache associated with the tick database. The stored market data may be retrieved from the cache during subsequent requests. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082418 | AWARD SYSTEM WITH INCREASED PAYOUT OPTIONS - A cash rebate award system with increased payout options is presented, wherein a consumer using a financial alternative to currency is rewarded based on the purchases made by the consumer within a given time frame, and is allowed to electronically transfer the award into any number of banking or investment accounts. A standard electronic currency transfer system, such as the ABA routing number system, or the ACH routing system, can be used so as not to limit the accounts into which the consumer can transfer their award. Consumers can also choose to transfer their award to multiple accounts, or accounts belonging to others, such as family or charities. Account information can also be saved for more efficient subsequent transfers, and automated transfers can also be set up by the consumer. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082419 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RATING AN OFFER FOR A PRODUCTS - Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for rating an offer for a product. In one broad aspect there is provided a method for rating an offer for a product. The method includes generating a component score for each rating component of a plurality of rating components. The rating components include at least one community feedback component and at least one intrinsic component. Each rating component is then assigned a weight, where the weight assigned to the at least one community feedback component is proportional to the volume of community feedback and the weight assigned to the at least one intrinsic community feedback is inversely proportional to the volume of community feedback. In another broad aspect, there is provided a method for rating an offer for a product. The method includes generating a component score for each rating component of a plurality of rating components. The plurality of rating components include a price of the offer. The step of generating the component score for the price of the offer includes comparing the price of the offer to a current market price reference for the product. The current market price reference is based on community feedback associated with the offer. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BENEFIT NOTIFICATION - A system and method for generating and sending benefit notifications is disclosed. A consumer can conduct a transaction at a merchant. The consumer may receive a notification containing a reward status indicator. The reward status indicator may be text or a figure that indicates a status of a consumer's purchases toward a reward threshold. With this notification, the consumer can be aware both of how many rewards she has already earned, and how many more rewards she may need to obtain to redeem any rewards. The benefit notification message may be sent while the consumer is still near the merchant, such that that the consumer can receive the message with enough time to act on the reward information. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082421 | CLICK THROUGH RATE PREDICTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer implemented method comprises analyzing a plurality of attributes of a sample of online documents using a boosted decision tree and generating a model from it. The model is used to predict a click through rate (CTR) of an additional online document based on the analyzing. The predicted CTR is output to a display device, storage medium or network. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082422 | PLACEMENT IDENTIFICATION AND RESERVATION - A reservation system receives placement inventory data from publishers that define placements that the publishers are offering for reservation. Placement queries that include targeting criteria for advertisements are received from an advertiser. Available placements that satisfy the target query from the placements defined in the placement inventory data are identified as target placements. The advertiser can reserve the placements from the publisher, and modify the reservation during a reservation period. Advertisements belonging to a campaign of the advertiser can be provided to the publisher either by the advertiser directly in response to publisher requests to serve an advertisement for the reservation, or can be provided to the publisher by the reservation system or an advertising server in communication with the reservation system. Discrepancies of reported performance of advertisements in the placements reported by the advertisers and the publishers can be reconciled and attributed to either the advertiser or the publisher. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082423 | SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING AD PERFORMANCE AT CAMPAIGN RUNNING TIME - A system and method are disclosed for optimizing the performance of an advertisement. The advertisement may be targeted based on correlations between advertisements and/or users. The correlations may be used to improve the click-through rate of advertisements. As data is collected and feedback is received, the correlation between ads and users may be updated, so that an advertiser's campaign can optimize its targeting of users. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082424 | OFFLINE OPTIMIZATION OF ONLINE PROCESSES - Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system for managing online resources, and in particular, to a system using an offline process to optimize the management of such online resources. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082425 | SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING ADVERTISING INVENTORY IN A UNIFIED MARKETPLACE - An advertisement impression distribution system includes a data processing system operable to generate an allocation plan for serving advertisement impressions. The allocation plan allocates a first portion of advertisement impressions to satisfy guaranteed demand and a second portion of advertisement impressions to satisfy non-guaranteed demand. The data processing system includes an optimizer, the optimizer to establish a relationship between the first portion of advertisement impressions and the second portion of advertisement impressions, the relationship defining a range of possible proportions of allocation of the first portion of advertisement impressions and the second portion of advertisement impressions. The optimizer generates an indicia in accordance with maximizing guaranteed demand fairness or representativeness, maximizing non-guaranteed revenue, and minimizing under-delivery penalties, where the indicia indentifies a determined proportion of the first portion of advertisement impressions to serve and a determined proportion of the second portion of advertisement impressions to serve. The data processing system outputs the allocation plan including the indicia to control serving of the advertisement impressions in the determined proportions. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082426 | SITE ACTIVATION AND DEACTIVATION - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for managing advertisement request data. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving an advertisement request, determining a request type for a received advertisement request and determining request access rights for a website on the basis of whether the website is activated or deactivated. If the request is a booking request and the request is allowed by the access rights, the method is operative to book an advertisement. If the request is an advertisement request and the request is allowed by the access rights, the method is operative to serve advertisements in response to the request. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082427 | System and Method for Context Enhanced Ad Creation - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to creating contextually-targeted advertisements. In a particular implementation, advertisers may leverage a W4 COMN to deliver contextually-targeted and/or contextually-enhanced advertisements. In the implementations discussed below, an ad creation system utilizes data made available by the W4 COMN to facilitate the creation and placement of advertisements on a message delivery network, such as the W4 COMN itself. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082428 | DISPLAY ADVERTISING INVENTORY ESTIMATION - Example embodiments described herein may relate to estimating inventory for a display advertising system utilized, for example, in Web-based advertising. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082429 | TARGETING BASED PLACEMENT IDENTIFICATION - A reservation system can identify available placements based on targeting criteria provided by advertisers and placement inventory data provided by publishers. The reservation system can receive reservation data for the available placements from the publishers and provide the reservation data with the available placements to the advertisers. The available placements and can be ranked and presented to the advertisers based on a first precision with which the placement can satisfy the advertiser's targeting criteria. A second precision can be determined for each placement that has enabled targeting rules. In turn, the reservation system can rank and present the placements based on the first and second precisions. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082430 | MANAGING SPONSORED CONTENT BASED ON DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS - Improved mobile content presentation capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. Information relating to the user characteristics associated with a mobile communication facility and rendering capabilities thereof are employed to improve the presentation and relevance of mobile content to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082431 | Contextual Mobile Content Placement on a Mobile Communication Facility - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for displaying mobile content in association with a website on a mobile communication facility based at least in part on receiving a website request from a mobile carrier gateway, receiving contextual information relating to the requested website, associating the received contextual information with a mobile content, and, finally, displaying the mobile content with the website on a mobile communication facility. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082432 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONSTRAINT-BASED ADVERTISING - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing up-to-date constraint based advertising content. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a request for advertisement content and selecting a first plurality of advertisements meeting the user profile data. The method then filters the first plurality of advertisements based on advertiser and publisher constraints and selecting a second plurality of advertisements and provides the second plurality of advertisements to a user. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082433 | Using A Threshold Function For Bidding In Online Auctions - One embodiment is a method that generates bids at an online search auction. The method uses a threshold function to decide which slot to obtain and bids accordingly. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082434 | PERSONALIZED SEARCH RESULTS TO MULTIPLE PEOPLE - A method is disclosed for personalizing search results for delivery to multiple recipients, including receiving a search query by a search engine from a user on behalf of a group of users, wherein the group of users communicate through a plurality of communication devices at a plurality of locations; conducting a search of a database by the search engine to locate any data relevant to one or more terms of the search query; generating, by the search engine, a set of search results returned from the database according to at least one factor related to one or more of the group of users; and substantially simultaneously sending the set of search results to the plurality of communications devices of the group of users. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082435 | CUSTOMIZABLE AD MARKER - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for publisher customization of advertisement data. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises requesting an advertisement in response to a request for a webpage. The method then determines if an ad marker exists for the requested advertisement and returns a custom ad marker, if said ad marker exists, or returns a generic ad marker if said custom ad marker does not exist. | 2010-04-01 |