14th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 47 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130085799 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A business process management system comprises a core process model and a highly configurable extension component. The extension component includes extension process elements and functionality that are configured to operate in connection with a subset of core process elements so as to execute a particular business process management function on the subset. The extension process elements and functionality are entirely separate from and are not a part of the process flow containing the subset of core process elements such that the business process management function does not affect or influence the core process flow. Examples of business process management functions configurable for such purposes include service level agreements, business process monitoring and KPI collection, policy compliance and trend prediction. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085800 | System and Method of Business Risk Based Authorization - A system and method of authorizing access in a computer system. The method includes receiving a request to use the computer system, reading authorization data associated with the user, and denying the request according to the authorization data. The method further includes determining a business process risk associated with the request and comparing a characteristic of the request and the business process risk. The method further includes authorizing the request to use the computer system by the user when the business process risk exceeds the characteristic. In this manner, the delay involved in performing the normal access provisioning process is avoided for situations in which the business risk exceeds the cost of the delay. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085801 | Supply Chain Performance Management Tool Having Predictive Capabilities - A method for providing a supply chain management tool may include generating a representation of a supply chain of an organization where the representation is generated responsive to identification of supply chain entities and corresponding flows therebetween. The flows may include transactional layer activities at a stock keeping unit level. The method may further include referencing the representation to determine historical data indicative of supply chain performance, and utilizing processing circuitry to employ the historical data to generate at least one prediction regarding future operating performance of the supply chain. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085802 | Publication of efficiency and ecological impact data to a social media interface - Systems and methods for determining efficiency-of-use scores related to uses of a product by two or more users may implement operations including, but not limited to: computing at least one of an efficiency-of-use score and an environmental impact quantification according to data associated with a use of a physical product by a user over a period of time the user is indicated as having control of the physical product; and publishing the at least one of an efficiency-of-use score and an ecological impact quantification associated with the use of the product by the user to a social media interface. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085803 | BRAND ANALYSIS - A system provides an analysis of a the strength or weakness of a brand as reflected in both on-line and off-line media. The system automatically retrieves data relating to a particular brand from a plurality of different media channels which may reflect inputs received from the various media channels, perhaps in response to advertisement campaigns. The system generates a score for each media channel which reflects a comparison of the inputs that were received for the brand relative to other similarly situated entities. An aggregate score is generated from the scores that have been generated for the various media channels. Scores and analysis reflecting a relative strength and weakness for a brand are presented. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085804 | ONLINE MARKETING, MONITORING AND CONTROL FOR MERCHANTS - Systems and methods of online marketing, monitoring and control for merchants are disclosed. Third party providers are crawled to obtain information about a plurality of merchants and correlate the merchant information to create a merchant database. Third party providers are monitored for merchant information, and information about the merchants is stored. Alerts are provided to subscribing merchants when an alert trigger is identified within the system or at a third party provider. The method allows the subscribing merchant to view and respond to reviews, view and maintain online listings, prepare and send consumer offers, and prepare and send communications to consumers, all directly from the system. The method allows the subscribing merchant to view information and analyses for competing merchants. An overall marketing score for merchants is prepared and displayed. The method may be performed on a server and accessed via an Internet browser and mobile device applications. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085805 | PRIORITIZING MARKETING LEADS BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS - A system may prioritize marketing leads. Each marketing lead may identify a prospect for a marketing effort. The system may include a computer data processing system that is configured to: query a computer system for social media postings made in a social media network system by each prospect; determine whether each prospect is a good candidate for the marketing effort based on the results of the query; and store information indicative of the determination. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085806 | METHOD FOR PREFERENCE DETERMINATION - A methodology is disclosed that can be used in online surveys, or to an audience gathered in a physical location, in which they can see the images of products shown on a computer monitor, a projection screen or hand-held device, or see and feel the actual products. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes the steps of: pre-screening said assortment by a respondent to produce a pre-screened assortment; performing a max-diff exercise for the pre-screened assortment to create a set of ranked results; creating an intermediate sub-assortment (ISA) based on ranked results of the max-diff exercise; performing either a chip allocation or choice rank exercise on the ISA based on results of the max-diff exercise; and combining results of the chip allocation or choice rank exercise with results by additional respondents. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085807 | ONLINE SHOPPING - Online shopping may be facilitated by the use of an intermediate computer system a) collecting data from online shopping interactions, b) obtaining additional online shopping preference information related to a specific, potential online shopping transaction, c) forwarding a request a merchant based on the preference information to modify terms and/or conditions of the potential online transaction, and d) providing at least some of the related shopper's collected data for use by the one or more merchants considering the request. The transaction whereby the transaction may be completed in accordance with said request upon agreement between the related shopper and said one or more merchants. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085808 | EMOTIONAL SURVEY - A method includes presenting a media item to a test subject, the media item associated with a brand or product; presenting a series of sensory stimuli to the test subject; and, based on responses of the test subject to the series of stimuli, generating results suitable to inform a business decision related to marketing of the brand or product. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085809 | System, Apparatus and Method for Customer Requisition and Retention Via Real-time Information - A hand-held computing device and system is provided comprising an executable method for providing the user the ability to allocate geographical regions to a predetermined or on-the-fly representative or groups of representatives. The executable method in conjunction with the hand-held computing device provides a field representative with the means to view a predetermined allocation of customer's houses or business addresses that are part of scheduled daily activity. The system provides user ability to access a particular property, display information at the point-of-sale, capture information including digital signatures and verbal verifications, and storing the outcome of the interaction in a particular case. A user interface on a hand-held computer device is provided that includes a group management module, a user allocation module, a team leader module, a customer interaction module, and a mapping module. A further user interface is provided at one or more web consoles. Said web console user interface includes a form builder module, a form management module, a reporting module, and an allocation module. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085810 | FEDERATED BUSINESS CONFIGURATION AND SCOPING - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for scoping a software installation. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085811 | WORK PRODUCT TRANSPARENCY - A system and method to increase the transparency of electronic work product created by one or more workers. The system and method consists of a development environment for each worker, wherein the environment records work being done along with appropriate metadata. The method provides and management tools to facilitate easy access and analysis of this data. The invention further generates work related event streams, which contain summaries of worker changes of particular interest to a given supervisor. These event streams are generated by the system and sent to the supervisor in real time, or almost real time, in the form of easy to read messages that can quickly let the supervisor see work progress at a glance. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085812 | Supply Chain Performance Management Tool for Profiling A Supply Chain - A method for providing a supply chain performance management tool may include receiving an identification of supply chain entities and corresponding operational activities therebetween for an organization to generate a functional representation of the supply chain, receiving natively formatted data from the entities of the organization where the natively formatted data is indicative of transactional layer activities, converting, via processing circuitry, the natively formatted data to processed data using a rule set for data conversion developed for the organization, and associating the processed data to the functional representation for generation of one or more reports indicative of supply chain performance. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085813 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Providing a Supply Chain Performance Management Tool - A method for providing a supply chain performance management tool may include profiling a supply chain by obtaining data indicative of stock keeping unit level activity associated with flows of items between entities within the supply chain of an organization, cleansing, via processing circuitry, the obtained data based on reconciliation of input from each functional category of entities within the supply chain, and providing performance results based on the cleansed data. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085814 | Supply Chain Optimization Using a Supply Chain Performance Management Tool - A method for providing reports associated with improving supply chain performance may include generating a representation of a supply chain of an organization where the representation is generated responsive to identification of supply chain entities and corresponding flows therebetween. The flows may include transactional layer activities at a stock keeping unit level. The method may further include referencing the representation to define data groupings based on supply chain similarities, establishing baseline data and at least one scenario, and employing the defined data groupings to run a test relative to the at least one scenario, via processing circuitry, to generate performance results relative to the baseline data. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085815 | COMPUTERIZED VOTING SYSTEM - Officials using computers research and create lists of Certified Registered Voters and Proxies whom are sent computer encoded ballots and return containers. Each Ballot and correlated Receipt(s) share a unique Random Symbolic Identifier (RSID) and use embedded Security Elements to prevent counterfeiting. For privacy, before voting, Voters-Proxies optionally exchange ballots and return containers within their Voting Region, validating ballots electronically or in-person by submitting Ballot Validation RSID to Officials. Voter-Proxy completes ballot(s), adds Personal Security Identifier(s), receives ballot receipt, delivery receipt upon sending ballot to Officials via postal mail, Interactive Television, Internet, Telephone, Fax, Email, In-person. Received ballots are electronically-optically recorded; if timely and authentic, voter selections are extracted, tallied if properly marked, and published to Voters' private data area accessed via Receipt RSID. Official devices, communications computer processing partially managed and optimized by computers running artificial intelligence software programs. After voting ends, Officials publish all data for integrity verification. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085816 | ONLINE COMMUNITIES FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES PRODUCTS - An online community for users of a financial services product, such as credit card users, and various features of such communities. For example, the members can share profits based on community performance, provide feedback and vote on ways to improve the financial services product experience, and help one other when possible. The online community can provide status indicators corresponding to members' engagement within the online community, publish the profit and loss statement of the financial services product associated with the community, provide a decline process that facilitates approval to the community for customers with improving credit, link members' deposits to provide a higher interest rate, automatically transfer balances between banks, and pay referral fees to the community. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085817 | DISCOUNT OFFER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE WITH FOR HIRE VEHICLES - A deal manager receives promotional offers from vendors. The deal manager publishes the deals to deal presenters. The deal presenters collect acceptance and payment information which is then sent back to the deal manager. The deal manager processes the payment information and sends a for-hire vehicle request to a reservation and dispatch system. A for-hire vehicle (for example, a taxi, shuttle or limo) is dispatched, or in another embodiment, the destination of a for-hire vehicle is modified so that a passenger may be transported to a location where the deal may be redeemed. The deal manger transmits a voucher containing a unique voucher code to the deal presenter. Vendors and drivers of for-hire vehicles validate the voucher using the unique voucher code. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085818 | METHOD OF MANAGING A DRIVER REWARDS PROGRAMME AND A SYSTEM THEREFOR - A method of managing a driver rewards programme includes receiving data including information relating to the compliance of a driver in one or more of a plurality of programme areas related to motor vehicle driver behaviour and storing the data in a database. Awarding points to the driver wherein the points allocated are related to the compliance of the driver in one or more of the programme areas and using the points allocated to determine a reward for the driver. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085819 | METHOD OF MANAGING A DRIVER REWARDS PROGRAMME AND A SYSTEM THEREFOR - A method and system for managing a driver rewards programme includes receiving data including information relating to the compliance of a driver in at least one of a plurality of programme areas related to motor vehicle driver behaviours and storing the data in a database. Points are awarded to the driver wherein the points awarded are related to the compliance of the driver in the at least one programme area. Finally, the points awarded are used to determine a reward for the driver wherein the reward is a fuel related reward. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085820 | Apparatus, System and Method for a Media Enhancement Widget - The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at least one permission for enhancement of the primary content, ones of a plurality of content produced remotely from the javascript component and according to the javascript component, and an enhancement widget. The enhancement widget may be a flash widget. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085821 | Strategy-Resistant Referral Reward Distribution - In a participatory system, a reward is distributed to participants based on their contributions to the system and the contributions of direct and indirect referrals of the participant (descendant referrals). A convex function is applied to the effective contribution of each participant to determine the weighted contribution of the participant, and the participant's reward is based on the participant's weighted contribution less the weighted contributions of child participants referred by the participant. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085822 | Mutually Advertising System, Advertisement Distribution Planning Apparatus and Method, and Computer Program - A mutually advertising system includes an ad distribution planning apparatus and ad indication systems. Each ad indication system includes a digital signage for indicating ads, and a section for calculating viewing indexes with respect to the respective indicated ads and for sending the calculated viewing indexes to the ad distribution planning apparatus. The ad distribution planning apparatus includes a section for, with respect to each ad indication system, identifying advertisers of the respective ads among business enterprises, for calculating evaluation values of the viewing indexes sent from the ad indication systems and regarding each of the identified advertisers, and for calculating degrees of relations between the business enterprises from the calculated evaluation values. The ad distribution planning apparatus further comprises a section for setting distribution allotment degrees for each of ads to be distributed to the ad indication systems in accordance with the calculated relations degrees. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCALIZED PRODUCT OFFERINGS PUBLICATIONS - A retailer system responds to a request to view an electronic product offerings publication by using data indicative of a geographic location to select from a plurality of retailer locations at least one retailer location and by retrieving inventory related information for the selected at least one retailer location. The retrieved inventory related information is then used to select product offerings from a repository of product offerings whereupon an electronic product offerings publication container is populated with the product offerings selected from the repository of product offerings. The populated electronic product offerings publications container is then returned to the requester as the requested product offerings publication. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085824 | TIMER-BASED AD PLACEMENT IN CONTENT RETRIEVAL APPLICATIONS - Techniques are described for incorporating advertisements into content in a content retrieval application. Embodiments receive a request to view content retrieved from source content containing one or more advertisements. In response to receiving the request, a timer is initiated. The timer is configured to expire after a period of time has elapsed. Embodiments determining whether to display any of the one or more advertisements, based upon whether the timer has expired. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085825 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONTENT TREATMENT - Content uploaded to a video distribution service is analyzed to determine if a portion matches part of any reference work. If a match is found, treatment of the uploaded content is determined based on stored rule data, and based on one or more factors. These factors can include, e.g., the length of the matching portion, the part of the reference work from which the matching portion was apparently copied, the confidence of the match, the popularity of the uploaded content (or of the reference work), the geography from which the content was uploaded (or the geography to which it is to be downloaded), etc. Further determinations may be made by human evaluators (including crowd-source approaches). A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085826 | GAME SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING INFORMATION - A game system and method of providing information within a game. An advertising medium is provided that has indicia that is related to a product or a service and also includes a QR code that can be scanned by a computing device. The computing device then accesses a website that has a program where the retrieved information from the QR code is inputted so that a predetermined message such as a clue can be provided to a game player in order to determine a correct predetermined response in order to win a prize at the game. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085827 | METHOD FOR REDEEMING ELECTRONIC COUPONS - A merchant provides a consumer with its email address along with at least a portion of one or more images of coupons. The consumer selects a desired coupon for redemption and sends an email to the merchant attaching the image or a portion of the image, or the URL or a Quick Response Symbol (QR code) of the coupon. The merchant, upon receipt, verifies the authenticity of the coupon and redeems it if valid. The merchant accumulates and stores emails from consumers who have sought redemption of coupons. These accumulated consumer emails and email addresses are analyzed to determine how the emails and/or email addresses can used by the merchant for communicating with consumers by email to promote the merchant's goods and services. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085828 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION WITH INTEGRATED GAME MECHANICS - Methods and systems provided can incentivize consuming, sharing, and interacting with online content by providing redeemable points to users for their interaction with content. Points may be redeemed for real or virtual goods and services. Profiles on social networking websites relating to users or their social circles can be mined using natural language processing to determine topical interests relevant to users to facilitate displaying online content most likely to be of interest to users. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085829 | PAPER COUPON FRAUD DETECTION - A computer may receive a product code from a POS device. Further, the computer may compare the product code to identifiers for a plurality of fraudulent coupons comprising universal product codes (UPCs) of the fraudulent coupon and a trigger item code of the fraudulent coupon. Responsive to a match between the product code and the identifier of at least one fraudulent coupon, the computer may obtain information associated with the fraudulent coupon. Further, the computer may transmit the information of the at least one fraudulent coupon to the POS device. The POS device may receive the information of the at least one fraudulent coupon and compare the information with a UPC of a coupon scanned at the POS device. Responsive to a match between the fraudulent coupon information and the UPC of the coupon, the computer may generate an alert to notify that the scanned coupon is a fraudulent coupon. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085830 | CUSTOMER'S COMING-TO-A-STORE ACCELERATION SYSTEM - A customer's coming-to-a-store acceleration system for presenting strong incentive to the customers for their coming to the store, and for accelerating customer's coming to the store and enabling to collect information on customer's coming to the store is provided. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085831 | VENUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A venue management system and method that effectively integrates and automates access control systems, membership and/or loyalty programs, and similar programs and systems to allow a sports team or other organization to more effectively monitor and track ticket holders' attendance histories, purchase histories, spending patterns and other behaviors and to provide rewards and other incentives more closely tied to these behaviors. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085832 | VENUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A venue management system and method that effectively integrates and automates access control systems, membership and/or loyalty programs, and similar programs and systems to allow a sports team or other organization to more effectively monitor and track ticket holders' attendance histories, purchase histories, spending patterns and other behaviors and to provide rewards and other incentives more closely tied to these behaviors. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085833 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING REWARD POINTS TO LIQUIDATE PRODUCTS - A user selects a product to be liquidated from a product provider and then designates to the transacting entity that reward points are to be used towards the purchase of the liquidated product. The transacting entity acts to decrease the number of reward points in the user's reward account by the required number of points. The reward account holder conveys consideration to the transacting entity equivalent to the par value of the reward points consumer obtains the product in exchange for reward points having a retail value equivalent to what he would have otherwise paid for the product, while the reward account holder is required to convey only the par value of the points. The product provider is able to liquidate the product and obtain payment equivalent to what it would otherwise have obtained in a prior art liquidation process, auction or trading environment. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085834 | VENUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A venue management system and method that effectively integrates and automates access control systems, membership and/or loyalty programs, and similar programs and systems to allow a sports team or other organization to more effectively monitor and track ticket holders' attendance histories, purchase histories, spending patterns and other behaviors and to provide rewards and other incentives more closely tied to these behaviors. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085835 | APPLYING MOBILE DIGITAL COUPONS AT THE POINT OF SALE - During a transaction involving a customer purchasing items at a terminal, one or more of coupon data, basket data, or a token are transferred between the terminal and a mobile device associated with the customer, via a proximity-based link. The proximity-based link may be established, without limitation, via NFC, RFID, or other short-range interfaces. For example, a customer may place an NFC component embedded in the customer's mobile device near an NFC component of the terminal. Various techniques are described for causing one or more coupons to be applied to the transaction based on the information transferred over the proximity-based link. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085836 | METHOD FOR UNRESTRICTED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN USERS IN A SOCIAL MEDIUM OR NETWORK - A method allows participants of a social medium or network to unrestricted communication with each other (i.e., without first requiring a pre-established connection or relationship between the communicating participants), without an unacceptable risk of unwanted or unwelcomed communications. The method includes (a) allocating to each member an allocation of community currency units; (b) representing all members of the community in a graph in which each member is represented as a node and established relationships among the members are represented as edges; and (c) when a first member initiates an electronic communication with a second member, (i) evaluating a cost of the electronic communication by a measure that takes into consideration available paths in the graph that exist between the first member and the second member, (ii) modifying the cost of the electronic communication according to a set of pre-determined factors; (iii) deducting from the first member's allocation of community currency units the modified cost of the electronic communication; and (iv) effectuating the electronic communication. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085837 | Conversion/Non-Conversion Comparison - An apparatus having, a communications interface, a memory to store processor-executable instructions, and a processor communicatively coupled to the at least one communications interface and a memory. Upon execution of the processor-executable instructions, the processor may receive user interaction data, that includes content items and conversion items, where a conversion item is a user action that satisfies a predetermined conversion criteria. The apparatus receives conversion data including conversion path data for a plurality of conversion paths, such that each conversion path includes user interaction data prior to and including a conversion event. The apparatus determines a first and second distribution data that includes a metric that is determined based on one or more events associated with the advertisement. The apparatus compares the first distribution data with the second distribution data to determine the performance data, that indicates whether the advertisement had an affect on the conversion event. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085838 | INCENTIVE OPTIMIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING CAMPAIGNS - A social marketing system may have an incentive system that may be optimized dynamically for each user during the course of a marketing campaign. The social marketing system may use a simulated model of social interactions to predict the performance of a marketing campaign and may use the output of the simulation to adjust incentives during a campaign for various users, as well as use the actual results of changes in incentives as feedback to the simulation. The simulation may assume several different types of users within the social network and that several types of financial and non-financial incentives may be applied to different users. Some embodiments may use machine learning algorithms to analyze actual results and feed those results into the simulation. The system may be able to categorize users into the simulated types and adjust incentives according to the models associated with those types of users. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085839 | Mutually Advertising System, Advertisement Distribution Planning Apparatus and Method, and Computer Program - A mutually advertising system includes an ad distribution planning apparatus and ad indication systems possessed by respective business enterprises. Each of the ad indication systems plays back an ad distributed from the ad distribution planning apparatus. With respect to each of the business enterprises, an ad viewing amount is calculated from the number of viewers about the related ad indication system and a time range during which an ad is played back by the related ad indication system. The calculated ad viewing amount is converted into a conversion-result ad charge according to a prescribed rule. A combined ad charge is calculated from the conversion-result ad charge and a paid ad charge. The ad distribution planning apparatus sets distribution of an ad of each of the business enterprises to the ad indication systems on the basis of the calculated combined ad charge. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085840 | Methods and Systems for Real-Time Audience Tracking - At least one embodiment of this invention pertains to a method for tracking activities related to a tracking object such as an advertisement section in real time. The method includes maintaining a real-time communication channel with a user device, wherein the user device renders an application or a web page including a tracking object. Messages for events that a user of the user device is paying attention to or no longer paying attention to the tracking object are received from the user device through the real-time communication channel. The events are recorded to a database. A report for the tracking object is generated, wherein the report contains a number of users who have paid attention to the tracking object and the duration of time that each of the users has been paying attention to the tracking object. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085841 | DETERMINING CONVERSION RATES FOR ON-LINE PURCHASES - Identifying on-line advertising conversions includes identifying, at a computer server system, a plurality of reports from one or more computing devices, wherein each of the reports indicates a clock skew between one of the computing devices and a clock server system; using the clock skews to determine that two or more of the reports are likely from a common computing device; determining that the two or more of the reports are common, in that they correspond to display of an advertisement on the common computing device and to purchase of on-line content with the common computing device; and indicating that a purchase conversion occurred based on determining that the two or more of the reports are common. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085842 | DATA CENTER-LESS DISTRIBUTED SOCIAL NETWORK FOR ONLINE MARKETPLACES - In accordance with one aspect illustrated herein, a system is provided comprising a plurality of devices implementing a plurality of peer nodes coupled to a data-center-less network, wherein each of the plurality of devices implements at least one peer node. At least one of the plurality of peer nodes is configured as a publisher peer node for a plurality of contents cached on the respective peer node. Each publisher peer node is configured to publish one or more advertisements on the network. The data-center-less network can be built automatically from user interactions in the markets and includes proactive replication of advertisements to relevant micro-markets. The system still further provides automatic suggesting of the advertisements to a bidder, which are located in a different market, but are relevant to the bid. The automatic suggesting is based upon a computed strength of a connection between the publisher and the bidder using prior interactions. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085843 | GESTURE BASED NAVIGATION TO AUXILIARY CONTENT - Methods, systems, and techniques for providing automatic navigation to auxiliary content. Example embodiments provide a Dynamic Gesturelet Generation System (DGGS), which enables users to use a gesture-based user interface and dynamically define any content as a “link” for navigating to other content. In overview, the DGGS allows a user to use a gesture-based user interface to indicate some portion of content that is being presented on a presentation device associated with the user. This indicated portion is then used as a dynamic “link” (without necessitating a link being embedded in the underlying content) by the DGGS to navigate to other content or for other purposes. This dynamic cross-reference to other content is termed a “gesturelet.” The DGGS determines, based upon this gesturelet what content to present next to the user and then presents it accordingly. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085844 | SOCIAL RANKING FOR ONLINE COMMERCE SELLERS - Online sellers may be ranked based on feedback given by people trusted by an individual user. The user may trust people in their social networks, as well as people who may be experts in a particular field, and the seller's ranking may be calculated by weighting reviews or feedback from trusted people higher than people unknown to the user. When used with a social campaign management system, ranking of products from multiple online sellers may include coupons or incentives that are available through the user's social network, as well as discounts or incentives that may be targeted to the user's status within their own social network. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085845 | FACILITATING DEAL COMPARISON AND ADVERTISING IN ASSOCIATION WITH EMAILS - Techniques are provided which improve deal and advertisement targeting of users, and which may include facilitating user comparison of deals. Methods and systems may detect if an email contains deal information related to one or more deals. If an email contains deal information, the deal information may be extracted. When the email is opened by the user, a link may be displayed on top of (e.g., overlaid on) the email. The link may be configured such that clicking on the link transmits a search query comprising the extracted deal information to a deal service. The deal service may retrieve one or more additional deals which may be similar or related to the one or more deals received in the email. The additional deals may be selected by the deal service based at least in part on the extracted deal information. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE SELLING OF PRODUCTS APPEARING ON A DISPLAY - The present document describes a system and method for online selling of products appearing in a video production on a first display, such as a TV. The products appearing in the video production which are for sale are listed in a script. The script is provided to the second display device separate and physically distinct from the first display. The second display device generates a selection icon giving the user the option to make a product selection. The products selected by the user may be saved in a list for a later checkout. The script may be synchronized with the video production so that the selection icon of a certain product appears in synchronization with an event in the video production. In an embodiment, the selection icon is generated as the product appears on the first display. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085847 | PERSISTENT GESTURELETS - Methods, systems, and techniques for automatically providing auxiliary content are provided. Example embodiments provide a Dynamic Gesturelet Generation System (DGGS), which enables one to dynamically define a gesturelet for navigating to or presenting other content, or for performing some behavior. In overview, the DGGS allows a portion of electronically presented content to be dynamically indicated by a gesture. The indicated portion can then be formed into a gesturelet and used by the DGGS to navigate to other content, perform a set of instructions, present auxiliary content, or for other purposes. Gesturelets may be stored persistently and associated with some auxiliary content, such as a set of behaviors, advertisements, competitions, supplemental material or images, or the like. Later, when an action in the system occurs such that the persistent representation is retrieved, the behavior associated with the persistent representation is performed and the associated auxiliary content presented. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085848 | GESTURE BASED SEARCH SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and techniques for automatically initiating a search to present auxiliary content in a gesture based input system are provided Example embodiments provide a Gesture Based Search System (GBSS), which enables a gesture-based user interface to invoke (e.g., execute, generate, initiate, perform, or cause to be executed, generated, initiated, performed, or the like) a search related to an portion of electronic input that has been indicated by a received gesture. In overview, the GBSS allows a portion (e.g., an area, part, or the like) of electronically presented content to be dynamically indicated by a gesture. The GBSS then examines the indicated portion in conjunction with a set of (e.g., one or more) factors to determine input to a search. The search is then automatically initiated with the determined source input. Once search result content is determined, the result content is then presented to the user. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085849 | PRESENTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMERCIALIZATION IN A GESTURE-BASED USER INTERFACE - Methods, systems, and techniques for automatically presenting commercial opportunities in a gesture-based user interface are provided. Example embodiments provide a Gesture Based Content Presentation System (GBCPS), which enables a gesture-based user interface to present an opportunity for commercialization related to a portion of electronic input that has been indicated by a received gesture. In overview, the GBCPS allows a portion (e.g., an area, part, etc.) of electronically presented content to be dynamically indicated by a gesture. The GBCPS then examines the indicated portion in conjunction with a set of (e.g., one or more) factors to determine an opportunity for commercialization to present. An opportunity for commercialization may come in many forms, including, for example, a web page, code, document, or the like. Once the opportunity for commercialization is determined, it is then presented to the user, for example, using a separate panel, an overlay, or in any other fashion. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085850 | LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING FOR ROVING SERVICE PROVIDERS - Facilitating the provision of advertising by receiving a notification indicating a location of a roving provider of a service, and updating data associated with the roving provider based on the location of the roving provider, where a computer server is configured to provide, responsive to a search of the data, advertising that is associated with the roving provider, and where the search is associated with both the service and the location. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085851 | Targeted Advertising of Products Shown in Media Content - A particular method includes receiving, at an advertising server, media content information for media content sent to a display device coupled to a media device. The method includes retrieving a list of items depicted in the media content based on the media content information. The method includes receiving, at the advertising server, user identification information of a viewer of the media content. The method includes retrieving user history information associated with the user identification information. The method also includes determining, at the advertising server, one or more items of interest to the viewer from the list of items based on the user history information. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085852 | DEAL AND AD TARGETING IN ASSOCIATION WITH EMAILS - Techniques are provided which improve deal and advertisement targeting of users. Methods and systems may detect if an email contains deal information related to one or more deals. If an email contains deal information, the deal information may be extracted. If the user clicks on a link in the email, one or more additional deals which may be similar or related to the one or more deals received in the email may be selected based at least in part on the extracted deal information. The additional deals and/or advertisements related to the additional deals may be targeted to the user via email or via the user's browser application. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085853 | TIMING FOR PROVIDING RELEVANT NOTIFICATIONS FOR A USER BASED ON USER INTERACTION WITH NOTIFICATIONS - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085854 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, an information processing program and a recording medium for providing information for truly inducing purchase motivation for a user. An information processing server, in a widget display region which has been set at a predetermined location upon a Web page, identifies a plurality of transaction objects to present to a blog viewer on the basis of activity history information indicating a history of activity for the transaction objects via the network of the blog viewer, detects completion of transactions for the identified transaction objects, and displays information of the objects of the detected transactions on the basis of the order in which the transactions have been completed. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085855 | GESTURE BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and techniques for automatically providing auxiliary content are provided. Example embodiments provide a Gesture Based Navigation System (GBNS), which enables a gesture-based user interface to navigate to auxiliary content that is related to an portion of electronic input that has been indicated by a received gesture. In overview, the GBNS allows a portion (e.g., an area, part, or the like) of electronically presented content to be dynamically indicated by a gesture. The GBNS then examines the indicated portion in conjunction with a set of (e.g., one or more) factors to determine auxiliary content to navigate to. Auxiliary content may be in many forms, including, for example, a web page, code, document, or the like. Once the auxiliary content is determined, it is then presented to the user, for example, using a separate panel, an overlay, or in any other fashion. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085856 | METHOD FOR MANAGING THE PROVISIONING OF AN INTERACTIVE APPLICATION, A RELATED SYSTEM AND RELATED SERVER - The present invention relates to a method for managing the provisioning of an Interactive application of a plurality of interactive applications to at least one subscriber device of a plurality of subscriber devices. The managing of the provisioning of the Interactive application is under control of a central interactive application provisioning management server spanning a plurality of coupled communication networks where each communications network of the plurality of communications networks coupling a plurality of subscriber devices. The method includes the step of opting in by a subscriber of the plurality of subscribers at the central interactive application provisioning management server for requesting the provisioning of at least one Interactive application of a plurality of interactive applications to the subscriber. Furthermore the method includes the step of the interactive application provisioning management server at least based on the step of opting-in of the subscriber, selecting an interactive application for provisioning to the subscriber device associated with the communications network of the plurality of communications networks. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085857 | CONVENIENCE-RELATED AND OTHER METRICS IN ADVERTISING - Techniques are provided, for use in electronic or online advertising, that can be viewed as going beyond geographic proximity, including determination and use of convenience-based metrics in advertisement targeting, pricing, selection and packaging. For example, based on information including an actual or anticipated consumer location and a store location, one or more possible or likely consumer travel routes may be determined. Based at least in part on this, metrics, such as convenience-based metrics, can be determined and used in aspects of electronic or online advertising, such as consumer travel distance, travel time, or number or travel proximity of alternative stores. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085858 | TARGETING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS - In a social networking system, users may perform different types of actions with respect to objects (e.g., for a song, a user can buy, listen to, recommend, or like the song). Objects on the social networking system may include object properties (e.g., for a song, an artist, genre, and album are the song's object properties). Each type of action performed on a type of object may be aggregated in a different way. Actions may be performed on objects by users through the social networking system, a third-party application installed on the social networking system, and systems external to the social networking system. An advertiser may specify targeting criteria based on multiple different action types and aggregations of an action with respect to a particular object. Users may be categorized based on their interactions with objects having a common element. Ads may then be targeted to the categorized users. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085859 | Targeting Advertisements Based on User Interactions - In a social networking system, users may perform different types of actions with respect to objects (e.g., for a song, a user can buy, listen to, recommend, or like the song). Objects on the social networking system may include object properties (e.g., for a song, an artist, genre, and album are the song's object properties). Each type of action performed on a type of object may be aggregated in a different way. Actions may be performed on objects by users through the social networking system, a third-party application installed on the social networking system, and systems external to the social networking system. An advertiser may specify targeting criteria based on multiple different action types and aggregations of an action with respect to a particular object. Users may be categorized based on their interactions with objects having a common element. Ads may then be targeted to the categorized users. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085860 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DELIVER CONTEXT SENSITIVE DYNAMIC MOBILE ADVERTISEMENTS - Systems and methods for delivering context sensitive dynamic mobile advertisements are discussed. In an example, a method for delivering context sensitive dynamic mobile advertisements can include receiving user-related context data, generating an advertisement, transmitting the advertisement, updating a dynamic content portion of the advertisement, and transmitting at least the updated dynamic content portion. The advertisement is generated based at least in part on the user-related context data, and includes the dynamic content portion to display dynamic data related to the user-related context data. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085861 | PERSISTENT LOCATION TRACKING ON MOBILE DEVICES AND LOCATION PROFILING - A mobile device may include a geopositioning receiver and an accelerometer, which may be engaged in an alternating manner depending on whether the mobile device is at rest or in motion. If the mobile device is in motion, the geopositioning receiver may remain engaged to provide a real-time location of the mobile device, which may be used to generate various location-triggered notifications and to control location-triggered applications. If the mobile device is at rest, the geopositioning receiver may be disengaged to reduce power usage and instead the accelerometer may be engaged to monitor whether the mobile device is put back in motion. If so, the geopositioning receiver may be reengaged. A sequence of locations where the mobile device came to rest may be stored to construct a location profile, which may allow closely targeted offers and advertisements to be generated based on the daily activity patterns of users. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING ADVERTISEMENTS ON A NETWORK IN ACCORDANCE WITH A TIERED PERIODIC DELIVERY GOAL - A system and method for selecting advertisement lines to serve advertisement requests on a network. According to some embodiments, a ranking system or methodology is implemented to select advertisement lines in a manner that paces the respective advertisement line for a successful outcome. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085863 | System and Method for Centrally Distributing Mobile Content - There are provided methods, systems, devices and computer program products for distributing mobile content, on behalf of mobile content providers, to mobile devices. A central mobile content delivery system and a central mobile content delivery store system are provided. Interfaces permit a mobile content provider to author and publish mobile content in association with subscription data. Content offers may be defined from such data and offered to mobile device user subscribers such as in a catalog system. Content is delivered on behalf of the content providers in accordance with the subscriptions concluded by the store system. Subscriptions may relate to single packages of mobile content or a plurality of packages (e.g. in a series of publications) such as previously or subsequently published mobile content. Subscriptions are provided to the central delivery system to assign and deliver mobile content to devices. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085864 | MOBILE CONTENT DELIVERY - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for mobile content delivery. A method includes, in a mobile network, maintaining a database of mobile subscriber information for mobile subscribers derived from the mobile network, receiving a request for content from a mobile subscriber, loading the requested content, processing the requested content in conjunction with mobile subscriber information in the database of mobile subscriber information, and delivering the processed requested content to the mobile subscriber. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085865 | CONTEXT-CONTINGENT TARGETING IN ONLINE ADVERTISING - An advertising exchange server for context-contingent targeting of online advertisements may include a processor, memory, a communication interface, and a database saved in system storage to store advertisements saved in relation to advertising attributes. The processor may be configured to work with the communication interface to provide an option for an advertiser to express a targeting profile using a freeform mixture of logical operations including a plurality of targeting attributes, the freeform mixture of logical operations excluding solely a series of conjunctive combinations. The processor may receive, and store in memory, the expressed targeting profile and at least one associated advertisement from the advertiser. The processor may receive and match an advertising opportunity with one or more targeting attributes of the targeting profile. The processor may deliver the advertisement associated with the targeting profile that substantially matches the advertising opportunity to fill the advertising opportunity. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085866 | Floating smartphone icon messaging system - A floating messaging icon moves in a straight line, curved line or zig zag movement pattern over stationary icons present on the display of a smartphone or tablet having Internet and GPS connectivity. Touching the moving floating messaging icon selects the icon. An Internet connection is thereby established with a sponsoring advertiser, causing coupons and special services to become accessible at the advertiser location. The GPS coordinates of the Smartphone or tablet are used to identify suitable locations of the advertiser within a preselected distance. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085867 | Niche Keyword Recommendation - A computing device is described herein that is configured to select a subset of keywords from a plurality of keywords based at least on measures of competition associated with the keywords and to suggest the selected subset for bidding. The plurality of keywords is relevant to at least one advertising target. The computing device calculates a measure of competition for a respective keyword based on a number of bidders for the respective keyword and on a number of available advertisement slots in search results provided responsive to queries for the respective keyword. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085868 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN EFFECTIVE BID PER IMPRESSION BASED ON MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTION OF PAY-PER-CONVERSION ADVERTISING - A system and method for calculating an effective bid per impression are disclosed. The system and method may receive a price per conversion bid of an advertiser and information from at least one user. The information may comprise a user state of the user. In some embodiments, the user state may comprise a number of times that the user has previously viewed the advertisement. The user state may be input into a user behavioral model to determine predictive values of the user behavior. An effective bid per impression may then be calculated based on the predictive values of the user and the advertiser's bid per conversion. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085869 | Systems and Methods to Provide a User Interface to Control an Offer Campaign - In one aspect, a computer implemented method is provided for the provision, on a computing apparatus, of a user interface configured via a portal to permit a merchant to define an offer campaign. The offer has a plurality of milestones required to be met in order to provide a benefit to a user. The computing apparatus may be further configured to associate the offer with a user, detect the progress of the user toward the milestone, and transmit a message to the user regarding the user's progress toward the milestone. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085870 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE AND ENHANCED CLASSIFIED LISTING SERVICES AND TRANSACTIONS - An enhanced classified listing service is provided to allow connections and transactions in classified listing services to occur in a more secure, informed, and codified manner. Online classified listings can be created, managed, and converted into customizable physical or electronic business cards with links, reputation data, contact information, and/or profile information, etc. Credible reputations can be built through recommendations, testimonials, and feedback from separate sources and information about reputations can be included on these physical or electronic business cards. A variety of enhancements improve classified listing services for parties involved in classified listing transactions. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085871 | BROWSER BASED COMPOSITION INTERFACE FOR TAGS LINKABLE BY WEBPAGES - A method and system of creating interactive content to be linked via a tab to appear in a web page is disclosed. A first panel including a first object displayable on the web page is provided via a composer interface. The first object has a first interaction when displayed on the web page. A second panel including a second object is provided via the composer interface. The second object is displayable on the webpage in place of the first panel. A timeline is created via the composer interface to sequentially present the first and second panels in the web page. The ad is made available for display in the web page via the tab when the web page is requested by a user device. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085872 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVING ADVERTISEMENTS ON A NETWORK IN ACCORDANCE WITH A DYNAMIC PRIORITIZATION SCHEMA - A system and method for selecting advertisement lines to serve advertisement requests on a network. According to some embodiments, a prioritization schema is developed to prioritize the selection of advertisement lines. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085873 | DELIVERING CLICK-TO-ACTION INTERACTIONS - A system and method are described for causing the delivery of interactions, which are triggered by a user, who is connected to an advertisement server with user equipment via an operator network. The interactions are triggered by the user selecting an advertisement provided by the advertisement server, the interactions entailing capabilities of the operator network. The advertisement server is not provided with the subscriber identifier of the user. For this reason, the system, which is external to the advertisement server, comprises an access module configured for detecting to which operator the user is subscribed, obtaining the subscriber identifier and determining the operator network capabilities in order to deliver the interaction. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085874 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISPENSING A PRODUCT - A product dispenser, comprising: a user interface for entering a selection of a desired product among available products by a user; a control unit operatively connected to the user interface for receiving the selection of the desired product, generating a command indicative of the desired product, and generating a barcode identifying the desired product; a dispenser unit for storing the available products and providing the user with the desired product upon reception of the command from the control unit; and a printing unit operatively connected to the control unit, the printing unit for printing the barcode on a coupon and providing the user with the coupon. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085875 | PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING POINT-OF-SALE DEVICE WITH A UNIQUE IDENTIFIER AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A wireless communications device is for communication with a point of sale (POS) device via a secure intermediary, the secure intermediary associating a unique POS identifier with the POS device, the POS device having a merchant account associated therewith. The wireless communications device includes a receiver module, and a memory configured to store account access information for a payment account. A processor is coupled to the receiver module and the memory, and is configured to determine the unique POS identifier using the receiver module. The processor is also configured to send the account access information to the POS device using via the secure intermediary and using the unique POS identifier, so that the POS device in turn causes a transfer of funds from the payment account to the merchant account. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085876 | POS Sales Transaction Safety Net - A method is provided for monitoring a register having an electronic journal associated therewith which resides on a hosting server separate from the register, and which receives records of all transactions occurring at the register. A secure, nonvolatile memory device stores sales transaction data for the register. If the memory device does not have sales transactions within a specified date range, then the memory device is marked as having been examined for transactions in the specified date range. If it is determined that the memory device does have sales transactions within the specified date range, then the memory device is marked as having been examined for transactions in the specified date range if the transaction data stored therein corresponds to the transaction data stored in the register's electronic journal for the specified date range; otherwise, a data recovery process is initiated, and a notice of the discrepancy is generated. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085877 | INTERMEDIARY-BASED TRANSACTION SYSTEM - An intermediary-based, computer-implemented transaction-system for conducting transactions between entities connected via a social graph of a virtual social network is disclosed. The system includes at least one virtual social network platform storing social graphs connecting virtual entities, the virtual social network providing at least one virtual communication channel allowing the virtual entities to communicate with each other, at least one social graph includes a connection between at least one individual and at least one business partner. A transaction provider is configured to read-out the social graph and register the connection, and one or more mobile devices are configured to execute a transaction application provided by the transaction provider. The transaction application uses the registered connection to enable an individual to create a transaction with the business partner. A notification indicating the transaction is generated and transmitted to the business partner by triggering the at least one virtual communication channel. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085878 | System and Method for Performing a Security Check at a Checkout Terminal - A system and method for performing a security check at a checkout terminal is disclosed. Various heuristics are utilized to verify that a customer or clerk has properly identified an item being purchased. In various embodiments, the weight or other physical characteristics of an item placed on a product scale are measured and compared with expected physical characteristics for the item. If a mismatch is detected between the actual physical characteristics and the expected physical characteristics, the transaction may be flagged for further investigation. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085879 | Time Multiplexing POS for INAisle Scanning - Multiplexing techniques are addressed to allow multiple in store devices to share point of sale instances thereby reducing the overall number of point of sale instances employed. Customer scanning applications, such as price checking and phone based in aisle scanning are addressed. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085880 | IMPLEMENTATION OF SECURE COMMUNICATIONS IN A SUPPORT SYSTEM - A support system negotiates secure connections on behalf of multiple guest systems using a set of credentials associated with the guest systems. The operation of the secure connection may be transparent to the guest system such that guest system may send and receive messages that are encrypted or decrypted by the support system, such as a hypervisor. As the support system is in between the guest system and a destination, the support system may act as a local endpoint to the secure connection. Messages may be altered by the support system to indicate to a guest system which communications were secured. The credentials may be managed by the support system such that the guest system does not require access to the credentials. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085881 | Mobile and Web Commerce Platform for delivery of Business Information and Service Status Management. - Described in this invention are the methods and system platform for businesses and organizations to publish and communicate to consumers business information and real-time dynamic service information in a central and intuitive place on mobile devices and computers that is based on a generic, configurable, extensible, and vendor-independent mobile-commerce and electronic-commerce cloud based Software as a Service solution. The consumer and service providers use mobile device application client software and computer-based web browser client application software that are part of the platform solution to access and manage the information stored on the platform. The platforms allow service providers to perform functions such as: publish business information, real-time dynamic service status information, manage loyalty programs, manage customer marketing programs, and take online reservations. The platform allows consumers to perform functions such as: search for the business or service near a geo-location, obtain for the above-mentioned information, and subscribe for the programs. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085882 | Offline Optimization of Computer Software - An offline optimization for computer software may involve creating optimized parameters or components for a software product, and charging customers for the optimization service. The software product may be distributed under one licensing regime and the optimization components may be distributed under a second licensing regime. In some embodiments, a low cost or no-cost monitoring system may be provided, which may interface with a remote service that optimizes the software product for its current workload. A user may pay for the remote optimization service through a subscription, pay-per-use, pay-for-performance, or other payment models. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085883 | LIBRARY RESOURCE ACQUISITION - Acquiring resources for a plurality of customer or patrons. A method includes receiving a plurality of requests from different customers or patrons for the same groups or individual resources. The method further includes requesting a number of licenses for the groups or individual resources in a single purchasing transaction from a publisher. The method further includes receiving the number of licenses. The licenses are distributed to the different customers based on individual customer requests | 2013-04-04 |
20130085884 | BUYER/SUPPLIER NETWORK COLLABORATION AND BIDS POLICY - Embodiments of method, systems and apparatuses for dynamic collaboration of a buyer/supplier network are disclosed. One method includes providing a buyer with a catalog or non-catalog item. A collaboration request is submitted by the buyer, thereby initiating a negotiation with one or more suppliers. The collaboration request is provided to the one or more suppliers. A proposal is received from at least one of the suppliers, and the buyer provides an acceptance or a rejection to each received proposal. An embodiment further specifies that the buyer collaborate with at least N suppliers, wherein N is selected by the buyer. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PHOTOVOLTAIC PLANT MARKET EXCHANGE - Systems and methods for providing a photovoltaic market exchange that permits registered users to create a request for quote (RFQ) for photovoltaic plant services, receive current RFQs, or submit a bid on an RFQ are disclosed. In one embodiment, the market exchange provides a contract management system. In one embodiment, the market exchange is integrated with a plant asset management platform that is configured to evaluate various aspects of a photovoltaic plant ecosystem. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085886 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC APPLICATION RECOMMENDATION - A system and method of automatic suggested application identification includes accessing a profile of a device, wherein the profile represents information specific to the device. From said profile, a determined pattern of use determined by the device is accessed, wherein the determined pattern is unique to the device. The profile including the determined pattern and a geo-specific data of the device and configuration information of the device and applications resident on the device is compared to similar profiles and similar determined patterns of other devices. A suggested application is identified based on said comparing. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085887 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINANCIAL CARD TRANSACTION VERIFICATION - The invention is aimed to verify credit card transaction or any transaction using similar payment mechanism through joint effort of cardholder and card issuer. In accordance with the invention, principle of method to verify financial card transaction is to use a mobile communication device (MCD) carried by cardholder to maintain an event record in a record list every time when cardholder starts a payment using a financial card, then, having wireless communication network address of the MCD in account record associated with the financial card, account server of corresponding card issuer notifies the MCD a newly occurred activity regarding to payment transaction upon the account, after that, the MCD searches the record list trying to establish a match between the newly received activity notice and an existing event record that both the event record and the notice have substantially simultaneous occurring time, thus being considered for the same transaction. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085888 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SHOPPING SERVICE USING INTEGRATING SHOPPING CART - A method, an apparatus, and a system for operating of a server that generates an integrating shopping cart are provided. The method of the server includes identifying a user doing online shopping through a communication device; monitoring the online shopping of the user; obtaining online shopping information of the user, based on the monitoring; and storing the online shopping information of the user. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085889 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING RETURNS OR EXCHANGES MADE VIA A COMPUTER NETWORK - A method for allowing a user to manage at least one of a return or exchange of an ordered item. The method includes hosting an electronic database of information regarding item purchases, providing a user interface to allow a user to specify at least one return/exchange item, performing an authorization verification against the return/exchange of the item, providing to the user an identifier reflective of the authorization, and receiving and accepting the item(s) at the physical location within a predefined time limit. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085890 | System and Method For Meeting Marketplace - The invention provides an online platform performing as a meeting marketplace through which a client can locate an expert for the purpose of various interactions which generally involve transfer of information and/or services from the expert to the client. Examples include consulting, tutoring, therapy, software support, teaching and guiding. The invention enables the client to negotiate and communicate with experts and to pay for a meeting with an expert. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085891 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING PURCHASE OF VARIABLE PRICED ITEMS AND RELATED APPARATUS - A system is described for facilitating purchase of copyrighted works, in particular, works that may be offered for variable prices depending on the purchaser's characteristics. A server interacts with multiple digital content repositories as well as users. The server stores user characteristics information in user accounts, and uses such information to obtain best prices for users for the contents they request. If additional user characteristics information is request by some repositories before offering a price, the server interacts with the user to obtain such information. The server automatically selects the best price among those offered by the repositories, and completes the purchase transaction. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085892 | ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE FOR HOSTED SERVICE IMAGES - Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate providing a marketplace for acquisition of service images to be executed in a hosted computing environment. Service image providers submit service images for inclusion in the service image marketplace. Providers may further specify pricing and usage conditions associated with the service images. Customers browse and select service images for hosting on either the marketplace hosted computing environment, or an alternate hosted computing environment. If necessary, customers may submit payment information. The service image marketplace may monitor usage of hosted service images and bill customers according to use. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085893 | ACQUISITION AND USE OF QUERY IMAGES WITH IMAGE FEATURE DATA - An apparatus and method for providing recommendations are disclosed herein. A query image is received from a remote device, the query image comprising an image included in a web page and the image being of interest to a user viewing the web page. Item recommendations corresponding to the query image are provided for automatic display at the web page at the remote device. The item recommendations are obtained by comparing a first image attribute associated with the query image to a second image attribute of each of a plurality of inventory images for a plurality of inventory items. Item details corresponding to an item of interest by the user from among the item recommendations are provided for automatic display at the web page at the remote device. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085894 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING PRODUCT INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH E-COMMERCE ACTIVITY OF A USER - User activity is detected that indicates a user's interest in a product. The identifier of the product is determined and used to query a remote and independent network site to obtain information about the product of information. The information about the product of interest is then displayed to the user concurrently (e.g. as a mashup) with the page or resource that displays the product of interest | 2013-04-04 |
20130085895 | HIGH THROUGHPUT GLOBAL ORDER PROMISING SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for high-throughput order promising using multiple servers. Methods and apparatus provide item availability information by receiving an inquiry requesting availability status of a specified item, retrieving summary data associated with the item from a summary data structure stored in a memory of the computer system, determining availability data for the specified item based upon the summary data, and sending an inquiry response indicating the availability of the item based upon the determined availability data. Methods and apparatus provide order scheduling by receiving a scheduling request that identifies an item to be scheduled, determining a schedule for the item, storing availability information for the item based upon the schedule in an in-memory database, and sending a scheduling response based upon the schedule. Storing the availability information may cause the in-memory database to generate a notification that results in an update of the summary data structure. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085896 | Placing a Purchase Order via a Communications Network - An order is placed by a purchaser in which a server system receives an identification of the purchaser, payment information, and shipment information from a client system. The server system assigns a client identifier to the client system and associates the identifier with the purchaser information. The server system sends to the client system the identifier and a document identifying an item to be purchased and including an order button. The client system receives and stores the identifier and receives and displays the document. In response to the selection of the order button, the client system sends to the server system a request to purchase the identified item. The server system receives the request and combines the purchaser information associated with the client identifier to generate an order to purchase the item in accordance with the billing and shipment information. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085897 | GEOCENTRIC CONSUMER AND ORGANIZATION NETWORK - A disclosed system and method provides for users to purchase and take temporary virtual ownership of any select inch of the earth or ocean. This selection provides the user with unique ownership of the mapped coordinates. To secure virtual ownership of their selected inch, each user pays a small fee, paid and renewed annually. They then select a preferred or featured organization to receive a portion of the fee. The owner is presented with a printable certificate for their virtual inch of the earth/ocean to authenticate their purchase. Their inch is then plotted on a virtual map where they can add personal stories or memorial comments, pictures, and link videos that describe why that inch is significant to them. Users can then invite family and others with common interest to purchase the neighboring inches. | 2013-04-04 |
20130085898 | 3D version of self-choosing a rental car or truck online and business solution for the car and truck rental business - The present invention provides the solution for self-picking a rental vehicle online and the vehicle management method for the vehicle rental business. The customers can check any available rental vehicles online in a particular rental location. A rental vehicle location can be in a city or at an airport. The e-commerce web application contains two modules. The first module is for the customers to use. The second one is for the vehicle rental companies' internal use. Both of them are developed by .net and java. The e-commerce web application will be carefully integrated with the current car rental companies' system or replace their current model. .Net and java are development languages. The web application contains logic rules, packages, procedures, and triggers along with creation tools. The consumers log onto the internet, find a vehicle rental location, check the available vehicles, pick one that they like to drive, and make reservation online. The vehicle rental business and the trained staff will create all the online services for the customers to use by following the developed steps and manage the online web application. | 2013-04-04 |