16th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150106101 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SPEECH OUTPUT FOR SPEECH-ENABLED APPLICATIONS - Techniques for providing speech output for speech-enabled applications. A synthesis system receives from a speech-enabled application a text input including a text transcription of a desired speech output. The synthesis system selects one or more audio recordings corresponding to one or more portions of the text input. In one aspect, the synthesis system selects from audio recordings provided by a developer of the speech-enabled application. In another aspect, the synthesis system selects an audio recording of a speaker speaking a plurality of words. The synthesis system forms a speech output including the one or more selected audio recordings and provides the speech output for the speech-enabled application. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106102 | GAIN SHAPE ESTIMATION FOR IMPROVED TRACKING OF HIGH-BAND TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS - A method includes determining, at a speech encoder, first gain shape parameters based on a harmonically extended signal and/or based on a high-band residual signal associated with a high-band portion of an audio signal. The method also includes determining second gain shape parameters based on a synthesized high-band signal and based on the high-band portion of the audio signal. The method further includes inserting the first gain parameters and the second gain shape parameters into an encoded version of the audio signal to enable gain adjustment during reproduction of the audio signal from the encoded version of the audio signal. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106103 | CUSTOMIZABLE SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR DEFINING VOICE DIMENSIONS AND METHODS OF USE - The disclosure provides a customizable system for modifying voice dimensions. The system comprises a program interface located on an electronic device. The program interface is used to manipulate user input from one or more individuals relating to voice parameters. Instructions are then created by the program interface that allow for one or more individuals to modify the voice dimensions of the one or more individuals by following the instructions. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106104 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a display device including: a signal receiver which receives a remote control signal from a remote controller that includes a plurality of input buttons; a storage which stores therein voice information corresponding to the plurality of input buttons of the remote controller; a voice output which outputs the voice information; and a voice output controller which identifies one of the plurality of input buttons that has been selected from the input buttons, based on the received remote control signal, and controls the voice output to output the stored voice information corresponding to the identified input button. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106105 | Automatic Door - In some implementations a microcontroller is coupled to a storage device, the storage device having a voice-recognition engine stored thereon, and the microcontroller is operably coupled to a device-controller of an automatic door. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COMMUNICATING REDUNDANT FRAME INFORMATION - A method includes receiving a second audio frame at a decoder. The second audio frame follows a first audio frame in an audio signal and includes a first number of bits allocated to primary coding information associated with the second audio frame, a second number of bits allocated to redundant coding information associated with the first audio frame, and an indicator of a frame type of the first audio frame. In response to a frame erasure condition associated with the first audio frame, the second number of bits is determined based on the indicator and used to decode the first audio frame. In clean channel conditions, the first audio frame is received and decoded based on primary coding bits in the first audio frame, and the first number of bits is determined based on the indicator and used to decode the second audio frame. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106107 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENERGY-SCALED SIGNAL PROCESSING - A method includes determining a first modeled high-band signal based on a low-band excitation signal of an audio signal, where the audio signal includes a high-band portion and a low-band portion. The method also includes determining scaling factors based on energy of sub-frames of the first modeled high-band signal and energy of corresponding sub-frames of the high-band portion of the audio signal. The method includes applying the scaling factors to a modeled high-band excitation signal to determine a scaled high-band excitation signal and determining a second modeled high-band signal based on the scaled high-band excitation signal. The method includes determining gain parameters based on the second modeled high-band signal and the high-band portion of the audio signal. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106108 | LINEAR PREDICTION BASED AUDIO CODING USING IMPROVED PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATION - Linear prediction based audio coding is improved by coding a spectrum composed of a plurality of spectral components using a probability distribution estimation determined for each of the plurality of spectral components from linear prediction coefficient information. The linear prediction coefficient information is available anyway. Accordingly, it may be used for determining the probability distribution estimation at both encoding and decoding side. The latter determination may be implemented in a computationally simple manner by using, for example, an appropriate parameterization for the probability distribution estimation at the plurality of spectral components. The coding efficiency as provided by the entropy coding is compatible with probability distribution estimations as achieved using context selection, but its derivation is less complex. The derivation may be purely analytically and/or does not require any information on attributes of neighboring spectral lines such as previously coded/decoded spectral values of neighboring spectral lines as is the case in spatial context selection. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106109 | Systems and Methods for Lowering the Cost of Health Care - A computer-based system and method are provided for minimizing the overall cost of providing health care for a chronic disease. To do this, an operating point is selected on a ROC curve to classify patients in a defined population. Based on this classification, patients in the population are classified and placed on either of a pair of pathways for health care. One pathway involves relatively low-cost health care treatment, but potentially repetitive involvement with the patient. The other pathway involves relatively high-cost treatment, but only episodic involvement with the patient. Placement of each entity on a selected pathway is done to collectively minimize the overall cost of providing health care. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106110 | Automated Method, System and Program for Aiding in Strategic Marketing - The disclosed subject matter is a method and system for marketing a client's product for an alternative purpose. The information about the alternative purpose of the product is collected and input into an automated system. The method and system then informs third parties about the client's product along with suggested alternative uses. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106111 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT ENHANCEMENT - Diagnostic enhancement procedures involve identifying a complete or substantially complete diagnosis code for a patient in response to receiving a query related to a search for a patient diagnosis code followed by entry of patient clinical criteria by a user, such as a clinician. The query may include entry of a procedure and/or procedure code the results of which the user suspects will result in a complete diagnosis and/or diagnosis code. The complete or substantially complete diagnosis code is used in combination with the patient's clinical criteria selections to generate a procedure recommendation and corresponding procedure code. A parent or child diagnosis code is identified and used to select an appropriate procedure recommendation decision tree, where branches of the decision tree are assigned a particular parent or child code, and patient clinical criteria selections are used to narrow the diagnostic recommendation to a specific procedure and corresponding code. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106112 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF ADVERSE EVENT DATA - The present disclosure describes systems and methods for multivarlate analysis of adverse event data. According to a first aspect, patient-specific genomic Information is used to optimize or de-risk therapy for the patient. According to other aspects of the invention, unknown drug targets are identified via adverse event data. According to still other espects, a medication is identified to exclude from use for an indication or from a clinical trial of another medication. According to another aspect, a predicted side effect profile is generated for a medication targeting a novel target. According to still another aspect, combination therapies are identified via adverse event data. According to another aspect, molecular interactions between a plurality of molecular entities are displayed in an intuitive format. According to still another aspect, molecular entities responsible for adverse event differences between similar indications are identified. According to still another aspect, genetic variants associated with adverse events in a clinical trial are identified. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106113 | Near Field Communication (NFC) Based Counterfeit Product Identification System - A counterfeit pharmaceutical product identification system and method for determining authenticity of pharmaceutical products using NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled mobile device is disclosed. A unique secure code, invisible to human eyes, is embedded inside the packaging of the pharmaceutical products. An authentication server stores a database of pharmaceutical products and the unique secure codes associated with each of the pharmaceutical products. At least one mobile device, connected to the server, is configured to read unique secure code embedded inside the packaging of the pharmaceutical product, by bringing the mobile device in close proximity to the packaging. The mobile device authenticates the pharmaceutical product by communicating with the authentication server and comparing the unique secure code attached to the pharmaceutical product with the secure code saved in the database whereby identifying the genuine pharmaceutical product instantly. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106114 | KNOWLEDGE AWARE CASE CART MANAGER SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for managing one or more case carts in a healthcare setting. Information associated with a case cart is received at a case cart manager system. Based on the information, at least one action is determined for the case cart, and the action is communicated to the case cart. The case cart or a user of the case cart is directed to perform the at least one action. Additionally, the case cart can detect its own status and generate status information that is communicated to and received at the case cart manager system. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106115 | DENSIFICATION OF LONGITUDINAL EMR FOR IMPROVED PHENOTYPING - Systems and methods for data densification include representing patient data as a sparse patient matrix for each patient. The sparse patient matrix is decomposed into a plurality of matrices including a concept matrix indicating medical concepts of the patient data and an evolution matrix indicating a temporal relationship of the medical concepts. Missing information in the sparse patient matrix is imputed using a processor based on the plurality of matrices to provide a densified patient matrix. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING AND UTILIZING AUDITS FROM DISPARATE SOURCES - Disparate (heterogeneous) clinical data recording devices are assimilated into a unified clinical system that is able to function regardless of the disparate data protocols of the recording devices. The unified system is realized in some embodiments by cascading a consistent set of audits generated by the recording devices through downstream clinical components, which audits provide a permanent and indelible record. The cascaded audits may also serve as a means of instruction between the disparate components of a unified clinical system. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106117 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OBJECTIVE MEDICAL SECOND OPINION - A system is disclosed to provide a user the ability to obtain an objective medical second opinion generated by the system and approved by a licensed physician on the web through the Internet. The system enables the user to upload all available medical records. The system generates a current user medical status report in a comprehensive form with proper hyperlinks to the appropriate medical records including diagnostic images and results of other diagnostic procedures up loaded to the system in a digital or in a paper form such that the current status report is available to a consultant physician with all the proper hyperlinked attachments for review. The system generates a suggested second opinion consultant report by processing an evidence based diagnosis method incorporated into the system by utilizing all the data relevant to the user that is available to the system. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106118 | Cloud-Based Storage and Retrieval of Medical Information Using Near Field Communication Devices - Systems and methods for using near field communication in a cloud computing environment to store and retrieve medical information are provided. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106119 | AUTOMATED WORKFLOW QUEUING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTH CARE - An intelligent routing and automated workflow queuing system for a health care receives information related to health care provider patient treatment assets and individual patient data record information consisting of one or more patient information including urgent medical needs, special accommodation needs, VIP status, participation in a research or clinical trial, appointment reason, anticipated amount of health care provider work time needed for this visit, scheduled appointment start time, cumulative wait time in the health care provider setting for this visit as well as other variables. Responsive to this information, the system calculates a quantitative priority variable for each patient and then calculates a quantitative priority variable for each Health Care provider, for automatically prioritizing and queuing patients for a next care step based on the information related to the health care provider patient treatment assets and individual patient data record information. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106120 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR GENERATING A CLINICIAN WORK-LIST FOR TREATING A PATIENT - A computer system may implement a method on a non-transitory computer readable medium for generating at least one clinician work-list for treating a patient. The computer-implemented method may include maintaining at least one patient profile for at least one patient where the patient profile includes patient details and at least one scorable factor associated with the patient. The scorable factor(s) may be selected from at least one client device and scored according to an initial ability of the patient. At least one goal may be created where the created goal(s) has a scoring in relation to each scored factor. The created goal(s) may be assigned to at least one clinician shift as at least one task. At least one clinician work-list may be generated that is associated with the clinician shift where the clinician work-list comprises the task(s). | 2015-04-16 |
20150106121 | ALARM NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - An alarm notification system can enable a clinician to respond to an alarm notification received via a computing device, which may have more advanced functionality than a pager. The clinician's device can include a notification client which can respond to alarm notifications. The notification client can also provide one or more user interfaces that enable the clinician to view information about an alarm, such as information about a patient's status, physiological parameter values, trend data, audio/video of the patient, combinations of the same, or the like. Further, the notification client can provide functionality for a clinician to respond to an alarm, annotate an alarm, and/or indicate that the clinician can or cannot respond to the alarm, among other features. In addition, the clinician device can also (or instead) include an admit module that provides for automatic association of a patient to a device or location. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106122 | METHOD, SERVER AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC PATIENT INFORMATION - A method of providing an event tree enabling institutive understanding of the creation of electronic patient information including or any changes in electronic patient information, a server for performing the same, and a recording medium for storing the same are provided. A method for providing electronic patient information includes receiving electronic patient information of a patient from at least one terminal, identifying one or more events from the received electronic patient information, and generating an event tree of the patient based on the identified events, wherein the event tree graphically represents the electronic patient information of the patient. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106123 | INTELLIGENT CONTINUITY OF CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An intelligent continuity of care information system comprises a repository of patient data including clinical and social information associated with a plurality of patients updated and received from a plurality of clinical and social service organizations and data sources, at least one predictive model using clinical and social factors derived from the patient data to extract both explicitly encoded information and implicit information about the patient's clinical and social information, and a user interface operable to present a selected view of the patient data and analysis associated with the at least one particular patient to a user via a computing device, each view being composed of a selected collection of a plurality of widgets each presenting a focused subset of patient data and analysis. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106124 | DATE AND TIME ACCURACY TESTING PATIENT DATA TRANSFERRED FROM A REMOTE DEVICE - A system and method for ensuring the accuracy of health related information. This system is used for receiving, processing, analyzing, and verifying the accuracy of healthcare data prior to its transmission to a client. Embodiment described may enable patient data, collected from various patient input devices, to be automatically filtered or categorized into one of several categories. The categories are based on the potential accuracy of the data, which are determined by a set of pre-determined rules. Data that surpasses accuracy testing may then be transmitted to a client (hospitals, patient physicians, patient caregivers, patients, etc.) for review and/or incorporation into client records. Data that fails accuracy testing may be discarded. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106125 | Automated Mapping of Service Codes in Healthcare Systems - Mapping of semantics in healthcare may involve accessing first transaction data of a first healthcare entity in a first database, the first transaction data corresponding to a collection of a first number of fields defined for a condition using a first semantic system to store information and calculating a first distribution of information in the first transaction data. Mapping may also involve accessing second transaction data of a second healthcare entity in a second database, the second transaction data corresponding to a second semantic system different than the first semantic system and the second database comprising a second number of fields using the second semantic system to store information, the second number of fields larger than the first number of fields and calculating a second distribution of information in the second transaction data. The distributions may then be compared and a map relating the semantic systems may be generated. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106126 | IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH RECORD USING DESTINATION ADDRESS - A method for providing a user with the ability to access and collect records associated with the user in a secure and private manner includes associating access information with the user for the user to use to access a server storing files comprising records associated with the user in a computer readable storage medium, providing the user with a user interface on a computing device to remotely access the records stored on the server, receiving at the server the files comprising records associated with the user from a service provider associated with the user, receiving at the server a request from the user made through the user interface of the computing device for access to the files, wherein the access information is associated with the request, and sending the user a file containing the records associated with user from the server to the computing device in response to the request. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106127 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A PATIENT SUPPORT AND INFORMATION NETWORK - System in support of managing patient support for patients suffering from various ailments includes a computer, a processor, a memory and a display. A user interface receives patient support information and enables navigation. Modules execute to configure the processor in certain ways, including a patient profile module which defines a custom patient profile which includes personal factors that relate to at least one ailment, a patient similarity module which processes and organizes the patient profiles within ailment classes by weighing the personal factors and calculating a degree of a similarity between the patient profile and other patient profiles within the same ailment class. A first content module provides an output to users in which content is displayed in order of a similarity between the patient profile and the other patient profiles in the same ailment class. Further modules can be provided to track content-viewing tendencies and assess users' ailment concerns. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE A COMMUNICATION INTERFACE BETWEEN INSURANCE AGENT AND UNDERWRITER DEVICES - According to some embodiments, an insurance entity may receive information associated with an insurance policy. Based on the received information associated with the insurance policy, supplemental insurance information may be automatically determined. A communication interface, such as a substantially real-time interface for text and/or video communications, may then be facilitated between an insurance agent device and an underwriter device in accordance with the supplemental insurance information. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106129 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RULES DRIVEN INSURANCE CLAIM PROCESSING - According to some embodiments, data is received indicative of a plurality of insurance claims submitted in connection with insurance policies. A rules driven claim processing engine may then apply a first exclusion filter to the received plurality of claims, wherein the first exclusion filter operates to remove claims from the received plurality of claims to create a first subset of claims. A second exclusion filter may then be applied to the first subset of claims, wherein the second exclusion filter operates to remove claims from the first subset of claims to create a second subset of claims. It may then be automatically arranged for the second subset of claims to be processed via an expedited claim processing workflow. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ENHANCED COVERAGE QUOTATIONS - A insurance policy management system for administering and managing insurance policies having enhanced coverages for providing property upgrades based on universal design principles. In the event of a loss to an insured property, the enhanced coverage will provide for enhanced property improvements under universal design guidelines to provide lifestyle upgrades for the insured. The enhanced coverage may apply to residential homes and businesses to help increase the quality of life and living environment for occupants. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ENHANCED COVERAGE CLAIMS - A insurance policy management system for administering and managing insurance policies having enhanced coverages for providing property upgrades based on universal design principles. In the event of a loss to an insured property, the enhanced coverage will provide for enhanced property improvements under universal design guidelines to provide lifestyle upgrades for the insured. The enhanced coverage may apply to residential homes and businesses to help increase the quality of life and living environment for occupants. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106132 | PROCESSING INSURANCE PAYMENTS - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for receiving and processing insurance payments are presented. In some embodiments, an automated teller machine (ATM) may receive an insurance card issued by an insurance provider. Subsequently, the ATM may determine, based on the insurance card, a customer account number and an insurance provider account number. The insurance provider account number may correspond to an insurance provider account associated with the insurance provider, and the customer account number may correspond to a customer account associated with a beneficiary of an insurance plan provided by the insurance provider. The ATM then may accept a deposit, and subsequently the ATM may credit funds associated with the deposit to the customer account. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106133 | MOBILE SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A DAMAGED VEHICLE INSURANCE ESTIMATE - An apparatus and method for generating a damaged vehicle estimate for a damaged vehicle. A mobile device is used to capture a photo image of the damaged vehicle and receive vehicle information from a user. The mobile device displays a graphical image of the damaged vehicle. A user can provide input on the graphical image that indicates a location of damage on the damaged vehicle. The photo image, marked graphical image and the vehicle information are transferred from the mobile device to a computer where a damaged vehicle estimate is generated. The damaged vehicle estimate is transferred to the mobile device and displayed to a user. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106134 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUPED SEAT SELECTION - Computing systems and methods for facilitating the selection and purchase of tickets for grouped seats for an event at a venue are provided. The grouped seats may include groups of seats in a piggyback configuration. The piggyback configuration may include at least one seat in each of multiple adjacent seat rows. The system may provide a user with a seat group filter option and receive a request for piggyback seats through the provided seat group filter option. The system may display a map and a list of available tickets for the event. The map may be updated in response to a user request for piggyback-only seat options. The updated map may highlight sections of seats that include available seats that match the requested piggyback configuration. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106135 | BOOKING DECISION METHOD FOR TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY BY SAMPLING OPTIMAL REVENUE - In a booking decision method for transportation industry by sampling optimal revenues, a random sample scenario of a scenario index is generated. A first optimal revenue is generated under a condition of rejecting the current arrival booking request, and a second optimal revenue is generated under a condition of accepting the current arrival booking request. The scenario index is increased by 1 if the sample scenario index is smaller than a total number of sample scenarios; otherwise, a first average revenue of the first optimal revenue and a second average revenue of the second optimal revenue are calculated, and the marginal profit is calculated according to the first average revenue and the second average revenue. If the price of a current arrival request is greater than or equal to the marginal profit, the current arrival booking request is accepted; otherwise, the current arrival booking request is rejected. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106136 | INDIVIDUAL SEAT SELECTION TICKETING AND RESERVATION SYSTEM - This invention relates to an electronic means by which people can select the exact seat or seats they want for any type of event or reserve an appointment for any activity such as a doctor or dentist appointment or even an appointment to have their car lubed. More specifically, a customer or a ticket re-seller or a venue operator can go, for example, to the internet and select the event or activity for which they want a ticket or tickets or reserve a time and reserve and order the exact seat or seats or the time of their choosing directly online. The seat or seats or reserved time they select is then removed from the inventory for that activity or event and made not available for any other buyer and such is so indicated by a graphical representation or other such indicator on the online map or picture representing availability of seating or time for that event. For an appointment reservation, the user connects to the internet or other wide area network, such as a bulletin board, from his home of office computer and connects to a page that displays a reservation calendar where he can interact such as to reserve a specific time period for himself. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106137 | Enhanced Content Delivery Systems and Methods - A method of distributing an offer to a user, the method being implemented on a processor, and the method comprising: receiving information associated with the user; receiving information associated with travel plans of the user; determining an offer from a database comprising a plurality of offers, wherein each of the plurality of offers comprises an offer identifier, and wherein the offer is determined based on the information associated with the user and the information associated with the travel plans; providing the offer identifier associated with the determined offer to the user. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106138 | Power transferred by electrical conductors for gas lighter than air inflatable balloons and apparatus with neutral buoyancy maintained by weight adjustable printed material that protects customers and profitably for businesses with software process innovations - Power transferred by electrical conductors for gas lighter than air inflatable balloons and apparatus with neutral buoyancy maintained by weight adjustable printed material that protects customers and profitably for businesses with software process innovations. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106139 | INTEGRATED REPORTING SYSTEM - An integrated reporting system for a dimensional data associated with a worksite management system is provided. The integrated reporting system includes an extraction and transformation module configured to connect to a plurality of sources. The extraction and transformation module is configured to identify a source data from each of the plurality of sources. The extraction and transformation module is also configured to perform a transformation on the source data to convert the source data into a target data based on the identification. The target data includes a derived result. The extraction and transformation module is further configured to store the derived result into a target database. The integrated reporting system includes a reporting module operatively connected to the target database, wherein the reporting module is configured to generate reports based on the derived result. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106140 | ZERO DOWNTIME MAINTENANCE WITH MAXIMUM BUSINESS FUNCTIONALITY - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing multi-level user interface theming. One computer-implemented method includes instantiating a shadow system and database schema for a new version software application in a shared database, the shadow system database schema containing aliases pointing to tables instantiated in a production database schema, instantiating a bridge database schema containing aliases pointing to each database table within the production database schema, preparing a bridge sub-system connected to the bridge database schema aliases, replicating database tables within the production database schema, for use by the bridge sub-system and adjusting the original database tables for structure and content consistent with the new version software application, deploying an upgrade sub-system and tools to complete adjustment of structure and content of the original database tables, and connecting an instantiated instance of the new version software application to adjusted database tables. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106141 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PESTICIDE DISTRIBUTION AND PROVIDING PESTICIDE PEDIGREE FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS THROUGHOUT PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION - A method for controlling pesticide distribution for at least one grown agricultural product comprises the steps of: a) defining a grid for the land in which the grown agricultural product is to be harvested; b) Providing an open communication network accessible information storage device adapted to receive input of real time data specific to each grid relating to at least one of the grown agricultural product's production from at least one source; c) Inputting said data into said information storage device; and d) utilizing said data as at least: one of a real time decision making tool and a predictive modeling tool to ascertain which section within the grid designation unit need the application of the pesticidal compound. The method may further include the step of maintaining a pesticide pedigree for the grown agricultural products throughout production and distribution of the agricultural product via the open communication network. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106142 | FEDERATED ACCESS - A federation system operating in a first enterprise includes a configuration server and a database for creating and storing federation configuration data and a federation registrar having an interface for dealing with a second enterprise seeking to federate. In the system the second enterprise connects to the federation registrar, negotiation takes place concerning details of federation, agreement is reached, configuration is stored in the configuration database, and the second enterprise is then coupled to the first enterprise through a pair of federation proxy interfaces, one at the first enterprise and one at the second enterprise, the proxy interfaces configured by details of the federation. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106143 | Optimizing Allocation of Configuration Elements - Systems and methods for optimizing allocation of configuration elements in a service engagement. A plurality of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) corresponding to a service engagement is received. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) of the plurality of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) includes a plurality of configuration elements and a plurality of SLA compliances. A model is created by allocating a subset of the plurality of configuration elements to meet the SLA. The model is simulated to verify the plurality of SLA compliances being met by the subset allotted. Based on the simulation, a time series data indicating behavior of the model is obtained. The model is optimized to obtain an optimal allocation of the plurality of configuration elements. The model is optimized by allocating another subset of the plurality of configuration elements to meet the SLA. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106144 | FIELD CREW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A field crew management system receives status reports at a management server from a plurality of field devices. The status reports can include information related to a work order associated with each field device. The status reports can be regularly updated during operational time of each work order. Once the status reports are received at the management server, a work order tracking sheet is populated with the information contained in the status reports. Progress reports based upon the work order tracking sheet are then generated for a requesting party at specified time interval and sent to the requesting party. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106145 | System and Method of Work Assignment Management - Methods of intelligent routing of work assignment includes indexing plurality of pending tasks and indexing a plurality of available employees. A first employee is retrieved from an index of available employees. A next available task assignable to the first employee is determined. A work item fro the next available task is assigned to the first employee from the available employee list. The assigned work item is removed from pending task list. The first employee is removed from the available employee list. The next employee is retrieved from the index of available employees. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106146 | PRIORITY CALENDAR - A computer-implemented method for creating an electronic meeting event is provided. The method includes receiving event information for a meeting event from a user, determining external signals related to the received event information and providing for transmitting to the user, a first electronic suggestion to add meeting participants to the meeting event, wherein the first electronic suggestion is based at least on one of received event information for the meeting event or the determined external signals related to the received event information. The method also includes receiving a user response to the first electronic suggestion to add meeting participants to the meeting event and providing for transmitting to the user, a second electronic suggestion to add additional meeting participants to the meeting event, wherein the second electronic suggestion is based on at least the received user response to the first generated electronic suggestion. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY SENDING A CALENDAR INVITE - A system, method, and computer program product for generating an electronic calendar invitation for an event is disclosed. The system includes memory for storing instructions and data associated with a calendar invite tool. A processor is configured to execute the stored instructions. The instructions may cause the processor to perform the steps including: allowing a user to create an electronic message associated with an event reservation application of a first platform, wherein the electronic message includes electronic address information associated with one or more invitees; based on the electronic address information, generating the electronic calendar invitation of a second platform different from the first platform; and sending the electronic calendar invitation to the one or more invitees in accordance with the electronic address information. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106148 | Business Introduction Tool - A method for managing business introductions includes retrieving unfiltered data generated by a professional networking service and filtering a plurality of business connections to generate a filtered list of business connections. The filtered list of connections to send to an end user device, and a selected connection is subsequently received. The method further includes generating a draft message to a business contact requesting an introduction to the selected connection and sending the draft message to the end user device. Once a revised message is received from the end user device, a server sends the revised message to the business contact. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106149 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROCESSING INFORMATION AND TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING DIGITAL CONTENT AND/OR EXPERIENCES ASSOCIATED WITH CELEBRITIES AND NETWORKED USERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for processing transactions and associated dated. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method for processing information associated with transactions involving a product, wherein the product may comprise an experience, a physical product, and/or a digital product. Moreover, illustrative methods may include performing processing associated with a plurality of subroutines, such as a first subroutine for handling an experience, a second subroutine for handling a physical and/or a digital product, and/or one more additional subroutines associated with fulfillment. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EVENT PARTICIPANT AUTHORIZATIONS - According to aspects of the present disclosure, a system for managing authorization of one or more event participants to access a facility includes one or more controllers and one or more memory devices storing instructions. When executed by the one or more processors, the instructions cause the system to receive a first e-mail including a plurality of parameters associated with an event. The plurality of parameters includes an e-mail address associated with each of one or more participants for attending the event. The first e-mail is generated by a calendar application associated with an event organizer. The instructions further cause the system to process the received first e-mail to determine the plurality of parameters, store the determined plurality of parameters in a database, and authorize at least one of the one or more participants to access the facility based on the plurality of parameters. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106151 | Systems and Methods for Creating a Maturity Model Based Roadmap and Business Information Framework for Managing Enterprise Business Information - Systems and Methods for creating a maturity model based roadmap and business information framework for managing Enterprise Business information in an enterprise is provided by transforming Enterprise business information, system design information, business drivers, and solution needs into a capability roadmap by utilizing maturity models. The method and system map the current state of the Enterprise business information and system design information to maturity models and determine capability roadmap based on business drivers and business needs and thereupon determine one or more solutions. The business information framework enables setting up program and data governance along with guidelines for managing the Enterprise business information. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106152 | CONTINUOUSLY TRACING ISSUES THROUGH THE LIFECYCLE PHASES OF A PROJECT - A set of lifecycle services are employed to identify tasks and other worklist items. The worklist items are aggregated into a unified worklist that is synchronized to a product management system so the status of the worklist items can be traced throughout a project lifecycle. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106153 | WORKFLOW COMPILATION - A method includes compiling a workflow that is defined in a high-level flow language to generate a plurality of execution units that are executable so as to execute the workflow. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106154 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINANCIAL RISK ASSESSMENT - A computer-implemented method and system for financial risk assessment are provided. The method includes receiving financial data related to an international monetary transaction from a transferring country to a receiving country; determining a universal currency for the receiving country based on at least one purchasing power parity (PPP) value related to the receiving country; and assessing the financial risk of the international monetary transaction based on the universal currency and the financial data. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106155 | Determining and Visualizing Social Media Expressed Sentiment - A technique includes determining social media expressed sentiment, including processing data indicative of a plurality of social media messages to decompose each of the social media messages into a plurality of attributes; for each social media message, identifying attributes of the plurality of attributes, which are associated with user selected attribute categories and are part of the message, and for each identified attribute, assigning a sentiment to the attribute and updating statistics for the selected attribute categories based on the assigned sentiment. The technique includes visualizing the social media expressed sentiment, including displaying at least some of the statistics. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106156 | INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE FOR CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS ENGINE - A contextual analysis engine systematically extracts, analyzes and organizes digital content stored in an electronic file such as a webpage. Content can be extracted using a text extraction module which is capable of separating the content which is to be analyzed from less meaningful content such as format specifications and programming scripts. The resulting unstructured corpus of plain text can then be passed to a text analytics module capable of generating a structured categorization of topics included within the content. This structured categorization can be organized based on a content topic ontology which may have been previously defined or which may be developed in real-time. The systems disclosed herein optionally include an input/output interface capable of managing workflows of the text extraction module and the text analytics module, administering a cache of previously generated results, and interfacing with other applications that leverage the disclosed contextual analysis services. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106157 | TEXT EXTRACTION MODULE FOR CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS ENGINE - A contextual analysis engine systematically extracts, analyzes and organizes digital content stored in an electronic file such as a webpage. Content can be extracted using a text extraction module which is capable of separating the content which is to be analyzed from less meaningful content such as format specifications and programming scripts. The resulting unstructured corpus of plain text can then be passed to a text analytics module capable of generating a structured categorization of topics included within the content. This structured categorization can be organized based on a content topic ontology which may have been previously defined or which may be developed in real-time. The systems disclosed herein optionally include an input/output interface capable of managing workflows of the text extraction module and the text analytics module, administering a cache of previously generated results, and interfacing with other applications that leverage the disclosed contextual analysis services. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106158 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FOLKSONOMIC OBJECT SCORING - An approach for providing folksonomic object scoring includes processing user content according to a folksonomic vocabulary to determine one or more mentions of a concept object in the user content. An initiation of the processing, an ending of the processing, an extent of the user content, or a combination thereof is based on a cost function. The approach also includes calculating an impact score for the concept object based on the one or more mentions. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECENTRALIZING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PASSENGERS USING TRANSPORTATION CARD READER - Provided are a system and method for decentralizing public transportation passengers using a transportation card reader. The system includes a vehicle terminal including a transportation card reader counting the number of touches of transportation cards of riding and exiting passengers of a public transportation means and configured to transmit a count value to a center, an integrated database server provided in the center and configured to update a count value of each public transportation means with a transmitted count value of the public transportation means and transmit the updated count value to a station, a station terminal provided at the station and configured to display the updated and transmitted count value, and a mobile device configured to receive information on the riding and exiting passengers of the public transportation means from the integrated database server or the station terminal and output the received information. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106160 | Telecommunication system, apparatus, and method for capture, certification, distribution, and contact of online generated sales leads - A telecommunication system for lead capture, certification, distribution, and contact can include a lead certification server, a lead certification database, a lead certification device, and a phone switch. The lead certification server can dynamically generate a consent agreement text of a lead capture form, based on information stored and issued from the lead certification database, so that the system can store the consumer consent of an agreement text, and connect a phone call to the consumer via the phone switch. A lead certification device can include a processor, non-transient memory, an input/output, a content display an information capture component, and a submission processor component. Also disclosed is a computer-implemented method including displaying content, capturing information, obtaining consent, processing a submission, and completing the submission. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106161 | RETAIL SALES FORECASTING WITH OVERLAPPING PROMOTIONS EFFECTS - A system that generates a sales forecast for an item receives sales history for prior sales periods that include active promotion events that are active during each sales period. The system determines one or more types of overlapping promotions during the sales periods. For each type of overlapping promotion, the system creates an overlapping promotion event that replaces the corresponding active promotion events. The system generates a set of promotion events including the overlapping promotion events and the active promotion events that were not replaced. The system then generates a lift for each of the promotion events in the set of promotion events. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106162 | SURVEY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A survey application includes a recording module configured to synchronously capture ancillary data associated with an entry of survey data, wherein the entry of the survey data may be reviewed to determine an authenticity of the survey application. The survey application may include a playback application for receiving the captured ancillary data and for displaying a representation of the ancillary data associated with an entry of survey data. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106163 | OBTAINING OPTIMAL PRICING STRATEGY IN A SERVICE ENGAGEMENT - Systems and methods for obtaining an optimal pricing strategy in a service engagement are disclosed. A model is created for the service engagement between a client and vendor. For the service engagement, a pricing strategy is selected. The pricing strategy is selected from one of a fixed strategy, a variable strategy and a combination thereof. Subsequent to selecting the pricing strategy, a client payoff associated with the client and a vendor payoff associated with the vendor are computed. The model is simulated to obtain a time series data. Based on the simulation, an optimal pricing strategy is obtained by calculating an optimizer payoff function. The optimizer payoff function is calculated by assigning relative weights to the client payoff and the vendor payoff. The optimal pricing strategy is obtained by altering the pricing strategy to maximize the optimizer payoff function. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106164 | QUANTIZING NETWORK INTERCONNECTIONS - A method of generating a quantitative assessment of a connection between a content distributor and a user may include accessing social networks on which the content distributor maintains an account, and receiving an input indicating the user. The method may also include passing an indication of the user to the social networks, and receiving data descriptive of connections and interactions of the at least one user account in the plurality of social networks. The method may additionally include calculating a value score based on the data descriptive of the connections and interactions of the user account in the plurality of social networks, where the relationship value score indicates a potential for generating new sales for the business through the user. The method may further include adjusting one or more policies that control how content is distributed from the content distributor to the user. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106165 | System and Method for Multi-Layered Monitoring and Control for Dynamic Situation Handling for Production Support - A system and method for selecting an optimal policy to be implemented in production support engagement. The system configures a knowledge base including plurality of policies, reference events, and reference scenarios. The plurality of policies is mapped with the plurality of reference scenarios and the plurality of reference events. The plurality of policies is defined in a plurality of layers in a manner that each policy corresponds to a particular layer of the plurality of layers. Relevant policies, out of the plurality of policies, may be selected based on an event received. Simulation may be performed on the relevant policies for identifying first candidate policy. The optimization may be performed on the relevant policies for identifying second candidate policy. The first and second candidate policy indicate the optimal policy to be implemented in the production support engagement. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106166 | Interactive Selection and Setting Display of Components in Quality of Service (QoS) Scores and QoS Ratings and Method of Operation - An interactive display apparatus and method for operating a server to trace the origin of data which results in a display of unsatisfactory Quality of Service for a plurality of wireless communication devices and to set thresholds and relative importance of measurements. An apparatus and method to view and set thresholds for discounting scores according to satisfaction. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106167 | OBSERVATION PLATFORM FOR USING STRUCTURED COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for observing and recording users of communication devices are disclosed. A first user associated with a first communication device and a second user associated with a second communication device are recognized at a central computer system. Geographic locations of the first communication device and the second communication device are tracked at the central computer system. A communication between the first communication device and the second communication device are tracked and recorded at the central computer system, wherein at least a portion of the communication is an audible communication. Features of the communication are identified at the central computer system and made available. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106168 | Electronic Voting Configurator - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for configuring electronic voting. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106169 | Ballot Builder - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for ballot generation. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106170 | INTERFACE AND METHODS FOR TRACKING AND ANALYZING POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND INTERESTS - Systems, processes, user interfaces, and computer readable media are described for scoring political entities on one or more political issues. In one example, the scoring is based on text data and political contribution data associated with the political entity. For example, a process may access or determine text data and financial contribution data associated with a political entity and then score the political entity to provide a measure of the political entity's ideology or position on one or more issues. Various graphical elements and interactive user interfaces can be generated based on various information derived therefrom. Users may search various political entities to view political entity scores, text data, financial data, issues, and the like, as well as enter their own political scores and/or issues to assist in identifying political entities. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106171 | DYNAMIC PRICING BASED ON SLIDING MODE CONTROL AND ESTIMATION FOR HIGH OCCUPANCY TOLL LANES - Methods and systems for dynamic pricing based on sliding mode control with respect to a HOT (High Occupancy Toll) lane. The controller consists of a feed-forward path and a feedback path. In the feed-forward path, a sliding mode controller in association with a sliding mode control module can be configured to achieve desired performance objectives under time-varying system parameters in real-time. An estimated VOT (Value of Time) distribution can be derived in association with the controller to reduce the difference between an actual and target traffic flow density on the HOT lane. The estimation of the VOT distribution can be updated by the controller at each time interval when the difference in densities is larger than a certain threshold. A low pass filter can also be employed to substantially improve prediction and the calculation of tolls to reduce fluctuations in traffic. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106172 | SINGLE SPACE ELECTRONIC PARKING METER WITH METER HOUSING MOUNTED VEHICLE SENSOR - An upper parking meter outer housing component that includes a parking meter cap is provided. The parking meter cap includes an outer surface, an inner surface defining an interior cavity, and a lower edge portion defining an opening into the interior cavity. The lower edge portion is configured to be coupled to a lower housing component of single space meter such that a meter mechanism may be enclosed within the interior cavity of the upper meter dome. The meter cap includes a vehicle sensor coupled to the inner surface of the upper meter dome. The meter cap includes a solar panel coupled to the inner surface of the upper meter dome and configured to supply power to the vehicle sensor. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106173 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CARD LINK FILTERING - A method for providing transaction details for payment transactions indicative of offer redemption includes: receiving an offer listing including at least one merchant offer entry, wherein each entry includes an offer identifier and an indication of a valid merchant with which a corresponding offer for goods or services may be redeemed; receiving an offer linking notification including a consumer identifier and an indication of a selection of an offer corresponding to a specific merchant offer entry by a consumer associated with the consumer identifier; identifying a merchant identifier, wherein the merchant identifier corresponds to the valid merchant indicated in the specific merchant offer entry; storing a transaction processing rule, the rule including the identified merchant identifier and the consumer identifier; and transmitting transaction details for a payment transaction included in an authorization request, wherein the authorization request further includes at least the identified merchant identifier and the consumer identifier. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106174 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOUNTING AND PROMOTING AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE - The present invention is a system and method for calculating a series of discounted sale prices for one or more vehicles offered for sale and making those calculated sale prices available to one or more potential vehicle purchasers such that the discounted sale prices each correspond to a series of elapsed time periods and are withheld from the potential vehicle purchasers until the period of time corresponding to a discounted sale price occurs. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106175 | METHOD OF OPERATING NEARBY FUNCTION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - An electronic device and a method of operating a nearby function of the electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a low-power short-range communication module configured to perform a scanning operation and to collect advertising information as a result of the scanning operation, a display module configured to display an item for performing at least one of a short range communication connection and a remote communication connection with at least one reception-side device corresponding to the collected advertising information, and a control module configured to control the scanning operation of the low-power short-range communication module and the displaying of the item for performing the at least one of the short range communication connection and the remote communication connection with the at least one reception-side device corresponding to the collected advertising information. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106176 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ASSESS FINDER'S FEE FOR CUSTOMER TRAFFIC AT A MERCHANT LOCATION - A method for assessing a finder's fee for directing merchant traffic includes: transmitting, by a transmitting device, offer data related to an offer for the purchase of goods or services to a mobile communication device, wherein the related offer is associated with a merchant; receiving, by a receiving device, an indication that a user of the mobile communication device viewed the transmitted offer data; receiving, by the receiving device, an indication that the mobile communication device was located at a geographic location associated with the merchant within a predetermined period of time of the viewing of the transmitted offer data by the user of the mobile communication device; generating, by a processing device, an authorization request for a payment transaction for a finder's fee to be paid by the merchant; and transmitting, by the transmitting device, the authorization request. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106177 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING A REFERRAL OF A PRODUCT - A system for enabling a referral of a product, comprising: a retriever for retrieving from a database a product identifier; a generator for generating product referral data with respect to an external system using the retrieved product identifier, wherein the generated product referral data is retrievable by a first device in communication with the external system, the product referral data once retrieved being for addition to an external database in communication with the external system, by accessing the external system using a nominated user identifier of a user, and the product referral data once added to the external database is retrievable by a second device in communication with the external system, the product referral data once retrieved by the second device being for generation of user identification data corresponding to the nominated user identifier; and a receiver for receiving the user identification data and making an award to the user. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106178 | ADVERTISING AND INCENTIVES OVER A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method whereby advertisers wish to deliver at least one of offerings and advertising messages relative to at least one of a product and a service to a target audience of users selected by a system operator during an advertising campaign. The method includes defining the users within the context of a social network, selecting the users from among the users of the social network, storing the information relevant to the defined users and utilizing the information stored/defined within the social network to deliver the messages to the users in an optimal manner. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106179 | ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - An advertising and rewarding system, method, and process are provided. Among its various embodiments and enabling features, an embodiment may guarantee a lower price for an item of interest than what a consumer is willing or committed to pay. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106180 | CONTENT DOWNLOADS AND RIGHTS MANAGEMENT USING ADAPTIVE PRICING WITH COSTS OFFSET BY VIEWING ADVERTISEMENTS - The subject disclosure relates to a method for providing a downloadable content item including steps for providing a variety of offset-offers for a content item, wherein each of the offset-offers is associated with a different advertising amount and cost reduction amount and receiving a user request to download the content item, the user request specifying the user's selection of an offer from among the variety offset-offers, wherein the first offer corresponds with a first advertising amount and a first cost reduction amount. In certain aspects, the method can also include steps for preparing the first content item for download by the user. In some implementations, a content management system and computer readable media are also provided. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106181 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A COUPON DURING AN ONLINE CHECKOUT PROCESS - During a checkout process of an online sale transaction, a web page of a retailer website may display a shopping cart application that includes selected product objects and a clickable coupon service object. A user may activate or click the coupon service object. Upon activating the coupon service object, a coupon object associated with at least one of the selected product objects of the shopping cart application may be determined and a coupon code may be retrieved from the determined coupon object. The retrieved coupon code may be displayed on the web page to allow the user to view, select and apply the retrieved coupon code associated with the selected product object of the shopping cart application during a checkout. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A LOYALTY PROGRAM VIA AN ASSOCIATION NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE - A system and method for providing a loyalty program by utilizing a pre-existing association network. When a consumer is registered with the program, the consumer's personal information is stored in a database and associated with a token ID. The token is capable of initiating a transaction message request over an association network when used in conjunction with a merchant transaction system. A program manager is provided that includes an association network interface for receiving over the association network the transaction request message initiated by the token at a merchant, where the transaction request message includes a first set of transaction information regarding a consumer-initiated product purchase transaction. The program manager is then configured to store the first set of transaction information, transmit to the merchant a response message that includes an indication that the token cannot provide tender for a product purchase, and utilize the first set of transaction information to facilitate the identification of one or more rewards for the consumer. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106183 | METHOD AND PROCESS FOR AUTOMATIC SOCIAL COUPON CODE GENERATION AND TRACKING IN A TEMPLATE-BASED LOCAL PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method to provide customized coupons, the method including: receiving, by a user terminal used by a requesting user, radio-frequency (RF) signals containing information usable to determine position; determining a location of the user terminal from the RF signals; determining participating merchants within a configurable distance threshold of the location of the user terminal; retrieving a coupon template from a database, wherein the coupon template identifies business-related boundaries of an offer from a participating merchant; customizing the coupon template, by use of a media data object, to create a customized coupon; and providing the customized coupon to be shared with a recipient user. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106184 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CERTIFICATION DATA - A certification data management device that issues certification data easily editable on an administrator side while preventing copy and manipulation thereof, is provided. An access point device includes a communication unit, a data processing module, a memory controlling module, and a notification controlling module. The communicating unit is directly connectable with a communication terminal via wireless communication and acquires an interface ID (MAC address) used in the wireless communication, from the communication terminal. The data processing module issues certification data (electronic coupon) certifying a predetermined item. The memory controlling module performs a control of associating the interface ID with the certification data issued for the interface ID and storing them in a flash memory. The notification controlling module performs a control of transmitting, to the communication terminal, confirmation data (image of electronic coupon) indicating the issuance of the certification data, based on the information stored in the flash memory. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106185 | COUPON BEARING SPONSOR ACCOUNT TRANSACTION AUTHORIZATION - A transaction handler receives, for forwarding to a sponsor account's issuer, a coupon authorization request message from a merchant's acquirer that identifies the sponsor account and a coupon for an item being purchased by a consumer in a transaction with the merchant. The issuer determines eligibility of the coupon for use by the consumer, and sends an authorization response message to the merchant via its acquirer and the transaction handler for the application of a corresponding discount for the item when the coupon is eligible. One or more coupon eligibilities for the purchase of the item by the consumer from the merchant can be derived from comparisons of the transaction to predetermined times, geographies, jurisdictions, sets of merchants, and/or the number of times that coupons have been used in other transactions. The transaction handler can further process the transaction for authorization the consumer's account to pay of the transaction. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106186 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING CONTACTLESS TRANSACTIONS - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for managing contactless transactions. A tap notification including at least a first identifier is received. A first counter in a first data set associated with the first identifier is incremented. It is determined if the first counter matches one of a plurality of thresholds. If it is determined that the first counter matches one of a plurality of thresholds, a first status level in the first data set is updated. A first set of benefits from a plurality of benefits stored in a memory based on the first status level is identified. The first set of benefits is associated with the first identifier. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106187 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCENTING RFID TRANSACTION DEVICE USAGE AT A MERCHANT LOCATION - A system and method for providing incentives at a merchant location for using a RF identification (RFID) transaction device for transaction completion is provided. An RFID transaction device account number includes a marker for identifying that the transaction is being completed using an RFID transaction device. A merchant system recognizes the marker and provides incentives to the RFID device user accordingly. In one embodiment, the incentives are provided to an RFID device user in real-time. Alternatively, the merchant system may provide the incentives to the customer at a later time. Further still, incentives may be provided to the user based on a prior transaction history, user profile, or any other data related to the user, user account, merchant, product or service. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106188 | MERCHANT FUNDED REWARDS PROGRAM - A merchant funded rewards program for a participating entity enables merchants to become member merchants by registering with the program and receives transaction data from the participating entity. Reward points are provided to customers of the participating entity according to parameters defined by the member merchants based on the transaction data. Fees are charged to the member merchants for the rewards points. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106189 | Real-Time Marketing Campaign System and Method - A system and method is provided to enhance marketing having a monitoring engine to collect data relating to a campaign, an analysis engine to analyze the data and generate information, and an interface to access the information. The system may be accessible via a network. The system may analyze the data, provide information, and manipulate a marketing campaign in approximately real-time. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106190 | ONLINE CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT - Disclosed herein are techniques for identifying customers and their purchasing segments in advance so that advertising impressions can be correlated to the consumers that are being reached by an advertising campaign. A predetermined consumer panel may be characterized by purchasing segment and any other suitable demographics, and tracking techniques such as cookies tied to specific web properties may be used to track online activity by members of the consumer panel. In this manner, each advertising impression for one of the panel members from one of the web properties can be related to a particular purchasing segment, and effectiveness of the campaign can be evaluated based on the types of consumers that are being reached with certain advertisements. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106191 | Adjusting Reserve Prices For Advertisements Presented To Social Networking System Users - A social networking system dynamically adjusts a number of advertisements presented to a user along with organic content items by modifying a minimum bid amount associated with advertisements eligible for presentation to the user. Increasing the minimum bid amount decreases the number of advertisements presented to the user while decreasing the minimum bid amount increases the number of advertisements presented to the user. An engagement score measuring the user's estimated interaction with a content feed including organic content items without advertisements and an engagement score measuring the user's estimated interaction with a content feed including organic content items and advertisements are determined. A target score is determined based on the engagement scores, and a difference between the target score and a threshold value is used to modify a minimum price of advertisements eligible for presentation to the user. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106192 | IDENTIFYING POSTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM FOR PRESENTATION TO ONE OR MORE USER DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS - To promote an object maintained by a social networking system, an advertiser identifies the object to the social networking system. Based on the user interaction with one or more posts associated with the object, the social networking system selects one or more candidate posts from the one or more posts. Promotion efficacies of each candidate post for a group of users having one or more common demographic characteristics are determined and a candidate post is selected based at least in part on the promotion efficacies. The selected candidate post may be identified to the advertiser or presented to additional users having the common demographic characteristic by the social networking system. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106193 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING AND TRANSMITTING COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS - Methods and systems are disclosed regarding an enterprise management platform that may manage a business' daily activities. The platform may generate a communication based on a first set of preferences of an administrative user and an advertisement based on a second set of preferences of administrative user. The platform may transmit the advertisement based on the second set and the communication based on the first set via one or more social media platforms. Further, the platform may receive an indication that a customer user has visited the web page and has activated a remarketing code. The platform may also determine the occurrence of an event selected by an administrative user to trigger a communications process. The platform may then generate a communication based on the determination and preferences of an administrative user. Further, the platform may transmit the communication via direct messaging of one or more social media platforms. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106194 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR HANDLING INSERTED DATA INTO CAPTURED IMAGES - Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring a captured image, wherein the captured image depicts at least one entity, performing a comparison between an estimated potential revenue generated from a distribution of the captured image and an estimated potential liability incurred for the distribution of the captured image, and modifying the captured image by placing at least one advertisement image at a particular location of the captured image. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106195 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR HANDLING INSERTED DATA INTO CAPTURED IMAGES - Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring a captured image, wherein the captured image depicts at least one entity, performing a comparison between an estimated potential revenue generated from a distribution of the captured image and an estimated potential liability incurred for the distribution of the captured image, and modifying the captured image by placing at least one advertisement image at a particular location of the captured image. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106196 | SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING IMPROVED USER EXPERIENCE IN A FUEL DISPENSING ENVIRONMENT - A method of performing a fueling transaction via an application installed on a mobile device, such as a smart phone. One step of the method involves receiving at the mobile device a short range wireless initiation signal directly from a fuel dispenser. The wireless initiation signal contains information indentifying the fuel dispenser. In response to the wireless initiation signal, an application is automatically launched on the mobile device. Input is received into the mobile device from a customer, which is interpreted by the application to correspond to at least one selection made by the customer. Payment information of the customer is transmitted from the mobile device to a remote cloud server so that the transaction can be authorized. As fuel is dispensed from the fuel dispenser, at least one of fueling information and promotional information is received at the mobile device. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106197 | CROWDSOURCED INCENTIVES AND MANAGEMENT OF SAME - Aspects of the disclosure related to configuration, delivery, and/or consumption of commercial incentives for products and/or services. In certain aspects, promotional content that may be related to a commercial incentive can be delivered and/or consumed. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES - Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a plurality of Internet-enabled devices with a common user profile for targeting Internet content or advertising. One method includes: receiving, from a plurality of Internet-enabled devices, a plurality of requests for electronic content or advertising; extracting, from each of the plurality of requests, a source IP address and a unique identifier associated with the respective Internet-enabled device; for each source IP address for which requests were received over a predetermined time period from a number of Internet-enabled devices below a threshold number of devices, identifying each possible pair of devices from which requests were received; and for each possible pair of devices, calculating a probability that the pair of devices are owned or operated by a common user. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106199 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - To provide an information processing system and an information processing method capable of increasing the effect of advertising distribution. An information processing system includes: a mail creation unit for distributing, to multiple users, mail including link information that can identify the users; and a cushion page creation unit which, when access based on the link information is received from a client of a user, transmits a web page to the client to cause the client to receive a cookie for transmitting attribute information according to an attribute of the user to an ad network server based on the link information. | 2015-04-16 |
20150106200 | ENHANCING A USER'S EXPERIENCE BY PROVIDING RELATED CONTENT - The present invention is directed to a modified display for a computing device, where a computing device recognizes a marker in a display, communicates with a remote server to return content associated with the recognized marker, and augments the display by inserting the returned content to a preferred position and orientation in the display. | 2015-04-16 |