16th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140108023 | OPERATING ROOM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH MOBILE APP - An Operating Room Management System (ORMS) for facilitating the efficient and optimal organization of hospital medical personnel and resources runs on local and remote servers and comprises a real-time updated daily schedule which is displayed on digital whiteboards and other displays throughout the hospital. The schedule display simplifies the crucial information concerning common hospital concerns and permits quick, accurate decision making on the part of the hospital medical personnel and administrators. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108024 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT PLAN VERIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION COMPLIANCE - Embodiments include systems and methods for verifying treatment plans comply with treatment guidelines established by a healthcare organization. The treatment guidelines may be based, at least in part, on care guidelines generated by independent medical standards bodies. The implementation of the treatment plans may also be verified by the healthcare organization and may implement corrective actions when the treatment plan implementation is not in compliance with the approved treatment plan. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108025 | COLLECTING AND TRANSFERRING PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for collecting and transferring physiological data. Different physiological monitoring appliances can be attached to a portable physiological data collection device. Each physiological monitoring appliance can collect a different physiological data (blood glucose data, heart rate data, etc.) from an individual. Different physiological data can be collected and stored at the portable physiological data collection device. In response to a triggering event, a connection can be established to an external computer system. The stored physiological data can be transferred over the established connection to the external computer system. In some embodiments, the external computer system is a healthcare server that shares collected physiological data as well as other healthcare information with designated entities (e.g., family, doctors, etc.). The healthcare server can share healthcare information in accordance with patient configured rules so that patients have control over dissemination their healthcare information. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108026 | AUTOMATIC CLINICAL TREATMENT DEVICE USAGE MONITORING - The invention is designed to prevent mis-administrations of radiation in therapy sessions. Because of the complexity of machine configurations and settings required for every radiation therapy protocol, the invention is also designed to confirm that the settings of radiation oncology treatment systems and devices accurately reflect the dose protocol as determined by the radiation oncologists. In the event of a discrepancy, the system is designed to prevent the operator from starting the treatment session. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108027 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING MEDICATIONS FROM A CENTRAL PHARMACY TO A PATIENT IN A HEALTHCARE FACILITY - Provided herein are various apparatuses, systems, and methods for improving the efficiency of medication distribution within a healthcare facility. In particular, embodiments may provide for dispensing medications needed and medications anticipated to be needed to an authorized medical person for administration to a patient in a healthcare facility. Medications that are anticipated to be needed may be predicted based on a number of factors. The medications may be gathered, transported, stored, staged, and dispensed using one or more of the components described herein. Combinations of the components may be implemented for a system to automate or partially automate the dispensing of medications from a central pharmacy of a healthcare facility to a patient. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108028 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ANTICIPATING AND DELIVERING MEDICATIONS FROM A CENTRAL PHARMACY TO A PATIENT IN A HEALTHCARE FACILITY - Provided herein are various apparatuses, systems, and methods for improving the efficiency of medication distribution within a healthcare facility. In particular, embodiments may provide for dispensing medications needed and medications anticipated to be needed to an authorized medical person for administration to a patient in a healthcare facility. A method may include anticipating, by a processor, the need for one or more unit dose medications for a patient; directing the one or more unit dose medications to be placed into a patient specific overpack; directing the patient-specific overpack to be staged at a first location; receiving a request for the one or more unit dose medications; and causing the one or more unit dose medications to be dispensed to an authorized medical person in response to receiving the request. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108029 | Matching Mobile Device Enabled Electronic Medical Consultations with Relevant Advertisements and Messages - A mobile device implemented method where an electronic medical consultation is matched to advertisements and messages from third parties based on data uploaded by the patient, the patient's mobile device and data from third party applications and hardware running on the patient's mobile device. The level of interactivity from both the patient and the healthcare provider during the and after the electronic medical consultation is recorded in order to improve the relevancy of future advertisements or messages displayed to both patients and healthcare providers. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108030 | PHYSICIAN REFERRAL NETWORK - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for using a physician referral network to refer a patient from a physician to another healthcare provider. According to the method, there is received, via the physician referral network, a request from the physician for an appointment calendar of the other healthcare provider. The appointment calendar of the other healthcare provider is sent via the physician referral network to the physician. The appointment calendar includes information indicating days and times of open appointments. An appointment request is received via the physician referral network from the physician for an appointment for the patient with the other healthcare provider. The appointment request indicates the day and time of one of the open appointments from the appointment calendar of the other healthcare provider. After receiving the appointment request, a notification of the appointment with the other healthcare provider is sent to the patient. Both the physician and the other healthcare provider are registered members of the physician referral network. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108031 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING MEDICATION ADHERENCE RATES - Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a system and method for increasing medication adherence rates. In embodiments, a method of increasing medication adherence rates may comprise enabling a user to download an application to a mobile device via a network, the application comprising a set of instructions for permitting a user to access a medication reminder means for providing a reminder to the user to follow prescribed instructions regarding medication; an adherence tracking means for tracking the user's compliance with the prescribed instructions; a prescription price compare means adapted to provide the user a list of prices for a medication prescribed to the user; and receiving data from the mobile device at a remote server via the network, the data comprising information from the medication reminder means and the adherence tracking means. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108032 | CLINICAL MONITORING DEVICE WITH TIME SHIFTING CAPABILITY - The present invention is designed to develop research protocols for clinical trials. The invention can track and enhance subject compliance with a research protocol. The invention further provides evaluability data related to subject performance in the clinical trial. According to an alternative embodiment of the invention, a portable electronic device is used to query and collect data from the subject. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108033 | HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE SIMULATION MODEL INITIALIZED WITH SNAPSHOT DATA - Snapshot data may be received indicative of a current state of resources that deliver healthcare to a plurality of patients associated with a healthcare enterprise. The received snapshot data may be automatically used to initialize a healthcare enterprise simulation model. The healthcare enterprise simulation model may then be executed to automatically generate a predicted future state of the resources at a predetermined point in time. Some embodiments may automatically suggest mitigation strategies based on simulated scenarios reflecting potential bottlenecks and appropriate actions that may be taken by the enterprise. The system may continuously and automatically monitor forecast accuracy to detect potential anomalies. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108034 | CONTINUOUS AUTOMATED HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Current resource data may be continuously and automatically received indicative of a current state of resources that are used to deliver healthcare to a plurality of patients associated with a healthcare enterprise. The current resource data may be automatically used to update a healthcare enterprise simulation model. The healthcare enterprise simulation model may be executed to automatically generate a predicted future state of the resources. A resource request may then be received, and a resource assignment engine may automatically assign a particular resource to the resource request based at least in part on the predicted future state of the resources. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108035 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTOMATICALLY ASSIGN RESOURCES IN A NETWORK OF HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISES - According to some embodiments, first current resource data indicative of a current state of first resources that are used to deliver healthcare to a plurality of patients associated with a first healthcare enterprise is continuously and automatically received. The first current resource data may be automatically used to update a healthcare enterprise simulation model. The healthcare enterprise simulation model may automatically generate a predicted future state of the first resources, wherein the predicted future state of the first resources is based at least in part on second resource data indicative of a state of second resources that are used to deliver healthcare to a plurality of patients associated with a second healthcare enterprise remote from and networked with the first healthcare enterprise. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108036 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING PATIENT REFERRALS - Practitioners are certified to perform a medical procedure, such as an orthodontic procedure. Certified practitioners are maintained in a referral directory and classified within tiers based on criteria such as the number of procedures that they have performed. Inquiries are solicited from prospective patients, and referral lists are provided to those patients who request them. The referral lists are obtained from the referral directory with doctors from higher tiers who have performed more procedures receiving preferential inclusion on the referral lists. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108037 | Generation and Data Management of a Medical Study Using Instruments in an Integrated Media and Medical System - In general, a computer-implemented method is described for receiving one or more requests to generate a medical study, retrieving from one or more data repositories one or more medical study instruments, receiving a selection of a particular medical study instrument to use in the medical study, generating by one or more computers a list of one or more research collaborators invited to review the medical study, and generating by one or more computers a list of one of more participants invited to join the medical study. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108038 | Universal Charge Routing System for Medical Billing - A medical charge router receives charge information from a variety of sources and converts it to a standard charge format for automated processing and routing to one of multiple billing programs.) | 2014-04-17 |
20140108039 | VALIDATED HOSPITAL CLEANING AND SANITATION PRACTICES - A validated healthcare facility cleaning and sanitizing system provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to cleaning and sanitizing practices at a hospital or other healthcare facility. The validated hospital cleaning system identifies hospital vectors of contamination; that is, sources through which hospital acquired infections (HAIs) may be spread. The validated system defines a plurality of modules within a healthcare facility, each having an associated cleaning process map designed to meet the particular cleaning and/or sanitizing needs and challenges faced by that module. Various stages of the cleaning process map include validation points, at which certain parameters designed to ensure proper cleaning and/or sanitizing of the module are verified. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108040 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VALUE-BASED DECISION SUPPORT - Systems and methods for multi-dimensional, value-based clinical care path decision support are provided. A system includes a care decision subsystem to receive a patient problem and at least one clinical patient attribute, to identify a plurality of patient care path options for evaluation by the patient and a provider, and to generate a mashup of patient-specific criteria including clinical efficacy, cost, and access associated with each of the plurality of patient care path options. Each of the plurality of patient care path options can be utilized in an evaluation with respect to an objective associated with the patient problem. A user interface displays the plurality of patient care path options and associated mashup of patient-specific criteria to facilitate a data-driven selection of at least one of the plurality of patient care path options based on comparative efficacy, cost, and access tailored to the patient. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108041 | REDUCING DISRUPTION DURING MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION - Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for transitioning a clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a medication-administration process. The first scene in the clinical care room is presented where the clinical care room has one or more zones. The first scene is associated with a first group of setting for components within the one or more zones. An input indicating that the medication-administration process has been initiated is received. Incident to receiving the input, the second scene is provided. The second scene is associated with a second group of settings for the components. The second group of settings is optimized to facilitate completion medication-administration process. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108042 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING HEALTH RISK SCORE, RISK OF HOSPITALIZATION AND FORECASTING HEALTHCARE COST - Various disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for determining a plurality of patients' risk of hospitalization and for forecasting healthcare cost. The method includes receiving a plurality of patients' clinical data from encounters over a predetermined time period and mapping disease codes in the clinical data of the plurality of patients to respective chronic diseases. The method includes determining, for the plurality of patients, health risk scores for the respective chronic diseases by applying disease models for the respective chronic diseases to the clinical data. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108043 | CONFIGURABLE HEALTH HISTORY FORM BUILDER - Methods and apparatus for providing customized health history forms for use with a practice management system. The practice management system provides a user interface that enables a user at a medical practice to configure a health history form template. The user at the medical practice provides configuration input via the user interface to produce a configured health history form template, which is stored by the practice management system. A customized health history form may be generated based on the configured health history form template in response to a patient scheduling an appointment of a particular appointment type at the medical practice. The customized health history form may be provided to the patient. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108044 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING HEALTH RISK SCORE AND MANAGING HEALTHCARE COST - Various disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for determining a plurality of patients' risk of hospitalization and for forecasting healthcare cost. The method includes receiving a plurality of patients' clinical data from encounters over a predetermined time period and mapping disease codes in the clinical data of the plurality of patients to respective chronic diseases. The method includes determining, for the plurality of patients, health risk scores for the respective chronic diseases by applying disease models for the respective chronic diseases to the clinical data. The method includes determining, for the plurality of patients, weighted health risk scores and determining respective healthcare costs. The method includes determining an impact of the weighted health risk scores on the healthcare costs. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108045 | Epoch of Care-Centric Healthcare System - A computer-based system and method improves the efficiency (quality and/or cost) of healthcare services provided to a patient by modeling an epoch of care (EOC) of the patient and by using the epoch of care model to assist in the provision of healthcare services to the patient, such as by generating predictions of healthcare outcomes for the patient and by making recommendations for actions to be taken in connection with the provision of healthcare services to the patient. An epoch of care of a patient may include all services (e.g., treatments, diagnoses, prognoses, tests, tasks, communications, education), products (e.g., medications, medical equipment, implants), and outcomes (e.g., readmissions, morbidities, patient satisfaction, symptoms) that are related to a particular medical condition or complaint of the patient over a period of time. Embodiments of the present invention may model multiple epochs of care for the same patient and may model epochs of care for multiple patients. Predictions and recommendations may be made based on the epoch of care data (including data relating to tests, treatments, and appointments spanning a wide range of times), possibly in addition to external data (e.g., contextual data, sensor data, medical history data) outside of the epoch of care. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108046 | SHARING HEALTHCARE INFORMATION ON PRIVATE COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for sharing healthcare information in private collaborative networks. A hierarchy of rules includes patient rules for each of one or more patients. For each patient, the patient rules define a private collaborative network for sharing healthcare information related to the patient among a plurality of designated entities. A computer stores healthcare information related to the one or more patients. The computer receives request from entities requesting access to stored healthcare information related to the one or more patients. The computer refers to patient's rules within the hierarchy of rules to determine what, if any, subset of the patient's stored healthcare information is accessible to the requesting entity. The computer provides accessible subsets of stored healthcare information to the requesting entity in accordance with the patient rules. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108047 | Methods and systems for medical auto-coding using multiple agents with automatic adjustment - This disclosure is directed to methods and automated documentation and medical-coding systems that combine predictions of clinical decision support or multiple medical-code assignments into a final medical-code assignment, such that the combination is different for different contexts. In certain implementations, each agent receives the same set of terms and phrases extracted from an electronic medical record (“EMR”). Based on the context of the EMR, each agent extracts medical codes from one or more medical codebooks, compares the terms and phrases to the medical codes, and assigns a code to the EMR based on a confidence score. The multiple code assignments are combined to generate a final medical-code assignment based on the confidence scores, context, and each agent's historical performance within the context. The automated system stores and outputs the final medical-code assignment. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108048 | Medical History System - Embodiments described herein include generating a navigable medical history corresponding to a patient. Reference information related to medical records for the patient is stored in a referenced records database based on a standardized healthcare code in the medical records. The reference information is inserted into the referenced records database by the medical history system. The medical history system generates the navigable medical history associated with the patient based on the reference information. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING CROSS ENTERPRISE DATA SHARING IN A HEALTH CARE SETTING - A method and system for sharing charts associated with a first patient among system entities within a networked system wherein different entities maintain different charts for the first patient, the method comprising the steps of at each of at least a subset of the entities and for the first patient, when a chart is generated, generating a release authorization (RA) token for the chart, maintaining an RA token list including all of tokens received for the first patient from any other system entities, when a token is received from another entity, using the received token to access a chart associated with the received token that is stored at another entity and when a requesting entity requests a chart associated with the first patient, providing the chart along with the RA token list associated with the first patient to the requesting entity. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108050 | XTRACT PREPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the invention relate to performing a method for point of care treatment of a patient for safe effective generation of Immunotherapy patient treatment sets. The method includes receiving a command to formulate a prescription; loading contents of each door; receiving a command to load physician preferences; loading physician preferences; receiving a command to load patient information; making prescription per patient information in accordance with physician preferences; printing and applying labels to prescription; and documenting a plurality of clinical activities. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY MANAGING MEDICAL DATA FILES - A network server arrangement including a processor with a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor. The network server arrangement is responsive to requests to access a medical record of an individual and generates summary medical record data including summary information having a plurality of data elements associated with the individual, at least one of the data elements conveying medical information about the individual, and a pointers component including at least one pointer pointing to a network location containing importable medical information in connection with the individual that is not contained in the summary information component. The pointer includes a machine readable address part for processing by the client, allowing the client to import the medical information from the network location, and a label part for displaying to a user the nature of the medical information residing at the network location. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108052 | PERSONALIZED HEALTH HISTORY SYSTEM WITH ACCOMMODATION FOR CONSUMER HEALTH TERMINOLOGY - Personalization of access to health-related information on a computer network is provided based upon a health history of a user. In one implementation, personal health-related information about the user is obtaining from the user operating a client computer. The health-related information includes one or more health-related terms that each corresponds to a health-related concept. The health related terms provided by the user are correlated with a health terminology thesaurus that is stored on a computer-readable medium, such as at a server remote from the user client. Each of the health-related terms is associated with a single concept unique identifier that uniquely identifies a corresponding health-related concept. Health-related works or content is made accessible over the computer network by correlating the concept unique identifiers for the user's health information with corresponding concept unique identifiers that are associated with the health-related content. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108053 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, A MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - A medical image processing apparatus that acquires a medical image and additional information associated with the medical image. The medical image processing apparatus reduces a display size of the medical image using a first size-reduction rate, and reduces a display size of the additional information using a second size-reduction rate. The medical image processes apparatus then combines the size-reduced medical image and the size-reduced additional information into a thumbnail composite image, and displays the thumbnail composite image. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108054 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECORDING VERIFIABLE DOCUMENTATION - Systems and methods for collecting information, verifying authenticity of such information, processing, maintaining, and managing such information are described. The system can be a standalone unit or can comprise a combination of various units configured to function together. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108055 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONDUCTING TELEMEDICINE SESSIONS ACROSS DIFFERENT GEOPOLITICAL ZONES - A system and method designed to overcome or work with the geopolitical restraints on medical practice that presently hampers the process of conducting physician patient telemedicine sessions across different geopolitical zones such as different states or different countries. The method uses at least one Internet server and database, which may optionally reside or have an IP address within in the one or more geopolitical zones where the physician is licensed to practice medicine. The database will often contain lists of physician authorizations to conduct telemedicine in various other geopolitical zones, lists of patient telemedicine waivers, as well as information pertaining to the physician's specialty, rating, fee structure, and availability. The database may additionally contain other features such as lists of translator availability and patient electronic health records. The server may additionally facilitate video conferencing by presenting a unified user interface and/or relaying video teleconferencing data packets between participants. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108056 | COMPLETE CONSENT - Signing an informed consent can be recorded and archived for future reference. A reason may be discovered for signing a second informed consent based on a parcel of additional or changed information. After updating the informed consent to a second informed consent, a patient signing the second informed consent is also recorded. The informed consent may also be modified to take into account characteristics of the patient that may affect the patient's ability to understand the informed consent. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108057 | INSURANCE INSTRUMENT, INSURANCE COVERAGE, AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - A new type of insurance instrument, insurance coverage, or method of offering insurance instruments and coverage to facilitate bodily injury settlements by creating a product designed to protect the interests of primary and secondary payers of future medical costs linked with bodily injury claims. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108058 | Method and System to Determine Auto Insurance Risk - A method for providing insurance underwriting using user-centric data includes receiving data reported from an application running on a telematics unit or a mobile device, matching the received data to known locations, and generating a score based on the reported data and the matched data. The reported data and the matched data are used to determine miles traveled. A valid trip is determined. A valid driver is determined to associate with the valid trip. A sum of valid trips is determined over a period of time. Location data for the mobile device or the telematics unit is determined. The location data is determined using network-based resources. The location data is determined using the mobile device or the telematics unit. The location data can be determined using a combination of network-based resources and the mobile device or the telematics unit. A change in location is categorized into a trip signature. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108059 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILIZING AN ECONOMIC MODEL THAT INCORPORATES ECONOMIC INFLUENCES TO PREDICT TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods for utilizing models that incorporate economic influences to predict transactions and/or events. In one embodiment, a method is described that generates a predictive model that may incorporate economic influences, such as weekdays in a month, lagging economic indicators such as unemployment data, leading economic indicators such as an industrial index, energy costs such as the price of gas, and real-world events such as precipitation, and utilizing the predictive model to predict events such as car insurance claims. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108060 | TRANSGENIC CROP FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The invention provides systems and methods for determining discounted rates for insurance on and financial products relating to transgenic traited crops as compared to their traditional, non-traited counterparts. Certain methods of the invention involve generating comparison data contrasting the yields of transgenic traited crops to their traditional non-traited counterparts. The distribution of the differences between the transgenic and traditional yields is measured. The degree of correlation between the transgenic yields and the differences between the transgenic and traditional yields is measured to create a novel method for assessing mitigation of abiotic and biotic stresses by transgenic crops. A probability distribution function is fit to a traditional rate structure, and a distribution for the transgenic crop yield is determined. The discounted premium rate is determined from the probability function, and a discount rate factor is determined. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108061 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSURANCE VERIFICATION - Systems and methods for verifying insurance coverage are provided. A method may include registering data for one or more users, the data including information designating one or more insurance providers for the users. The method may further include transmitting, via a communications network, an insurance verification request to the designated insurance providers, the insurance verification indicating one or more insurance requirements for the user. The communications network may be the internet. A response to the insurance verification request from the designated insurance providers may be received via the communications network. The response may indicate whether insurance associated with the user complies with the one or more insurance requirements. One or more notifications regarding whether the insurance associated with the user complies with the one or more insurance requirements may be transmitted. The insurance verification request may be retransmitted so as to re-verify the user complies with the insurance requirements. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108062 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SHIPPING INSURANCE AS A SERVICE - A shipping insurance service application has an electronic marketplace platform interface, a shipping insurance module, and an insurance provider module. The electronic marketplace platform interface communicates with at least one electronic marketplace application. The shipping insurance module provides a shipping insurance policy to a seller of the corresponding electronic marketplace application and processes a claim from the seller of the corresponding electronic marketplace application based on the shipping insurance policy. The carrier module obtains the shipping insurance policy from an insurance provider among a plurality of insurance providers. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SHIPPING INSURANCE AS A SERVICE - A shipping insurance service application has an electronic marketplace platform interface, a shipping insurance module, and an insurance provider module. The electronic marketplace platform interface communicates with at least one electronic marketplace application. The shipping insurance module provides a shipping insurance policy to a seller of the corresponding electronic marketplace application and processes a claim from the seller of the corresponding electronic marketplace application based on the shipping insurance policy. The carrier module obtains the shipping insurance policy from an insurance provider among a plurality of insurance providers. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108064 | Automated Workspace Usage Management Methods and Apparatus - Automated workspace usage management methods and apparatus associate one or more users with membership plans for usage of at least one workspace resource. Workspace usage data is collected from the one or more automated monitoring devices for monitoring workspace resource usage by one or more users. The collected workspace usage data is first measured and then compared against the membership plans associated with the users. A billing- and/or reporting-related action is performed, according to the measurement of collected workspace usage data compared against the membership plan. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108065 | IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMISING CAPACITY USE IN AN OPERATION - A method for controlling an operation is provided wherein the control method increases demand relative to capacity when demand is normally low and/or increases the amount of time during which demand approaches or is at capacity so as to improve the productivity of the operation. The operation may be the cooking of food, for instance within a restaurant. The method of control includes the consideration of demand against capacity and as a result provides for variation in the incentive given to promote demand where needed. This may be the presence or absence of the incentive and/or the level of the incentive offered. The method may include the use of a booking system through which the incentives are offered and through which at least some of the indications of demand are received. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108066 | TRIP-PLANNING COLLABORATION TOOL - In accordance with at least one example, an apparatus may facilitate planning of a trip using a trip-planning coordination unit that may be configured to designate a trip and identify trip-planning participants; a feedback coordination unit that may be configured to seek relevant input from the trip-planning participants and obtain the relevant input from the trip-planning participants; and an itinerary generator that may be configured to generate an itinerary for the designated trip. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108067 | USING QUALIFICATION EVENTS TO PROVIDE PRICE DIFFERENTIATION FOR TRAVEL PRODUCTS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates a purchase of a travel product. Upon detecting a participation of a user in a first qualification event associated with a first market segment, the system associates the user with the first market segment. Next, the system provides the user with a first discount offer on a first travel product associated with the first market segment. Upon obtaining an acceptance of the first discount offer from the user, the system uses the first discount offer to process a purchase of the first travel product by the user. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108068 | System and Method for Scheduling Tee Time - A tee time scheduling system includes a computing server including a processor and memory. The computing server receives information from one or more computing servers, each of which is associated with a golf course, regarding a current and future tee time status, and receives a query from a computing device regarding tee time openings occurring on a select day and in a particular geographical area. The computing server further determines tee time availability and associated golf courses located the particular geographical area based on a comparison between the current and future tee time status and the select day, generates a geographical map having location indicators of the associated golf courses, and forwards to the computing device for display on a display screen of the computing device the geographical map. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108069 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING AND CONDUCTING PRODUCT AND SERVICE DEMONSTRATIONS - A computer program, method, and system for organizing and conducting product or service demonstrations may be implemented with a computer system operated by or for an agent or other person or entity that organizes product or service demonstrations and a plurality of mobile phones or other portable electronic devices operated by event personnel or other persons who staff or otherwise run the product or service demonstrations. Each mobile phone may be provisioned with an event management program that receives information and data from the computer system, provides instructions and other information to an event personnel using the mobile phone, receives inputs from the event personnel while a product or service demonstration is being performed, and transmits information and data back to the computer system. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108070 | USING MULTI-DESTINATION SEARCHES TO FACILITATE THE PURCHASE OF TRAVEL ITINERARIES - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates a purchase of a travel itinerary. During operation, the system obtains a query containing one or more destination preferences provided by a user for the travel itinerary, wherein the one or more destination preferences include at least one of a region and an experience. Next, the system matches the one or more destination preferences to a set of destinations and generates a ranking of the destinations based on a set of criteria associated with the query. The system then uses the set of destinations to perform a search of available travel itineraries matching the query. Finally, the system provides the available travel itineraries to the user based on the ranking. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108071 | ONTOLOGY OF DYNAMIC ENTITIES - A method, apparatus, data model and computer program product for providing entities having transient properties. The method may be performed by a computerized device and comprises: receiving an initial entity type specification, the initial specification comprising lifecycle of the entity type; receiving an indication of a transient property for the entity type; and receiving a possession formula for the transient property, wherein the possession formula is associated with a stage or condition in the lifecycle of at least one entity type. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108072 | Vendor Contract Assessment Tool - A system and method that generates a graphical representation and allows the comparison between: 1) a set of contract or deal business requirements; 2) a contract or deal proposed by a vendor; and 3) a contract or deal that currently exists as viewed in the present time. The relative comparisons may be completed on key areas of the contract where key business requirements (KBRs) and metrics have been uniquely defined, targeted, and weighed. The set of contract or deal business requirements may also be defined as a Target Contract or a desired contract state. The contract or deal proposed by the vendor may be as defined as a Proposal Contract or a potential contract state. The contract or deal that currently exists may be defined as an Existing Contract or a current contract state. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POPULATING ASSETS TO A MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An on-boarding computer system is provided that guides a mobile device user through the capture of visual information that identifies assets or physical objects using a mobile device, and optionally tagging of the visual information. This information is sent to a server computer or cloud service that includes one or more tools for mapping the information to a list of asset/physical object records. The server computer includes one or more automated utilities for performing the mapping processes. If these mapping processes do not meet an identification threshold then, a work ticket is created and assigned to one of a pool of human agents to complete the mapping processes. Related computer implemented methods are also provided. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108074 | Multidimensional digital platform for building integration and analysis - A method is provided for qualifying and analyzing business intelligence. At a first part of a data management system receives first, second and third streams of data. The first stream is client provided source data, the second is public source data and the third is data management system internal data previously collected and managed source data in the data management system. The three streams of data are organized into items and their attributes at the data management system. The source data is transformed at a data warehouse where it becomes normalized. Logic is applied to provide multi-dimensional analysis of transformed source data relative to a scale for at least one business intelligence. The data warehouse includes updated data from the multi-dimensional analysis. A user interface communicates with the data management system to create statistical information that illustrates impact over time and value. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108075 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND REPORTING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND AGRICULTURAL-PRODUCER INFORMATION - Various embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and systems for tracking and reporting environmental impact and agricultural-producer information. In an example embodiment, a method comprises receiving first data associated with an impact on groundwater pollution or surface water pollution, the impact on the groundwater pollution or the surface water pollution resulting from a production of an agricultural product, the first data being received from a single representative sampling location; receiving second data associated with the impact on the groundwater pollution or surface water pollution, the second data being received from at least one of a plurality of representative sampling locations; generating a benchmark percentage-based result based on the first or second data; calculating comparative data using the benchmark percentage-based result and at least some of the first or second data; and reporting the benchmark percentage-based result and the comparative data to a user. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108076 | RETAIL POINT SEED TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An automated seed treatment system is adapted for on-site operation at a retail seed distributor. A sealed seed-treater vessel is configured to apply a plurality of chemical treatments to a batch of seed based on a seed treatment recipe. A programmable system controller is electrically coupled to a pump controller of each of a plurality of pump-stations. The programmable system controller is configured to receive a material transfer indication from each of the plurality of pump-stations and issue commands to the pump controller of each pump-station in response to the seed treatment recipe. The programmable system controller is configured to collect operational data representing at least consumption of chemical from the chemical container at each of the pump-stations based on the corresponding material transfer indication during seed treatment and to provide the operational data to a remotely hosted information system located remotely from the site of the retail seed distributor and accessible to at least one third party that is distinct from the retail seed distributor. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108077 | DYNAMIC TASK ASSIGNMENT - A task profile for a task is generated. The task profile includes at least one intrinsic property of the task and at least one transient property of the task. Further, participant profile of the task is generated for each participant in a predefined set of participants that qualify for performance of the task. In addition, a score is calculated for each participant profile by matching the participant profile to the task profile. A participant is selected from the predefined set of participants according to the score for each participant. Further, the task is assigned to the participant. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108078 | TASK SCHEDULING AND RESCHEDULING - Technology is described for scheduling and rescheduling a purchased task. The method may include receiving a defined time range and parameters for when the purchased task is to be performed. An anchor may be set on a scheduling calendar according to the defined time range and parameters received. Another operation may be estimating a task duration to perform the purchased task. One or more service providers able to perform the purchased task may be identified according to the anchor and for the task duration. A service provider may be selected based on schedule efficiency as a function of the anchor of the purchased task with respect to the scheduled anchors of scheduled tasks for each service provider. The purchased task may then be assigned to a selected service provider at an efficient schedule time. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108079 | WORK SKILLSET GENERATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for analyzing work skills. In one aspect, a method includes receiving work task data specifying a plurality of work tasks for a plurality of service providers. For each service provider, receiving performance data specifying an objective measure of a performance metric associated with the service provider performing a work task; receiving assessment data specifying a subjective measure of an attribute associated with the service provider performing the work task; and generating skills data for the service provider based on an aggregation of the assessment data and the performance data. For each of a plurality of customers receiving customer data specifying work tasks requested by the customer; generating mapping data specifying measures of correlation between the skills data for the service providers and the customer data specifying work tasks requested by the customer; and providing the mapping data to an information provider. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108080 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VEHICLE DISPATCH AND FLEET WORKFLOW - A system and method for processing GPS event data and providing an interface for managing fleet and vehicle workflows. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108081 | Restaurant Management System for Forecasting Staffing Levels - A restaurant management system and method interface is provided. In accordance with the invention, data from various restaurant operations is collected and stored for processing. The data is processed into useful metrics, such as those indicative of various categories of restaurant staffing, efficiency, performance and quality. The useful metrics can be displayed as a human-readable chart, graph or report. The data can be processed in real time, permitting managers to promptly make adjustments and to alert restaurant workers or crew members of deficiencies so that prompt and effective remedial action can be taken to improve restaurant performance. Reports may be generated that provide the performance of restaurants individually and as a combined group. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108082 | Restaurant Management System Correcting a Restaurant Operating Deficiency - A restaurant management system and method interface is provided. In accordance with the invention, data from various restaurant operations is collected and stored for processing. The data is processed into useful metrics, such as those indicative of various categories of restaurant staffing, efficiency, performance and quality. The useful metrics can be displayed as a human-readable chart, graph or report. The data can be processed in real time, permitting managers to promptly make adjustments and to alert restaurant workers or crew members of deficiencies so that prompt and effective remedial action can be taken to improve restaurant performance. Reports may be generated that provide the performance of restaurants individually and as a combined group. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108083 | TASK MANAGEMENT FOR A PLURALITY OF TEAM MEMBERS - Each of a plurality of team members may define a task by providing data concerning a task to a centralized controller, wherein each task may be assigned any other team member of the plurality of team members. The controller may receive task event information from a first team member of the plurality of team members regarding a task, which task is associated within the controller with the first team member and a second team member. The controller subsequently sends updated task information, based on the task event information, to both the first team member and the second team member. Relevant to any given task, the task event information may comprise a task delegation indication, which may further comprise a non-delegation indication such that further delegation of the task in not permitted. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108084 | Initiating Schedule Management Via Radio Frequency Beacons - A portable electronic device receives broadcasts from one or more RF beacons to determine a location of a user and communicates with a scheduling server to manage the schedule of a conference room. The portable electronic device receives an address and an application identifier from each RF beacon and opens a scheduling application in response. The portable electronic device then communicates with a scheduling server to receive the schedule of the location determined from the beacon broadcasts. The user may reserve the location and set a number of presets through the scheduling application. Updates to the schedule are communicated to the scheduling server from the portable electronic device. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108085 | DETECTION AND RESCHEDULING OF UNADDRESSED TOPICS WITH THE MEETING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computer software for managing electronic meetings. The meeting management system automatically detects and classifies unaddressed topics. A topic is classified as unaddressed when its actual duration is less than a predefined minimum duration, the notes for the topic do not satisfy predefined criteria, and the topic does not have a conclusion statement. The user can directly classifying a topic as unaddressed. Upon completion of the meeting, the system presents a listing of unaddressed topics to the user. The system can also reschedule the unaddressed topics for a follow-up meeting. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108086 | PROJECT CATEGORIZATION AND ASSESSMENT THROUGH MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS - A system for project categorization and assessment that can employ multivariate analysis techniques to classify a current project by using attributes of the current project to identify project objects representing completed projects similar to the current project. Project data sets of points in a project lifetime can be represented as pictures, having attribute pixels. Pattern recognition techniques can be used on the project pictures. The system can generate eigenprojects for large project object groups or for classification across multiple groups. Aspects of a classified current project can be assessed to suggest project management actions. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108087 | LOG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND LOG MANAGEMENT METHOD - A server system generates one thread with respect to a request for a process, and at the time, a thread local storage that is a dedicated area in which data used for the thread is stored is secured on a main storage device. Log tracking information that can uniquely identify output of a log from the start of output of the log to the end of output of the same is held in the thread local storage during a process of a session ID, a user ID, and a sequence number. When the log is output, the log tracking information is added to the log data to be output to an auxiliary storage device. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108088 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SUPPLY CHAINS ACROSS SEPARATE ORGANIZATIONS - A system and method of managing supply chains across separate organizations. The organizations that supply items to an organization and the organizations that use items supplied by that organization are defined in a consumer/producer hierarchy of three or more layers. Organizations at the first layer supply items to one or more organizations at the second layer while organizations at the second layer supply items to one or more organizations at the third layer, wherein each item may include a product or a service. A supply chain database is created and each organization is given access only to supply chain information within that organization's supply chain. The supply chain database includes an entry for each item supplied by one organization to another organization, wherein the entry includes item attributes, including an indication of the item supplied, a primary location where the item comes from, and disaster recovery parameters including an alternate location and a recovery time associated with bringing the alternate location online. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108089 | CYBERSPACE SECURITY SYSTEM FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS - A computer implemented method monetizes the security of a cyber-system in terms of losses each stakeholder may expect to lose if a security break down occurs. A non-transitory media stores instructions for generating a stake structure that includes costs that each stakeholder of a system would lose if the system failed to meet security requirements and generating a requirement structure that includes probabilities of failing requirements when computer components fails. The system generates a vulnerability model that includes probabilities of a component failing given threats materializing and generates a perpetrator model that includes probabilities of threats materializing. The system generates a dot product of the stakes structure, the requirement structure, the vulnerability model and the perpetrator model. The system can further be used to compare, contrast and evaluate alternative courses of actions best suited for the stakeholders and their requirements. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108090 | PRICE MINING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MINING THE PRICE - In a price mining system and a method of mining a price, the price mining system includes a price miner and a terminal. The price miner searches information on historical prices of a product, and provides blended historical prices of the product based on the information on the historical prices of the product. The terminal receives information requested by a user, provides the received information to the price miner as a query, and provides the blended historical prices of the product from the price miner to the user. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108091 | Method and System for Attributing Metrics in a CRM System - In an embodiment of the present invention, a Response object collects and synchronizes information from other types of objects as may be implemented in a CRM system. For example, certain objects may include a Lead or Contact Object, a Campaign object, and an Opportunity Object that is synchronized into a Response object. In this way, the results for a given Lead or Contact can be directly attributed to the Campaign or Opportunity without having to guess as may be necessary in certain typical CRM systems. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108092 | ENHANCED ADSERVING METRIC DETERMINATION - A user can view creative from multiple locations (same laptop) and multiple devices (work computer, home computer, tablet, smartphone). The user can also adjust their privacy settings on their browser to accept or reject cookies and/or have anti-spam/spyware software that regularly deletes cookies. An enhanced counting method uses first-party cookie technology to track users across access channels and across privacy settings on their browser. The non-acceptance and deletion of cookies causes the accuracy of the traditional third-party cookie calculated reach and frequency calculations to vary widely. First-party cookies reduce this variability but are still subject to non-acceptance or deletion so additional actions need to be taken to provide the opportunity for accurate reports. Additional steps to increase the accuracy of reach and frequency reporting are provided. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108093 | DISTRIBUTED FORECASTING AND PRICING SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product for distributed forecasting and pricing for a commodity supplied by a provider to a user. In one embodiment, the provider announces a pricing plan, and the provider receives a forecast of an estimated amount of the commodity from the provider that the user will use over a given period of time. The provider provides the user with an actual amount of the commodity over the given period; and the provider charges the user for the actual amount of the commodity provided to the user based on the pricing policy, the actual amount of the commodity provided to the user, and the accuracy of the forecast. In an embodiment, the forecast is received by the provider after the provider announces the pricing plan and before the given period begins. The forecast may be received from the user or from a third-party forecaster. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108094 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FORECASTING PRODUCT SALES - In general terms, embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for determining forecasting data relating to a product using a neural network and accessing that forecasting data. In some embodiments, a system is provided that includes (a) forecasting apparatus, which stores product information and a neural network; and (b) a computing system that access the forecasting apparatus via a web portal and transmits some or all of the product information to the forecasting apparatus. In some embodiments, the forecasting apparatus is configured to determine an initial sales forecast using at least a portion of the product information and the neural network, modify the initial sales forecast to generate a final sales forecast, and present the final sales forecast to the computing system via the web portal. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108095 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES - The present disclosure relates to a method and a user device for generating and providing customized survey questionnaires. The method and user device monitor events occurring on the user device and generate behavioral data accordingly. Upon detection of fulfillment of a survey trigger condition, the method and user device generate a customized survey questionnaire including a question either selected or generated based on the generated behavioral data. The customized survey questionnaire is generated using survey customization data. The method and user device provide to a user the customized survey questionnaire, collect a response to the question from the user thereby generating survey participation data, and transmit the survey participation data to a survey server. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108096 | CLICKSTREAM ANALYSIS METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO MODIFYING AN OFFLINE PROMOTION FOR A CONSUMER GOOD - Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108097 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME PRODUCT PRICING OPTIMIZATION - Product pricing and inventory optimization systems and methods and user interface elements enable users to optimize inventory (e.g., product quantity or volume) and pricing levels in real time for products for a given time period. Pricing and volume information is automatically determined for products in a product category for a specified time frame based on a shopping criterion defining how a merchandising set including that product is shopped by consumers and based on specified price and volume change limits. The shopping criterion may include a hierarchical order of at least two product relationship parameters, the product relationship parameters including brand relation information, size relation information, feature relation information and price relation information. In certain aspects, the pricing and volume information is also determined based on a brand hierarchy identifying an order of a set of product brands for the product category. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING ENTITLEMENTS OF DIGITAL ASSETS - In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system for managing the entitlement of digital assets may include a storage medium and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive digital asset usage information regarding usage of a digital asset within an enterprise. The processor may also be configured to receive entitlement information regarding existing entitlements for usage of the digital asset within the enterprise. The processor may further configured to receive available entitlement information regarding entitlements other than the existing entitlements that may be acquired for usage of the digital asset within the enterprise. The processor may additionally be configured to determine based on a comparison of the digital asset usage information to the available entitlement information, whether acquisition of entitlements other than the existing entitlements is more cost efficient. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108099 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUSINESS GAMING AND OPERATIONS - In an embodiment, a system that may provide a user with information concerning a business opportunity and receive a response that defines goals associated with the business opportunity. The system may include decision-making information concerning the business opportunity and/or allow a definition of one or more strategies to achieve the defined goals. The system may include processing and communication facilities to create and/or execute the strategies to achieve the defined goals. The system may include provisions to convey and/or monitor instructions and/or feedback for activities that users of the system perform. The system may include a gaming system that may monitor, score, and/or communicate results to users of the system. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108100 | DATA INTEGRATED ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A generation technique and an analysis technique of a large number of explanatory variables to derive effective measures by using various data are provided. Specifically, a factor which lurks in a large amount of data and affects business performance is identified by automatically generating a large number of explanatory variables and performing correlation analysis between the explanatory variables and an objective variable. Three operators representing condition, target, and arithmetic which are variable generation conditions are defined in advance for data inputted into an analysis system and a large number of explanatory variables are automatically generated by these operators. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108101 | Distributed Corporate Performance Network - The distributed corporate performance network is built on an ad-hoc basis to enable the immediate development of a practical support tool that allows a business manager at any level to | 2014-04-17 |
20140108102 | System and method to simulate the impact of leadership activity - A system and method to simulate the impact of leadership activity for individuals in leader and/or manager roles to be able to model their organization as a system and to simulate a plurality of actions that might be taken and their impact on the non-linear dynamics of the organization, its functions, capabilities, processes and outcomes. The system includes an Organization State component, a Leadership Activities component, an Environment State component, and a Simulation Module component. The Simulation Module component takes in initial conditions defined for the Organization State, Leadership Activities and the Environment State, iterates the functions and process of the organization through time, simulates the interactions of the various variables described in the Organization State, the Leadership Activities and the Environment State and the interactive effects among them and provides outputs of a plurality of measures for each time step. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108103 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONTROL WORK PROGRESS FOR CONTENT TRANSFORMATION BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND/OR MACHINE LEARNING - Systems and methods are provided to compute indicators of completeness of the work output of a transformation of text-based content, worker capacity in performing the transformation, and/or the degree of matching between a unit of work and a worker, based on information collected about complexity of works, times and throughput of workers, rating of work outputs and using natural language processing techniques and machine learning techniques, such as language detection, longest common substring, length ratio, document similarity, etc. The indicators are utilized to optimize job pickup and output submission for online crowdsourcing tasks related to transformation of text-based content, such as transcription, translation, proofreading, etc. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108104 | System and Method for Performance Tracking for Motivating Individuals to Capture Consumer Data Via Mobile Devices - Individual performance for obtaining consumer participation in a promotion is tracked. The individual is associated with a promotion. A URL corresponding the individual/promotion association is generated. The URL is converted to a code such as a QR code, and the QR code is placed on a physical medium that to be carried by the individual. The individual requests a consumer to scan the QR code to participate in the promotion. When the consumer so scans the QR code, metrics are updated to so indicate the user's interest. Metrics are further updates when the user accepts the promotion. The metrics are stored in a database in association with the URL corresponding to the individual/promotion association. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108105 | Agent Relationship Portal - Systems and methods which assist a parent entity in directing an agent entity toward a desired course of action are provided. Embodiments may include one or more data processing devices which compile data for the parent entity regarding the agent entity. Such data may include any number of metrics relating to the actions of an agent entity such as types of transactions processed by the agent, information corresponding to the specific details of the transactions, information pertaining to the agent entity itself (such as location information, transaction volume information and the like), data corresponding to the employee facilitating the transactions, etc. The compiled data may be used by the parent entity to create an incentive program in order to incentivize an agent entity to modify behaviors or to reward observed behaviors. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108106 | DIGITAL DOWNLOADING JUKEBOX SYSTEM WITH USER-TAILORED MUSIC MANAGEMENT, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER TOOLS - A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via an Internet-enabled device or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system. In some exemplary embodiments, changes via a first user interface on a first device are reflected on second user interface on other properly-configured devices. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108107 | System and Method for Direct Transfer of Electronic Parking Meter Data - A single space electronic parking meter mechanism for inserting into an outer parking meter housing is provided. The mechanism includes an inner housing, a payment receiving structure supported by the inner housing and an electronic display screen supported by the inner housing. The mechanism also includes a wireless communication subsystem supported by the inner housing configured to wirelessly communicate with a parking management system and an electronic meter control system controlling the electronic display and the wireless communications subsystem. The mechanism includes a memory device receiving port externally accessible through the inner housing and a read-write removable memory device physically accessible from outside of the inner housing and configured to be coupled to the memory device receiving port. The removable memory device including operation mode information that is read by the electronic meter control system to select an operation mode of the meter mechanism. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108108 | CONSUMER PRESENCE BASED DEAL OFFERS - Systems and related methods facilitating payments with a mobile device are discussed herein. Circuitry in a networked-based central system, which may be a promotional system or payment system, may be configured to receive payment information from a consumer device. The consumer device may include circuitry configured to receive wallet identifying data from the central system. The wallet identification data may be used to secure messages between the consumer device and another device, such as a merchant device, over a wireless link. In some embodiments, the consumer device may receive promotional offers, such as deal vouchers or rewards, and make payments to the other device via the wireless link. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108109 | Method of Advertising Household Items - A method for advertising household items by placing a graphic display of the household item in the vicinity of the household item at a retail location. The household item in the household display is shown in the environment in which it is intended to be utilized. The ability to view the household item in the particular environment for which it is design enhances the consumer experience and facilitates a confident decision by the purchasers. The method of advertising household items also entails preparing the graphic display, printing the graphic display, framing the graphic display, and placing the graphic display in the vicinity of the household item. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108110 | Goal-Oriented Long Term Incentive Learning, Feedback and Survey Award System - A long term goal oriented incentive learning and feedback award system is disclosed. A plurality of third party providers are enabled to directly provide financial incentives to a user in exchange for a specific user performance. A user is enabled to set up a trust account on the system to accumulate the financial incentives under the restriction of a long term goal. The long term goal includes supporting college education, supporting retirement, staring a business, or patenting an innovation. A user performance includes a school study, a feedback to teachers or a feedback about a medicine or a political survey. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108111 | MOBILE ADVERTISING SYSTEM - A mobile advertising system, a respective method and to a computer program product, wherein the mobile advertising system includes one or more mobile devices configured to capture a merchant's encoded vending detail, and being configured to communicate with a remote payment host. Upon completion of a payment procedure, the mobile device is operable to generate a recommendation on the basis of the captured vending details and to transfer the recommendation to at least one potential customer via a network. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108112 | ONLINE DISTRIBUTION AND ACCUMULATION OF INCENTIVE REWARDS - A business system and method for providing online distribution and accumulation of incentive rewards according to the present invention comprises one or more rewards accumulation accounts which can be designated to the buyer himself or herself or any beneficiary. The system and method allows the buyer to save and accumulate the earned rewards and accumulate interest for a set of specific objectives, for example, retirement or education. The rewards in the accumulation account can be redeemed and cashed out only when the set objectives or conditions are met. This business system and method helps people to save money from normal daily living necessity spending. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108113 | EMPLOYEE INCENTIVE AND COMPENSATION SYSTEM - A system for motivating employees to increase sales in a retail environment and for compensating the employees accordingly is disclosed. A customer presents products for purchase and may further be identified according to a customer loyalty program. The system identifies existing promotions in which the customer may be interested as a function of the products selected for the current purchase and according to the customer's past purchase history. A script is provided to the employee to be read to the customer to inform the customer of the existing promotion. In addition, the value of a potential commission to be earned is presented to the employee to motivate the employee to read the script to the customer. If the customer takes advantage of the promotion, the commission is awarded to the employee. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108114 | System for Providing Conditional User Awards - A long term goal oriented commercial promotion system is disclosed. A user is enabled to set up a trust account on the system to accumulate the financial incentives under the condition of a long term goal. The long term goal includes supporting college education, supporting retirement, staring a business, or patenting an innovation. A user performance includes various commercial activities required by a merchant. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108115 | Mobile Satisfaction Monitor - A method of conducting a survey on a portable device includes obtaining registration information and determining one of at least: (i) a GPS location, (ii) time at the GPS location, (iii) duration at the GPS location; (iii) or frequency at the GPS location. The method further includes invoking a survey on the portable device in response to a trigger, wherein the trigger is in response to the determining one of at least: (i) the GPS location, (ii) time at the GPS location, (iii) duration at the GPS location; (iii) or frequency at the GPS location, and providing an incentive to participate in the survey. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108116 | Method and System for Redeeming Product Marketing Rebates - A system and computerized method of processing a rebate claim from a purchaser comprising means for or steps of receiving and storing: (a) personal information about the purchaser, including an account identifier associated with a designated account, (b) promotion information comprising one or more promotional offers associated with one or more promoted products, (c) purchase information corresponding to the at least one purchase transaction in which the designated account was used as an instrument of payment. Purchase information is associated with the purchaser using the designated account identifier, the rebate claim is validated, and the collective value associated with the rebate claim is provided to the purchaser. One embodiment may comprise means for or a step of receiving an instruction from the purchaser via an online user interface prior to the end of a qualifying period authorizing completion of rebate claim processing. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108117 | COUPON COPY PROTECTION - A data distribution system which includes business groups, a client system and a main database system is described. Coupons and coupon data may be exchanged between the business groups, the client system and the main database system. Each coupon being exchanged may include one or more fraud protection features that can neither be altered nor tampered by users, consumers or retailers. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108118 | METHOD, SERVER AND SYSTEM FOR RELEASING A COMMODITY - According to an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for releasing a commodity is provided comprising: receiving commodity information from a client by a server; querying in a database, by the server, commodity order information corresponding to the commodity within a predetermined time period; obtaining, by the server, an average price for the commodity based on the commodity order information; and sending the average price and/or a price cut extent to the client by the server. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108119 | MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE PAYMENT PROCESSES THROUGH USER EQUIPMENT - The disclosure is related to managing a plurality of payment processes of a consumer through user equipment. User equipment assigns priorities to the plurality of payment processes based on membership benefits, benefit requirements, and selection conditions. After assigning, the user equipment displays information on the plurality of payment processes with the assigned priorities. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108120 | Mobile Rewards Redemption System and Method - A mobile rewards real-time redemption system allows members of programs to use a mobile rewards redemption application via their mobile device to redeem currency or points. A ‘ghost’ credit/debit vehicle (account) is used to redeem the rewards currency or points. The ghost card completes the financial transaction which is, from the perspective of a redemption retailer, a conventional card transaction. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108121 | Pay Per Appointment Advertising - In methods and systems for allowing a user to book an appointment with a service provider, and for charging the service provider a fee for a successfully booked appointment, a user provides a search request via a client computer. In response, a calendar system provides search results including a link corresponding to a service provider. Upon user selection of the link corresponding to the service provider, the calendar system provides a calendar view showing available time slots of the service provider. The user selects an appointment time and available service, which initiates an appointment request to schedule an appointment with the service provider. Upon determining that the appointment request can be accepted, the calendar system books the appointment. Then the calendar system charges the service provider a pre-arranged fee for the booked appointment. In some embodiments the calendar system also collects payments from the user for the services provided. | 2014-04-17 |
20140108122 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING EXCESS CAPACITY FOR RESTAURANTS AND OTHER INDUSTRIES DURING OFF-PEAK OR OTHER TIMES - A system and method for reducing excess capacity for restaurants and other industries during off-peak hours is provided. Customers or potential customers may bid on gift certificates redeemable at restaurants during a predetermined time. Users may register with the system and provide identification and demographic information which may be used by restaurants for targeted marketing strategies, promotions, and special offers. The system may include a registration module, an auction module, a restaurant guide module, a restaurant manager module, rewards and referral center module, restaurant reservation module, and advertisement displays. | 2014-04-17 |