22nd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 53 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140149133 | Productivity Monitoring - A method for monitoring productivity may include monitoring performance of a medical procedure at a local device. Medical procedure data may be received at the local device from a management device. The medical procedure data may include relative value units (RVUs) associated with the medical procedure. Medical professional productivity data related to the medical procedure may be provided for display at the local device based on the monitoring of the performance of the medical procedure and the medical procedure data. A procedure completion notification may be transmitted from the local device to the management device when the medical procedure is completed. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149134 | Pharmaceutical Representative Expense Report Management Software, Systems, And Methodologies - Electronic assigning of expense data related to sales calls to customers such as health care professionals (HCPs) aids in complying with local, state, federal, or other regulatory reporting requirements and guidelines. The method includes providing expense report data and presenting a line-item entry of the report on a display. Through a user interface, one or more customers included within a database are selected. An expense amount associated with the line-item entry is automatically allocated into dollar amounts among the selected customer(s) and entries in the database are updated for each selected customer to now include the allocated dollar amounts. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149135 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING THE FINANCIAL LIABILITY OF A PATIENT FOR A MEDICAL SERVICE - A computer implemented method involving a medical service for a patient includes estimating an expected payment associated with the medical service for the patient based on a set of data including payments for similar medical services provided to a population of individuals. The method also includes estimating a cost expected to be borne by the patient for incurring the medical service based on the estimated expected payment and based on a set of parameters associated with a healthcare coverage plan of the patient. The method further includes presenting financial information that communicates the cost expected to be borne by the patient for incurring the medical service. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149136 | GENE AND GENE EXPRESSED PROTEIN TARGETS DEPICTING BIOMARKER PATTERNS AND SIGNATURE SETS BY TUMOR TYPE - Provided herein are methods and systems for identifying a therapeutic for an individual, such as a therapeutic not previously identified for treating the individual. The therapeutic can be identified by molecular profiling, such as determining the biomarker patterns or signature sets of a biological sample of an individual. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149137 | GENE AND GENE EXPRESSED PROTEIN TARGETS DEPICTING BIOMARKER PATTERNS AND SIGNATURE SETS BY TUMOR TYPE - Provided herein are methods and systems for identifying a therapeutic for an individual, such as a therapeutic not previously identified for treating the individual. The therapeutic can be identified by molecular profiling, such as determining the biomarker patterns or signature sets of a biological sample of an individual. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICAL INTERVENTION FOR A DISEASE STATE - A system and method for determining individualized medical intervention for a particular disease state, and especially for cancers, that includes the molecular profiling of a biological sample from the patient, determining whether any molecular findings including one or more genes, one or more gene expressed proteins, one or more molecular mechanisms, and/or combinations of such exhibit a change in expression compared to a reference, and identifying a non-specific disease therapy or agent capable of interacting with the genes, gene expressed proteins, molecular mechanisms, or combinations of such molecular findings that exhibited a change in expression. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149139 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE INFORMATION - A system and method for providing a centralized source of health care information for an individual. Security measures for access to health care information of an individual may be provided. An interactive patient interface may be employed by the individual to gain access to the health care information, and an interactive provider interface may be employed by one or more health care providers of the individual to gain access to the health care information. Access and changes to the health care information from any of the health care providers and individual may be allowed as a function of a security level granted thereto. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149140 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PATIENT IDENTIFICATION INDEX - A system and process for creating a patient identification index for a patient care environment. The system includes a computer processor and electronic database connected to a network. A data analysis module performs the process. The process includes receiving a plurality of ADT records have patient identifiers corresponding to a respective plurality of patients. The patient identifiers in the ADT records are assigned to a corresponding data field in a reference table, which is continually updated with additional ADT records as they are received. A first ADT record for an identified patient is matched with a second ADT record for the identified patient based upon one or more common patient identifiers from the first and second ADT records. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149141 | Remote Patient Monitoring System - A system for providing medical information to a plurality of users concerning a plurality of patients in a medical facility is disclosed. The system includes a first network at a medical facility having a first server and a medical database and a second network having a consent management database and a web server, the consent management database including a list of patients matched to a user list. A website on the web server enables users to input a request for medical information on patients. The web server is configured to forward the request for medical information to the first server. The first server is configured to extract medical information from the medical database about the patient identified in the request for medical information and forward same to the identified user's contact address upon receipt of the request for medical information. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149142 | Detection of Healthcare Insurance Claim Fraud in Connection with Multiple Patient Admissions - A scoring model is provided that is trained using historical patient readmission data. The scoring model is used to analyze patient insurance claim data for which patients were readmitted to a healthcare facility in order to characterize whether the corresponding insurance claims are potentially fraudulent or erroneous. Related techniques, apparatus, systems, and articles are also described. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149143 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED DIETARY COMPLIANCE RATE BASED ON HEALTH INFORMATION - A method and system provide personalized dietary compliance rate based on health information. The method may include: (a) transmitting health information from a hospital's information system to a service operating server; (b) identifying a disease using the health information by the service operating server; (c) selecting food in a user's terminal and determining the degree of correlation between the disease and nutrients of the selected food; and (d) determining dietary compliance rate based on the degree of correlation and providing the dietary compliance rate and the nutritional information of the food to the user's terminal. Dietary compliance rate can be provided via a mobile device and web, thus remote patient monitoring is possible, and consultation procedures are simplified using system's care information and on-line real-time Q & A. Additionally, due to continuous care, both physical and mental stability can be provided, increasing a patient's confidence. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATED TO SUBROGATION IN INSURANCE CLAIMS - A computer system for processing data relating to injury claims to determine suitability for subrogation includes one or more data storage devices storing structured and unstructured data relating to insurance claims, a processor configured to access the one or more data storage devices to select claims for review, apply a text mining tool to extract data from the unstructured data associated with the selected claims, and apply a predictive model to the unstructured data and structured data associated with the selected claims to identify a likelihood of suitability for subrogation of each of the selected claims. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149145 | System and Method for Auto-Calibration and Auto-Correction of Primary and Secondary Motion for Telematics Applications via Wireless Mobile Devices - A mobile device for capturing motion data of a vehicle when the mobile device is travelling with the vehicle, the mobile device comprising: at least one sensor; a processor; a non-transitory storage medium; and an orientation algorithm comprising a set of computer readable instructions stored in the non-transitory storage medium and when executed by the processor configured to allow the mobile device to determine an orientation of the mobile device relative to an orientation of the vehicle; and a transformation algorithm comprising a set of computer readable instructions stored in the non-transitory storage medium and when executed by the processor configured to allow the mobile device to transform motion sensor data to remove secondary movement of the mobile device, which corresponds to the relative movement of the mobile device within the vehicle, and retain primary movement of the mobile device, which corresponds to the motion of the vehicle. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149146 | Dynamically Determining a Set of Threshold Interest Rates Associated with a Guaranteed Life Insurance Product - Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for dynamically determining a set of threshold interest rates associated with a guaranteed life insurance product. A computing device determines an in-effect set of threshold interest rates for the product based on a target profit value for the product and applies the in-effect set of rates to an application for the product upon receipt of the application. The computing device determines periodically whether to modify the in-effect set of rates based on a comparison of an estimated profit value to the target profit value. If the computing device determines that the in-effect set of rates is to be modified, the computing device calculates a modified set of rates and applies the modified set of rates to the application on its issuance date, if the modified set of rates is higher than the set of rates currently applied. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149147 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING GROUP INSURANCE - The present application discloses systems and methods for providing group insurance. An exemplary insurance system identifies or manages data relating to group membership based on a web portal associated with the membership. The insurance system may develop one or more insurance products based on risks that are shared amongst members. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149148 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS INSURANCE SELECTION - Disclosed herein is a system and a computer implemented method for automatically adjusting a customer's insurance product or insurance portfolio upon a triggering event according to predefined guidelines. For example, a customer's vehicle purchase would cause the system to adjust the customer's auto insurance policy based upon predefined guidelines. Another aspect of the disclosure relates to applying a heuristic approach to create and implement the predefined guidelines. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149149 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE CREATION AND DELIVERY TO A USER OF AN AUTOMATED, REAL TIME, ONLINE INSURANCE POLICY AND CERTIFICATE INSURANCE FOR RENTAL OF A VENUE AND/OR EQUIPMENT - A method of furnishing a real-time, self-binding, on-line bound policy for a venue and rental equipment insurance product for a user of such a venue, comprises presenting to the user, via electronic interface, prompted questions relating to venue and location, and at least one of activity to be undertaken at venue and duration of activity; receiving from the user at a computing device, answers to the prompted questions; searching attributes of the venue in a base data relating to said venue; receiving rating information from a rating engine relating to at least one of: venue and location, activity to be undertaken at venue, duration of activity and maximum benefits payable upon the occurrence of an insured event (limit selection); and using base data and rating information to calculate insurance terms, an insurance quote and to create, issue electronically transmit insurance policy and certificate of insurance to computing device of user. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149150 | COMMERCIAL INSURANCE SCORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A quantitative system and method that leverages data sources external to an insurance company to generate a statistical model that may be used to predict insurance coverage profitability. The system and method can predict profitability on a prospective basis regardless of the internal data and business practices of a particular insurance company. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149151 | Systems and Methods for Determining Concentrations of Exposure - A system and method are provided for identifying exposure concentrations. The process of determining exposure concentrations may include organizing exposure data, defining parameters, determining elevated exposure concentrations, and providing output results. The exposure data may relate to at least geographical locations, policies, accounts, portfolios, treaties, and other exposure data. The parameters may be defined to include at least an area of analysis, a region of interest, a threshold amount, results parameters, and other parameters. The exposure concentration may include at least defining and locating exposure locations using various techniques. The results may be presented using textual, graphical, or other display schemes. The output may be configured to convey information such as positional accuracy of an identified area, exposure accumulation in a defined area, and other information. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149152 | System and Method for Interactive Travel Planning and Funds Management - Systems and methods for interactive travel planning and funds management according to various aspects of the present technology may comprise a planning coordination system accessible over a network that is configured to allow a user to plan and organize travel events. The system may also comprise a funds management system that provides the user with a method of saving for the planned travel event. The funds management system may also be configured to allow the user to pay for travel components relating to the planned travel event. The planning coordination system may provide the user with an estimated budget based on selected parameters relating to the planned travel event, and the funds management system may allow the user to save and allocate funds to pay for the travel event from a specifically created user savings account. The planning coordination system may also provide for collaborative planning by allowing the user to invite others to join a planned travel event. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149153 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC PARKING ALLOCATION IN URBAN SETTINGS - A “smart parking” system and method for an urban environment based on a dynamic resource allocation approach. The system assigns and reserves an optimal resource (parking space) for a discrete user based on the user's objective function that combines proximity to destination with parking cost, while also ensuring that the overall parking capacity is efficiently utilized. The solution of each Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) is an optimal allocation based on current state information and subject to random events such as new user requests or parking spaces becoming available. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149154 | Image Capture and Identification System and Process - A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149155 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ITEMS WITH RESTRICTED TRANSFERABILITY - The invention is systems and methods for transferring items with restricted transferability. Initially, the systems and methods wait for a first consumer to make a request to transfer an item after having purchased the item from a provider. The systems and methods then send a request to transfer the item to the provider. This request may indicate inducements to the provider to authorize the transfer. If the transfer is authorized, the systems and methods then present information regarding the item to other consumers. This information may be presented as part of a bidding interface or as part of an advertising interface. Once the second consumer submits a winning bid for the item when the information is presented in a bidding interface, or an acceptable offer when the information is presented in an advertising interface, the transfer of the item can then be completed with or without the assistance of an intermediary. When the transfer is completed without the assistance of an intermediary, the first and second consumer may directly transfer the item and payment to each other. When the transfer is completed with the assistance of an intermediary, the first consumer may send the item to the intermediary and the second consumer may send payment to the intermediary. Once both the item and the payment have been received at the intermediary, the intermediary may send the item to the second consumer and all or part of the payment to the first consumer. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149156 | Vehicle Rental System and Method - A computerized operation of a vehicle rental system is provided, wherein a number of vehicles is made available to a defined user group for a temporary use period. The vehicles are placed at one or more locations accessible only to the user group, with one or multiple parking spaces reserved for the vehicles in each case. Based on a user input which includes at least one item of data regarding a rental period start and a rental period end of a vehicle, as well as a user ID, a reservation of the vehicle is carried out in a computerized reservation system. A sensor device, which monitors the parking spaces, verifies the presence of the vehicle. The reservation system shows a vehicle, the same being detected by the sensor device as parked in one of the reserved parking spaces prior to the expiration of the rental period end and saved in the reservation system, as available for rental in the reservation system. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149157 | TRAVEL PLANNING - Among other things, information is received from a user interacting with a user interface about a trip that is being planned from an origin to a destination, the information including a user indication of travel modes to be considered in planning the trip and the possible travel modes including at least three of bus, train, car, water, and air. Two or more alternative travel options are determined each including two or more of the modes based on the received information; and the options are presented to the user through the user interface. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149158 | RETAIL MATH OPTIMIZATION - A system and method for retail math optimization that receives a selection of a product display type, receives selection of a product display configuration template, the product configuration template specifying a product and a quantity of the product, determines a revenue per square foot for a retail space based on the product display type and the product display configuration template, and displays the revenue per square foot. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149159 | Process for grading, on a standardized scale, the technical condition of an asset - This invention relates generally to the field of Asset Management and more specifically to a process for grading, on a standardized scale, the technical condition of an Asset that has a Scheduled Maintenance Program issued by the Asset's manufacturer or other governing authority, and is comprised of the following: an Asset Technical Condition Score that evaluates and measures an Asset's technical condition, relative to its Optimal Technical Condition, with respect to the Asset's Scheduled Maintenance Program; an Asset Technical Financial Exposure Value, representing and measuring an Asset's accrued Inspection liability due to utilization or other technical aging influence, based on its Optimal Inspection Liability, with respect to the Asset's Scheduled Maintenance Program; and, an Asset Technical Financial Condition Score representing and measuring an Asset's financial rating, relative to its Optimal Technical Condition, with respect to the Asset's Scheduled Maintenance Program. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149160 | FACILITATING PERSONAL SHOPPING ASSISTANCE - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for facilitating shopping assistance. A shopping list is posted by a principal and presented to a plurality of potential agents. Responses are received from the potential agents and a response manually or automatically selected. Partial access to a shopping account of the principal is provided to the selected agent. Partial access may enable the agent to view a shopping list generated by the agent and to associate transactions of the agent with the principal. At a point of sale (POS) an agent may be authenticated and enabled to select a principal with which to associate a transaction. Real time data may be transmitted to a principal as items of a shopping list are checked off by the agent and updates and feedback from the principal may be provided to the agent. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149161 | LEAD DISTRIBUTION - A system for scoring and distributing sales leads. A scoring model may score sales leads based on attributes of the leads and the likelihood of the lead resulting in a desired outcome. The scoring model may be updated based on new information about the outcome of sales leads, or in response to a determination that the scoring model is not providing adequate accuracy. A distribution module may distribute sales leads to sales entities. The entities may be assigned to tiers which determine the manner in which leads are distributed. The assignment of entities to tiers may be updated based on changes in the attributes of the sales entities. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149162 | Methods for tacit knowledge management and for transferring and developing tacit knowledge - The matter addressed in the present document refers to two methodologies for Tacit Knowledge Management Levels of Similarity and Levels of Immersion. Respectively, they qualify professionals' previous experience and training systems so as to maximize the transfer of tacit knowledge. Additionally, the subject matter addressed in the present document describes a work-related training technique which is specifically directed towards the transfer and development of tacit knowledge—by means of activity analyses, elaboration of decision-making trees, creation of learning environments, introductory training and guided on-the-job training This process systematizes work training in a way that avails reduction of time spent and improvement in the content of training. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149163 | INTERFACING A WEBLOG TO A CENTRALIZED ISSUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method that automatically links a Device Forum (DF) and a Quality Center (QC) is presented. In particular, data representative of a support issue provided through an interactive support channel of a mobile communications network provider is received at a DF server. A DF support case is established, via a DF web service running on the DF server, based on the support issue. A portal is displayed to facilitate management of a plurality of DF support cases including the DF support case. Upon determining that the DF support case has been viewed more than the threshold number of times, a message that instructs a Quality Center (QC) server to handle the support issue included in the DF support case is automatically transmitted to the QC server. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149164 | SCHEDULING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND SCHEDULING MANAGEMENT METHOD - A scheduling management system including a computer and a terminal device, and further containing a calculation unit to calculate the cost of work on the work target; a decision unit to decide if reorganization of the work schedule is needed or not; and a schedule generator unit to generate the work schedule; and in which the decision unit finds the progress of the work by comparing the work schedule with the work results, and decides if reorganization of the work schedule is needed based on the degree of divergence between the work schedule and the work progress; and the calculation unit calculates the work group cost generated by unifying the work groups for the combination of the work groups; and the schedule generator unit reorganizes the work schedule by comparing the calculated costs, and unifies the work groups based on results from the cost comparison. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149165 | Teaching Support System - A system for tracking the provision of education to a plurality of students comprising:
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20140149166 | TOPIC DISTRIBUTION WITHIN A MEETING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Computer hardware and software implement a mind mapping system and method for collaboration. Each branch is assigned an identifier by the system, and each child branch is assigned a child identifier. The child identifier includes a reference to the identifier of the branch from which the child branch extends. An external export system may export information to external project management systems. An input system may receive changes to parameters, determining if changes should be made and rejecting changes for lack of permissions. A system may automatically generate a meeting agenda from tasks that may be created during mind mapping incorporating automatic generation of a meeting agenda, automatic optimization of the meeting agenda, automatic conduct of a meeting and automatic generation of a dashboard including information obtained from the system and feedback and switching between viewing projects in a mind map agenda view or a project management view. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149167 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CONFIGURABLE AND EXTENSIBLE ALLOCATION AND SCHEDULING TOOL - A system provides a GUI allocation and scheduling tool that enables a user to configure and apply Schedule Flows that include scheduling logic statements, filters, matching functions, scheduling engines and Objective Functions to appropriately assign a plurality of jobs to a plurality of workers and resources. The user may add, delete and/or edit scheduling logic statements, filters, matching criteria, scheduling engines and Objective Functions to produce appropriate scheduling outcomes according to user definable objectives. The GUI tool also enables a user to evaluate scheduling outcomes and assess the effectiveness of Schedule Flows and scheduling logic statements by configuring and applying evaluation criteria. The system's platform architecture provides software interfaces that enable the integration of custom matching functions, scheduling engines and Objective Functions, and third party hardware and software functionality. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149168 | OUTBOUND DIALING PACE - A method establishes a formula for average value factor for an outbound campaign having a known number of agents, a known gain for an established call, and a known loss for an abandoned call, wherein the average value factor is a function of dialing pace and the known values. The method assumes a first value for dialing pace and calculates by a computing device having a processor, following the established formula, a first average value factor. Assuming a second value for dialing pace, the method repeats calculation of average value factor by the computing device, and notes direction of change in the calculated average value factor. The method then determines a maximum for the average value factor by successive choices for dialing pace chosen to increase the average value factor, and uses the dialing pace that produces in calculation the maximum average value factor to drive the outbound campaign. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149169 | IMPACT ANALYSIS METHOD, IMPACT ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an impact analysis method in which a management computer acquires configuration information that defines configuration elements of the hardware and configuration elements of the software, and relation information between the configuration elements of the hardware and the configuration elements of the software, influence definition information that defines influences among the configuration elements of the configuration information, in time-series information that defines information related to operation of the software in time-series, and determines an influence of the configuration elements of the hardware on the configuration elements of the software on a basis of operation states in time-series defined by the time-series information from the relation information and the influence definition information to determine a configuration element of the software that is influenced by the hardware among the configuration elements of the software in the time band. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149170 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING STRATEGIC SOURCING AND VENDOR MANAGEMENT - A system and method for facilitating consistent management of a repeatable procurement process within an organization is disclosed. The system enables various members of the organization to follow a set of defined core processes to engage stakeholders by understanding the stakeholder's business and building a trusted advisor relationship. Further, the core processes define an analysis stage that includes an opportunity assessment, development of a strategic plan, development of a commodity profile, and finalizing a sourcing plan. Sourcing includes obtaining sponsorship, assembling a sourcing team, selecting suppliers for an RFP, and selecting a supplier based on a proposal. The core process for performing negotiations and contracting includes developing a negotiation strategy, performing the negotiation, selecting suppliers, and obtaining funding. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149171 | ROUTING SERVICE REQUESTS BASED ON LOWEST ACTUAL COST WITHIN A FEDERATED VIRTUAL SERVICE CLOUD - A method for providing a virtual cloud service at the lowest actual cost can begin with an optimal transaction handler of a federated virtual service cloud maintaining a virtual resource pool of transactional units. Each transactional unit can represent a service application deployed to a cloud service provided by a cloud service provider having a usage-based service cost model that allows transactional units to be placed in an inactive state to suspend its operating expense. Operational metrics data for the cloud service providers can be continuously captured. In response to a service request, the transactional unit that meets fulfillment requirements of the service request and incurs a lowest actual cost can be determined based upon cost factors derived from the operational metrics data, the usage-based service cost model, and a current usage state of the virtual resource pool. The received service request can be routed to the determined transactional unit. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149172 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLY MANAGEMENT - A server for managing overall supply chain and data management and a client for initiating data collection are provided as part of a system. The client can perform data collection operations on the basis of tasks, subtasks and workflows. Tasks can be based on supply chain processes. As data collection is performed, the client is updated to indicate appropriate additional operations that can be performed. Server can be used to design and maintain tasks and operations and can also be used to supply these tasks to the client. Client and server can cooperate in validation of collected data and update of overall supply chain operations accordingly. The system can also be used for carrying out operations other than data collection, such as supply tracking. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149173 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC VISUAL WORKFLOW AND TASK GENERATION IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating dynamic generating of visual workflow and corresponding tasks in an on-demand services environment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving a request to perform a business process at a computing system. The performing of the business process may include creating a new business process relating to workings of an organization. The method may further include interpreting content of the request, and dynamically generating a visual workflow in response to the interpretation of the content of the request. The visual workflow may be used to perform the business process. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149174 | Financial Risk Analytics for Service Contracts - A method for predicting and quantifying risk in information technology (IT) service contracts includes comparing features of a new IT service contract with similar features from one or more previous IT service contracts selected from a plurality of previous IT service contracts to calculate a similarity value between each pair of the new IT service contract and one of the one or more previous IT service contracts, aggregating the similarity values, and using the aggregated similarity values with a prediction model to predict risk factors affecting the new IT service contract and to quantify an impact of each predicted risk factor on an expected gross profit margin. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149175 | Financial Risk Analytics for Service Contracts - A method for predicting and quantifying risk in information technology (IT) service contracts includes comparing features of a new IT service contract with similar features from one or more previous IT service contracts selected from a plurality of previous IT service contracts to calculate a similarity value between each pair of the new IT service contract and one of the one or more previous IT service contracts, aggregating the similarity values, and using the aggregated similarity values with a prediction model to predict risk factors affecting the new IT service contract and to quantify an impact of each predicted risk factor on an expected gross profit margin. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149176 | METHOD FOR GATHERING MARKET DATA - A method establishes a connection by way of a communication network between a user computing device and a ticketing application server. The user is prompted to create a user account on the computing device. The user is prompted to provide user information associated with the user account on the computing device. The user information associated with the user account is stored in a system database on the computing device. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149177 | Responding to uncertainty of a user regarding an experience by presenting a prior experience - Responding to uncertainty of a user regarding an experience, comprising: receiving a first token instance representing the experience for the user, an indication of uncertainty of the user regarding the experience, token instances representing prior experiences, and affective responses to the prior experiences. Identifying, from among the prior experiences, a prior experience represented by a second token instance that is more similar to the first token instance than most of the token instances representing the other prior experiences, and affective response to the prior experience reaches a predetermined threshold. Whereby reaching the predetermined threshold implies that the user may remember the prior experience. Generating an explanation regarding relevancy of the experience to the user based on the prior experience. And presenting the explanation to the user as a response to the indication of uncertainty. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149178 | LEAD SCORING - A system for scoring and distributing sales leads. A scoring model may score sales leads based on attributes of the leads and the likelihood of the lead resulting in a desired outcome. The scoring model may be updated based on new information about the outcome of sales leads, or in response to a determination that the scoring model is not providing adequate accuracy. A distribution module may distribute sales leads to sales entities. The entities may be assigned to tiers which determine the manner in which leads are distributed. The assignment of entities to tiers may be updated based on changes in the attributes of the sales entities. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149179 | USING COMMERCIAL SHARE OF WALLET IN PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Private equity firms and other investors of small businesses can use the CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to more accurately evaluate small and privately held companies, both during investment and for evaluating prospective investments. Over-the-counter securities trading systems can also use this modeling approach to provide more accurate information and/or rankings of listed companies to their customers. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149180 | SALE PREDICTION ENGINE RULES - Disclosed is an improved method, system, and computer product for implementing a rules engine to be used in conjunction with a sale prediction engine. A rules dictionary may be used to define a logical data model for one or more rules. Predictions may be generated by applying the rules to attributes extracted from customer entities. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149181 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING A SURVEY - Described are a method and a system for conducting a survey of at least one survey item. The method includes obtaining historical survey data of the at least one survey item for T number of data stores. The method also includes determining a sparsity number K associated with the historical survey data of the at least one survey item for the T number of data stores. The method also includes determining a target number M based on the sparsity number K. The target number M is indicative of a reduced number of data stores, present amongst the T number of data stores, for collection of current survey data to estimate current survey data of the at least one survey item for the T number of data stores. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149182 | System and Method For Gathering and Processing Data in A Social Network - A social opinion system and method are disclosed. Questions or statements are generated and sent electronically to a plurality of users of a social networking service. A simple response mechanism is generated for display in a user interface with the questions or statements. Data characterizing responses provided by the plurality of users using the simple response mechanism are received by a computer. Real-time information related to the questions or statements is generated by the computer, and provided from the computer via a communication network to at least one designated recipient. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149183 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRICE TESTING AND OPTIMIZATION - Price for one or more products is optimized by considering competitor and/or consumer behavior relating to the products. A control set is generated to include one or more products. Also, a test set is generated to include one or more products of the same type as products in the control set. A feature of the products in the test set is changed while the feature of the products in the control set is maintained. Competitor and/or consumer response to the change is measured. Based on the response, a recommendation is generated with respect to the feature of the products in the test set. According to one implementation the recommendation may be a recommendation to lower the price of the products in the test set. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149184 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING A PRODUCT AT DIFFERENT ATTRIBUTES AND LEVELS - The present disclosure relates to conjoint analysis, and more particularly to systems and methods for simulating a new product at different price points and different attributes. In one embodiment, a method for simulating performance of a product is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a profile of the product and a corresponding choice card, wherein the choice card assists selecting of a sub-set of an updated first set of attributes and levels based on the profile; performing an analysis on the selected sub-set of the updated first set of attributes and levels; and simulating a plurality of scenarios to determine an optimum scenario depicting the performance of the product. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149185 | Knowledge Management for Solution Design During Sales and Pre-Sales - Techniques, a system and an article of manufacture for designing integrated enterprise solutions. A method includes aggregating multiple work-products pertaining to solutions submitted in response to one or more previous solution requests, segmenting the multiple work-products into multiple segments based on content category, annotating each of the multiple segments with a tag based on one or more semantic associations with the content of each of the segments, adding each of the segments and each of the tags into a database, performing a search in the database to identify a set of one or more of the segments with at least one tag that corresponds to content of a current solution request, and ranking each of the segments in the set based on a degree of semantic matching with one or more parts of the current solution request. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149186 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING ARTIFACTS TO IDENTIFY ELEMENTS OF A COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL - A method and system are described for using business artifacts to identify elements of a component business model. Artifacts operated upon by the business are first identified, and then used to analyze the business into business operations. This is done by identifying every business activity that acts on an artifact, creating directed graphs for the business activities, and decomposing the directed graphs into sub-graphs, each sub-graph representing a business operation and being annotated by a verb expression, the annotated sub-graph representing a business service. The business services are then clustered into non-overlapping components, using common affinities reflected in the verb expressions, and organized by partitioning into internal and external operations, exposing a business service for each external operation. The components are then clustered into non-overlapping business competencies, and arranged by accountability level. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149187 | Method and System for Context Modeling - A context modeler comprising a computer software graphical subsystem and a solution packaging service. The computer software graphical subsystem renders a graphical user interface, which is used to map different objects from the web application platform and set their properties, thereby creating a mapping file for use by the packaging service. The packaging service is used to automatically create a solution package file for deployment within the web application platform. The solution package file is created when the packaging service uses one or more methods to generate a set of instructions for implementing computer processor or server action, and this set of instructions is wrapped inside a solution package file recognized by the web application platform. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149188 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR GREEN SHIPPING PRACTICE ASSESSMENT - This invention discloses methods, apparatus and systems for assessing an extent of green shipping activities practised by a shipping company. The invention is based on enquiring the shipping company with questions in the dimensions of Company Policy and Procedure, of Shipping Documentation, of Shipping Equipment, of Shipping Cooperation, of Shipping Materials, and of Shipping Design Compliance. These six dimensions constitute six dimensions empirically validated to be essential for assessing the extent of green shipping activities. After the shipping company gives the answers, the answers to questions of each dimension are processed to yield an intermediate result. The resultant six intermediate results are then processed to evaluate the extent of green shipping activities, in order that all the six dimensions are considered in assessing the extent of green shipping activities. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149189 | PRE-PAID TAXI SERVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - A method of operating a prepaid taxi service comprising: purchasing a prepaid card, wherein the prepaid card has a removable section; calling a designated number associated with the prepaid card for taxi service, wherein the call is prioritized; verifying a unique identification number on the prepaid card; providing transportation for a party making the call; and providing the removable section to a taxi driver as payment. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149190 | BILLING A RENTED THIRD PARTY TRANSPORT INCLUDING AN ON-BOARD UNIT - A system, method, and computer readable medium for toll service activation using an on-board unit in a third party transport comprises, a third party entity, a toll rental entity, and an on-board unit communicably coupled to the third party entity and to the toll rental entity, wherein the on-board unit, receives a position signal, initiates a toll service request, converts the position signal to a toll usage, and stores the position signal, the toll service request and the toll usage. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149191 | TECHNIQUE FOR NEGOTIATING WITH A CONSUMER WITHIN A RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT - Techniques for negotiating with a consumer within a retail establishment are provided. A retail Point-Of-Sale (POS) system becomes aware of a consumer looking for a product and having a price comparison for other retailers for that product; the consumer is in a store of the retailer. The retailer generates one or more customized offers to compete with the other retailers and dynamically delivers those customized offers to the consumer while the consumer remains in the store in an attempt to entice the consumer to buy the product at the store. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149192 | VERIFICATION OF ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT SECURITY - Online advertisements may be verified before being rendered. In one example, an ad control is incorporated into an application or web page. When the ad control is to present an ad, the ad control requests an ad from an ad provider. Upon receipt of the ad, the ad control generates one or more hashes from the ad, and may extract one or more landing pages from the ad. The ad control then submits the one or more hashes, and the URLs of the one or more landing pages, to a reputation service for verification. The reputation service may then determine whether the ad and/or its landing pages are acceptable, and returns an “OK” or “not OK” message accordingly. If the ad and its landing pages are determined to be acceptable, then the ad control renders the ad. Otherwise, the ad control requests a new ad from the ad provider. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149193 | MANAGING A RETAIL OFFER - An approach for managing retail offer(s) based on information from a social networking website is presented. Information about an event is received. The event is determined to be relevant to user(s) of the social networking website by determining preferences of the user(s) and determining the user(s) have an interest in the event based on the preferences. Retail offers are received. Received retail offer(s) are determined to be relevant to the event by determining a preference of an individual associated with event and determining the individual has an interest in the retail offer(s) based on the preference. Based on the event being relevant to the user(s) and the retail offer(s) being relevant to the event, the retail offer(s) are displayed for viewing by the user(s) via an interface provided by the social networking website. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149194 | GRANTING OF BENEFITS - A communication terminal uses an application to request that an administrative server provide an invitation code. The administrative server generates and transmits an invitation code that is unique to the communication terminal and that can be used for a plurality of applications used for invitation code requests. The communication terminal discloses the invitation code that was transmitted, and also discloses application information, and when other communication terminals use the application to designate the invitation code, the administrative server grants benefits to the communication terminal according to an invitation number that is the number of communication terminals that have designated the invitation code. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149195 | NEAR REAL-TIME MATCH - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for enabling a user to determine whether a transaction qualifies for an offer. An exemplary apparatus is configured to: receive information associated with a transaction; receive information associated with an offer, the offer enabling a user to receive a discount or rebate on a qualifying transaction; and initiate presentation of an indicator indicating whether the transaction qualifies for the offer. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149196 | OFFER REDEMPTION OF AN OFFER AT A RETAILER - A system is provided for offer redemption of a retailer. A service provider includes one or more servers with engines and attached storage. The service provider is configured to be in communication with a mobile application running on a user mobile device of a user. The service provider is configured to be in communication with an advertiser and the retailer. The service provider is coupled to one or more processors with logic that enable an advertiser to create an offer campaign with details of the offer campaign stored in the storage. The details including at least one of, offer distribution rules and offer redemption rules. The one or more processors review transaction line items of the offer and making a determination to push or not push the offer redemption to a retailer check-out system. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149197 | Coupon or Voucher Verification Method, System, and Apparatus - An electronic coupon or voucher display includes a dynamic time-limited visual indicator that permits personnel at a vendor or merchant to confirm the validity of the coupon or voucher based solely on visual inspection of the dynamic time-limited visual indicator, without the need for scanning of the coupon or voucher, input of a coupon or voucher code, or communication with the coupon or voucher issuer. Display of the dynamic time-limited visual indicator is store or location specific and initiated following selection of a store or location, notification that a coupon or voucher is available and indication by the user of an intention to redeem the coupon or voucher, and a determination that the coupon or voucher is accepted at a detected location of the portable electronic device on which the coupon or voucher is to be displayed. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149198 | USER INTERFACE FOR MOBILE PAYMENT SERVICE - The disclosure is related to a service for helping a consumer to intuitively identify, select, and combine payment instruments returning the relatively best membership to find a lowest payment amount for a desired purchase. User equipment may provide a graphic user interface that i) displays images of payment instruments classified by a payment instrument type, ii) scrollably displays images of the classified payment instruments, iii) displays an estimated lowest payment amount for a desired purchase by combining membership benefits of payment instruments based on payment instrument images scrolled and arranged at a selection position thereof. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149199 | METHOD FOR A CHEATING-PROOF USER EXPERIENCE BASED LOYALTY PROGRAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSIGNING LOYALTY POINTS TO USERS - Method for a cheating-proof user experience based loyalty program and a computer program product for assigning loyalty points to users. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149200 | DYNAMIC REWARDS PROGRAM - The systems are generally configured to provide rewards. The systems are capable of syncing transaction accounts with one or more reward programs and one or more channels. Moreover, the systems are capable dynamically provisioning rewards in one or more subsets to a rewards program to distribute high, medium and low value rewards to a reward program throughout the duration of the program. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149201 | USER DASHBOARD - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for initiating presentation of a rebate associated with a transaction. An exemplary apparatus is configured to: determine a user executed a first transaction qualifying for a first offer; determine a first rebate associated with the first transaction; apply the first rebate to the user's account; initiate presentation of the first rebate on a user interface; determine the user executed a second transaction qualifying for a second offer; determine a second rebate associated with the second transaction, wherein the second rebate is not applied to the user's account; and initiate presentation of the second rebate on the user interface. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149202 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMBINED TIME AND LOCATION BASED OFFERS - A method for distributing a time- and location-based offer to a consumer includes: storing coupons and locations, each location including at least one geographic position; receiving a location from a device at an entry time; identifying a specific location where the included geographic position is in proximity to the location of the device; identifying at least one stored coupon corresponding to the specific location; calculating an elapsed time based on the amount of time passed since the entry time; and distributing, to a consumer and/or the device, the at least one stored coupon when a time threshold for the coupon is met or exceeded by the elapsed time, where the calculating and distributing are performed until the device has left the geographic position. Coupons may also be distributed based on aggregated time at a location or category of locations, or aggregated time of a group of consumers. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149203 | TARGETED ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHODS - Systems and methods are provided for serving targeted advertisements over a communications network and motivating users to view the advertisements by compensating the users after they view an advertisement and verify that they are human and have viewed the advertisement. The targeting is based on target information provided by an advertiser being compared with user information provided by a user who is registered and logged into the system. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING VERIFICATION BASED ON USERS' DEMOGRAPHICS - A system and method for performing demographic verification of an advertising campaign are provided. The method comprises generating a demographic profile for each user in a group of users; analyzing demographic profiles of viewers of the advertising campaign to determine at least a campaign reach of the advertising campaign, wherein the viewers of the advertising campaign are a subset of the users in the group of users; comparing the determined demographic campaign reach to at least one target audience attribute defined in a media plan of the advertising campaign; and verifying at least a demographic campaign reach based on the comparison. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149205 | Method and Apparatus for an Online Advertising Predictive Model with Censored Data - A censored observation for an online advertising campaign may be received for a first given time period. It may be determined that an amount spent on the online advertising campaign met a budget constraint such that the online advertising campaign was interrupted during the first given time period. Based on the received censored observation and one or more campaign parameters for the first given time period, a predictive model for predicting the result of a new online advertising campaign may be generated. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149206 | COMBINED SPONSORED AND UNSPONSORED CONTENT GROUP - A system may include a unified content platform configured to obtain an unsponsored content group from unsponsored content group sources, each unsponsored content group having at least one unsponsored content element, wherein the unsponsored content groups are obtained based on a relevance of at least some unsponsored content elements to a characteristic of a user. The system may further include a sponsored content platform configured to generate a master content group based on the unsponsored content groups and a sponsored content group, the sponsored content group having at least one sponsored content element and an associated bid, wherein the master content group is obtained based on the relevance of the at least some unsponsored content elements and a relevance of the sponsored content element to the characteristic of the user and the associated bid. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149207 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING ADVERTISEMENT PUSH AND MARKETING - A system and method for implementing advertisement push and marketing are provided. Target location information and location information are provided by a client. A driving path is planned by a server according to the target location information and the location information, so that an advertisement corresponding to the location information is queried. The queried advertisement is fed back and provided for users to click. Therefore, the technical efficacy of implementing advertisement push and marketing is achieved. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149208 | CLICK FRAUD DETECTION - Systems and methods for detecting instances of click fraud are disclosed. Click fraud occurs when, for example, a user, malware, bot, or the like, clicks on a pay per click advertisement (e.g., hyperlink), a paid search listing, or the like without a good faith interest in the underlying subject of the hyperlink. Such fraudulent clicks can be expensive for an advertising sponsor. Statistical information, such as ratios of unpaid clicks to pay per clicks, are extracted from an event database. The statistical information of global data is used as a reference data set to compare to similar statistical information for a local data set under analysis. In one embodiment, when the statistical data sets match relatively well, no click fraud is determined to have occurred, and when the statistical data sets do not match relatively well, click fraud is determined to have occurred. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149209 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - The invention includes a system, apparatus, and method for storing media content within a service provider network. The system includes multi-service servers associated with access points adapted to allow end-user devices to access the service provider network. Each multi-service server includes a common storage partition adapted for storing media content and a plurality of end-user storage partitions adapted for maintaining associations to media content. The system includes media servers that communicate with the multi-service servers for providing media content to the multi-service servers. In response to a request for media content received from one of a plurality of end-user devices, the requested media content stored in the common storage partition is associated with a selected one of the end-user storage partitions associated with the end-user. The request for media content is received in response to end-user directed advertisements received at any of the plurality of end-user devices. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149210 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AD INSERTION IN OVER-THE-TOP LIVE MEDIA DELIVERY - A method is provided for performing targeted ad insertion in over-the-top delivery of content by detecting ad replacement opportunities in a live content stream and preparing the content for seamless replacement with segmented HTTP adaptive streaming delivery. The method includes provisions for multi-stage proxy-based segment replacement for targeted ad delivery. The method provided works transparently with standard HTTP adaptive streaming clients. A system is also specified for implementing a client and server content delivery infrastructure in accordance with the provisions of the method. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149211 | CONCEPTUAL TAGGING WITH CONCEPTUAL MESSAGE MATCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A conceptual tagging and message matching system and method are provided. In one example, the system and method generate web pages or third party web pages with pieces of content combined with the message. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149212 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a score determining unit and an allocating unit. The score determining unit determines an allocation score representing a adequacy degree of allocation of a delivery target user on an advertisement delivery order request based on the number or the proportion of non-allocated users which are delivery target users which are not allocated on the advertisement delivery order request among a plurality of delivery target users for each user attribute. The allocating unit allocates the delivery target user on the advertisement delivery order request so that a decrease in the allocation score is minimized before and after the delivery target user is allocated on the order request for the advertisement delivery order request. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149213 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION AND PROMOTING ONLINE ADVERTISING IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - An information processing apparatus and associated methodology for generating personalized fashion-related information and promoting online advertising in a social network. The personalized fashion-related information includes personalized fashion style suggestions, recommended fashion items to purchase, customized advertising, and recommended vendors for each of the recommended fashion items to purchase. The information processing apparatus generates the personalized fashion information based on the profile and history information of a user and weather information where the user is located. With respect to a purchase transaction, the information processing apparatus creates a unique identification number and assigns to the transaction, thereby a buyer conveniently uploads purchased items to the social network. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149214 | PROOF POINTS OF PRODUCT PRICE REDUCTIONS - A system and method for notifying a retail customer with respect to recent price reductions for products of interest to the customer. The system and method include identification of such products of interest by gathering and analyzing past purchase behavior, demographic data, and the like. By analyzing such data to identify products of relatively high importance to the customer and presenting notifications of price reductions of such identified products, the retailer may successfully instill in the customer the impression that the retailer offers lower prices than its competitors. Such impressions may be likely to increase customer loyalty and encourage repeated return shopping trips. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149215 | DETERMINING KEYWORDS FOR CONTENT ITEMS - A social networking system receives a request to generate a post including a content item from a user and extracts a topic from the content item. Using the extracted topic, the social networking system identifies candidate keywords, each associated with one or more expected values. The social networking system may use information associated with the user to determine the expected values associated with the candidate keywords. Using the expected values, the social networking system ranks the candidate keywords and selects a keyword from the candidate keywords based on the ranking. Based on the selected keyword the social networking system generates a link to content and includes the link to content and the generated content item in the post that is presented to the user. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149216 | Voice Recognizing Digital Messageboard System and Method - Provided is a system and method of updating a message displayed on an electronic screen via wireless communications device. Messages are entered into the communications device (input terminal) via verbal commands or entered text. The input is then transmitted to one or more electronic screens, where the message is displayed. Thus, users can update an electronic display without directly manipulating the display screen or physically entering text. Each electronic screen is in communication with each paired wireless communications device via a Bluetooth connection. This connection method enables the pairing of multiple electronic screens to a single wireless communications device, as well as allowing multiple communications devices to manipulate any given screen. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149217 | DYNAMIC RESOURCE MATCHING SYSTEM - A method, apparatus, and system are provided for implementing resource and/or location-based matching services between a wireless terminal (e.g., mobile phone) user and one or more resources. A novel infrastructure supports resource and/or location based matching services over a wireless network. A back-end system includes a database, server, and match engine that are configured match a user with one or more resources based on the user's characteristics, preferences, and/or location. Such resources include (1) other users, (2) targeted advertising, (3) businesses/networking opportunities, and/or (4) locate a nearby service or store. A flexible database architecture supports application-specific resources which facilitate the deployment of various matching services. Application developers are thus able to implement different resource-matching applications for wireless devices through a common back-end infrastructure. Additionally, the match engine may include a feedback mechanism that permits the match engine to learn a user's preferences. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149218 | PROMOTIONAL ITEM DELIVERIES BASED ON PLANNED/FUTURE TRAVELING - An approach for managing electronic promotional item(s) is presented. A plurality of subscriptions is submitted to at least one software service on behalf of a user. The submitted subscriptions are associated with respective geographical locations within a threshold distance from a travel route of a trip to a destination. The electronic promotional item(s) associated with respective geographical location(s) within the threshold distance are received from the at least one software service. The received electronic promotional item(s) are determined to be in effect between start and end dates of the trip. Based on the received electronic promotional item(s) being in effect between the start and end dates, at least a portion of the received electronic promotional item(s) is presented. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149219 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON GEO-LOCATION - Described herein are a system and method for delivering content to a mobile computing device, where the content is selected for presentation to a member of a social network service based on the current geo-location of the member (device) and one or more associations and/or relationships between entities represented in a social graph of the social network service. A particular embodiment includes providing, by use of a data processor, a user interface to notify a member of a social network service of his or her proximity to another entity that is represented in the social graph of the social network service. In some embodiments, in response to determining that a member is in geographical proximity of a company that has a presence in the social graph of the social network service, a job recommendation/matching engine may cause information to be presented relating to a job listing posted to a job listing service by an authorized representative of the company. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149220 | PLAY INFORMATION ESTABLISHING AND PLAYING SYSTEM, AND METHOD THEREOF - A play information establishing and playing system, and a method thereof are provided. When an information establishing client sends coordinate information and play information to a server to establish a play information in the server, and a information query client sends queried coordinate information to the server, the corresponding play information is queried according to the queried coordinate information, and is provided to the information query client to play the play information, so as to achieve the technical efficacy of providing a corresponding play information according to different coordinate information. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149221 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BILLBOARD CONTROL - A method for scheduling content for a digital billboard, including: receiving an advertisement schedule from a first user account, the schedule comprising advertisement media; identifying a billboard identifier associated with the user account, the billboard identifier associated with the billboard; controlling the billboard to display the advertisement media according to the advertisement schedule; and in response to receipt of an application request for the billboard from a user device, the application request identifying an application associated with the user account, interrupting advertisement media display and directing control of the billboard to the application. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149222 | AUDIO-VISUAL POINT-OF-SALE PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD DIRECTED TOWARD VEHICLE OCCUPANT - An audio-visual presentation system delivering a presentation to a vehicle passenger compartment is provided that includes a video display mounted external to a vehicle passenger compartment and viewable from within the compartment. A controller provides a video signal to the display and an audio signal. The audio signal is broadcast by an antenna coupled to the controller as a radio frequency is received by a vehicle radio and discernable to a vehicle sound system. The audio-visual presentation system is particularly well suited as a method of education and sale regarding vehicle service products. Rather than providing a discernable audio signal through a vehicle sound system, it is appreciated that a portable radio set is readily placed within a vehicle passenger compartment or the audio signal delivered via a wireless network. A still further advantage is realized by providing a technician servicing the vehicle with a microphone operative to interrupt the audio signal of the presentation so as to convey vehicle service information regardless of whether the presentation is viewed within the vehicle compartment or in a remote waiting room. The audio-visual presentation is readily tailored to the past viewing and/or purchase history of a potential customer. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149223 | Targeted Advertisements In Mobile Applications - A social networking system enables targeted advertising to its users on mobile devices, either directly in third-party applications or via an ad exchange. An application on the mobile device associated with the social networking system stores user identifying information in a shared memory location on the user's mobile device. To deliver a targeted ad to the user on the mobile device, an application executed by the mobile device retrieves the user identifying information, which is transmitted to an ad server associated with the social networking system or to the social networking system. Based on the user's profile in the social networking system, an advertisement is selected for the user (e.g., using targeting criteria and an auction model) and sent to an ad exchange or to the application on the mobile device for presentation to the user on the mobile device. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149224 | Methods and Systems for Selecting Internet Radio Program Break Content Using Mobile Device Location - Methods and systems for selecting content for outputting on a mobile device during a program break in an Internet radio stream using mobile device location information. In one aspect, the methods and systems seamlessly select content for outputting on a mobile device during a program break in an Internet radio stream using mobile device location information and program break markers. In another aspect, the methods and systems select content for outputting on a mobile device during a program break in an Internet radio stream using mobile device trajectory information. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149225 | Systems and Methods for Determining Advertisements for Display on an Electronic Publishing System - A method for operating an electronic publishing system to display one or more advertisements, comprising the steps of: receiving user content to be displayed on the electronic publishing system; determining the one or more advertisements as a function of the user content and the user's behavior on the electronic publishing system; displaying the user content on the electronic publishing system in a specific format conducive for display of such user content; and displaying the determined advertisements on the electronic publishing system using the specific format to resemble the user content. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149226 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a predictive information storage, a counting unit, and an allocating unit. The predictive information storage unit stores information including user attributes of a plurality of delivery target users predicted as a future advertisement delivery destination. The counting unit counts a total of the number of user attributes of delivery target users which are not allocated on an advertisement delivery order request among the plurality of delivery target users. The an allocating unit allocates the delivery target user on the advertisement delivery order request so that a decrease in a total of the number of user attributes counted by the counting unit is minimized before and after the delivery target user is allocated on the advertisement delivery order request. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149227 | TARGETED ADVERTISING SERVICES METHOD - A method and apparatus for providing an automatically upgradeable software application includes targeted advertising based upon demographics and user interaction with the computer. The software application includes a display region used for banner advertising that is downloaded over a network such as the Internet. The software application is accessible from a server via the network and demographic information on the user is acquired by the server and used for determining what advertising will be sent to the user. The software application further targets the advertisements in response to normal user interaction with the computer. Data associated with each advertisement is used by the software application in determining when a particular advertisement is to be displayed. This includes the specification of certain programs that the user may have so that, when the user runs the program (e.g., a spreadsheet program), a relevant advertisement will be displayed (e.g., an advertisement for a stock brokerage). This provides two-tiered, real-time targeting of advertising—both demographically and reactively. The software application includes programming that accesses the server to determine if one or more components of the application need upgrading. If so, the components can be downloaded and installed without further action by the user. A distribution tool is provided for software distribution and upgrading over the network. Also provided is a user profile that is accessible to any computer on the network. Furthermore, multiple users of the same computer can possess Internet web resources and files that are personalized, maintained and organized. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149228 | SUPPORTING 3-SCREEN USER EXPERIENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF A SERVICES MARKETPLACE - The present invention is directed to sharing access to end user information in a multi-screen environment for the purpose of enhancing application functionality and end user experience including advertising functionality and experience. The invention includes storing end user information obtained from a first screen environment in an end user context database (ECD), and accessing the end user information in the ECD for use in a second screen environment. The multi-screen environments include a television, a network access device, such as a personal computer configured to provide access to the Internet, a telephone and other mobile and home devices such as PDAs. The first screen environment is different from the second screen environment. Use of an application associated with any of the first and second screen environments by an end user generates an event with end user information, and includes publishing the event to the ECD and forwarding or making the event information usable by, or accessible to, other applications serving the end user, including advertising applications. The invention further controls access to the ECD by other applications serving the end user, including advertising applications. The end user information includes information about the end user's context, desires or preferences. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149229 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF A NETWORK OF AUDIOVISUAL INFORMATION REPRODUCTION SYSTEMS - Management device for a network of audiovisual information reproduction systems or jukeboxes, including a database with a plurality of sets of arrays, each array containing grouped information either about the composition of a jukebox, or the use of the jukebox, or the payment of fees. The database is managed by a computer server connected with the audiovisual information reproduction systems to receive messages sent by each audiovisual information reproduction device and containing information necessary to update determined sets of arrays in the database, and update data or the program for each audiovisual information reproduction device with information stored in at least one set of arrays in the database and transmitted in this message. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149230 | PROGRAMMATIC BUYING OF ONLINE DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENTS - Systems, media, and methods are provided to select advertisements for available impressions associated with a publisher's impression inventory. The selected advertisements may correspond to advertisement campaigns managed by buyers that seek to promote goods or services on web pages or media. The advertisement campaign is generated via an interface that receives a request for reserved or non-reserved portions of the publisher's impression inventory. The advertisement engine suggests a price for first chair access to the reserved portion or non-reserved portion via the interface. The advertisement engine selects advertisements based on the profiles of the advertisement campaigns. The profiles indicate placement preferences for advertisements and whether a portion of the impression inventory is reserved or non-reserved for the advertisement campaigns. The advertisement engine may provide remnant portions of the impression inventory to an advertisement exchange that receives bids for accessing the impressions of the remnant portions. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149231 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMPOSING AND MANAGING PENALTY FOR BREACH OF ADVERTISING CONTRACT - A system for imposing and managing a penalty for a breach of an advertising contract includes a registration unit to register conditions of the advertising contract and penalty contents related to the conditions, a monitoring unit to monitor a fulfillment of the advertising contract in order to determine whether the penalty is to be applied, and a penalty unit to notify penalty contents related to the breach of the advertising contract when the breach of the advertising contract is recognized. | 2014-05-29 |
20140149232 | Systems and Methods for Efficiently Identifying the Most Desirable Buyer of Online Advertising Inventory - Systems and methods presented herein may facilitate the programmatic purchase of online advertising space. In particular, information contained within a request transmitted by a seller of online advertising space may be extracted and used to cross-reference a database containing historical information associated with past transactions involving the sale of online inventory. The historical information may be used to generate a prioritized list of potential purchasers of the inventory and determine a customized offer price to be transmitted to each potential purchaser. The potential purchasers may then be serially contacted until a purchaser of the online advertising space is found. | 2014-05-29 |