25th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170178166 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING GEOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION DATA - Payment transaction data for consumers who make purchases in a geographical region is used, together with information about restaurants the consumers have made payments to, to obtain statistical data characterizing the restaurant habits of the consumers. This information may be useful for designing marketing operations, or to individuals contemplating opening a restaurant in the region. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178167 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING A DEMAND FOR A BUSINESS - A method for predicting a demand for a business, the method comprising the steps of: generating purchase preference in at least one target location based on payment transaction information and merchant information retrieved from one or more databases, wherein the payment transaction information relates to a plurality of historical payment transactions made between a plurality of existing merchants and a plurality of consumers and wherein the merchant information comprises a merchant location of each of the plurality of existing merchants; and predicting the demand in the at least one target location, based on the purchase preference. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178168 | EFFECTIVENESS OF SERVICE COMPLEXITY CONFIGURATIONS IN TOP-DOWN COMPLEX SERVICES DESIGN - One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving historic peer deals relating to at least one service, and a baseline and cost percentage estimation for each service. Historic peer cost data for each service is clustered to form at least one cluster. Each cluster includes similar unit costs, and has an assigned label. A classification model is trained based on each baseline received, each cost percentage estimation received, and each assigned label. For each assigned label, a corresponding probability distribution is computed based on the classification model. For each service of a new client solution, an assigned label for the service is predicted based on the classification model, and, based on a probability distribution corresponding to the assigned label predicted, transforming an initial range of historic peer cost data relating to the service into a narrower range for use in estimating a cost of the service with improved accuracy. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178169 | BID DISTRIBUTION PREDICTION AND AUCTION EFFICIENCY - A method includes receiving historical bids for displaying content to individuals. The historical bids targeted a segment of the individuals based on one or more targeting attributes of the individuals. The method further includes calculating, for each individual, a predicted bid distribution based on the historical bids and one or more targeting attributes of each individual, calculating, using the predicted bid distribution for each individual, a reserve price for displaying content to each individual, and setting a floor price of an auction for displaying content to an individual to the reserve price associated with the individual. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178170 | INCENTIVIZING LOCATION-BASED ACTIONS BY GROUPS - A method of incentivizing location-based actions by groups is disclosed. A group of users of a game networking system is notified that an incentive reward is to be provided based on a number of members of the group performing a location-based action transgressing a threshold. The incentive reward is provided based on the number of members of the group performing the location-based action transgressing the threshold. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178171 | SALES MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND SALES MANAGEMENT METHOD OF PREORDERED PRODUCT OR SERVICE - When a customer is to purchase a product or the like, a “bulk purchase” is accepted as preorder and preorder information including a product code, a purchase condition and the like is registered in a sales management server even if the purchase is not performed at the same time. The sales management server has a structure in which a part corresponding to a remaining preorder quantity subjected to the preorder is managed, preorder information is confirmed in each purchase, and a selling price predetermined as a purchase condition is applied in consideration of a discount caused by the “bulk purchase”. Also in the case in which the same product or service is repeatedly purchased with a purchase time shifted, consequently, it is possible to set a proper discount price taking a profitable line into consideration. It is also possible to employ a structure in which the preorder information is stored in a membership card held by the customer. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178172 | EVENT TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An aspect of the disclosure includes a method, a system and a computer program product for managing parking and traffic flow at an event. The method includes determining a vehicle exit position for a plurality of vehicles in a parking lot, the plurality of vehicles including a first vehicle. A reward point offer is determined for a first user of the first vehicle to delay an exiting of the first vehicle from the parking lot, the reward point offer being based at least in part on a predictive analytical model. An acceptance of the reward point offer is received from the first user. The vehicle exit position is changed for the first vehicle to a new vehicle exit position. The new vehicle exit position is transmitted to the first user. The exiting of the first vehicle from the parking lot is controlled. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178173 | Methods and Apparatus for Processing Use of a Computer System - A system rewards use of a software application in a computerized device during operation of the software application in the computerized device by identifying an amount of an input signal received from at least one input device in association with the software application and accumulating a total of the amount of the input signal received over time for the software application. The system provides a reward, such as airline miles or other credit, to a registered user associated with the software application based on the accumulated total of the amount of the input signal. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178174 | Systems and Methods to Enable Offer and Rewards Marketing, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Network Platform - Systems and methods for providing and operating a customer loyalty and rewards platform including network-based and merchant-based registration and management, including mobile messaging, remote and local customer registration options, enrollment and automated payment card account association therewith. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178175 | ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION - Technical solutions are described for verifying attendance at an alarm event. An example method includes receiving a registration of the alarm event, where the registration identifies an alarm device associated with the alarm event, and a location of the alarm event. The method also includes in response to the occurrence of the alarm, sending an alarm message to a user apparatus, where the user apparatus is within a predetermined vicinity of the location. The method also includes, in response to receiving an attendance message from the user apparatus, validating the attendance message based on predetermined conditions, where the predetermined conditions verify that the attendance message was transmitted within a predetermined expiration time and sending a reward message in response to the attendance message being valid. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND SEARCHING FOR COUPONS RELATED TO REAL ESTATE - Implementations of a real estate coupons (REC) system for creating and searching for coupons related to real estate are provided. Implementations of a REC system according to the present disclosure create, collect, store, and display real estate related coupons either in a visual aerial map, database format, list, color-coded diagram, or any other format. In some implementations, a REC system according to the present disclosure create and store coupons based on input from users (e.g., real estate related vendors) and visually display the coupons to consumers (e.g., buyers or renters) upon query. In some implementations, the REC system retrieves real estate information from, for example, a multiple listing service (MLS) to extract discount information associated with a property and automatically create and store the coupon. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178177 | POSITIONING MEDIA TO GO VIRAL - Systems and techniques are disclosed for positioning, based on a position velocity measure, related media content within a media outlet such as a website, a blog, an aggregation page, an application, or the like. The related media content may be related to a media content and may link to the media content, be a derivative of the media content, summarize the media content, or the like. A location within a media outlet for a related media content may be determined and the related media content may be published accordingly. The location of a related media content may be modified from a first location to a second location. The size of a related media content may be increased and/or a related media content may be highlighted. Further, techniques are disclosed for publishing related media content within a zone from a plurality of zones associated with a media outlet. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178178 | CONTENT ITEM SLOT LOCATION SUGGESTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content items. In one aspect, a method includes receiving user interaction data specifying user interactions with a publisher resource. A heat map specifying levels of user interaction with various portions of the publisher resource is created. Content item slot performance information specifying one or more performance measures for content items presented in various candidate content item slot locations are identified. One of the candidate content item slot locations is selected based on the heat map and the one or more performance measures. Data that cause presentation of suggestion information that identify the one candidate content item slot location as a suggested content item slot location are generated and output. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178179 | MODIFYING ADVERTISEMENT PRESENTATIONS - An advertisement presentation is generated for display to a user. The presentation may include an advertisement that is associated with an advertiser and with content requested by the user. User attention to the advertisement may be determined based on user activity. The advertisement presentation may be modified based on the determined user attention. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178180 | PRODUCT SUGGESTION FOR PUBLISHER - Embodiments receive an identifier of a publisher that has previously advertised on a web site. Based on the identifier, embodiments provide electronic advertisement products related to the identified publisher. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178181 | CLICK THROUGH RATE PREDICTION CALIBRATION - Techniques are provided for adjusting a predicted user selection rate (e.g., a “click-through” rate) of a content item. In one technique, a model is used to generate a predicted user selection rate of a first content item. A difference between (1) an observed user selection rate of the first content item and (2) a previous predicted user selection rate of the first content item is determined. The predicted user selection rate is modified, based on the difference, to generate an adjusted predicted user selection rate of the first content item. Then, based on the adjusted predicted user selection rate, a score of the first content item is generated. The first content item is displayed based on the score. For example, other content items may be scored in a similar fashion. The one or more content item with the highest scores are displayed. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178182 | CALL TRACKING - There are disclosed systems and methods for facilitating communications between individuals and enterprises and in particular, to methods and systems for tracking and attributing customer and/or customer prospect online and offline communications in association with a marketing campaign. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178183 | AUTOMATIC EVENT PROMOTION SYSTEM - Embodiments include a platform and/or application configured to select an event on a first electronic site using a source device, and integrate with a presentation of the event a selector for a micropromotion application. An invitation to the event is automatically generated at the source device in response to selection of the selector. Invitees are added to the invitation from at least one of a social media application and a contact application coupled to the source device. The invitation is configured to include a reply link, and the reply link is configured to generate a reply to the source device. The reply link is configured to generate, via one or more third party platforms, presentation of service offers at the source device and invitee devices of the invitees. The service offers include offers of services of the event provider and services related to the event. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178184 | DETERMINING CRITERIA FOR SELECTING TARGET AUDIENCE FOR CONTENT - An online system receives a content item from content providers and a target audience criterion and for targeting the received content item. The online system determines recommendations of modifications of the target audience criteria such that users of the modified target audience criteria have a higher likelihood of interacting with the content item compared to the received target audience criteria. The online system stores measures of interest of subsets of users for different topics. The online system determines topics associated with the content item and determines measures of interest of subsets of users in the content item based on topics associated with the content item. The online system provides recommendations for modifying the target audience criteria based on the determined measures of interests of users. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178185 | AD-HOC SUPPLY CHAIN CREATION - An online post on an online media platform is detected. The online post corresponds to a potential business enterprise. The online post includes a first element and a second element. The online post may be detected by the software plugin. The first and second elements are determined using natural language processing techniques. Vendor indications are received. The vendor indications indicate an ability and inclination for vendors to provide commercial offerings that match the first and/or second element. A prompt from a user is received. The prompt is to create ad-hoc supply chains for the business enterprise for the user. The first user has user characteristics. Ad-hoc supply chains are created that match vendors to the first and second elements for the user. The ad-hoc supply chains are provided to the user within a graphical user interface of the online media platform using the software plugin. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178186 | DEMAND AGGREGATION AND CALENDARING SYSTEM - Directives expressing interest in subject matter are entered in a database and matched with directives from providers for providing information, goods or services related to the interest. Other users may join a directive to aggregate shared interests. Providers may assent to (conditionally or unconditionally) a directive, thereby agreeing to fulfill the request. Providers may also disseminate counterproposals in response to a directive. Events relating to directives are calendared for display and notification on users' smartphones. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178187 | Deep Link Advertisements - According to some implementations of the present disclosure, a method that is executed by a processing system is described. The method includes receiving an ad request, determining a context category structure based on the ad request, and identifying one or more app-specific rules based on the category defined in the context category. The method further includes, for each app-specific rule: determining whether the identified entities in the context category structure are received by the template defined in the app-specific rule; generating a function identifier based on the set of identified entities and the template when the identified entities are received by the template defined in the app-specific rule; and determining a score for each of the generated function identifiers. The method includes selecting one or more of the generated function IDs based on the respective scores of the function IDs and generating an advertisement object corresponding to the function ID. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178188 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MODULAR USER CONTROLLED SEARCH ENGINE - Method and system for delivery of personal search services and advertising. The method includes collecting information from the user about the user's personal search engine, including, but not limited to digital content data sources, link crawl depth of those digital content data sources, and time interval to refresh the index of the digital content data sources created. In one embodiment of the present invention users do not pay a fee in return for allowing the provider to present advertising to the user as the user uses the invention. In another embodiment, advertisers purchase advertising display services from the provider to be displayed to specific users. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178189 | Systems and Methods for Use in Directing Product Offer Content to Consumers - Exemplary systems and methods are provided for directing offer content to consumers at communication devices, while the consumers are at merchants. An exemplary method includes detecting an application identifier associated with a communication device at or near a merchant, and receiving signal strength records from the communication device indicative of signal strengths for wireless networking devices at a given time and associated with the application identifier. The method also includes accessing a zone map for the merchant that includes different zones each defining a position of at least one product, and plotting a path of the communication device, per given time, relative to the zone map. The method further includes displaying an offer for a product to the communication device, based on the path of the consumer through the merchant, along with other factors such as historical behavior patterns of the consumer, similar patterns from other consumers, etc. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178190 | ADVERTISEMENT DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAYING METHOD - An advertisement device includes a detecting unit, an image capturing unit, a voice receiving unit, a processing unit, a transmission unit and a displaying unit. The detecting unit detects a moving target in a preset range. The image capturing unit shoots the moving target in a static state to generate a target image. The target image includes a face image and a body image. The voice receiving unit receives an inquiry voice message from the moving target. The processing unit generates user identification data and advertisement classification data. The transmission unit transmits the user identification data and the advertisement classification data to a cloud database. The display unit receives and displays at least one advertisement data from the cloud database. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178191 | Validating Geolocation Data - Validation of geolocation data received via an Internet Protocol (IP) network is shown. Advertisement requests are received from publishers connected to the IP network, and comprise the identity of the publisher and geolocation data of a device requesting a resource from the publisher over the IP network. A map procedure parses the advertisement requests to construct a first table having records indexed by the identity of the publisher and values that are at least the geolocation data. A reduce procedure reads the first table and performs tests on the values stored in it. A second table is then constructed having records indexed by the identity of the publisher and values that indicate whether the publisher is trusted or not. A publisher is trusted if each one of the plurality of tests is passed for all of the records in the first table corresponding to that publisher. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178192 | DELIVERY SYSTEM OF EVENT INFORMATION OF STORE/BUSINESS OPENING DAY, ANNIVERSARY DAY AND STORE/BUSINESS CLOSING DAY - The present invention provides a delivery system for easily collecting/notifying a store/business opening day, anniversary day, or store/business closing day of a company, store and other organizations. In the delivery system, a server accepts, from a sponsor-side communication device, date information regarding any of the store/business opening day and the anniversary day, and an event information of the memorial day. The server calculates the information of the anniversary day for the next and subsequent years based on the date of the store/business opening day. For the store opening day registered in the server by a person opening a new store, the anniversary day is registered by the server, and the registered day is updated for the next and subsequent years when the anniversary day of an existing store is registered. The server accepts the transmission of a keyword from a user-side communication device and searches for a sponsor. The server responds to the user-side communication device with a website for delivering a store-closing information or a website for delivering information about an anniversary or a store-opening day in accordance with the updating status of the event information of the anniversary day. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178193 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF A SPONSORED MOBILE DATA USAGE PLATFORM - A sponsored data system configured to operate with a wireless mobile device running an app that receives sponsored data from a content provider server is provided. The system includes an interface application configured to run on the wireless mobile device. The interface application is configured to determine availability of sponsored data. A cloud platform is configured to interface with the content provider server. The cloud platform is configured to generate a token with data usable to determine availability of sponsored data and transmit the token to the interface application. A portal is configured to create and store a package that identifies at least a portion of the data associated with the app as sponsored data. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178194 | INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM - Advertisement information is effectively provided to a portable terminal such as a smart phone via a network. An information provision system comprises a management server that stores video data and a portable terminal. The portable terminal obtains the video data from the management server as appropriate via a network and save it thereon. When a user performs a startup operation for restoring the portable terminal from a sleep state, the portable terminal plays the video by giving priority thereto over a startup screen. A playback history of videos is reported to the management server, and the user receives privileges based on the playback history. In this manner, information is effectively provided though videos while the user is watching the screen during the startup operation. In addition, the effectiveness of the information provision is improved as the user has motivation to view videos because of the privileges to be given. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178195 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION CONTENT FOR ENHANCED ACCESSIBILITY OVER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method comprises providing an interface permitting a first user to control activation of a mobile information channel through which the first user can share access to content with a plurality of additional users, activating the mobile information channel responsive to input received from the first user via the interface, inserting content provided by the first user into the mobile information channel, receiving additional content relating to the mobile information channel from one or more of said additional users via one or more respective mobile devices associated with at least one wireless network, inserting at least a portion of the additional content into the mobile information channel, and integrating into the mobile information channel information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of said at least one wireless network. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178196 | MOTION AND GESTURE-BASED MOBILE ADVERTISING ACTIVATION - The presentation of advertisements to a user on a mobile communications device is disclosed. A first external input corresponding to a triggering of an advertisement delivery is received on a first input modality. An advertisement overlay is displayed in a graphical user interface in response to receiving the external input. Advertisement invocation instructions are displayed within the advertisement overlay. A second external input is received on a second input modality different from the first input modality. The second external input is translated to a set of quantified values. An advertisement is then displayed within the advertisement overlay in response to a substantial match between the set of quantified values translated from the received second external input to the set of predefined values corresponding to the advertisement invocation instructions. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178197 | GROUPING USERS INTO TIERS BASED ON SIMILARITY TO A GROUP OF SEED USERS - An online system identifies seed users of high value to a sponsored content provider. Characteristics of the seed users are identified, and additional users having a threshold measure of similarity to the seed users are identified based on the characteristics. A score is determined for each of the additional users based on the measure of similarity. The seed users are placed in an initial tier of a tiered set of users for the sponsored content, and the additional users are placed in additional tiers of the tiered set of users based upon the determined scores such that each additional tier includes those users of the additional users having a specified range of determined scores, the tiers of the tiered set of users ranked according to the determined scores of users within each tier. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178198 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION RELATED TO ITEMS OFFERED FOR SALE IN A NETWORK-BASED MARKETPLACE - System, methods are media for providing supplemental item information at a publication server are provided. In one example, a method includes accessing first data corresponding to each of a first group of content items and identifying in the first group of content items a set of active items published in a first display format. A set of one or more selection criteria for reviewing the set of active items is identified. In one example, the one or more selection criteria includes an item activity level. If the item activity level is below a certain threshold, supplemental information for that item is identified and provided to the publication server for publication. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178199 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVELY PROVIDING PERSONALIZED MARKETING EXPERIENCES TO POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS AND USERS OF A TAX RETURN PREPARATION SYSTEM - A method and system adaptively improves potential customer conversion rates, revenue metrics, and/or other target metrics by providing effective marketing experience options, from a variety of different marketing experience options, to some users while concurrently testing user responses to other marketing experience options, according to one embodiment. The method and system selects the marketing experience options by applying user characteristics data to an analytics model, according to one embodiment. The method and system analyzes user responses to the marketing experience options to update the analytics model, and to dynamically adapt the personalization of the marketing experience options, at least partially based on feedback from users, according to one embodiment. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178200 | Application for Efficient Online Advertising - A method and system for people to enjoy a great digital experience, to show their support to an entity they support, to make their favorite “entity” win the contest, to buzz online as well as from the entity to improve its advertisement and commercial performance based on prized competitions. A mobile device application that allows users to participate creation contests in order to gain recognition on social media networks. A method that enables advertisers to host prize competitions that attract and motivate users to create and design a great ad for the entity with their logo/motto and/or trademark on the medium. A user is capable of creating his own medium during an event, submit the medium for validation to a third-party commercial network company, which acts as the hosting platform, and share the created medium on social media networks. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178201 | FORMATTING ADVERTISEMENTS - General instructions for formatting advertisements are identified, content for a specific advertisement is identified, and the specific advertisement is displayed on a medium according to the identified formatting instructions. In connection with offering to publish advertisements, a CSS file is identified to be used to format the advertisements. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178202 | Advertisement display method, terminal device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium - The present disclosure discloses an advertisement display method, a terminal device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein the method comprises sending an advertisement data request to a server in a power-on state; receiving the advertisement data returned by the server, wherein the advertisement data includes the advertisement data of the day when the advertisement data request is sent and of a predetermined number of days after the day; downloading advertisement materials according to the advertisement data; selecting an advertisement material for display upon the next power-on event. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178203 | LINK RETROFITTING OF DIGITAL MEDIA OBJECTS - A digital media link embedding mechanism for generating one or more links for digital media objects embedded in network resources, such as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) or extensible markup language (XML) pages. Particular implementations of the invention allow network application hosting sites, such as blogging sites and social networking or media sites, to automatically insert revenue generating and/or informational links in proximity to digital media objects embedded by users into personal pages, blog entries, on-line forum posts, and the like. In one implementation, analysis to generate the media links focuses on data surrounding a given digitial content object to improve the relevance, or descriptiveness, of the links. Such media-related ad or search links may be more performant (relative to clickthru rates), since the concepts or keywords used to generate the ad and or search are extracted from data surrounding the digital content. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178204 | Recommendation Generation - A method of recommending a supply by a recommender to a user having personal data available electronically consists in the steps of: • granting permission by a user for a facilitator's software to retrieve an excerpt of the user's personal data for use in generating a recommendation; • organising the user's data into a standard, interrogatabie format and storing the formatted data in a storage location; • pre-allocating by a facilitator' software to the recommender a recommender's code for use in conjunction with the recommender's recommendation generating software, the latter including a specification for certain fields of user's data, requesting by the user of a recommendation of goods or services via the recommender's software; • running of the recommender's software to pass the recommender's pre-allocated code to the user's data processor; • passing of the user's pre-allocated code and the recommender's pre-allocated code to the facilitator's interface software; • running of the facilitator's software to retrieve an excerpt of the user's data for the specified fields from the storage location for use by the recommender's software in generating the recommendation; • running of the recommender's software to generate the recommendation for the user utilising the excerpt of the user's data. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178205 | CONSUMER FEEDBACK FOR WEBSITES AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS - An apparatus for receiving structured user feedback relating to an online or mobile application comprises a data storage unit having stored therein data relating to one or more feedback surveys, one or more options for content to be included in the application and one or more selections. A processor is in communication with the data storage unit and an interface is coupled to be in communication with the processor. Methods performed by the apparatus include configuring an application-specific feedback survey based on the one or more options for content to be included in the application and based on the one or more selections by users accessing the application via a computing device and configuring if and when the feedback survey is presented to users. The configured feedback survey is presented to users accessing the application and feedback from the users is received via the configured feedback survey. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178206 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING PRODUCT TYPE - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for classifying a product type. The apparatus for classifying the product type calculates a utilitarian and hedonic index, a word similarity, or an emotion index which is an objective index capable of determining a type of a product using a word that appears in reviews of the product, and classifies the type of a corresponding product using the calculated utilitarian and hedonic index, word similarity, or emotion index. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178207 | System and Method for Social Scoring - A method for receiving and publishing reports includes: receiving, by a processor, a report from a giver user; generating, by the processor, a report code associated with the report; associating, by the processor, the report code with a profile of a Receiver user; receiving from the Receiver user, by the processor, an approval or a rejection of the report associated with the report code; and publishing, by the processor, the report on the profile of the Receiver user if the processor received the approval of the report. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178208 | System and Method for Automated Collections of Debts for Businesses - The present invention consists of a Billing and Collections System wherein the company or firm may creates an online billing account for each client, wherein the System receives payments from clients and matches the payments to client's account. The client is able to manage the way in which it is billed by selecting one or more of the following: language for billing, currency desired for payment, an exchange rate table preferred by the user for foreign currency payments and the amount and manner of late payment reminders. The System uses the client information from the client's payment in order to identify overdue payments. If the client is overdue, the System automatically sends out dunning communications after preselected periods of time and by preselected methods chosen by the firm or company. The System automatically allocates client payments to various accounting and tax categories in accordance with the tax laws of the respective office's jurisdiction. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178209 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCAL INTERNET AND CLOUD COMMERCE - The present invention relates to the field of Internet and cloud commerce, more specifically in the methods and systems local commerce through use of the Internet, also known as the cloud, with the use of geo locations. In other aspect, the present invention relates to members within an organization able to utilize their geo locations to procure goods and services from a network/marketplace of vetted merchants and service providers with the opportunity of the offers to be given to local merchants or service providers closer to the member of the organization recipient geo location as possible. The present invention is also directed to a method and system for enhancing local merchants, service providers and members' economies. Merchants, and service providers participating in the network/marketplace be able to introduce marketing opportunities in their geo location positioned environments. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178210 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE MECHANIC - A mobile mechanic system can include a network communicably coupling a user device and at least one mechanic device. The user can transmit a request for a mechanic including details of the request. One or more mechanics can view the request and submit a cost corresponding to completing the project in the form of a bid, thereby creating the opportunity for multiple mechanics to place competitive bids. The user can view the bids and the associated mechanic profile and select a mechanic with whom the user would like to work. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178211 | DURABLE MEMENTO METHOD - Durable memento method that enables the storage of data associated with mementos, which are objects that serve to provide a reminder of a person, place, thing, or an event. Embodiments are configured to store and recall data including but not limited to pictures, movies, sounds, text, or other information such as performance data indirectly associated with a memento such as but not limited to a keepsake, souvenir, gift, gift card, medal or award, tool or any combination thereof. One or more embodiments may include a visual and/or machine-readable and/or human-readable code to associate the data with the memento. The durable data may be stored remote from the memento, which prevents obsolescence by securing data robustly. This enables the data to be accessed years later even if the file formats or display technology for the data has changed by that time and even if the original memento has been lost. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178212 | DIGITAL RIGHTS AND INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PRINTING - Systems, methods and media for managing digital rights and pre-verification of structural integrity in three-dimensional (3D) printing are provided. In one example, a system comprises at least one module, executing on one or more computer processors, to receive a request from a user to print a 3D object by a 3D printer or printing service and receive a conditional authorization from an owner of digital rights in the 3D object to print the 3D object. The conditional authorization can include a printing specification or limitation. The at least one module pre-verifies, for structural integrity once printed by the 3D printer or printing service, a digital model on which the 3D object is based. In response to a received conditional authorization, the at least one module transmits instructions to the 3D printer or printing service to print the 3D object. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178213 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING ITEM INFORMATION - A method for providing item information is disclosed. The method may comprise providing an item webpage. The webpage may comprise digest information of at least one item, the digest information may comprise a representative picture of the item, the item may be associated with a corresponding attribute list, and the attribute list may comprise attributes of the associated item in multiple dimensions and corresponding attribute values. The method may further comprise, in response to a first operation executed on the representative picture, switching at least a part of contents presented at a position of the representative picture to the associated attribute list. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178214 | SOCIAL MOBILE GAME FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS - Disclosed is a social dress up game that may be a fun mobile app that may be played collaboratively with friends, using the photo capability of a mobile phone or smart mobile device. One player will separately take a picture of a friend, and then invite two friends to join. Each player will dress up one part or component of the whole body of the photo-head, body or legs. In the end, the three different parts will be merged into an interesting and unique image of their friend that they can also share with the game players. Since each game player would have worked on only that player's component, the resulting merged image will be a surprise to all players. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178215 | INVENTORY QUERY BASED ON IMAGE CONTENT - An apparatus including processing circuitry is provided configured to perform a method including receiving an image including at least one subject, extracting features of the at least one subject from the image, determining a subject identity based on the features, receiving a user location indication, and causing a target inventory query to be transmitted based on the subject identity and the user location indication. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178216 | Systems and Methods for Use in Determining Product Positions Within Shopping Regions - Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods are provided for locating products within a shopping region. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, a request for a product from a consumer, and accessing, by the computing device, a product position data structure that is specific to the shopping region, where the product position data structure includes multiple product entries with each of the multiple product entries being specific to a merchant within the shopping region. The method also includes identifying at least one product entry, from the product position data structure, based on the request for the product received from the consumer, and then causing, by the computing device, via an internet-based application, a position of the identified at least one product entry to be displayed at a communication device associated with the consumer, relative to a position of the consumer in the shopping region. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178217 | NETWORK OF PERSONALIZED DEVICES DETERMINING DATA FOR SHOPPING PREDICTIONS - There are provided systems and methods for a network of personalized devices determining data for shopping predictions. A personalized device may include processing components for determining purchase predictions for one or more items to purchase on behalf of a user. The purchase predictions may be based on personality traits and other information that may indicate interests of the user. The purchase predictions may also be based on purchase information for the item, including inventory of the item, price of the item, availability of the item to the user, or other factor. Once the purchase prediction is determined, the personalized device may generate a purchase request for the item from a merchant having the item at a physical merchant location accessible to the personalized device or a delivery device associated with the personalized device. The personalized device may retrieve and deliver the purchased item. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178218 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLAYTHING RECOMMENDATIONS SENT TO A SHOPPING CART - An information processing system, a computer readable storage medium, and a method for providing a recommendation for a plaything as a recommended item can include analyzing information received from a person monitoring system to provide an analysis for providing the recommendation for the plaything, and based on the analysis, sending a representation of the recommended item in a signal to a shopping cart such as an online shopping cart. The system can include an analysis module that receives information from a person monitoring system, and at least one processor configured to analyze information received from the person monitoring system (for one or more persons) to provide an analysis. The analysis provides a recommendation for a plaything. The processor can further send a representation of the recommended item in a signal to a shopping cart to upload into the shopping cart based on the analysis. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178219 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR UTILIZING PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTION DATA TO PROVIDE ALERT MESSAGES RELATING TO UNPURCHASED ITEMS TO CARDHOLDER USERS - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for utilizing payment card transaction data to provide alert messages relating to unpurchased items to cardholder users are disclosed. In some aspects, the methods can include receiving a message including payment card transaction data designating one or more products or services purchased during a most recent payment card transaction conducted by a cardholder user, identifying the one or more products or services that were not purchased, but that should have been purchased, during the most recent payment card transaction, using aggregate payment card transaction data designating the one or more products or services purchased during any previous payment card transactions conducted by the cardholder user, generating an alert message identifying the one or more products or services that were not purchased, but that should have been purchased, during the most recent payment card transaction, and providing, to a cardholder user device, the alert message. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178220 | PERSONALIZED EXPERT COSMETICS RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING - Various embodiments provide a customized cosmetics recommendation for a specific user. In one embodiment a method comprises capturing an image that includes the face of the specific user, producing a set of hyperspectral images from the image, analyzing the hyperspectral images to determine a set of spectral components of the face, and providing a recommendation for one or more cosmetics customized for the specific user based on the set of spectral components and cosmetician expert judgement. The image may be captured using a hyperspectral imaging camera. The set of spectral components is compared to a plurality of previous sets of spectral components to find a match and one or more cosmetics mapped to the match are provided as the recommendation. Additionally, a set of conditional options may be received and one or more cosmetics mapped to the set of conditional options and the set of spectral components are provided as the recommendation. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178221 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INVENTORY AVAILABILITY PREDICTION - Implementations of the present disclosure disclose a method and system for inventory availability prediction. According to one implementation, a request for inventory availability of a desired item is received from a subscriber. Furthermore, a predicted availability of the desired item is calculated based on inventory assessment data. In addition, an optimum purchase timing is determined based on the predicted availability of the item and then provided to the subscriber. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178222 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SURVEYING PREMISES OF A CUSTOMER - Systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein for providing surveying premises of a customer. In one embodiment, a system for surveying premises of a customer comprises: an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising a three dimension (3D) scanner and an image sensor, and a control circuit comprising a communication device configured to communicate with the UAV. The control circuit being configured to: receive, from a customer, a premises location, instruct the UAV to travel to the premises location to collect a set of data, form a 3D point cloud model of the premises based on 3D data collected by the 3D scanner of the UAV, identify one or more features of the premises based on the 3D point cloud model and image data collected by the image sensor of the UAV, and generate a recommendation to the customer based on the one or more features of the premises. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178223 | SHOPPING THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKS AND OTHER TRADITIONALLY NON-TRANSACTIONAL DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND FORMATS - Shopping transactions through publications on social networks platforms and other traditionally non-transactional digital platforms and formats using innovative platform connected to personal virtual shopping carts, are disclosed. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178224 | DOCUMENT EXCHANGE CONVERSATION GENERATOR - Exemplary systems and methods associated with generating conversations of electronic data exchanges. In particular, in one embodiment, a conversation generator determines whether records are related based on EDI data associated with a transaction, integrates the records based on associations within the EDI data, and generates a conversation that depicts the integrated EDI data associated with the transaction in a conversational format for viewing by a user. In other embodiments, an alert engine determines that there are errors in the conversation, such as missing or inconsistent data, and alerts a user accordingly. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178225 | SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - In the system, the image forming apparatus includes a unit that sends the status information of the image forming apparatus to the management server, and a unit that requests the web service provided by the service server to register device information, and the service server includes a unit that register and manage user information of a user of the web service provided by the service server, a unit that, in response to a request from the image forming apparatus, registers the device information of the image forming apparatus and user information managed in association with each other, and a unit that issues, to the user of the image forming apparatus that is registered with the web service, a notification related to the image forming apparatus, using the status information provided by the management server. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178226 | Suggestion Generation Based on Planogram Matching - The disclosure includes a system and method for comparing a realogram and a planogram to determine differences and generate suggestions, for example, a corrective action, and present the corrective action to a user. An application receives a realogram, the realogram including information about product recognitions, and a planogram corresponding to the realogram. The application aligns the realogram with the planogram using the information about product recognitions. The application retrieves a rule, detects an issue in the realogram based on applying the rule to the realogram aligned with the planogram, generates a corrective action corresponding to the issue in the realogram, and provides the corrective action for display as an overlay on the realogram. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178227 | Planogram and Realogram Alignment - The disclosure includes a system and method for aligning a realogram and a planogram. An alignment module of an image recognition application receives a realogram, the realogram including information about product recognitions, and a planogram corresponding to the realogram. The alignment module also generates a planogram brand chunk in the planogram, the planogram brand chunk grouping a plurality of planogram product facings belonging to a same brand, and a realogram brand chunk in the realogram based on the planogram brand chunk. The alignment module additionally identifies a planogram product facing in the planogram brand chunk and a realogram product facing in the realogram brand chunk and aligns the planogram product facing with the realogram product facing. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178228 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LISTING AND EXCHANGING GOODS AND SERVICES - Systems and methods are disclosed to provide a computer platform enabling the listing of articles for sale, trade, barter or advertisement. New listings may be compared to previous listings and if similarities above a threshold are found, a bidding process is triggered for a priority display of the listing on a website. The bidding process may enable a listing to be displayed in a priority position or manner to a user requesting the article or a similar article. The systems and methods also support bidding among users for the acquisition of the article and deducting and credit real and virtual currency accounts associated with users and bidding processes. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178229 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING A FINANCIAL ACCOUNT - System and method for administering a financial account. The system is a proactive pre-filling system comprising a pre-filling module that automatically pre-fills a financial account depending on a predetermined event, wherein the predetermined event is receiving, by the proactive pre-filling module, forecast electronic data representing a forecast volume for a current period. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178230 | DYNAMIC CONTENT FOR ONLINE TRANSACTIONS - In one example, a method of providing dynamic content includes providing a client device with access to an online marketplace over a network. The method also includes facilitating transmission of a user identifier stored by the client device to a payment service provider. The method further includes receiving dynamic content from the payment service provider in response to the user identifier. In addition, the method includes serving the dynamic content to the client device over the network. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178231 | WEARABLE TRADING DEVICE - A wearable trading device may be implemented to indicate a market position of a tradeable object at an electronic exchange. The wearable trading device may include market indicators that may be activated to identify relative changes in the market position of the tradeable object. The market indicators may be activated differently to identify different types of market data, such a price data and/or quantity data for different types of orders. Changes in the market data may be indicated relative to a reference point, such as a centering price of the tradeable object. The centering price of the tradeable object may be a last traded price of the tradeable object. The wearable trading device may detect relative changes in the market and accordingly update the market indicators to reflect the detected changes. The wearable trading device may be implemented to execute trade orders at an electronic exchange. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178232 | MANIPULATING TRADING TOOLS - Trading tools may be manipulated by allowing assembly, disassembly, and configuration of different trading tools. The assembly of different trading tools may generate combined trading tools. The combined trading tools may enable interoperability between the trading tools therein. Customization of the combined trading tools may be enabled by enabling a user to rearrange predefined areas displayed within the trading tools within the combined trading tools. The customization of the combined trading tools may enable customization of different functionality within the combined trading tools. The trading tools within a combined trading tool may include a tab tool for enabling multiple instances of another trading tool to which the tab tool is attached. Each instance of a trading tool may be associated with a respective tab for enabling a user to toggle between the multiple instances of the trading tool. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178233 | Tick Size Sequences Having Non-Linear Scaling Factors - Example methods and systems are described herein that provide a tick size sequence having a plurality of scaling factors or tick sizes that may be used to adjust a tick size of a trading strategy. An example method described herein includes receiving a definition of a trading strategy, which includes two or more legs that correspond to respective tradeable objects offered at an exchange, calculating a first tick size for the trading strategy and determining a tick size sequence to be used when displaying the trading strategy. The tick size sequence has a plurality of scaling factors. The method also includes selecting one of the plurality of scaling factors of the tick size sequence, adjusting the first tick size to a second tick size based on the selected scaling factor and displaying market data associated with the trading strategy in a trading interface according to the second tick size. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178234 | MARKET DATA REDACTION TOOLS AND RELATED METHODS - An example method includes receiving, at a first computing device, market data related to a plurality of tradeable objects. The example method includes displaying, via an interface, the received market data via at the first computing device. The interface is based on an interface object model including a plurality of data components corresponding to the received market data. The example method includes receiving an input selection to share the interface with a second computing device and generating a transfer object model based on the interface object model in response to the receipt of the input selection. The example method includes identifying a first group of the plurality of data components included in the transfer object model and redacting the first group of the plurality of data components corresponding to the received market data components. The example method includes transmitting the redacted transfer object model to the second computing device. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178235 | AVOIDING ORDERS THAT CROSS - Systems and methods for avoiding orders that cross are described herein. An example method includes obtaining a first trade order to be communicated to an exchange by a user associated with a trading entity, where the first trade order corresponds to a tradeable object offered at the exchange. The example method includes comparing the first trade order to one or more trade orders in a submission record to determine whether a contra-side second trade order is included in the one or more trade orders of the submission record, where the second trade order was communicated to the exchange by the trading entity. The example method also includes determining when the second trade order is no longer pending at the exchange and communicating the first trade order to the exchange in response to the determination that the second trade is no longer pending at the exchange. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178236 | RARITY TRADING LEGACY PROTECTION AND DIGITAL CONVERGENCE PLATFORM - A trading platform network for rarities is provided. The network includes at least one raritymine, an online merchandising convergence, and input from a robo-rarity trading data stream. According to this aspect, rarityminers are enabled to view virtual three-dimensional depictions of rarity assets contained in the at least one raritymine and buy and sell raritybits. A rarities trading exchange toolkit which includes the trading platform network and a rarity system is also provided. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178237 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS CONFIGURED TO CREATE AND MANAGE A VIRTUAL CURRENCY - Described herein are computer implemented frameworks and methods configured to create and manage a virtual currency bearing characteristics of both a cryptocurrency and fiat money at the same time. The virtual currency bridges the gap between fiat currency of the real world commerce, trade, and finance and cryptocurrency by way of a self-adjusting extrinsic value that is influenced by cross currency exchange rates of fiat currencies. This virtual currency is: relatively agnostic to a volatile global financial condition and has an automatic Global Fiat Currency Grid Normalisation Engine; is autonomous; has no need for arbitration; works entirely on a peer to peer distributed public ledger system (sometimes also known as a block chain) that self-checks, self-validates and secures itself. The virtual currency's mere creation, acceptance and adoption is self-propagating and is a viable solution without the need for any payment gateways, payment processors, payment networks and outdates transaction methods in existence today. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178238 | SHAREHOLDER COURTESY SYSTEM - In a shareholder courtesy system, a listed company enables a shareholder to receive shareholder courtesy services from a specific servicer regardless of a record date. The system includes: a courtesy information db for holding combinations of listed companies and servicers, contents of the shareholder courtesy services pertaining to the respective combinations, and a condition of a number of held shares. A held-shares information acquisition unit receives a request transmitted from the servicers when the shareholder purchases products and the like from the servicers. The request confirms presence or absence of the shareholder courtesy services that can be provided to the shareholder. A courtesy decision unit decides the shareholder courtesy services that satisfy conditions among the shareholder courtesy services that the servicers can offer based on information on the number of held shares for each listed company of the shareholder, and for responding to the servicers. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178239 | Systems and Methods of an Interface for Use in Electronic Trading - Various systems and methods for presenting and interacting with electronic trading related information on a display screen of a computer system are provided. According to one or more embodiments, buttons are positioned and compressed along an axis, where each button corresponds to a function. A button can be selected through an action of a user input device. A button is removed from the region when a function corresponding to the button is no longer current and when the cursor is not positioned within the region. The remaining buttons, if any, in the region are compressed subsequent to removing the button from the region. A button is not removed from the region when the cursor is positioned within the region. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178240 | MULTIPLE ROUND CROWDFUNDING - A software tool provides multiple round crowdfunding, maintaining investable amounts of investors within wallets, and projects having fundable amounts. The tool adds projects to a queue, and begins the multiple round process. In a round, the tool receives pledged amounts of the wallets towards the fundable projects within the queue. The tool moves each successfully funded project to a fully funded queue. After ending the round, the tool removes from the queue each fundable project for which the pledged amounts is less than its fundable amount and also less than a threshold for the project to advance to a next round, as determined by the tool. The tool ends the process when it determines that the maximum number of rounds has been reached, that the smallest fundable amount of any project remaining in the queue is greater than a remaining total of the wallets, or that the queue is empty. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178241 | MULTIPLE ROUND CROWDFUNDING - A software tool provides multiple round crowdfunding, maintaining investable amounts of investors within wallets, and projects having fundable amounts. The tool adds projects to a queue, and begins the multiple round process. In a round, the tool receives pledged amounts of the wallets towards the fundable projects within the queue. The tool moves each successfully funded project to a fully funded queue. After ending the round, the tool removes from the queue each fundable project for which the pledged amounts is less than its fundable amount and also less than a threshold for the project to advance to a next round, as determined by the tool. The tool ends the process when it determines that the maximum number of rounds has been reached, that the smallest fundable amount of any project remaining in the queue is greater than a remaining total of the wallets, or that the queue is empty. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178242 | Method and system for supplementing insureance coverage - A system involving an insurance product and a plurality of constituents, including an insurance provider, a financial institution or other entity for issuing credit or debit cards, and a plurality of participating vendors. Vendors apply a predetermined percentage of transactions with members (insured; cardholders) to a holding account, in addition to paying a participation fee to the practitioner of the invention. The set aside amounts are used by members to be applied against expenses not otherwise covered under conventional insurance policies (e.g. co-pays and deductibles). | 2017-06-22 |
20170178243 | Private Network Interface System and Method - A network generation system is configured to generate a private computerized network in response to detection by the system of the occurrence of an event. A mobile device application installed on an entity mobile device is configured to receive and transmit event data and GPS-based location data. A network server is configured to receive the event data and the GPS-based location data. A computer server based processing platform is configured to proactively extract resource provider data corresponding to resource providers based upon event data, entity data, event location data, and at least one resource data API. The computerized private network is generated and separate interfaces are generated for the entity, an event processor, and at least one resource provider. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178244 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AN INSURANCE QUOTE FROM AN IMAGE - Some aspects of the invention relate to a mobile apparatus including an image sensor configured to convert an optical image into an electrical signal. The optical image includes an image of a vehicle license plate. The mobile apparatus includes a license plate detector configured to process the electrical signal to recover information from the vehicle license plate image. The mobile apparatus includes an interface configured to transmit the vehicle license plate information to a remote apparatus and receive an insurance quote for a vehicle corresponding to the vehicle license plate in response to the transmission. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178245 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE TO GENERATE A DYNAMIC INTERFACE - A system includes a device configured with a tool that interfaces with administrator devices remote from the device. The system receives an identifier of an administrator of an administrator device. The system retrieves an administrator profile corresponding to the identifier. The system identifies one or more administrator profiles stored in the administrator profile data structure of one or more different administrators. The system determines a similarity metric between the administrator profile and each of the identified administrator profiles. The system identifies the administrator profiles having the similarity metric satisfying a predetermined threshold. The system instantiates a dynamic report interface to render an electronic report indicating a first value of a first performance metric of the administrator based on the administrator profile and a second value of the first performance metric based on the identified administrator profiles. The system provides the electronic report for display via the administrator device. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178246 | DYNAMIC DATA NORMALIZATION AND DUPLICATE ANALYSIS - Methods and apparatuses for dynamic data normalization and duplicate analysis include normalizing data (e.g., merchant identifier data) received from a source entity (e.g., transaction card provider), as well as identifying and resolving potential duplicate transaction data objects based on one or more transaction characteristics. For example, data normalization includes partitioning an identifier into one or more merchant identifier portions, sending a merchant identifier request to a merchant database, and receiving a set of merchant representation candidates in response to sending the merchant identifier request. Further, for instance, duplicate analysis includes determining whether a transaction data object from the first set of transaction data objects that falls within the overlapping portion is not present in the second set of transaction data objects, and identifying the transaction data object within the second set of transaction data objects and the one or more non-overlapping portions. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178247 | DYNAMIC DATA NORMALIZATION AND DUPLICATE ANALYSIS - Methods and apparatuses for dynamic data normalization and duplicate analysis include normalizing data (e.g., merchant identifier data) received from a source entity (e.g., transaction card provider), as well as identifying and resolving potential duplicate transaction data objects based on one or more transaction characteristics. For example, data normalization includes partitioning an identifier into one or more merchant identifier portions, sending a merchant identifier request to a merchant database, and receiving a set of merchant representation candidates in response to sending the merchant identifier request. Further, for instance, duplicate analysis includes determining whether a transaction data object from the first set of transaction data objects that falls within the overlapping portion is not present in the second set of transaction data objects, and identifying the transaction data object within the second set of transaction data objects and the one or more non-overlapping portions. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178248 | Classification Structure and Uses Thereof - Aspects relate to a control process that may be utilized to benchmark and quantitatively measure global corporate and industrial engagement in the transition between an incumbent High Carbon Economy (HCE) and a rapidly developing Low Carbon Economy (LCE). Embodiments may implement a 9-point industrial engagement matrix configured to filter entities based on the criteria, such as: engagement, action, and event criteria. The determination may comprise categorizing with the engagement criteria, a first output of the first entity as one of a good, a product, or a service. Further implementations may determine with the action criteria, that the first output satisfies one of a plurality of global event conditions comprising at least one of: climate change, resource depletion and environmental erosion. Still other embodiments may correlate an industrial action condition to the global event condition. For example, the industrial actions may comprise at least one of: adapting, mitigating, and remediating. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178249 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING IDENTIFICATION OF FRAUDULENT TAX FILING PATTERNS BY VISUALIZATION OF RELATIONSHIPS IN TAX RETURN DATA - A method and system provides facilitating identification of fraudulent tax filing patterns. The method and system include receiving historical tax return data and generating a visual representation of the relationships in the tax return data. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178250 | Prayer reminder system and method - A prayer reminder system having a plurality of steps beginning with system initiation. Then a user navigates the system by selecting one or more options, wherein the options are available to the user on a dashboard. The user schedules seven prayer times per day, wherein a prayer reminder is provided to the user. Prayer times are automatically or manually established. The user receives bible verses meant to inspire the user. The user also creates a prayer request that is sent to friends and groups. For example, the data may be bible verses, inspirational text, and prayer requests. The user also manages friends and one or more groups. The user communicates with friends and religious organizations. Communications are exchanged between users based upon the user's affiliation with one or more friends and one or more group. The religious organizations may communicate with the users. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178251 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR EVENT PLANNING - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems for event planning and management are detailed. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a plurality of selectable actions and associated media element content for an event, generating a media event comprising one or more of the received media elements, and transmitting the media event to an event recipient on a date of the event. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178252 | PERSONALIZED KNOWLEDGE EMAIL - A system, a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions, and a computer-implemented method are directed to a Digest Engine that identifies a feature(s) that is predictive of relevance, to a target member account in a professional social network, of content from a member group(s) to which the target member account is subscribed. Based on the feature(s), the Digest Engine determines a portion(s) of relevant content created amongst respective member accounts subscribed to the member group(s). The Digest Engine generates a persistent message providing access to the portion(s) of relevant content. The Digest Engine sends the persistent message to the target member account. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178253 | USER DATA STORE FOR ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT EVENTS - A machine may be configured to manage user data in a user data store. For example, the machine identifies a rule associated with a campaign for serving online ads in a social networking service (SNS). The rule specifies a maximum number of user events associated with the online ads included in the campaign to occur during a time window, for a member of the SNS. The machine identifies a bucket that stores metadata pertaining to user events associated with the particular member that occurred during a time period that corresponds to the time window specified in the rule. The machine performs an analysis of the metadata pertaining to the user events associated with the particular member that occurred during the time window specified in the rule. The machine determines that, for the particular member, the rule is not violated based on the performing of the analysis of the metadata. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178254 | Personalizing Default Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes scoring a set of content objects based on one or more user-engagement factors, identifying one or more related content objects, wherein each related content objects is connected within the online social network to one or more content objects of the set of content objects having a score greater than a threshold score, generating a plurality of structured queries that each comprise references to one or more content objects, wherein at least one of the structured queries is a personalized query comprising a reference to at least one of the related content objects, and sending instructions to a client device for presenting one or more of the generated structured queries to a first user for display on an interface currently accessed by the first user, wherein at least one of the sent structured queries is a personalized query. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178255 | Methods for Optimizing Petrochemical Facilities Through Stream Lined Transferal - Methods and processes for moving towards optimizing one or more parameters in a parallel train comprising two hydrocarbon cracking facilities where the two facilities either have non-identical process unit configurations or are operating under non-identical process conditions are disclosed. These methods and processes use models to simulate the impact of interconnecting the facilities by partially withdrawing an intermediate stream from within one cracking facility and adding the partially withdrawn stream to the second cracking facility in order to better optimize the overall operation of the parallel train. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178256 | PREDICTIVE SEGMENTATION OF ENERGY CUSTOMERS - A computer system receives customer records listing customer attributes and an adoption status of the customer, such as whether the customer has enrolled in a particular energy efficiency program. An initial set of patterns are identified among the customer records, such as according to a decision tree. The initial set is pruned to obtain a set of patterns that meet minimum support and effectiveness and maximum overlap requirements. The patterns are assigned to segments according to an optimization algorithm that seeks to maximize the minimum effectiveness of each segment, where the effectiveness indicates a number of customers matching the pattern of each segment that have positive adoption status. The optimization algorithm may be a bisection algorithm that evaluates a linear-fractional integer program (LFIP-F) to iteratively approach an optimal distribution of patterns. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178257 | SERVICE STATION FUEL PUMP - Methodologies, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for generating fuel authorization commands. An electronic scanning device can receive identification data corresponding to a user, and a server can associate the identification information with a user's account. The server can retrieve customized data indicating a specified monetary value of fuel to be purchased by the user. The user can access the account and set a desired monetary value and other customized automotive data. The server can request authorization of the specified monetary value and, if authorization is received, generate and transmit a fuel authorization command to a service station fuel pump to allow the user to dispense fuel. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178258 | AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF CALENDAR-BASED, MULTIPLE TRIP OPTIONS FOR PRESENTATION - Example embodiments provide a system and method for automatically selecting calendar-based, multiple trips options. The system accesses calendar data that indicates events that a user is scheduled to attend, and extracts data for a first event and a second event from the calendar data. The system generates an application program interface (API) requests by including the extracted data for the first and second events as search criteria. The system transmits the API request to a server of a service provider. In response, the system receives results from the server, which includes a bundled travel option comprising a single selectable grouping of options for both the first trip and the second trip. The system causes presentation of the results including the bundled travel option. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178259 | AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF CALENDAR-BASED, MULTIPLE USER OPTIONS - Systems and methods for automatically selecting calendar-based, multiple user options are provided. The system accesses calendar data that describes events a plurality of users are scheduled to attend, and extracts data for each event including location data and time data. The system groups a subset of the plurality of users into a travel group based on the location data for each user in the travel group indicating locations within a predetermined distance threshold of each other and based on the time data for each user in the travel group indicating times within a predetermined time threshold of each other. The system automatically generates an application program interface (APT) requests using the extracted data for the travel group, and transmits the API request to a service provider. The system receives and presents results which includes a group travel option indicating a block of inventory selected for the travel group. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178260 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED DATA INTEGRATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY ARCHITECTURES - The embodiments described herein provide technologies and techniques for using available data (from a variety of data sources) to provide an integrated and virtual reality experience. Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for obtaining a selection of a travel destination from a virtual reality device, obtaining destination information associated with the travel destination, including travel services for the destination, obtaining contextual information associated with the individual including a device identifier or an individual profile identifier, obtaining profile information associated with the individual and device, and filtering the services based on the profile and destination, providing a virtual environment of the destination including controls, providing the travel services, using the controls and the environment; receiving, the individual's movements in the virtual environment, determining interaction with the virtual environment and updates to the controls and the environment, and providing the updated controls and environment for display to the individual. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178261 | Database And Method Of Use Thereof - The present invention provides a searchable network-based database, featuring a plurality of listings of items thrown out and awaiting collection. In addition, the present invention provides a system for providing a network-based database of discarded items, the system including an application server to present listings comprising discarded item/s to users, wherein each listing includes a geographical address for locating the discarded item/s. A listing may include the municipal collection times associated with the geographical location of the discarded item/s in the listing. The present invention further provides a method of creating a network-based database of discarded items and a method of searching the database. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178262 | SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING AND MANAGING PROPERTIES UNDER JUDICIAL AUCTION - Disclosed is a technique for managing real estate judicial auctions providing real-time digital certification, with regard to the on-site inspections carried out by the involved subjects, on a certain date. The verification is carried out directly by using a combination of telecommunication units that performs: establishing the presence of the involved subjects, detecting the physical access thereof to a particular premises, by way of the geolocation function present on the devices for mobile telecommunications, possessed by those subjects; acquiring images and signatures through the telecommunications devices provided with video camera; georeferencing the acquisition of the images and all the operations that are submitted; encoding the content of the acquisition and adding a timestamp in order to allow the certification of the acquisition date of the data; and transferring the data acquired and made secure through telecommunication channels for preservation, consulting and logging at a dedicated data bank. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178263 | MULTIMEDIA CONTENT PLAYER WITH DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT WHILE MAINTAINING PRIVACY OF USERS - A system, method, and computer readable storage medium configured for delivering services from a server to ensure multimedia content control by content providers (i.e. reduce piracy) and to ensure privacy by content users is described. The method begins with executing at least a portion of a content media player application to the device using a zero-knowledge protocol to ensure privacy of the user. Examples of zero-knowledge verifiable computing are succinct computational integrity and privacy (SCIP) protocol, zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge (zk-snark) protocol, and probabilistically checkable proof (PCP) protocol. The content media player application includes digital right management technology using zero-knowledge verifiable computing to enforce usage conditions on the multimedia content. A response is received from the user device that the content media player application has executed on the user device. Based upon the response indicating a successful execution, accessing the multimedia content by the content media player application. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178264 | TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for granting course credits by a first educational institution from a second educational institution. A processor at a first educational institution receives a transcript from a student and converts the transcript to a format that allows transcript data to be obtained and reviewed in an automated fashions based on criteria. Course identifying information is determined and compared by the processor to course identifying information stored in a datastore. The processor then determines what courses are eligible for transfer credit when the course identifying information in the transcript data matches at least in part course identifying information stored in the datastore. The processor may also post granted credits to a student's academic plan. | 2017-06-22 |
20170178265 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR PROVIDING ONLINE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING USING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - A method and a server for providing online collaborative learning using a social network service are disclosed. The server for providing online collaborative learning comprises a category classification unit configured to classify learning information collected from a social network service SNS according to a category and store the collected learning information, a news extracting unit configured to extract learning information corresponding to query received from a learner terminal from the stored learning information and perform scoring about the extracted learning information according to preset reference, and a treemapping unit configured to determine a size of a specific shape in which the extracted learning information is visualized and provide the learning information visualized in the specific shape having the determined size to the learner terminal, the size being in proportion to a score corresponding to the scoring. | 2017-06-22 |