30th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140207491 | TRANSCRIPTION DATA SECURITY - A computer program product for use with dictated medical patient information resides on a computer-readable medium and comprises computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to analyze the dictated information, identify likely confidential information in the dictated medical patient information, and treat the likely confidential information disparately from likely non-confidential information in the dictated medical patient information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207492 | Healthcare Information Technology System for Predicting or Preventing Readmissions - Hospital readmissions may be prevented. Readmission is prevented by predicting the probability of a given patient to be readmitted. The probability alone may prevent readmission by educating the patient or medical professional. The probability may be predicted during a patient stay and used to generate a workflow action item to reduce the probability, to warn, to output appropriate instructions, and/or assist in avoiding readmission. The probability may be specific to a hospital, physician group, or other entity, allowing prevention to focus on past readmission causes for the given entity. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207493 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MISSING DATA IMPUTATION - Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a leading cause of death in the United States. WANDA is a wireless health project that leverages sensor technology and wireless communication to monitor the health status of patients with CHF. The first pilot study of WANDA showed the system's effectiveness for patients with CHF. However, WANDA experienced a considerable amount of missing data due to system misuse, nonuse, and failure. Missing data is highly undesirable as automated alarms may fail to notify healthcare professionals of potentially dangerous patient conditions. Embodiments of the present disclosure may utilize machine learning techniques including projection adjustment by contribution estimation regression (PACE), Bayesian methods, and voting feature interval (VFI) algorithms to predict both non-binomial and binomial data. The experimental results show that the aforementioned algorithms are superior to other methods with high accuracy and recall. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207494 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELLING INTANGIBLE PROPERTY - A system and methods to enable a consumer or agent to purchase intangible products, such as life insurance, are disclosed. The system is a workflow implementation system that processes a consumer through the purchase process, updating the consumer at various points with options of intangible products available for purchase. In various embodiments, the system presents cross-sell opportunities in the form of other intangible products that the customer has not specifically indicated an interested in purchasing, but that the consumer qualifies or potentially qualifies for that the system has determined may be of interest. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207495 | SYSTEMS, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER MEDIUM TO DETERMINE PREMIUMS AND INDEMNITIES FOR SUPPLEMENTAL CROP INSURANCE - Provided are systems, machines, non-transitory computer medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, and computer-implemented methods for providing a premium or an indemnity for a supplemental crop insurance policy. The methods including providing for display of a supplemental crop insurance policy information content page including one or more loss parameter fields to be populated by a user with a corresponding set of supplemental crop insurance parameters, receiving a set of supplemental crop insurance parameters submitted by a user via populating the one or more parameter fields of the supplemental crop insurance policy information content page, determining a premium or an indemnity for the supplemental crop insurance policy based at least in part on the set of supplemental crop insurance parameters, and providing for the display of a supplemental crop insurance policy content page including the premium or the indemnity for the supplemental crop insurance policy. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207496 | INCENTIVE PROGRAM - A method of establishing a referral network for the enrollment of individuals in a geriatric healthcare insurance plan comprising identifying an age-eligible population; developing and implementing recruiting strategies to establish a relationship with the age-eligible population; and generating potential members from the age-eligible population for enrollment in a geriatric healthcare insurance plan as senior class members; and engaging senior class members to become ambassadors that represent the geriatric healthcare insurance plan to other potential members. Ambassadors may be remunerated under an incentive program which pays a predetermined bonus for every potential member that enrolls in the geriatric healthcare insurance plan due to the direct or indirect participation of the ambassador prior to the potential member's actual enrollment. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207497 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISK ZONE-BASED NAVIGATIONAL ROUTING - Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for outputting and utilization of risk zone information are provided. In some embodiments, risk zone information may be utilized to define, manage, output, and/or utilize risk zone-based navigational routing. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207498 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE RETURN MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE SHARING SERVICE - The disclosure is related to managing an electric vehicle return process based on whether a return condition associated with an electric charging of a returned electric vehicle is satisfied. Furthermore, a benefit or a penalty may be given to a corresponding user according to whether the return condition associated with an electric charging is satisfied. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207499 | CHECK-IN TO A HOTEL ROOM ONLINE - Techniques for allowing prospective hotel guests to check-in online are provided. An online check-in service sends, to a computing device of a prospective guest, an electronic notification that indicates that the prospective user can check-in online instead of having to wait in line at the hotel. A series of pages are presented to the prospective guest, such as a page to allow the prospective guest to specify room preferences and other requests, a page to allow the prospective guest to accept an upgrade offer, a page to confirm payment, and/or a page that shows a room assignment. In this way, a guest does not have to wait in a hotel lobby to be assigned a room. Also, a hotel may be notified when a confirmed guest is approaching the hotel to allow hotel staff to make any arrangements necessary to expedite the process of getting the guest to his/her room. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207500 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT HOSPITALITY PROGRAM MANAGEMENT - One aspect of the present invention is a method for effectively managing aspects of hospitality for an event. Events may include Olympic (or other) event. An inventory of event hospitality items is acquired for the creation of hospitality program for client groups. Information from client's guest which make up the client group may be collected in order to identify which hospitality inventory items could best fulfill the client's needs and requests during the days of the event. Hospitality inventory items may include tickets, transportation, hotel, food/beverages, and event staff. Hospitality parameters may be established for each client group, wherein the parameters determine how hospitality inventory items should be allocated for the client group. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207501 | DETERMINING SAVINGS IN CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEMS - The method and device of the present disclosure can determine energy or cost savings of a climate control system, such as can be attributed to a treatment that has been incorporated into a climate control system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207502 | POWER GENERATION FACILITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND POWER GENERATION FACILITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to one embodiment, there is provided a power generation facility information management system including a power generation variation information analysis unit configured to analyze information about the form of a stop of power generation, and information about the form of a variation in the power generation amount, thereby analyzing the possibility of reduction of an environmental impact caused by the power generation. The system includes a calculation unit configured to calculate the reduction amount of the environmental impact when the stop in an avoidable power generation stop period is assumed to be avoided and calculate the reduction amount of the environmental impact when the avoidable variation is assumed to be avoided, based on the analysis result. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207503 | SKILL MAPPING ANALYSIS - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for allocating people to subdivisions of a team. A set of skills is assigned to the team, and each of the skills has a range of skill levels. In one embodiment, the method comprises establishing, for each of the team subdivisions, a plurality of the skill levels for the set of skills, and determining a profile for the subdivision based on the skill levels established for the subdivision. For each person of a group of people, one skill level is assigned to the person for each skill of the set of skills, a profile is calculated for the person based on the skill levels assigned to the person, and the person is allocated to one of the subdivisions based on a comparison of the profile of the person and the profile of one or more of the subdivisions. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CALCULATING TASK EFFORTS AND APPLYING THE RESULTS FOR RESOURCE PLANNING - A system and method of calculating task efforts and applying the results for resource planning. The method includes inputting ticket data into a computer, the computer having a processor for executing a software program tool embodied therein. The computer executes the steps of the software program tool to calculate the task effort value for each task handled by a consultant where the consultant has multiple tasks open during a defined period of time. The computer executes the steps of the software program tool to aggregate the task effort values for each consultant by workgroup resulting in the task effort value for the workgroup. The computer executes the steps of the software program tool to estimate the full time equivalent (FTE) for each workgroup as the ratio of the task effort value for the workgroup to the total available work hours for the FTE. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207505 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING EMPLOYEES TO CASH REGISTERS - A method and system for automatically assigning employees to work plurality of cash registers when the employees report for work is described. The system and method automatically compares the employee's qualifications to the current operational status of a plurality of cash registers and any parameters that may govern the operation of the cash registers such as age requirements for the sale of alcohol. The system automatically assigns an employee to a cash register and transmits real time operational status of those cash registers to a supervisor via a wireless device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207506 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING A WORKFLOW - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for recommending a workflow to a user. In some implementations, one or more servers receive information identifying a plurality of events. The one or more servers store data of the plurality of events in a first one or more data tables having an action field, an item field, a user field, and a timestamp field, and analyze the data of the first one or more data tables to generate one or more pairs, each pair including information identifying an ordered set of events and a target event. The one or more servers calculate a similarity score for each of the one or more pairs and store the respective similarity scores in a second one or more data tables having a set field, a target event field, and a similarity score field. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207507 | RECORDING, TRACKING AND EVALUATING SYSTEM - A system for continuously carry out a determination in real time of whether said signals received from the plurality of separate secondary inputs satisfy criteria derived from said project schedule with relation to the value of said clock means, update said output means status data, so as to output a communication a result of said determination and as per the communication template, and update said project schedule data as a function of a result of said determination. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207508 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR WORKFORCE EXCHANGE - A method for exchanging one or more employees includes providing access to a resource system to at least one offerer and at least one requester, the access being provided over an electronic network, allowing the offerer to post within the resource system data associated with one or more employees currently under the employ of the offerer, and allowing the requester to view, in response to a search within the resource system, a data record associated with the posted one or more employees of the offerer. The method further includes facilitating, within the resource system, an agreement process between the offerer and the requester to exchange the employee from the offerer to the requester for a limited time, the resource system being owned by a resource service entity that is separate from the offerer and the requester. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207509 | OPTIMIZED ONLINE MARKETING AND SCHEDULING SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT ARE BASED ON DRIVING DEMAND FOR SERVICES - In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for driving demand for services. An appointment platform operating on a server may identify, based on an appointment inventory of a service provider, an open appointment to be filled. The appointment platform may rank a plurality of users to which the open appointment may be offered. The appointment platform may rank a user of the plurality of users based on a current membership score of the user. The appointment platform may determine, based on the ranking, to offer the user the open appointment. The appointment platform may identify, based on the current membership score of the user, a type of incentive from a plurality of types of incentives, to offer to the user for filling the open appointment. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207510 | REDUCING MEETING TRAVEL - A computing device retrieves meeting data from an electronic scheduling system. The meeting data includes a plurality of meetings, each of which is associated with a meeting location in a building including a plurality of floors and at least one elevator, a period of time, and one or more participants. The computing device determines a participant location for each participant associated with each of the meetings. The computing device determines a meeting travel metric for each of the meetings based on the participant locations and the meeting location of the meeting. The computing device causes the scheduling system to change the meeting location associated with one or more of the meetings based on the meeting travel metric determined for each of the one or more of the meetings. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TEMPORARY AND LIMITED GRANTS OF CALENDAR ACCESS - A system and method for providing temporary and limited grants of calendar access is provided. An invitee or its proxy may provide an event planner or time broker with a particular grant of calendar access comprising a date range, particular days of the week, and a particular time interval. The grant of calendar access allows the event planner to more easily identify a block of time for scheduling the particular event, the invitee calendar being updated in real-time. In some embodiments, the event planner may schedule the event and place the event directly on the invitee's calendar. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207512 | Timeline-Based Visual Dashboard For Construction - An embodiment of the invention includes a computer implemented method for monitoring construction. The method may include receiving information about a construction project. The received information may include information about construction milestones and schedule information about the construction milestones. The information may include graphical data related to the construction milestones and the schedule information. Information about the location of a computing device may be received. Based on the location information and the information about the construction project, a graphical display user-interface may be prepared. In an embodiment of the invention, the display may include a visual representation of expected progress of the project. The display may include information about expected activity related to the project for a period of time. Embodiments include receiving an indication from a user that the representation of the expected progress differs from actual progress of the project and determining revised information about the construction project. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207513 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCUREMENT - Systems and techniques for procurement of equipment and services are disclosed. Data is collected relating to operations of an organization and the information is made accessible to vendors who may supply goods and services for carrying out the operations. The collected data may include information relating to inputs of the operations, size, shape, and weight of objects handled in the operations, actual and desired throughput, energy use, waste, and other data. Data may be anonymized before being made accessible to vendors, and proposals made by vendors in response to data from a particular organization may be directed to the organization from which the data is collected. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207514 | INSPECTION DATA PROVISION - A method provides identification information configured to identify a particular step or portion of an inspection process. Supplemental data relating to the particular step or portion is received based at least in part upon the identification information. This supplemental data is presented to an inspector or other operator. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207515 | Methods and systems for utilizing repair orders in determining diagnostic repairs - A method and system for publishing a real-fix tip associated with one or more repairs orders. A fix-generator data processing machine (DPM) can retrieve a repair order (RO) from an RO database configured to store published or unpublished RO. The fix-generator DPM can select standard text phrases to identify a complaint, a cause, and a correction to generate a real-fix tip. A coordinator DPM can review the real-fix tip prior to publication of the real-fix tip. The coordinator DPM can return the real-fix tip for revising at the fix-generator DPM and can display the revised real-fix tip for further review of the real-fix tip. Published real-fix tips, alone or along with the RO associated with the real-fix tip, can be presented to an RO receiver DPM. Unpublished RO can be received in an electronic form or in paper form and converted to the electronic form. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207516 | Methods and Apparatus for Procurement - Systems and techniques for procurement of equipment and services are disclosed. Data is collected relating to operations of an organization and the information is made accessible to vendors who may supply goods and services for carrying out the operations. The collected data may include information relating to inputs of the operations, size, shape, and weight of objects handled in the operations, actual and desired throughput, energy use, waste, and other data. Data may be anonymized before being made accessible to vendors, and proposals made by vendors in response to data from a particular organization may be directed to the organization from which the data is collected. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207517 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD - An information communication method that enables communication between various devices includes: transmitting position information indicating a position of a terminal device; obtaining one or more sets of identification information of respective one or more devices and one or more sets of service information respectively associated with the one or more sets of identification information, and holding the one or more sets of identification information and the one or more sets of service information; setting an exposure time of an image sensor; obtaining a bright line image including a plurality of bright lines; obtaining identification information of a subject, by demodulating data specified by a pattern of the plurality of bright lines included in the obtained bright line image; and selecting service information associated with the identification information of the subject from the held one or more sets of service information, and presenting the service information to a user. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207518 | Method and Apparatus for Building a User Profile, for Personalization Using Interaction Data, and for Generating, Identifying, and Capturing User Data Across Interactions Using Unique User Identification - A user profile is creates, and personalization is provided, by compiling interaction data. The interaction data is compiled to generate a value index or score from a user model. Parameterized data is used to build tools which help decide an engagement strategy and modes of engagement with a user. Several facets relating to the user, such as user behavior, user interests, products bought, intent, chat language, and so on, are compiled to create a user profile based personalization technique. In another embodiment, a unique ID is provided that can be mapped across multiple channels for use by the user to contact various organizations across multiple channels, and thus upgrade the user's experience. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207519 | System and Method for Identifying Retail Tire Sales - The present invention describes a system and method for evaluating an automotive service center's opportunities for retail tire sales and service, including projecting potential sales and generating other business information for creating a tire service center at an existing repair service center. The present invention may be utilized for service centers which are independent or part of a dealership. The dealership may include both new car sales, used car sales, and a service center. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207520 | DEMAND PREDICTION APPARATUS, DEMAND PREDICTION METHOD, AND DEMAND PREDICTION PROGRAM - A demand prediction apparatus ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140207521 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED PRESELECTION AND CONFIRMATION PROCESS FOR POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR APPROVALS TO MULTIPLE POTENTIAL MATCHING TRANSACTION PARTNERS - A computer-implemented method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: providing one or more questions to a lead; receiving a respective one or more answers to the one or more questions from the lead; identifying, by the computer system based on the one or more answers, one or more client organizations for matching with the lead; confirming interest by the lead in a client organization of the one or more client organizations; and transferring the lead to the confirmed client organization. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SURVEYING BRAND PREFERENCE - The present concept is a method for surveying brand preference which includes the steps of providing a participant with a unique identification data card and code. The participants input personal information into a database through an interactive electronic surface device for administering a product taste challenge, wherein the surface device in communication with the identification card and the database. Additionally there is provided an algorithm which based on information in the database corresponding to the identification card selects a product challenge test and a product challenge test selected by the participant is administered and the results of product challenge results are displayed. Personal information includes personal data and personality data, wherein personality data includes answers to survey questions regarding likes and dislikes of selected foods, beverages and tastes. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207523 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM TO DETERMINE RELATIVE MARKET VALUE OF A SALE GROUP OF LIVESTOCK BASED ON GENETIC MERIT AND OTHER NON-GENETIC FACTORS - Systems, computer-readable medium having computer program, and related computer implemented methods are provided to determine the relative market value of a sale group and to generate a genetic merit scorecard. Such systems, computer-readable medium having computer program, and related computer implemented methods utilize the genetic merit estimates of relatives of a sale group, along with associated economic weighting factors to determine the relative market value of the sale group. The genetic merit scorecard reflects the relative market value and ranking of the genetic merits of the sale group, as compared to the industry. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207524 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CONSUMER SHOPPING CORRIDORS - The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for determining shopping corridor. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that may include one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, performs operations consistent with the disclosed embodiments. In one embodiment, the operations may include receiving geo-coded financial transaction data associated with a plurality of financial transactions that were performed using a financial service account associated with a customer. The operations may also include grouping the financial transactions into a plurality of clusters based on the geo-coded financial transaction data. In another aspect, the operations may include generating a shopping corridor associated with the customer based on at least the plurality of clusters, and providing a financial service using the generated shopping corridor. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207525 | Method and Apparatus to Calculate Social Pricing Index to Determine Product Pricing in Real-Time - A method and system are disclosed for providing a near-real-time pricing index associated with user interactions within a social media environment. A first and second set of social media data, respectively associated with a first and second set of social media interactions, are processed to generate a first and second set of social network advocacy (SNA) data in near-real-time. The resulting first and second sets of SNA data are then processed to generate a first and second set of social pricing index data, which respectively indicate a near-real-time measurement of sentiment and advocacy related to the pricing of a target product. The first and second sets of social pricing index data are then processed to generate a set of social pricing index differential data, which indicates a corresponding improvement or decline in sentiment or advocacy related to the pricing of the target product. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207526 | MOBILE ASSAY FACILITY AND METHOD OF USING SAME TO PROCURE AND ASSAY PRECIOUS METALS - A self contained, mobile assay facility built in a modified armored truck is completely equipped to smelt and assay precious metals, particularly gold and silver. An induction furnace melts the metal that is then poured into an ingot. The ingot is weighed and analyzed using an XRF alloy analyzer and the percentage of gold and/or other metals recorded. The value of the gold at current market prices is calculated and the assay and the value of the ingot is printed and given to the seller. The seller may opt to receive the ingot and pay the assayer an assay fee. Alternately, the seller may ask to be paid cash or by wire transfer that may be initiated and confirmed from within the mobile assay facility. The ingots may be safely stored or shipped directly from the mobile facility to a wholesaler for further processing. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207527 | METHOD FOR CORRELATING BUSINESS STRATEGIES FOR GROWTH AND PROFITABILITY WITH ACQUISITION AND USE OF PROPERTY - A strategizing method for ensuring that the matrix that support and address a business's strategies for growth and profitability are highly correlated with the business's property, the features of the property and the uses of the property is disclosed. The selected property, the set of potential uses of the selected property and the one or more features of the selected property are recommended independent of any interest of the recommended party and the selected property or features thereby ensuring an unbiased correlation factor. The method and process address every aspect of a property project and greatly simplify the business's ability to focus on their day-to-day work. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207528 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IDENTIFYING VALUE AGGREGATION POINTS FROM A SET OF SERVICE VALUE MAPS - A data processing system provides a set of service value maps (SVMs) each having a plurality of nodes and linkages between nodes, forms a network model based on the SVMs and analyses the network model to compute aggregate values for the nodes to enable an identification of a node that matches at least one criterion. Analyzing can include using a degree centrality process where a value for each node is defined as a number of outgoing edges from the node, or an eigenvalue centrality process where a value of a node is proportional to a value of those nodes that the node is connected to. Each SVM can be represented as a directed acyclic graph (DAG) where each edge between nodes is an edge in the DAG. The at least one criterion can include a highest valued node identifying a value aggregation point (VAP) of the set of SVMs. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207529 | Professional collaboration networks - A business system generating and utilizing trust linkages and professional linkages between members for the synthesis of economic value in business entities. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207530 | FAIRLY CALIBRATED DISTRIBUTION MATRIX MODELING - The present disclosure provides for evaluating and managing multi-dimensional performance data of individual entities and their group as a whole by producing unbiased bell curved distributions according to organizational, product, manufacturing, or other goals and/or guidelines. An exemplary two dimensional performance management model may display a grid with potential along a first axis and performance along a second axis. Individual entities are placed into boxes defined by an evaluation metric grid matrix. Unbiased and evenly distributed performance rankings are produced with automated bell curve distribution simulation from the matrix data. A user may view the bell curve distributions as a holistic result or according to one or more independently calculated factors or criteria(s). The bell curve distribution simulation method will alert the manager if the operational and strategic guide lines of the organization are not followed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207531 | Systems And Methods For Assessing Organizations Using User-Defined Criteria - The present inventive subject matter is drawn to apparatus, systems, configurations, and methods of automatically assessing an organization using user-defined criteria. In one aspect of this invention, an organization assessment system is automatically configured to interface with one or more enterprise entities or other third party entities, track and store performance data related to the one or more enterprise entities, and present a composite score to users based on their user-defined criteria. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207532 | Systems and Methods for Determining A Level of Expertise - Systems and method for determining level of expertise are described. In some aspects, set of queries are stored. Each query is associated with subject and operator who attempts to solve query. Subject is one of plural subjects. Operator is one of plural operators. For each operator/subject combination where operator attempted to solve query associated with subject, non-normalized level of expertise of the operator for the subject is determined. For first subject from plural subjects, difficulty level for subject is determined. For first operator who has solved queries associated with first subject, normalized level of expertise of first operator for first subject is determined. Normalized level of expertise of first operator for first subject is stored. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207533 | METHOD FOR RECORDING AND TRACKING THE PROGRESS OF SALES ACTIVITIES - The method teaches and enable the tracking of the number of new prospects, the number of phone calls made, the number of phone invites made, the number in-person invites made, number of email invites, the number of appointments made, the number of confirmations, the number of prospects who attended appointments, the number of second meetings scheduled and held, and the number of new customers or distributors acquired. The orders of activities tracked is the same as those listed, and is displayed on a computer screen or in paper in that specific order for each day of the week, with goals and total columns to track a user's actions and success. A second area tracks telephone calls made and use a three legend key to track the number of calls made (represented by a slash) and the number of appointments set during calls (represented by an encircled slash). | 2014-07-24 |
20140207534 | Skills Amelioration System - Required certifications and education for each member of a group are automatically scanned. Current certifications and educational requirements are compared against the current job function, skills, and location for each member of the group, such as for each employee of a department of a company. These statuses and requirements are assigned into a management and employee portal or dashboard based according to pre-defined requirements. The portal or dashboard is also populated to provide specific requirements for unmet or under-met requirements, and tracking of the progress of certifications is enabled for both managers and employees to be proactive in taking action on certifications and education. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207535 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF MOTOR VEHICLES - A system and method for demand-activated remote monitoring and/or control of motor vehicles via a radio data communication link with a coordination unit. The coordination unit is configured for conveying requests for remote monitoring and/or remote control of a motor vehicle and offers for performing the remote control from control terminals located remotely from the coordination unit. After acceptance of an offer by the vehicle, the coordination unit provides a data communication link between the motor vehicle and the control terminal over which the remote control and/or monitoring is performed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207536 | ELECTRONIC POLLING DEVICE - The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for authenticating a voter's identity using an electronic polling device. The method may search a plurality of voter profiles for a desired voter profile associated with a voter. The searching may be based on at least the voter's name or an associated voter ID. The method may display the desired voter profile which may include at least an image of the voter and an image of the voter's signature. The method may receive confirmation information from the voter. The method may compare the received confirmation information and a physical likeness of the voter with the desired voter profile to enable an authentication of the voter based on the comparing. The searching, displaying, receiving, comparing, and authenticating may be performed by at least one processor in an electronic polling device. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207537 | Express Voting - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for express voting. In some example embodiments, there is provided a method for express voting. The method may include authenticating a voter based on a token carried by a user equipment, the token mapped to at least one of an identity of the voter, a precinct of the voter, and a ballot for the voter; and providing, when the authenticating indicates the voter is authorized to vote, the ballot presented on the user equipment. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207538 | METHOD OF MANAGING TRANSPORTATION FARE, SERVER PERFORMING THE SAME AND SYSTEM PERFORMING THE SAME - Provided is a transit management server, system and method for managing transit fares for a transportation system. The method includes selecting, in a transit management server, at least one fare module according to a transit fare policy, the at least one fare module corresponding to a prescribed category of fare and configured to determine a fare based on the prescribed category, setting, in the transit management server, at least one parameter in the selected fare module, and transmitting, from the transit management server to at least one terminal communicatively coupled to the transit management server, the set parameter to update a corresponding fare module in the at least one terminal according to the transit fare policy. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207539 | METHOD FOR CHARGING LOCATION USAGES - Methods are described for charging fees in a road toll system. An on-board unit identification is input into a toll terminal to generate a transaction identification. The transaction identification is transmitted to a transaction server, and from the server to a transaction terminal. A payment card identification is input into the transaction terminal, and is transmitted with the transaction identification to the server. A substitute identification, generated in the transaction server and associated with the card identification, and the transaction identification are transmitted from the transaction server to the toll terminal. The on-board unit identification and substitute identification, associated by the transaction identification, are transmitted from the toll terminal to a toll server. The substitute identification is used in a communication between the toll server and the transaction server for charging a fee for a location usage determined in the road toll system under the respective on-board unit identification. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207540 | PARKING LOCATOR SYSTEM PROVIDING VARIABLY PRICED PARKING FEES - A parking locator system providing variably priced parking includes one or more parking sensors and one or more parking kiosks. The parking sensors may generate parking information identifying one or more occupied parking spaces and one or more unoccupied parking spaces within a vicinity. Promotion information including one or more discounts to parking fees may be received at the parking kiosks. The parking kiosks may display the discounted parking fees and receive payment of the same. The discounts to parking fees may expire at particular times. The size of the discounts may be set based on traffic congestion, which may be determined based on the number of occupied parking spaces within the vicinity. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207541 | Controlling Use of Parking Spaces Using Cameras - Tracking vehicles is disclosed. Initially, two or more first images from a first camera having a first field of view are received. Next, a first static characteristic and a first dynamic characteristic of a first vehicle are determined based on the two or more first images. Next, two or more second images from a second camera having a second field of view are received. A second static characteristic and a second dynamic characteristic of the first vehicle are determined based on the two or more second images. The first characteristics and the second characteristics are compared to determine that the second characteristics are approximately equal to the first characteristics of the first vehicle. Finally, it is indicated that the first vehicle is present in the second field of view of the second camera. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207542 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING GIFT CARD OFFER CONTINGENT UPON AN EVENT - A system and method provide for offering a consignment of a closed-loop card/code. The method includes presenting an offer associated with a closed-loop card/code to pay an offer amount, wherein the offer is triggered based on an occurrence of an event. The system receives an acceptance of the offer from a user and performs one of deactivating and suspending of the closed-loop card/code after receiving the acceptance. When the event occurs, the system notifies the user and pays an offer amount to the user after the event occurs. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207543 | System and Method for Price Determination - The current method allows for the operator of an online site or an actual store to profit by means of determining a using a sale-price determining mechanism. This mechanism utilizes concepts of a base price, a market price, and a sale price. If the sale price is below the base price, the purchaser is credited this amount. If the sale price is above the market price, the user is debited for the amount, which is then credited towards future purchases. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207544 | RANKING LIMITED TIME DISCOUNTS OR DEALS - Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or systems for providing an offer to potential recipients based on an appeal score and/or preference indicators of the potential recipients. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207545 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING MERCHANT-CUSTOMER RETAIL EVENTS USING A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION FACILITATION SYSTEM - Method and system is disclosed for facilitating merchant-customer retail events using a financial transaction facilitation system. The system selectively registers merchant-vendors and system-users. Offers by merchant-vendors are purchased by system-users for redemption at selectable times and physical locations. The purchases are made using a third-party artificial currency system. Payment by the third-party artificial currency system is authenticated and applied to the merchant-vendor upon purchase confirmation and validation. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207546 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MERCHANT MANAGED MARKETING DISTRIBUTION - A system and related method are disclosed for a platform that allows merchants to register, and enter their data, at which point the system generates sales, vouchers, or similar items automatically or using merchant input. Publication, by web or mobile app, can be controlled with parameters including geographic limitations, and published by divisions and employees under security authorizations. According to some embodiments, customers may pay a deposit for a redeemable version, refundable upon redemption. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207547 | ASSOCIATING FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS WITH A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER PROFILE - A social networking system associates a financial account identified by a user with a user profile maintained by the social networking system for the user. The social networking system may compensate the user for associating the financial account with the user profile by crediting the identified financial account by an amount. The credit may be applied to subsequent purchases by the user at a vendor identified by the user. To simplify vendor selection, the social networking system may suggest one or more candidate pages associated with vendors to the user. Information in a transaction history of the financial account and in the user profile may be used to identify the candidate pages, allowing the user to select a vendor with which the user has previously transacted by selecting a candidate page associated with the vendor. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207548 | Reward Program for Loan Accounts - A computer system enables a financial institution to award a fixed reward that may include one or more fixed components based on at least one payment criterion when a customer remits a payment in a timely basis. The payment criteria, for example, may include paying a minimum amount for each consecutive billing period in a timely manner over a predetermined calendar interval. When the customer is awarded the fixed reward, the reward may be directed to an account that is designated by the customer. The fixed reward may also include a basic fixed amount for satisfying the at least one payment criterion a well as an additional fixed amount if the customer has a specified relationship (such as a checking and/or a savings account) with the financial institution. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207549 | Symbiotic Mass Marketing - The present invention relates to certain methods and systems for promoting the sale of goods and services. According to certain embodiments of the present invention, such methods generally comprise the steps of (1) selling a first good or service to a customer for a discounted price that is less than a standard price, (2) establishing a sales goal (which represents an amount of desired sales of a second good or service to customers during a promotional period), and (3) issuing a credit to, or receiving a payment from, each participating customer based on a level of success achieved towards the sales goal. The invention provides that the extent to which the sales goal is achieved depends on the aggregate sales of the second good or service to the public at large, and is not dependent upon the sales or activity of any single customer. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207550 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PROVIDING TRANSACTION TERMS OFFERS IN REAL TIME - A method of providing a consumer with different transaction terms offers for performing a potential financial transaction. The method comprises identifying a potential financial transaction between a retailer and a consumer, identifying a plurality of payment methods which are available to the consumer for performing the potential financial transaction, acquiring a plurality of transaction terms offers for performing the potential financial transaction each using another of the plurality of payment methods, and outputting respective the plurality of transaction terms offers for presentation to the consumer. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207551 | COOKIELESS ECOMMERCE PLATFORM - The present disclosure is directed to an improved cookieless ecommerce platform. The proposed approach involves receiving a confirmation of an order for the purchase of an item initiated by a platform member to a platform partner. The order includes at least one of an assigned e-mail address and a social community user id. The platform scans communications to/from the platform member to the partner to determine when a communication involves a request for an order, and based on the scanning, determines when a member is entitled to a cashback or similar reward. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207552 | PUBLISHING AND REDEEMING ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURER COUPONS - A facility for distributing and redeeming electronic manufacturer coupons is described. The facility receives user input selecting a merchant location and displays information about offers redeemable at the selected merchant location that include at least one electronic manufacturer coupon. The facility receives user input requesting redemption of an electronic manufacturer coupon at the selected merchant location, and in response displays information about the distinguished electronic manufacturer coupon including a code for redemption of the offer, records data about the redemption, and transmits recorded redemption data. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207553 | Digital Punch Card for Mobile Device - A method for verifying a location of a user of a mobile device is disclosed. The method involves: receiving an indicia of a location of the mobile device based on an at-location element proximate to the mobile device; receiving a global positioning system (GPS) position associated with the mobile device; determining whether at least one security condition is satisfied based on the indicia of the location and the GPS position; and causing a next action to occur when the at least one security condition is satisfied, or not causing the next action to occur when the at least one security condition is not satisfied. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207554 | ONLINE REWARD POINT EXCHANGE METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH PRICE, REDEMPTION AND TRANSACTED VALUE DISCOUNT SCHEDULING - An online reward exchange system and method of operation, which includes an exchange computer that interoperates via a computer network with user computers, reward point issuer computers, and merchant computers. The merchants' products may be purchased by a user by requesting an issuer(s) to redeem reward points in exchange for payment to the merchant for the product. The exchange computer is the gateway to the system and manages various transactions such as providing online product catalogs to users that list the merchants products, as well as displaying to the user the reward points he has available in his reward programs with the issuers. Once a user selects a desired product the exchange computer can mediate or manage the purchase transaction in which reward points are redeemed by the selected issuer and consideration is conveyed to the merchant in exchange for the merchant providing the product to the user. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207555 | CONTENT GATEWAY - A content server receives content articles from the content providers and data about the users' browsing pattern from a web browser. The server determines whether a user is eligible to receive a content article based on credit generating activities performed by the user. The server selects content articles for the user based on the user's online activities, and communicates the selected content article to the user if the user is eligible. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207556 | POINT OF SALE OFFER REDEMPTIONS - Processing of point of sale (“POS”) redemptions via a “tap” of a contactless device comprises a POS data collector that facilitates a connection with a contactless device. A merchant scans items for purchase using a POS scanner, which captures product identification information. The POS scanner forwards the product identification information to a POS terminal. The POS data collector intercepts the product identification information between the POS scanner and the POS terminal. A user taps the contactless device in the POS data collector's radio frequency field, and a communication channel is established between the contactless device and the POS data collector. The POS data collector identifies the user via the contactless device and identifies coupons, merchant offers, and other value-added services to redeem with the transaction. The POS data collector forwards this information to the POS terminal, the redemptions are applied to the transaction, and the communication is terminated. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207557 | ONLINE BARTERING SERVICE - The disclosure is related to providing an online bartering service. The online bartering service may include registering a trading coupon of first user equipment in response to a registration request from the first user equipment, providing information on a list of candidate coupons to the first user equipment based on information on the trading coupon of the first user equipment, receiving a trading offer message with information on a selected candidate coupon from the first user equipment and transmitting the trading offer message to second user equipment having the selected candidate coupon, and automatically processing a difference between the trading coupon and the selected candidate coupon in connection with associated virtual accounts upon receiving a trading acceptance message from the second user equipment. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207558 | Method For Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Commercial Communication - A method of quantitatively assessing the effectiveness of an audiovisual, visual or audio advertisement including the steps of: presenting the advertisement to a plurality of subjects, the advertisement having a sequence of audiovisual, visual and/or audio features which occur as a function of time; obtaining, during presentation of the advertisement, EEG signals from the subjects from predetermined scalp sites thereof; calculating SSVEP amplitudes and/or phase differences from EEG signals obtained from the predetermined scalp sites in order to obtain output signals which represent predetermined psychological states of each subject to the features as a function of time; combining the output signals from the subjects to obtain pooled output signals; and displaying the pooled output signals to thereby enable quantitative assessment of the subjects' responses to the features of the advertisement in order to assess the effectiveness of the features of the advertisement. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING CAPTURED EYE DATA FROM MOBILE DEVICES - A device for analyzing eye data captured via the device, the device configured to perform the steps of (a) displaying an advertisement and other content on the display; (b) capturing one or more images using the camera, wherein the one or more images depict at least one or more eyes of a user of the device; (c) detecting the one or more eyes in the one or more captured images; (d) determining based at least upon the one or more captured images that the one or more eyes are focused for a predetermined amount of time on the advertisement as opposed to the other content; and (e) based upon the determination in step (d), displaying on the display an item contextually related to the advertisement and different from the other content, wherein the item is (i) text; (ii) a picture; or (iii) a video. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207560 | Method and Apparatus to Derive Product-Level Competitive Insights in Real-Time Using Social Media Analytics - A method and system are disclosed for providing near-real-time competitive insights associated with user interactions within a social media environment. A first and second set of social media data, respectively associated with a first and second set of social media interactions, are processed to generate a first and second set of social network advocacy (SNA) data in near-real-time. The resulting first and second sets of SNA data are then processed to generate a first and second set of competitive insight data, which respectively indicate a near-real-time measurement of sentiment and advocacy related to various aspects of a first and second product. The first and second sets of social pricing index data are then processed to generate a set of competitive insight differential data, which indicates a corresponding improvement or decline in sentiment or advocacy related to various aspects of the first and second products. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207561 | Method and Apparatus to Create a Mash-up of Social Media Data and Business Data to Derive Actionable Insights for the Business - A method and system are disclosed for providing near-real-time actionable insights associated with user interactions within a social media environment. A first and second set of social media data, respectively associated with a first and second set of social media interactions, are processed to generate a first and second set of Social Network Advocacy Pulse (SNAP) data in near-real-time. The resulting first and second sets of SNAP data are then processed to generate a first and second set of actionable insight data, which respectively indicate a near-real-time measurement of sentiment and advocacy related to a predetermined business aspect. The first and second sets of social pricing index data are then processed to generate a set of actionable insight differential data, which indicates a corresponding improvement or decline in sentiment or advocacy related to the business aspect. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207562 | Method and Apparatus to Calculate Real-Time Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty Metric Using Social Media Analytics - A method and system are disclosed for providing a near-real-time measurement of sentiment and advocacy associated with user interactions within a social media environment. A first and second set of social media data, respectively associated with a first and second set of social media interactions, are processed to generate a first and second set of social network advocacy (SNA) data in near-real-time. The resulting first and second sets of SNA data are then processed to generate a first and second set of SNA Pulse (SNAP) metric data, which respectively indicate a near-real-time measurement of sentiment and advocacy for a given aspect of an organization. The first and second sets of SNAP metric data are then processed to generate a set of SNAP metrics differential data, which indicates a corresponding improvement or decline in sentiment or advocacy. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207563 | Method and Apparatus for Advertisement Screening - A system includes a processor configured to initiate a new user-model for advertising evaluation based on a user request. The processor is also configured to add basic user demographic information to the model. The processor is further configured to update the model based on user responses to advertisements presented during a drive in which the model is in use and utilize the model to filter or select advertisements in drives having some correspondence to identifying traits associated with the model. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207564 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - A system and methods are provided for serving content in response to content queries or requests. When a request is received, for content to be presented to a specified user, candidate content items are identified, possibly based on matches between attributes of the user and attributes of the items' target audiences. For each item, a history indicating the frequency (e.g., total number) and/or recency with which impressions of the candidate item were previously presented to the user is retrieved and used to determine a modifier value, which is applied to a calculated or generated probable click-through-rate (pCTR) to produce a modified probability that the user would act on the item if it is served to him or her. Each item's estimated value is computed by multiplying a bid associated with the item and the modified probability; the results are ranked and the top-ranked item(s) are served. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207565 | INCENTIVIZED MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for rule-based or algorithm-based automated response optimization in a marketing environment is provided. The system and method increases email or website open, click through, and fulfillment rates for advertisers, including newsletter advertisers, national retailers, manufacturers, non-profits and the like (“Customers”). Individuals who receive emails from any of the Customers or access websites with Customer's advertisements will become a Member through a simple enrollment process. The system and method rewards Members for opening, clicking through and/or fulfilling advertisements disseminated through emails or websites with a proprietary currency and trading floor. The rewards may be exchanges on the trading floor for coupons, goods, services and actual cash. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207566 | DEVICE SESSION IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - Methods and systems for the identification of electronic devices between web browser and native application sessions is disclosed. The identification process can function even with interrupted Internet connectivity. A first web browser session establishes a web service connection between an electronic device and a web service system. The web service system delivers a unique token to store on the electronic device in the first web browser session. Subsequent web browser sessions with the web service system can renew storage caches of the unique token and/or make duplicates of information stored on the unique token. Then an upcoming application session can capture the same unique token from a second web browser session with a local web service. The unique token and related information is then submitted to the web service system. The web service server includes backend mechanisms to determine a connection between the first web browser session and the second web browser session. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207567 | Cross Channel Conversion Tracking System and Method - A cross channel conversion tracking system and method provides online marketers with information regarding which ads lead to conversion transactions, such as purchases. The system and method provides means to track purchases made when a particular user receives a marketing exposure on one device or channel but purchases on another device or channel. A cross channel conversion tracking system and method may be comprised of at least a data collection module, a data integration module, and a communications module with sub-modules as described. A data collection module may collect data on marketing exposures, post-purchase online interactions and device associations. A communications module may be used to retrieve data from local databases or third party systems when available, to allow for cross-device and cross-channel tracking. A data integration module may associate the various types of data to present a picture of marketing expenditure efficiency. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207568 | BIASING SELECTION OF ADVERTISING BASED ON REAL-TIME USER INTERACTIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system receives advertisement requests from advertisers describing information about advertisements and determines one or more ad topics associated with the advertisements. When an advertisement is to be presented to a user, the social networking system determines one or more topics associated with the user from actions performed by the user and identifies candidate advertisements having ad topics matching, or similar to, the topics associated with the user. The topics associated with the user may be determined based on the user's most recent actions. One or more of the candidate advertisements are selected for presentation to the user. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207569 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PREPAID CARDS - A point-of-sale system is provided that permits users to self-manage prepaid debit cards. Such a system may be capable of identifying and managing a number of different prepaid debit cards provided by different card issuers. The system may permit, for example, a user to purchase, activate, load funds, or perform other management operations with such cards. The system may also enforce restrictions associated with particular card types, and follow process flows for activating and performing other operations of such cards. The system may also be easily extendible to other types of prepaid cards through established card network relationships. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207570 | LOCATION BASED ALERTS FOR SHOPPER - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating reminders to shoppers to purchase products. Using a customer's current location, products stocked at that location are identified and compared to the customer's purchase history. Items regularly purchased by the customer found among the products stocked at the location are identified. Upon departing the location without adding the product to an electronic shopping cart an alert may be generated to remind the customer to purchase the product. In some embodiment, an alert is generate for a product found in the purchase history if an elapsed time since purchase of the product exceeds an expiration period or purchase period for that product. The methods disclosed herein may be used in the context of a self-checkout using an electronic shopping cart and navigational aids to facilitate retrieval of items on a shopping list. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207571 | SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PROCESSES FOR DELIVERING PERSONALIZED DEALS TO CUSTOMERS - Systems and processes are disclosed for generating an delivering personalized deals to users. In certain embodiments, disclosed embodiments may configure a financial service account associated with a user. Based on monitored transactions from the financial service account, systems consistent with disclosed embodiments may generate deals that are personalized to the user of the financial service account. Such deals may be delivered to the user or a third-party upon request. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SMART STATEMENTS - Systems and methods for providing purchase driven financial statements include an account processor that receives account data associated with one or more financial accounts of the account holder and advertising data via a network; one or more databases that stores at least the received account data and the received advertising data; and a statement processor that creates a financial statement based at least in part on the account data and the advertising data, provides the financial statement to an account holder, and tracks the account holder's future account data based on the provided advertising data. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207573 | System and Method for Communicating with a User at a Point-of-Sale - A system, method, and apparatus for providing promotions. The system receives a user-initiated request for a transaction and obtains, from a storage device of the system, information identifying one or more past purchases or present purchases of the user. The system determines, based on the information, a promotion to present to the user, and determines a promotional identifier associated with the promotion. The system outputs, with machine readable information, the promotional identifier to the user. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207574 | MAP-BASED ADVERTISING SYSTEM - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing a map-based advertising system. In one example embodiment, a method is provided that includes causing a graphical geographic representation of a bounded area to be displayed, receiving advertising content comprising at least one location, and determining whether the location lies within the bounded area. The method further includes causing at least a portion of the advertising content to be displayed and causing a representation of the at least one location to be displayed within the graphical geographic representation of the bounded area in an instance in which the location lies within the bounded area. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207575 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE NETWORK USING MOBILE DEVICES - A mobile software development kit (“SDK”) executes on a mobile device that interfaces with a commerce network. The mobile SDK includes an interface to a host application on the commerce network, and an interface to a merchant application executing on the mobile device. The mobile SDK receives from the host application a check-in of the mobile device to a merchant, and an availability of new user objects, and provides the check-in and new user objects to the merchant application. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207576 | DIGITAL ADVERTISING CELLULAR DISPLAY SYSTEM - A digital advertising cellular display system comprising a retail outlet having at least one location for displaying goods and services for purchase, at least one electronic display means located proximal the location for displaying goods and services with electronic display means displaying consumer information images, videos, and audios therefrom, a central processing unit located in each of said electronic display means, and at least one offsite control center in wireless communication with the electronic display means for transferring control information and product and services advertisement and product and services information between the offsite control center and the electronic display means. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207577 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system includes a call answering center; a first mobile phone that registers a call answering setting in the call answering center; a second mobile phone that makes a call to the first mobile phone and includes a display unit and an operation unit; and a telephone communication network that connects the first mobile phone, the second mobile phone, and the call answering center in a communicable manner. When a call is made and the call answering setting is performed, the call answering center composes a call answering message accompanied by a reply program having an advertisement image attached thereto in accordance with the call answering setting, and transmits the call answering message to the second mobile phone. Upon receiving the call answering message, the second mobile phone causes the display unit to display an image of the reply program having the advertisement image superimposed thereon. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207578 | System For Targeting Advertising To A Mobile Communication Device Based On Photo Metadata - A system for targeting advertising to a mobile communication device is configured to perform the steps of: (a) receiving at least one photo taken by a user via the mobile communication device; (b) extrapolating at least one metadata from the photo; (c) creating a user profile for the user if a user profile has not been created for the user; (d) storing the metadata in the user profile; (e) determining that a first advertisement is more relevant to the user than a second advertisement based on a respective relevancy of the first and second advertisements to the metadata; and (f) transmitting the first advertisement to the mobile communication device for display thereon. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207579 | SYNDICATION OF ONLINE MESSAGE CONTENT USING SOCIAL MEDIA - A computer-based system and related operating method is presented here. The begins by sending a request to a user, the request identifying an action related to a social media account of the user. The method continues by receiving a confirmation for the request sent to the user, wherein the confirmation represents an authorization to take the action on behalf of the user. In response to receiving the confirmation, the system performs the action using a social handle of the user. The system can intelligently determine a distribution list for the request by identifying and analyzing a target community, along with the social media contacts of a group of users. In this regard, users having social media contacts that reach the target community are considered to be candidates for the distribution list. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207580 | System for Creating Customized Web Content Based on User Behavioral Portraits - A method is provided for determining a website user behavioral portrait based on navigation on the website and dynamically reconfiguring web pages based on those portraits. In accordance with the method, data relating to the progress of a user through a website is recorded, and an ongoing behavioral portrait of the user is built based on the data. The portrait is then used to dynamically reconfigure web content. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207581 | System And Method To Communicate Targeted Information - A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207582 | ADAPTIVE AND RECURSIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of advertising based on the automatic determination of an advertising recipient's location and inferences of preferences derived from usage behaviors is disclosed. The advertising recipient's location that is considered in delivering a specific advertisement may be the current location or one or more historical locations. Proximity considerations with regard to other people, locations, or physical objects may influence the advertisement that is to be delivered. The advertisement may be delivered to a mobile device that has location-aware capabilities such as a Global Positioning System-based system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207583 | ELECTRONIC BOOK PROVISION SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC BOOK DISTRIBUTION DEVICE - To provide an electronic book provision system that can make advertisements easily recognized by a user. The electronic book acquisition unit ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140207584 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING A SELF-SERVICE INTERFACE - Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for programmatically generating and/or revising deal offers for a merchant based on one or more merchant self-service indicators. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, facilitate registration and verification of merchant identities, monitor and analyze various deal offers for merchants with similar merchant self-service indicators, that enable the system to determine the relative successfulness of a deal offer for a merchant and/or category of merchant. In some embodiments, the system may be further configured to revise the deal offer programmatically and/or upon receiving the merchant's approval of the programmatically generated proposed edits to the deal offer. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207585 | SIMPLIFIED CREATION OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - An advertisement interface presents a single input field for creating advertisements using a social networking system. When input is received via the single input field, the social networking system determines whether the destination identified by the input is internal to or external to the social networking system. Based on the determination of identified destination, a set of options unique to the type of destination is presented. Based on the user's selection of options, an advertisement is created and presented to other users of the social networking system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207586 | Displaying Method for Third-Party Information - A displaying method for third-party information allows a first server to transmit at least one piece of third-party information to a first device according to at least one preference model, at least one piece of page information, a piece of location information, or a piece of time information. The third-party information can be also randomly transmitted to the first device. Thereby, the third-party information and a webpage accessed by the first device are concurrently displayed on the first device. The transmission of the third-party information from the first server needs no authorization from the website owner. Moreover, the third-party information can cover or overlap the webpage to be concurrently displayed on the first device so that the third-party information is not limited by the typesetting of the webpage. Accordingly, a simpler and more flexible displaying method for the third-party information is provided. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING MESSAGES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A telecommunications advertising means is disclosed. The telecommunication advertising means includes an advertisement database coupled to a processing means. The advertisement database stores subscriber specific or third party advertisements that are selectively associated with communications in a telecommunications network. The selective association is carried out by the processing means. In one embodiment, a router is coupled to the advertisement database. The router routes communications from source to destination within the telecommunications network. The router also routes advertisements that have been associated with the communications to the sources and destinations of the communications. A telecommunications system is also disclosed. The telecommunications system comprises a network subsystem, which includes a telecommunications advertising means. The telecommunications advertising means comprises an advertisement database and a processing means. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ALLOCATE AND RECYCLE TELEPHONE NUMBERS IN A CALL-TRACKING SYSTEM - A method including: dynamically allocating a telephone number to an advertisement on a just-in-time basis; and if the telephone number is not called for a predefined period of time, unallocating the telephone number. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207589 | ORDER RECEIVING APPARATUS AND ORDER RECEIVING METHOD - An order receiving apparatus comprises a first storage section configured to store an amount obtained by adding up the prices of the menu items the order on which is received and a second storage section configured to store an amount obtained by adding up the prices of the menu items the order on which is determined. The apparatus adds the price of each menu item to the first storage section every time the order on the menu item is received, adds the amount in the first storage section to the second storage section in response to the determination of the order, and then clears the first storage section. The apparatus outputs the amounts stored in the first and second storage sections. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207590 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE COMMERCE AND SALES - A system and method for conducting commerce and sales operations is disclosed. A sales representative identifies a customer, chooses a product, and completes a sales transaction using a front-end POS software application. The sales data is transferred to a central storage server, where a master database is created with the data from the front-end POS software application. The central storage server transmits and receives data from back-end corporate servers and databases and creates a master database containing data from corporate applications. The front-end POS software devices uses a holster that includes a docking station, sliding cradle for a mobile device, a card reader, and an infrared scanner to identify products and complete payment. | 2014-07-24 |