44th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150310331 | Rule-Based Register Checking for Digital Voltage Regulator Controllers - A method of rule-based register checking for a digital voltage regulator controller includes: defining register settings for the digital voltage regulator via a GUI (graphical user interface) based controller parameter configuration system; accessing a rule-based checker by the GUI based configuration system to check for rule violations in the register settings; and uploading the register settings from the GUI based configuration system to the digital voltage regulator controller after checking the register settings for rule violations. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program operable to implement the rule-based register checking is also provided. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310332 | Predicting outcome based on input - A method, system and product for predicting an outcome of a program based on input. The method comprising: obtaining an input to be used by a program prior to executing the program; predicting by, a machine learning module, a predicted outcome of the program based on the input; wherein the predicted outcome is selected from the group consisting of: a pass outcome and a fail outcome, wherein the pass outcome is the program executing without failing when using the input, and wherein the fail outcome is the program failing when using the input. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310333 | DETERMINATION OF DATA OBJECT EXPOSURE IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for indicating data object exposure in a cloud computing environment. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving information about a data object from the cloud computing environment. The method further provides analyzing the information to determine a plurality of exposure characteristics for the data object. The method further includes determining an indication of exposure of the data object based on the plurality of exposure characteristics. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310334 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING USER EXPERIENCE - A method of assessing user experience is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of monitoring network data and user-user equipment interaction data for a plurality of users within the network (step | 2015-10-29 |
20150310335 | DETERMINING A PERFORMANCE PREDICTION MODEL FOR A TARGET DATA ANALYTICS APPLICATION - A performance prediction model for a target data analytics application, where: (i) a reference data analytics application similar to the target data analytics application is determined; (ii) a configuration-performance data pair of the target data analytics application are acquired; and (iii) the performance prediction model for the target data analytics application is determined based on the configuration-performance data pair of the target data analytics application and a configuration-performance data pair of the at least one reference data analytics application. This can reduce the time required to accumulate the configuration-performance data pairs for determining the performance prediction model by combining the configuration-performance data pairs of the existing data analytics applications, thereby accelerating determination of the performance prediction model. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310336 | PREDICTING CUSTOMER CHURN IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a platform configured to forecast customer churn in a telecommunication network. The platform may be configured to receive customer activity data. The platform may then compute features associated with the customer activity data. These features are then inputted into a machine learning model used for predicting customer churn. Finally, the platform may then provide a report indicating customer churn predictions. The platform may be trained in a training phase prior to entering a prediction phase. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310337 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR BUILDING A DYNAMIC SOCIAL KNOWLEDGEBASE - The present invention provides a method and system for providing a platform for building a dynamic social knowledgebase. The method includes importing a traditional knowledgebase from an entity at regular intervals, receiving login credentials from a user via a web portal or mobile application. Retrieving social knowledgebase from a social network associated with the user, providing recommendations to the user based on articles that are more clickable in the traditional knowledgebase and the social knowledgebase, sending a notification to the user based on the latest happenings in the web portal or mobile application, monitoring a list of top contributors and influencers of the social knowledgebase in the social network associated with the user, and sending the list of top contributors and influencers to a backend system for analysis & use. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CERTIFICATION OF FACTS - A method and apparatus for certification of facts introduces a certifier and a fact certificate into the fact-exchange cycle that enables parties to exchange trustworthy facts. Certification is provided to a fact presenter during the first part of the fact-exchange cycle, and verification is provided to the fact receiver during the last part of the cycle. To request a certification, a fact presenter presents the Certifier with a fact. In return, the certifier issues a fact certificate, after which the fact presenter presents the fact certificate to the fact receiver instead of presenting the fact itself. The receiver inspects the received certificate in order to evaluate the fact's validity and trustworthiness. For some facts and notions of verification, the certificate is sufficient and its inspection does not require any communication. For others, the receiver requests a verification service from the Certifier in order to complete the verification. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310339 | INFERRING CONTEXTUAL USER STATUS AND DURATION - In one embodiment, a method includes one or more server computing devices receiving first data associated with an activity recently performed or currently being performed by a user of one or more client computing devices. A current state of the user is inferred at least in part by analyzing at least the first data, and second data associated with one or more historical durations associated with the inferred current state is accessed. An end time associated with the inferred current state is estimated based at least in part on the second data. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310340 | Digital Rights Management Using a Digital Agent - A method for digital rights management includes a digital agent for contacting a media host. Media content is compared to a user profile and an identification confidence level is assigned to the media based on the comparison. A digital agent contacts a host of the media based on the identification confidence level, the type of media, and the context of the media. The digital agent requests one or more actions of a media host based on user designations concerning information related to the media. The identification confidence level is generated based on a plurality of user characteristic confidence levels which are generated based on media being analyzed. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310341 | RULES BASED DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems, methods and mediums are described for processing rules and associated bags of facts generated by an application in communication with a processing engine, database and rule engine that process the bags of facts in view of the rules and generate one or more rule-dependent responses to the application which performs one or more work flows based on the responses. The rule engine may apply forward-chaining, backward-chaining or a combination of forward-chaining and backward-chaining to process the rules and facts. Numerous novel applications that work in conjunction with the processing engine, database and rule engine are also described. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310342 | OVERLAY AUTOMATA APPROACH TO REGULAR EXPRESSION MATCHING FOR INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION SYSTEM - Embodiments are described for automata models for use in deep packet inspection. Various embodiments are described for a new automata model, Overlay DFA (ODFA), which captures state replication in DFAs. Additional embodiments include combining the ODFA model with a D2FA model to provide an Overlay Delayed Input DFA (OD2FA). As the DFA model captures transition sharing, the OD2FA model captures both state replication and transition sharing. Algorithms are disclosed for efficiently constructing the OD2FA model and for implementing the OD2FA model in Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM). | 2015-10-29 |
20150310343 | REAL TIME INTERACTIVE PREDICTION - Providing predictive data predicting data values for a historical dataset. The method facilitates improving the accuracy of the predictive data by identifying for a user, and allowing the user to select ancillary datasets that can be evaluated, using a predictive evaluation, together with a historical dataset to improve the accuracy of the predictive data. A user interface is provided to a user. The user interface identifies one or more ancillary datasets. The ancillary datasets are identified to the user based on the ancillary datasets meeting a threshold condition to a historical dataset. The ancillary datasets are selectable by the user in the user interface. User input is received at the user interface selecting one or more of the ancillary datasets. A predictive dataset is displayed to the user. The predictive dataset is determined by predictive evaluation of the historical dataset and the one or more selected ancillary datasets. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310344 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING PERSONALITY TRAITS USING DISC PROFILING AND BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TECHNIQUES - The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for human personality prediction by analyzing information collected from different sources such as social media, call detail record (CDR), email etc. using DISC (dominance, inducement, submission, and compliance) profiling and Big Five personality techniques (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism). Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are further capable of using a self-learning model which learns from user response to the prediction. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310345 | MODELING INCREMENTALTREATMENT EFFECT AT INDIVIDUAL LEVELS USING A SHADOW DEPENDENT VARIABLE - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for utilizing a shadow ridge rescaling technique to model incremental treatment effect at the individual level, based on a randomized test and control data. A shadow dependent variable is introduced with its mathematical expectation being exactly the incremental effect. Ridge regression is utilized to regress the shadow dependent variable on a set of variables generated from the test model score and the control model score. A tuning parameter in the ridge regression is selected so that the score can best rank order the incremental effect of the treatment. The final score is a nonlinear function of the test model score plus a nonlinear function of a control model score, and outperforms the traditional differencing score method. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310346 | OPTIMIZATION DEVICE, OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND OPTIMIZATION PROGRAM - An optimization device includes: a selection unit 101 which selects a node to be played out in a solution search in an optimization calculation from among nodes as options in a search tree; a first calculation unit 102 which executes a playout from the selected node to search for a solution; and a second calculation unit 103 which sets the solution after the playout as an initial solution to search for a solution by a heuristic method, a local search method, or a neighborhood search method. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310347 | CONTEXT-AWARE HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN AGGREGATION OF CROWD-SOURCED EVIDENCE FOR A SUBSCRIPTION-BASED SERVICE - A method and system for providing an answer to a subscription-based query service. The method includes acquiring context information and evidence information from one or more electronic devices based on a query. One or more belief values are assigned based on the evidence information and the context information. The belief values are aggregated for determining a score for competing hypotheses using a probabilistic model. Sufficiency of hypotheses is determined based on statistical significance for potential answer information to the query. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310348 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF CONTAINMENT DETERMINATION PROCESSING - Method for calculating whether an actual location of a target device is on one side of a boundary zone includes: receiving an estimated location of the target device; receiving a desired confidence level; forming a first circle with radius D, centered at the estimated location, where D is the shortest distance from the estimated location to the boundary zone; forming a second circle with radius R′, centered at the estimated location, wherein R′ is determined in such a way so that a likelihood that the actual location is inside the second circle equals or exceeds the desired confidence level; forming an angle with an apex at the estimated location and rays passing through two closest points to the estimated location where the second circle intersects the boundary zone; and using a size of an annulus formed by the first circle, the second circle, and the rays to estimate whether the actual location lies on the same side of the boundary zone. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310349 | BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRIC METHOD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE FAILURE PREDICTION - The present invention generally relates to failure prediction of an infrastructure ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADIABATIC QUANTUM ANNEALING - An approach is provided for adiabatic quantum annealing (computing, AQC). There is disclosed a method for finding a solution by using adiabatic quantum annealing. In an embodiment of the method an initial state to an adiabatic quantum computing element is provided and an adiabatic quantum annealing is performed by the adiabatic quantum computing element. The result of the adiabatic quantum annealing is examined to determine whether one or more terminating criteria have been met. If the examining reveals that one or more terminating criteria have been met, returning a candidate solution with the lowest energy. If the examining reveals that one or more terminating criteria have not been met, the method further comprises adjusting the state of the adiabatic quantum computing element; and repeating the adiabatic quantum annealing. The present invention also relates to apparatuses and computer program products for implementing the method and circuitry relating to the adiabatic quantum annealing. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310351 | PROFILING A POPULATION OF EXAMPLES - A method for profiling a population of examples includes a computer receiving a dataset representative of the population of examples, a user selection of a population constraint, and an indication of a goal. The computer generates shallow fixed-depth trees based on the dataset and determines a collection of leaves of the shallow fixed-depth trees meeting the population constraint. Next, the computer sorts the collection of leaves based on a degree to which the goal is met. Then, the computer creates one or more profiles based on the collection of leaves. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310352 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFICATION USING SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED TRAINING - Computerized systems and methods are disclosed for performing contextual classification of objects using supervised and unsupervised training. In accordance with one implementation, content reviewers may review training objects and submit supervised training data for preprocessing and analysis. The supervised training data may be preprocessed to identify key terms and phrases, such as by stemming, tokenization, or n-gram analysis, and form vectorized objects. The vectorized objects may be used to train one or more models for subsequent classification of objects. In certain implementations, preprocessing or training, among other steps, may be performed in parallel over multiple machines to improve efficiency. The disclosed systems and methods may be used in a wide variety of applications, such as article classification and content moderation. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310353 | Optimized Peremptory Juror Challenges - The present invention teaches methods to optimize the exercise of peremptory challenges during the jury selection process in courts in the United States and worldwide. Jury selection in such jurisdictions is governed by possibly complex rules determined by the court, including procedures and specifications for the order of juror examinations and the subsequent exercise of peremptory challenges. Such peremptory challenges are typically limited in number and are therefore valuable to parties in a court action. Prior art uses ‘gut feeling’, intuition and educated guessing to guide in the exercise of peremptory challenges and is therefore not likely to produce an optimally empaneled jury. The present invention optimizes the use of challenges for the user of the invention by applying the results of Game Theory—a branch of mathematics focusing on competitive interactions between two or more parties, each with potentially conflicting interests over a common outcome. The current invention also provides a means to make such an optimization practical within a real world courtroom setting where decisions may be required in quick succession with little time for deliberation. The current invention can also be applied to similar selection situations such as a search committee's decision to select one or more applicants for a job, selecting applicants for admission to a college or research group, selection of corporate officers, sports team draft procedures, and numerous other situations wherein a group or committee composed of members with potentially conflicting interests must make selections from among a pool of applicants with possibly limited information about applicant favorability. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310354 | UNIT-BASED LICENSING FOR THIRD PARTY ACCESS OF DIGITAL CONTENT - A method and apparatus for unit-based licensing for third party access of digital content are provided. Unit-based licensing for third party access of digital content may include receiving a request for access to content, the request for access indicating the customer account and a third party, identifying a cardinality of assigned units for the content, identifying a cardinality of available licensing units allocated to the customer account, determining, by a processor, whether the cardinality of the assigned units is within the cardinality of available licensing units, outputting a response indicating that the request is granted on a condition that the cardinality of the assigned units is within the cardinality of available licensing units, and outputting a response indicating that the request is denied on a condition that the cardinality of the assigned units exceeds the cardinality of available licensing units. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310355 | INTEGRATING EVENT-PLANNING SERVICES INTO A PAYMENT SYSTEM - A method of managing events is disclosed. It is determined that a user is present at a particular location within an event venue. It is determined that the user has reserved the event venue for a particular time period. A selection is received from the user of a particular merchant that is committed to providing services at the event during the particular time period. The particular location within the event is associated with the particular merchant. A notification of the association of the particular location within the event venue with the particular merchant is generated for communication to the particular merchant. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310356 | FACILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE UTILIZATION - A facility utilization system includes a plurality of vehicles with telematics systems. A server receives telematics information from the plurality of vehicles, including location information of each of the plurality of vehicles. The server compares the location information to a location of at least one facility to determine facility utilization. The server monitors utilization of the at least one facility based upon the comparison of the location information of the plurality of vehicles to the location of the at least one facility. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310357 | Handling Process Instance Migration In Business Process Management - Process instance migration from a former process model to a new process model. A former process model and a new process model and their data models are analyzed to extract a process delta object model relating to changes in the new process model on which to define migration rules. One or more existing process instances are analyzed, and process instances whose current state has passed the changes in the new process model are retained. Candidate activities of the retained process instances, a set of conditions for the candidate activities, and a set of actions to be taken if a condition is met are generated. The generated set of conditions and set of actions may be presented to a user enabling the user to combine conditions and actions to produce a process instance migration program in the form of a set of rules. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310358 | MODELING CONSUMER ACTIVITY - For modeling consumer activity, code generates potential model types. In addition, the code divides activity data into a training data set, a test data set, and a validation data set. The code further trains the potential model types with the training set data. In addition, the code selects a model type with the test data set. The code calculates algorithmic parameters with the validation data set. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310359 | SYSTEM FOR MODELING PRODUCTION OF A PRODUCT - A method is provided that includes receiving process-related information describing a logical sequence of tasks to produce respective internal products of a process for production of a product. At least some of the tasks have a precedence relationship whereby the internal product produced by one task is an input utilized or required by another task. The method includes for at least some of the tasks, separating each of the at least some of the tasks into a closure portion that requires availability of the last input of its task before being initiated, and a distinct precursor portion capable of being initiated before the respective last input is available; and constructing a schedule for execution of the at least some of the tasks. Construction of the schedule includes temporally sequencing the closure portions of the respective tasks without intervening precursor portions, and prepending the precursor portions to respective, temporally-sequenced closure portions. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310360 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVANCED SANITARY SEWER INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for managing a sanitary sewer infrastructure. In an embodiment, a plurality of representations of infrastructure assets are re-projected from a plane coordinate system into a geospatial coordinate system, such that each of the re-projected plurality of representations of infrastructure assets is associated with a geospatial coordinate. Each of the re-projected plurality of representations of infrastructure assets and its associated geospatial coordinate is stored in one or more databases. Subsequently, geospatial coordinates, collected in the field, may be received from one or more user devices, wherein each geospatial coordinate corresponds to a geospatial location of an infrastructure asset. A stored geospatial coordinate associated with one or more of the stored re-projected plurality of representations of infrastructure assets may then be adjusted based on the received geospatial coordinates. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310361 | AGGREGATION AND WORKFLOW ENGINES FOR MANAGING PROJECT INFORMATION - A system includes an aggregation engine that initiates a first interface module in response to a first request from a first user that indicates a first type of project information. The aggregation engine also receives, via the first interface module, the first type of project information and stores the first type of project information in a memory. The system additionally includes a workflow engine that initiates one or more workflows that indicate certain project information requested by an external group. The workflow engine retrieves, from the memory and based upon the initiated one or more workflows, a first subset of the first type of project information and formats the first subset of project information according to the workflow. The system also includes an export engine that transmits the formatted first subset of project information to the external group according to the initiated one or more workflows. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310362 | Health Care Work Flow Modeling with Proactive Metrics - A method, system and non-transitory computer readable medium for modeling and analyzing health information to optimize workflows. The method commences by collecting information in real time from a plurality of health care resources, and based on the collected information, the method develops a dynamic model of workflow that incorporates the health care resources and corresponding real time information. The method proceeds to monitor current in-flight processes of the modeled workflow to determine if a failure might occur on the current in-flight trend, and then generates a proactive metric if an impending failure was predicted. Modeling steps comprise developing a retrospective workflow model based on a historical analysis of the health care resources. The financial impact of an impending failure and the financial impacts of alternative workflows are analyzed. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310363 | DIAGNOSTIC WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT WITH PLUGGABLE REPORT SECTIONS - A method of operating a data processing system for diagnostic workflow management with generation of sectional reports includes defining an extension point for report sections enabling users to create one or more independent pluggable components each of which implements a user-configurable report section. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PRE-VALUATION ESTIMATES OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - A system and method for providing estimated business intelligence data, responsively to received company information, including a local front end comprising a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user for an electronic location of the received company information, and ones of the estimated business intelligence data to be displayed on the graphical user interface. The estimated business intelligence data for a company is based on the determined business intelligence data for a similar company. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310365 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO-BASED DETECTION OF GOODS RECEIVED EVENT IN A VEHICULAR DRIVE-THRU - A system and method for detection of a goods-received event includes acquiring images of a retail location including a vehicular drive-thru, determining a region of interest within the images, the region of interest including at least a portion of a region in which goods are delivered to a customer, and analyzing the images using at least one computer vision technique to determine when goods are received by a customer. The analyzing includes identifying at least one item belonging to a class of items, the at least one item's presence in the region of interest being indicative of a goods-received event. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310366 | Security region based security-constrained economic dispatching method - The present invention relates to a power system and provides a method for considering the network security constraints of in the operation of economic dispatch of power systems, which comprises the power flow constraint of branches, the static voltage stability constraint and the transient stability constraint, and provides an effective way for coordinating contradiction between the economy and security of power system operation. The security region based security-constrained economic dispatching method comprises the following steps: step 1, calculating the coefficients for the active power static security region, the cut-set voltage stability region and the dynamic security region respectively; step 2: building the models for security region based security-constrained economic dispatch; step 3: solving the unit on/off state optimal sub-problem through Social Evolutionary Programming; step 4: calculating the generation cost, the static voltage stability margin and the transient stability margin in the dispatching period; step 5: obtaining a feasible economic dispatching scheme, otherwise, return to step 3. The invention is mainly applied in load dispatching optimization. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310367 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS DETERMINING A BIT TRIPPING SCHEDULE AND BIT SELECTION BASED ON TOTAL COST OF DRILLING - Some embodiments of a method for optimizing drilling include determining at least one section of a wellbore for which to determine a schedule for replacing one or more drill bits during drilling the wellbore. Some embodiments of the method also include determining one or more constraints on the schedule for replacing the one or more drill bits. Some embodiments of the method also include determining, based on the one or more constraints, a plurality of scenarios for replacing the one or more drill bits during drilling the at least one section. Some embodiments of the method include determining, by one or more processors, a total cost for each scenario in the plurality of scenarios. Some embodiments of the method include identifying at least one scenario in the plurality of scenarios that has the lowest cost compared to other ones of the plurality of scenarios. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310368 | ROAD MANAGEMENT EQUIPMENT CONTROL - A method includes a computing device receiving historical data for a portion of a road; the computing device receiving current data for road conditions using sensors; the computing device predicting future hazardous road conditions for the portion of the road using the received historical and current data; and the computing device scheduling road management actions for the portion of the road as a result of the predicted road conditions. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310369 | MATERIAL MAANGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEM - An embodiment of the present invention discloses a material management and control system, which comprises: a code scanner, which performs code scanning operation on any material to be warehoused with respect to the material to be warehoused to obtain code scanning parameter information of the material to be warehoused, wherein the code scanning parameter information comprises at least a date when a life of the material to be warehoused is exhausted; and a processor, which determines whether a remaining life of the material to be warehoused is not less than a set life value or not according to the code scanning parameter information obtained by the code scanner, and if a result is yes, then perform warehousing operation on the material to be warehoused, and monitor whether the warehoused material arrives at its corresponding life exhausting date or not, and if the result is not, then perform subsequent material processing operation on the warehoused material according to a set operation procedure. The embodiment of the present invention can greatly avoid the problems of low management and control efficiency and relatively high error rate caused by manual material management, achieve computerization of material management and control during the ODF process, and improve the processing efficiency and accuracy of the material management and control. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310370 | VIDEO TRACKING BASED METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SEQUENCING OF VEHICLES IN DRIVE-THRU APPLICATIONS - A method for updating an event sequence includes acquiring video data of a queue area from at least one image source; searching the frames for subjects located at least near a region of interest (ROI) of defined start points in the video data; tracking a movement of each detected subject through the queue area over a subsequent series of frames; using the tracking, determining if a location of the a tracked subject reaches a predefined merge point where multiple queues in the queue area converge into a single queue lane; in response to the tracked subject reaching the predefined merge point, computing an observed sequence of where the tracked subject places among other subjects approaching an end-event point; and, updating a sequence of end-events to match the observed sequence of subjects in the single queue lane. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310371 | Spatio-Temporal Key Performance Indicators - An approach is provided for providing spatio-temporal key performance indicators (ST-KPIs). The approach tracks metrics, such as crowd density, pertaining to a number of locations. The tracking is performed over time to develop a history of past values that correspond to the metrics. The history is used to predict a trend of future metrics at the locations with the trend resulting in predicted future values that correspond to the metrics at the locations. In this manner, the ST-KPIs reflect the predicted future values at the various locations that are being monitored. A city view is displayed to a user showing the current and predicted values at defined ST-KPI locations throughout the city. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310372 | RETAIL TRAFFIC ANALYSIS STATISTICS TO ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE - Currently, systems for assessing traffic, such as retail traffic, only output counting results in numeric measures. Current systems do not assess problems and/or provide solutions to problems using traffic analysis methods or applications. The present disclosure is directed to methods, systems and media for applying retail traffic analysis statistics to provide actionable intelligence, such as solutions to particular inquiries or problems. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310373 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING SERVICES DELIVERING VALUE TO STAKEHOLDERS - Disclosed is a system for designing one or more services delivering value to one or more stakeholders. The identification module may identify one or more stakeholders associated with a service. The process determination module determines one or more existing processes implemented by the one or more stakeholders for creating a value associated to the service. The value determination module determines a list of values pertaining to the service. The service quality retrieving module retrieve a plurality of service qualities and a plurality of process qualities from a service quality master list and a process quality master list respectively. The correlation module correlates each value, present in the list of values, with the plurality of service qualities in order to identify one or more service qualities of the plurality of service qualities. The service definition module defines a service breakdown structure and a process breakdown structure associated with the service. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310374 | Communication Activity Reporting - A method and system are disclosed for automatically monitoring electronic communications and producing reports relating to staff activity levels. A predetermined set of customer contacts and electronic addresses associated with said contacts is used to relate the metadata of communications to the identified customer contacts. A report compiling a set of data relating the communications to the identified contacts or organisations, identifying the level of communications activity associated with each of said contacts or organisations, can then be produced. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310375 | INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT - A computer implemented method of individual productivity measurement includes capturing a work output of an individual and tracking a net effort of the individual. Further, the method includes computing an individual productivity of the individual, calculating a mean of individual productivities of the individuals associated with a work sub-group, and defining one or more ranges of the individual productivities in the work sub-group. The individual productivity is compared with one of the mean and the one or more ranges. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310376 | DIAGNOSTIC ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DIAGNOSTIC ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a diagnostic assistance system whereby it is possible to allocate to highly skilled pathologists boundary region tissue specimens whereupon a malign/benign determination is difficult. The diagnostic assistance system includes: an input element for receiving an input of a degree of malignancy of a tissue specimen; a storage element for associating and storing a diagnostician with the degree of skill thereof; and a control element for, when the degree of malignancy is an intermediate value, querying the storage element and determining the diagnostician with the degree of degree of skill which is greater than or equal to a reference value. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310377 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVICE - A method may comprise determining whether a customer service representative is available now for an online communication session over a computer network with a customer browsing a webpage of a website: causing a customer service availability notification to display on the webpage of the website browsed by the customer, the customer service availability notification being configured to identify at least the customer service representative that is available now and modes of communication with which the customer may communicate with the identified customer service representative; receiving, over the computer network, an indication that the customer desires to enter into the online communication session with the identified customer service representative and a selection of a desired one of a plurality of available modes of communication: and upon receiving the indication from the customer, initiating the online communication session with the identified customer service representative using the selected mode of communication. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310378 | System Interfacing a Fleet Management System and a Ride Sharing System - A system associated with a fleet management system and in networked communications with a ride sharing system. A computing device derives from a fleet management system potential ride offers. The potential ride offers are sent to a ride sharing system. The computing device receives from the ride sharing system ride requests corresponding to the potential ride offers. Ride events are created or updated according to the ride requests and ride offers. The users of the ride sharing system (e.g. passengers) may request data from the fleet management system pertaining to the ride vehicle. The computing device filters proprietary fleet management system information prior to sending the requested data to the passengers. In another embodiment, the computing device opens an identity-masked channel of communication for ride coordination between fleet vehicle drivers and passengers. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310379 | SHARED VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A map indicating respective locations of a plurality of vehicles included in a ride-sharing service is generated. A vehicle is identified in the plurality of vehicles that is in need of relocation. A user is identified in a vicinity of the identified vehicle for an offer to use the identified vehicle. The offer is transmitted, via a network, to the user for use of the identified vehicle in a manner to support the relocation. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310380 | DISPATCH SYSTEM HAVING CONTROL SHARED WITH DISPATCHED SERVICE PROVIDERS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method for dispatching a person to a location in a casino to respond to a request for service at the location. A dispatched person may use his or her mobile computing device to indicate availability to assist with other calls and may create, join, or intercept a call while on one or more current calls. The dispatch system automatically assigns the same person to all calls generated at the same machine or at different machines that are each associated with the same identified player. The dispatched person may use his or her mobile computing device to selectively switch among the calls on which he or she is currently working. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310381 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE PACKAGE DELIVERY - A computer-implemented method for enabling secure delivery of a package to a designated delivery area of a premises is described. In one embodiment, information regarding a delivery of a package to a premises may be received, a delivery person arriving at the premises may be detected, and instructions may be provided to the delivery person regarding how to deliver the package to the designated delivery area within the premises. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310382 | FOOD PRINTING DISTRIBUTION NETWORK SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE INGESTIBLE MATERIAL PREPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically directing control of at least partial preparation of the one or more selected ingestible products subsequent to and based at least in part upon the selection of the at least one candidate ingestible product as the at least one selected ingestible product via the electronically enabled input in response to the electronically outputted one or more selection menus and prior to preparation of the one or more selected ingestible products for ingestion by the particular individual living being of the selected ingestible products, the at least partial preparation of the one or more selected ingestible products occurring within a vicinity of the electronically outputting of the electronically outputted one or more selection menus. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310383 | Inventory and Supply Chain Control and Tracking Methods and Systems - Inventory and supply chain control and tracking methods and systems are described herein. A method may include maintaining a database of compound identifiers that represent products and providers. A compound identifier includes a product identifier that identifies a product and a provider identifier that is appended to the product identifier, the provider identifier identifying a party that manufactures, distributes, provides, or sells the product to a reseller. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310384 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROCESSING COMMODITY OBJECT INFORMATION - A method and system of processing commodity object information. The method includes: determining a commodity object as a future for conducting an advance sale and an advance sale quantity; determining information of a first user of the commodity object of the advance sale and information of a physical logistics warehouse associated with the first user; generating information of a virtual logistics warehouse of the commodity object of the advance sale; and acquiring address information of a second user and determining whether the address information of the second user is located in a distribution coverage of the virtual logistics warehouse when logistics warehouse information of the commodity object is displayed to the second user, and providing the information of the virtual logistics warehouse of the commodity object to the second user if affirmative. The present disclosure can avoid an occurrence of an event such as “over-sale”, exceeding a distribution coverage, etc., during a future advance sale. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310385 | System for Managing Expiration-Dated Products - A system for managing expiration-dated products that includes, among other things, a computer, an electronic label in communication with the computer, and a program product comprising machine-readable program code for causing, when executed, the computer to transmit a data set containing expiration date information to the electronic label. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310386 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORAGE OF DATA FOR MANUFACTURED ITEMS - Exemplary embodiments are directed to a method and apparatus for storing data for a batch of manufactured items. The method comprises defining in a processor, using a lower limit identifier and an upper limit identifier, a range of unique item identifiers for the batch, wherein each manufactured item in the batch is allocated a unique item identifier falling within the range. The item identifiers are stored in allocated storage space. If an upper limit identifier is specified for each time interval, an amount of storage specified for all manufactured items during a production time period is calculated as a sum of a first product and a second product, the first product being a product of a production time and a size allocated to each upper limit identifier, and the second product being a product of the production time, a total number of manufactured items, and a percentage of unused identifiers. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310387 | Systems and Methods for Routing Return Products to Subsequent Purchasers - Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for routing return products from prior purchasers to subsequent purchasers. In an exemplary embodiment, a method generally includes receiving a search request for a target product, identifying a return product associated with the target product, in response to the search request, the return product designated for return from a prior purchaser to a seller of the return product, but not yet received by the seller, receiving a purchase request for the return product, the purchase request indicating a subsequent purchaser, and issuing an instruction, to a courier in possession of the return product and/or the prior purchaser of the return product, to route the return product to the subsequent purchaser. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310388 | LOCAL COURIERS NETWORK IN THE CONTEXT OF AN ON-LINE TRADING PLATFORM - A local couriers network provided in the context of an on-line trading platform is described. A request detector receives, from a user, a purchase request indicating an item. A local delivery indication detector determines, from the purchase request, an indication of a local delivery transaction. A local courier selector selects courier identifications corresponding to one or more profiles from the local courier profiles in response to the indication of the local delivery transaction, utilizing respective quality of service ratings stored in the local courier profiles. The communications module provides the list to the user and receives, from the user, a chosen courier identification and completes a transaction with respect to purchase and delivery of the item. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310389 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR MANAGING EDGE DEVICES - A system for managing edge devices, such as scanner devices, typically includes a management module having a processor. The processor is typically communicatively coupled to a user interface that includes a visual display and a plurality of edge devices. The processor may also be communicatively coupled to a plurality of intermediate devices. The management module enables a user of the user interface to manage various aspects of the system. The processor is typically configured for displaying with the visual display (i) a physical view of the connections between the management module, the intermediate devices, and the edge devices and (ii) a first user-defined view of the management module, the intermediate devices, and the scanner devices. The processor is typically also configured for managing operational information generated by connected edge devices, including for efficiently storing operational information and intelligently querying the operational information to assist the user in matching compatible plug-in applications with particular edge devices. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310390 | AGGREGATION AND WORKFLOW ENGINES FOR MANAGING PROJECT INFORMATION - A system includes an aggregation engine that receives a build sheet entry from a user that includes a configuration item, a category, and a value. The system also includes a workflow engine that determines a first approver associated with the configuration item and a second approver associated with the category. The workflow engine transmits a first approval request to the first approver and a second approval request to the second approver. The workflow engine receives a first response that indicates that the first approver approved the build sheet entry and a second response that indicates that the second approver denied the build sheet entry. The workflow engine receives an updated build sheet entry from the user that includes the configuration item, the category, and an updated value. The workflow engine transmits an updated second approval request to the second approver and receives an updated second response that indicates that the second approver approved the updated build sheet entry. The system also includes an export engine that exports the build sheet entry to an external group. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310391 | MANAGING VOTING EMAILS - A method includes receiving a request to send a voting message to a plurality of voters. The voting message includes a plurality of ballot options. The method also includes generating a first folder corresponding to a first ballot option and determining a rule for organizing a plurality of voting message responses based on a corresponding selected ballot option in each voting message response. The selected ballot option corresponds to one of the plurality of ballot options. The method further includes receiving a first voting message response. The selected ballot option in the first voting message response corresponds to the first ballot option. The method additionally includes determining whether the first voting message response should be filtered into the first folder based on the rule, and, in response to determining that the voting message should be filtered into the first folder, filtering the first voting message response into the first folder. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310392 | JOB RECOMMENDATION ENGINE USING A BROWSING HISTORY - A system receives and stores in a database identifications and attributes of jobs viewed by a user in a job posting service, and creates a job browsing history profile for the user using the identifications and attributes. The system compares the job browsing history profile to jobs in the job posting service, generates a listing of jobs based on the comparison, and displays the listing of jobs to the user. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310393 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A BEST FIT CANDIDATE FOR A JOB AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and device that identify a best fit candidate for a job in an organization includes receiving company specific data and job specific data. A company profile and a job profile are created using the received company specific data and job specific data. Data pertaining to all candidates are obtained from the company and other external sources and used to fill a candidate profile for each of the candidates. A job influence score, company fitment score and a job fitment score is calculated for each candidate. A total candidate job score is calculated based on the calculated job influence score, company fitment score and the job fitment score. All the candidates are then ranked based on the calculated total candidate job score. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HIRING, ONBOARDING, AND COLLABORATING - An apparatus and method for hiring, onboarding, and collaborating. The system and method may utilize a server and user interfaces to facilitate the posting of job openings, the narrowing of a pool of jobseekers, the scheduling of interviews, and the selection of a jobseeker for hire. Once hired, the system and method may facilitate the onboarding process through the sharing of documents and other necessary information. The system and method may additionally allow for collaboration among users. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310395 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PLACING JOB CANDIDATES - A method of placing job candidates with a prospective employer is disclosed where a plurality of personal qualities from a job candidate is collected, a score to each of the personal qualities is assigned, an assessment score for the job candidate factored from the scores assigned to each of the personal qualities is calculated; and the job candidate is ranked in accordance with an employer's pre-selected criteria for job candidates. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310396 | Interaction with Parties for Worker's Compensation - Technology is described for interacting with employers in a worker's compensation process. The method can include receiving a worker's compensation claim at a server. The worker's compensation claim can be stored in a database and submitted to a worker's compensation carrier. An employee update request can be sent to an insured employer in a short range time frame. An employer claim update request can be sent to the insured employer in a medium range time frame, and a decision time update request can be sent to the insured employer in a medium range time frame. In addition, a weekly follow-up reminder request may be sent to the insured employer until the employee is back to work with no restrictions. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310397 | Information Processing Method and Device - An information processing method and device, and the method includes: collecting tag information through a short-range information collecting apparatus provided in an electronic device, analyzing the collected tag information to obtain time information about the occurrence time corresponding to a reminding event contained in the tag information; generating a reminder time to remind the user of the reminding event based on the time information, and generating in a memorandum module in the electronic device reminder information corresponding to the reminding event and including at least the reminding event and the reminder time, wherein the reminder information can be output through an output unit in the electronic device to remind the user corresponding to the electronic device. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310398 | GENERATION OF MEETING AGENDA FROM TEAM WORK PLAN - A method for generating a meeting agenda associated with a calendar application and a team planning tool is provided. The method may include retrieving a plurality of work items associated with the team planning tool and the calendar application. The method may also include sorting the plurality of work items based on a pre-determined criteria. The method may further include determining at least one incomplete work item within the plurality of sorted work items. Additionally, the method may include creating a topic associated with the meeting agenda for the at least one incomplete work item. The method may include assigning a focal point for the created topic. The method may also include assigning a time limit for the created topic based on the sorting of the plurality of work items. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310399 | GENERATION OF MEETING AGENDA FROM TEAM WORK PLAN - A method for generating a meeting agenda associated with a calendar application and a team planning tool is provided. The method may include retrieving a plurality of work items associated with the team planning tool and the calendar application. The method may also include sorting the plurality of work items based on a pre-determined criteria. The method may further include determining at least one incomplete work item within the plurality of sorted work items. Additionally, the method may include creating a topic associated with the meeting agenda for the at least one incomplete work item. The method may include assigning a focal point for the created topic. The method may also include assigning a time limit for the created topic based on the sorting of the plurality of work items. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310400 | System and Method for Proactively Establishing a Third-Party Payment Account for Services Rendered to a Resident of a Controlled-Environment Facility - Systems and methods for proactively establishing a third-party payment account for services rendered to a resident of a controlled-environment facility (“CEF”). A campaign-triggering event is detected, which triggers contact of prospective third-party (“3 | 2015-10-29 |
20150310401 | Platform and Method for Analyzing the Performance of Message Oriented Middleware - A computer server platform application for analyzing a capability of a message oriented transaction system. The platform application includes a first server having a performance driver utility for sending a plurality of transactions through a queue manager as messages having a payload and a correlation identification. The performance driver utility calculates and records a completion time for each transaction sent. A backend utility within the first server is for receiving each transaction sent, converting each payload into a reply message, and sending the reply message to a reply queue destination. A graphing utility contained within the first server is for displaying the completion time for each transaction and an average number of transactions per unit of time for a total number of transactions tested. The performance driver utility is further for displaying categories of possible transaction delays and resolutions of the delays. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310402 | TRANSACTION CONVERSION WITH PAYMENT CARD - Methods and systems for facilitating payment are described. A user presents a payment card (e.g., credit or bank card) during checkout, and payment card details are transmitted to a service provider. The service provider receives the details and determines that the payment card is linked to an account with the service provider. The service provider identifies the user account linked to the payment card and processes the transaction using the funding sources available in the user account. The funding sources used may include the payment card or may be different. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310403 | ESTABLISHMENT SERVICE RATING VIA TIP AMOUNTS - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for establishment service rating via tip amounts is disclosed. The method includes: determining, by a client computing system, a total tip amount corresponding to a plurality of transactions at an establishment; determining a total party size representing a total quantity of consumers receiving services from the establishment corresponding to the plurality of transactions; computing an average tip per person value based on the total tip amount and the total party size, the average tip per person value anonymous to the consumers; and forwarding, by the client computing system to a rating service for online display by the rating service, the average tip per person value corresponding to the establishment for online access and viewing by other consumers. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310404 | TRANSFERRING MONEY USING EMAIL - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for sending or requesting money to or from multiple recipients using email. One of the methods includes receiving, at a user device, user input from a sender of a request to send a respective payment amount from a sender account of the sender with a payment service system to multiple recipient accounts of the payment service system. User input indicating respective recipient email addresses for the multiple recipients is received. A draft email message is generated, the draft email message being addressed to each of the multiple recipients, the draft email message including respective recipient email addresses for each of the multiple recipients. An indication that the sender sent the email message to the multiple recipients is sent to a payment service system. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310405 | VELOCITY ACCELERATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - A velocity accelerator system increases a velocity of capital when developing, marketing and selling products. The system includes a user acceptance module for receiving parameters describing a system user, and for analyzing the parameters to determine whether or not the system user is acceptable to the system; a sales monitoring module for monitoring and/or facilitating sales of products from the system user, accepted by the system, to customers of the system; and a sales buffering module for receiving payment associated with the sales of the products, and for providing to the system user, accepted by the system, payments which are at least one of: temporally in advance of receipt of payment by the system of documented sale of the products to the customers, at temporal intervals which are more frequent than receipt of payment by the system of documented sale of the products to the customers. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310406 | Systems and Methods for Automated Invoice Processing - Certain implementations of the disclosed technology may include systems, methods, and computer-readable media for automated invoice processing. A computer-implemented method is provided for querying, on behalf of a payer, at least one payee database to request and retrieve invoice data associated with at least one invoice account payable by the payer. The method includes retrieving, prior to physical mailing or payer receipt of the at least one invoice, at least a portion of the invoice data; extracting at least a portion of the invoice data; consolidating the extracted invoice data into a standardized data format; auditing one or more of the extracted and consolidated invoice data; associating, based at least in part on the auditing, a payer general ledger (GL) number with one or more of the retrieved, extracted, and consolidated invoice data; and outputting at least a portion of the consolidated data and the associated GL number. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310407 | TRAVEL RESERVATION PAYMENT SOLUTION - Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating a payment solution. A request to generate a payment solution for a priced travel solution comprising at least one travel inventory item using a plurality of forms of payment may be received. Responsive to receiving the request, a payment amount may be allocated to each of the plurality of forms of payment based at least in part on a payment hierarchy that defines an order in which the plurality of forms of payment are to be used for payment of the priced travel solution and at least one payment constraint associated with at least one of the plurality of forms of payment. The payment solution may be generated based on the allocated payment amounts. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310408 | System and Method for Bill Splitting - A billing system for making reservations at an establishment and splitting the resultant bill and methods for manufacturing and using same. The billing system includes a plurality of user devices, an application server, and at least one establishment device. One embodiment includes selecting a invitee user profile for addition to a split set associated with the reservation, the split set initially comprising an organizing user profile; sending a split invitation to a invitee user device associated with the invitee user profile; receiving a split-accept notification from the invitee user device; adding the user profile to the split set; and paying the bill by paying a first portion of the bill via a first payment method associated with the invitee user profile and paying a second portion of the bill via a second payment method associated with the organizing user profile. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310409 | FOOD PRINTING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE INGESTIBLE MATERIAL PREPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically directing control of at least partial treatment of the one or more portions of second material embedded in one or more ingestible substrate structures according to the treatment instructional information regarding the one or more subsequent ingestible substrate structure embedded secondary material treatment operations including directing energy to treat at least in part the one or more portions of the secondary material embedded in the one or more ingestible substrate structures to form at least in part the one or more selected ingestible products subsequent to and based at least in part upon the electronically receiving the user status information and the electronically receiving the selection information. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310410 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MONITORING FOR OUT-OF-BOUNDS MOBILE POS TERMINALS - The invention relates to a machine-moving monitoring system for mobile POS terminal and a machine-moving monitoring method for mobile POS terminal. The method comprises: a base station information acquiring step in which the mobile POS terminal acquires base station information of a current base station where the mobile POS terminal is located from the base station; an information uploading step in which a POS terminal information of the POS terminal and the base station information is uploaded when a transaction is being conducted on the mobile POS terminal; a base station location acquiring step in which an actual location information of the base station is acquired according to the uploaded base station information; a trader location information acquiring step in which a trader location information of a trader corresponding to the mobile POS terminal is acquired according to the uploaded POS terminal information; and a machine-moving determining step in which an actual distance between the base station and the trader is calculated according to the actual location information of the base station and the trader location information, and it is determined that a machine-moving behavior has occurred if the actual distance exceeds a specified distance. The invention can monitor whether a machine-moving behavior has happened effectively, quickly and accurately. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310411 | METHOD FOR PURCHASING OR CLAIMING A PRODUCT USING A PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Method for purchasing or claiming a product from an automated physical point of sale ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310412 | WEARABLE PAYMENT PROCESSING DEVICE - Various embodiments each include at least one of devices, systems, methods, and software of or including a wearable payment processing device. A wearable payment processing device is a wearable device that allows for conducting point-of-sale transactions. One embodiment includes a mounting base having opposing sides. A first opposing side is adapted to attach to a fixed base and a second opposing side is adapted to attach to a payment processing device. The payment processing device includes a payment card reader, an imaging device, and a display device electrically interconnected by a mainboard. The mainboard of such includes at least one processor, at least one memory device, and a network interface device. The at least one memory device stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to perform product purchase transactions for products identified via the imaging device and with payment data received via the payment card reader. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310413 | SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO IMAGE VALIDATION - An image is compared to a validation image to obtain a signal-to-noise ratio. The signal-to-noise ratio is used to determine validity of the image. According to an embodiment, the image includes a barcode. According to another embodiment, a minimum threshold value for the signal-to-noise ratio is set and the validity of the image is determined based on the minimum threshold value and the signal-to-noise ratio. The minimum threshold value can be determined by using respective signal-to-noise ratios resulting from comparing a valid image to a validation image and an invalid image to a validation image. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310414 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CHANGING A TRANSACTION STATEMENT - An information processing device includes: a registration processing unit that, in response to a request for registration of a product as an item to be checked out, acquires a product code that enables identification of the product, and transaction information, each of which concerns the product serving as a target of request, and sequentially stores, in a transaction-information storage unit, the product code and the transaction information, which are acquired on a request basis, as one transaction statement record in the requested order; a display processing unit that causes a display unit to display a registration screen that presents plural items of data corresponding to plural transaction statement records stored in the transaction-information storage unit; an acquiring unit that acquires a product code and request change information corresponding to data designated on the registration screen; and a change processing unit that applies a predetermined record process using the request change information to plural transaction statement records stored in the transaction-information storage unit and each containing the product code acquired by the acquiring unit. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310415 | RECEIPT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING RECEIPT DATA - According to one embodiment, a receipt data processing device includes a data generating section, an output section, and a converting section. The data generating section is configured to generate receipt data of a first data format including information about an item purchased by a customer. The output section is configured to output the receipt data to at least one of a printing device and an external device that is different from the printing device. The converting section is configured to convert a data format of the receipt data from the first data format to a second data format that is different from the first data format when the receipt data is output to the external device. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310416 | ELECTRONIC MONEY SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC VALUE TRANSFER METHOD, MOBILE TERMINAL, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL, PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM PRODUCT IS RECORDED - In order to enable a server-side value stored in an electronic money server to be transmitted automatically to a mobile terminal prior to payment and thus to enable payments on the basis of the terminal-side value balance when a payment terminal only has a function whereby payments are made on the basis of the terminal-side value balance, an asynchronous payment terminal emits ultrasonic waves from an ultrasonic wave emission source, indicating that the payment terminal is not compatible with payment processes on the basis of a server-side balance. When the ultrasonic waves are detected a mobile terminal determines that a payment on the basis of the server-side value balance is not possible, and determines whether the volume of the ultrasonic waves corresponds to a received ultrasonic wave pattern that appears when the mobile terminal is near the ultrasonic wave emission source. When it is determined that there is a correspondence, the mobile terminal transmits a value shift request to an electronic money server. The electronic money server receives this request, subtracts a predetermined amount from the server-side value balance, and then transmits amount change information which increases the terminal-side value balance by that predetermined amount. An IC module receives the amount change information updates (increases) the terminal-side value balance. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310417 | PAYMENT CODE GENERATION USING A WIRELESS BEACON AT A MERCHANT LOCATION - There are provided systems and method for payment code generation using a wireless beacon at a merchant location. A check-in at a merchant location may be completed using a wireless beacon at the merchant location with a communication device. After check-in a user using the communication device may request a payment code be generated from a payment provider that enables the user to have the payment code scanned by a merchant scanner at a point of sale device and complete payment for items with the merchant. The request to generate the payment code may be transmitted from the communication device to the wireless beacon, where the wireless beacon transmits the code over a network connection with the payment provider. Once the code is generated, the wireless beacon may receive the code and transmit the code back to the communication device. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310418 | CHECK CASHING WITH A MOBILE PHONE - A card actuated automated banking machine ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310419 | CARDLESS POINT-OF-SALE PAYMENT METHOD - A cardless point-of-sale payment method capable of completing patient transactions when a connection to a wireless network is not available is provided, including verifying a personal identification number (PIN) provided to an application installed on a registered mobile internet device, retrieving a backup authorization token from a memory of the registered mobile internet device, displaying the backup authorization token on the registered mobile internet device for entry to a point-of-sale device, providing sale transaction information to a purchase authorization processing company (APC) via a transmission between the point-of-sale device and the APC wherein the sale transaction information includes the backup authorization token and a sale transaction value, verifying the backup authorization token, verifying the sale transaction value against an approved transaction value associated with the backup authorization token, providing an approval to the point-of-sale device via a transmission between the APC and the point-of-sale device, and completing the payment. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310420 | INDUCTION BASED TRANSACTIONS AT A REMOTE SERVER - A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310421 | Electronic payment transactions without POS terminals - Techniques for completing a financial transaction without deploying merchant POS are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user or buyer uses his/her smartphone to complete a monetary transaction with a seller, where the seller does not have a POS device instead receives a conformation from a designated party that a payment from the buyer has been received. A platform is described to support such transactions. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310422 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING REAL TIME MUTABLE CREDIT CARD INFORMATION - A method for using a smartcard is provided. The smartcard may include a microprocessor chip, a button, a dynamic transaction authorization number, a Bluetooth low energy (“BLE”) device. The smartcard may also include a battery. The battery may be configured to power the BLE and the microprocessor chip. The smartcard may also include memory. The memory may be configured to store the dynamic transaction authorization number. The smartcard may also include a dynamic magnetic strip. The dynamic magnetic strip may include a digital representation of the dynamic transaction authorization number. The method for using a smartcard may include pressing the button. The method may also include transmitting an instruction to a smartphone for a request for a dynamic transaction authorization number. The transmission of an instruction may be in response the pressing of the button. The method may also include receiving a dynamic transaction authorization number from a smartphone. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310423 | MULTI-DOMAIN MOBILE ECOSYSTEM TOKENIZED TRANSACTION WRAPPER - Tokenizing a wrapper in a secure personalized transaction conducted within a multi-domain ecosystem involves mapping a portion of a plurality of information fields of an electronic transaction message received by a networked device of the multi-domain ecosystem to common format message fields that are then configured into a common format message. The configured common format message is wrapped in a protocol abstraction content wrapper, which is tokenized. The token and/or the wrapper is transmitted to a second networked device in the ecosystem for authentication of a transaction identifiable in the electronic transaction message. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310424 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC CURRENCY USER DIRECTORY DATA AND ENHANCED PEER-VERIFICATION LEDGER SYNTHESIS THROUGH MULTI-MODAL CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY-ADDRESS MAPPING - Disclosed is a method and a system of cryptographic currency user directory data and enhanced peer-verification ledger synthesis through multi-modal cryptographic key-address mapping. The method determines that a propagation packet is a transaction of a cryptographic currency and extracts both an IP address and an input key-address to determine that the input key-address is under a suspected control of a user of interest. The method also determines that a relayed key-address communicated between a user of interest and a correspondent is under the suspected control of the user of interest, and/or that and/or an exhibited key-address of a web content is under the suspected control of the user of interest. The suspected control may be added to an enhanced ledger data and/or a user directory data. The system implementing one or more of the methods includes a set of collections servers, a directory server, and a wide area network. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310425 | Systems and Methods of Processing Payment Transactions Using One-Time Tokens - Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for processing payment transaction using pseudo-PAN. In an exemplary embodiment, a method generally includes generating an encryption salt, receiving a request from a consumer indicating a possible payment transaction, in response to the request, generating a one-time token, based on the actual payment information and a most recent generated encryption salt, the one-time token having the same format as the payment information, with a routing segment of the one-time token being identical to a routing segment of the payment information, and presenting the one-time token. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310426 | Bit Currency: Transactional Trust Tools - Systems and methods are provided for utilizing a digital coin in conjunction with Internet transported media so that digital money may real-time, counter-parallel flow relative to the media flow, to enable the recipient to pay the source for its media goods, and also digital money may parallel-flow with the media to pay off hubs and nodes on its way, in order to prioritize its throughput. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310427 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TRANSACTION-SIGNING ONE-TIME PASSWORD - Disclosed herein are a method, apparatus and system for generating a transaction-signing One-time password. The method includes transmitting a payment request to a payment server using a trusted application running on a client terminal, receiving transaction information in response to the transaction request, and generating a transaction-signing OTP including the transaction information as an input value by using the trusted application. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310428 | Mobile Payment System and Method Using Alias - Methods and systems are disclosed for allowing financial transactions to be conducted using mobile phones. A payer initiates a transaction by sending a payment request message from a mobile phone which specifies the payee and amount to be paid. Payees are identified by unique aliases, which are maintained in a database. Methods for assembling the enrollment and alias database are included. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310429 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Using Proxy Accounts - An electronic device including an input/output interface operable to receive an input from a user and communicate an output to the user, a transceiver operable to electronically communicate with a computer network, a computer processor operable to execute instructions, and a memory storage operable to store the instructions, the memory storage further comprising a program module that is operable to: receive credentials for a proxy payment account, where the proxy payment account is linked to a primary payment account and not linked directly to a method of payment underlying the primary payment account, and make payment at a Point of Sale (POS) using the received credentials. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310430 | MOBILE PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A merchant web site automatically detects whether a customer device has a registered payment application; if so, the web site generates a custom protocol message that is triggered on checkout to initiate payment via the payment application. Details of the transaction are passed to the payment application via a payment server so that the user can authorise the transaction within the payment application. | 2015-10-29 |