45th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
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20140330540 | RANDOM BODY MOVEMENT CANCELLATION FOR NON-CONTACT VITAL SIGN DETECTION - A method and system for cancelling body movement effect for non-contact vital sign detection is described. The method begins with sending on a first electromagnetic wave transceiver a first electromagnetic signal with a first frequency to a first side of a body, such as a person or animal. Simultaneously using a second electromagnetic wave transceiver a second electromagnetic signal is sent with a second frequency to a second side of a body, wherein the first frequency and the second frequency are different frequencies. A first reflected electromagnetic signal reflected back in response to the first electromagnetic wave on the first transceiver is received and a first baseband complex signal is extracted. Likewise a second reflected electromagnetic signal reflected back in response to the second electromagnetic wave on the second transceiver is received and a second baseband complex signal is extracted. The first baseband complex signal is mathematically combined with the second baseband complex signal to cancel out a Doppler frequency drift therebetween to yield a periodic Doppler phase effect. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330541 | FLOOR ALIGNMENT IN MULTI-FLOOR BUILDING - A method, system and apparatus for aligning floor plans by an electronic device including accessing at least first and second floor plans of a predefined building structure. First and second reference points are provided on each of the at least first and second floor plans for subsequent alignment of the floor plans. A computation is then performed which aligns the at least first and second floors with one another in accordance with the predefined building structure whereby the first provided reference point of the first floor plan is to be vertically arranged relative to the first reference point provided on the second floor plan and wherein the second provided reference point of the first floor plan is to be vertically arranged relative to the second reference point provided on the second floor plan. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330542 | Method and System to Unify and Display Simulation and Real-time Plant Data for Problem-Solving - A computer-based method and system brings together data from two business domains: real-time actual plant status operation data and predictive process simulation data based upon a design specification. This method and system correlates the plant data and the simulation data, and displays the results side-by-side for the user. The results assist the user, to determine whether the plant is operating properly, and to make further improvements to both the plant assets and to the simulation models. The invention assists with monitoring, maintaining, trouble shooting, and problem solving of plant operation. The invention facilitates a progressive visual collaborative environment between plant operation and process engineering teams, where engineers from respective domains may socialize and trouble shoot problems. The Progressive Visual Collaboration helps professionals with searching, sharing, mapping, analyzing, framing problems, removing ambiguity and uncertainty by considering facts and figures, and providing a progressive workflow that solves plant problems. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330543 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING LENS - A method for designing a lens is disclosed. Multiple coordinates of an optical face of the lens are set according to formulas of X | 2014-11-06 |
20140330544 | MODELING THE LONG-TERM EVOLUTION OF SPACE DEBRIS - A space object modeling system that models the evolution of space debris is provided. The modeling system simulates interaction of space objects at simulation times throughout a simulation period. The modeling system includes a propagator that calculates the position of each object at each simulation time based on orbital parameters. The modeling system also includes a collision detector that, for each pair of objects at each simulation time, performs a collision analysis. When the distance between objects satisfies a conjunction criterion, the modeling system calculates a local minimum distance between the pair of objects based on a curve fitting to identify a time of closest approach at the simulation times and calculating the position of the objects at the identified time. When the local minimum distance satisfies a collision criterion, the modeling system models the debris created by the collision of the pair of objects. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330545 | METHOD OF DESIGNING A CUSTOM PROPELLER - A method of designing a custom boat propeller with optimized geometry for a boat and motor combination based upon a user generated performance data set. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330546 | Method for Urodynamics Testing and Analysis - This invention relates to a noninvasive method for urodynamics testing and analysis, comprising: modeling a bladder before a releasing of the urine as a topological sphere, modeling a circle formed by cutting the topological sphere through its center as an elastic element, determining a functional relation between a length L of the elastic element and a urine volume a within the bladder: L=F(a), determining a functional relation between a length contraction ΔL of the elastic element and both of a urinary flow rate Q and the urine volume a within the bladder: ΔL=ξ(Q,a), determining a functional relation between a contraction velocity ν of the elastic element and the length contraction ΔL of the elastic element: ν=ΔL, calculating a value of an index DC for assessing a bladder contractility to determine the bladder contractility of the subject. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330547 | FORMING A MODEL OF A SUBSURFACE REGION - A method of forming a geologic model of a subsurface region is disclosed. Data related to the subsurface region is obtained. A framework is constructed to represent the subsurface region. A template is selected from a plurality of templates. The selected template provides at least one property that is characteristic of the subsurface region. The selected template is inserted into the framework, to form the geologic model. The geologic model is then outputted. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330548 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATION OF ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - A method of simulating an online social network (OSN) includes modeling behavior data of a user, the behavior data including sampled real data, and simulating a behavior of the OSN using the modeled data. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330549 | SIMULATION DEVICE, SIMULATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A simulation apparatus has a type setting section that sets a type of mode of electric power consumption of equipment, and an output section that simulates an amount of the electric power consumption of the equipment in accordance with the type set by the type setting section and outputting the amount of electric power consumption thus simulated. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330550 | ENABLING AN IM USER TO NAVIGATE A VIRTUAL WORLD - A user is enabled to interact with a virtual world environment using an instant messenger application by enabling a user to enter the virtual world environment using the instant messenger application that includes an instant messaging (IM) user interface, generating and managing an avatar to represent the user in the virtual world environment, monitoring a sub-portion of the virtual world environment corresponding to a current location of the user in the virtual world environment, determining descriptions of activities taking place in the sub-portion of the virtual world environment based on the monitoring, and providing the user with the determined descriptions of activities taking place in the sub-portion of the virtual world environment via the IM user interface. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330551 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATION OF A TRANSLATABLE SENTENCE SYNTAX IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Sentence internationalization methods and systems are disclosed. The method may include: providing a developer interface to define an internationalized sentence syntax for an application on a social networking system, the internationalized sentence syntax for translating a natural language expression of a social graph edge of the social networking system; providing a sentence option on the developer interface to define grammar of the internationalized sentence syntax; generating a token structure including a language token to assist translation of the internationalized sentence syntax into a preferred language indicated by the language token, the token structure customizable via the developer interface to configure translation options; associating a social graph attribute with a first token of the token structure; and storing the sentence option and the token structure with the internationalized sentence syntax to facilitate run-time translation of the internationalized sentence syntax into the natural language expression in the preferred language. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330552 | Machine Translation Using Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performing translations from a source language to a target language. The method comprises receiving a source phrase, generating a target bag of words based on a global lexical selection of words that loosely couples the source words/phrases and target words/phrases, and reconstructing a target phrase or sentence by considering all permutations of words with a conditional probability greater than a threshold. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330553 | VERIFYING THE TERMS OF USE FOR ACCESS TO A SERVICE - Provided are techniques in which a document accompanying a service is acquired, a natural language analysis is performed on the acquired document, a determination is made from the results of the natural language analysis whether an item defined in the access control policy is found in the acquired document and, when the item defined in the access control policy is found in the acquired document, the access control policy is referenced and access to the service controlled accordingly. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330554 | System and Method for Generating Manually Designed and Automatically Optimized Spoken Dialog Systems - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable storage media for generating a natural language spoken dialog system. The method includes nominating a set of allowed dialog actions and a set of contextual features at each turn in a dialog, and selecting an optimal action from the set of nominated allowed dialog actions using a machine learning algorithm. The method includes generating a response based on the selected optimal action at each turn in the dialog. The set of manually nominated allowed dialog actions can incorporate a set of business rules. Prompt wordings in the generated natural language spoken dialog system can be tailored to a current context while following the set of business rules. A compression label can represent at least one of the manually nominated allowed dialog actions. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330555 | Methods and Systems for Natural Language Understanding Using Human Knowledge and Collected Data - Disclosed herein are systems and methods to incorporate human knowledge when developing and using statistical models for natural language understanding. The disclosed systems and methods embrace a data-driven approach to natural language understanding which progresses seamlessly along the continuum of availability of annotated collected data, from when there is no available annotated collected data to when there is any amount of annotated collected data. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330556 | LOW COMPLEXITY REPETITION DETECTION IN MEDIA DATA - Low complexity detection of a time-wise position of a representative segment in media data is described. A subset of offset values is located in a set of offset values in media data using a first type of one or more types of features, which are extractable from (e.g., derivable from components of) the media data. The subset of offset values comprise values that are selected from the set of offset values based on one or more selection criteria. A set of candidate seed time points is identified based on the subset of offset values using a second type of the one or more types of features. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330557 | DEVICES THAT TRAIN VOICE PATTERNS AND METHODS THEREOF - A voice enhancement device including an earpiece configured to be positioned in an ear canal of a user. A microcontroller is operatively coupled to the earpiece. The microcontroller is configured to selectively provide at least multitalker babble. An accelerometer is located within the earpiece and operatively coupled to the microcontroller. The accelerometer is configured to detect speech by the user and communicate with the microcontroller to provide the multitalker babble to the earpiece during the detected speech by the user. A method of making the voice enhancement device, and a method for increasing vocal loudness in a patient using the voice enhancement device are also disclosed. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330558 | Enhancing Speech Recognition with Domain-Specific Knowledge to Detect Topic-Related Content - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing action items from audio within an enterprise context. In some implementations, actions include determining a context of audio that is to be processed, providing training data to a speech recognition component, the training data being provided based on the context, receiving text from the speech recognition component, processing the text to identify one or more action items by identifying one or more concepts within the text and matching the one or more concepts to respective transitions in an automaton, and providing the one or more action items for display to one or more users. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330559 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING - A method, device, system, and computer medium for providing interactive advertising are provided. For example, a device may request an advertisement from a remote server, receive the advertisement, receive a response from a user who is listening and/or watching the advertisement, and transmit the response to the server for further action. The user may input a response by speaking. A server may receive an advertisement request from the device, select an advertisement based on pre-defined one or more criteria, transmit the selected advertisement to the device for play, receive from the device a response to the selected advertisement, and then perform an action corresponding to the received response. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330560 | USER AUTHENTICATION OF VOICE CONTROLLED DEVICES - Methods, systems, and devices are described herein. One method can include receiving a voice command from a user at a voice controlled device, determining a presence of the user to the device using a sensor, converting the voice command to a device specific command, and performing the device specific command using the device in response to the determined presence. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330561 | VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A voice recognition method and an electronic device thereof are provided, including executing a voice recognition function, setting a voice recognition mode based on information input from at least one sensor of the electronic device, and processing an input voice according to the set mode. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330562 | Method and Apparatus for Obtaining Information from the Web - An intelligent conversation system augmenting a conversation between two or more individuals uses a speech to text block configured to convert voices of the conversation into text, a determination circuit configured to determine topics from the text of the conversation, search parameters determined by the determination circuit from the topics are sent to an Internet, search results corresponding to the search parameters are received from the Internet; and a memory configured to store the search results received from the Internet. The speech to text block is configured to convert the search results to speech. An earphone is configured to transmit the speech to one of the two or more individuals. The speech is used by one of the individuals to augment the conversation. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330563 | SEAMLESS AUTHENTICATION AND ENROLLMENT - Some aspects of the invention may include a computer-implemented method for enrolling voice prints generated from audio streams, in a database. The method may include receiving an audio stream of a communication session and creating a preliminary association between the audio stream and an identity of a customer that has engaged in the communication session based on identification information. The method may further include determining a confidence level of the preliminary association based on authentication information related to the customer and if the confidence level is higher than a threshold, sending a request to compare the audio stream to a database of voice prints of known fraudsters. If the audio stream does not match any known fraudsters, sending a request to generate from the audio stream a current voice print associated with the customer and enrolling the voice print in a customer voice print database. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330564 | FRAME ERASURE CONCEALMENT TECHNIQUE FOR A BITSTREAM-BASED FEATURE EXTRACTOR - A frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractors in a speech recognition system particularly suited for use in a wireless communication system operates to “delete” each frame in which an erasure is declared. The deletions thus reduce the length of the observation sequence, but have been found to provide for sufficient speech recognition based on both single word and “string” tests of the deletion technique. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330565 | Apparatus and Method for Model Adaptation for Spoken Language Understanding - An apparatus and a method are provided for building a spoken language understanding model. Labeled data may be obtained for a target application. A new classification model may be formed for use with the target application by using the labeled data for adaptation of an existing classification model. In some implementations, the existing classification model may be used to determine the most informative examples to label. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330566 | PROVIDING SOCIAL-GRAPH CONTENT BASED ON A VOICE PRINT - During a communication technique, an individual is identified based on a signal that includes vocal sounds of the individual and a voice print of the individual. For example, the voice print may include features characteristic of the individual's voice. Alternatively or additionally, the identification may be based on context information associated with a conversation that includes the individual and/or based on pronunciation of the individual's name. After the individual is identified, content in a social graph, which is associated with the individual, may be accessed and provided. This content may include business information, such as: contact information, education information, a job title, an organization associated with the individual, and/or connections of the individual to other individuals in the social graph. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330567 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS FROM ACOUSTIC UNITS WITH DEFAULT VALUES OF CONCATENATION COST - A speech synthesis system can select recorded speech fragments, or acoustic units, from a very large database of acoustic units to produce artificial speech. When a pair of acoustic units in the database does not have an associated concatenation cost, the system assigns a default concatenation cost. The system then synthesizes speech, identifies the acoustic unit sequential pairs generated and their respective concatenation costs, and stores those concatenation costs likely to occur. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUDITORY CAPTCHAS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for performing an audible human verification. The method includes determining that a human verification is needed, presenting an audible challenge to a user which exploits a known issue with automatic speech recognition processes, receiving a response to the audible challenge, and verifying that a human provided the response. The known issue with automatic speech recognition processes can be recognition of a non-word, in which case the user can be asked to spell the recognized non-word. The known issue with automatic speech recognition processes can be differentiation of simultaneous input for multiple audio streams. Multiple audio streams contained in the audible challenge can be provided monaurally. Verifying that a human provided the response can include confirming the contents of one of the multiple audio streams. Audible human verification can be performed in combination with visual human verification. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330569 | DEVICE VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Device voice recognition systems and methods are described herein. One example of a method for device voice recognition includes receiving a voice command, determining a number of devices relating to the voice command, and adjusting a setting of the number of devices based on the received voice command. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330570 | SATISFYING SPECIFIED INTENT(S) BASED ON MULTIMODAL REQUEST(S) - Techniques are described herein that are capable of satisfying specified intent(s) based on multimodal request(s). A multimodal request is a request that includes at least one request of a first type and at least one request of a second type that is different from the first type. Example types of request include but are not limited to a speech request, a text command, a tactile command, and a visual command. A determination is made that one or more entities in visual content are selected in accordance with an explicit scoping command from a user. In response, speech understanding functionality is automatically activated, and audio signals are automatically monitored for speech requests from the user to be processed using the speech understanding functionality. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330571 | The personalized Genome report - The Personalized Genome Report (The PGR) is a unique business process that is a paper based method for reporting whole genome sequencing. The PGR is specifically designed for primary care-doctors/physicians to use risk values for diseases and genetic characteristics from the patient's genome to form a wellness plan with the patient to help the patient stay healthy as they age. The PGR is designed to have no mention of specific genetic alleles or mutations or cumbersome statistics to potentially confuse patients. Only information that pertains specifically to a patient's disease risk is contained in the PGR. The PGR also discusses environmental and drug allergies and Mendelian disorders and information on the mitochondrial genome. It is designed to be a comprehensive look at the patient's genetic risk. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330572 | Framework for Modeling a Clinical Trial Study Using a Cross-Over Treatment Design - The present disclosure provides for modeling a clinical trial study, which may implement a cross-over design. A plurality of treatments is generated for a clinical trial study, based on a first subset of operational parameters. A plurality of sequences is also generated for the clinical trial study, based on a second subset of the operational parameters. Each sequence of the plurality of sequences comprises a combination of ones of the plurality of treatments. A plurality of subject groups is assigned to the plurality of sequences, where one subject group of the plurality of subject groups is respectively assigned to one sequence of the plurality of sequences. The one sequence is administered to subjects of the one subject group during the clinical trial study. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330573 | Modifying Metadata Associated with Electronic Medical Images - A method of transferring an electronic medical image according to one example embodiment includes receiving the electronic medical image over the internet from an electronic database of a first picture archiving and communication system. Metadata of the received electronic medical image is dynamically modified. The electronic medical image and the modified metadata are sent over the internet to an electronic database of a second picture archiving and communication system. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330574 | PREVENTIVE CARE ENGINE - A preventative care recommendation engine to provide a preventative care recommendation corresponding to a patient is disclosed. Processor(s) may be coupled to network interface(s) accessible by healthcare provider(s) and/or patient(s), to execute instructions to access a set of confidential health information for an identified patient, where the set is derived from a first data source, and includes an indication of a health condition of the identified patient, a healthcare service provided to the identified patient, and/or a time when the health care service was provided to the identified patient. A second data source that includes a set of criteria specified by a third party indicating a preventative care service may be accessed. A recommendation corresponding to the identified patient may be sent, wherein the recommendation is a function of the set of confidential health information for the identified patient and the set of criteria. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330575 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER TRACKING - A health care provider tracking system and method are disclosed. Such a method may include customizing a healthcare device user interface by presenting a first user interface on the healthcare device; receiving tag data having a healthcare provider identifier; sending the tag data to an authentication server; receiving an access token; and presenting a second user interface on the healthcare device different from the first user interface. The second user interface is configured based on the access token and the healthcare provider identifier. A healthcare tracking system may include a plurality of user tags and a plurality of healthcare devices configured to present a first user interface; obtain the tag data from user tags; communicate tag data; receive an access token; and present a second user interface on the healthcare device different from the first user interface. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330576 | Mobile Platform Designed For Hosting Brain Rehabilitation Therapy And Cognitive Enhancement Sessions - A mobile platform allows trainers to host online brain rehabilitation and cognitive enhancement sessions with clients. The sessions can be individually tailored or chosen from a plethora of prepared sessions. The trainer/evaluator uses real time questionnaires to evaluate the status of the patient prior to preparing the training session. They can also view the results and performance of the patient in real time or at any time after the session has been completed. The mobile platform is designed to facilitate the creation and growth of a community of users by facilitating communication and interactivity between the users upon the satisfactory completion of a battery of tests and evaluations. The mobile platform serves as an information resource for trainers and clients by incorporating a set of algorithms, rules, and guidelines regarding the administration of brain rehabilitation and cognitive enhancement sessions. This aids both trainers and clients participating in the sessions. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330577 | Apparatus And Method For A Post-Treatment Patient Compliance System - A system and corresponding method for post-treatment patient compliance for a medical patient is performed by a system having a memory operable to retain a series of instructions, and a processor operable to retrieve and execute the instructions to perform a series of steps. One step includes receiving as a first input any one of: information from a patient management system regarding the patient; information from a patient interview conducted with the patient; and information from one or more manual inputs. A patient treatment plan is generated based on the first input. As a second input, any one of: a drug interaction based information; an evidence-based clinical decision information; and a custom clinical input information, are received. Also, a third input of a treatment recommendation process is received. A comparison based on any two of the above first, second and third inputs is performed. A post-treatment recommendation specific to the patient is determined for the patient based on the comparison. The post-treatment patient compliance is effected via a patient notification process. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330578 | ELECTRONIC MEDICAL HISTORY (EMH) DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR STANDARD MEDICAL CARE, CLINICAL MEDICAL RESEARCH, AND ANALYSIS OF LONG-TERM OUTCOMES - An information system and method which corroborates first data provided by data owners and second data provided by data controllers includes a computer and first and second databases. The first database stores the first data and the second database stores the second data. The second data is accessible to the data controllers but not to the data owners. The computer receives from a data owner device first data created using input from one of the data owners, stores the received first data in the first database, transmits the first data retrieved from the first database to an administrator device, receives from the administrator device additional regulated data input by one of the data controllers related to the one data owner, and stores the second data which combines the transmitted first data with additional regulated data in the second database. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330579 | Medical Kiosk and Method of Use - A medical kiosk designed to provide tele-medicine services, check-in services, and/or prescription services for a user. The medical kiosk can include a user video conferencing system that is designed to enable the user to have a real-time or near real-time tele-conference with a medical provider located remotely from the medical kiosk. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330580 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNLOCKING AN OVER-THE-COUNTER BIOSIGNAL RECORDER - A system and method for allowing a patient/consumer access to recorded biosignals on an over-the-counter consumer biosignal recorder is disclosed. The method includes receiving at a monitoring server a registration request having an associated device identifier of the biosignal recorder and a user identifier of the patient/consumer. The patient/consumer is associated with the biosignal recorder in a registry of the monitoring server. A biosignal recording is received and a professional reviews the biosignal recording to generate a report that is transmitted to the patient/consumer. After the patient/consumer reviews the report, a confirmation is received at the monitoring server to confirm that the patient/consumer has reviewed the report, thus establishing the equivalent of a doctor-patient relationship. After this relationship has been established the monitoring server can update the device record of the biosignal recorder to indicate that it is eligible for unlocking. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330581 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND USING MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TREATMENT PLANS - Systems and methods are provided for creating and implementing multi-disciplinary treatment plans, which can allow healthcare and medical professionals and providers of various disciplines to collaborate in forming a patient treatment plan and subsequently managing patient care in accordance with this plan. Patient information is first received in a patient planning system. A team of multi-disciplinary healthcare or medical professionals and providers meet and collaborate to form a treatment plan which is then entered in the treatment planning system. As the course of treatment progresses, the treatment plan can be updated in the treatment planning system by each of the team members. The graphical user interface seen by the team members will typically be the same for each team member. This interface includes a generalized treatment planning section and a patient-specific section, each of which can be manipulated to add or update a treatment plan for a particular patient. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330582 | Patient Medical Data Access System - A medical data point of care device is configured to collect, access, store, and distribute patient medical data. The device is particularly suited for use in a mobile environment and may be particularly useful in an urgent care mobile environment, such as a battlefield or disaster area. In such environments, data transmission services may be intermittent and the bandwidth of such services may be low. The device is configured to adjust the flow of data transmission from a point of care location to a remote location so as to maximize or otherwise increase the likelihood of successful transmission of the data. The device is further configured to collect data from both a care provider and a medical device. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330583 | SYSTEMS MEDICINE PLATFORM FOR PERSONALIZED ONCOLOGY - The present invention is directed to a platform (e.g., Web-based) that enables basic and clinical research activities by integrating patient characteristics and clinical outcome data with a variety of high-throughput research data in a unified environment. While several rich data repositories for high dimensional research data exist in the public domain, most focus on a single data type and do not support integration across multiple technologies. The present invention in at least one embodiment includes a broad collection of bioinformatics and systems biology tools for analysis and visualization of four major “omics” types: DNA, mRNA, microRNA, and metabolites, as well as next-generation sequencing. The present invention helps facilitate systems medicine by providing easy identification of trends and patterns in integrated datasets and hence facilitate the use of better targeted therapies for cancer. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330584 | PATIENT MEDICAL DATA ACCESS SOFTWARE - A software application enables a user (such as for example a medical care provider) to acquire, enter, view, and store data related to medical care and/or transport of a patient. The software application enables one or more care providers to acquire and enter data in a timely manner beginning at the time medical care commences until a later time, such as until disposition of the patient at a medical care facility. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330585 | Health Care Communications Management System And Method Of Use - A system and method of use directed to a health care system is disclosed herein. More specifically, a system and method of use for managing the communications between health care providers and managing the patient's data before, during, and after receiving medical care is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system is comprised of automatic patient data sharing in communications between health care providers and support staff. In another embodiment, the system is comprised of automatic group messaging. In yet another embodiment, the system is comprised of automatic sharing of pending items and alerts. In another embodiment, the system is comprised of post medical care communications between the patient and health care providers. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330586 | Systems and Methods for Processing Patient Information - Systems and methods described herein are for transforming narrative content into structured output. In some embodiments the narrative content is processed using a natural language processing (NLP) engine and a clinical model. The structured output can include a section, a clinical assertion, and a plurality of elements, wherein the elements may include section elements and clinical assertion elements that annotate the section and clinical assertions respectively. The elements can be labeled based on the clinical model. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330587 | MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS DERIVED FROM PATIENT DRUG HISTORY DATA - In general the invention is directed to systems, methods, and/or software modules which may analyze a patient's drug history, and optionally other data, and derive a probable diagnosis for the patient based on rules. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330588 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLINICAL STRATEGY FOR THERAPEUTIC PHARMACIES - A system and method of distributing pharmaceutical prescriptions within a network of pharmacies based on the review of prescription claim data and patient medical state to enable stratification of patients, wherein each pharmacy within the network has been established to handle one or more particular patient medical states. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330589 | DYNAMIC MEDICAL INFORMATION MODEL FOR COORDINATED PATIENT CARE DELIVERY - The methods and systems described by the present invention enable managing a medical order provided to a patient, comprising:
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20140330590 | Asset-Based Adjustment of Premium Amounts for the Generation of an Annuity Based on a Pension Plan - According to one embodiment, a system includes one or more processors operable to determine a premium amount associated with a generation of an annuity based on a pension plan, and receive data indicative of a plurality of assets to be used towards a payment of the premium amount. The processors are further operable to, for each of one or more characteristics, receive data indicative of at least one threshold associated with the characteristic, determine whether at least a portion of the assets have a characteristic value that is above or below the threshold, and based on the determination, determine a non-conformance amount associated with the characteristic. The processors are further operable to, based on the non-conformance amount of each of the characteristics, adjust the premium amount, and communicate the adjusted premium amount for display. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330591 | Calculation of Premium Amounts for the Generation of an Annuity Based on a Pension Plan - According to one embodiment, a system includes one or more processors operable to, for each of the plurality of participants of a pension plan, determine data indicative of a first premium amount associated with a benefit of the pension plan that the participant is not eligible to elect to receive as a liability payout, and determine data indicative of a second premium amount associated with a benefit of the pension plan that the participant is eligible to elect to receive as the liability payout. The processors are further operable to determine a first total premium amount associated with a generation of an annuity based on the pension plan, and communicate the first total premium amount for display. The processors are further operable to determine a second total premium amount associated with the generation of the annuity, and communicate the second total premium amount for display. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330592 | Utilization of a Separate Account and a General Account for the Generation of an Annuity Based on a Pension Plan - According to one embodiment, a system includes one or more processors operable to determine a premium amount associated with a generation of an annuity based on a pension plan. The processors are further operable to determine a first portion of the premium amount eligible for allocation to a separate account. The processors are further operable to determine a second portion of the premium amount for allocation to a general account. The processors are further operable to calculate a third portion of the premium amount eligible for allocation to the general account. The processors are further operable to calculate a subset of the first portion of the premium amount to be removed from the first portion of the premium amount, and communicate the subset of the first portion for display. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330593 | Market-Based Adjustment of Premium Amounts for the Generation of an Annuity Based on a Pension Plan - According to one embodiment, a system includes one or more processors operable to receive data indicative of a plurality of participants in a pension plan, determine a premium amount associated with a generation of an annuity based on the pension plan, and receive data indicative of one or more reference portfolios. The one or more processors are further operable to, for each of the one or more reference portfolios, calculate an expected market value of the reference portfolio, remove one or more assets from the reference portfolio, re-weight one or more of the remaining assets in the reference portfolio, calculate an actual market value of the reference portfolio, and calculate an adjustment value of the reference portfolio. The one or more processors are further operable to adjust the premium amount and communicate the adjusted premium amount for display. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330594 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF INSURANCE CLASSIFICATION AND UNDERWRITING DETERMINATION FOR ENTITIES - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining an insurance evaluation based on an industrial classification. The system may be configured to receive search data relating to the entity seeking insurance coverage and query an interface of a third-party platform based on the search data. The system may then be configured to receive third-party platform interface data from the third-party platform, analyze the data to determine a web site address for a web page on the third-party platform relating to the entity, and retrieve third-party platform web site data from the web page on the third-party platform indicative of content related to the entity. The system may then output, based on the third-party platform interface data and web site data, first data indicative of at least one industrial classification associated with the entity. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330595 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIONS WITH A USER DEVICE AND THIRD PARTY COMPUTERS - Described are computer systems for interactions with a user device and third party computers. In an embodiment, a computer system for determining and displaying total loss calculations includes accessing third party computer systems for a plurality of data items. The computer system may include data storage devices, computer processors, a communications device, and a memory coupled to the computer processors. The memory may store program instructions which are operative with the computer processors to provide to a user device for display a total loss calculator graphical interface, receive inputs from the user device, request data from third party computers based on the received inputs, determine whether the data needed to perform a total loss calculation has been received, and perform a total loss calculation based on the requested data from the third party computer and the user inputs received from the graphical interface provided to the user device. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330596 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING VEHICLE AND OPERATOR BEHAVIOR - A system for monitoring operator and motor vehicle behavior, including at least one mobile device; application software resident on the mobile device, wherein the application software is operative to gather and record information relevant to both the behavior of a motor vehicle and the behavior of an operator of the motor vehicle, and wherein the application software is activated or deactivated based on certain predetermined trigger events; and at least one information processor in communication with and/or resident on the mobile device, wherein the information processor is operative to process and characterize the information gathered by the application software and communicate the processed and characterized information to a user of the system. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330597 | TICKET TRANSACTION AND PRICING SYSTEM - A ticket transfer system includes a ticket analyzer system includes logic adapted to receive an image of a ticket to an event. The ticket analyzer system includes logic adapted to extract information about the ticket from the image. The ticket analyzer includes logic adapted to apply the extracted information to identify a primary market system for the ticket and to verify validity of the ticket with the primary market system. The ticket analyzer system includes logic adapted to apply received signals on weather, time, and crowd conditions for the event to affect a price displayed for the ticket on an online exchange. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330598 | Finding Best Seating Selections via Algorithmic Search - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for contiguously seating passengers in a travel conveyance. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a seat request for multiple seats, and, in response to receiving the seat request, calculating factors associated with each seat in a set of eligible seats. The method includes defining an initial set of seats as a subset of the set of eligible seats, defining a set of factors for each seat in the initial set of seats, associating a priority with the multiple factor sets, where the factors include multiple contiguity and vacancy factors, the contiguity factors being of a higher priority than the vacancy factors. The method includes processing the factors based on the priority to identify an anchor seat from the initial set of seats, assigning the multiple seats based on the anchor seat. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330599 | Identifying Partial User-Entered Data - There are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for service improvement techniques for a transportation service provider using mobile devices. In one aspect there is received user-entered data for at least one field present in a provided electronic form. The form includes a link that, when activated, establishes a voice channel between the passenger and a customer representative and provides a unique identifier associated with the user-entered data that enables a customer representative to retrieve the user-entered data. In another aspect, there is a graphical representation that is transmitted to a customer or a driver to facilitate execution of a reservation of a transportation service to be provided to the customer by the driver. In another aspect, there is a location range received from a wireless handheld device associated with a driver and data received from the driver indicative of a more accurate location within the location range. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330600 | Performance Driven Municipal Asset Needs and Sustainability Analysis - Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for providing performance driven municipal asset needs and sustainability analysis. The method includes calculating asset health scores for a plurality of assets in an infrastructure. The asset health scores change as a function of time. The method also includes identifying prescription options for the assets. The identifying is based on the asset health scores. The prescription options include cost, value, and time for execution. A multi-objective optimization is applied based on the asset health scores and prescription options to identify at least a subset of the prescription options that may be implemented within a provided budget to maintain a sustainability threshold for an overall infrastructure health score. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND MONITORING THE DISPENSING OF FUELS - A fuel management system for use by operators of temporary and/or permanent inventories of vehicles such as vehicle dealerships. Fuel vouchers are issued by authorized issuing personnel to authorized recipients if a validation procedure is passed using a database incorporating employee and vehicle inventory information. At the time of delivery, the fueling station will verify the vehicle and individual presenting the voucher. If verification occurs, the authorized quantity of fuel is dispensed. The voucher and sales receipt are returned to the dealership for future auditing and report generation. The system stores information to enable reports to be generated concerning fuel voucher issuance, actual fuel usage and to detect fraud or misuse, allowing more effective fuel expense management. In the event a report generates a fraud alert, appropriate management personnel are immediately notified by email, text messaging or other means. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330602 | Method for Multi Entity Scheduling Object Visibility and Control - A method for enabling a non-authoring entity viewing access to view the data associated with authored, yet un-submitted, scheduling objects comprising of the identification of an entity, or the creation and selection of an entity code; and updating scheduling object. Some embodiments of the invention not only enable the ability of an entity to view the scheduling object, but also enable the selected non-authoring entity to modify the scheduling object. An embodiment of the invention is typically paired with or a part of a larger Transaction Management System (TMS). | 2014-11-06 |
20140330603 | Intelligent Reconfigurable Locker System - This invention involves the configuration of locker sizes during installation that can be reconfigured periodically to conform to the packages that arrive at the locker location. Locker control software can enable the efficient selection of locker size so that the locker bank can be optimized to the size of the packages that are delivered to the locker location. The reconfigurable lockers also may include a modular locker control module that can assist in the easy facilitation of changing the locker size. Also, the locker software can be flexible enough so that customers can have a direct communication link to the locker software that would allow the customer's mobile device to input authentication and access codes that would open up locker door(s). The locker software could also be enabled on the cloud providing an e-commerce goods seller, shipper or locker operator with information about goods that are shipped to locker locations and when customers stop by to pick up their goods or to return their goods to the e-commerce seller. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330604 | OPERATOR ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for assisting operators performing tasks on assets includes remotely monitoring locations of mobile electronic devices associated with performance of tasks on one or more assets by the operators, remotely monitoring progress of completion of the tasks, and, based on at least one of the locations that are monitored or the progress of completion of the tasks, at least one of: altering an order in which the tasks are to be completed to reduce at least one of a completion time or completion cost of the tasks, communicatively coupling the mobile electronic devices with one or more expert personnel to assist the operators in completing the tasks, or generating a visual presentation on at least one of the mobile electronic devices that illustrates at least one of progress or problems with completion of the tasks. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330605 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND SCHEDULING A WORKFORCE - A method includes calculating a labor shortfall for completion of a set of tasks within a designated time period. The labor shortfall represents a difference between a required workforce that is needed to complete the tasks and an amount of available workforce. The available workforce personnel are subject to workforce constraints on how long the workforce personnel can work. The method also includes visually presenting an indication of the labor shortfall and automatically generating communication signals for available workforce personnel and/or additional workforce personnel. The communication signals request additional work on the set of tasks by the at least one of the available workforce personnel or the additional workforce personnel in excess of the one or more workforce constraints. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING - A method is presently disclosed that includes receiving asset information for a plurality of assets, and each asset has defined inspection requirements; determining a list of inspection tasks for each of the plurality of assets based on the inspection requirements; receiving workforce information for a plurality of members of a workforce who perform inspection tasks on the assets, wherein the workforce information further includes one or more workforce constraints; determining a schedule for the inspection tasks based on the asset information and the workforce information subject to the workforce constraints. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330607 | PERSONALIZATION OF NOTIFICATIONS ON MOBILE DEVICES FOR ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS - Personalization of notifications can be provided. Personalized notification settings defining operation of a personalized notification (e.g., what business event or events trigger the notification, number of occurrences of the notification, frequency of the occurrences, audio indicators, and/or visual indicators) can be entered at a mobile device and stored at a server environment. The server environment can monitor business events and send the personalized notifications when a match is detected between a monitored business event and the personalized notification settings. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330608 | Scheduling and payment systems and methods - The present systems and/or methods generally facilitate scheduling and/or payment of a service provider. In one embodiment, the scheduling system is integrated with a payment system and configured for use with childcare providers and childcare requestors (i.e., parents). In this embodiment the providers upload their schedules onto an online database via a website. The parents may then browse the available providers for a specific time and date at which the parents desire childcare services. The parents may select a specific time and date to create a booking request, which the website may then forward to the childcare provider. The childcare provider may accept the booking request, and the parent is notified of same. The parent may be billed for the services through the website and the childcare providers may be paid through the website so that no funds are exchanged directly between parents and childcare providers. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330609 | Performance Driven Municipal Asset Needs and Sustainability Analysis - Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for providing performance driven municipal asset needs and sustainability analysis. The method includes calculating asset health scores for a plurality of assets in an infrastructure. The asset health scores change as a function of time. The method also includes identifying prescription options for the assets. The identifying is based on the asset health scores. The prescription options include cost, value, and time for execution. A multi-objective optimization is applied based on the asset health scores and prescription options to identify at least a subset of the prescription options that may be implemented within a provided budget to maintain a sustainability threshold for an overall infrastructure health score. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330610 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUAL SCHEDULE BUILDING - Methods, systems and computer readable media for visual schedule building are disclosed. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330611 | FACILITATING REVENUE GENERATION FROM WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKETS USING AN ENGINEERING-BASED MODEL - The disclosure facilitates generation of energy-related revenue for an energy customer of an electricity supplier. The disclosure herein can be implemented to generate suggested operating schedules for energy assets that include a controllable energy asset, using an objective function. The objective function is determined based on a dynamic simulation model of the energy profile of the energy assets. The dynamic simulation model is adaptive to physical changes in the energy assets based at least in part on a physical model of the thermodynamic property of the at least one energy asset and at least in part on data representative of an operation characteristic of the controllable energy asset, a thermodynamic property of the energy assets, and/or a projected environmental condition. Energy-related revenue available to the energy customer is based at least in part on a wholesale electricity market or on a regulation market. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330612 | Validation of Functional Correctness of SAM Schemas including Action Chains - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for evaluating a validity of an extended status and action management (SAM) schema. In some implementations, actions include receiving the extended SAM schema, the extended SAM schema being an extension of a core SAM schema, providing one or more goals, goals representing an intention of the core SAM schema, receiving one or more action chains, action chains representing one or more actions of the extended SAM schema that are to be automatically executed, the one or more actions being associated with triggerability flags, a triggerability flag indicating whether a respective action is only triggerable using a respective action chain, and processing the one or more goals, the one or more action chains and the triggerability flags using a computer-executable model checking tool for evaluating the validity of the extended SAM schema. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330613 | Add-on to the Informatica PowerCenter tool that allows the management of the dependencies and executions of Informatica PowerCenter workflows - The add-on provides methods and systems for the management of the dependencies, executions along with notifications of the executions of Informatica PowerCenter workflows. This is an add-on to the Informatica PowerCenter tool that allows the workflow executions to be managed from within the tool by a managing workflow. The add-on is integrated and automatically recognizes and reacts to different events with no code changes needed for existing workflows it will manage. The tool is similar to external generic platform third party scheduling software but this tool is different because it is integrated directly on the Informatica repository database level. It utilizes PowerCenter's existing features and is designed solely for Informatica PowerCenter. Since it is integrated directly in the PowerCenter tool it is easier to use and setup, has better monitoring and workflow execution features then other generic scheduling software. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330614 | Validating SAM Schemas Based on Business Functionalities - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for evaluating a validity of an extended status and action management (SAM) schema. In some implementations, actions include receiving the extended SAM schema, the extended SAM schema being stored as a computer-readable document in memory and being an extension of a core SAM schema, receiving one or more business functionalities, at least one business functionality including a plurality of status vectors along a core trace that can be achieved in the core SAM schema, the one or more business functionalities being provided in a computer-readable document stored in memory, and processing the extended SAM schema and the one or more business functionalities using a computer-executable model checking tool for evaluating a validity of the extended SAM schema. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330615 | RISK ESTIMATION OF INSPECTION SITES - A system for estimating a risk that a site will have deficiencies receives data relating to the site. The data comprises a plurality of previous inspection results of the site. The system determines a risk score that corresponds to the expected deficiencies that would be found if the site were inspected, where a poor risk score corresponds to a higher risk of having deficiencies. The risk score for the site is based upon the plurality of previous inspection results of the site, and previous deficiencies worsen the determined risk score for the site. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330616 | System and Method for Identifying Relevant Information for an Enterprise - A system and method are provided for finding and retrieving information within an enterprise that is relevant to enterprise problems, enterprise opportunities, and unexpected or interesting events. The method includes scanning content related to a process conducted by an enterprise, where the process includes one or more process steps; identifying a problem, opportunity or event associated with a process step (an enterprise stress point); indexing the scanned content with respect to the enterprise stress point; determining whether the scanned content is information relevant to the problem, opportunity or event; and providing relevant information to a user. The relevant information includes a description or discussion of a contemporaneous or previous experience of the enterprise regarding the problem, opportunity or event. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330617 | Selecting a Synchronous or Asynchronous Process to Determine a Forecast - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for selecting a synchronous or asynchronous process to determine a forecast. These mechanisms and methods for such synchronous/asynchronous process selection can enable embodiments to determine forecasts for multiple users (e.g. with hierarchical relationships, etc.) over an arbitrary time interval. The ability of embodiments to provide forecasts that involve such a large amount of data in an effective way can enable forecasting that was otherwise infeasible due to resource limitations. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330618 | INTERACTIVE SURVEY SYSTEM - An on-line interactive survey system in which a server generates a markup document based on questions in a database. The database also includes question logic fields from which the server generates survey logic. The database is organized so that survey logic associated with a first question calls a logic function associated with a second given question, and the logic function calls the survey logic in association with the second question so as to provide a recursive logic chain at least two levels deep. The logic functions may be used to show and/or hide questions. In this manner, surveys can be quickly build and re-used with branching logic intact. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330619 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC, PRE-SALE PRICE MATCHING - A method for automatic, pre-sale price matching performed by a computing device includes receiving a first price established by a first vendor for at least one of a good and a service. The method includes retrieving information including a second price, the information associated with an offer for sale, by another vendor, of the at least one of the good and the service. The method includes identifying at least one parameter of the offer. The method includes recalculating the second price using the parameter. The method includes determining that the first price is higher than the recalculated second price. The method includes automatically modifying the first price to be substantially equal to the recalculated second price. The method includes publishing the modified first price so a user may acquire the at least one of the good and the service at the modified first price from the first vendor without negotiation. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330620 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BENCHMARKING, ACCOUNTING, ANALYSIS, AND COST FORECASTING - A computer-implemented method for benchmarking, accounting, analysis, and cost forecasting is provided. In exemplary embodiments, the method may comprise, at a server having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors: harvesting raw data from a plurality of sources; indexing the harvested data according to predetermined data categories relating to municipalities; organizing the data based on the indexed data and the geographic location associated with the data; storing the organized data in a database; and generating and displaying a profile page for a selected region based on the organized data stored in the database. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330621 | CMS STARS RATING DATA MANAGEMENT - A computer-based method for managing CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Stars program data includes storing historical CMS raw scores and Stars ratings in a database, which is in communication with a computer system having a user interface. The database is updated with CMS measurement data (or Stars rating data) for an insurance program, for example a Medicare Advantage Part C or Part D insurance plan or contract. The computer system is used to calculate CMS raw scores for the insurance program, based on the updated CMS Stars rating data. CMS Stars ratings are modeled and output to the user interface, based on the calculated raw scores. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330622 | SUBSCRIPTION CUSTOMER SAVING PROCEDURES WITH MULTIPLE ENTITIES - A potential upcoming cancellation of a subscription to a subscription service for a subject customer profile can be detected. After the detection of the potential upcoming cancellation, a tailored customer saving procedure can be selected from among a plurality of available customer saving procedures (e.g., using a weighted algorithm and/or set selection rules). The selection of the tailored customer saving procedure can use and be based on computer-readable data representing user input associated with one or more customer profiles. In response to the detection of the potential upcoming cancellation, the selected tailored customer saving procedure can be performed. Definitions of at least a portion of the available customer saving procedures can be received from a second entity that is independent of a first entity that manages computing component(s) performing the foregoing acts. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330623 | FLEX SERVICE CAR WASH - A system and method of operating a carwash with flexible service offerings comprises providing an automated computer terminal at which a user of a vehicle can purchase a car wash and at least one additional service, such as a hand service, after receiving the car wash, determining a queue for the at least one additional service at the time a user purchases a car wash, calculating a price for the at least one additional service based on the queue and displaying the price for the at least one additional service on the automated computer terminal. If the queue for the at least one additional service is low or empty, the user is provided with a discount to incentivize the user to purchase such service. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330624 | ONLINE GAME REWARDS FOR WEB-BASED PURCHASES - Example systems and methods related to providing rewards for an online game in response to web-based purchases are presented. In an example, information is received that describes a proposed item for purchase presented to a user of an online gaming system at an online merchant system distinct from the online gaming system. Also received is an identifier of the user. The information describing the proposed online action is analyzed, and an in-game reward for the user to be provided by the online gaming system is selected based on the analyzing of the information. A confirmation generated by the online merchant system that the user purchased the proposed item is received. The in-game reward for the user is provided in response to the confirmation that the user purchased the proposed item. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330625 | ITEMS REFERRALS IN A NETWORK-BASED PUBLICATION SYSTEM - Methods and systems for facilitating the referrals of items provided by a network-based publication system are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems may provide a mechanism to receive referrals from viewers of items (e.g., viewers of product description information associated with items available for purchase) and/or surface items that have been referred to other viewers looking to purchase items via the network-based publication system. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330626 | SINGLE TAP TRANSACTIONS USING A MOBILE APPLICATION WITH AUTHENTICATION - The invention describes how a consumer can hold their NFC enabled device in proximity to an NFC enabled point-of-sale terminal and with a single “wave” or “tap” to automatically redeem coupons, pay for a purchase using a default payment card or a selected card, view receipts view reward point balances, and receive relevant coupons and other digital artifacts both before and after the purchase. The NFC enabled device includes a secure element with a payment application, payment credentials, and other digital artifacts such as coupons. The secure element can be internal to the mobile device, externally affixed to the mobile device, or inserted into a slot within the body of the mobile device. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330627 | Payables Bidding System - A buyer-centric payables bidding method, system, and computer-implemented program instructions are disclosed. The payables bidding system facilitates the discounting of vouchered payables through an online bid process. In the online auction process, suppliers of goods and/or services bid on the right to collect vouchered payments from buyer before the previously agreed “due date” of those payments. The online bid is defined as the discounted amount a supplier is willing to accept in exchange for obtaining prompt payment on a vouchered payment. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330628 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CARD-LESS REWARD PROGRAM - Disclosed is a card-less reward system providing buyers with promotional offers and engendering buyers to be rewarded by submitting receipts obtained from sellers. A method for rewarding the buyers comprises providing to a buyer a list of promotional offers for a product or service of at least one seller, allowing the buyer to accept electronically at least one promotional offer, and allowing the buyer to submit a digital image of at least one receipt obtained from the seller, which offered the accepted promotional offer. The method further comprises processing received image to retrieve purchase data, and rewarding the buyer in response to the retrieved purchase data. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330629 | SCANNABLE CODE TAGS FOR USE IN SOCIAL NETWORKING AND GROUP INVITATION - An apparatus and method for cloud-based storage, retrieval and sharing of files tagged with scannable code tags and group invitation. This application and method includes establishing a user account on a network, the user account being linked to a user space configured to store at least media files for an owner of the user account, generating a scannable code tag, and linking the scannable code tag with the user account and the owner. The method also includes linking a group invitation to one or more media files. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING MULTI-FUNCTION CARDS FOR STORING, MANAGING AND AGGREGATING REWARD POINTS - A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns reward points from a plurality of independent reward points issuing entities, with each tracking the user's earned reward points in a user reward point account stored on a multi-function card (such as a frequent flyer account or a credit card loyalty account). The multi-function card is adapted to aggregate some or all of the user's earned reward points from the reward accounts and credit the aggregated points into a single reward exchange account on the multi-function card. The user may then select an item for purchase with the accumulated reward points from the multi-function card. The item is provided to the user in exchange for a subset or all of the reward points from the multi-function card. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330631 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING A LOYALTY PROGRAM AND PROCESSING PAYMENTS - The present invention is directed to a system and method for administration of a customer loyalty program at a point of sale terminal. The system, in one embodiment, contains a database of customer records for the loyalty program where each customer record contains information about a customer's payment device and information about a customer's mobile device. The system may locate a customer record in a database based on payment device or mobile device information captured at the point of sale terminal and apply any applicable loyalty program discounts. The system may then forward the payment device information to a third-party payment processor for payment processing. The system may print out a receipt at the point of sale terminal indicating any discounts and containing a promotional message. The system may also send a promotional message to the customer's mobile device using the mobile device information stored in the customer's record. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330632 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SOCIAL SIGNAL VOCABULARIES - A social analytic system may identify the social signals associated with a brand, campaign, or any other topic. The social analytic system may generate a vocabulary associated with the brand, campaign, or topic based terms used in the associated social signals. The vocabulary may be used for generating social media analytics and identifying social media events, such as marketing campaigns. In one example, a vocabulary may be compared with vocabularies associated with different constituents to identify the positive and negative terms in the vocabulary. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330633 | ADAPTIVE EXPERIMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION IN AUTOMATED PROMOTIONAL TESTING - Methods and apparatus for implementing forward looking optimizing promotions by administering, in large numbers and iteratively, test promotions automatically formulated using highly granular test variables on subpopulations. The responses from individuals in the subpopulations are received and analyzed. The analysis result is employed to subsequently formulate a general public promotion. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330634 | AUTOMATED AND OPTIMAL PROMOTIONAL EXPERIMENTAL TEST DESIGNS INCORPORATING CONSTRAINTS - Methods and apparatus for implementing forward looking optimizing promotions by administering, in large numbers and iteratively, test promotions formulated using highly granular test variables and automatically incorporating constraints on segmented subpopulations. The responses from individuals in the subpopulations are received and analyzed. The analysis result is employed to subsequently formulate a general public promotion. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330635 | AUTOMATED EVENT CORRELATION TO IMPROVE PROMOTIONAL TESTING - Methods and apparatus for implementing forward looking optimizing promotions by administering, in large numbers and iteratively, test promotions formulated using highly granular test variables on purposefully segmented subpopulations. The plurality of test promotions automatically account for covariates. The responses from individuals in the subpopulations are received and analyzed. The analysis result is employed to subsequently formulate general public promotion. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330636 | AUTOMATED PROMOTION FORECASTING AND METHODS THEREFOR - Methods and apparatus for implementing forward looking optimizing promotions by administering, in large numbers and iteratively, test promotions formulated using highly granular test variables on purposefully segmented subpopulations. The plurality of test promotions are automatically proposed. The responses from individuals in the subpopulations are received and analyzed. The analysis result is employed to subsequently formulate a general public promotion. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330637 | AUTOMATED BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS PATTERNS IN PROMOTION TESTING AND METHODS THEREFOR - Methods and apparatus for implementing forward looking optimizing promotions by administering, in large numbers and iteratively, test promotions formulated using highly granular test variables on purposefully segmented subpopulations. The plurality of test promotions are associated with at least one behavioral economics principles. The responses from individuals in the subpopulations are received and analyzed. The analysis result is employed to subsequently formulate a general public promotion. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330638 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF MARKETING ALLOCATIONS USING A RETURN ON INVESTMENT METRIC - A system and method for automatically assigning marketing allocations, including advertisements and coupons, for a business to marketing channels. An investment engine and recommendation engine uses input data to assign marketing allocations to marketing channels. Consumer activity is generated that produces corresponding output data. The investment engine calculates a return-on-investment (ROI) metric, and the recommendation engine generates a report related to the input and output data. The input data, marketing allocations or channels are adjusted to optimize the ROI metric and recommend marketing campaign strategies. The system also automatically determines which keywords the business should assign their marketing allocations to when a consumer utilizes similar keywords on a search engine. Targeted keywords are determined by applying budget weights to keywords related to the business and monitoring output data, such as a click through rate of the marketing allocations. Keywords with higher click through rates receive higher budget weights. | 2014-11-06 |
20140330639 | Method and System for Evaluating, Reporting, and Improving On-Line Promotion Effectiveness - A system and method for populating and analyzing a member consumer profile database for implementing an incentive driven targeted product marketing program is disclosed. To implement the targeted product marketing program, personal profile information is collected from several member consumers and stored in a profile database. A group of the member consumers are identified and selected, and the promotion operator provides a promotion to this group on behalf of a sponsor. During and/or after the promotion, information is solicited from the member consumer about the promotion in exchange for rewards. In addition, interactive behavior information of the member consumer is tracked. The solicited information and the interactive behavior information can then be used to enrich the profile database for future promotions. | 2014-11-06 |