48th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 53 |
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20170345023 | SECURE CONVERSION TRACKING - In response to a conversion action associated with an online advertisement (“ad”), an advertiser associated with the ad generates a unique identifier (e.g., a pseudo random number), which is transmitted to a payment system through a user device. In some implementations, the unique identifier can be generated by a payment system in response to a request from an advertiser. The advertiser stores the unique identifier in a secure location that is accessible by the payment system. The payment system compares the received unique identifier with the stored unique identifier. If the received unique identifier matches the stored unique identifier, and if the received unique identifier was not previously generated by the advertiser, then the payment system deems the conversion action to be valid. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345024 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING NETWORK BETWEEN USERS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus configure a network between users in a communication system. In a server, the method includes receiving user information from a terminal for purchasing contents, storing information on a purchaser for each of a plurality of contents, and configuring the network including users who purchase identical contents. Accordingly, the network can be automatically configured between user terminals on the basis of a contents purchase history of the user terminal in the communication system. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345025 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING ON FOOD AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION AND DISPENSING MACHINES - Providing targeted advertising on food/beverage preparation or dispensing machines may include electronically presenting selected targeted media on or in proximity to a food/beverage preparation or dispensing machine. This may involve automatically activating consumable item preparation or dispensing mechanisms of the food/beverage preparation or dispensing machine, or activating an item selection menu, in conjunction with electronically presenting the selected media. The targeted advertising may be based on receiving user input such as information identifying a particular user or consumer or menu selections and then selecting the selected media based on the received user input. User interface elements may also be provided enabling a user to request additional information regarding selected targeted media be electronically sent to them or an order be placed for a related product. Compensation to a user or another entity may be activated each time the selected media is played. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345026 | GROUPING USERS INTO MULTIDIMENSIONAL TIERS BASED ON SIMILARITY TO A GROUP OF SEED USERS - An online system identifies a threshold score dividing seed users into low value seed users and high value seed users based on the initial score of each seed user. The online system identifies, as additional high value users, additional users of the online system having a measure of similarity to one or more of the high value seed users. The online system identifies, as additional engaged users, additional users of the online system having a measure of similarity to one or more of the identified seed users. The online system determines a value score for each of the additional high value users. The online system determines an engagement score for each of the additional engaged users. The online system determines one or more intersections between the value tiers of users containing the additional high value users and the engagement tiers of the additional engaged users based on the scores. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345027 | SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION OF CUSTOMER - A sales data processing apparatus comprises a display section configured to display information by switching a view angle from a wide angle to a narrow angle or vice versa, a customer guidance module configured to guide a face of a customer to a position confronting a camera by switching the view angle of the display section from the wide angle to the narrow angle when transaction information of a sales object to which a transaction processing is carried out is displayed on the display section, an attribute determination module configured to determine attributes corresponding to face information obtained by photographing the face of the customer who is guided to the position by the customer guidance module and an association module configured to associate attribute information of the attributes determined by the attribute determination module with sales object information of the sales object to which the transaction processing is carried out. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345028 | SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION OF OPPORTUNITY TRIGGERS - A data processing method comprises storing, in one or more data repositories, information on a plurality of supplier entities according to a supplier ontology including for each particular supplier entity at least three different supplier attributes comprising a supplier detail, a timestamp specifying at least one of when the supplier detail expires or when the supplier detail was last updated, and an electronic identifier usable to contact the particular supplier entity; using supplier trigger monitoring instructions of a procurement system executed on a server computer that is coupled to the one or more data repositories, storing a plurality of opportunity triggers each comprising a trigger type and a numeric value; monitoring, without receiving an explicit request from a computing device, and based at least in part on information from the one or more data repositories, whether one or more of the plurality of opportunity triggers is satisfied, in response to determining, for a particular opportunity trigger and a particular supplier entity, that a timestamp associated with a particular supplier detail that is identified in the opportunity trigger exceeds a time that is determined at least in part by the numeric value associated with that particular opportunity trigger; creating, based on the monitoring, a first set of triggered opportunity triggers comprising at least one satisfied opportunity trigger; causing displaying, on a computing device, a graphical interface that depicts the first set of triggered opportunity triggers, including a first triggered opportunity trigger indicating that a first supplier entity has satisfied an opportunity trigger, and a supplier name for the first supplier entity, and a control that is associated with an executable component of the procurement system that can be initiated to remedy the first triggered opportunity trigger based on a first trigger type of the first triggered opportunity trigger; receiving a selection of the control and automatically initiating execution of the executable component of the procurement system; under control of the executable component, transmitting a first electronic message to resolve the first triggered opportunity trigger. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345029 | USER ACTION DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE - A method and device for determining whether a user who has not ordered a commodity has a demand for the commodity. The method comprises calculating a number of actions directed at the commodity by users in a preselected time period that is not ordered in a preselected time period and a number of users purchasing the commodity after the preselected time period; establishing a training set based on the numbers and a model corresponding to the training set. The model has an input value of the number of actions directed to the commodity by a user and an output value of whether the user purchases the specified commodity. The method also includes calculating the number of actions of an object user who has not ordered in a preset time period and inputting the number into the model as the input value to obtain the output value of the model. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345030 | FLASH RETAILING - Techniques for selling products through flash retailing. A system utilizing such techniques can include a facility, a retailer system, a product developer system, and a flash retailing management system. A method utilizing such techniques can include facility management, product developer management, and retailer system management. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345031 | LOCATION CONTEXT AWARE COMPUTING - A current location of a consumer is combined with a context aware mapping of the consumer to a current context that the consumer is in at the current location. A real-time suggestion is provided to the consumer based on a likely suggestion that the consumer is predicted to respond to at that location and within that context. Feedback with respect to the suggestion is record and processed for altering the types of real-time suggestions subsequent made to the consumer when the consumer is again at the current location within the context, thereby providing dynamic real-time location context aware computing with respect to the consumer and the real-time suggestions with learning through the feedback. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345032 | AUTOMATIC AUDIENCE CREATION BY SCORING USERS, AND OPTIMIZING CREATED AUDIENCES - A system and method for automatic audience creation by scoring users of a content sharing service is provided. The system includes a user analysis module to monitor data associated with the users of the content sharing service; and a channel analysis module to monitor data associated with a first channel; a scoring module to score, based on the monitored data associated with users and the first channel, each user based on a ratio of views versus accesses for shared content sourced from the first channel; and an audience assignment module to create an audience for the first channel of users with scores above a predetermined threshold. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345033 | Apparatus and Method for Customizing Products on a Regional Basis - Various partialities (including but not limited to partialities based on values, aspirations, preferences, and/or affinities) for individual persons are represented as corresponding vectors. The length and/or the angle of the vector represents the magnitude of the strength of the individual's belief in the good that comes from that imposed order. Vectors can also be specified to characterize corresponding products and/or services. These vectors for persons and products/services can be leveraged in any of a wide variety of ways. By one approach a particular partiality vector is used to identify a particular customization for a geographic region (i.e., a particular customization to employ with a base product). | 2017-11-30 |
20170345034 | PING COMPENSATION FACTOR FOR LOCATION UPDATES - In one embodiment, a computing system receives a first set of location updates sent by a first user. Each location update corresponds to a user visit to a particular place, and each location update is determined by a mobile client device of the corresponding user via a first or a second location method. The computing system receives a second set of location updates sent by a second user, sent via only the first location method. A place-visit factor for the second user is calculated based on the total number of unique places visited by the second user within a particular period of time, a first number of places visited by the first user determined from location updates sent via the first location method, and a second number of places visited by the first user determined from location updates sent via the second location method. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345035 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR DETERMINING PRODUCTS TO UPSELL OR CROSS-SELL - In an example embodiment, a server accesses, for a plurality of customer accounts within a professional networking service, a plurality of features of the customer accounts stored with the professional networking service. The server accesses, for the plurality of customer accounts within the professional networking service, past sales records of products from the professional networking service to the plurality of employer accounts. The server determines, based on the past sales records and based on one or more features from the plurality of features, a product to upsell or cross-sell to a specific customer account. The server provides, as a digital transmission, indicia of the one or more features and the determined product. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345036 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING VALUATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - An intellectual property valuation system, for use by a seller to generate an automated price for an item of intellectual property, includes a host device, at least one seller-controlled pricing parameter, and a database. The host device includes (i) a seller zone that is selectively accessible by the seller, and (ii) a control system including a processor that generates the seller zone. The at least one seller-controlled pricing parameter is related to the item of intellectual property and is inputted into the seller zone. The control system receives the at least one seller-controlled pricing parameter from the seller zone and generates a seller-controlled pricing matrix for the item of intellectual property that is based at least in part on the at least one seller-controlled pricing parameter. The database is in communication with the control system, and the seller-controlled pricing matrix is transmitted to and stored within the database. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345037 | METHODS FOR DISCOUNT PURCHASES - A method for providing-discount-purchases, with the method including the steps of producing one or more advertising-material(s) related to primary-goods-for-purchase, presenting the advertising-material(s) to a subscriber, providing an initial-purchase-price to the subscriber for the primary-goods-for-purchase, and providing future-purchase-discounts to the subscriber based on a subscription for buying the primary-goods-for-purchase. Additionally a method for receiving-discount-purchases may include the steps of accepting one or more advertising-material(s) related to primary-goods-for-purchase from a retailer; agreeing to an initial-purchase-price with the retailer for the primary-goods-for-purchase via a written contract accessible via internet; and receiving future-purchase-discounts from the retailer based on a subscription for buying the primary-goods-for-purchase. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345038 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A REDEEMABLE COMMERCE OBJECT - A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method. The system may enable a first user to select a redeemable commerce object to be placed within a web page. The system may create the web page that includes a representation of the redeemable commerce object. A second user may be enabled to view the web page and select the redeemable commerce object in order to redeem it. The system may facilitate the transfer of value from to the second user upon redeeming the redeemable commerce object. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345039 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, NETWORKS, AND MEDIA FOR SOCIAL PAYMENTS - A method of determining a discount amount for an electronic commerce transaction can include determining, by a processor, whether a member of a financial institution has posted a review for an electronic commerce purchase within a preset threshold amount of time from a time when the member received a purchased item. Upon identifying the time at which the member posted the review, the processor can determine an eligible time period based on the preset threshold amount of time and the identified posting time. The processor can determine the number of occurrences of different eligible discount earning events by tracking, for the eligible time period, activities related to the review performed on one or more social media platforms. The processor can determine a discount amount based on the determined discount earning events and transmit an instruction to credit a financial account with a credit amount corresponding to the discount amount. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345040 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPGRADING A PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED MEDIA ASSET - Systems, graphical user interfaces and methods for upgrading from one or more digital media assets to a set of digital media assets over a network are described. A potential purchaser can be notified of available upgrade opportunities that are available for purchase. The potential purchaser can elect to pursue an upgrade opportunity so as to purchase a set of digital media assets. Upon upgrading to the set of digital media assets, the digital media assets within the set of digital media assets are made available to the purchaser. According to one aspect, a graphical user interface facilitates presenting and requesting upgrade opportunities. According to another aspect, equivalency rules and/or eligibility rules can be used to control which sets of digital media assets are available for upgrade by respective potential purchasers. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345041 | SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNFAIR ACQISITION OF POINT VALUE BY THE SAME - A sales data processing apparatus comprises a reading module configured to read an owner identification information of a point card, a point providing module configured to carry out a point providing processing in which a point value is added to the point card of which the owner identification information is read by the reading module, a storage module configured to store the owner identification information of the point card to which the point providing processing is carried out and a use count information of the point card, and a notification module configured to output a notification signal if the use count information of the point card, stored in the storage module, which is indicated by the owner identification information read by the reading module is greater than a threshold value. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345042 | SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL AND SERVER - A service processing method, a device, a terminal and a server are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes: obtaining an operator identifier, when a coupon verification operation is detected on a service page of a public service account; invoking a code reading interface of an internet application to which the public service account belongs, to obtain a code of a coupon to be verified; generating a coupon verification service request based on the operator identifier and the code of the coupon; sending the coupon verification service request to a server, to cause the server to process a coupon verification service based on the operator identifier and the code of the coupon and return a process result to the terminal; and outputting the process result on the service page of the public service account. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345043 | CONTACTLESS IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATING - Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, devices, software, and methods for contactless identification and locating, such as with regard to restaurant customers having loyalty accounts and their locations within a restaurant. One such embodiment is in the form of a method that includes receiving, on a mobile device executing an app involved in processing a transaction, location input identifying a specific spot at a retail facility location where the transaction is occurring. The specific spot may be a seat number at a particular table. This method further includes receiving customer identifying input and transaction input with regard to a customer of the customer identifying input and transmitting data of the location input, customer identifying input, and the transaction input to another computing system for processing. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345044 | PROCESS FOR REWARDING THE AUDIENCE OF A SIGNAGE DEVICE - A process for rewarding the audience of a signage device, the process providing for
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20170345045 | TERMINAL, SERVER, POS TERMINAL FOR PROVIDING BENEFIT ABOUT PRODUCTS USING ADMISSION NUMBER OF CREDIT CARD, PAYMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SAME, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - Provided are a terminal, a server, a POS terminal for providing a benefit about a product using an admission number of a credit card, a payment system including the same, a control method thereof, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer program recorded thereon. The present invention has advantages of providing a benefit about a product to a client who uses a credit card, by using the admission number of the credit card so that a manufacturer may perform a promotion about the product in accordance with recognition of the product purchased by the client and the client may receive a benefit about the product without performing additional action at the time of making a payment, and the credit card company may conveniently provide a benefit to the client to increase the usage rate of the card. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345046 | POINT-OF-SALE PROCESSING OF MOBILE MANUFACTURER BARCODE - A method and mobile device processing a mobile manufacturer coupon is provided. A barcode of a mobile manufacturer coupon is received at an electronic point-of-sale system from a mobile electronic device. A determination of whether redemption criterion for the coupon is satisfied is made at the electronic point-of-sale system. An audio acknowledgement signal is emitted from the electronic point-of-sale system and received by the electronic mobile device if the redemption criterion is satisfied. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345047 | ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS UTILIZING STREAMING ANALYTICS - The present invention provides methods and systems for use in advertising campaigns and advertisement targeting. Techniques are provided in which streams of data, including communications data, are sampled, such as during transmission to intended recipients. Sampled data may be analyzed and used to determine topics of interest. Sampled data may be analyzed or filtered to determine data suspected of being of particular significance or relevance in determining topics of interest. Determined topics of interest may be used in advertisement targeting as part of an advertising campaign. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345048 | Attribution Marketing Recommendations - The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to identifying value marketing activities. In some implementations, an apparatus, systems, or methods can include receiving conversion path information including data relating to user interactions with a content item associated with a marketing activity, determining a first attribution credit by applying a first attribution model to the received information, and a second attribution credit by applying a second attribution model to the received information, determining an attribution contrast ratio based on the first and second attribution credit, identifying an opportunity based on the determined attribution contrast ratio, and presenting a recommendation for the marketing activity based on the identified opportunity. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AD CAMPAIGNS TO COMPUTING DEVICES - A method and a web server store a plurality of web page elements that may be rendered on a browser of a user computing device to display a web page. The web page includes a first ad space for displaying an ad that is visible to the user and a second ad space for displaying an ad that is not visible to the user. A first ad request for the first ad space and a second ad request for the second ad space are received and associated with a first ad campaign and a second ad campaign, respectively. A first ad from the first ad campaign is provided to the user computing device so that the first ad is visible to the user, and a second ad from the second ad campaign is provided to the user computing device so that the second ad is not visible to the user. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345050 | ATTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Described herein are systems and methods for associating consumer-perceived broadcasted content with consumer actions. In some embodiments, a computer-based memory communicatively coupled to a processor has computer executable instructions stored therein capable of implementing various components, including a definition component configured to define one or more targeted content features, such as a specific television commercial. These embodiments can further comprise a recognition component configured to recognize when the targeted content features are broadcast through a media device in a particular household and an airing database component configured to store airing information regarding the broadcast. In some embodiments, Automatic Content Recognition is utilized, allowing offline consumer perception of an advertisement to be attributed to online activity of a consumer. In some embodiments, the airing information can be associated with an internet protocol (IP) address and can be correlated to a corresponding IP address associated with online consumer action. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345051 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION INFORMATION TO DETERMINE PROXIMITY AND LINE OF SIGHT TO STRUCTURES - A system may determine a field of view of a structure; identify a set of road segments that fall within the view area of the advertising unit; and identify mobile devices that have been physically located at locations associated with the road segments within the field of view (e.g., located within vehicles that have traversed the road segments). The system may further receive a request for a report that indicates a quantity or other information (e.g., demographics information) regarding the identified mobile devices over a period of time. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345052 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING ANOMALOUS CONTENT REQUESTS - Systems and methods for identifying anomalous content requests are disclosed. Initially, a first data set containing a first plurality of attributes for each of a first plurality of content requests is received. A second data set containing a second plurality of attributes for each of the first plurality of content requests is also received, where the second plurality of attributes is different from the first plurality of attributes. A first attribute of the first plurality of attributes is determined that is indicative of a first type of anomalous content request. It is then determined that the first attribute of the first plurality of attributes is common to the second plurality of attributes. A first subset of the second data set having the first attribute is then identified. Finally, content requests of the first subset of the second data set having the first attribute are indicated. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345053 | Slideshows in Search - Techniques are provided to allow users to access interested information without performing engaging searches. A content-providing system may track collective interests of a large set of users and/or individual interests of a user. User-selectable items may be presented to the user directly without the user performing searches. Some of the user-selectable items may be associated with slideshows that are, for example, pre-deposited or curated to provide interesting information relating to these user-selectable items. The user may easily access a slideshow and the content therein using easily comprehensible controls presented on a display page. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345054 | GENERATING AND UTILIZING A CONVERSATIONAL INDEX FOR MARKETING CAMPAIGNS - Methods and systems for providing targeted marketing include using consumer-centric indices to identify users who are most conversant with marketing communications. In particular, one or more embodiments generate a model that indicates a probability of user interactions based on dynamic data. The dynamic data indicates a time to action for each user interaction with a marketing communication within an observation window. The model fits the dynamic data to a distribution and determines the parameters of the distribution. Using the parameters of the distribution, one or more embodiments calculate interest scores for users who have received marketing communications. One or more embodiments select a set of users as a target audience based on the interest scores and provide marketing communications to target audience. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345055 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT TO USER DEVICES BASED ON PRIOR CONTENT CONSUMPTION - A device may broadcast content (e.g., using Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), evolved MBMS (eMBMS), or Cell Broadcast Service (CBS)); determine that a user device has received the content; determine analytics information regarding the user device; identify, based on the analytics information, personalized content for the user device; and output, to the user device, the personalized content. The user device may receive the broadcasted content; present the broadcasted content; output an indication that the broadcasted content is being presented; receive the personalized content that was generated based on the outputted indication; and present the personalized content in conjunction with the broadcasted content. The user device may further receive content that has been personalized for other user devices, and a network layer of the user device may discard the content personalized for other user devices before an application layer of the user device receives the content personalized for the user device. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345056 | ADVERTISEMENT DATA METRIC DETERMINATION WITHIN MOBILE APPLICATIONS - An advertisement analysis system generates reports that include ad share or spend information within mobile applications. The system identifies a list of mobile applications to track and scans for a known software development kit (SDK) code within each application. If a known ad network SDK is found, the advertisement analysis system simulates the mobile application by plugging in the application having the known SDK within a test application. The test application sends network requests to the ad network to determine a publisher-id pattern of the ad network. The advertisement analysis system searches for the determined pattern within each mobile application and stores it as a key. The advertisement analysis system sends requests to the ad network using stored keys, and extracts ad information from the responses of the ad network. The advertisement analysis system aggregates the ad information and generates an ad report that includes the ad share/spend information. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345057 | AFFILIATE-DRIVEN BENEFITS MATCHING SYSTEM AND METHODS WITH LOCATION-TRIGGERED BENEFIT ALERT AND SEARCH SCORE DETERMINATION - Methods and systems for matching a consumer to benefits offered by enabling organizations provide flexibility and utility to consumers in the marketplace for various products. Information about benefits and enabling organizations are provided and stored in a memory of a computer system. A search query including consumer interest data of a consumer, or results of such a search query, are received. The enabling organization information, benefit information, and search query or information related to the search query results are analyzed automatically in the computer system to provide analysis results, to determine whether any enabling organization to which the consumer is affiliated is offering a benefit for the consumer that is applicable to the said consumer interest data. A message is sent to the consumer including a list of venues ordered according to a search score. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345058 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS INCLUDING ADVERTISING CONTENT - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that include combining an offer with media content to generate a notice within a portion of the media content, providing the notice in the designated portions of the media content with the notice during a media content presentation at equipment of a user, receiving an indication of interest in the portion, retrieving marketing information for the portion of the media content based on the user profile including location based information, time based information, and activity information, monitoring an activity of the mobile communication device to determine when the mobile communication device information satisfies a location, time, and activity information that matches the marketing information and determining a communication for the user based on the marketing information and the monitoring of the activity of the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345059 | PERSONA AGGREGATION AND INTERACTION SYSTEM - A persona aggregation and interaction system comprising a consolidation engine, a persona engine, an interface engine, an interaction engine, and a reward engine. The consolidation engine is configured for acquiring external information regarding various entities from various platforms. The persona engine is configured for aggregating said external information to create a personas associated with multiple platforms. The interface engine is configured to display to a user a first persona icon associated said first persona. The interface engine invites the user to select the first persona icon to view said first persona. The interaction engine is configured to present the user with an option to interact with the first persona and receive an indication of interactions by the user. The reward engine is configured for providing the user with an incentive based upon said indication of interaction. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345060 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CENTRALIZED COORDINATED MESSAGING AMONG PARTICIPANT NODES IN A PHARMACEUTICAL NETWORK - Obtaining, by a central system, a plurality of first data messages over a network from a plurality of first remote systems; generating first information based on the first data messages; receiving a second data message including second information from a second remote system; comparing the second information with at least a portion of the first information; determining whether a patient associated with the second information is eligible for a promotion based on the comparing; if eligible, generating a third data message authorizing the second remote system to provide a discount based on the first information; and providing the third data message to the second remote system; if ineligible, generating a fourth data message, the fourth data message indicating the patient is not eligible to receive a discount; and providing the fourth data message to the second remote system. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345061 | CUSTOMIZED LANDING PAGES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for personalizing landing pages. In one aspect, a method includes generating, by one or more servers belonging to a first domain and for a request, a personalized landing page that includes the personalized landing page data, wherein the landing page belongs to the first domain, and the landing page includes at least one link to a resource of the first party that belongs to the second domain; and providing, by the one or more servers, the personalized landing page to the user device, wherein the personalized landing page, when processed by the user device, generates a personalized landing page environment that belongs to the first domain. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345062 | COMPUTER DEVICE AND A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD - A computer device has an input which receives a request. The request has one or more data valued. A memory stores data defining a hierarchy of filters. The hierarchy of filters defines a plurality of different sets of filters. At least one of said filters in the hierarchy is shared by at least two of the sets and at least one filter is associated with at least two lower filters. At least one processor is configured use the data defining the hierarchy of filters to determine if said one or more data values of said request satisfy one or more of said sets of filters. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345063 | ADVERTISEMENT BLOCKER CIRCUMVENTION SYSTEM - An advertisement blocker circumvention method has the steps of a user device requesting content from the content publisher, wherein the content is embedded with a circumvention loader and at least one advertising call; the content publisher serving the content to the user device; the user device constructing a DOM heirarchy by parsing the content into object components; an adblocker intercepting and blocking the one or more advertisement calls; the circumvention loader detecting the presence of the adblocker; the circumvention loader identifying ad placements and issuing an obfuscated advertisement call containing an advertising call, to a circumvention proxy that is a reverse proxy; the circumvention proxy extracting an advertisement call from the obfuscated advertising call, and issuing the advertisement call to receive the advertisement; the circumvention proxy providing the advertisement to the circumvention loader; and the circumvention loader displaying the ad on the user device. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345064 | ADVERTISEMENT BLOCKER CIRCUMVENTION SYSTEM - An advertisement blocker circumvention method has the steps of a user device requesting content from the content publisher, wherein the content is embedded with a circumvention loader and at least one advertising call, the circumvention loader detecting the presence of the adblocker, detecting presence of an advertisement blocker, unblocking blocked content, displaying an ask prompt on the user device, lifting restrictions, limiting access, and reinserting trackable resources. In an embodiment, unblocking blocked content comprises unblocking a user-selected portion of the blocked content. In a further embodiment, the ask prompt comprises a user-selectable option comprising “Block Ad”, “Block Ads,” and “Block All Ads.” | 2017-11-30 |
20170345065 | MERCHANT RATING DETERMINATION SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for correlating tip amounts to merchant ratings. In a generalized method, a merchant tip amount may be entered via a user interface. Based upon the merchant tip amount, the system then determines a corresponding merchant rating. Accordingly, merchant ratings and tips are seamlessly integrated with one another. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345066 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY CREATING AND PUBLISHING REVIEWS - The embodiments herein provide a system and method for creating and publishing reviews for the determined location. The method includes identifying a user location using location services, requesting the user to review the identified location, receiving the review about the identified location in a chat-based interface, displaying the contextually relevant content in the chat-based interface, receiving the updated review request and publishing the review on the review creation and publication platform. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345067 | Ranking and Searching Method and Apparatus Based on Interpersonal Distances - The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for ranking and searching based on interpersonal distances. The method includes: obtaining, by a ranking server, objects queried by a query request based on the request initiated from a user client and obtaining reference user groups corresponding to the queried objects; obtaining, by a ranking server, an interpersonal distance between each user in the reference user groups and a user who initiates the query request, and obtaining rating scores of the objects queried by the request that are given by each user in respective reference user groups; determining, by a ranking server, user relationship ranking indices of the objects based on the interpersonal distances and the rating scores, and ordering the objects based on the user relationship ranking indices of the objects. Compared with the existing technologies, the example ranking server performs ranking based on interpersonal distances between a user and reference users as well as rating scores associated with the reference users, quantifies a reference value of choices associated with a social network of the user with respect to shopping choices of the user, and provides a ranking method that is based on characteristics of the user. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345068 | MERCHANT TIP DETERMINATION SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for correlating merchant ratings to tipping amounts. In a generalized method, a merchant rating is entered by a user via a user interface. Based upon the merchant rating, the system determines a merchant tip amount, which is then communicated to the user via the interface. Accordingly, merchant ratings and tips are seamlessly integrated with one another. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345069 | REPAIR ESTIMATE QUALITY ASSURANCE AUTOMATION - A system and method for automated quality assurance review is described, wherein a document, preferably an estimate, is received by the automated quality assurance review system and subsequently analyzed by a processor executing instructions stored in a computer readable memory to determine whether the estimate meets applicable quality control parameters. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ASSETS - A system and method for identifying wireless communication assets is provided. Embodiments may include providing, on a graphical user interface (GUI), an interactive map in a first window of the GUI. Embodiments may also include defining, on the GUI, a user-defined search area on the interactive map. In some embodiments, the user-defined search area defined on the interactive map may define at least a portion of a geographic region. Embodiments may further include identifying, on the GUI, one or more wireless communication assets and a location of each of the one or more wireless communication assets within the user-defined search area on the interactive map. In some embodiments, each wireless communication asset may be capable of supporting at least one wireless communication device and the locations of each wireless communication asset on the interactive map may relate to a physical location of each wireless communication asset. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345071 | PLANNING DEVICE AND PLANNING METHOD - A planning method for planning to order a product, the planning method being executed by a computer, the planning method includes: generating a predicted value of a demand of the product at each plurality of prices based on a selling price and a number of sales in association with each other for each past sale date; calculating an order quantity that yields a highest profit, for each of the plurality of prices, using the predicted value of the demand of the product at the plurality of prices; storing, for the plurality of prices, the calculated order quantity and a profit in association with each other into a memory; and identifying a combination of a price and an order quantity that yields the highest profit, with reference to the memory. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345072 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SERVICE USING CONNECTION BETWEEN SERVICE USE INFORMATION OF MULTIPLE PURCHASERS - An electronic commerce service configured to achieve safe ordering and payment using the connection between service use information of multiple purchasers. Operations include receiving service use information of one user, searching for whether there is another user whose service use information has a connection with the user whose service use information has been received, or requesting a server to search for whether there is another user whose service use information has a connection with the user whose service use information has been received. In addition, operations include receiving the corresponding search result, and when there is another user whose service use information has a connection with the user, adjusting, by one or more levels, a security procedure for service use of the another user whose service use information has a connection with the user or maintaining the level of the security procedure. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345073 | ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COLLATERALIZED AGREEMENTS - Interactive electronic push notifications are utilized to remotely facilitate collateralized arrangements. An identifier of an article that is being offered as collateral is received from a first computer system. A unique identifier and a score associated with a first user is accessed. The article identifier is matched against a second database to identify a second computer system that has subscribed to notifications associated with the article identifier. An electronic notification is generated for the second computer system that includes the article identifier, the unique identifier, and the score. An offer for an amount of a collateralized against the article associated with the article identifier is received from the second computer system. The offer received from the second computer system is sent to the first computer system. A response is received from the first computer system associated with the offer from the second computer system. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345074 | CONTEXTUALIZED USER RECAPTURE SYSTEM - Systems are provided for providing contextualized user recapture solutions. A user interaction contextualization system may receive a notification of a user accessing one of the organization's services via a user device. Responsive to the notification, the user interaction contextualization system may collect and analyze contextual data from various data sources, and real-time and historical user engagement data associated with the user. The user interaction contextualization system may then use the collected data to determine the user's likelihood of abandonment of the organization's services. Based on the likelihood of abandonment, the user interaction contextualization system may initiate one or more user recapture solutions. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345075 | Product Listing Recognizer - In one embodiment, a method includes extracting a document object model (DOM) for a content page, wherein the DOM comprises a hierarchical tree-based data structure. The method also includes identifying candidate nodes in the DOM based on a context of the nodes, wherein the candidate nodes may correspond to listing items. The method additionally includes for each of the candidate nodes, locating its parent and child nodes by traversing the DOM from the candidate node, extracting information from the candidate node and its parent and child nodes, and assessing whether the candidate node qualifies as a listing item based on whether the extracted information fulfills a required set of characteristics for a listing item. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345076 | IMAGE-TO-MARKETPLACE BROKERING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing an image-to-marketplace brokering system include a system provider device that receives, through communication over a network with a user device, an expression of interest of an image of a first item, which the system provider device may thereby use to provide an association between the image and a merchandise listing of a second item. The system provider device may then extract information related to the merchandise listing of the second item, and thereby generate a marketplace summary including the information related to the merchandise listing of the second item. Thereafter, the generated marketplace summary may be displayed by way of a user device. Thus, the embodiments described herein provide users with the ability to quickly access information about an item and/or purchase the item that they like without having to personally identify the item or perform their own search for the item. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345077 | System and method for providing a promotional shopping data platform AWS.TM. for consumers - System and method for providing a promotional shopping data platform AWS™ for consumers is disclosed. The method includes America's Weekly Sales™ or AWS™ Site searched by consumers. Consumers select their location producing content data. This content data is based on categories selected by relevancy of the consumer's choice. The content data will be of promotional discounts and savings for the consumer to shop at a local store in their city. The promotional discounts are posted by vendors that have small businesses in a local city. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345078 | QUANTIFICATION OF USER RECEPTIVENESS VIA MACHINE LEARNING - A server provides communications to users and evaluates actions of the users after the provision of the communications to determine how receptive the various users are to such communications. Receptiveness is determined through a training process involving the formation of training sets based on whether users a test set of users were receptive to a previous set of communications, the derivation of relevant features for the users of the training set, the training of a model based on the derived features, and the use of the model for users whose receptiveness is to be estimated. With the most receptive users identified, the server can focus in future on communicating with those most receptive users. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345079 | NETWORK OF SMART APPLIANCES - Smart appliances, user devices and servers are networked to form a complete end-to-end automated platform wherein the appliances are monitored by a server. Push notifications generated by the smart appliances whenever products contained therein are likely to be exhausted soon are received by the server. The server updates a shopping list on a user device to identify the products as requiring replenishment in response to receiving the push notifications. The server also enables displaying a user interface on the user device that facilitates various interactions for the users of the platform such as identifying products for replenishment, posting feedback on products or making an enquiry regarding products. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345080 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND CONSUMABLE ORDERING METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program which, when executed by a computer, causes an information processing terminal to perform displaying a first screen including a plurality of apparatus objects corresponding to each of a plurality of image processing apparatuses, receiving a user operation of designating one of the apparatus objects, receiving, from the designated apparatus, consumable information indicating a status of a consumable to be used for an operation of the image processing apparatus, determining whether a status indicated by the consumable information satisfies a replacement condition of the consumable, and when it is determined that the replacement condition is satisfied, transmitting, to a server, first ship request information for requesting the server to ship the consumable, for which it is determined in the determining of the status that the replacement condition is satisfied. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345081 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes a feature amount receiving unit that receives predetermined feature amount information including times at which a plurality of terminals pass a specific location from the terminals and stores the received feature amount information in a storage unit in association with the terminals; and a group decision unit that groups terminals associated with same or approximate feature amount information based on the received feature amount and the feature amount information already stored in the storage unit and that stores the grouped terminals in a group information storage unit in association with an identifier for identifying a group. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345082 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STAGING CUSTOMER PREMISE EQUIPMENT OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - An order for telecommunications services is received comprising order parameters including a CPE device configuration request for a customer network. A warehouse is selected as a staging location based upon the order parameters, available inventory of the CPE device, and shipping information from the warehouse to the customer network. A bay of a rack at the staging location is selected to stage a CPE device that matches the specifications of the CPE device configuration request. The CPE device is validated by verifying hardware of the CPE device and whether the CPE device is loaded with certain predetermined software. A configuration is executed to the CPE device to provide the telecommunication services according to the order parameters. The configuration is saved and the CPE device is prepared for installation at a customer location. The CPE device may be shipped to the customer network using the order parameters and shipping information. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345083 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Gift Giving - A shopper selects from gifts that are compatible with a recipient's devices. When the shopper wishes to purchase a gift, descriptions of gifts are compared to the recipient's devices. Compatible gifts may be recommended, while incompatible gifts may be rejected. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345084 | DIRECTING MOVEMENT OF A SELF-DRIVING VEHICLE BASED ON ACTIVITY AT A POINT OF SALE DEVICE - A method, system, and/or computer program product controls a self-driving vehicle based on a purchase transaction at a point of sale (POS) device. One or more processors detect a purchase transaction at the POS device. In response to detecting the purchase transaction at the POS device, the processor(s) transmit instructions to the SDV to pick up a passenger associated with the purchase transaction at a predetermined location. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345085 | ITEM LOCATION MANAGEMENT USING DISTRIBUTED SENSORS - Disclosed aspects relate to locating a particular commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) item using distributed sensors. A set of in-store mobile user online searches which have both a set of in-store location data and a set of COTS item identifiers may be monitored. The set of in-store mobile user online searches may be detected. In response to detecting, the set of in-store mobile user online searches may be collected in a database by a crowdsourcing engine. The set of in-store mobile user online searches may be analyzed by the crowdsourcing engine. A request to locate a particular COTS item may be received from a new user. Based on analyzing the set of in-store mobile user online searches, an in-store location for the particular COTS item may be computed. In response to receiving the request to locate the particular COTS item, the in-store location for the particular COTS item may be provided. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345086 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED SHOPPING AND PRODUCT LOCATION - In general, techniques are described that enable crowdsourcing of product-related information. Product-related information may include availability and intra-store locations of various products at particular stores. An example system includes an interface, a memory, and one or more programmable processors configured to receive, at the interface an intra-store product location from a first client device, the intra-store product location indicating a location of a product within a store. The programmable processor(s) are further configured to store, to at least one storage device coupled to the system and in association with the product, the received intra-store product location, receive, at the interface, a request associated with the product from a second client device, and send, from the interface, the intra-store product location to the second client device in response to receiving the request associated with the product. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345087 | PRESENTATION OF DIGITAL DATA - A computer-implemented method of digital information presentation may include receiving a selection of an item reference from among digital data via a digital user interface. The method may further include receiving a request to search for information relating to the item reference. The method may include sending a request to search for the information relating to the item reference in the digital database. The method may also include receiving the information relating to the item reference. The method may further include presenting the information relating to the item reference via the digital user interface, the digital user interface including a purchase information element. The method may include facilitating a purchase of the item via the digital user interface. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345088 | ATTRIBUTION RULE CONTROLS WITH PAGE CONTENT PREVIEW - A computer-implemented method includes providing a user interface that allows selection of a product attribute and in the alternative allows selection of a previously defined rule. When a product attribute is selected in the user interface, a rule under construction that describes what products are to appear on a retail webpage is altered based on the selected product attribute. When a previously-defined rule is selected in the user interface, the rule under construction is modified so that the rule under construction uses the selected rule. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345089 | FRAMEWORKS AND METHODOLOGIES CONFIGURED TO ENABLE GENERATION AND UTILISATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL BODY SCAN DATA - The present invention relates to frameworks and methodologies configured to enable generation and utilisation of three-dimensional body scan data. Various embodiments are described by reference to applications by which body scan data is collected, and/or subsequently utilised in the context of providing downstream functionalities, for example in the context of enabling users and/or business derive benefit from three-dimensional body scan data. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345090 | PROCESSING FOR REQUIREMENT REQUESTS - Techniques to enable requestors to select vendors for fulfilling requirements of the requestors for items are described herein. In some instances, an interface may provide a requestor with options regarding items available for purchase, and the requestor may specify requirements for items using these options. The requirements may be sent to vendors and the vendors may indicate an ability to fulfill the requirements and/or a cost to fulfill the requirements. The vendors may be ranked based on their ability to fulfill the requirements and/or the costs to fulfill the requirements and the rankings may be provided to the requestor via the interface. The interface may also allow the requestor to inform one of the vendors about an interest of the requestor in purchasing items from the vendor. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345091 | METHOD OF PROFILING AN INSTITUTION AND A PROFILING SERVER THEREOF - The present invention relates to a method of profiling an institution and profiling server thereof. The method includes enabling, by the profiling server, creation of at least one representative profile. A representative profile of the at least one representative profile is associated with a representative of one or more representatives of the institution. The method also includes assigning, by the profiling server, one or more data collection tasks to each representative of the one or more representatives to collect data associated with the institution. Each data collection task of the one or more data collection tasks is based on incentive. The incentive dynamically varies with corresponding data. Further, the method includes enabling, by the profiling server, validation of the data by at least one validator associated with the institution. Moreover, the method includes recording, by the profiling server, the data associated with the institution based on validation of the data. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345092 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRONIC AUCTION AND GAME PROMOTION - Methods and systems for electronic auctions are disclosed, which, in some embodiments, may be used in conjunction with disclosed embodiments of electronic game promotions. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345093 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING RESOURCE UTILIZATION, INFLOW AND OUTFLOW - Systems and methods are provided for transforming historical data collected in response to one or more triggering events, in order to analyze resource utilization, inflow and outflow. Embodiments access inflow and outflow information corresponding to a primary node from historical data; analyze the inflow and outflow information corresponding to the primary node in order to identify one or more channels of flow out of a plurality of channels of flow, each channel connecting the primary node and a secondary node, the one or more channels of flow identified when they exhibit one or more predetermined characteristics; determine that the one or more channels of flow, based on the exhibited predetermined characteristics should be categorized into one or more categories out of a plurality of categories. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345094 | SHARED MEMORY-BASED TRANSACTION PROCESSING - Described is a method for updating a first computer memory of a first transaction engine that processes transactions of a first topic and a second computer memory of a second transaction engine that processes transactions of a second topic different from the first topic but the transactions involving or updating a common factor. After the first transaction engine processes the transaction, it notifies a separate process affiliated or associated with each of the remaining transaction engines of the execution of the transaction. Each such associated process updates a local shared memory that it shares with the respective transaction engine. A memory master may also be notified of the transactions and their completion and the memory master may maintain state information. In a stock market or other electronically-implemented exchange or bourse context, the transactions may be orders for matching engines in an order book. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345095 | Dynamic Generation of Order Entry Fields on a Trading Interface - Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for displaying market data for a tradable object which are configured to generate order entry fields for display responsive to user input wherein the generated fields are automatically associated with a price for the tradable object to facilitate the timely placement of a trade. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345096 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A DASHBOARD FOR DETERMINING RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR MARKETING - Methods and system are described for determining marketing fund value for a product. Multiple input variables are determined to estimate one or more dependent variables. The marketing fund value is calculated based on a combined function of one or more dependent variables. A dashboard has been provided for displaying the marketing fund value by means of a plurality of infographics along with the one or more dependent variables. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345097 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING - What is disclosed is a graphical user interface (GUI) for one or more user devices associated with one or more users to interact with a financial planning system, wherein said one or more user devices are coupled to said financial planning system via a network; said financial planning system comprises a financial modeling platform (FMP) to generate said GUI for display on said one or more user devices, said GUI further comprising an age ladder comprising a set of age containers, and one or more elements, and manage said GUI. The financial planning system receives commands from said one or more user devices to prompt the display of a month ladder comprising a set of month containers based on one or more interactions with said age ladder, and drop at least one element selected from the one or more elements into at least one of the set of month containers. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345098 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CONSUMER TRANSACTION-BASED INVESTMENTS - The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for controlling investment funds, and more particularly to systems and methods for real-time projections based on consumer transactions. In one embodiment, an investment fund management system may include a consumer communication device configured to create a payment gateway with a Point of Sales (POS) terminal. The system further includes a portfolio server accessible over a data network. The consumer communication device is configured to execute a process including the steps of intercepting a transaction through the payment gateway; computing an expected return based on the investment of a transaction amount from said transaction; and providing the expected return to the consumer communication device. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345099 | Dynamic Modeling and Benchmarking for Benefits Plans - A method and apparatus for displaying group employee insurance information against benchmark information. Insurance profiles for business entities are retrieved from a data structure. A benchmark score corresponding to a benchmark category is generated for a current insurance profile of a selected business entity using the insurance profiles. The benchmark score indicates a portion of a selected premium for the current insurance profile that is paid by business entities that fall within the benchmark category. The current insurance profile is displayed in a graphical user interface on a display system. The benchmark score is displayed in association with the current insurance profile in the graphical user interface to aid a user in managing the employee insurance. Displaying the benchmark score in association with the insurance profile allows the user to more quickly and easily assess payment of the selected premium for the insurance profile in comparison to benchmark category. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345100 | SYSTEM FOR ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION - A communication system including a server configured, in response to receiving an identification code of a first user from a second user via a mobile device of the second user, to retrieve personal identification information of the first user and to contact the first user with a message on behalf of the second user in a manner that does not identify the second user to the first user and the first user to the second user without authorization. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345101 | WORLD-WIDE WEB OF NETWORKED, SMART, SCALABLE, PLUG & PLAY BATTERY PACKS HAVING A BATTERY PACK OPERATING SYSTEM, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF - An electrical energy storage unit and control system, and applications thereof. In an embodiment, the electrical energy storage unit may include a battery system controller and battery packs having a battery pack operating system. Each battery pack may have battery cells, a battery pack controller that monitors the cells, and a battery pack operating system that includes a suite of modules including among other modules, a module that tracks battery lifetime usage, a module that ensures the battery cells are used in accordance with warranty requirements, and a balancing module. The balancing module may control a battery pack cell balancer that adjusts the amount of energy stored in the cells. In an embodiment, the cells may be lithium ion battery cells. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345102 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, EXTRACTION APPARATUS, AND EXTRACTION METHOD - An extraction apparatus includes an input-data analysis unit that, when an extraction process is performed on input data containing a plurality of XBRL files using a combination of a plurality of extraction criteria, each of the extraction criteria directly specifying an element and an aspect of each of the plurality of XBRL files, calculates, from the input data, distribution information containing distribution of values of individual aspects of a plurality of elements that are individually provided by the plurality of XBRL files, and an application-sequence determining unit that determines an application sequence of the plurality of extraction criteria by referring to the calculated distribution information. Hence, the extraction apparatus can extract XBRL data pieces containing data items to be validated against a validation rule from the input data rapidly. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345103 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLECTING FEES FROM A MERCHANT AND REMITTING THE FEES TO AN ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY - The present disclosure provides systems, processes, and methods for the remittance of sales tax to a government entity on behalf of a first entity, such as a merchant, for a remote purchase of a product made by a second entity, such as a buyer. The merchant may be in electronic communication with the buyer to receive the order from the buyer. An item distributor may be in electronic communication with the merchant and may receive data over a network associated with the purchase transaction. The distributor may receive the item from the merchant to be delivered to a shipping address provided by the buyer. The item distributor may receive the sales tax from the merchant for remittance to the government entity and may remit the sales tax to the government entity, along with the necessary associated data and/or documentation, on behalf of the merchant. The sales tax, along with the associated data and documentation may be submitted electronically over a network to a government system configured to receive such sales tax and data. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345104 | Dynamic Identification of Businesses Based on Geo-Business Localized Social Signals - Web based business page data is received. Historical data for the web based business page data is compounded. Geo-business cells are generated based on business identification information. Relevancy values of each geo-business cell is determined based on historical data specific to the geo-business cell. Relevancy values associated with web based business pages are compared to the relevancy value of each respective geo-business cell. A group of businesses having web based pages with relevancy values above the relevancy value of the geo-business cell are identified. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345105 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE PAYMENT METHOD OPTIONS TO USERS IN CONNECTION WITH A BROWSER PAYMENT REQUEST API - Disclosed is an approach for enabling a user to choose from multiple payment options using a browser API. The method includes transmitting, to a browser and via a browser payment request application programming interface, a payment request having data associated with a purchase of a product from the site for a user and presenting a choice between a first payment method and a second payment method for purchasing the product. The method includes receiving a selection of a payment method from the user of one of the first payment method and the second payment method to yield a selected payment method and, based on the selected payment method and in response to the payment request, receiving, from the browser and via the browser payment request application programming interface, data associated with the selected payment method. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345106 | PRODUCT PRE-PURCHASE AND STORAGE METHODS - A product pre-purchase and storage method including the steps of a consumer locating a seller of a product, the consumer purchasing a quantity of product, the quantity of the product having a plurality of incremental-portions, from the seller at an initial-price, the consumer having the option of taking possession of one of the incremental-portions of the quantity of product, the consumer providing one of the incremental-portion of the quantity of product to a storage-owner, the storage-owner storing the incremental-portion of the quantity of product provided by the consumer, the storage-owner charging the consumer a storage-rate to store an incremental-portion of the quantity of product for a storage-term, and the consumer returning to optionally take possession one or more incremental-portions of the quantity of product from the storage-owner at a later time. Each transaction includes one or more transaction-fees. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345107 | POWER SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A power supply management system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a fee setting unit configured to set power fee unit prices (first power fee unit price and second power fee unit price for each time slot, and a notification unit configured to notify a consumer of information on the set power fee unit prices. The first power fee unit price is a power unit price for a household electrical load, and the second power fee unit price is a power unit price in a case of using a charge/discharge device to charge a vehicle-mounted storage battery. The fee setting unit is configured to set, by predicting a load factor of a transformer, a discount rate of the second power fee unit price to become higher (second power fee unit price to become lower) as the predicted load factor becomes lower. The second power fee unit price is determined on the basis of the first power fee unit price and the discount rate. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345108 | METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING A VACATION OPTION - A computer-implemented method for recommending a vacation option for an account holder is provided, including: retrieving historical vacation transaction data relating to a plurality of historical vacation transactions settled for the account holder; processing the historical vacation transaction data to identify vacation characteristics relating to the account holder and a vacation budget representing an amount that the account holder is likely to spend on vacation travel, the vacation characteristics indicating a preferred weather under which the account holder has visited vacation venues identified by the historical vacation transaction data and a preferred time period during which the account holder has visited the vacation venues; retrieving a list of vacation options each associated with a budget that is within the identified vacation budget of the account holder; and recommending a vacation option from the retrieved list of vacation options based on the identified vacation characteristics. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345109 | Free Learning Analytics Methods and Systems - This invention concerns methods and systems for monitoring one or more students' use of computers, measuring, analyzing, and summarizing in statistical and pedagogical ways learning quality, on-task versus off-taskness, making diagnostic and prescriptive recommendations, and displaying relevant and configurable results in real time and historically in meaningful ways to students, teachers, and various educationalists and managers. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345110 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING - A method for educating a patient through a collaborative network is provided. The patient is authenticated with a username and a password. A request is received by a server for entry to a repository for educational design activities. Each of educational design activities includes exemplar design configurations and material lists and is configured to include photographs and written texts for other patients who have completed the associated educational design activity. A hypertext document is transmitted to the client computer—which includes the education design activities. The hypertext document is configured to be displayed through a browsing application on the client computer. A request is received by the server from the client computer for access to a selected education design activity, and access is provided to a design engine for the selected educational design activity. A design file created by the patient is then stored using the design engine. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345111 | ELECTRONICALLY DETERMINING COMPLIANCE OF A MEDICAL TREATMENT OF A SUBJECT WITH A MEDICAL TREATMENT PLAN FOR THE SUBJECT - Systems, devices, and methods are described for tracking, registering, etc. of medical staff, patients, instrumentation, events, or the like according to a treatment staging plan. For example a medical apparatus includes a right-patient verification device having an interrogation interface device that elicits at least one of identification data, authorization data, or treatment plan data from a medical procedure authorization device associated with a patient; and a right-site verification device that generates patient-specific treatment staging data consistent with the at least one of the identification data, the authorization data, or the treatment plan data. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345112 | Dynamic Threat Analysis Engine for Mobile Users - Techniques for detecting conditions at a geographic location are described. The techniques receive plural information feeds, aggregate the information according commonality of information, and analyze information from the plural information feeds according to rules. Upon detection of a rule being triggered for a particular user, the techniques produce or spawn an instruction thread that is controlled or scheduled by an instruction thread scheduler and which filters the received information from the data feeds according to the triggered rule, (and user, user location) and produce an instruction thread that continually analyzes the filtered information from the data feeds to produce operational decisions based on the information and data feeds, detect during the continual analysis changes in risk of a threat according to the triggered rule, produce response messages based on the determined change, and send the generated response messages as an alert to a system/device of a user. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345113 | RIDE TRADING AVAILABILITY USING VEHICLE TELEMATICS - A system and method of communicating vehicle-based service offers between wireless devices includes: receiving, at a central facility, a location from a wireless device used by a potential service consumer; determining, at the central facility, a community from the received location, wherein the community represents a geofenced boundary the location exists within; associating the wireless device with the community in a database at the central facility; receiving at the central facility a service offer and a location or community from a second wireless device used by a vehicle owner; searching the database for the community associated with the second wireless device; determining that the community associated with the second wireless device is also associated with the wireless device in the database; and transmitting the service offer received from the second wireless device to the wireless device. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345114 | MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL TRANSPORT FOR PATIENTS - Systems and methods are provided for coordinating a fleet of vehicles that engage in medical transport. One embodiment is a system that includes a fleet control server that receives a request for medical transport of a patient, and that identifies a fleet of vehicles that provide medical transport. The system also includes crew devices at the vehicles that each report a position of a corresponding vehicle, and a reporting server. The fleet control server selects a vehicle in the fleet to perform medical transport of the patient based on the position of the vehicle in relation to other vehicles in the fleet, and determines an interested party that is distinct from the patient. The reporting server reports selection of the vehicle to the interested party, and transmits vehicle tracking data to the interested party in real time as the vehicle services the request. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345115 | SYSTEM TO FACILITATE A CORRECT IDENTIFICATION OF A SERVICE PROVIDER - Particular embodiments described herein provide for a communication system that can be configured to receive a request for a service from a user device associated with a user, transmit details about a specific service provider for the requested service to the user device, and receive an identification of a service provider from the user device subsequent to the transmitting of the details. The communication system can be configured to provide a first user notification in response to determining that the identified service provider is the specific service provider for the requested service. The communication system can be configured to provide a second user notification in response to determining that the identified service provider is not the specific service provider. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345116 | IMAGE FORGERY PROTECTION APPARATUS - An image forgery protection apparatus comprises: one or more memories; and circuitry. The circuitry generates challenge data which change with lapse of time at least in a predetermined period. The circuitry generates a unique response which changes with lapse of time, the unique response corresponding to the challenge data on a basis of a physically unclonable function. The circuitry changes subject image data correspondingly to the unique response, the subject image data obtained by capturing an image of a subject. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345117 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that determines whether or not an image described based on image data is continuous with an area where watermark information is to be embedded to generate a determination result and changes, in accordance with the determination result, the area where the watermark information is to be embedded. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345118 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING REAL-TIME SAFETY AND SECURITY RELEVANT VIDEO DATA - A system for generating and detecting watermarks within a video frame (e.g., video content) is described to determine whether a data interruption has occurred. In one or more implementations, the system includes a generation module communicatively coupled to a video source and a watermark detection module configured to receive a plurality of video watermarks. The watermarking detection module is configured to determine whether a watermark embedded in a current (e.g., a second) video frame is different from a watermark embedded in the previous (e.g., a first) video frame. The watermarking detection module is configured to generate an error signal when the watermark embedded in the current (e.g., a second) video frame is not different than the watermark embedded in the previous (e.g., a first) video frame to indicate a data interruption event has occurred. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345119 | GRID-BASED WATERMARK - An example implementation includes an apparatus including a processor to divide a digital image into a grid including a first grid region and a second grid region. The processor is also to generate a first grid-based watermark using shared watermark information and a first set of grid coordinates associated with the first grid region. The processor is further to generate a second grid-based watermark using the shared watermark information and a second set of grid coordinates associated with the second grid region. The processor is further to embed the first grid-based watermark into a first region of the digital image corresponding to the first grid region and to embed the second grid-based watermark into a second region of the digital image corresponding to the second grid region. The processor is further to generate a machine-readable digital image including the embedded first grid-based watermark and the embedded second grid-based watermark. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345120 | LOSSY DEPTH COMPRESSION OF MULTI-SAMPLE PIXELS - Described herein are technologies related to facilitating lossy compression for multi-sampled depth data of computer graphics that maximizes the apparent quality of pixels while avoiding a corresponding burden on memory and processor bandwidth. The technologies described herein provide high-quality multi-sampling for pixels or groups of pixels that are covered by a small number of triangles, and provides a guaranteed minimum quality for pixels that are covered by a large number of triangles. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345121 | BANDWIDTH-EFFICIENT LOSSLESS FRAGMENT COLOR COMPRESSION OF MULTI-SAMPLE PIXELS - Described herein are technologies related to facilitate lossless compression for multi-sample color data of computer graphics that maximizes the apparent quality of pixels while avoiding a corresponding burden on memory and processor bandwidth. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345122 | HIERARCHICAL LOSSLESS COMPRESSION AND NULL DATA SUPPORT - Described herein are computer graphics technologies to facilitate effective and efficient memory handling for blocks of memory including texture maps. More particularly, one or more implementations described herein facilitates hierarchical lossless compression of memory with null data support for memory resources, including texture maps. More particularly still, one or more implementations described herein facilitates the use of meta-data for lossless compression and the support of null encodings for Tiled Resources. This technology also permits use of the fast-clear compression method, where meta-data specifies that the entire access should return some specified clear value. | 2017-11-30 |