49th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130325478 | DIALOGUE APPARATUS, DIALOGUE SYSTEM, AND DIALOGUE CONTROL METHOD - Dialogue apparatus configured to carry out a dialogue with a driver and including storage, concentration degree measuring and dialogue units. The storage unit maintains a preference database in which a dialogue candidate of content for a dialogue with the driver and a dialogue effect indicating a degree of improving driver's degree of concentration on driving, are associated with each other. The concentration degree measuring unit measures the driver's degree of concentration on driving. The dialogue unit selects a dialogue candidate based on the dialogue effect in the preference database when the degree of concentration measured by the concentration degree measuring unit falls below a predetermined threshold, then carries out a dialogue by the selected dialogue candidate, and based on the degree of concentration before and after carrying out the dialogue, calculates the dialogue effect of the dialogue, and updates the dialogue effect of the preference database. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325479 | SMART DOCK FOR ACTIVATING A VOICE RECOGNITION MODE OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A dock for a portable electronic device including a housing, a connector extending from the housing to connect the portable electronic device to the dock, a microphone integrated within the housing, and a processor. The processor is operatively coupled to receive audio input from the microphone, and in response to the audio input, transmit a message to the portable electronic device via the connector to activate a voice recognition mode of the portable electronic device. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325480 | REMOTE CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A remote controller includes a housing, a direction sensor, a microphone, a controller, and a wireless transmitter. A control method of the remote controller includes detecting an angle between an axis of a remote controller and a vertical axis, enabling a microphone of the remote controller when the angle is within a predetermined range in order to generate a voice signal according to a voice command, and generating a first control signal according the voice signal and transmit the first control signal wirelessly. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325481 | VOICE INSTRUCTIONS DURING NAVIGATION - A method of providing navigation on an electronic device when the display screen is locked. The method receives a verbal request to start navigation while the display is locked. The method identifies a route from a current location to a destination based on the received verbal request. While the display screen is locked, the method provides navigational directions on the electronic device from the current location of the electronic device to the destination. Some embodiments provide a method for processing a verbal search request. The method receives a navigation-related verbal search request and prepares a sequential list of the search results based on the received request. The method then provides audible information to present a search result from the sequential list. The method presents the search results in a batch form until the user selects a search result, the user terminates the search, or the search items are exhausted. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325482 | ESTIMATING CONGNITIVE-LOAD IN HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION - Estimating cognitive-load of a user in human-machine interaction by identifying an expression of cognitive-load within a user expression captured by a dialogue system and using a user model to estimate a level of the cognitive-load based on the expression of cognitive-load. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325483 | DIALOGUE MODELS FOR VEHICLE OCCUPANTS - Methods and apparatus for creating and managing multiple dialogue models in a statistical dialogue modeling system capable of learning, and conducting human-machine dialogues based on selected models. Dialogue models are selected according to feature vectors that describe characteristics of the dialogue participants and their current situation. Mobile apparatus in motor vehicles can provide optimized dialogue service to occupants of the motor vehicles according to vehicle location and route, in addition to personal characteristics of the occupants, whether driver or passenger. When networked via a remote dialogue server, a large pool of dialogue participants is available for automatic building of dialogue models suitable for handling a variety of situations and participants. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325484 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING VOICE COMMAND IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An apparatus and method for executing a voice command in an electronic device. In an exemplary embodiment, a voice signal is detected and speech thereof is recognized. When the recognized speech contains a wakeup command, a voice command mode is activated, and a signal containing at least a portion of the detected voice signal is transmitted to a server. The server generates a control signal or a result signal corresponding to the voice command, and transmits the same to the electronic device. The device receives and processes the control or result signal, and awakens. Thereby, voice commands are executed without the need for the user to physically touch the electronic device. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325485 | DETECTION AND USE OF ACOUSTIC SIGNAL QUALITY INDICATORS - A computer-driven device assists a user in self-regulating speech control of the device. The device processes an input signal representing human speech to compute acoustic signal quality indicators indicating conditions likely to be problematic to speech recognition, and advises the user of those conditions. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325486 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving, by an audio processing apparatus, an audio signal including a first data of a first block encoded with rectangular coding scheme and a second data of a second block encoded with non-rectangular coding scheme; receiving a compensation signal corresponding to the second block; estimating a prediction of an aliasing part using the first data; and, obtaining a reconstructed signal for the second block based on the second data, the compensation signal and the prediction of aliasing part. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325487 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving, by an audio processing apparatus, an audio signal including a first data of a first block encoded with rectangular coding scheme and a second data of a second block encoded with non-rectangular coding scheme; receiving a compensation signal corresponding to the second block; estimating a prediction of an aliasing part using the first data; and, obtaining a reconstructed signal for the second block based on the second data, the compensation signal and the prediction of aliasing part. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325488 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING COST INFORMATION FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES - Methods and systems for providing cost information for health care services enable, among other things, health care users to make more informed and cost-effective decisions regarding their use of health care services, and/or health care providers to compete against one another on the basis of cost. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving, via a device, a user input requesting cost information for a health care service for a user; and providing, via the device and in response to the user input, a display including one or more health care providers and cost information for each of the one or more health care providers for providing the health care service for the user. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325489 | SECURE COMMUNICATIONS AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, INCLUDING HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL AVAILABILITY STATUS - A system for managing healthcare-related communications includes a computer network and a server system comprising a portal that is accessible through the computer network. The server system includes a healthcare professional profile subsystem that is operable to perform operations including the following: receive input through the portal from a first computing device, wherein the input indicates an availability status for a first healthcare professional; store the availability status as part of a profile for the first healthcare professional; and in response to receiving a request through the portal from a second healthcare professional, provide for viewing by the second healthcare professional a listing of one or more healthcare professionals, wherein the listing includes the name and availability status of the first healthcare professional. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325490 | SECURE COMMUNICATIONS AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, INCLUDING REFERRAL TRACKING - A system for managing healthcare-related communications includes a computer network and a server system that includes a portal accessible through the computer network. The server system includes a referral tracking subsystem that is operable to perform operations including tracking referrals among physicians based on communications sent through the server system, and storing information about the tracked referrals. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325491 | Therapy Tracking And Management System - A computer implemented method and system for tracking and managing therapy sessions using a therapy management application (TMA) is provided. The TMA is accessible by an electronic device in multiple access modes. The TMA schedules therapy sessions with multiple clients and generates one or more goals for each of the clients based on an evaluation of the clients in the therapy sessions. The TMA categorizes the generated goals for each of the clients into one or more goal categories and defines one or more goal measurements for each of the generated goals within each of the goal categories. The TMA collects and tracks data acquired from the scheduled therapy sessions of each of the clients for the defined goal measurements via a graphical user interface. The TMA generates progress reports based on performance of each of the clients for each of the generated goals using the collected and tracked data. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325492 | BUSINESS METHOD FOR COLLECTION, PROCESSING, CRYOGENIC STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION OF A BIOLOGIC SAMPLE MATERIAL - Methods and systems for collection, processing, cryogenic storage and distribution of a stem cell based biological sample material. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325493 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE STATES OF HEALTH USING PERSONALIZED 3-D ANATOMICAL MODELS - A computer generated 3-D model of the human body (avatar) is created by aggregating personal health and medical data of a user. This data may include data derived from the user's electronic medical record. The user's physical characteristics are entered into the software to generate a personalized avatar that resembles him or her. Data regarding the user's medical history and physical characteristics are visualized on the avatar to map the past and present states of the user, and may be modified by a set of health variables for the purpose of projecting a future body image over established time intervals. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325494 | Mobile Fulfillment Platform For Prescription Medications - Embodiments are directed towards a method implemented by a server computer for electronic ordering of medicine by a patient from a pharmacy after a valid paper or electronic prescription has been issued by a doctor, including maintaining a database of doctors that includes records for doctors, the records including a point-of-care location where a doctor provides care to patients, receiving from a mobile device a location of the mobile device at a designated time, determining that the location of the mobile device at the designated time matches a point-of-care location for a doctor included in the database of doctors, inferring that the user of the mobile device has visited the doctor, and sending an alert message to the mobile device. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325495 | ENHANCED AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING FOR TRACKING HEALTHCARE ACTIVITIES - An example embodiment includes a method of employee activity and performance tracking. The method includes receiving data packets from a base station. The data packets include locational information pertaining to one or more employees. The method also includes calculating an event timeframe from the data packets. The event timeframe includes a start date/time of an event, an end date/time of the event, a location of the event, and an identification of one or more employees involved in the event. The method further includes refining the event timeframe and communicating the event timeframe to the one or more employees identified in the event timeframe. The method also includes receiving a designation by the one or more employees, the designation including details of the event. The method further includes storing the data packets, the event timeframe, and the designation. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325496 | SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING FRAUD - A system for preventing fraud may be provided. The system may include a processor that may receive a prescription for a patient from a physician that is registered with the system. Additionally, the processor may be configured to receive a patient identification number, a financial identification number, and a group identification number from a digital prescription provided by the patient when the patient attempts to fill the prescription. If the patient identification number, the financial identification number, and the group identification number from the digital prescription match the information in the prescription received from the physician, then the processor may transmit a signal to enable the patient to receive medicine associated with the prescription. However, if the patient identification number, the financial identification number, and the group identification number from the digital prescription do not match the prescription from the physician, the processor may prevent the patient from receiving medicine. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325497 | CLINICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, CLINICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND CLINICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM - Based on summary extraction information in which each disease and each clinical information item extracted from a summary related information of at least one of (1) a treatment result summary, (2) a treatment review summary, (3) a history of a series of operations for generating the treatment result summary, and (4) a history of a series of operations for generating the treatment review summary are related, calculating a degree of appearance of each clinical information item, item by item, with respect to each disease as item information, determining a clinical information item whose calculated item information satisfies a predetermined condition as an important clinical information item, generating a display filter in which a disease and an important clinical information item corresponding to the disease are related, and displaying clinical information based on a display target disease and a display filter corresponding to the display target disease. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325498 | Health Outcome Prediction and Management System and Method - A system, method and apparatus for providing statistical estimates useful for decision support, including computer networks and software configured to provide such support. The methods and apparatus herein are particularly useful for providing information to health care providers, mission commanders and decision makers as it relates to the statistical modeling of the severity, prevalence and category of prevalence of various diseases in general, and to Acute Mountain Sickness in particular. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325499 | HEALTH ACT TRANSACTIONS AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for coordinating patient care among members of a patient care team including a care provider and a patient are described. One embodiment includes receiving, from a first user, via a user interface, a selection of a care transition specified in a health act grammar and binding the first user to a source actor node associated with the selected care transition in the health act grammar. The method further includes identifying, using at least one processor, at least one target actor with the selected care transition based, at least in part, on a target actor role specified in the health act grammar, and notifying the at least one target actor of a patient care responsibility associated with the selected care transition. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325500 | Identification of Health Risks and Suggested Treatment Actions - Using a brokerage system, a consumer of services is matched with a service provider and a comprehensive health management plan is generated for the consumer during the consumer's interaction with the brokerage system. The brokerage system uses a rules engine to identify one or more conditions of the consumer's health and generate one or more follow-up actions based at least in part on the consumer's identified health condition. The consumer is notified of at least one of the identified conditions and the generated follow-up actions. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325501 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED HEALTH CARE COMPLIANCE - Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture may provide for improved health care compliance. Embodiments may comprise, for example, identifying an occurrence of an event associated with the taking of a substance by a patient, determining output information associated with a game, and providing the output information to the patient. Some embodiments may comprise receiving a code associated with a patient, wherein the code includes encoded information that is indicative of an occurrence of an event associated with the taking of a substance by a patient, decoding the code to determine the information, determining whether the occurrence of the event is compliant with a condition associated with the taking of the substance, and providing, in the case that compliance with the condition is determined, one or more rewards to the patient. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325502 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SYNDROME-SPECIFIC, WEIGHTED-INCIDENCE TREATMENT REGIMEN RECOMMENDATIONS - A system and method for guiding the selection of treatment regimens according to locality-specific and patient-specific criteria. The system and method may employ a guidance engine that determines past efficacies of multiple treatment regimens in prior patients presenting with the syndrome of interest in a given locality, then correlate those outcomes with the clinical and demographic characteristics of the prior patients and locality. The guidance engine determines the influence of multiple patient characteristics and locality trends on positive treatment outcomes, and uses such determinations to generate a report including success probabilities for various treatment regimens, given the current patient's particular characteristics and trends within the patient's current locality. The system and method may be implemented in a variety of embodiments, including via a networked system interfaced with a healthcare facility's electronic medical record system, or as a stand-alone device. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325503 | SECURE COMMUNICATIONS AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS - A network-based application for computing devices facilitates workflow management for healthcare professionals and can facilitate secure communications, collaboration and sharing of information regarding patient care. Notifications about messages can be sent or received, for example, by text or email to or from the healthcare professional's personal computing device, or as a notification to a message inbox accessed through a secure Internet or other secure network portal. Messages and data containing the actual patient information, however, are sent or retrieved only through the user's message inbox accessed through the secure Internet or other secure network portal. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325504 | DYNAMIC REPORT BUILDING - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for processing analyte data. In some exemplary implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include selecting at least one module from among a plurality of modules, the selection performed based on metadata including one or more of the following rules: whether the at least one module can be used with a type of device, whether the at least one module can be used with a glycemic state of a host, and whether the at least one module can be used with an expected volume of data generated by the type of device; and generating a report including the selected at least one module configured to present information representative of the glucose concentration level measured in the host. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325505 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT - Certain examples provide system and methods for population health management. An example population health management system includes an information exchange platform, a knowledge platform, application(s), and a user portal. The example information exchange platform is to share of information for patients and providers in a selected population. The example information exchange platform is to collect and transform the information into an accessible, sharable format. The example knowledge platform is to derive insight from the collected and transformed information. The example knowledge platform is to facilitate application of one or more analytics and rules-based workflows to the collected and transformed information to derive insight. The example application(s) are to coordinate communication and care collaboration across the selection population based on the insight and information. The example user portal is to provide a unified interface to enable access to the application(s), knowledge platform, and information for the selected population. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325506 | UPLOADING MEASUREMENT DATA OF NON-CONNECTED MEDICAL MEASURING DEVICES - Embodiments are directed to detecting and uploading measurement data of a non-connected medical measuring device. Embodiments include capturing an image of an identification object and a beginning event image of a medical measuring device and extracting identification data from the image of the identification object. Based on detecting that the identification object has been removed, an ending event image of the medical measuring device is captured. Embodiments include determining if a measurement event has occurred by comparing the ending event image and the beginning event image. Based on determining that the measurement event occurred, a measurement data of the ending event image is extracted and upload to a personal health record database. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325507 | MEDICAL INFORMATION DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed is a medical information data management system for managing a plurality of medical information data sets generated at a plurality of medical facilities including a specifying unit, which specifies arbitrary management units, each of which including one or a plurality of medical information data sets, with respect to the plurality of medical information data sets, an ID issuing unit which issues cooperation management IDs respectively to the specified management units, and a storage unit which stores the issued cooperation management IDs and the medical information data sets. In the storage unit, each cooperation management ID is associated with medical information data sets that belong to a management unit corresponding to the cooperation management ID. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325508 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TRANSPARENT MEDICAL TREATMENT - A system for tracking the location and activities of a patient is disclosed. The system includes: a patient location identification device associated with a patient; a patient data server including at least one server application executable on a computer, the patient data server remotely located from the patient location identification device wherein the patient data server and patient location identification device are configured to dynamically communicate with each other through the at least one server application; and a patient medical data file residing in at least one of the patient location identification device or the patient data server, the patient medical data file configured to maintain a plurality of recordable events generated by the patient location identification device. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325509 | REFERRAL SYSTEM FOR PATIENT CARE PROVIDER - A system for managing patient care provider referral. The system includes a database which includes records for a plurality of patient care providers. The system also includes a processor, and a memory storing software executable by the processor. The software includes a lookup tool configured to retrieve patient care provider records from the database, and a transaction processing tool configured to enable a referring patient care provider to select a referred patient care provider for a patient based on the retrieved records. The system can further include an electronic health record (EHR) tracker configured to track updates to an EHR of the patient, as well as a survey tool configured to collect feedback from the patient regarding the referred patient care provider. Methods associated with the system and the various tools are also disclosed. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325510 | IMAGE BASED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES - An image-based diagnostic system may include graphical user interfaces that include image icons. Users may select image icon(s) and/or other icon(s) related to an analysis of expert images, such as medical images. Analytical reports may be generated based on the selection(s). In some implementations, the image icons may be correlated to reference information and references may be retrieved based on image icon(s). | 2013-12-05 |
20130325511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS MOBILE MANAGEMENT - A system for health and wellness mobile management comprises a database operable to store a health and wellness data record associated with a patient/data owner, a content management system adapted to strictly control access to the health and wellness data record stored in the database according to access rules set by the patient, a web interface adapted to interface with information requesters submitting requests for access to the health and wellness data record via a web application, an external connect interface adapted to interface with external systems and applications for receiving health and wellness data associated with the patient, a prescription interface adapted to receive a pharmaceutical prescription for the patient submitted by a healthcare provider, and a patient identification accessory adapted to uniquely identify the patient as the data owner of the health and wellness data record stored in the database. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325512 | ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SERVICE THEREOF - A mobile EMR system and a method of providing a service thereof strengthen mobility and security in an existing EMR system. The method of providing a service in a mobile electronic medical record (EMR) system includes: receiving, by a mobile EMR management server, a command that requests EMR information from a mobile client; converting the command, having received from the mobile client to a command of a method in which a hospital information system (HIS) supports; forwarding an EMR information request to the HIS using the converted command; acquiring the requested EMR information from the HIS; and transmitting the acquired EMR information to the mobile client. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325513 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AT-HOME MEDICAL PREVENTION, RECOVERY AND MAINTENANCE - A web-based method implemented by at least one computing device for automating a medical treatment plan is described. Content related to a program that is associated with a medical treatment is identified. The identified content is digitized. The digitized content is stored in a database. The identified content is provided to a patient via user interface to assist the patient who is associated with the medical treatment. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325514 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS UTILIZING PORTABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT - Mobile clinicians conduct in-home patient visits utilizing on-site diagnostic and treatment equipment, where service is enhanced by the use of portable computing and communications equipment. A mobile care entity provides mobile clinicians preprogrammed portable computers. Each portable computer updates patient data in the local storage utilizing a wireless communications device to download updates from a central storage facility. The entity selects a mobile clinician and dispatches him/her to the patient's premises. The clinician visits the patient's premises accompanied by an assortment of electronic diagnostic and treatment devices. The mobile clinician utilizes various diagnostic devices to prepare machine-readable reports of related aspects of the patient's condition. The clinician directs the portable computer to perform follow-up tasks including: (1) electronically collecting the prepared reports and graphically presenting them in human-readable form, (2) storing a machine-readable medical record, and (3) utilizing the wireless device to transmit the reports and records. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325515 | CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PREDICTIVE DISCHARGE PLANNING - A system and method for patient discharge planning. The system and method include evaluating a patient record including patient data parameters of a patient, predicting a change in the patient record for all possible treatment options, generating a discharge recommendation based on at least one of the patient record and the predicted change in the patient record and displaying the discharge recommendation to a user. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INSURANCE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS COMPLIANT WITH STATE INSURANCE REGULATIONS - Provided are systems and methods for generating state-specific insurance contract documents that are compliant with their respective state's insurance regulations. In particular, these systems and methods are provided in accordance with a simplified model for maintaining and creating insurance contract documents that are compliant with state insurance regulations. State-specific insurance contract documents are generated by combining baseline section template files and state-specific section template files in accordance with contract generation rules that are defined to create a state-specific insurance contract document that it compliant with its respective state's insurance regulations. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325517 | Insurance Systems and Method Using Online Social Networks - A system for providing insurance policies is disclosed herein that includes an insurance database storing user information for a group of users in an insurance program, including user identity data and user reputation data, and an insurance program server containing an insurance platform application communicating with the users in the insurance program through a social network web site and accessing user identity data through a social network database. The application provides insurance policies issued by an insurance carrier to the users covering a first insurance policy term, and uses risk reputation rating data about an individual user submitted by the individual user and scored by the insurance platform application for the purpose of removing selected users from the group for a second insurance policy coverage term. Additional systems and methods are also disclosed. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325518 | PROCESS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING INSURANCE QUOTES AND GENERATING A DECLARATION PAGE - This is a system including the process, methods, instructions and architecture of a graphical user interface saved on a physical, computer readable media device and run to allow homebuyers and or their lenders to obtain insurance quotes and to print or email Declaration Pages locally. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325519 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED RISK MITIGATION/RECOVERY TO AN INSURANCE CUSTOMER - A loss mitigation computer system includes a customer interface electronically receiving customer information data from a customer computer system via a communications network, a risk assessment computer processing module processing the customer information data and identifying at least one peril associated with the customer information data, a risk mitigation computer processing module generating at least one risk mitigation option based on the at least one peril and receiving customer selected risk mitigation options responsive to the generated at least one risk mitigation option from the customer computer system; and a customization computer processing module generating at least one of a calculated insurance premium, a current risk assessment, a future risk assessment, recommendations, and a gap analysis based on the received at least one customer selected risk mitigation option. Various alternative embodiments are also disclosed, including a computer implemented loss mitigation method and/or loss recovery system. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325520 | Systems And Methods For Grid-Based Insurance Rating - A computer-implemented method for providing an insurance rate associated with a particular location may include: storing insurance-related data associated with each of a plurality of geographic areas, determining a particular geographic area corresponding with the particular location, retrieving from storage insurance-related data associated with a subset of the geographic areas, calculating a credibility factor based on the quantity of the retrieved insurance-related data, determining that the credibility factor is below a target credibility threshold, and, in response to determining that the credibility factor is below the target credibility threshold, increasing the subset of geographic areas, retrieving from storage insurance-related data for the increased subset of geographic areas, calculating an updated credibility factor that meets or exceeds the target credibility threshold, calculating an insurance rate based at least on the retrieved insurance-related data associated with the increased subset of geographic areas, and communicating the calculated insurance rate to a user. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325521 | SHARED VEHICLE RENTAL SYSTEM INCLUDING VEHICLE AVAILABILITY DETERMINATION - Techniques and structures are disclosed relating to the rental of vehicles owned by different owners (i.e., a peer to peer vehicle network). Each owner may have his or her own set of rental criteria associated with a particular vehicle. Prospective drivers may have to meet (or choose from) this criteria to be able to rent a vehicle. Drivers may be able to choose a vehicle for rent based on a distance from one or more vehicles (e.g., closer vehicles are displayed higher in search results), price, or other factors. Messages and alerts may be exchanged between a server that implements a vehicle rental system and owner, driver, and/or vehicle computing devices. Location information about the vehicles is collected at the server, and a driver may be able to see the actual location of a vehicle for an upcoming rental. Vehicles may be remotely unlocked so that a driver can use the vehicle with keyless entry. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325522 | CHARTERING CRAFT INDEPENDENT OF THE LOCATION OF CRAFT OR BUSINESS LOCATION OF A CHARTER OPERATOR - According to a computer-implemented approach for managing and chartering readily transportable watercraft, vessels, vehicles and other charter craft, customers are able to view and specify where they wish to charter such craft independent of where a charter craft might be permanently stored or regularly parked, berthed or moored. According to the approach, customers provide their desired charter location where they would like to charter craft. Customers are then provided in response with a list of matching locations and charter rates for one or more charter craft to be delivered at the desired charter location. After completing charter arrangements, the charter operator delivers to the customer their selection of charter craft to the specified charter location and upon completion of the charter, also retrieves the charter craft from an agreed upon retrieval location. The charter operator may be either centralized or distributed and may be a single or multiple organization(s). | 2013-12-05 |
20130325523 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM OF ELECTRONIC TICKETS AND THE AUTHENTICATION METHOD FOR THE SAME - An authentication system of electronic tickets and the authentication method for the same is disclosed. The authentication system includes a system terminal server, an electronic device, an authentication device, and an authentication reader. The authentication device is electrically coupled to the electronic device via a wired transmission interface, and communicates with an authentication reader via a wireless transmission interface. The user purchases an electronic ticket via the electronic device from the system terminal server. The user receives the ticket data and loads the ticket data in to the authentication device. When the user wants to use the electronic ticket, the authentication reader wirelessly accesses to ticket data in the authentication device via the wireless transmission interfaces such as Near Field Communication (NFC) or Radio Frequency (RF) and user is allowed to use the electronic ticket after passing authentication. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325524 | Dynamic group purchases using barcodes - A movie theatre shows a barcode on an electronic screen separate from the projection screen, on a side wall of the movie room. The barcode lets a patron buy tickets to movies shown in trailers on the projection screen. The patron uses a mobile device, like a cellphone, to image the barcode and decode an URL to a web page. The electronic screen also shows a table of ticket purchases, with thresholds allowing for discounted prices. The purchases are mostly from patrons in the theatre, but could also include from patrons at other theatres seeing the same trailers. This allows dynamic group purchasing of tickets in an interactive feedback loop. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325525 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTEGRATED ONLINE PORTAL AND MARKETPLACE FOR EVENT-RELATED ITEMS - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for integration of systems associated with ticketing, advertising, membership, social networking, merchandizing, and/or similar commercially valuable functions. An integrated marketplace system, referred to variously as an integrated system or integrated portal, may comprise or communicate with modules for retail services, social networking, marketing information, ticketing sales, merchandise sales, membership services, or any other type and form of module. In some embodiments, the systems and methods discussed herein allow teams, bands, event operators or other attraction providers to sell tickets direct to consumers or fans, reducing fees and costs due to ticket resellers, while retaining customer information for future targeted marketing. Accordingly, teams, bands, artists, or other attractions may utilize the integrated platform to provide a fan- or consumer-centric experience with ticket sales and merchandise offers made dynamically based on analyzing user behavior, past purchasing behavior, and/or social networking data. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325526 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SEATING MANAGEMENT - A computerized system for seating management is described. The system can be utilized in business establishments offering general admission table service, such as a restaurant. In one embodiment, the system can be deployed as one or more portable electronic devices, such as tablet computers. Via an input/output interface, such as a touch screen display, the system can be used by one or more employees of the establishment to seat groups of customers. The system can include a simple and intuitive interface that prompts a user, such as a restaurant employee, to input information that enables the system to make intelligent seating decisions. Via output of these seating decisions, the system allows employees with minimal experience to handle the important and complex of seating management within a business establishment at a high proficiency level. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325527 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING MULTIPLE ONLINE PURCHASES - A method for preventing redundant purchases of limited items includes steps for providing a commerce client to a user, receiving (a) financial information of the user and (b) a device identifier from a device the user is using to run the commerce client, the device identifier being based on one or more of user-configurable and non-user-configurable parameters of the user device, determining whether a previous transaction has been made with the device associated with the received device identifier, and disallowing the device from executing further transactions for a predetermined period of time. The method may be executed by an apparatus such as a computer server or stored as a series of instructions on a computer readable medium. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325528 | SYSTEM TO COMPARE MULTIPLE HIERARCHIES WHILE SWITCHING THE COMPARISON BASELINE - A method of managing scenarios of a database includes creating one or more scenarios of various attributes of a portfolio, selecting a baseline scenario among the one or more scenarios, comparing the one or more scenarios, excluding the baseline scenario, to the baseline scenario, and displaying indicators for each scenario, each indicator representing the difference between an attribute of the baseline scenario and that of a scenario in which the indicator is being displayed. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325529 | Analyzing Engineering Requirements - Analyzing engineering requirements, including: identifying, by an engineering requirements analysis component, a plurality of analysis criteria areas for an engineering project; identifying, by the engineering requirements analysis component, a plurality of analysis criteria for each analysis criteria area; setting, by the engineering requirements analysis component, a criteria weight for each analysis criterion; receiving, by the engineering requirements analysis component, a criterion score for each analysis criterion; and calculating, by the engineering requirements analysis component, a project score for the engineering project in dependence upon the criterion score for each analysis criterion and the criteria weight for each analysis criterion. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CUSTOMER CONVERSION - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for determining customer conversion propensity. According to one embodiment, a source registrant group having a plurality of registered customers is identified from a database. A probability for a conversion event is then computed for each of the plurality of customers within the source registrant group is then computed. The customers within the source registrant are than categorized based on the computed probability value and a timing for the conversion event. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325531 | BUSINESS CASE DEVELOPMENT BY DYNAMICALLY REUSING BUSINESS CASE COMPONENTS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for supporting dynamic reuse of business case components in business case development are described herein. The method involves receiving a sample criterion for creating a new business case. A database of business cases is accessed where the criteria associated with the business cases are hierarchically structured according to a common data model. The method further includes comparing the sample criterion with the criteria associated with the business cases to identify one or more business cases that have a criterion matching the sample criterion. The method further includes scoring one or more criteria rendered alongside the matching criterion in the hierarchical structure, based on a position of the one or more criteria relative to a position of the matching criterion. Based on the scoring, one or more criteria having relatively higher scores are identified as additional criteria for the new business case. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325532 | METRICS BASED ON CONTENT USAGE OF SALES PLAYBOOKS - By combining information from a CRM system about changes in status of entities, such as customers, leads, and the like, with information about usage of a sales playbook and content related to such playbook usage, metrics describing the effectiveness of content can be determined. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325533 | COMMODITY DISPLAY INFORMATION TABULATION METHOD, DATA STRUCTURE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THE SAME - A tabulation method is provided which can associate the display state of commodities with sales. A commodity display information tabulation method includes: a step of cutting out a commodity image of a commodity from image data in which the commodity is photographed as displayed on commodity display shelves; a step of searching a commodity database for a commodity code corresponding to the cut commodity image; a step of determining the number of shelves of the commodity display shelves and generating shelf number information; and a recording step of recording the commodity code, commodity image position data on the cut commodity image in the image data, the shelf number information, and auxiliary information together as commodity shelf information. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325534 | TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND METHOD THEREFOR - Management server having a management table managing terminal management and control information management data models, in a common form The control information management data model manages control information for controlling the terminal. The management server executes plural processes. The first process is for creating the terminal management data model having the same data structure as that of the terminal management data model changed by the terminal. The second process is for creating the control information management data model, using control information regarding the terminal management data model based on an instruction from the management device. The third process is for registering the terminal management and control information management data models into the management table. The terminal executes a process based on the control information of the control information management data model acquired from the management server. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325535 | SERVICE DESIGN SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A system for developing a design of a service is provided. The system may include a first canvas including a first plurality of elements that define one or more needs for a service, a second canvas including a second plurality of elements that define a solution that fulfills the one or more needs for the service, and two symmetrical logic loops that relate the first plurality of elements in the first canvas and the second plurality of elements in the second canvas. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325536 | MEASURING SHORT-TERM COGNITIVE APTITUDES OF WORKERS FOR USE IN RECOMMENDING SPECIFIC TASKS - In a method for selecting a worker to whom to suggest a task, a set of workers is selected initially, each having LCS and RSC values derived from prior performances of the task. A game score is acquired for each worker, wherein each game score is a measurement of the level of a cognitive aptitude which is needed to perform the task. A given worker of the initial set is placed into a task performance candidate set, only if the game score of the given worker is no less than the LCS of the given worker. The method further comprises selectively processing data provided collectively by the LCS and the RSC of each worker in the candidate set, in order to select one of the workers in the candidate set to whom to recommend the specified task. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325537 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING UTILIZATION OF A DONOR - A system (and method) for optimizing utilization of a human resource, including determining an emotional state or a physical state of the human resource, and determining whether the emotional state or the physical state of the human resource corresponds to a task. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325538 | TOUCHSCREEN ENTRY OF CONSTRUCTION PUNCH LIST ITEMS DIRECTLY ON A PLAN - A method for establishing a construction punch list system for managing and inspecting a construction project is disclosed. Plan data, of a construction project, is provided from a database in a central server to sub-contractors having field operable graphical touchscreen devices. A touchscreen device is used to display a selected plan. Using the touchscreen device, color-coded or shape-coated construction deficiency data, in relation to the selected plan, is entered in graphical and textual form. The construction deficiency data is communicated to the central server. From the construction deficiency data, a construction punch list is generated in graphical or tabular form. The construction deficiency data from the server is distributed to at least one sub-contractor, indicating needed fixes. The needed fixes are fixed, then the construction deficiency data is updated to reflect fixes. The updated construction deficiency data is accessed for inspecting and supervising the construction project. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325539 | EVENT SCHEDULER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, system, and program product, comprising: scheduling teacher evaluation events for teacher-evaluator pairs over a calendar date period to comply with compliance dates, comprising: selecting teachers evaluators to form a plurality of the teacher-evaluator pairs for teacher evaluation events, based on the teacher electronic calendars, evaluator calendars, teacher categories, and a time-table; scheduling respective dates and times for evaluation events over the course of the calendar period; changing the electronic calendars of the respective evaluators and the respective teachers to add the scheduled teacher evaluation events; running a software routine to wait for receipt of data indicating a new conflict event and changing date and/or time for evaluation events and/or forming new teacher-evaluator pairs; and changing the respective electronic calendars. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325540 | Forecasting and Workforce Supply-Demand Projection System - A forecasting system is disclosed that allows a user to create a project or body of work, define attributes for that project, select relevant historical data from a repository of historical data, and create a project forecast by scaling the historical data appropriately. The project forecast may include costs and workforce utilization forecasts. The workforce utilization and supply-demand forecast data may be broken down by trade, and the system may provide demographic and geographic information relevant to the workforce. In order to provide a rich corpus of historical data, certified payroll reports, or other sources that provide data down to the level of the individual worker, may be used to generate the cost and workforce forecasts. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325541 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND PROVIDING VEHICLE MAINTENANCE - A method for managing vehicle maintenance information set to utilize information obtained from a vehicle owner and a vehicle service provider to alert and educate the vehicle owner and the vehicle service provider about recommended maintenance scheduling, specific vehicle parts and repair requirements, vehicle diagnosis information, vehicle service history, real-time inventory management, vehicle maintenance costs, and scheduling of vehicle owners for vehicle maintenance at the maintenance facility. The system may coordinate the vehicle's maintenance information with the vehicle service provider and the vehicle owner through the use of various communication technologies and novel methods. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325542 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION OF UTILITY ASSET DATA IN A PROJECT AREA - A system and method for distribution of utility asset data including: receiving by a computer a selected project area; searching a database including location data and responsible utility companies for a plurality of utility assets to identify utility assets in the selected project area; determining an associated utility company for each of the identified utility assets in the selected project area; and transmitting a notification to the determined utility companies. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325543 | LEDGER-BASED RESOURCE TRACKING - Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for tracking and managing resource usage through a ledger feature that can trigger complex real-time reactions. The resource tracking can be managed through a ledger module and a ledger data structure. The ledger data structure can be updated each time a task requests a resource. Additionally, as part of the update, the ledger module can verify whether a resource has been over consumed. In response to the detection of an over consumption, the ledger module can set a flag. At some later pointer when the thread is in a stable, well-understood point, the ledger module can check if the flag has been set. If the flag has been set, the ledger module can call the appropriate callback function, which can react to the over consumption in a resource specific manner. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325544 | METHOD FOR MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS IN A MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided for managing environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks in a manufacturing environment. Risk assessment data received from a first risk assessment database and a second risk assessment database is stored in an EHS risk assessment database. The risk assessment data includes a plurality of first risk assessments and a plurality of second risk assessments for the manufacturing environment. The first risk assessments may be indicative of ergonomic risk assessments, machine guarding risk assessments, industrial hygiene risk assessments, incident investigation risk assessments, or lock-out tag-out risk assessments. The first risk assessments and the second risk assessments are processed to prioritize the risk assessments, and a notification is provided indicative of the prioritized risk assessments. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325545 | ASSESSING SCENARIO-BASED RISKS - Techniques for managing risks of a business enterprise include identifying a threat to a business enterprise; identifying, based on the threat, a plurality of business enterprise assets and associated impacts; determining a plurality of threat scenarios, each threat scenario including a qualitative probability and a qualitative impact; assigning a quantitative probability and a quantitative impact to each of the plurality of scenarios based on an evaluation of the qualitative probability and the qualitative impact in a risk matrix; determining, with a simulation model, a quantitative risk of the identified threat based on the assigned quantitative probability and quantitative impact; and preparing an output including the determined quantitative risk of the identified threat for display. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325546 | PURCHASE BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS BASED ON VISUAL HISTORY - Methods for providing and comparing visual purchase deconstructions are provided. One example method for providing a visual purchase deconstruction includes recognizing a pre-purchase event, tracking movement of a focus position of one or both eyes of the shopper, recognizing a purchase event of the product, and, upon recognizing the purchase event, determining the purchase deconstruction representing the purchase based on the movement of the focus location during a pre-purchase window, the pre-purchase window having a duration from the pre-purchase event to the purchase event. The visual purchase deconstruction may be compared to one or more other purchases for any combination of products and shoppers. The visual purchase deconstruction and/or the comparisons thereof may be usable to determine one or more the factors that resulted in a product being purchased. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325547 | Calculating the Value Contributed by Physical Stores to a Mobile Device User Who Makes a Subsequent Online Purchase and Potentially Distributing that Value Calculation to Either Physical Stores the User or Both - A method is disclosed for calculating the “experiential value” a physical store provides toward a consumer's subsequent online purchase. The method is embodied in a computer program or series of computer programs, available from a web portal linked to a server, which store relevant information for a consumer, a physical store, and an online store; track the physical location of a consumer's electronic mobile device; compare the device's location against the locations of physical stores and saves any positive comparisons; track the mobile device user's subsequent online purchases; compare any subsequent online purchase to the data on record for the physical stores previously visited by the user; perform a series of calculations to estimate any previously visited physical store's contribution to the user's subsequent online purchase; and translate that value into a monetized or monetizable form which can be returned to the physical store, the user, or both. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325548 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OBTAINING MERCHANT SALES INFORMATION FOR MARKETING OR SALES TEAMS - Disclosed herein is a method of obtaining merchant sales information for marketing or sales teams. Including accessing transaction data from one or more financial institutions and extracting metadata associated with the transaction data in accordance with at least one rule. The metadata is then analyzed to identify transaction data associated with one or more merchants. The transaction data associated with the one or more merchants is provided to the marketing or sales teams. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325549 | RECALL AND MARKET WITHDRAWAL ANALYSIS - A computer system captures inventory data from an inventory management system on a recurring basis. The computer system stores the inventory data in a database that is separate from the inventory management system. The computer system determines, based at least in part on the inventory data stored in the database, an estimated financial impact to a retailer of recalling a merchandise type or withdrawing the merchandise type from market. After determining the estimated financial impact, the computer system outputs a report that indicates the estimated financial impact. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325550 | INDUSTRY SPECIFIC BRAND BENCHMARKING SYSTEM BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA STRENGTH OF A BRAND - A brand monitoring platform (BMP) for brand benchmarking based on a brand's social media strength is provided. The BMP acquires input information on the brand and identifies industries related to the brand and competing brands. The BMP acquires social media information related to the brand and the competing brands from multiple social media sources via a network, dynamically generates categories in one or more hierarchical levels in each of the industries based on an independent analysis of the social media information, and sorts the social media information into the categories using a sorting interface. The BMP generates an aggregate score using an audience score determined by measuring an aggregate reach of the brand and the competing brands based on weighted audience score metric parameters, and an engagement score determined by measuring interaction between the brand and the competing brands and their followers based on weighted engagement score metric parameters. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING DEMAND AND OPTIMIZING PRICES WITH IMMUNITY TO OUT-OF-STOCK EVENTS - The disclosed technology improves the process of generating recommended prices for retail products. First, the present technology makes it possible to model shopper demand when sales data includes time periods with zero unit sales without hypothesizing whether the time periods are out-of-stock events or zero sales. This can be accomplished by applying a truncated Poisson distribution and the Newton-Raphson method to the non-zero unit sales to generate a coefficient vector that maximizes the likelihood of the observations in the sales data. Second, the present technology can be used to generate recommended prices for a group of products that optimize revenue and profit while limiting the number of products that require price changes to a predefined threshold value. This can be accomplished by iteratively replacing a current best value solution with a next best value solution across a collection of product networks until an acceptable number of unchanged prices is achieved. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325552 | Initiating Root Cause Analysis, Systems And Methods - Method of generating root causes for sentiments is presented. An individual can initial a root cause analysis of a corpus of documents (e.g., product reviews), possibly through clicking an icon near the corpus. A root cause analysis engine analyzes the corpus and sentiment to generate one or more root causes for the sentiment. The engine can then configure an output device to present the root causes for further review. The services offered by the root cause analysis engine can be provided in exchange for a fee. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325553 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND CONVERTING SALES OPPORTUNITIES - Aspects of the present disclosure involve apparatus, systems and methods for generating and converting sales opportunities. The apparatus and system may involves an applicatoin and various possible graphical user interfaces (GUI's) running on some form of smart tablet type computing device that accesses geographical information, customer analytic information, and telecommunication infrastructure (or other technical infrastructure) and allows a user to define an optimal travel route between various possible customer based on geographic, customer and infrastructure criteria. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325554 | Commerce System and Method of Optimizing Profit for Retailer from Price Elasticity of Other Retailers - A commerce system has retailers offering products for sale to consumers. Product information is collected from retailers. A price elasticity of demand is determined for a first product from a first retailer. An estimated price elasticity of demand is determined for a second product for a second retailer based on the price elasticity of demand from the first retailer. The estimated price elasticity of demand is substantially equal to the price elasticity of demand. A price is determined for the second product for the second retailer based on the estimated price elasticity. A profit for the second product is optimized for the second retailer by selecting the price for the second product based on the estimated price elasticity. The commerce system is controlled by enabling the second retailer to select the price for the second product based on the estimated price elasticity. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325555 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PRICING INFORMATION - A pricing method and system may be configured for reducing the dimensionality of item preference data to obtain item preferences of items; simulating preferences of users with the item preferences; and simulating user decisions with the simulated user preferences to generate simulated pricing information. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PRICING INFORMATION - A pricing method and system may be configured for accessing a data-structure including a plurality of items; identifying, from the plurality of items, a preference-price efficient item; and outputting a recommendation for the user, the recommendation including the preference-price efficient item. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325557 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MANAGE TRAVEL COSTS - The present disclosure is directed to an enterprise business expense assistant operable to determine a cost savings associated with a business associate selecting a travel and/or enterprise expense option and provide a portion of the cost savings to the associate as a cash payment or other benefit. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325558 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING REVENUE AND PROFIT WITH LIMITED NUMBER OF PRICE CHANGES - The disclosed technology improves the process of generating recommended prices for retail products. First, the present technology makes it possible to model shopper demand when sales data includes time periods with zero unit sales without hypothesizing whether the time periods are out-of-stock events or zero sales. This can be accomplished by applying a truncated Poisson distribution and the Newton-Raphson method to the non-zero unit sales to generate a coefficient vector that maximizes the likelihood of the observations in the sales data. Second, the present technology can be used to generate recommended prices for a group of products that optimize revenue and profit while limiting the number of products that require price changes to a predefined threshold value. This can be accomplished by iteratively replacing a current best value solution with a next best value solution across a collection of product networks until an acceptable number of unchanged prices is achieved. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325559 | ACTIONABLE BUSINESS ENTITY OPERATING MODEL - Illustrative embodiments include a method, system, and computer program product for creating an actionable business environment model. A business object is instantiated according to a business entity subclass, the business entity subclass representing an asset in a business environment. An event object is instantiated, wherein an event represented in the event object applies to the business object. A decision object is instantiated, wherein the decision object includes logic to take an action in response to the event. An action object is instantiated, wherein the action object includes logic to respond to the event by interacting with the business object. The business object is made actionable by relating the business object with a combination of the event object, the decision object, and the action object using a declarative statement. The actionable business object is added to a model, thereby creating the actionable business model. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325560 | System, Method and Apparatus for Voice Analytics of Recorded Audio - Disclosed is a method for analyzing recorded telephone calls in order to predict business outcomes. The method involves recording a series of initial telephone calls and analyzing those calls for particular audio features. The audio features are tabulated and annotated to specify whether the telephone call resulted in a pre-determined business outcome. A model is then built whereby the pre-determined business outcome can be predicted based upon the presence of certain audio features. The model can subsequently be used to predict whether future calls are likely to result in the pre-determined business outcome. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325561 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RATING CREATIVE PRODUCERS - Methods and systems for determining and using a multi-dimensional rating are disclosed. A plurality of interactions between a plurality of users and an interface may be identified. Active feedback that has been received from at least one of the plurality of users based upon the plurality of interactions may be determined. Passive feedback from at least one of the plurality of users may be identified. The active feedback and the passive feedback may be stored in a memory. The multi-dimensional rating for the creative producer based upon one or more of the active feedback and the passive feedback may be determined. The plurality of users may include one or more creative producers, one or more brands, and one or more administrators. The active feedback may include one or more of brand feedback, peer feedback, administrative feedback, and interface usage. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325562 | Electronic voting machine that randomly stores and sequentially retrieves cast ballots for viewing after the election is over - An electronic voting machine that shuffles and prints out the cast ballots in a random order. To prevent computer hacking, the controlling computer communicates only with the voter while the election is in progress, and the election results are only computed after election is over and all of the cast ballots have been made available to the public. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325563 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAXIMIZING PROFITS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR TAXI DRIVERS - Systems and methods are provided for maximizing profits and opportunities for taxi drivers. In one embodiment, a system is provided. The system includes a taximeter installed in taxis, a GPS included in the taximeter; a hand-waving movement detector included in the taximeter, a computing server; a smart device included in the taximeter, wherein the smart device communicate with the computing server to send and extract taxi demand information to and from the computing server; a wireless emitter included in the smart device; and a camera included in the hand-waving movement detector. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325564 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOWING CAR OWNERS TO MAXIMIZE UTILITY OF PARKING SPACE - Systems and methods are provided for allowing car owners to maximize utility of parking space. In one embodiment, a system is provided. The system includes a RFID reader placed from one side of the parking space; a camera installed in the parking space, wherein the camera is used to capture license plate information of parking cars; a first RFID tag placed from another side of the parking space; a second RFID tag placed in a car. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325565 | METHOD FOR LOCATING A PARKING SPACE THAT IS SUITABLE FOR PARKING IN THE VICINITY OF THE VEHICLE, AND A VEHICLE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM THAT IS SUITABLE FOR THIS PURPOSE - A process and a vehicle assistance system for determining parkable free parking area close to motor vehicles is proposed, with the use of a central computing center, in which the geographic coordinates of parking area are determined, and of a plurality of user terminals, which are arranged in a decentralized manner in vehicles and which communicate with the computing center and which are each functionally connected with at least one location determination module. A parking location signal of the corresponding vehicle is transmitted by means of a corresponding user terminal to the computing center when the vehicle has been parked, after which the parking location signal is compared in the computing center with the coordinates of the parking area, which are contained there, in order to make a distinction in the parking area between parkable free parking area and nonparked, occupied parking area, so that the free parking area or the occupied parking area is contained. Inquiries about free parking area are transmitted to the computing center automatically or as needed by means of a corresponding user terminal, and the inquiries comprise the current position of the vehicle. Furthermore, information on parkable free parking area close to the motor vehicle, which information depends on the current position of the vehicle, is transmitted from the computing center to the user terminal making the inquiry. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325566 | Public transit system fare processor for multi-balance funding - An implementation of a system and method for processing transfer rides associated with at least one public transit network is provided. The system and method preprocess transactions to consolidate or eliminate unnecessary transactions with a financial institution clearing and settlement network. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325567 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A VIRTUAL COUPON - The system and method of creating virtual coupons from physical coupons. The user engages a physical coupon by scanning a multi-modal artifact or code from the physical coupon with a digital device. The physical coupon can be a printed coupon or advertisement, a media broadcast (such as television, radio, internet, etc.), and/or the like. The digital device may be a smartphone, tablet, laptop, smart remote, e-reader, and/or the like, which is capable of capturing multi-modal artifacts or codes, or running a computer-implemented software program to create and retrieve virtual coupons. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325568 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF HOME SHOPPING CARTS WITH ADVERTISEMENTS - Advertisement content is received at a processor that manages inventory of a smart home appliance from an advertising distribution device within a home network. A determination is made to add an advertised item of the advertisement content to a spoke shopping cart based upon commodity data of the managed inventory of the smart home appliance. The advertised item is added to the spoke shopping cart. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325569 | MOBILE WALLET SYSTEM - A mobile wallet system providing contextual services to a consumer is described, comprising a mobile wallet on a mobile device associated with the consumer, a payment platform for processing payment transactions by the mobile wallet, a digital content service platform for providing digital content services to the mobile wallet, and an analytics platform for controlling the digital content services provided to the mobile wallet based on collected consumer data. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325570 | CAMPAIGN REWARD SYSTEM WITH FINANCIAL RECONSOLIDATION - A campaign offer system provides an offer using a mobile device. A service provider includes one or more servers with engines and attached storage. The service provider is configured to be in communication with a mobile application running on a user mobile device of a use. The service provider is in communication with an advertiser, a retailer and a financial institution. A retailer gateway is in communication with a retailer checkout system that has a unique identifier for each retailer checkout location captured by the mobile device. The unique identifier is transmitted to the service provider which effects transactions between the user and the retailer checkout system via the retailer gateway. The system prepares a report for the retailer that includes redemption data for the offers redeemed at the retailer with enough data to identify a specific redemption. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325571 | System and method for providing travel directions - A computer-implemented method for providing travel directions includes receiving a request for a travel route from a first location to a second location; determining the travel route; providing, based on the travel route, a suggested transaction and directions for a first portion of the travel route; and receiving a notification that the suggested transaction has occurred. A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that perform the method is also provided. In response to a notification that the suggested transaction has occurred, directions for a second portion of the travel route may be provided. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325572 | VIRAL REWARDING IN A PEER COMPENSATED ADVERTISING SYSTEM - An interpersonal electronic advertising system is described. The system is configured to enable an ad suggester to select and send ads for a product or service to an ad recipient. The suggested ad can lead to a purchase of the product or the service by the ad recipient and in response the system can compensate the ad suggester. The system can be configured to reward users that invite and successfully recruit other individuals to join the system. Rewards for a particular user can be based upon the activities of their recruits, such as successful purchases resulting from ads that they have suggested. In a particular embodiment, the rewards for a particular user can be based upon a total value of purchases that have been generated from their recruits. Different reward amounts can be sequentially provided each time the total value of purchases exceeds respective threshold amounts. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325573 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IMPLEMENTING MOBILE APPLICATION MARKETING - Disclosed is a method, an apparatus, and a recording medium for implementing mobile application marketing. The mobile application marketing method includes the steps of receiving, by a marketing server, review information regarding a mobile application from a first mobile terminal and storing the received review information together with identification information regarding the mobile application and identification information regarding a marketer who has logged into the first mobile terminal; installing, by a second mobile terminal, the mobile application included in the review information based on the stored review information; and performing, by the marketing server, a process of rewarding the marketer corresponding to the identification information for installation of the mobile application. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325574 | FINANCIAL ACCOUNT RELATED TRIGGER FEATURE FOR OFFERING SERVICE DISCOUNTS - Systems and methods for producing and maintaining account related triggers are provided herein. The systems and methods may be utilized for marketing service savings opportunities to a customer of one or more accounts of a financial institution. Triggers may be executed to monitor outbound transactions for services. The outbound transactions may be compared to a control. The financial institution may then determine a service savings opportunity offer to present to the customer. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325575 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VARIABLE REDEMPTION VALUE ELECTRONIC COUPONS - Methods and apparatuses for carrying out processing a financial transaction includes: receiving, by a receiving device, an authorization request for a financial transaction wherein the authorization request includes at least a transaction amount and a coupon identifier; identifying, in a database, coupon information based on the coupon identifier, wherein the coupon information includes at least a discount amount; modifying the transaction amount based on the discount amount; processing, by the processing device, the authorization request for the financial transaction based on the modified transaction amount; and transmitting, by a transmitting device, a response to the authorization request, wherein the response includes at least the modified transaction amount and discount amount. The coupons can be coupled to geographic location and or an immediate purchasing period. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325576 | CAMPAIGN REWARD SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES OFFER CLEARING - A campaign offer system provides offers using mobile devices. A service provider is configured to be in communication with a mobile application running on a user mobile device. The mobile application in operation enables a redemption of offers for products provided by an advertiser. A retailer gateway is in communication with a retailer checkout system. The retailer checkout system performs at least one of, (i) a manual entering of an item identifier, and (ii) a scanning of item identifiers for items purchased by the user during a checkout. The retailer gateway communicates with a retailer checkout system via existing retailer checkout system peripheral device communication protocols without a need to modify the communications protocols or modify a retailer checkout system software code. The retailer checkout system enters item identifiers of products after the user enters a retailer's location identifier using the user's mobile device. | 2013-12-05 |
20130325577 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH CUSTOMER LOYALTY DATABASE AND RELATED METHODS - A communication system may include a mobile wireless communications device, and a server communicating with the mobile wireless communications device and storing a customer loyalty database including customer loyalty records for corresponding users. The customer loyalty records may include a respective customer loyalty record associated with a user of the mobile wireless communications device. The mobile wireless communications device may access the server via a web page interface, input, via the web interface, identification data associated with the respective customer loyalty record for logging into the server, send a vendor use code to the server, and selectively cause the server to update the respective customer loyalty record based upon the vendor use code provided to the server via the web interface. | 2013-12-05 |