51st week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170364946 | DETERMINATION DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A determination device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires user information that is information regarding a user who uses a terminal device that becomes a providing destination of content. The calculation unit calculates scores regarding a probability of the user performing a predetermined behavior for a plurality of pieces of the content on the basis of the user information acquired by the acquisition unit. The determination unit determines distribution content to be distributed to the terminal device on the basis of the scores of the plurality of pieces of content calculated by the calculation unit. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364947 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT TRIGGERED SEARCH RESULTS - Disclosed is a system and method for displaying search results upon the occurrence or detection of an event and/or time-delay. The present provides a user with the ability to view search results upon satisfaction of an event trigger or specified time delay (e.g., a rule). The disclosed systems and methods enable features that allow a user to link a search query and/or a set or sets of results for the search query to a trigger, whereby upon detection and satisfaction of such trigger, the search (and/or related results) are displayed. Such trigger can be associated with, but not limited to, a calendar event, to-do list item, location, a product or contact person, among other types of event based information events. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364948 | METHODS, COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM, AND SYSTEMS TO RANK, CLUSTER, CHARACTERIZE AND CUSTOMIZE USERS, DIGITAL CONTENTS AND ADVERTISEMENT CAMPAIGNS BASED ON IMPLICIT CHARACTERISTIC DETERMINATION - The invention provides, in some aspects, a statistical algorithm-driven digital system for automated optimization of a large number of key performance indicators (KPI) involved in social digital interactions among the users, contents and advertisement, further augmented by data-driven verification and recommendation. The users include humans from diverse socio-cultural-economic groups, whose identity may be pseudonymous (though persistent), and whose explicit features may remain private, though statistically imputable. The contents include webpages, downloads, videos, music, or other content accessed by the users. The advertisements include product placement, branding, appeal, surveys, or other third-party contents, not explicit sought by the user. A server application executing on the server digital device responds to requests received from the client digital devices for delivering thereto requested digital content. The server application customizes at least a selected piece of digital content it delivers to a respective client application (in response to such a request) based on ordinal rankings for users, contents and advertisements, computed by a tensor based statistical inference algorithm, as described in a preferred embodiment of this invention. The rankings computed are predictive of various aspects of user's future social interactions, as determined by the past statistical data, summarized in sparse high-dimensional tensors. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364949 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COLLECT AND PROCESS BROWSING HISTORY - Methods and apparatus to collect and process browsing history are disclosed. One disclosed method of collecting browsing history includes collecting a plurality of web requests, and for a web request in the plurality of web requests, determining a count indicating a number of other ones of the plurality of web requests that include a referrer identifying the web request. The method also includes when the count meets a threshold, indicating that the web request is a parent web request. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364950 | OPTIMIZING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION - An iterative method for optimizing targeted advertisement distribution for a social network including a plurality of users, the method including the steps of creating a user summary for a user by extracting persona attributes of a user account, generating a promotion summary for each of a plurality of advertisements, selecting an advertisement for the user based on the similarity between the promotion summary of the advertisement and the user summary, assessing a user reaction to the advertisement, and updating the user summary and promotion summary based on the user reaction. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364951 | NAVIGATING THROUGH CONTENT ITEMS ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - One or more embodiments of the disclosure include methods and systems that allows for improved user navigation within a group of content items. For example, a content navigation system can identify a content item within a group of content items to provide to a user in response to a user interaction. In some embodiments, the content navigation system can identify a content item to provide to the user based on one or more factors, such as a characteristic of a user interaction and a relevance of a content item. In addition, the content navigation system can strategically provide advertisement content items to a user by adjusting one or more factors with respect to advertisement content items. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364952 | Global (GPS) Marketing - The system and method for targeted and location-based advertisement across several locations. A method for booking and placing an advertisement tor targeted and location-based system includes: registration of a user account in a computer system; a user id and password of said registered user account; graphical representations of various modes of advertisement; uploading and scoring images, audio related to advertisements and media, for easier viewing creating and attaching the desired geographical location detail. The system includes a computer based web application configured to receive data that defines an advertisement from an advertiser; receive, and upload a request to serve an advertisement; and communicate the advertisement to the browser; select geographical location associated by user for advertisement; and configured the geographic location of the advertiser and the geographic location associated for advertisement. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364953 | OFFER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TARGETED MARKETING OFFER DELIVERY SYSTEM - A system and methods for an offer management system for use in delivering targeted marketing offers to consumers during a session with an online (web-based) Internet portal, such as an online banking portal of a financial institution. A component receives aggregated transaction data from a financial transaction system for use in creation of an advertising campaign. A component provides a marketing campaign interface that allows advertisers to define an advertising campaign by display of information derived from the aggregated transaction data indicating potential market segments defined by the advertiser, define a predetermined market segment, and define a predetermined targeted marketing offer for delivery to consumers under predetermined conditions. A component outputs the campaign data to the financial institution for delivery of the targeted marketing offer to consumers within the predetermined market segment in response to the predetermined conditions during online sessions with the portal. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364954 | Exclusive Delivery of Content Within Geographic Areas - Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the request, the content delivery platform can identify a target location, which may be the location of the mobile device, or some other location indicated in the request. A mobile device can be provided content based on the relationship of the target location to the geographic areas, so that a registered application running on a mobile device with a target location contained within a geographic area assigned to a particular sponsor will receive content related to that sponsor. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364955 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BACKGROUND ADVERTISEMENT OF VIRTUAL KEY INPUT DEVICE - A system for providing a background advertisement to a virtual key input unit on an information communication terminal supporting a touch user interface (TUI) is provided. The system comprises an advertisement providing server configured to provide advertisement contents and the information communication terminal. The information communication terminal further comprises a processor, a display configured to display a key input method, a transparent skin input unit generator executed by the processor and configured to generate a transparent skin input unit, an advertisement contents skin generator executed by the processor and configured to generate an advertisement contents skin, a skin combiner executed by the processor and configured to combine the transparent skin input unit and the advertisement contents skin, and a wireless connection detector configured to detect whether free wireless access is available to the information communication terminal and notify a result to the user. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364956 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING TARGETED CONTENT ON A DIGITAL SIGNAGE BOARD - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods for displaying targeted content on a digital signage board (DSB). The method includes receiving encrypted profile information from each of a plurality of user-computing devices when the plurality of user-computing devices is in a proximity range of the DSB, wherein the DSB is associated with one or more products and/or services. The method further includes aggregating the encrypted profile information received from each of the plurality of user-computing devices to generate an aggregated encrypted profile. Further, the method includes transmitting the aggregated encrypted profile to a content server, wherein the content server decrypts the aggregated encrypted profile to select the targeted content from a content repository associated with the one or more products and/or services, wherein the targeted content is displayed on the DSB. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364957 | IDENTIFYING TARGET AUDIENCE FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION BASED ON HISTORICAL USER ACTIVITY - An online system identifies target audience for distributing content items based on historical activity of users. The online system receives information describing events representing actions of users performed on the online system or on an external system and stores the information as action logs. The online system receives targeting criteria specified as expressions, for example, expressions specifying aggregate values determined over a plurality of actions of a user. The online system retrieves events from the action logs and determines partial results based on expressions representing the targeting criteria. If the partial results for a user indicate that the user satisfies the targeting criteria, the online system selects the user for targeting the corresponding content item. The online system may process events in batches. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364958 | USING REAL TIME DATA TO AUTOMATICALLY AND DYNAMICALLY ADJUST VALUES OF USERS SELECTED BASED ON SIMILARITY TO A GROUP OF SEED USERS - An online system determines the score for each additional user based on the measure of similarity between the additional user and a group of seed users. The online system divides the additional users into one or more segments according to their respective scores, and assigns a bid amount for each segment. The online system presents sponsored content to the additional users according to the corresponding bid amounts, and for each of the additional users in each segment that is presented with the sponsored content, the online system identifies a value generated by the additional user due to being presented with the sponsored content. The online system uses the identified values of the additional users for each segment to determine an updated configuration of assigned bid amounts for the segments that is predicted to increase a return on investment and assigns the updated bid amounts for each segment. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364959 | FASHION DISPLAY SYSTEM, METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A fashion display method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include a customer identification circuit configured to identify a fashion style of a customer viewing a fashion display, a customer assessing circuit configured to determine an assessed trait of the customer by assessing the fashion style of the customer, and a display augmenting circuit configured to augment the fashion display to display a new fashion display customized to the customer based on the assessed trait. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364960 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION THROUGH ADVERTISING IN SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT, AND ASSOCIATED SIMULATION SYSTEM - A method for providing customized information through advertising in a simulation environment and associated simulation system are provided. The method includes: controlling a head mounted display (HMD) device of the simulation system to present the simulation environment and allow a user of the simulation system to see the simulation environment when wearing the HMD device on the user's head; controlling the HMD device to display a first controller in the simulation environment, to allow the user to interact with the simulation environment; controlling the HMD device to display an advertisement as a service trigger object in the simulation environment, to allow the user to trigger a specific service related to ordering commercial products in the simulation environment; and after the specific service is triggered through the service trigger object, controlling the HMD device to display a second controller in the simulation environment to match simulation contents of the specific service. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364961 | ADVERTISEMENT PROVIDING SYSTEM AND ADVERTISEMENT PROVIDING METHOD - The present invention relates to an advertisement providing system that takes advantage of the comment function of an SNS to expand Internet advertising, such as affiliate advertising, between members. Upon receiving a predetermined notification from an advertiser server, an SNS site control unit identifies a first user identifier associated with a second user identifier included in the notification and transmits, as content data, comment data including user information pertaining to a user of a second communication terminal and link information for a commercial website to a first communication terminal to which is allocated the identified first user identifier. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364962 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING SOURCING INFORMATION TO CUSTOMERS - In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to communicating customized information about a product or service to customers based on the customers' values and preferences. In some embodiments, there is provided a system communicating sourcing stories about products or services to customers including: an electronic interface configured to receive input identifying a customer and input relating to a product or service; a first database communicatively coupled to the electronic interface, the first database containing data regarding the customer; a second database communicatively coupled to the electronic interface, the second database containing a plurality of sourcing stories about the product or service; and a control circuit operatively coupled to the electronic interface and the first and second databases, the control circuit configured to select one of the sourcing stories based on the customer data and to transmit the selected sourcing story to the customer. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364963 | KEYWORD RECOMMENDATION - An example system can include a server that includes or is associated with a keyword recommendation module. The keyword recommendation module can be configured to select keywords for a search engine for use in a search engine marketing campaign, wherein the search engine provides more traffic to Internet content of a publisher than other search engines, for the keywords. The module can also be configured to determine, per keyword, user engagement with the Internet content resulting from the traffic provided by the search engine for the keywords, according to one or more of time spent viewing the Internet content, page views of the Internet content, and dwell times. The module can also be configured to score, per keyword, the keywords according to the determined user engagement with the Internet content, and generate keyword recommendations according to the scoring of the keywords. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364964 | BIDDING BASED ON THE RELATIVE VALUE OF IDENTIFIERS - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A linking is provided of identifiers for users or devices known to a content delivery service. Each identifier is associated with the user or device in a specific context. The linking includes first and second identifiers. A request for content is received that includes either the first or second identifier. Bidders in an exchange are identified that have expressed an interest in bidding on a content delivery opportunity associated with the user or the device. For each bidder, a relative value is determined for a respective bidder for the opportunity to present content to the user or device in association with each identifier known to the bidder. For each bidder, a real-time bid request is generated in the exchange that includes the highest value identifier for submission to a respective bidder. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364965 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING A PROVISIONING OF ADVERTISEMENTS TO CUSTOMERS - A computer-implemented method and apparatus for facilitating a provisioning of advertisements to customers effects display of one or more advertisements on a Web domain. Each displayed advertisement is configured to offer advertisement related assistance to customers visiting the Web domain. A selection input provided by a customer on an advertisement is received. In response to the receipt of the selection input, the system facilitates customer engagement with a customer support representative associated with an enterprise related to the advertisement. The customer engagement facilitated through the advertisement is configured to provide the advertisement related assistance to the customer. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364966 | DETERMINATION DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A determination device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit, an estimation unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires user information as information about a user. The estimation unit estimates a degree of contribution of the user to a predetermined service based on the user information acquired by the acquisition unit. The determination unit determines an aspect of providing information content to the user based on the degree of contribution estimated by the estimation unit. Accordingly, the determination device according to the present application improves cost effectiveness of the information content. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364967 | PRODUCT FEEDBACK EVALUATION AND SORTING - In various example embodiments, a system and method for evaluating and sorting product feedback is presented. In one example, a system includes a learning module to train a machine learning system on feedback from a plurality of users, the machine learning system configured to generate a quality rating for individual feedback, a feedback module to collect feedback for a specific product available from the online network based marketplace and apply the machine learning system to generate a quality rating for each feedback collected, and a sorting module to sort the feedback collected according to the quality ratings generated by the machine learning system. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364968 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COST SHARING IN A POOLED VEHICLE - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems of cost sharing in a pooled vehicle. The method includes receiving, by one or more transceivers of a computing device, a detour distance to be traversed by the pooled vehicle to process a travel request, wherein the detour distance is determined by one or more sensors in the pooled vehicle. Further, the method includes determining, by one or more processors of the computing device, a first cost to be compensated to at least one first commuter in the pooled vehicle based on the received detour distance, wherein the first cost is incurred by a second commuter associated with the travel request. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364969 | CAR RENTAL SYSTEM AND METHOD VIA PRICE ADJUSTMENT - A car rental system through price adjustment includes a rental-car information provision server configured to collect and manage rental-car data, a rental-car management unit connected to the rental-car information provision server and configured to manage an application program and to deliver rental-car management information of the car-rental company to the rental-car information provision server, a search database configured to collect rental-car demand information, a price adjustment server configured to collect a desired car model, price and demand during the specific period within a predetermined area from the search database, to analyze a demand and schedule of the user, a desired price category of the user, a real-time total stock of the car-rental company and a base price as variables, and to provide an adjusted rental price to the user along with the search result, and a user terminal configured to request price comparison search for an available rental car. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364970 | ANY GYM FITNESS - Implementations of a membership system for allowing users to access multiple unaffiliated gyms and paying the participating gyms are provided. In some implementations, for a plurality of users, selections of a plurality of gyms are received from each user. For each user, a fee for a time-period to be paid by the user based on the gyms selected is calculated and the fee is received from the user. A unique code is assigned to each user. When a user visits a gym that the user selected, the unique code of the user and an identification of the gym visited is received and stored. For each user and each gym selected by the user, a payment to each gym selected by the user is calculated and paid based on the percentage of time the user visited the gym during the time period. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364971 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC E-MAIL ACCOUNT SETUP AND LINKAGE - A method for automatic email generation and delivery based on transaction account linkage includes: storing a plurality of account profiles, each related to a transaction account and including a primary account number and an email address automatically generated for the transaction account upon issuance; receiving a transaction message for a payment transaction including a specific primary account number and transaction data; identifying a specific account profile that includes the specific primary account number; generating an email message, wherein a body of the email message includes content generated from the transaction data and a header of the email message includes the email address included in the identified specific account profile as a destination address; and transmitting the generated email message to a mail server for delivery to the destination address included in the header. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364972 | RENTING A PIPE TO A STORAGE SYSTEM - A computing device that includes an interface, a memory, and a processing module receives a data access request from a requesting computing device and processes them to produce a set of distributed storage (DS) access requests. The computing device then transmits the set of DS access requests to a set of storage units (SUs) via a DSN connection that is between the computing device and the set of SUs and monitors the DSN connection to generate utilization information. The computing device then receives a set of DS access responses from the set of SUs via the DSN connection and monitors the DSN connection to generate updated utilization information. The computing device then transmits a data access response to the requesting computing device and generates billing information based on at least one of the updated utilization information associated with the DSN connection, a level of billing, and a billing rate. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364973 | ORGANIZING DATA IN A VIRTUAL COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE - Organizing data in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes is described. An authorization to service a request is received. The request may be from a user for launching an instance. In response to receiving the authorization and based on the request, an image list is determined. The image list includes information corresponding to a plurality of machine images. At least one machine image is identified from the image list associated with a functional requirement of the request. The instance is launched at the at least one computing node. The at least one machine image is updated after the instance has been launched. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364974 | TECHNIQUES FOR COLLABORATIVE SHOPPING - Techniques for collaborative shopping are presented. During a shopping transaction, a customer collaborates in real time with one or more additional participants. Real-time and dynamic feedback is provided to the customer from the participants throughout the shopping transaction. Furthermore, real-time and dynamic feedback is provided from the customer to the participants throughout the shopping transaction. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364975 | TECHNIQUES FOR COLLABORATIVE SHOPPING - Techniques for collaborative shopping are presented. During a shopping transaction, a customer collaborates in real time with one or more additional participants. Real-time and dynamic feedback is provided to the customer from the participants throughout the shopping transaction. Furthermore, real-time and dynamic feedback is provided from the customer to the participants throughout the shopping transaction. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364976 | COMPUTER SYSTEM INTEGRATING A WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK INTO AN EXISTING SUPPLY CHAIN - A computer system having a network of computers configured to assist in order fulfillment and retail sales is disclosed. In one embodiment, consumer application devices with location awareness interact with an Internet based server side (e.g., Portal, Cloud Server, etc.) to identify product offerings available based on location of the consumer application device (Proximity Based Offerings). Consumers may query offerings from Food Service Operators (FSOs) or other merchants and request purchase capabilities for offerings made available through the FSO/merchant existing supply chain. FSOs/merchants may control proximity parameters for product offerings. FSOs may allow multiple services for their customers rather than being only a provider of prepared meals. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364977 | Collaborative Activities in On-Line Commerce - Computer based systems and methods allow collaborative shopping for and/or designing of (e.g., customization) consumer products, such as articles of footwear, apparel, athletic equipment, etc., by plural users using different computing devices. The users' computing devices may be in communication with one another in various manners, such as over networked connections (e.g., a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), an interne connection, etc.); via peer-to-peer communications; through a common server or combination of servers that establish a communications link; etc.). The various parties may participate in an on-line or other computer communicative session to create and buy customized products. Additionally, user interfaces for providing these collaborative sessions are described. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364978 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REVERSE AUCTIONS AND RESOURCE POOLING FOR PERVASIVE APPLICATIONS - Reverse auction methods and systems are disclosed herein and include fast multi-round auction methods and services to pervasive mobile applications, supporting mobile users in a location sensitive environment. A buyer agent, on behalf of a buyer, may generate a reverse auction request and then monitor auction rounds of an auction initiated based on the request. The buyer agent may terminate the reverse auction upon the auction reaching a maximal round or terminal condition, or executing an optimization policy. The optimization policy may include local optimization. The local optimization may be based on the location of a buyer and seller in a small cell network (SCN). A seller agent may calculate a bidding price based on a seller's acceptable price range and an available time window. The seller agent may determine a time to stop bidding based on bidding price rules. An auction service may select N sellers for each buyer. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364979 | INSTANT MESSAGING ROBOT TO PROVIDE PRODUCT INFORMATION - Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364980 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARBITRATING ENCRYPTED ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS AMONG INTERMEDIARY AND AUTHORING USERS ONLY WHEN AN INTERACTION OCCURS BETWEEN AUTHORING AND CANDIDATE USERS WHO WAS EXPOSED BY THE INTERMEDIARY USER TO DATA PUBLISHED BY AUTHORING USER - System and computer-implemented method of permitting or arbitrating encrypted electronic transactions to occur among an intermediary and an author in an electronic data system only when an interaction occurs between the author and a candidate who was exposed by the intermediary to data published by the author. The author publishes criteria about a candidate, and the candidate posts information about the candidate, which is ingested and married to personally identifiable information about the candidate. A score is calculated indicating a correlation between the candidate and the published criteria, and an intermediary exposes the candidate to the criteria, which is tracked. When the candidate completes an interaction with the author, an encrypted transaction is permitted to occur between the author and the candidate through a proxy, without the author knowing the identity of the intermediary who facilitated the introduction. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364981 | Brand-Based Product Management - A solution for managing branding for an entity is provided. The solution can generate a brand style guide by analyzing electronic entity identity resources, which are representative of one or more branding strategies for the entity. The analysis can include extracting entity brand attributes from each electronic entity identity resource. Illustrative entity brand attributes can include one or more of: image data, font data, color data, or text. An ad hoc style guide, which can include at least one branding strategy for the entity can be generated and provided for presentation to a user. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364982 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED APPAREL FIT AND APPAREL DISTRIBUTION - The present invention provides systems and methods for providing garments with improved and customized fits to one or more target consumer groups. One method provides the ability for a consumer to purchase apparel specifically fit for that consumer, as provided through entertainment media and media platforms, using the personal communication device of that consumer. Another method provides for distributing specific apparel to a target consumer group located within a particular geographic location in order to better suit the fit and quantity of the general consumer within that region. Additional aspects are also disclosed. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364983 | CUSTOMIZED COLORED TIRES FOR VEHICLES - A method and system for customizing vehicle tires based on a purchase order placed by a customer is disclosed. The customer is enabled to place the purchase order through one of a local store, a mail order and an online website. While placing the purchase order, the customer is enabled to provide the requirements regarding the color shade, areas to be colored etc., based on the color of the vehicle. The color shade in the purchase order is any one of primary colors or shades obtained by mixing primary colors excluding black. Once the purchase order is received, the color of the vehicle tires is customized based on the requirements provided by the customer. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364984 | Cloud Based Ingredient Data Management - The improved data management system includes a computerized database device for capturing item technical data provided and maintained by a vendor. A digital representation of the item, for example, a linear or matrix code, ASCII, image, or video data is associated with the technical data. An end user interface utilizes a camera on the end user's smart phone, tablet device, or other computing device to generate image related data of an item of interest for correlation with the digital representation, and is utilized by the database to look up and present the technical data associated with the item of interest. An enhancer interface allows the addition and maintenance of enhancement data to be associated with item technical data and presented to an end user when considering an item of interest. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364985 | ORDERING AND ORDER RECEIVING SYSTEM FOR FISH AND SHELLFISH - There is provided an ordering and order receiving system for fish and shellfish, capable of achieving an ingenious transaction type that can be performed due to an electronic transaction using computers. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364986 | INTEREST INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD USING SCROLL PATTERN AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein are an interest information analysis method and an apparatus using the same. The method and apparatus are configured to extract a target screen from a user terminal in consideration of scrolling speed, calculate a degree of interest in content information included in the target screen in consideration of multiple split screens corresponding to the target screen and a user touch area, and analyze information about interest of the user by arranging multiple pieces of content information acquired from the user terminal based on the degree of interest. Accordingly, information about interest of the user or a field of interest to the user may be analyzed without referring to a definite intention expressed by the user. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364987 | PROVIDING INFORMATION RELATED TO A PRODUCT UNIQUE TO A GEOGRAPHICAL REGION - Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing information regarding a product that is unique to a geographical region. In one or more embodiments a method may include determining a location of a user, receiving information indicative of one or more products unique to a particular geographical region corresponding to the determined location of the user, wherein each of the one or more products are offered for sale in the particular region by one or more merchants, and providing information about at least one of the products and about a merchant, from the one or more merchants, offering that product for sale in the geographical region. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364988 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SUGGESTING INFORMATION USED WITH ITEMS OFFERED FOR SALE IN A NETWORK-BASED MARKETPLACE - Methods and systems to suggest information to be used with an item being listed for sale may include analyzing stored search queries and identifying co-occurring terms or terms based on their desirability scores (or desirable terms). The co-occurring terms and the desirable terms may be identified based on their frequency of use in the search queries and/or in the title information or other information associated with items offered for sale. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364989 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING, SEARCHING, AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION RELATING TO PRODUCTS BASED ON PROFILES - Disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for categorizing, searching, and retrieving information relating to products based on flavor profiles. Embodiments allow a user to dynamically specify values for multiple parameters. Similarly, a database of products is compiled with values and/or ranges assigned for each of the multiple parameters. A user can specify preferred values for each parameter. A computer-implemented process then retrieves one or more products that have parameter values within a predetermined range of the user's specified values. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364990 | PERSONALIZED TICKET EXCHANGE - Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to electronic commerce. A method may include identifying a user of an online marketplace. The method may also include accessing data associated with the user including at least one of historical data, location data, and user defined data. Further, the method may include providing the user with at least one ticket option including at least one recommended ticket for at least one event based on the data associated with the user. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364991 | MERCHANDISE RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, MERCHANDISE RECOMMENDATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There are provided a merchandise recommendation device, a merchandise recommendation method, and a program which recommend coordination merchandise based on a sensitivity word according to a trend. A merchandise recommendation device | 2017-12-21 |
20170364992 | RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, RECOMMENDATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A recommendation device | 2017-12-21 |
20170364993 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, BROADCAST RECEPTION METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, PROGRAMS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - It is an object of the present invention to enhance convenience and service qualities in an information distribution system. In a server serving as an information distribution apparatus and an information communication terminal, contents are managed by using content identifiers (content IDs) managed as IDs conforming to a rule of uniformity. Particularly, in the information communication terminal, a content ripped from a recording medium such as a CD and stored in storage means such as an HDD is also managed by using a content identifier acquired from the information distribution apparatus. In this way, contents stored in the storage means can be managed by using content IDs each managed as an ID common to the information communication terminal and the information distribution apparatus. In communication between the information communication terminal and the information distribution apparatus, a content identifier conforming to a rule of uniformity is used for identifying a content to which the content identifier is assigned so that the terminal is capable of downloading the content as well as acquiring additional information relevant to the content from the apparatus, and the apparatus is capable of rendering a plurality of other services. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364994 | Retail Space Management - In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein useful to manage a retail space. In some embodiments, cubic product representations within the retail location are provided herein which represent the actual space and location of products within the store. Data for the retail space, such as blueprint, floorplan, and item modular data, can be merged and transformed into a central database to create the cubic product representations. Further, the cubic product representations within the retail location can be provided to users through a user interface, such as a web viewer. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364995 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED TERMINAL, CHARGING PILE, ELECTRIC BICYCLE, AND RENTAL SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The disclosure relates to an intelligent transportation field. A vehicle-mounted terminal, a charging pile, an electric bicycle, and a rental system and a rental method of the electric bicycle are described. The vehicle-mounted terminal for the electric bicycle comprises: a receiver configured to receive a rental request; and a controller configured to: acquire the performance state of an electric bicycle targeted by the rental request, in response to the rental request; communicate with a server to authenticate the validity of the renter, if the acquired performance state meets preset rental criteria; and issue an unlocking instruction signal to a charging pile to unlock the electric bicycle, if a successful authentication message is received from the server. The vehicle-mounted terminal communicates with the server, so that the back-end server can obtain the service condition of the rented bicycle in real time, and can monitor and manage the bicycle. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364996 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING AND ENABLING CROWDSOURCED CREDIT COLLECTION - The present disclosure described herein, in general, relates to computer-based platform for facilitating and/or enabling the crowdsourced credit collection. The platform facilitates credit collection by assigning a crowdsourced user in same areas, based on the geolocation of the borrower. The system comprises a credit collection request module, a location module, a training module, a user selection module and a payment module. The credit collection request module is configured to receive the credit collection request to collect the credit due from the borrower. The location module is configured to determine the borrower's geolocation as-well-as the geolocation of the user. The user selection module is configured to identify one or more registered users, present within the predefined range of the borrower's geolocation. Further, the user selection module is configured to select a user from one or more registered users based on predefined parameters associated with each user. The payment module is configured to process the credit collection as-well-as enable remittance of the user payment after successful credit collection. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364997 | OLED ("ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE") TELLER WINDOWS - A four-plane, two-sided OLED teller window is provided. The teller window may include a first OLED plane, a second OLED plane, a third OLED plane, a fourth OLED plane, a first configurably-opaque layer and a second configurably-opaque layer. The first OLED plane may face a first direction. The third OLED plane may face a second direction. The first direction and the second direction may be substantially opposite directions. The first configurably-opaque layer may be located in between the first OLED plane and the third OLED plane. The second OLED plane may face the first direction. The fourth OLED plane may face the second direction. The second configurably-opaque layer may be located in between the second OLED plane and the fourth OLED plane. The first OLED plane and the second OLED plane may be situated side-by-side. The third OLED plane and the fourth OLED plane may be situation side-by-side. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364998 | User Instruction Module - An improved stock ranking and trading decision support system and method employ analytical prediction and prediction verification to identify assets for purchase. The disclosed system and techniques use a harmonic component forecasting model, artificial band-pass digital filters, and logical representations of wave time series and neural network processes to identify the profitable companies for investment as well as the likely direction of movement of the asset future value. The system compares, optimizes and tests the price of the asset at a given point in time in order to predict the trading decision support model and estimate potential profit. | 2017-12-21 |
20170364999 | VIRTUAL CURRENCY EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT - According to an example for virtual currency exchange management, a list of virtual currencies that can be exchanged between a first application and a second application is determined, and a virtual currency exchange rate between a first virtual currency in the first application and a second virtual currency in the second application is calculated. The user is authenticated to the first and second application, and in the event that authentication is successful, the first virtual currency associated with the user is decremented based on the exchange rate and the second virtual currency associated with the user is incremented based on the exchange rate. In some examples, a redeemable asset, digital currency, cryptocurrency, or combinations thereof may be exchanged for a virtual currency based on a calculated exchange rate. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365000 | REAL-TIME PROBABILITY DETERMINATION BASED ON TECHNICAL INDICATORS IN A FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT ENVIRONMENT - A method for providing a real-time probability includes generating a model based on time-series historical data for a financial instrument, the model built from technical indicators of the financial instrument based on extracted components of the time-series historical data and goal values for the financial instrument, applying a transform to the model, the transform generating a quantile vector associated with the financial instrument based on quantile values derived from the model for the financial instrument, compiling a composite index of quantile vectors, each of the quantile vectors corresponding to a plurality of samples having time-series historical data similar to the financial instrument, the composite index including a single sequential range of vector values, and generating a probability for the financial instrument to reach the goal values by determining an average number of quantile vectors of the composite index matching the quantile vector of the financial instrument. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365001 | COMPUTER NETWORK SYSTEMS FOR ACCURATE MARKET BASED BENCHMARK ESTIMATES - A method and system for more accurately determining and providing market terms for conducting business transactions, wherein a plurality of computers are located at qualified institutions and are connected in electronic association in a cloud communication network, one of which is a server network device that maintains and/or provides the components of the system to process actual transaction data provided by the qualified institutions in real time to calculate market terms that are quickly transmitted back to the institutions. The server network device is a cloud server network device with one or more processors from plural network devices for communication with one or more processors or computers located at the qualified institutions. The market term estimates are calculated using less bandwidth and less processing cycles on the cloud communications network than on a conventional network. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365002 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND FPGA CIRCUIT FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEM - A distributed computer system includes a matcher server that stores an order book of pending orders and a gateway that routes an order message to the matcher server for matching. The gateway also receives individual quote messages bundled into a mass quote message, each individual quote message including a price value for one of a plurality of different instrument identifiers. The gateway routes the mass quote message to a field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuit without involving the matcher server. The FPGA parses and stores data for each individual quote message to a data structure located in the memory of the FPGA. The parsed data is organized in the data structure according to both the instrument identifier and a client identifier that corresponds to a client that sent the mass quote message. The FPGA receives away market feed messages that each include a price value and a corresponding instrument identifier without first being routed through the matcher server or the gateway and updates the data structure. The FPGA delivers, in response to a query sent as part of the matching process performed on the matcher server for the instrument, information stored in the data structure regarding the instrument. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365003 | Trade Order Submission for Electronic Trading - Various systems and methods for trade order processing in an electronic trading environment are provided. The order processing includes initiating a first thread of instructions at a computing device to send a first trade order onto an electronic exchange. However, if one or more trade orders are identified during the process to send the first trade order, then the one or more orders are queued. When the first trade order is sent to the electronic exchange, then a second thread of instructions is initiated at the computing device to send the queued one or more trade orders (substantially together, if there is more than one) on to the electronic exchange. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365004 | System and Method for Changing the View of a Trading Screen - A trading screen displays market information, such as working orders, buy and sell orders, and other items of interest, in association with values on a value axis. Each item of interest is therefore displayed in relation to the value axis to provide a trader with an intuitive display of the market. In one embodiment, a user can select a location associated with a particular value on the trading screen and upon an selection, for example, by a click of the mouse button, the value axis is repositioned so that the selected value is moved to a predefined location. During which, market information is moved to new locations that are associated with their respective values on the value axis. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365005 | Evidence for private company valuation - The instant invention discloses the creation, storage and use of new types of data enabled by the use of the technology of information to facilitate and capture contributions to decision-making efforts by non-professionals that augment results generated by professionals alone, where the use of such data is purposed for the generation of reliable and relevant evidence in the valuation of privately held small businesses in the context of transactions, litigation, regulation, and tax. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365006 | METHOD FOR HEDGING ONE OR MORE LIABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH A DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN AND FOR RECORDKEEPING INFORMATION OF SUCH A HEDGE - The present invention relates to a method for hedging a deferred compensation liability. In one embodiment, the invention may provide a mechanism to hedge the compensation expense liabilities of an employer providing deferred compensation to one or more employees. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365007 | Traveling-Based Insurance Ratings - Disclosed herein is a traveling-based insurance rating system comprising a telematics device associated with a vehicle having one or more sensors arranged therein, a mobile device associated with a passenger of the vehicle, and a server computer comprising hardware, including a processor and memory. The server computer may receive driving data of a driver of the vehicle from the one or more sensors via the telematics device. The server computer may then identify one or more values of the driving data to be within one or more predetermined ranges and classify the driving data as a trip of the passenger. Based on the driving data from the trip, the server computer may determine one or more driving behaviors of the driver, calculate an insurance rating for the passenger of the vehicle based on the one or more driving behaviors of the driver, and transmit the insurance rating to the mobile device. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365008 | Parsing Databases To Generate Customized Recommendations For Home Assessment - Disclosed herein is a customized recommendation system for home assessment, in which the system comprises one or more databases, a first computing device, and a server computer comprising hardware, including a processor and memory. The server computer may receive a request for information on a home of the user from the first computing device. The server computer may identify publicly available information for the home and customer information comprising information about one or more features of the home and materials used in the home by parsing the one or more databases. By further analyzing the customer information and the publicly available information, the server computer may determine one or more tips for the home and generate a customized recommendation for the user including the one or more tips for the home. The server computer may then transmit the customized recommendation to the first computing device associated with the user. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365009 | Application Service Aggregation and Management - A method and system for aggregating services is provided. The method includes receiving and processing a service request. The service request is submitted to a service catalog and dispatched to a data integration and API module. The service request is transmitted to a management module and processed with respect to a plurality of service providers. Inter process communications associated with the service request are managed. Additionally, an account associated with the service request and the plurality of service providers is managed. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365010 | ACCOUNTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An accounting system according to a first embodiment includes a receipt printer that receives transaction information including character strings representing details of a transaction. The receipt printer generates and transmits electronic receipt data which includes a set of character codes that represents at least one of the character strings included in the transaction information. An information processing apparatus receives the electronic receipt data transmitted from the receipt printer, determines a category of the at least one of the character strings represented by the set of character codes included in the electronic receipt data received from the receipt printer, stores the set of character codes included in the electronic receipt data received from the receipt printer in association with the determined category, and displays details of the transaction including the determined category. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365011 | GARMENT SHARING INFRASTRUCTURE - A system comprising a software application which can be installed on communications devices to create a social network where users can share the contents of their real closet and their aspirational closet including vendor item combined with a means for vendors to tap into said social network and suggest combinations of clothing and accessories including items for purchase to complete the look. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365012 | IDENTIFYING SERVICE PROVIDERS AS FREELANCE MARKET PARTICIPANTS - A system, a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions, and a computer-implemented method are described herein for a Classification Engine for identifying, according to encoded rules of a plurality of service models, at least one type of service offered by a target member account of a social network service. The Classification Engine classifies, according to encoded rules of a freelancer inference model, the target member account as a freelancer account. The Classification Engine sends an invitation to the freelancer account to join a freelance marketplace within the social network service. The freelance marketplace includes various consumer accounts requesting to purchase a performance various types of services and specialties. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365013 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE WITH CLICK - Provided are a mobile device and method of providing a social networking service (SNS) with one click. The method includes: receiving an identifier regarding the external device and an identifier regarding a user input that is input to the external device, from the external device; transmitting the identifier regarding the external device and the identifier regarding the user input to a server; receiving content about the external device and the user input from the server, based on the identifier regarding the external device and the identifier regarding the user input; and displaying the received content on a screen. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365014 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR TRACKING AND EVALUATING PREDICTIONS REGARDING RELATIONSHIPS - Methods, non-transitory computer-readable storage media, and computer systems comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and at least one processor are provided for evaluating predictions regarding relationships. A computer system is controlled to manage a relationships database of relationship data records. Each relationship data record includes a person identifier for each person in the relationship. The computer system is controlled to manage a prediction database of prediction data records. Each prediction data record includes a relationship prediction for a relationship identified by a relationship data record in the relationships database. For each relationship prediction included in a prediction data record in the prediction database, the computer system is controlled to determine whether the relationship prediction is correct by accessing official records from a database via a network, and generate a prediction result indicator that indicates a result of the determination. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365015 | DETERMINING AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS FROM AN APPLICATION ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM - A social networking system (SNS) may determine the integrity of a social application. In particular, the SNS can receive communications and tags associated with different subsets of the communications from the social application. Thereafter, the SNS can distribute the communications, and monitor for user interactions performed on the communications. Subsequently, feedback indicating the integrity of the social application can be provided. The feedback can be based on the user interactions performed on the communications. The feedback can also be provided according to the tags. In particular, a set of feedback information can be provided for each tag, where the set is based on the user interactions performed on the subset of communications associated with the tag. By providing feedback in this manner, A-B testing can be performed. In one embodiment, the operating state for the social application can be determined based on the integrity of the SNS. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365016 | 1-Click Cancellation And Refund of Assets - A method of refunding and reselling by a refund service items bought online at an agent's website, comprising: receiving a protection request from an agent's website for user purchasing an item on an agent's website; providing the requested protection for a protection price; receiving a refund request from the agent's website for a user having purchased a protected item; paying as refund part of the price paid by the user to the agent for the item; and returning the item to a central repository for resale. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365017 | MAKE LINE OPTIMIZATION - A make line for preparing food in a restaurant includes ingredient containers and food preparation stations. The make line is provided with a line level lighting system that illuminates one or more ingredient containers as well as one or more of the food preparation stations to indicate which ingredient(s) are to be added to the food order being prepared at the illuminated food preparation station(s). The make line may also comprise an overhead lighting system to selectively illuminate a heating surface, a scanner for detecting which order is currently being prepared, a sensor system for detecting which ingredient container(s) are being accessed, a label printer for printing a label for a given order, and other features to enhance the efficiency of the make line. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365018 | INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA DEVICE - The present invention refers to an interactive multimedia kiosk with a touch-sensitive (touch-screen) system to be integrated as urban furniture, specially outdoors, with online interactive contents about the latest news and promoting the economy, culture and tourism of the region where the device is installed, characterized by disclosing a structure comprising:
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20170365019 | Method and System for Searching Real Estate Information - A method of searching real estate information of a property for a search engine. The method includes the steps of: processing, by a computing system, a first set of transmissions from an end-user device and received by a server system, the first set of transmissions including a real estate search request of the property including Structural Features, Surrounding Neighborhood Features, and Relevant Proximity Features of the property to one or more real estate features stored in a real estate database; processing information, by the computing system, the Structural Features, the Surrounding Neighborhood Features, and the Relevant Proximity Features of the property for each search suggestion, and identifying one or more properties by the Structural Features, the Surrounding Neighborhood Features, and the Relevant Proximity Features of the property, and stores the search suggestions to a real estate database; receiving and parsing, by the computing system, the real estate search request to obtain a search query, and comparing the search query at least partially based on the real estate search request; and comparing, by the computing system, the search query to a default search query in the real estate database, and obtaining the results of a target property corresponding to the search query. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365020 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING STRATEGIC COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE DATA RELEVANT FOR AN ENTITY - Strategic competitive intelligence data generation systems and methods are provided. The system stores internal intellectual property data of an entity, receives external technology development data from predefined sources and intellectual property data from the internal portfolio database of the entity, stores a set of relevant rules, executes them, filters the technology development data and the intellectual property data, based on the rules executed by the rule engine. It stores in one of an entity aligned cluster database, the filtered technology development data and the intellectual property data. The entity aligned cluster databases are created against predefined entity aligned clusters. The system executes an input query, determines one relevant entity aligned cluster database for executing the search query, and populates relevancy scores in two matrices, aggregates the relevancy scores through multiplication of the matrices. The system then analyses the resultant matrix based on set of rules and displays results of the analytics. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365021 | Idea and Trade Secret Management Systems and Methods - Embodiments of devices, systems, methods and apparatuses are described that can be configured to provide at least one of an inventor portal, a resume builder, and an intellectual property asset management system. In one embodiment, the system may be configured to allow a first user to draft, revise, and submit an invention disclosure and to provide a resume builder configured to automatically generate a resume. The system may be further configured to provide an intellectual property asset management system configured to allow an administrator to review, edit, and provide comments to the invention disclosure. Additionally, the intellectual property asset management system may be further configured to allow the administrator to assign the invention disclosure to an entity and to monitor progress with respect to a plurality of tasks. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365022 | LIQUID WORKFORCE PLATFORM - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing skills of a workforce. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining data from internal sources that describes internal roles and skills corresponding to each of the internal roles, obtaining data from external sources that describes external roles and skills corresponding to each of the external roles, and generating a skill relationship model that represents relationships between the internal roles, external roles, and the skills. Further includes action include, for each of the skills, determining whether a difference between a degree of relationship between the skill and an external role and between the skill and an internal role matching the external role satisfies a relationship threshold, determining whether internal future supply for the skill satisfies internal future demand for the skill, and determining whether to train current employees in the skill. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365023 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES AND/OR COMPLIMENTARY PERSONAL TRAITS BASED ON IDENTIFIED PERSONAL TRAITS - It is an object of the invention to provide a computer-implemented method including: obtaining a data sheet including a plurality of prior participants in a plurality of opportunities, the data set including a plurality of personal attributes and a plurality of opportunity attributes; and calculating a Pearson coefficient for a plurality of pairs of personal attributes and opportunity attributes. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365024 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATION OF CLINICAL AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - The present disclosure relates to an automated system for regulating the allocation of resources, or the dissemination of information within a healthcare facility. The automated system includes a context providing system capable of determining the state of a parameter and a facilities management system in communication with the context providing system. An integration protocol is configured to facilitate communication between the context providing system and the facilities management system and the facilities management system allocates resources or disseminates information based upon the value of the parameter provided by the context providing system. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365025 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHIPPING PRODUCTS - Systems and methods for real-time processing and linking of orders to enhance execution performance can be configured to receive an incoming order from a customer including product data, customer information, and shipping information; determine that the incoming order can be linked to an existing shipment bundle that has one or more orders assigned orders based on predetermined linking criteria; assign a bundle identification (ID) to the incoming order corresponding to the existing shipment bundle; and release the existing shipment bundle for shipment when one or more predetermined shipping criteria are met. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365026 | Method For Transferring An Amount To Be Paid - A process and a device for conducting electronic transactions provides a more effective and efficient way to make a payment over the Internet. This process and device could be used to pay, for example, a Police Administration Ticket or Police Administration Citation via the Internet. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365027 | CONSIDERING GEOLOCATION INFORMATION IN A SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING PLATFORM - Examples disclosed herein relate to considering geolocation information in a security information sharing platform. Some examples may enable determining geolocation information for a security indicator shared to the security information sharing platform. Some examples may enable determining an indicator score associated with the security indicator based on the determined geolocation information. Some examples may enable facilitating display, via a user interface, the first indicator score to the first community of users based on the indicator score. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365028 | SHIPPING SUPPORT DEVICE, SHIPPING SUPPORT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A computer-readable recording medium storing a shipping support program that causes a computer to execute processing, the processing includes: referencing a first storage section storing item information for each of a plurality of items, the item information including whether or not a battery is contained in the item, and at least one out of a type or shipping state of the battery in cases in which a battery is contained; and in cases in which a result of referencing the item is that an item to be shipped is determined to contain a battery, outputting support information according to at least one out of the type or shipping state of the battery contained in the item to be shipped as identified based on the item information for the item to be shipped. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365029 | ARRIVAL INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, SERVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE - According to the present invention, an arrival information providing method is provided, wherein the method comprises the steps of: receiving aeroplane information from an aeroplane information management server with respect to an airport at which an aeroplane arrives, and determining an actual arrival time of an aeroplane that is a time at which the aeroplane arrives at a parking ramp; calculating a passenger travelling time that is a time taken for a passenger of the aeroplane to arrive at an arrival exit gate of the airport from the actual arrival time of the aeroplane, and determining an expected arrival time of the passenger based on the actual arrival time of the aeroplane and the travelling time of the passenger; and providing the actual arrival time of the aeroplane and the expected arrival time of the passenger to an arrival information providing display device. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365030 | Systems and Methods for Vehicle Ridesharing Management - Systems and methods provide vehicle ridesharing and vehicle ridesharing management. In one implementation, a system includes a memory storing ridesharing-related instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive, a first ride request from a first user, the first ride request including a first starting point and a first desired destination; send a confirmation to the first user with an indication of an estimated pick-up time; direct a taxi to pick up the first user; receive a second ride request from a second user; direct the taxi to pick up the second user; and send to the first user a fare amount including a first fare portion corresponding to a first portion of the ride before picking up the second user and a second fare portion corresponding to a second portion of the ride after picking up the second user. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365031 | METHOD OF RENDERING OBJECT INCLUDING PATH AND RENDERING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PATH RENDERING - A method to render an object including a path includes: determining a split line to split a frame; allocating information about the path to a first tile through which the path passes and to a second tile located between the first tile and the split line, among tiles included in the frame; and determining respective winding numbers for the first tile and the second tile, based on information about the allocated path. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365032 | MULTI-USER MULTI-GPU RENDER SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS - The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for rendering images, the system having one or more client digital data processors and a server digital data processor in communications coupling with the one or more client digital data processors, the server digital data processor having one or more graphics processing units. The system additionally comprises a render server module executing on the server digital data processor and in communications coupling with the graphics processing units, where the render server module issues a command in response to a request from a first client digital data processor. The graphics processing units on the server digital data processor simultaneously process image data in response to interleaved commands from (i) the render server module on behalf of the first client digital data processor, and (ii) one or more requests from (a) the render server module on behalf of any of the other client digital data processors, and (b) other functionality on the server digital data processor. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365033 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device includes a decoded data memory, a format-converted data memory, a decoder which decodes compressed image data in units of blocks, writes the decoded data in the blocks into the decoded data memory, and receives a notification that writing of the decoded data has been completed, and a progress notifier which is notified of completion of writing of the decoded data by the decoder, and generates and outputs upon completion of the decoding of a block of data or the writing of a block of the decoded data, a progress signal per picture. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365034 | METHOD FOR CHAINING MEDIA PROCESSING - One embodiment may include media circuits, an application processor, a direct memory access circuit (DMA), and a media managing circuit. The application processor may issue media commands into a queue. The media managing circuit may retrieve a first media command, set the DMA to copy data associated with the first media command to the first media circuit, and send the first media command to the first media circuit. While the first media command is being executed, the media managing circuit may also retrieve a second media command, determine that the second media command utilizes data that is dependent on a completion of the first media command, and set the DMA to copy data from the first media circuit to the second media circuit. After the first media command has been completed, the media managing circuit may also send the second media command to the second media circuit. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365035 | ACCELERATED FRAME RATE ADVERTISING-PRIORITIZED VIDEO FRAME ALIGNMENT - In response to detection of a selection of an accelerated frame rate during decoding of video content, encoded accelerated frame rate decoding priority data values assigned to individual prioritized video frames of the video content are identified. A prioritized video frame subset of the individual prioritized video frames of the video content to decode that yields a maximized cumulative set of the assigned encoded accelerated frame rate decoding priority data values is determined based upon differences among the assigned encoded accelerated frame rate decoding priority data values and the selected accelerated frame rate. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365036 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE DISPLAY DURING IMAGE EDITING - A method is performed at a computing device for controlling image display during image editing, the method including: loading, into the memory, an obtained to-be-edited image; identifying a primary area in the loaded image, the primary area including one or more objects that are automatically recognized as subjects of the loaded image; adjusting the primary area in the loaded image in accordance with a fitting state between the loaded image and a preset template when a center of the primary area is initially located at a center of a display area of the preset template; and displaying, on the screen, the adjusted primary area in the loaded image to occupy the display area of the template completely. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365037 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN EXTRAPOLATED IMAGE USING A RECURSIVE HIERARCHICAL PROCESS - Apparatus and Method for Generating an Extrapolated Image Using a Recursive Hierarchical Process A method and apparatus for generating an extrapolated image from an existing film or video content, which can be displayed beyond the borders of the existing film or video content to increase viewer immersiveness, are provided. The present principles provide for hierarchical processing in which higher resolution images are generated at each higher level, and wherein the higher level image is generated based on prediction and weighting derived from a current level image, and the current level is refined for the prediction based on overlapping data. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365038 | Producing Higher-Quality Samples Of Natural Images - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of generative adversarial networks (GANs) that are each applied to a particular level k of a Laplacian pyramid. Each GAN may comprise a generative model G | 2017-12-21 |
20170365039 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to input image signals which include a first signal and a second signal lower in spatial resolution than the first signal; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information about a spatial high-frequency component of the first signal which is included in the image signals input by the input unit; a generation unit configured to generate an expanded second signal obtained by expanding the spatial resolution of the second signal included in the image signals by using the information about the spatial high-frequency component of the first signal obtained by the obtaining unit; and an output unit configured to output a processed image signal which includes the expanded second signal generated by the generation unit. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365040 | PICTURE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides a picture display method and apparatus that relate to the field of image processing and are increase flexibility of picture display and reducing a memory occupation rate of a terminal on the premise of not modifying an attribute of an original picture. The method and apparatus include receiving an instruction for displaying a picture; obtaining, according to an identifier of a to-be-displayed picture included in the instruction, an original bitmap of the to-be-displayed picture and searching, a database of a current device for a pre-stored first rotation angle corresponding to the to-be-displayed picture; adjusting, according to a resolution of a current screen and/or a current window size, a display size of the original bitmap of the to-be-displayed picture, so as to obtain a compressed bitmap of the original bitmap; and displaying, according to the first rotation angle, a compressed bitmap of the original bitmap. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365041 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ORIENTED INPUT OPERATIONS - An apparatus, a method and a computer program product are disclosed. The apparatus includes a display that displays an image, a timing detection unit that detects an input operation timing, and an input area display unit that displays an input area oriented towards a preset direction. The method includes displaying an image, detecting a timing of an input operation, and displaying an input area oriented towards a preset direction. The computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium that stores code to perform displaying an image, detecting a timing of an input operation. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365042 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a smoothing section configured to smooth, for an image after gradation conversion with which gradation display on a monitor becomes appropriate, a signal with a higher Weber ratio, to a signal value, of a quantization error caused by the gradation conversion with higher strength, and a random component addition section configured to add a larger random component to the signal with the higher Weber ratio excluding a neighborhood of a minimum signal value for an image after the smoothing. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365043 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus, method, and operation program capable of appropriately removing an abnormal pixel even in a case where the abnormal pixel is present in a tailing region. An abnormal pixel removing section removes an abnormal pixel from an image in which tailing and the dot-shaped abnormal pixel are mixed every other line. The abnormal pixel removing section selects neighboring pixels from only odd lines or even lines including a line, in which a target pixel to be corrected is present, depending on whether or not the line in which the target pixel is present is an odd-numbered line in a sub-scanning direction, and performs processing for removing the abnormal pixel based on the selected neighboring pixels. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365044 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING IMAGE DISTORTION - Provided is an apparatus for compensating an image distortion and an apparatus for compensating an image distortion according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, which compensates distortion of an image including a plurality of image division units includes: a compensation rate setting unit setting a variable distortion compensation rate so that the plurality of respective image division units are compensated at different ratios; and a compensation unit compensating the plurality of image division units according to the variable distortion compensation rate set by the compensation rate setting unit. | 2017-12-21 |
20170365045 | Method and apparatus for viewing images - A computer-implemented method for viewing images on an interactive computing device comprises displaying an image from a stack comprising a display image and at least one compressed sub-image of nominally the same scene, each of the sub-images of the stack having been acquired at respective focal distances. Responsive to a user selecting a portion of the displayed image, the selected portion is mapped to a corresponding mapped portion of a sub-image within the stack according to the difference in focal distances between the displayed image and the sub-image. At least one row of compressed image blocks of the at least one sub-image extending across the mapped portion; and a reference value for a point in the compressed image stream of the sub-image preceding the row of compressed image blocks is determined. Using the reference, the row of blocks of the sub-image at least partially decoded, and a measure of focus for an area of the mapped portion coinciding with the decoded image blocks is computed to determine if at least that content of the sub-image should be displayed within a display image. | 2017-12-21 |