53rd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150379505 | USING LIMITED LIFE TOKENS TO ENSURE PCI COMPLIANCE - A method comprises receiving, by a payment service from a point of sale (POS) system, a payment request having sale data and a card data token, generating a detokenize and erase request including the card data token, sending the detokenize and erase request to a token service, receiving, by the payment service, card data from the token service in response to the sending the detokenize and erase request, generating a payment process request comprising the sale data and the card data, sending the payment process request to a payment authorization service, receiving a payment response from the payment authorization service in response to the sending the payment process request, and sending the payment response to the POS system. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379506 | AUTOMATIC PAYMENT CODE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Automatic payment code display systems and methods include a user device detecting a beacon system at a physical merchant location. The user device establishes a background communication process with the beacon system that occurs without user intervention subsequent to detecting the beacon system. The user device then provides the user account authentication token to the beacon system as part of the background communication process. The user device then receives a payment code from the beacon system as part of the background communication process. The user device then causes the payment code to be displayed, and the displayed payment code is configured to be utilized by a payment processing device at the physical merchant location in a payment transaction. The payment code may be caused to be displayed on a lock screen in a background display process that occurs without user intervention. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379507 | PROCESSING ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS USING AT LEAST TWO PAYMENT TOOLS FOR A TRANSACTION - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for operating an account. The method includes receiving a selection of a plurality of payment tools from a terminal, determining a plurality of payment servers corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of payment tools based on the received selection, sending one or more funds deduction commands to the plurality of payment servers associated with corresponding ones of the selected payment tools, receiving one or more notifications of successful funds deduction from any of the plurality of payment servers associated with the selected payment tools, and in response to receiving the one or more notifications of successful funds deduction, updating funds data in a third party payment account. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379508 | CONTROLLING USAGE OF ACQUIRER TOKENS STORED WITHIN A MERCHANT SYSTEM - A method for controlling usage of one or more acquirer tokens stored within a merchant system. The method comprises receiving a payment request to make a payment corresponding to a user account having associated therewith an acquirer token that enables payment to be made by communication of the acquirer token to an acquirer system, determining whether to allow the payment to be made by communicating the acquirer token to the acquirer system based on whether a payment channel via which the payment request is received is authorised for use of the acquirer token, and communicating the acquirer token to the acquirer system upon a positive determination to allow the payment. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379509 | DNA SAMPLE DATA IN A TRANSPONDER TRANSACTION - The present disclosure relates to the use of DNA sample data as part of a biometric security system in a transponder transaction. The biometric security system also includes a DNA sensor that detects biometric samples, and a device for verifying biometric samples. In one embodiment, the biometric security system includes a transponder configured with a DNA sensor. In another embodiment, the system includes a reader configured with a DNA sensor. In yet another embodiment, the present invention discloses methods for proffering and processing DNA samples and DNA sample data to facilitate authorization of transactions. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379510 | Method and system to use a block chain infrastructure and Smart Contracts to monetize data transactions involving changes to data included into a data supply chain. - A method and system to use a block chain infrastructure and smart contracts to monetize data transactions involving changes to data included into a data supply chain. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379511 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC TRUST VERIFICATION SYSTEM - A verification engine for verifying that a retailer is an authorized sales channel for goods created by a manufacturer includes a controller configured to receive a verification request from a purported retailer initiated by a customer seeking to purchase goods. The request includes verification data and a first signature. The verification data includes at least identification of the purported retailer and the goods manufacturer, and the first signature includes a result of an operation on the verification data by a cryptographic key provided by the purported retailer. The verification data is compared to a listing to determine if the purported retailer is an authorized retailer. If so, a second signature is generated and compared to the first. A message is sent to the customer verifying or denying a relationship between the purported retailer and the goods manufacturer based on one or more of the comparisons. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379512 | COMMUNICATION DURING PAYMENT PROCEDURE - Apparatus and method are provided. The solution includes obtaining ( | 2015-12-31 |
20150379513 | SECURE ELEMENTS BROKER (SEB) FOR APPLICATION COMMUNICATION CHANNEL SELECTOR OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods for managing concurrent secure elements on a mobile device to coordinate with an application or “app” running on the mobile device and an appropriate communications protocol for conducting transactions using the mobile device include: | 2015-12-31 |
20150379514 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSACTION PRE AUTHENTICATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for mobile-based transaction pre-authorization. One example method comprises receiving, from a device (such as a mobile device), a pre-authorization request including at least selection of a payment method, and generating a pre-authorization for a purchase based on the selected payment method. The method further comprises receiving a transaction request, determining whether the received transaction request is associated with the pre-authorization, and processing the transaction request based on the determination. Systems and computer-readable media implementing the above method are also provided. User interfaces are also provided for enabling the use of such methods, systems, and computer-readable media on, for example, mobile devices. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379515 | SECURE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Apparatuses, methods, and systems pertaining to the verification of portable consumer devices for 3-D Secure Systems are disclosed. In one implementation, a verification token is coupled to a computer by a USB connection so as to use the computer's networking facilities. The verification token reads identification information from a user's portable consumer device (e.g., credit card) and sends the information to a validation entry over a communications network using the computer's networking facilities. The validation entity applies one or more validation tests to the information that it receives from the verification token. If a selected number of tests are passed, the validation entity sends a 3-D Secure datum to the verification token. The verification token may enter the 3-D Secure datum into a hidden field of a Purchase Authentication Page appearing on the computer's display. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379516 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Authentication Services - A method of authenticating information associated with a consumer in connection with a third party transaction is disclosed and includes receiving transaction information descriptive of a transaction initiated between a consumer and a third party. The method may include determining a type verification to be performed based on the transaction information, and receiving an input associated with authentication of information associated with the consumer. The authentication may be performed based on the type of verification indicated in the transaction information. The method may include generating verification information based on the input associated with the authentication of information associated with the consumer. The verification information may facilitate completion of the transaction | 2015-12-31 |
20150379517 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED DETECTION OF FRAUDULENT ELECTRONICTRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods for enhanced detection of fraudulent electronic transactions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system uses the ongoing stream of transactions to construct and maintain a dynamically evolving merchant relationship graph. When a proposed transaction is submitted to the system, the system computes a predicted likelihood that the given account would make a transaction with these characteristics with the given merchant. The graph is used to compute transitive relatedness between merchants which may be indirectly associated with one another, as well as to compute aggregate relatedness, when there are multiple avenues of relationship between two merchants. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379518 | SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING RISK IN PROVIDING VALUE TO THE USER OF A TRANSACTION SYSTEM USING INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE TO THE TRANSACTION SYSTEM - A system receives a request for value from a user. The risk involved in providing the value to the user is evaluated using information accessible to the transaction system, the information includes contact information associated with the user. The request is selectively approved based on evaluating the risk involved and value is distributed to the user via a network. The contact information may comprise address information associated with the user, such as a residential street address of the user, a city of residence of the user, a state of residence of the user, a zip code of residence of the user, a telephone number associated with the user, and checking account information. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379519 | Systems and Methods for Accessing Via a Mobile Computing Device In Real-Time or Substantially Real-Time Client Relationship Management Information - Systems and methods are provided for accessing, with a mobile device in real-time or substantially real-time, CRM information. The CRM information may include name, address, phone number, alternate phone number, facsimile number, email address, relationships, activities, insurance policies, insurance certificates, vehicles owned or leased, associated drivers of said vehicles, equipment owned or leased, property owned, watercraft owned or leased, other insurance schedules, endorsements, risk analysis and/or policy declaration pages. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379520 | Identifying Discrepancies and Responsible Parties in a Customer Support System - A mechanism is provided for improving customer satisfaction. Natural language processing (NLP) is utilized to identify information from a customer ticket that addresses a customer issue thereby forming one or more pieces of NLP identified information. Each piece of NLP identified information is analyzed to identify one or more responsible parties responsible for delays in addressing the customer issue. Responsive to identifying at least one responsible party responsible for at least one delay in addressing the customer issue, an indication flag is created for the responsible party. A notification of the at least one responsible party responsible for the at least one delay in addressing the customer issue is then sent. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379521 | Systems and Methods for Compliance and Announcement Display and Notification - Systems and methods are provided for compliance and announcement display and notification. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379522 | MODIFIABLE SHARING OF RECEIVED CONTENT - Embodiments described herein are directed to methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable media for a content provisioning system (“CPS”) publishing modified content to users. A content provider may provide content to the CPS, for example using a notification that content is available for download. The CPS may convert the content, which may be viewed by a publisher. The publisher may share received content with recipients. The publisher may select recipients to receive the content and send a request to share the content to the CPS. The publisher may choose to modify the content before requesting that it be shared. The publisher may make modifications to the content on the publisher's device. The CPS may perform modifications to the content before sharing the modified content with selected professionals. Permissions may be associated with the content, which may be consulted before allowing modification and/or sharing. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379523 | System and Method for Exchanging and Updating Credentialing Information - A computer system, and a computer-implemented method are provided for maintaining, providing and exchanging up to date credentialing information on a member to and from participant organizations. A database is maintained of credentialing information applicable to the member and obtained from credentialing organizations. Updates are managed to the member credentialing information, obtained through electronic network communications and synchronized with the credentialing organizations. The member credentialing information is updated, and synchronized with, participant organization systems of the participant organizations, on an automated basis. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379524 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING PHYSICAL ITEMS - A method and system for authenticating physical items includes: creating a group of safe codes, wherein each safe code includes a system code and a random key, said system code includes first and second level references wherein said second level reference is unique within said first level reference, storing said random key in said track and trace system in a storage location of a data store identified by said first and second level references, creating a group of marking codes by obfuscating each of said safe codes using an obfuscation key to obtain an obfuscated code and combining said obfuscated code with an obfuscation key id corresponding to said obfuscation key, and marking at least some of said marking codes on said physical items. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379525 | DEVELOPING A CUSTOMER BASE THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKS AND OTHER SOURCES - Methods and arrangements for identifying a potential customer base of a concern. A contemplated method includes: identifying a prospective customer of a concern, via a social media network; identifying connections of the prospective customer within the social media network; determining a subset of the connections, wherein members of the subset comprise members of the concern; determining connections of the members of the subset; determining whether the connections of the members of the subset comprise the prospective customer; and if the connections of the members of the subset comprise the prospective customer, determining contact information of the prospective customer. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379526 | TRACKING AND LINKING MOBILE DEVICE ACTIVITY - Methods for tracking mobile devices with increased accuracy include generating a first time-dependent identifier. Generating the first time-dependent identifier includes device information, location information, and time information identified for the device and for a request by the device to visit a third-party content supplier in association with a redirection instruction. One or more embodiments monitor additional activity by a plurality of client devices for a second time-dependent identifier. Because both identifiers are time dependent, if the identifiers match, one or more embodiments can determine that the client device has performed an action at the third-party content supplier in association with the redirection instruction with an improved probability of accuracy. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379527 | DERIVATIVE NETWORK PROFILE FOR CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS - Derivative network profile is provided for determining a more complete picture of a customer on a social media website or websites for improved customer interactions. A customer may have a social media presence with any number of connections to other individuals, businesses, etc. As provided herein, the relevancy of those connections is determined within the context of a “seed” or business purpose. As a benefit, a customer who may share a substantial amount of information (e.g., funny videos, favorite sports teams, etc.) with a large pool of connections, may have a particular relationship identified (e.g., a more obscure relative who travels frequently) when a contact center is interacting with the customer with respect to the business purpose (e.g., providing travel-related services to the customer). | 2015-12-31 |
20150379528 | SOCIAL NETWORK USAGE-BASED SALES INSIGHTS - In an example embodiment, information about one or more Customer Relationship Management (CRM) entities is received from a CRM system, the information including an identification of each of the one or more CRM entities and usage information about how a user interacted with each of the one or more CRM entities. Then, at a software tool distinct from the CRM system, one or more actionable insights related to the one or more CRM entities are identified. The relevance of the one or more actionable insights to the user is then determined based on the usage information. One or more of the one or more actionable insights are then presented to the user based on the determined relevance via the software tool. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379529 | System, service and methodology of data collection, processing, analysis and effective delivery of dashboard snapshot presentations of organized customer proprietary information on an individualized secure basis to multiple customers - A System, service and methodology of data collection, processing, analysis and effective delivery of dashboard snapshot presentations of organized customer proprietary information on an individualized secure basis to multiple customers includes an interface and communications component easily accessible by each customer for securely and efficiently communicating with the System service provider to submit raw customer data and to receive the dashboard presentations, a data processing and delivery component for developing the presentations of each customer's data in individualized snapshot formats selected by the customer, and an analytical component for enabling the System host to quickly analyze the customer's processed data and to timely deliver the customer specific results as requested by the customer via a System website, or the like, easily accessible by each customer on a secured, as wanted, basis using any type of electronic communications device capable of providing graphical visualization of the dashboard presentations. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379530 | DRIVING BUSINESS TRAFFIC BY PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MEDIA - According to a business requirement, a set of characteristics of a market is computed. The market comprises a group of potential buyers of a product. In a social medium, the market is identified. A data source operates in the market in the social medium. Data corresponding to the data source in the social medium is analyzed to identify a set of attributes of an event occurring in the social medium. An attribute in the set of attributes is correlated with the product. An information associated with a business application is manipulated such that a search result showing an availability of the product from the business application is promoted in a set of search results produced by a search engine, wherein the set of search results is responsive to a search related to the event in the social medium. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379531 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF MOBILE BUSINESS PROFITABILITY - A system and method for identification of at least one profitable location for mobile business users are presented. The method includes receiving, by a profitability location engine communicatively coupled to a network, a request for a list of profitable locations for one or more mobile business users with a region. The profitability location engine receives business input data associated with a business of the mobile business user, and generates output prediction data. The output prediction data includes one or more profitable locations for the business. A report including the profitable locations is displayed to the mobile business users. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379532 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING BAD COMMODITIES BASED ON USER PURCHASE BEHAVIORS - A method and system for identifying bad commodities based on user purchase behaviors is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes selecting, by a user screening module a set of users who only perform a single shopping behavior within a specific time period and constructing, by the user screening module, a user-commodity purchase relationship matrix based on the set of users and specifications of the commodities purchased by all the customers. The method also includes calculating, by an identifying module and based on the user-commodity purchase relationship matrix, a probability that a commodity is bad to identify bad commodities, generating, by the identifying module, a list of bad commodities based on the identified bad commodities, and providing, by a pushing module, the generated list of bad commodities to a commodity intervention system. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379533 | PREDICTION OF AN ESTIMATED REMAINING UTILITY USAGE VIA METER AND ADJUSTING AN ALERT THRESHOLD - A method and system for predicting an estimated remaining utility usage and adjusting an alert threshold for a prepaid utility meter account includes receiving an indication of a time period of inaccessibility to replenish a prepaid utility meter account, predicting an alert trigger time when an estimated remaining utility usage for the prepaid utility meter account falls below an alert threshold, and determining that the time period of inaccessibility overlaps the predicted alert trigger time, and responsively adjusting the alert threshold such that the predicted alert trigger time occurs before the time period of inaccessibility. The method also includes receiving an indication of a business objective for a utility company and automatically adjusting the alert threshold associated with the prepaid utility meter account based on the business objective. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379534 | Contact Engagement Analysis for Target Group Definition - Processing power of a database may be leveraged to perform contact engagement analysis efficiently defining target groups. A person-centric data model allows rapid segmentation based upon details of individual contacts, and the nature of their interactions. The data model may recognize multiple facets of a single individual, for example different identifiers for various personal networks (e.g., social media networks, enterprise directories, etc.). Contact engagement analysis may use techniques such as contact classification, filtering, date period selection, and/or tag cloud based topic classification visualization, in order to achieve target group definition. A data model and UI may provide selection tools filtering data of mixed quality, allowing fast overview, and providing selection possibilities of contact groups having different data quality classifications. A tag cloud (e.g., including a time slider) shows topics of interest derived from contact interactions, thus providing visual indications. Thus, multiple contacts sharing common characteristics may be identified. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379535 | DETERMINING A FUNCTION OF AN ENTITY - Methods, systems and computer program products for identifying a work function of a company at a location and for identifying a work function of a group of workers are described. Members having member profiles that indicate employment at a company and at a location are segmented into one or more groups based on one or more job skills. One or more of the groups are analyzed to determine a work function of the location. The location of the company is identified based on the determined work function. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379536 | CONSUMPTION-DRIVEN FORECASTING USING MULTI-LEVEL HETEROGENEOUS INPUT DATA - A method, system, and computer program product for generating forecasts and replenishment plans. Some embodiments commence upon receiving point-of-sale data, then receiving distribution-level order data in a second data format. The first point-of-sale data comprises an item identifier and a first date or first date range, and the distribution-level order data comprises the item identifier and a second date or second date range. The originators of the order data are determined using address identifiers (e.g., network location identifiers). The received data is combined wherein at least a portion of the point-of-sale data is combined with at least a portion of the distribution-level order data to generate a combined forecast for the item. Further processing includes receiving an inventory model parameter and combining at least a portion of the first point-of-sale consumption data with at least a portion of the distribution-level order data to generate a replenishment plan for the item. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379537 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING GEOGRAPHIC POLYGONS USING PURCHASE DATA - A method for generating a consumer polygon map includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including a consumer identifier and a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry including data related to a payment transaction involving the related consumer including transaction data and a geographic location; receiving a request for a consumer polygon, wherein the request for a consumer polygon includes a specific consumer identifier; identifying a specific consumer profile where the included consumer identifier corresponds to the specific consumer identifier; and generating a polygon map for the consumer related to the specific consumer profile, wherein the polygon map includes a plurality of polygon vertices, each polygon vertex being at a geographic location corresponding to a geographic location included in a transaction data entry included in the specific consumer profile. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379538 | TECHNIQUES FOR OVERINDEXING INSIGHTS FOR SCHOOLS - A method can include receiving a request for content including an attribute for a school. The method can analyze a social graph to identify a first set of nodes representing members, which can connect to a first node representing a first school, the social graph can be represented by a graph data structure having nodes representing various entities and edges representing associations between entities. The method can analyze a social graph to identify a second set of nodes representing members, the second set of nodes representing members connecting to a second node representing a school. The method can generate a central tendency of a number of the first set of nodes representing members and a number of the second set of nodes representing members and using the central tendency and a number of the first set of nodes representing members, can determine an index number for the first school. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379539 | Dynamic Mobile Seller Routing - Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically routing a mobile sales operation are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving a request to provide a location recommendation to a mobile sales operation where the request comprises GPS coordinates from a GPS device associated with the mobile sales operation, determining the location recommendation based on analyzing data associated with a competitor of the mobile sales operation in view of the GPS coordinates, sending a first communication comprising the location recommendation to a computing device of the mobile sales operation, and sending a second communication comprising GPS coordinates of an updated location recommendation to the computing device of the mobile sales operation in view of a change in status for one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379540 | RESOURCE PACKAGE COMBINATION TO INDUCE DATACENTER PRICING STABILITY - Technologies are generally provided to induce datacenter pricing stability. In some examples, a stabilizer module at a datacenter may be configured to monitor a customer demand for resources from the datacenter and real-time pricing for the demanded resources. The stabilizer module may detect an impending pricing instability in response to increased demand for resources, and may determine an incremental cost to provide the resources based on a determined linearity for available resources. The stabilizer module may determine combinations of linear and non-linear resources to offer to the customers based on a stability metric computed from the incremental cost and the resource demand, where the combination of resources to offer may have a more linear increase in cost per resource compared to one of the demanded resources. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379541 | GAS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An operation unit price is obtained based on a second database in which information on a customer is stored and a third database in which information on an operation unit price specified for each operator organization to which an operator belongs and for each content of the operation performed by the operator is stored. A fourth database in which information on an operation cost to be paid to the operation organization by the gas supplier is stored is updated based on a first database in which information on the operator is stored and the operation unit price obtained. The operation costs are totalized based on the fourth database. The operation cost is totalized. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379542 | TRANSACTIVE CONTROL FRAMEWORK FOR HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES - Various innovations for a transactive control framework with heterogeneous devices such as refrigerators, air conditioners, water heaters, and clothes dryers, or components of such systems/units, are presented. For example, an aggregator for the transactive control framework receives bids from device controllers for heterogeneous devices. Different bids can reflect different behaviors of heterogeneous devices under one transactive control framework, which allows the heterogeneous devices to participate in the same ancillary service market for power. The aggregator determines a cleared price value, then broadcasts the cleared price value and a regulation signal to the device controllers. The device controllers can use a stochastic decision-making process to regulate power utilization by the respective heterogeneous devices, such that the aggregate behavior of the controlled devices tracks the regulation signal. In many case, the transactive control framework helps the devices, collectively, provide a regulation service according to the regulation signal. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379543 | AUTOMATIC ASSOCIATION AND TRIGGERS FOR NATURED PAIRINGS OF DEVICES - A system and method for associating remote devices and corresponding paired computing devices is disclosed. The system includes a database manager that correlates pairings with logged data in order to determine previous associations and the nature of the detected pairing. Upon determining the nature of a given pairing the database manager performs tasks according to the given pairing. Such tasks can include generating new user profiles, issuing referral certificates, tagging log entries, and issuing value credits for successful referrals. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379544 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REWARDING REFERRALS - A referral reward program between a merchant, a primary customer and a referred customer comprises providing a database for storage of customer account records, issuing a customer identifier code, and storing details of the primary customer in a customer account record in association with the customer identification code. The primary customer is issued with at least one referral token associated with the merchant. The token has a corresponding referral reward code, which is associated with the primary customer account record in the database. The primary customer may subsequently pass the token on to the referred customer who, in turn, presents the token to the merchant. The referral reward code provided by the referred customer is received and used to retrieve the associated primary customer account record. The primary customer account record is updated to apply a referral reward credit subsequently redeemable with the merchant by the primary customer. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379545 | CAPACITY CALCULATOR - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for calculating the capacity of a provider by calculating, using biographical data representing the provider, a first total units of service that are available to be offered to consumers during a first time period; calculating a second total units of service potentially available from the provider for a proposed second time period using a projection based in part on a model of consumer demand for the units of service; determining a third total units of service that are unavailable during the second time period based on at least one known or projected unavailability; and calculating a capacity based on the third total units of service and the second total units of service, the capacity being a capacity for a proposed promotion representing a maximum total of instruments to be offered in the proposed promotion by the provider. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379546 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERSTISEMENTS, COUPONS, OR DISCOUNTS TO DEVICES - Systems, methods, and/or techniques for providing a digital coupon may be disclosed. For example, a server may distribute or deliver the coupons based on data collected or gathered about a user. The server may have one or more settings that may be used to collect or gather data about the user. The server may apply those settings. The settings may include a source such as asocial network, a device, websites, an application, and/or the like that may be identified and/or may have parameters associated from which the data may be collected. The server may connect to the source based on the settings and may receive data about or for a user from the source. The server may generate a user profile and/or a score associated with the user based on the data and may send a digital coupon to the user based on the user profile and score. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379547 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INCENTIVIZING A TARGETED PURCHASE USING MULTI-CHANNEL DATA - A method and apparatus for incentivizing a person to make a targeted purchase receives online data related to a person's online interaction with a company, and responsively processes the online data to determine behavior data. After determining that the person is within a physical store related to the company, the method and apparatus track the person's movement within the physical store and determine an incentive for making a purchase of a product or service within the store. The incentive is determined as a function of at least the person's position within the physical store and the behavior data. The method and apparatus then forwards an incentive message, having indicia relating to the incentive, to the person when the person is in the store. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379548 | Method and System for Data Processing - Methods and systems for data processing. The method includes receiving, by a computing device, data to be processed. The computing device may determine whether a random value corresponding to the data to be processed is stored in a storage medium associated with the computing device. If the random value is stored in the storage medium associated with the computing device, the computing device may process the data to be processed using the random value. If the random value is not stored in the storage medium associated with the computing device, the computing device may obtain an additional random value for the data to be processed, and process the data to be processed using the additional random value, and store the additional random value in the storage medium associated with the computing device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379549 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC INK COUPONS AND LOYALTY CARDS - Systems and methods are provided for electronic ink coupon and rewards card displays. An electronic ink device having an electronic ink display may be provided in the form of a keychain, a card, or other wearable device that is adapted to display store coupon and/or rewards card information for scanning at checkout. Coupons and store loyalty or rewards cards can be loaded onto a user's mobile device and pushed to the electronic ink device either before shopping at a particular store or while at the particular store. Coupons or rewards cards may be selectable with the electronic ink device and/or may be pushed to the electronic ink device in response to beacon communications at the store that notifies the user's mobile device or the electronic ink device of the store at which the device is located. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379550 | IDENTIFYING AND DISPENSING SPECIAL OFFERS BASED ON CURRENT AND/OR PAST TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods for providing a loyalty and rewards system that implements a user incentive program using smart card technology are provided. A loyalty system allows a user to systematically search, identify, store, and redeem electronic coupons and rebates associated with products from a large number of providers and manufactures. The loyalty system also integrates the activities associated with the user incentive program (e.g., coupon collection, storage, and redemption, etc.), with existing payment methods (e.g., charging a credit card, etc.) using smart card technology. Thus, the loyalty system allows the user to obtain savings and otherwise participate in the user incentive program without adding time consuming and tedious processing that is normally associated with coupon and rebate programs. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379551 | SYSTEM FOR IN-STORE COUPON DISTRIBUTION AND REDEMPTION - Systems and methods for processing of electronic coupons are disclosed. A plurality of touch screen devices are deployed in aisles of a store. The touch screen devices display coupons for products located in the corresponding aisles after administration devices detect the presence of a registered user in an aisle. The touch screen device accepts selection of coupons and the selections are uploaded to a main server. A point-of-sale administration device detects the presence of a registered user and downloads the pre-selected coupons from main servicer for redemption. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379552 | Virtual coupon delivery from coupon server to ACH to POS actuated by mobile phone scan of QR code - Methods and systems for barcode enabled virtual coupon search, retrieval, presentation, and redemption via telecommunications devices. One system includes using a mobile phone camera to scan product barcodes. The system further includes an Internet connected coupon server that, in response to user queries via mobile phone camera scans of product barcodes, retrieves and displays on mobile phone product-specific primary and competing product secondary coupon images for user selection. In response to mobile phone user selection of desired coupons, the system stores in a pending file on coupon server, product-specific primary and competing product secondary coupons, in the form of a coupon issuer reloadable and scalable stored coupon value with an escrow account or merchant bank account number, for matching bar code search request. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379553 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE-DISPATCHER FOR OFFER REDEMPTION WORK FLOWS - Provided is a of dynamically adjusting an online coupon, or other offer, redemption work flow presented to a consumer to mitigate effects from more limited user-interface constraints of mobile computing devices, the process including: obtaining a plurality of mobile-suitability values; receiving from a remote mobile computing device of a user, a request for offer content; ascertaining a selected merchant website at which the offer is redeemable; retrieving a selected mobile-suitability value for the selected merchant website; obtaining, from the mobile computing device, data indicative of user-interface constraints of the mobile computing device; determining to send instructions to present content on the mobile computing device, the determination being based on the user-interface constraints of the mobile computing device and the selected mobile-suitability value for the selected merchant website, and the content being suitable for the mobile computing device; and sending the instructions to present the content. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379554 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE-DISPATCHER FOR OFFER REDEMPTION WORK FLOWS - Provided is a of dynamically adjusting an online coupon, or other offer, redemption work flow presented to a consumer to mitigate effects from more limited user-interface constraints of mobile computing devices, the process including: obtaining a plurality of mobile-suitability values; receiving from a remote mobile computing device of a user, a request for offer content; ascertaining a selected merchant website at which the offer is redeemable; retrieving a selected mobile-suitability value for the selected merchant website; obtaining, from the mobile computing device, data indicative of user-interface constraints of the mobile computing device; determining to send instructions to present content on the mobile computing device, the determination being based on the user-interface constraints of the mobile computing device and the selected mobile-suitability value for the selected merchant website, and the content being suitable for the mobile computing device; and sending the instructions to present the content. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379555 | REFERRAL BASED, NODE-DRIVEN MOBILE AND DISPLAY ADVERTISING PLATFORM WITH TRACKABLE SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AND REAL-TIME BIDDING OPTIMIZATION - The technology described herein includes a display ad development tool that facilitates development of an interactive display ad by providing developers with the ability to drag and drop and/or otherwise upload a creative (e.g., image file) to the system and add trackable social engagement objects directly onto the creative. The system generates advertising code for the interactive display ad and automatically places or posts the interactive display ad to a selected advertisement network campaign manager network. A tracking and analysis tool that tracks the resulting social engagements using a node-based structure. The tracked social engagement information is processed to determine various social engagement metrics which can be used to determine, for example, optimal target audience information for the interactive display ad. Once determined, the technology can utilize the optimal target audience information to automatically bid (e.g., via real-time bidding) on media inventory to increase social conversions for the advertisement. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379556 | System and Method for Online Advertising - A system, method and non-transitory media containing instructions for managing a next engagement in a system comprising a memory storing a database of collected users' paths to conversion, the system including a processor operatively coupled to the memory to obtain a pattern comprising one or more interactions, with respect to a user, map the obtained pattern to paths in the database and selecting the paths characterized by a likelihood value fitting a predefined condition, to yield matched paths, select a preferred path from among the matched paths using parameters, and determine an action for the next engagement using business-related criteria, thereby influencing said user to choose a next action corresponding to the selected preferred path. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379557 | AUTOMATED CREATIVE EXTENSION SELECTION FOR CONTENT PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods for optimizing content performance using creative extensions are provided. A content generation system receives request for a content item for presentation on a client device. The request includes an indication of a serving context for the content item. The content generation system uses a creative extension performance model and the serving context for the content item to calculate a predicted performance metric for the content item for multiple different potential creative extensions. Each of the potential creative extensions defines a different action that occurs in response to a user interaction with the content item. The content generation system selects one of the potential creative extensions based on the predicted performance metrics and generates a content item having the selected creative extension using data assets extracted from various data sources. The creative extension performance model is updated using event data from the client device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379558 | DETECTING UNINTENTIONAL USER INPUT TO MOBILE ADVERTISEMENTS - Some embodiments of the invention provide techniques for identifying unintentional input to a mobile advertisement. Unintentional user input may be identified by determining a time interval between events (e.g., two events) relating to the user's interaction with the mobile advertisement, and comparing the time interval to a threshold time interval (e.g., a predetermined, static threshold time interval). If the time interval is shorter than the threshold time interval, then the user's input is determined to be unintentional. If the user's input is determined to be unintentional, then statistics relating to serving of the ad may be adjusted accordingly, so that the unintentional input does not skew ad performance metrics, and does not cause the advertiser to bear unnecessary costs. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379559 | APPLICATION INSTALLATION CONVERSION AND IDENTIFICATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting and utilizing conversion data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an indication of a user interaction with an advertisement presented at a user device; receiving a user identifier corresponding to the user device; determining that the first application was installed on the user device, based at least in part on a device identifier of the user device being received with installation data corresponding to the installation; receiving, from a second application installed on the user device, (1) the user identifier and (2) the device identifier of the user device; determining, based on receipt of the user identifier and device identifier from the second application that the installation of the first application is attributable to the user interaction. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379560 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES TO SELECT COMMUNICATION TRACKING MECHANISMS - Methods sad apparatuses to select tracking mechanisms for the performance determination of advertisements. One embodiment includes: selecting one reference type from a plurality of reference types; and determining a reference of the selected type, the reference to be embedded in m advertisement, to count communication leads generated from the advertisement. In one embodiment, the advertisement is to be charged according to a performance measure based on communication leads generated from the advertisement. For example, a price for the advertisement cart be specified by a party for which the advertisement is to be presented. For example, the advertisement can be charged in response to a voice communication responding to the advertisement. In one embodiment, the plurality of reference types correspond to different mechanisms to track communication leads generated from the advertisement. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379561 | ADVERTISEMENT CONTENT PROVIDING APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD - An advertisement content providing apparatus receives moving body information for specifying a moving body and route information for specifying a route, from a business operator of moving body and selects at least one of advertisement contents to be provided, from at least two or more advertisement contents based on a profit efficiency determined by multiplying a click rate for the moving body, a click rate for the route and a bid price of an advertiser. According to this configuration, by using past achievements and distributing only advertisement suitable to a destination of the moving body and display unit of advertisement contents, it is possible to reduce distribution costs of the moving body which is difficult to have constant access, and increase a click rate of the advertisement. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379562 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ROUTING CALLS - An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data/voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379563 | Determining Bidding Strategies - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining bidding strategies. A method includes: identifying a campaign including one or more selection criteria and associated bids; determining a value associated with a user event associated with presentation of a campaign content item; determining one or more predicted future events based on the selection criteria and historical data; determining aggregate values based on the determined predicted future events, using the value and hypothetical bid changes; determining an interaction rate associated with the content item and a cost per event; determining a plurality of bidding strategies for the campaign, each reflecting a change in a bid associated with one or more selection criteria that optimizes the content sponsor's value; and presenting the plurality of bidding strategies to the content sponsor. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379564 | REDUCING OVER-DELIVERY OF SPONSORED CONTENT - A system, apparatus, and method are provided for reducing, stemming, or eliminating over-delivery of sponsored content, such as advertisements. Upon receipt at a tracking server of a notification of an event related to serving or presentation of a content item, or user interaction with an item, it is quickly determined whether the event is of a particular type (e.g., a revenue event). If so, it is quickly forwarded to a different server or processing module for rapid processing in order to determine whether any budget associated with a sponsored content item corresponding to the event has been depleted. All revenue events may be prioritized equally, or some revenue events may be prioritized over others. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TIME FOR TRANSMITTING AN ELECTRONIC REWARD TO A USER COMPUTING DEVICE - A system includes a processor and a communication unit. The processor is configured to track sales promotion information supplied to the user computing device, viewing of the sales promotion information at the user computing device, and electronic receipts for purchases of products by a user of the user computing device, and to determine, based on data tracked by the sales tracking module, whether or not conditions for transmitting the electronic reward to the user computing device has been satisfied. The communication unit is connected to the user computing device and a server for the application through a network. Upon determining that the conditions have been satisfied, the processor transmits the electronic reward to the server for the application through the communication unit, so that the user can be notified of the electronic reward through the user computing device while the user computing device is executing the application. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379566 | THROTTLING CONTENT - An example process includes determining a first quality metric that is indicative of a quality of an opportunity for distribution of content from a content provider as compared to other content providers, where the first quality metric is based on a first predicted access rate and a second predicted access rate, where the first predicted access rate is based on features that are dependent on the content provider, and where the second predicted access rate is based on features that are independent of the content provider. The example process also includes determining a second quality metric that is based on the first predicted access rate of the content; determining, a weight to apply to the first quality metric and to the second quality metric; and determining a weighted average of the first quality metric and the second quality metric that is based on the weight. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379567 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING TARGETED CONTENT TO CONSUMERS - A system for delivering targeted content to consumers includes a wishlist database containing user wishlists and an institution database containing information items provided by institutions. The system further includes a computer having an analyzer that determines if an item on a user wishlist matches an item in the institution database. The computer further includes a display that graphically displays items in the institution database that match items on the user wishlist. The computer further includes an updater that updates the wishlist database and institution database with changes from users and institutions. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379568 | DYNAMIC EMBEDDED RECOGNIZER AND PRELOADING ON CLIENT DEVICES GRAMMARS FOR RECOGNIZING USER INQUIRIES AND RESPONSES - A system and with an associated method for preloading advertisements from a server to a user's device is disclosed. In response to inquiries made by members of a user group, user devices of the members present advertisements to the members and the server keeps a record of these presentations. Next, the server identifies those advertisements which have been frequently presented to the members, and preloads the identified advertisements to the device of a user who belongs to the user group. Subsequently, upon receiving a specific inquiry by the user's device, the server determines a response to the specific inquiry. When the determined response contains one of the preloaded advertisements, the server sends an instruction to the user's device to present the preloaded advertisement to the user. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379569 | ASSIGNING SCORES TO ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS WITH EXTENSIONS - Various technologies pertaining to conducting auctions for display of electronic communications in display positions are described herein. An electronic communication has a predefined format, and further has an optional extension to the predefined format. The electronic communication participates in an auction, where an auction system takes the extension into consideration when computing a rank score for the electronic communication. Further, the auction system takes historic servings of the electronic communication, with the extension, to client computing devices into account when computing the rank score. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379570 | Presenting Advertisement Content During Searches Of Digital Receipts - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for presenting advertising content during searches of digital receipts. Advertising content can be presented at a user interface used to search digital receipts. During character by character input of a search term, input characters are detected as entered. Prior to completely entering the search term, detected characters can be transmitted from a customer device to an advertising system. The advertising system can match the characters to one or more advertisements. The advertising system can return the one or more advertisements back to the customer device. The customer device can present the one or more advertisements at the user interface. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379571 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCH RETARGETING USING DIRECTED DISTRIBUTED QUERY WORD REPRESENTATIONS - A system stored in a non-transitory medium executable by processor circuitry is provided for generating retargeting keywords based on distributed query word representations. The system includes one or more system databases storing historical web search data. Search retargeting circuitry receives requests to generate sets of retargeting keywords related to one or more categories of an advertisement campaign and pre-processing circuitry retrieves a set of historical web search data related to the one or more categories of the advertisement campaign. Modeling circuitry further applies one or more computational linguistic models to the retrieved set of historical web search data and generates distributed query word representations from the retrieved set of historical web search data. Keyword generator circuitry generates a list of retargeting keywords related to the one or more categories of the advertisement campaign using the generated distributed query word representations. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379572 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING BUNDLED SOFTWARE AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method for identifying bundled software and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises: detecting a user interface for software installation; acquiring text information on the user interface; determining whether bundled software exists; and, based upon the determination, extracting the name and amount of bundled software from the text information and prompting the name and the amount of the bundled software. The embodiments may identify bundled software before installing software and avoid starting the bundled software process, having the effect of anti-bundling on the bundled software in advance. By extracting the name of the bundled software, acquiring the amount of bundled software, and prompting the name and amount of the bundled software, a user is able to determine whether to install the bundled software according to his or her requirements, thereby improving the autonomous right of selection of the user in the process of installing software. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379573 | ELECTRONIC CONTENT FILTERING SERVER BETWEEN A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE AND AN ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SERVER - An electronic content filtering server includes a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit is configured to receive from a mobile computing device a request for promotion information and a location of the mobile computing device, and from an electronic receipt server, store information of stores where a product being promoted has been sold. The processing unit is programmed to perform a filtering function on the store information and supply a filtered result to the mobile computing device through the communication unit. The processing unit, when performing the filtering function, determines a distance between the mobile computing device and each of the stores where the product has been sold, selects one or more stores based on the distance, and generates the filtered result including a product name of the product being promoted, and a store name of and a distance to each of the selected stores. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379574 | Methods, Apparatuses, and Computer-Readable Media for Boosting Ad Scores Based on Location Proximity and/or Social Affinity - Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for serving annotations are disclosed. When a contact of a user recommends an ad, the score of the ad may be boosted in an ad auction. The amount of boosting depends on location proximity and/or contact affinity. For location proximity, the closer the geographic location of the recommendation to the user, the greater the boost to the ad score. For contact affinity, the greater the affinity between the user and contact, the greater the boost to the ad score. Affinity may be measured by a weight value, which is determined by, for example, the frequency of calls, text, or views of the contact's information by the user. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379575 | Monitoring and Using Telemetry Data - Aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring and using telemetry information in various ways. For example, a system that monitors telemetry information may include a user that gathers telemetry information of a device and transmits the information to a monitored room. A manager may join a monitored room and monitor the monitored room for particular types of telemetry information. In one example, a manager may determine whether a downstream device is experiencing a network problem, such as a low bitrate. A manager may also transmit commands to the player via the monitored room, which causes the downstream device to operate in accordance with the transmitted command. In one example, a manager may transmit a command that causes a player to decode a particular service. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379576 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION-BASED PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION - A location-based product recommendation system uses consumer profile data, a network of beacons that emit unique identifiers, and a recommender to determine current product-correlated location information for a space in which a consumer's mobile device is physically present. The system may use the current product-correlated location information and the consumer's profile data to generate a recommendation for a candidate product for the consumer to consider. The system also may incorporate data from other interactions with products such as purchases, clicks on a website, etc. The system also may incorporate data generated on multiple channels (e.g., a product click on a personal computer at work, a mobile device location in a physical store, a product purchase on a personal computer in the home) into a single profile for the consumer. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379577 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF, AND APPARATUS APPLIED TO THE SAME - The present invention discloses an advertisement providing system, a method therefor, and an apparatus applied for the same. That is, for each of two or more advertisement media, advertisement content corresponding to assigned advertisement content allocation quantities is provided, the advertisement content is received on each of the two or more advertisement media and whether the advertisement content allocation quantities are exhausted is acknowledged, and, for each of the two or more advertisement media, the advertisement content allocation quantities for each of the two or more advertisement media are assigned based on the advertisement content exhaustion quantities acknowledged in two or more correlated time intervals, thereby guaranteeing the advertisement content quantities required differently by the advertisement media, and guaranteeing the quantities agreed on by an advertiser related with the provision of the advertisement content. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379578 | System and Method for License Plate Frame Advertising Verification and Validation - Advertisement is a multi-billion dollar business in US (per year). Here, we use license plate frames for the advertisement. One example of the application describes a license-plate-frame-based advertisement verification system. In order to validate and verify the correct placement/mounting of a license plate frame advertisement at a given location over time, it is necessary to validate that both (a) the ad is correctly placed on the vehicle, and (b) to verify that the ad is at a given location at that time. The method required to verify these includes some control systems and components. Different variations and examples are also presented here. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379579 | SPONSORED DATA SYSTEM AND METHOD - A sponsored data system and method are disclosed. The system is configured to operate with a wireless mobile device running an app that receives sponsored data from a content provider server. The system includes an interface application or SDK configured to run on the wireless mobile device, the SDK being configured to determine availability of sponsored data. The system also includes a cloud platform configured to interface with the content provider server, the cloud platform being configured to generate a token with data usable to determine availability of sponsored data and transmit the token to the SDK. The system also includes a portal configured to create and store promotion packages that identifies at least a portion of the data associated with the app as sponsored data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379580 | DYNAMICALLY SYNCHRONISING MEDIA CONTENT RELATED DATA - Embodiments of the present disclosure aim to improve upon systems for dynamically adjusting and synchronising online content with offline content. In particular, embodiments of the present disclosure allow for the detection of transmission or broadcast of media content via media channels, and the real-time application of altered online strategy based on factors including the nature of the media content transmitted, the media channel upon which it was transmitted or broadcast, or the location in which it was transmitted or broadcast. Attributes of online content which may be dynamically aligned with the broadcast or transmission of media content include keywords associated with a particular product, or the maximum bid amounts which are to be used in a Pay Per Click (PPC) auction. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379581 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUAL SERVICES EXPERIENCE - A contextual services delivery system may comprise a services repository containing services instructions and a contextual services delivery module. The contextual services delivery module may deliver different contextual services to a smartphone and/or a POS terminal in response to a context environment, in order to provide a user with a customized contextual services experience. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379582 | Recommending Shared Electronic Content via Online Service - Systems and methods are disclosed for recommending shared electronic content via an online service. In some embodiments, a server can identify a first subscriber and a second subscriber to an online service that have access via the online service to an application for using or editing electronic content. The server can also determine a correspondence between usages of the application by the first and second subscribers via the online service with respect to at least one attribute of the application. The server can also identify an electronic content item generated with the application by the first subscriber. The server can also provide, via the online service, a recommendation for the electronic content item to the second subscriber based on the correspondence between the first usage and the second usage with respect to one or more attributes of the application. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379583 | USING ENVIRONMENT AND USER DATA TO DELIVER ADVERTISEMENTS TARGETED TO USER INTERESTS, E.G. BASED ON A SINGLE COMMAND - A system and an associated method for responding to a user's voice inquiry are disclosed. The system accepts the voice inquiry and obtains personal data regarding the user. The system then identifies potential subjects of interest in the voice inquiry from media content currently provided to the user through a device which has captured the voice inquiry, media content present in or capturing the user's surroundings, or media content previously provided to the user as responses to previous voice inquiries by the user. Next, the system determines at least one subject of interest based on at least one of the personal data and the user's previous voice inquiries. The system then presents a response related to the determined subject of interest to the user's voice inquiry. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379584 | Advertising Platform for Ad Placement - A digital advertising system for displaying and optimizing revenue of at least one advertisement having bidding and rating information comprising at least one display device with a processor, a memory, and a profile containing attributes of the at least one display device, an advertising platform adapted to receive said bidding and rating information associated with the at least one advertisement and to use the profile and the bidding and rating information to determine the placement of the at least one advertisement on the at least one display device, and an exchange adapted to securely access the advertising platform and the at least one display device to govern the flow of data and control between the advertising platform and the at least one display device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379585 | Single Sheet Planning - A system, a method, a device, and a computer program product for single sheet planning of business objects are provided. A trade promotion data relating to at least one product is generated. Based on the generated trade promotion data, data stored in a database is queried. The data relates to at least one parameter associated with the generated trade promotion data. Based on the querying, a trade promotion planning data for the at least one product is generated | 2015-12-31 |
20150379586 | UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA FOR DIGITAL COMMUNICATION - A method and system for increasing an appeal of product offers with user-generated content items is provided. The method and system includes defining attributes of the product offers, collecting the user-generated content items having attributes matching the defined product offer attributes at a content resources storage device, ranking the matching user-generated content items for relevance to the product offers, combining a first set of highly ranked user-generated content items with a first product offer and replacing the first set of highly ranked user-generated content items with a second set of highly ranked user-generated content items when the second set of highly ranked user-generated content items is determined to have a relevance ranking to the first product offer which is higher than a relevance ranking of the first set of highly ranked user-generated content items. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROPERTY INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT, DISTRIBUTION AND DISPLAY - Au apparatus for creating and maintaining a database containing information relating to residential properties includes an AVM device configured to receive information relating to residential properties, producing AVM values for each property and updating an AVM database with the AVM values. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379588 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING A CURRENT VALUE FOR A REAL ESTATE PROPERTY, SUCH AS A HOME, THAT IS TAILORED TO INPUT FROM A HUMAN USER, SUCH AS ITS OWNER - A facility procuring information about a distinguished property from a user knowledgeable about the distinguished property that is usable to refine an automatic valuation of the distinguished property is described. The facility displays information about the distinguished property used in the automatic valuation of the distinguished property. The facility obtains user input from of the user adjusting at least one aspect of information about the distinguished property used in the automatic valuation of the distinguished property. On a later the day, facility displays to the user a refined valuation of the distinguished property that is based on the adjustment of the obtained user input. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379589 | DISCERNING CASH AND FIXED ASSET DONATIONS - A system and method of processing, within a single procedure, cash equivalents and fix assets from any disposition class. The method includes identifying the benefactor and asset to be donation. Once identified, the asset is classified into one of three disposition classes. The disposition classes are used to determine the value for valuing. Once the value is determined, an impact statement is generated. Depending on the disposition class, the item is either converted to funds directly or through an intermediary. Once the item is converted to funds, the funds are transferred to the identified benefactor. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379590 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALIGNING PRINCIPALS AND AGENTS OF SOCIAL GOOD - The present invention provides a system for managing charitable funds and social currencies in the ecosystem of principals such as corporations and philanthropists, and agents such as volunteers and non-profit organizations that do social good. Principals cause to issue a finite number of social currency units, with varying conditions on use. These units are transferred to volunteers who are supporting a non-profit organization corresponding to the volunteer hours spent by each. The earned units may be gifted by each volunteer to any non-profit organization. Alternatively, the units may be directly granted to a non-profit by corporations and philanthropists corresponding to the units earned by each volunteer. The non-profits voluntarily accept the units and spend it to generate social good. These new methods to pledge, sponsor, configure, issue, denominate, value, track, earn, buy, store, gift, redeem, sell and spend the social currency units create a vibrant community that multiplies the social good generated. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379591 | Method, System, And Software For Generating Performance Metrics Of Charity Effectiveness - A method, system and software for generating objective metrics reflecting a charity's fiscal behavior and financial effectiveness. The system includes a metrics server receiving a search request for a charity and in turn, retrieving profile information on the charity from a first database and financial information on the charity from a second database. At least one metrics generator analyzes the financial information to generate one or more objective scores useful for comparing charities to each other. The scores indicate, for example, how effective the charity is and charities can be assigned unique identification codes. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379592 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDICATING THE EXISTENCE OF ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION PERTAINING TO ARTICLES OF COMMERCE - A system and method are provided for indicating an existence of a link to information pertaining to an article of commerce. The present disclosure provides for downloading a look-up table from a server database to a mobile device via a communication network. The look-up table is configured to store a plurality of UPC numbers associated with a plurality of articles of commerce and a plurality of information link indicators. Each information link indicator is associated with a respective UPC number and article of commerce and indicates the existence of a link via the communication network to information pertaining to the respective article of commerce. The mobile device allows a consumer to immediately determine if product information is available for a particular article of commerce, via a visual or audible indication on the mobile device, without access to the communication network. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379593 | ACCELERATED PRICE CALCULATION USING IN-MEMORY TECHNOLOGY - A price calculator may receive a pricing request for at least one item, the at least one item priced in accordance with a pricing schema including a plurality of price components. The price calculator may include a parallel price calculator configured to retrieve a parallel calculation flow handling procedure corresponding to the at least one item and designating at least two price subcomponents common to the price components. The price calculator may then calculate the at least two price subcomponents for the price components in parallel, using the parallel calculation flow handling procedure. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379594 | LIGHTING AUDIT AND LED LAMP RETROFIT - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and techniques for analyzing an existing light fixture in its installed environment and, based on the sensed location of the light and its environmental illumination pattern, identifying at least one LED retrofit fixture that may be used to replace the existing light fixture. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379595 | AUTOMATED REACTIVE RETAIL PRICING THROUGH MULTILEVEL HIERARCHICAL REGRESSION - A system and method for automated reactive retail pricing through multilevel hierarchical regression is disclosed. A reactive retail pricing server obtains a set of relevant data, creates a plurality of merchandising sets, and transforms the set of relevant data. Coefficients are calculated for a group model, and are then reverse transformed. Recommended pricing is calculated using the group model, where retailer strategies, retailer goals, and price campaign parameters are applied as constraints. The coefficients are automatically calibrated, and the price campaign is adjusted. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379596 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING BUYERS AND SELLERS - A system for matching buyers and sellers, and in particular, a system that matches database representations of purchase “Intentions” from one or more buyers with items listed as available in a database representing sellers' inventory. In some embodiments, the buyers' Intentions are pooled into a “Groupbuy” that a single Seller can fulfill. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379597 | NETWORKED BIDDING TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods here may be used for conducting computer network transactions, via at a server computer in communication with a network and a database. Such examples may include receiving merchant information from merchant/bidders, categorizing the received merchant information, storing the merchant information and the associated category in the database, receiving a need from a user/buyer computer, identifying a category that the received need fits into based on the categories of merchant information, posting the received need information so the merchants identified for that category may access the posted need information and allowing the merchant/bidders to bid on the received need. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379598 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data processing system and method are disclosed, employed in a cloud environment of a distributed system to process/exchange data. When performing the data processing method using the data processing system, first, a basic information directory is set with conditions/terms according to a specific subject matter. Next, repeated action is performed on the basic information directory between users, so as to initiate conditions/terms iteration, generate derivative information directories and incident group composition changes. Last, for the basic information directories and/or derivative information directories, a term-specified group composed of users is formed by users, and terms of transaction is negotiated between users for a specific subject matter, that is, for the derivative information directory created by iteration and/or basic information directories that are related to the specific subject matter, the term-specified group is formed by users who have reviewed/read and accepted all the conditions/terms of the directory. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379599 | FABRICATION OF PRODUCTS ON DEMAND - Systems and methods are provided for fabricating products on demand. In some embodiments, a manufacturable model, which may include information about a three-dimensional representation of a product to be fabricated, is received by a user of an electronic system and may be validated by the electronic system. A prototype of the product can be generated based at least in part on the manufacturable model, and the manufacturable model and/or the product can be made available for selection by other users of the system. The product may be fabricated based at least in part on the manufacturable model using, for example, a three-dimensional printer, and may be delivered to users of the electronic system. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379600 | ORDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITED COUNTERPART TRANSACTIONS - The present invention provides a computer system for managing limited counterpart transaction orders for products or services, in particular with a ceiling price, comprising: —a source of information indexing the available products or services and explanatory variables for these products or services, as well as time related counterpart information for these products or services, —an automatic classification engine adapted to gather products or services by classes of counterpart evolution, from historical counterpart data, and to attribute to each class a set of explanatory variables and an evolution behavior, —a client interface for inputting orders on given products and services defined by explanatory variable values, with a limit counterpart value, —a class allocation engine for allocating an inputted order to at least one evolution class depending on the explanatory variable values of the order, and —an indicator computation engine capable of computing a success probability indicator for an input order, combining the value of the limit counterpart value of the order with data of the evolution class(es) to which it is allocated, —means for providing to said client interface computed values of said success probability indicator, and —a matching engine to match offers and counterpart offers to convert orders into transactions when counterpart offers reach counterpart limit values of orders. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379601 | Commerce System and Method of Deferring Purchases to Optimize Purchase Conditions - A shopping agent is provided. A product displayed at a premises of a first retailer is selected for purchase. A bar code displayed on the product is optically scanned using a mobile device. Data stored in the bar code is transmitted from the mobile device to the shopping agent. A first set of conditions existing while selecting the product is analyzed. A second set of conditions is determined that will result in a lower price for the product. The second set of conditions is communicated from the shopping agent to the mobile device. An option to defer the purchase of the product until the second set of conditions exist is presented. A notification is generated on the mobile device when the second set of conditions exist. The second set of conditions includes purchasing the product at a second retailer. The second set of conditions includes subscribing to the product | 2015-12-31 |
20150379602 | LEAD RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and system for providing lead recommendations are disclosed. A server system stores profile information for a plurality of members of a server system. The server system then analyzes the stored profile information to identify one or more potential sales lead recommendations for a first member of the server system. The server system then ranks the one or more identified potential sales lead recommendations. The server system selects one or more of the identified sales lead recommendations and transmits the selected one or more identified sales lead recommendations to a client device associated with the first member of the server system. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379603 | ACCOUNT RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and system for providing account recommendations is disclosed. A server system stores sales data for a first member, wherein sales data includes profile information for one or more individual customers. The sewer system analyzes the profile information for one or more of the individual customers to identify one attributes associated with the customers. The server system determines one or more additional members with member profiles that include the one or more identified attributes. For a respective additional member in the at least one of the determined additional members the sewer system determines, based on stored information about the respective additional member, an respective organization associated with the at least one determined additional member; and selects the respective organization as an account recommendation. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379604 | System and Method for LeafBill - A method, apparatus, and system for adding components and/or services to generic products and make the add-ons and their associated costs visible, selectable, and purchasable for consumers. A method, apparatus, and system for services providers to instill add-on components and/or services onto generic products, add and display additional costs on top of the original pricing, so that they can receive the payments upon the sell of said enhanced products. A system and method to create a flexible, visible and transparent way to award individual contributors for their add-on works as part of the sell of an enhanced product. | 2015-12-31 |