Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090021191 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING A RECHARGEABLE STORAGE DEVICE - A mobile electronic apparatus includes a storage device for storing electrical energy and a rotating mechanism configured to energize the apparatus. The rotating mechanism includes a motor, a shaft connected to the motor, and a mass eccentrically attached to the shaft, where the motor is configured to rotate the shaft and the mass to cause the mobile electronic apparatus to vibrate when activated, where motion of the mobile electronic apparatus is configured to cause the mass and the shaft to rotate with respect to the motor, and where rotation of the shaft with respect to the motor is converted into electrical energy. The apparatus also includes circuitry for harvesting the electrical energy and for recharging the storage device with the harvested electrical energy. | 01-22-2009 |
20100082413 | Risk-and-return based advertisement selection and scheduling - Method and system embodiments of the present invention employ risk and return estimates in order to select and schedule display of advertisements. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to an advertising system that includes an advertising-selection-and-scheduling component and an information-provision system. The advertising-selection-and-scheduling component selects advertising for inclusion in information provided to users, prepares a schedule based on risk associated with including the selected advertising in the information provided to the users according to the schedule and based on return expected from including the selected advertising in the information provided to the users according to the schedule, and stores the prepared schedule in a computer-readable medium for subsequent access by the information-provision system. | 04-01-2010 |
20100223578 | POPULATING VARIABLE CONTENT SLOTS ON WEB PAGES - A respective novelty value is ascertained for each of multiple user-selectable contents. Each of the novelty values represents a level of newness of the respective user-selectable content in relation to the other user-selectable contents. A respective novelty decay value is calculated for each of the user-selectable contents as a decreasing function of the respective novelty value. A prioritization order of the user-selectable contents in respective prioritized positions on a web page is determined based on the novelty decay values. | 09-02-2010 |
20100318484 | MANAGING ONLINE CONTENT BASED ON ITS PREDICTED POPULARITY - A historical popularity value is determined for a user-selectable online content from historical data describing user accesses to the user-selectable online content over a selected period. A predicted popularity value describing future popularity of the user-selectable online content at a future time after the selected period is ascertained from the historically popularity value. A web site from which user-selectable online content is accessible is managed based on the predicted popularity value. | 12-16-2010 |
20110197139 | Displaying Personalized Information in a Handheld Device - One embodiment is a handheld electronic device ( | 08-11-2011 |
20110258256 | PREDICTING FUTURE OUTCOMES - A model for predicting future outcomes related to individual entities within a class of related entities may be generated based on the determined rates at which the individual entities are referenced within electronic communications. Additionally or alternatively, a quantitative value of a predicted future outcome related to a particular cause may be calculated based on the frequency with which references to the particular cause appear in electronic messages. | 10-20-2011 |
20110319058 | Social Networking of Mobile Devices - A method for social networking of mobile devices based upon telephone numbers of the mobile devices includes receiving user profile information and telephone numbers of contacts from a plurality of users' mobile devices; at least one of creating and updating respective user profiles based upon the telephone numbers of the users' mobile devices and the received profile information; identifying relationships among the users based at least upon the contacts contained in the contacts information; and establishing a social network group including at least two of the users based upon the identified relationships among the users. | 12-29-2011 |
20120124039 | Online Search Based On Geography Tagged Recommendations - A respective submission is received from each of multiple recommending client network nodes ( | 05-17-2012 |
20130121503 | LOCATION-INDEXED AUDIO CONTENT - Associations between pieces of electronic audio content and geographic locations are stored. An indication of a present link between an electronic device and a particular geographic location is received. A particular piece of electronic audio content is identified as being related to the particular geographic location. The identified piece of electronic audio content then is made available to the electronic device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130311563 | Determining Characteristics of Participants in a Social Network - Implementations disclosed herein relate to determining the influence and/or passivity of participants in a social network. In one implementation, a processor | 11-21-2013 |
20140025455 | IDENTIFYING SIMILARITY - In one implementation, preference information relevant to a set of items that has been submitted on behalf of multiple different users is compared to global ranking information for the set of items that has been compiled based on the preference information submitted on behalf of the multiple different users. Preference information submitted on behalf of a particular user then is identified as being similar to the global ranking information. | 01-23-2014 |
20140040277 | PREDICTING SHARING ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A non-transitory computer-readable storage device includes instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to calculate a score for an article, from a source, using the average number of times other articles belonging to the source were shared on a social network (“t-density”). The processor are further caused to predict, using the score, a number of times the article will be shared on the social network. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040278 | RATING ITEMS BASED ON PERFORMANCE OVER TIME - A process can establish respective ratings for items in a list by determining respective measurements of performance of the items during each of a series of time windows. For each of the items and each time window, the process can adjust the rating of an item using multiple adjustments that are respectively associated with competing items in the list. Each of the adjustments may depend on the rating of the item, the rating of the competing item, and whether the measurement of performance of the item is higher than the measurement of the performance of the competing item. | 02-06-2014 |
20140173425 | PRESENTING DOCUMENTS TO A USER BASED ON TOPICS AND COLLECTIVE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THE DOCUMENTS - A content platform for presenting documents to a user based on topics and collective opinions expressed in the documents is disclosed. The content platform mines a corpus of documents to identify a set of topics and analyzes each document in the corpus of documents to determine a set of opinions associated with the set of topics. The corpus of documents is presented to the user based on the set of topics and the set of opinions. Each document in the corpus of documents is visually modified to focus the user's attention on the set of opinions associated with the set of topics. | 06-19-2014 |
20140200969 | RATING ITEMS - In one example, a process may include using a computer ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140214467 | TASK CROWDSOURCING WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE - Systems, methods, and machine-readable and executable instructions are provided for crowdsourcing a task within an enterprise. Crowdsourcing a task within an enterprise can include receiving features of a number of tasks, receiving features of a number of users, comparing a portion of the features of the number of tasks with a portion of the features of the number of users, and recommending tasks for particular users based on the comparison. | 07-31-2014 |
20140304264 | MOBILE WEB-BASED PLATFORM FOR PROVIDING A CONTEXTUAL ALIGNMENT VIEW OF A CORPUS OF DOCUMENTS - A content platform for providing a mobile, web-based contextual alignment view of a corpus of documents is disclosed. A corpus of documents is mined to identify a set of topics. Each document in the corpus is analyzed to determine a set of opinions associated with the set of topics, the set of opinions including a corpus opinion. Each document in the corpus is classified based on alignment with the corpus opinion. The corpus of documents is presented to the user according to the document classification. | 10-09-2014 |
20140344001 | MARKET FOR RESOURCES BASED ON REUSABLE USAGE POINTS AND USAGE PERIODS - Example embodiments relate to a resource market based on reusable usage points and usage periods. In example embodiments, a system may maintain multiple resources provided by at least one resource provider, each resource being accessible by a user. The system may maintain multiple consecutive usage periods, during which the user can use resources of the multiple resources. The system may maintain, for the user, a number of usage points that may be exchanged by the user for usage of at least one of the multiple resources. Each usage point may be associated with a particular usage period of the multiple consecutive usage periods. The system may, for each usage point, allow the user to allocate, re-allocate or refrain from allocating the usage point to a particular resource during the usage period associated with the particular usage point. | 11-20-2014 |
20140358710 | MARKET FOR RESOURCES BASED ON REUSABLE USAGE POINTS AND USAGE PERIODS - Example embodiments relate to a resource market based on reusable usage points and usage periods. In some examples, a system may maintain multiple resources provided by at least one resource provider, each resource being conditionally accessible by a user. The system may maintain multiple types of usage periods, each different usage period type specifying a different duration. The system may maintain multiple types of usage points, the usage point types being respectively associated with the usage period types. The system may allow the user to access a first resource of the multiple resources during a particular usage period by allocating a number of usage points to the first resource. The usage may be allowed based on the usage period being of a first usage period type and the number of usage points each being of an associated first usage point type. | 12-04-2014 |
20150073846 | OBTAINING A PRODUCT VIA A REPOSITORY IN AN ORGANIZATION WITH OBTAINMENT UNITS - A purchase order is received by an entity associated with an organization for a product to be obtained via a vendor, wherein the product has a value in external-obtainment units. The product is inventoried in a repository of the organization, wherein the product is obtainable via the repository of the organization with internal-obtainment units. The product is allocated to a number of entities associated with the organization. | 03-12-2015 |