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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100082355 | Forecasting levels of currency usage and need A target level of funds may be defined to specify an ideal level of currency stored in a currency handling device for efficient operation. The target level may be modified based on forecasted currency usage needs. Forecasts may be conducted based on historical usage dat... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082359 | Multi-Granular Age Range Products For Use in Online Marketing Particular embodiments of the invention are directed to generating marketing-based age range products for use in age-targeted online marketing. The age range products may include multi-granular age range products generated by combining age ranges at different levels of ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082361 | Apparatus, System and Method for Predicting Attitudinal Segments An apparatus, system, and method are presented for predicting attitudinal segments. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a set of data elements associated with an individual, calculating a score for one or more attitudinal dimensions to associate with the in... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082421 | CLICK THROUGH RATE PREDICTION SYSTEM AND METHOD A computer implemented method comprises analyzing a plurality of attributes of a sample of online documents using a boosted decision tree and generating a model from it. The model is used to predict a click through rate (CTR) of an additional online document based on th... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082358 | GENERATION OF FORMAL SPECIFICATIONS OF TRADING PARTNER AGREEMENTS Systems and methods are provided for generating a formal specification of a trading partner agreement for sharing between trading partners. The trading partner agreement that is established between at least two of the trading partners is analyzed. A set of contracts, a ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082353 | REWARD SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A DIGITAL WORKFLOW A system and method for allowing content providers to manage aspects of a distributor's digital workflow is disclosed. The system is effective to receive priority flags and associate the flags with items submitted by the content provider making the priority designation.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL ESTATE REFERRALS The present invention discloses a system and method for providing agent referrals for real estate transactions. The system and method provides buyers and/or sellers with a real estate agent referral based on the type of real estate involved in the transaction and/or pre... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082360 | Age-Targeted Online Marketing Using Inferred Age Range Information Particular embodiments of the invention are directed to generating marketing-based age range products based at least on inferred data regarding the age of various network users. The age range products may be used for age-targeted online marketing.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082459 | MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING AND USING SAME A comprehensive medical waste management system for establishing and maintaining medical waste preparedness and cradle to grave asset management in the event of non-emergency and emergency situations is disclosed, where the system includes at least: a central control su... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082356 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING PERSONALIZED CAREER PATHS A candidate's career information is obtained. The career information comprises one or more of employment history information and education information. If the candidate's career information comprises employment history information, the employment history information is ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082433 | Using A Threshold Function For Bidding In Online Auctions One embodiment is a method that generates bids at an online search auction. The method uses a threshold function to decide which slot to obtain and bids accordingly.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082376 | SUGGESTING THINGS TO DO DURING TIME SLOTS IN A SCHEDULE Architecture for suggesting activities to be performed during time slots of a user schedule, such as a calendar application. In one implementation, a personal activity is suggested for a free time slot. In another implementation, a personal activity can be suggested for... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082354 | USER DEFINITION AND IDENTIFICATION Methods and system for user definition and identification are described. In one embodiment, a user selection criterion for an application associated with a target service provider may be accessed. User relationship information of a source user within a source service pr... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082357 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING ACTIVITY COORDINATION SERVICES A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided, which may provide activity coordination service. An apparatus may include a processor configured to maintain data regarding a user's previous activities and contacts invited to those previous activities. Th... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082469 | Constrained Optimized Binning For Scorecards Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for generating bins for a scorecard. An approximate set of bins is generated by applying an optimization model to binning data. The optimization model includes an objective function, constraints, and surrogate weight... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082419 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RATING AN OFFER FOR A PRODUCTS Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for rating an offer for a product. In one broad aspect there is provided a method for rating an offer for a product. The method includes generating a component score for each rating component of a plur... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A VIRTUAL CARD BASED ON GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION A method for using a virtual card is provided. In one example, the method includes identifying a geographic identifier for a mobile computing device and matching the geographic identifier with at least one virtual card associated with the mobile computing device. The me... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100076816 | DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE SURVEY SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and methodology for communication between a service provider and a service recipient relating to services is described, such that for a particular task or project, interaction and feedback between the respective service provider and service recipient is provide... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076831 | CUSTOMER REWARDS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS Customer rewards systems and methods for social networking applications, such as e-mail applications, calendar applications, chat room applications, instant messaging applications, and media management and sharing applications, are provided. The system includes a first ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076779 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECORDING AND MANAGING MANUFACTURING CAPACITY ATTRIBUTES The present invention comprises methods and systems that provide the ability to record and manage manufacturing capacity attributes that describe the capacity at its lowest level of configurability—supporting the specification, planning, matching, and trading of the c... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076841 | ADVERTISEMENT REPOSITORY AND ADVERTISEMENT SEARCH A computer system, graphical user interface, and method to search for previously published advertisements are provided. The computer system includes an advertisement index, a search engine, and an advertisement platform. The advertisement index organizes the previously ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076881 | Enhanced Valuation System and Method for Real Estate A system and method for producing a valuation for real property that allows the rating of various metrics that contribute to a determination of value for the subject property, the rating being based on the quality and applicability to the subject property of the data so... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076775 | PROGRESSIVE CAPTURE OF PROSPECT INFORMATION FOR USER PROFILES Embodiments are directed towards inferring an online matching profile based on progressively receiving a prospect's inputs. Access to other matching profiles is provided to the prospect, and while viewing such profiles of other participants, the prospect may progressive... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076776 | Fundraising and Recruitment Methods A computer-based system collects performance information, e.g., grades, submitted by students. The system automatically searches its database to see if the performance information satisfies any sponsorship pledges contained in the database. If so, the system executes th... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076778 | Method and System for Providing and Maintaining Limited-Subscriptions to Digital Media Assets Systems, graphical user interfaces and methods for upgrading from one or more digital media assets to a set of digital media assets over a network are described. A potential purchaser can be notified of available upgrade opportunities that are available for purchase. Th... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076859 | Reconfigurable Garment Definition and Production Method Computer-aided design and manufacture software and hardware automate garment and fashion definition and production. Configurable garment includes ornamental element, pattern display, and personal identifier and wireless sensor electronics.... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076850 | Targeting Ads by Effectively Combining Behavioral Targeting and Social Networking A method and system are provided for targeting ads by effectively combining behavioral targeting and social networking. In one example, the method includes receiving a behavioral targeting model to predict a propensity of each consumer in a network to select (e.g., clic... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100076777 | AUTOMATIC RECOMMENDATION OF LOCATION TRACKING PRIVACY POLICIES A system and method is described herein that automatically provides users with recommendations regarding location tracking privacy policies that may be appropriate to enact in certain contexts as well as a means for enacting such policies. Once a privacy policy is enact... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100070289 | Architectural Design for Embedded Support Application Software Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing embedded support. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other throu... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100070290 | Get home smart card A gift card and toll free number for the sole purpose of a Taxi ride to a residence or motel/hotel. Gift card will be sold at retail establishments in specific monetary increments. Gift card is a four part card assembly that has a magnetic stripe, barcode, individually ... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100070293 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A COURSE OF ACTION IN A REAL-TIME CASE BASED ON ANALYSIS OF TREND DATA IN HISTORICAL CASES Systems and methods for determining a course of action in a real-time case based on analysis of trend data in historical cases. The system includes an historical initial data interface; an historical outcome interface; an historical response interface; an historical dat... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100070288 | Method and System for Efficiently Transforming Online Ad Creatives Using Dynamically Compiled Templates A method and system are provided for transforming online ad creatives using dynamically compiled ad templates. In one example, the method includes receiving one or more ad templates into a memory, pre-compiling at least one ad template into object code, converting the o... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100070369 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATING CONSUMERS IN A RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT A method and system for providing assistance to a user within a store is disclosed. A communication event between a mobile device of the user and a store item is detected. A database which includes data indicative of a position of the store item within the store is acce... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100070758 | Group Formation Using Anonymous Broadcast Information A number of devices co-located at a geographic location can broadcast and receive tokens. Tokens can be exchanged using a communication link having limited communication range. Tokens that are received by a device can be stored locally on the device and/or transmitted t... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100063890 | Methods and Systems for Generating, Qualifying, and Processing Leads Methods and systems for generating, qualifying, and processing business leads are provided. Additionally, methods and systems are provided for the management of leads based upon various selective criteria for prospective customers of short-term loans and other financial... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100063902 | CO2 COMMODITY TRADING SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method of generating and trading a CO2 commodity that is correlated to a quantified amount of CO2 sequestered in a CO2 sequestering product comprising a carbonate and/or a bicarbonate. The tradable commodity can be purchased... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100063873 | Method for providing creator-centric region on displays, devices, and social networks where content owners can define rights and creating a novel rights and content repositor Many tools exist for creating applications for social networks, phones, and other entities, and this invention affords owners full control of their content in a common, trusted window in foreign contexts, as provided for in the US Constitution. Content owners are afford... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100063832 | Incentive allocation based on thermostat settings Incentive allocation to a community of users based on thermostat settings is provided. The users of the community establish user rules and thermostat settings directed to a climate-controlling device. The settings and rules are communicated to a central processor for ca... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100063830 | Masked Data Provider Selection Computer based methods, systems and software for selecting service providers for a consumer are presented in which pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) features of the consumer are correlated with pangenetic based data profiles of candidate providers, and the most approp... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100063831 | Visualizing revenue management trade-offs via a two-dimensional pareto curve showing measures of overall volume or share versus measures of overall profitability or adjusted revenue A system and method for visualizing the trade-off between overall production and/or sales of a portfolio of products and a resulting aggregate contribution margin (ACM). The method includes solving an optimization model, or other suitable operation, that has an objectiv... | 03/11/2010 |
