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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131489 | EVALUATING AND COMPARING THE REQUIREMENTS OF A TASK WITH THE CAPABILITIES OF AN ENTITY A method for evaluating the requirements of a task with the capabilities of an entity includes generating a first visual representation, creating a mask based on the first visual representation, applying the mask to a second visual representation, and generating a third... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TIME SHEET MESSAGING A method and system for time sheet messaging is presented. The method includes providing a time-sheet application for managing a plurality of projects, each project associated with at least one organizational unit. A graphical user interface is provided which includes a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109843 | Visual analysis of a time sequence of events using a time density track Data records representing a time sequence of events are received, where time gaps between successive events vary. A first visualization having a sequence of graphical elements representing the corresponding events is generated, where the graphical elements do not overla... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084168 | INDICATION OF THE REMAINING DURATION OF AN EVENT WITH A DURATION RECOIL FEATURE In an application for controlling an event, there is an indicator of the remaining duration for the event provided by the application during the event substantially simultaneously to each of a plurality of computing devices over a network for each computing device to us... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084697 | USER INTERFACE WITH INDEPENDENT DRAWER CONTROL Methods and apparatus for controlling the display of one or more drawers of a user interface. One or more displays may be provided, each of which may have a corresponding independently controllable drawer displayable therein. The drawers may be opened in response to a g... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072758 | ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION OF CLUSTER RESOURCE UTILIZATION An analysis and visualization depicts how an application is leveraging processor cores of a distributed computing system, such as a computer cluster, in time. The analysis and visualization enables a developer to readily identify the degree of concurrency exploited by a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054663 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF SETTING AN APPLICATION INDICATOR THEREIN A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; an input unit configured to enter an application indicator edit mode for editing application indicators providing information on correspondin... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054662 | Task Importance Indicator Based on Personalized Rules The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing an indicator of a relative importance of a work item. One process includes operations for identifying at least one work item for determining a relative importance of the wo... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054661 | DATA USAGE MONITORING PER APPLICATION A user device associates a data session with a particular application, of the user device, that initiated the data session. The user device monitors network data usage for the data session and/or receives network data usage from a monitoring device associated with the n... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054664 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT OPTIMIZED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PRESENTATION DEVICE CAPABILITIES Methods and systems for optimizing multimedia content or a display of the media content in accordance with an optimal or ideal picture are disclosed. Different content versions that are optimized for different display devices can be remotely generated and transmitted to... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054660 | Acquisition and Presentation of Dynamic Media Asset Information for Events Embodiments disclosed allow a user of an electronic device to obtain dynamic media asset information, such as media assets information concerning events. The obtained media asset information can be then presented via the electronic device in a convenient and efficient m... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047092 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PRESENTING AN INDICATION OF A COST OF PROCESSING A RESOURCE Methods and systems are described for presenting an indication of a cost of processing a resource. Resource information is received that identifies a resource for processing by a hardware component in performing an operation. A measure of a processing cost is determined... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120036447 | JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS A job processing apparatus for performing a job process for a job input by a user includes a job determination unit configured to determine whether there is a job being executed or waiting to be executed for a user when the user logs into the job processing apparatus, a... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LARGE DATA SET NAVIGATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE Example systems and methods provide navigation and review of images within a large data set via a handheld or other mobile device. A computer-implemented method includes providing a clinical data set divided into a plurality of portions. Each portion is associated with ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036467 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TOUR Systems and methods are provided for producing tours. The system includes, but is not limited to a data storage device that is configured to store a plurality of POI inputs and/or routes. A server is operatively coupled to the data storage device and is configured to ho... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030589 | Electronic shipment planner An electronic shipment planner is adapted for electronically presenting shipment and scheduling information to a user. The shipment and scheduling information includes at least one shipment event date. The shipment planner is linked to a shipment data repository contain... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030603 | Displaying Current Task Lists on Graphical User Interfaces of Processing Machine Control Methods, computer program products and devices for displaying a current task list on a graphical user interface of a control computer of a processing machine. In implementations, a running task list is provided, each task of the running task list including a task that i... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023429 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE INFORMATION Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to manage system, computer, application, service, and/or network performance information are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a data interface, a display interface, a user control interface, and a ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023432 | ICONS WITH SUBPARTS PRESENTING INFORMATION ABOUT A SYSTEM One embodiment is a method that generates a map of a system. The map includes an icon that is divided into multiple parts that depict different operational information about a device in the system.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023431 | COMPUTING DEVICE, OPERATING METHOD OF THE COMPUTING DEVICE USING USER INTERFACE A computing device and method that support multitasking environment are discussed. According to an embodiment, the computing device includes a display screen; and a processor which controls the display screen and which: identifies a user command for selecting a first jo... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023430 | ACTIVITY INDICATORS IN A MEDIA SHARING SYSTEM A system and method are provided for generating and displaying one or more indicators indicative of a level of activity within a media sharing system. In one embodiment, with respect to a user participating in the media sharing system, an indicator representative of an ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120005614 | ACCOUNT CONVERSION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS A device may convert accounts maintained by a first information technology system to a second information technology system. In one implementation, the device may convert a first set of attributes corresponding to an account in the first information technology system to... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005613 | CREATING AND MANAGING LOCATION BASED MEETINGS A method and computer program product for creating and managing location based meetings is described. A method may comprise creating a local meeting entry, the local meeting entry referencing a global meeting entry in a different location. The method may further compris... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004033 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPLICATING A USER INTERFACE AT A DISPLAY The present invention relates to the placement of a reference replication of a device input apparatus at a display to confirm to a user the desired input. In the gaming field the present invention includes the generation of a semi-transparent image of the gaming machine... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110319885 | USER INTERFACE FOR ABLATION THERAPY The disclosure describes a user interface that may be used to control ablation therapy and monitor ablation therapy progress in systems that utilize wet electrode ablation techniques. The user interface presents a virtual electrode depth icon to a user that indicates th... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320958 | CONFERENCE RECAP AND RECORDING A method, system, and device are provided for presenting event views via a calendaring application or the like. In particular, the event view is alterable depending upon whether or not the event currently being viewed is a past event or not. Past events may posses addit... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320973 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE PROVIDING SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT An electronic device processes received messages, such as text messages, text-based emails, and push notifications, received by the electronic device. The electronic device extracts event information from the received messages. The electronic device enters the extracted... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314403 | SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE DATA VISUALIZATION AND BUSINESS PROCESS ACTION IN AN ON-DEMAND ENTERPRISE DASHBOARD Some aspects include presenting, in a graphical user interface display panel, a graphic visualization of a business metric; and presenting, in the same graphical user interface display panel, a mechanism to initiate a business process action associated with the visualiz... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314404 | Context-Based Task Generation A triggering mechanism for generating task reminders based on contextual information associated with the tasks is provided. Contextual information may be extracted from a variety of sources and may be related to one or more tasks. Based on the contextual information, ta... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314402 | Flagging, Capturing and Generating Task List Items Generation of a task or reminder in an electronic task list authoring surface from a variety of data or information locations or media without the need for launching a separate task or reminder application and without the need for moving focus away from an information l... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307818 | WORKFLOW AUTHORING ENVIRONMENT AND RUNTIME A workflow authoring system is described herein that provides a design-time authoring environment and a runtime component for displaying interactive, structured instructional content. The authoring environment provides custom controls, templates, and sample pages that a... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307905 | INDICATING PARALLEL OPERATIONS WITH USER-VISIBLE EVENTS The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for indicating parallel operations with user-visible events. Event markers can be used to indicate an abstracted outer layer of execution as well as expose internal specifics of parallel pr... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307821 | EXERCISE SYSTEM WITH GRAPHICAL FEEDBACK AND METHOD OF GAUGING FITNESS PROGRESS A system and method for providing visual feedback to a user of an exercise machine for gauging fitness progress of the user. The system provides a user of an exercise machine with a virtual competition in which the user competes against virtual competitors based on his ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110289443 | Behavioral Training and Development Behavioral changes may be generated by providing tools that allow a user to 1) gain awareness of the alignment and misalignment between beliefs, intentions, promises or actions; 2) identify actions to take to restore alignment and create value-added change; 3) define an... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289019 | ENERGY CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT An energy consumption display arrangement, which includes a database in which is stored incident energy consumption data of a number of energy consumption sites stored over a period of time, a graphical user interface operable to retrieve selected consumption data of at... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110283205 | AUTOMATED SOCIAL NETWORKING GRAPH MINING AND VISUALIZATION The automated social networking graph mining and visualization technique described herein mines social connections and allows creation of a social networking graph from general (not necessarily social-application specific) Web pages. The technique uses the distances bet... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110283218 | Electronic Event Planner in Communication Device A communication device including a controller coupled to a user interface wherein the controller is configured to recommend an event and a proposed time at which the event occurs based on tentative time and participant information provided to, or obtained by, the commun... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110283188 | VALUE INTERVAL SELECTION ON MULTI-TOUCH DEVICES This disclosure provides examples of computerized methods and software for receiving time-based interval selections on multi-touch devices. In one aspect, a time interval slider is displayed in a portion of a graphical user interface, where the time interval slider is a... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110283204 | Pasting Various Data into a Programming Environment Described is a technology by which a user pastes selected data into a command line of a program, including when the selected data is non-textual. Upon detecting the paste (or drop) action, a variable name is automatically generated and inserted at the current point in a... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276451 | Motivational goal based interactive system and method A motivational goal based online interactive system and method for personal development comprising a single web page for easy access to a calendar, goal tracker, motivational quote, video, recommended motivational and inspirational books, tapes and other material. The s... | 11/10/2011 |
