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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185433 | Peer-to-peer affinity-group commerce method and system A P2P (peer-to-peer) business and commerce-enhancing method including the steps of (a) identifying an active P2P network which is characterized with peers having a defined affinity interest in the exchange of at least category-A information, such as digital music so... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180667 | Rewarding creative use of product placements in user-contributed videos A video hosting service automatically identifies, in a video database, a set of videos associated with an advertiser, and presents the identified videos to the advertiser for consideration. The videos may be selected based on analysis of their video content for imag... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180668 | Collaborative intelligent task processor for insurance claims An insurance claim processing system may include an insurance claim database, an event processor component, a task engine component and a collaborative intelligent task processor. The insurance claim database may be configured to store and provide access to data in ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175915 | Computerized auction method for providing a discount off a high bid before a bid is placed A method and system for conducting an auction. The auction system provides a criteria for a seller to offer an item for sale with a discount off the bid that is displayed before a bid is made by the bidder, and/or a discount that is advertised from a minimum discoun... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175902 | Semantics-based interests in computing environments and systems An input situation can be represented by at least a first context variable. Data that includes interest values for multiple context variables can be provided and obtained. The obtained data can include a first data pertaining to the input situation and a second data... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175914 | Automatic adjustment of advertiser bids to equalize cost-per-conversion among publishers for an advertisement A learning model is built on a combination of advertiser, publisher and user data. The learning model can be applied to all advertisers in an advertising system. The learning model provides predicted conversion rates for a given advertisement (“ad”) appearing on... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175916 | Image forming system and image forming apparatus An image forming system includes a sheet accommodating section, an image forming section, a term management section, a detecting section, and a display section. The sheet accommodating section has a plurality of sheet trays each accommodating therein printing sheets... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175917 | Method and apparatus for customer specific based food preparation prediction A food preparation predicting system and method in one embodiment includes a detector for obtaining customer information, a memory including program instructions for obtaining customer information from the detector, associating the customer information with stored c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170913 | Optimizing placement and delivery of advertisements The efficient allocation of advertisements, also known as creatives, on one or more web sites is provided for while ensuring that guarantees to advertisers are honored. In one embodiment, a linear program solver allocates creatives to advertising slots according to ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165915 | Advertisement customization Methods, systems and computer program products for customizing one or more advertisements are described. Specifically, advertisements may be customized using information from content of a web page prior to viewing by a user. For example, the rendering of the text of... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8150727 | Content and advertising material superdistribution Embodiments provide content and advertising material superdistribution. In one embodiment, a method of distributing content and advertising material may be provided. The method may include: registering members who are potential users and distributors of content; rec... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150729 | Method, system and program product for displaying advertising content on a music player A method, system and program product for displaying advertising content on a portable music player. A method, system and program product for displaying advertising content on a portable music player based on content stored therein. The method includes checking in a ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145521 | Geographic and keyword context in embedded applications A computer-implemented method includes generating, using an embedded client application, a keyword context for a container document holding the embedded client application; generating, using the embedded client application, a geographic context associated with a dev... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140384 | Advertising revenue sharing A method of host development is based on paying the writer of free content through advertising revenue sharing. Steps include receiving an advertisement, which is paid content, from an advertiser; receiving non-paid content subject to a condition that the provider m... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135615 | Systems and methods for detecting click fraud A method for detecting click fraud. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: directing a user to an item but delaying the internal ratings update of the item; collecting data to build a model of the user; building the model of the user in response to the... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135616 | Browsing and quality of service features Embodiments are configured to provide browsing and other functionality that can be used to provide viewable data based in part on a current viewable space of a browser interface, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, components of a system can op... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131586 | Method and apparatus for personalized consumer to business matchmaking A personalized consumer to business matchmaking apparatus and its related method correlate and quantify a personalized match between a business offering products or services to a searching consumer looking for the reviewed products or services. In one embodiment of ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131587 | Methods, communications devices, and computer program products for adding displayed advertisement contact data to networked address books Method, communication device, and computer program products are provided for adding advertisement contact data to a networked address book. Advertisement data is accessed. The advertisement data is retrieved and parsed to determine if the advertisement data is in a ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131585 | Method and system for providing network based target advertising A telecommunication system implements a method for providing a targeted on-line advertisement to a user accessing a content provider node of the system. The system further comprises an ad selection node and an user identification node. A user signal indicative of an... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126770 | Advertisement system using mash-up map and method thereof A map advertisement system and method by using a mash-up map advertisement is provided, which can operate various advertisement cost billing policies. The map advertisement system includes an advertisement management unit for generating an advertisement layer and an... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121892 | Method, system, and computer program product for assessing information security A method, system and computer program product for assessing information security interviews users regarding technical and non-technical issues. In an embodiment, users are interviewed based on areas of expertise. In an embodiment, information security assessments ar... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121891 | Personalized product report A system is disclosed that facilitates creation of a web-based user interface which obtains user profile information from a database, gathers information from one or more users regarding product characteristics, correlates the user responses, performs statistical an... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117066 | Continuous value-per-click estimation for low-volume terms An estimated conversion rate for a desired advertisement term is calculated. A total number of conversion events for terms having a conversion rate is determined for each of a plurality of conversion rates, and data is generated that describes a first distribution f... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117065 | Wireless electronic vehicle window display system The invention of the wireless electronic vehicle window display system employs the latest technology in electronic paper and low power consumption wireless networking devices. One contemplated embodiment of the present invention consists of three main components: A ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117132 | Dating service system and method increasing member profile development and reducing unwanted communications The present invention provides a device to increase the number of members in a dating service developing their profiles by providing a financial incentive. The invention further reduces unwanted communications from other members by allowing member recipients of the ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112308 | Targeting using generated bundles of content sources Selections of content sources are received. Content source bundles are generated from the selected content sources, each content source bundle defined by one or more selected content sources assigned to that content source bundle, and each content source bundle havi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112307 | Method of reporting the presentation of data, a data storage medium and a system for employing a web page A method of reporting the presentation of data, a data storage medium, and a system for employing a web page is disclosed and that includes accessing a source of data having a specific segment, and reporting a presentation of the specific segment to a remote locatio... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108251 | Method of and system for managing promotions for purchase transactions over a network A system for managing promotions over a network includes a promotion server system having a computer processor and associated datastore, the datastore containing data representative of terms and statistics of one or more item promotions, and a commercial server syst... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095418 | Symbiotic mass marketing The present invention relates to certain methods and systems for promoting the sale of goods and services. According to certain embodiments of the present invention, such methods generally comprise the steps of (1) selling a first good or service to a customer for a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8073732 | Marketing incentive program Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a customer network in which customers are incentivized to “opt-in” to a marketing program. For example, the invention builds a network of customers, collects and... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073733 | Media development network Methods and systems for encouraging and identifying new talent, as well as an incentive structure for financing creative/media projects, are described. A social network web site allows users to post their own content, and filters users to the top who have achieved a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8060403 | Method and system for providing advertising to select consumers using payroll data and systems In accordance with one embodiment, a system and method for providing advertising to select consumers using payroll data includes a process for providing advertising to select consumers using payroll data whereby one or more advertisements and/or marketing devices ar... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060402 | Privacy-sensitive cookies Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating cookies. Multiple advertisements for multiple advertisers are stored on an ad server. Hostnames specific to each of the multiple advertisers are generated dynamically. The generated ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050964 | Computer-readable medium product label apparatus and method A user-computer-readable medium provides all or part of a product labeling system for engaging purchasers. Executables, data, or both are recorded in the medium embodied in a tag or other product labeling structure, in order to deliver to a consumer or purchaser eng... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050965 | Using a directed graph as an advertising system taxonomy Embodiments relate to generating and using a directed graph as an advertising network taxonomy. Individual delivery locations provided by publishers for presenting advertisements are identified. A directed graph is generated that includes specific advertising opport... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050966 | Integrated advertising management method and system with respect to plurality of advertising domains An integrated advertising management method and system with respect to an advertising campaign including a plurality of advertising domains is provided. The integrated advertising management method includes the steps of: generating an advertiser identification assoc... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041601 | System and method for automatically targeting web-based advertisements A system and method for automatically targeting Web-based advertisements is described. Advertisements are identified relative to a query, wherein identified advertisements describe characteristics relative to at least one of a product and a service. The advertisemen... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032409 | Enhanced visibility during installation management in a network-based supply chain environment A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for interacting with a client user in a network-based environment during installation management in order to enhance visibility. A user is identified and information about the user is collected, wherein the in... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019642 | System and process for receiving boosting recommendations for use in providing personalized advertisements to retail customers A system and process for incorporating recommendation boosting in an automated recommendation system includes presenting a user with a visual electronic interface adapted to receive recommendation boost instructions regarding a boost subject, receiving recommendatio... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019648 | Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices Embodiments of the disclosed innovations provide systems and methods for locating data associated with rendered documents. Some embodiments support the use of a handheld document data capture device. ... | 09/13/2011 |
