Abstract: A system and method for home security, and in particular to notifying residents of a home of a visitor's presence and providing an automatic assessment of the visitor's legitimacy, is disclosed. In one example, the system can be configured to automatically identify a logo worn by the visitor using optical recognition and generate a notification for the resident that identifies the company. In another example, the system can request presentation of an encrypted key that should be stored on the visitor's computing device. In another example, the system can query a database of scheduled services and determine if a person was requested or scheduled for a visit. In some embodiments, the system can assign a security token to the merchant which will be required at the time of the appointment.

Abstract: A method includes receiving trace sensor data associated with a first manufacturing process of a manufacturing chamber. The method further includes processing the trace sensor data by a processing device to generate summary data associated with the trace sensor data. The method further includes generating a quality index score based on the summary data. The method further includes providing an alert to a user based on the quality index score. The alert includes an indication that the manufacturing chamber performance does not meet a first threshold.

Abstract: A legal event booking interface that provides for selection of a legal service provider including between a court reporter digital reporter, stenographer, videographer, interpreter (not shown), or a combination thereof, and selection means for selecting and reserving a job location.

Abstract: An NFC-enabled apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a touch screen display and a near field communication (NFC) module comprising an NFC antenna and an NFC controller. In response to tagging between the NFC-enabled apparatus and the external NFC terminal, an NFC communication channel is established between the NFC-enabled apparatus and the external NFC terminal for data communication therebetween.

Abstract: A system for managing a local area shopping network is disclosed. The plurality of subsystems includes an order request subsystem, configured to receive a request of a product order from registered/unregistered (a customer can be guest customer) customers. The plurality of subsystems includes a parameter determination subsystem configured to determine a delivery area, a delivery schedule for sellers and determine product pickup area for the customers/buyers based on their preference and location. A buyer may decide for delivery only, in that case there is no pickup area/perimeter. The plurality of subsystems includes a product transaction subsystem. The product transaction subsystem is configured to identify (all sellers. If there are none that meet criteria then it is blank) one seller from the list of the registered sellers based on received request of the product order and establish a direct communication link with the customer.

Abstract: A system for applying an artificial intelligence engine to affect course corrections and influence outcomes of a meeting may include a network interconnecting a facilitator device, a teammate participant device, and a computing system operating a recurrent neural network. The facilitator device may receive parameters of a meeting including one or more of a meeting start time, a meeting location, a meeting duration, a meeting topic, and a list of teammate participant names. The teammate participant device may be a binary meeting score indicating if the meeting was either productive or not productive. The computing system may correlate the meeting score with the meeting parameters to create parameter scores. As scores are stored in the memory of the computing system, over time, the recurrent neural network may transform the parameter scores into parameter suggestions which may be conveyed to a meeting facilitator in real time.

Abstract: Case management systems and techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a case model definition defining a case model is received. The case model comprises a hierarchical permissions model comprising a plurality of hierarchical permission nodes, the plurality of hierarchical permission nodes including a first hierarchical permission node associated with a parent case node and having an associated first case role and a first permission for the first role, and a second hierarchical permission node associated with a child case node. At run time, the first permission with respect to a case instance instantiated using the case model definition is enforced. Enforcing the first permission comprises applying the first permission to a request to perform a first action on an instance of the child case node based on the first case role and first permission.

Abstract: In order to provide a checking facility for checking workpieces and also a treatment facility for treating workpieces, which enable efficient and reliable quality optimisation, it is proposed that workpiece parameters are detected, for example by means of an automatic checking station, and a workpiece-specific data set is created on this basis and/or from facility parameters.

Abstract: A meeting system facilitates spontaneous social encounter between users with a meeting server. The meeting server obtains calendar data, user preferences, and an organization chart associated with each user of a plurality of users. The meeting server selects a first user and a second user for a social encounter based on the calendar data, user preferences, and roles in the organization chart. The meeting server prompts a first user device associated with the first user, and a second user device associated with the second user, for a social encounter. Responsive to obtaining acceptances from the first user and the second user, the meeting server facilitates the social encounter between the first user and the second user.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a workflow visualization tracking tool based on text mining on a conversation channel. Specifically, a communication interface receives a plurality of user activity items that are related to a shared work item among the plurality of tenants. A first sequence of status indicators representing a workflow progress of the shared work item over a plurality of time instances may be generated from the plurality of user activity items. A first subset of the plurality of user activity items are determined, which are related to at least one sub-item reflected in the first sequence of status indicators. A second sequence of status indicators representing a second workflow progress of the at least one sub-item over the plurality of time instances may be generated from the first subset of the user activity items. The first sequence of status indicators and the second sequence of status indicators may be presented in a visualization structure via a user interface.

Abstract: A method of constructing and creating a proposed cinema selection may receive, from a plurality of users, selected cinema elements to create a plurality of proposed cinema selections and store, in a memory, the plurality of proposed cinema selections along with corresponding selected cinema elements. The method may also include displaying one of the plurality of proposed cinema selections along with a plurality of the selected cinema elements, receiving voting authorization for a user that a payment has been received to allow voting for one of a plurality of proposed cinema selections; and receiving at least one voting value identifying which of the plurality of proposed cinema selections has been voted on by at least one user. The method also include aggregating the voting values received for proposed cinema selections; and displaying a list of the proposed cinema selections having a highest ranking based on the voting values.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a process enhancement, the apparatus comprising a memory and a processor configured to receive process data, receive user input, determine a plurality of response modules as a function of the user input, determine a modification target as function of the plurality of response modules, wherein determining the modification target includes calculating an importance score for each response module of the plurality of response modules, ranking each response module of the plurality of response modules as a function of the importance score and determining the modification target as a function of the ranking, identify at least a process modification as a function of the process data and the modification target and generate the process enhancement as a function of the at least a process modification.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for coordinating service for a user assigned to a service unit of a service facility. The techniques include receiving user data associated with the user, or resource status data associated with a status of a resource. The techniques further include determining a classification of the user based on the user data, the classification corresponding to a condition or service status of the user. The user may then be assigned to a user group based on the classification of the user. The user group may be associated with a recommendation for treating the user. The resource may also be assigned to a resource group based on the resource status data. The techniques further include generating a visual representation of at least a portion of the service unit based on the assigned user group or assigned resource group, and providing the visual representation to a user device for presentation.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing device refers to data sets. Each of the data sets includes previous plan data and performance data. The previous plan data are of a time series of a relationship between time and a target production volume of a previous plan. The device calculates first evaluation values for sets of the performance data. The new plan data are of a time series of a relationship between time and a target production volume of a new plan. The device inputs a new plan image to a first model and calculates second evaluation values for the sets of performance data. The new plan image is of the relationship between time and the target production volume of the new plan. The device extracts at least one of the sets of performance data by using the first evaluation values and the second evaluation values.

Abstract: Providing user-controllable visualization of an impact of each of a set of dimensions for a set of data from which at least one outlier value is detected includes computing an outlier boundary for a dimension data value via statistical analysis for data organized as assisted analytics time frame data sets. Further a dimension data value outlier factor may be produced for a detected outlier based on a weighting associated with an assisted analytics time frame that corresponds to the outlier. Dimension outlier factors may be derived therefrom and mapped to a corresponding dimension impact rating value for the user-controllable visualization.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for an application that optimizes the design element and workflow configuration of a target computer program. Generally, the application automatically displays preview images of graphical user interface in response to a user-input answer in a questionnaire, where the preview image accounts for design element and/or workflow impacts to the graphical user interface of the target computer program. The application also predicts performance indicators for target computer programs that account for design elements and/or workflow steps directly or indirectly selected through the user-input answers.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for campaign planning and include modeling the use of campaign operations and campaignable resources of a supply chain network including a production line to produce products using campaign operations and campaignable resources as campaign planning problems, defining an evaluation function comprising a weighted sum of features evaluated from the campaign planning problem, initializing weights to build a consumption profile and evaluation function, determining fitness values that indicate a level of variability, evaluating reward values based on the fitness values, selecting a sub-sample of the top fitness values having the best associated objective function, repeating the generating, the evaluating and the selecting steps to adjust the weights until a stopping criterion is met indicating an optimal solution has been reached, and determining a campaign plan for the use of the campaign operations and campaignable resource.

Abstract: The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items. A significant attributes system for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items comprises an item analysis engine, at least one driver models database, and a model building engine, wherein the item analysis engine comprises an item description receiver and one or more driver calculators.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a smart-tag based work processing device and a work processing method, wherein the work processing device comprises a work object processing unit creating a work object that implements a work processing flow through a plurality of heterogeneous work units having a dependency relationship; a work processing flow controller creating a work unit of a first type through the work object and sequentially generating a work unit of a second type through the work unit of the first type; and a smart-tag processing unit identifying attribute information of the work unit of the second type when the corresponding work unit is created, automatically generating a smart-tag based on the attribute information, and combining the smart-tag into the work unit of the first type.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present application provide a data consolidation analysis method and a data consolidation analysis method. The data consolidation analysis system includes: a first acquiring module, which is configured to acquire machine event data; a second acquiring module, which is configured to acquire production event data; a data processing module, which is connected with the first acquiring module and the second acquiring module and configured to acquire a raw process time of each product and a production capacity index of each batch of products; and an analyzing module, which is connected with the data processing module and configured to acquire a first matching relationship between the production capacity index of each batch of products and the raw process time of each product.