Abstract: Electronic commerce over a publicly accessible computer network such as the Internet is facilitated and leveraged by a computer system that forms a community of computer user parties based on personal and business connections of the parties involved. Personal connections are created between users by invitation and mutual acceptance. Business connections are created between users when a transaction takes place between those users. Users search to perform any one or more of a variety of actions such as to purchase products, browse departments and categories for purchasing products, or explore the connections between the parties involved to find items to buy. Different groupings of the parties involved may be the users themselves and other buyers/sellers in the business network, the users themselves and their friends in the personal networks, or some combination of buyers/sellers and friends from each of the types of networks.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses allow an insurance agency to track their current performance in managing existing customers and bringing in new customers. A tool may obtain information from a user regarding characteristics of the user's agency and/or agency goals. The tool may use this information to determine an agency's business efficiency. The tool may also provide advice regarding marketing spending and/or additional human resources needed. The tool may benchmark an insurance agency against other agencies in the market. The tool may also display how generated leads are converted to new business and/or income for an agency.

Abstract: A market event identification method, system, and computer program product, include defining a likelihood function that maps a likelihood of a purchase of a product during an event by customers having similar customer features and estimating a likelihood of an event-driven purchase by the customers for each of a plurality of product-event combinations using the defined likelihood function.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for setting a benchmark conversion rate. An example method comprises accessing user search data, the user search data generated by a user interacting with a promotion and marketing service to identify a requested promotion, generating an identification pair for the search data, the identification pair comprising an identification of a promotion tuple and a geographic subdivision, generating a search velocity based on the generated identification pairs, accessing a conversion rate for the promotion tuple in a plurality of geographic subdivisions and setting a benchmark rate for a promotion tuple, the benchmark rate corresponding to the conversion rate of a subdivision of the plurality of subdivisions based on the subdivision satisfying at least one of a search velocity threshold, a prime merchant metric threshold or a conversion rate threshold.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for receiving consumer search data, aggregating by consumer and location, and utilizing the aggregated consumer search data in demand forecasting and relevance determination. An example method may include receiving consumer search data, the consumer search data indicative of search performed by a consumer, the consumer search data comprising one or more search terms and at least one of a consumer location or consumer identification information, storing the consumer search data for a predetermined time interval, and providing at least one of consumer aggregated search data to a relevance module for determining which of a plurality of promotions to present to a consumer at a second time or providing location aggregated search data to a demand forecasting module for utilization in forecasting promotion demand in a particular location.

Abstract: Embodiments include a system, method, and a computer program product for notifying a technician when a repair task the technician is addressing may be negatively impacted by a nearby fault and/or if the technician is qualified to repair a nearby fault. The technician is qualified if the technician has the necessary skills, parts (e.g., materials), and/or equipment (test equipment) required to repair the nearby fault. In addition, embodiments include receiving and responding to queries from a technician to: determine whether any of the repair tasks associated with the technician's assigned tickets are futile tasks based on newly received faults or pending tickets; and determine whether the querying technician is qualified to address (e.g., repair) any newly received faults or pending tickets.

Abstract: A system and method may include processing questionnaire data and answer data by an at-shelf display device located in a business wherein the answer data includes multiple answer selections to the questionnaire data. Questionnaire data and answer data is displayed on the at-shelf display device and answer data is selected by the consumer and received by the at-shelf display device in response to the questionnaire data. The received selected answer data selected by the consumer is aggregated.

Abstract: An integrated safety-evaluation with labor-time-standard system is provided that includes a work-task manager, integrated module and ergonomic safety evaluator. The work-task manager may be configured to receive a work instruction and determine work elements applicable to the work instruction, with the work elements may have respective associated elemental unit times, elemental risk ratings and frequency values. The integrated module may be configured to receive the elemental unit times, elemental risk ratings and frequency values for the work elements, and calculate a labor time standard and ergonomic safety rating therefrom. And the ergonomic safety evaluator may be configured to receive the labor time standard and ergonomic safety rating and perform an ergonomic safety evaluation therefrom. In this regard, the ergonomic safety evaluator may be configured to perform the ergonomic safety evaluation to determine whether to release or reject the work instruction.

Abstract: A risk information processing method is used in a risk information processing system that manages a degree of risk at a target spot at which a moving object is located. The method includes: receiving sensor data collected at each of two spots different from the target spot; determining a degree of risk of an event at each of the two spots from the sensor data collected at each of the two spots; storing, as risk information the determined degree of risk associated with each of the two spots; estimating first risk information associated with the target spot without sensor data of first event at the target spot, by using the stored risk information, the first risk information being a degree of risk of the first event at the target spot; and outputting information for the target spot based on the estimated first risk information.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing sales pipeline automation. An example method comprises calculating a forecasted demand, the forecasted demand comprising at least one or more virtual offers and a demanded quantity of at least a portion of the one or more virtual offers, identifying one or more merchants, wherein the one or more merchants are identified as able to supply at least a portion of the residual demand, assigning the one or more merchants to one or more sales resources in accordance with at least a calculated sales value of the one or more merchants.

Abstract: Computer-based systems and methods for discovering neighborhood clusters in a geographic region, where the clusters have a mix of venues and are determined based on venue check-in data. The mix of venues for the clusters may be based on the social similarity between pairs of venues; or emblematic of certain neighborhood typologies; or emblematic of temporal check-in pattern types; or combinations thereof. The neighborhood clusters that are so discovered through venue-check in data could be used for many commercial and civic purposes.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for managing a sales pipeline, and in some embodiments, calculating supply based on travel propensity. An example method comprises identifying a total demand for a promotion tuple at a geographic location, determining, using a processor, a promotion area for the promotion tuple, the promotion tuple comprising at least a category, price information and a geographic area, identifying one or more promotions offered by a promotion and marketing service that comprise at least the category and the price information of the promotion tuple, determining whether the total demand for the promotion tuple at the geographic location is satisfied, wherein the total demand is satisfied in an instance in which the geographic location is within the promotion area for the one or more promotions, and identifying a demand gap in an instance in which the total demand for the promotion tuple at the geographic location is not satisfied.

Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring the operation of a business are described, the methods including the steps of: receiving operational data from a plurality of businesses, the operational data being derived from the businesses use of software programs; calculating at least one individual performance indicator based on the operational data for the business; calculating at least one group performance indicator based on the operational data for a plurality of businesses; and comparing the individual performance indicator with the group performance indicator.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing a dashboard. An example method comprises determining, using a processor, a total demand for one or more promotion tuples, identifying a current supply, wherein the current supply is identified in an instance in which the current supply is usable to satisfy the total demand, determining one or more demand gaps based on a difference between the total demand and the current supply, providing a first view in a lead dashboard, the first view comprising at least one of a total demand, current supply or one or more demand gaps, receiving a selection of one of a plurality of granularities of either a location or category, and refining the first view into a second view, the second view comprising additional granularity of at least one of a total demand, current supply or one or more demand gaps when compared to the first view.

Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for requesting commodities/items from a plurality of competing vendors. In various embodiments, vendor information/data indicative of commodities/items offered by each vendor is received and stored, request information/data is received from a consumer indicative of the commodities/items desired, as well as any additional request parameters. The system filters the vendor information/data to identify those vendors who satisfy the request parameters, and displays a graphical user interface identifying these vendors to the consumer. The consumer may then select one or more of the identified vendors, and the system enables access to a bidding tool for each of the selected vendors to submit a detailed bid/response to provide the goods or services to the consumer. The consumer may then select one or more of the bids/responses and confirm the commodities/items requested.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for managing a sales pipeline, and in some embodiments, generating demand based on real time demand and predicted demand.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for assigning leads. An example for method for assigning leads comprises receiving a list of one or more merchants, wherein the one or more merchants comprise a sales value and an indication of an ability to provide a service associated with at least one demanded offer, accessing sales resource data comprising at least one or more sales resources and an associated capacity for contacting one or more merchants, assigning one or more sales resources an assignment probability number, wherein an assignment probability number represents a probability that a sales resource will be randomly assigned a next supply source in an assignment process, adjusting an assignment probability number based on the associated capacity, and assigning at least a portion of the one or more merchants according to at least the assignment probability number of the one or more sales resource and the sales value of the one or more merchants.

Abstract: A trend analysis computing device is provided. The computing device includes a receiver to receive online data, a trend determiner to determine a trend that is presently happening based on a word or a phrase included in the received online data, a processor to compare the determined trend with a dictionary database of the user to determine if the trend is of interest to the user, and, in response to determining the trend is a trend of interest, add additional data to the trend of interest based on the dictionary database, an analyzer configured to analyze the trend of interest, the added additional data, and user interest data, and generate impact data that the trend of interest is having on the user interest data, and a transmitter to transmit the impact data to the user.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is a transaction gateway apparatus for effecting a transaction request, the apparatus being configured to receive transaction request data, select, based on said transaction request data, one of a plurality of workflows to be performed that defines transaction data route between said apparatus and a transaction service provider specified in said workflow, wherein said apparatus is configured to: display a user interface defining a workspace within which a user can configure a workflow; access a plurality of modules, each defining respective service provider functions, a plurality of rule sets defining conditions to be fulfilled for a transaction data route to follow a specified path of a workflow; display selectable data representative of said modules and rule sets in said work space; enable a user to configure a visual representation of a workflow by: selecting a transaction type or parameter to be associated with a workflow; selecting combinations of one or more modu

Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for classifying user search data.