Patents Issued in October 20, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160307249
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for managing electronic messages via a social networking system. For example, systems and methods described herein involve organizing electronic messages and/or communication threads related to a product offered by sale via the social networking system. Furthermore, systems and methods described herein can generate and send electronic messages that are related to the status of a product that a product seller has advertised for sale via the social networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Mary Pao-an Ku, Anand Subbarayan, Bowen Pan
  • Publication number: 20160307250
    Abstract: The invention provides an interactive web based market place and a system for providing a web based market place. The web based market place includes a website. The market place is configured to: display products together with information regarding the respective products, which can be searched and viewed by a potential customer; monitor potential customer activity viewing a particular product; monitor online status of the seller of the particular product; provide the opportunity for the seller to initiate contact, via a portal, with the potential customer whilst the potential customer is viewing the seller's product on the web based market place by means of a live chat mechanism; and providing the means for the customer to interact live with the seller on the website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Francis John Stephen McDouall
  • Publication number: 20160307251
    Abstract: A system and method of managing an individual's apparel inventory using cashless transaction data comprises defining a set of one or more transaction search keys associated with identification information of an individual, a cashless transaction device associated with an individual, or a cashless payment account associated with an individual, and searching a transaction data storage for cashless transactions corresponding with the search keys. The transaction data includes SKU-level data describing the substance of the goods or services transacted. These search results are filtered for transactions in which the substance of the transaction relates to apparel. The SKU-level data among the first filtered search results is examined to determine a size and gender profile corresponding with a first individual that corresponds with the articles of apparel reflected in the first filtered search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Justin Xavier Howe
  • Publication number: 20160307252
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing target article information, the method comprising: receiving a target article information viewing request sent by a user terminal, the target article information viewing request comprising an identifier of a target article and a terminal identifier; determining a current location of the user terminal according to the terminal identifier; on the basis of the current location of the user terminal and the identifier of the target article, obtaining from a preset information database the information of the target article located within a preset range centering on the current location of the user terminal; and returning the obtained information of the target article to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Tao ZHANG, Lichun LI, Kai HE, Feng LU, Sen WANG
  • Publication number: 20160307253
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control display of parts information of a plurality of items, to generate search information according to feedback from a user for the parts information, and to control display of a search result according to the search information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichi Homma, Yoshiaki Iwai, Jianing Wu
  • Publication number: 20160307254
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing orders. The methods include actions of receiving an order for an item to be fulfilled by the fulfillment center for a fulfillment time, obtaining a portion of stored historical preparation information that is relevant to fulfillment of the item by the fulfillment time, obtaining current order information that describes other orders to be fulfilled at the fulfillment center, determining to provide an alternate suggestion, identifying at least one of an alternate item, an alternate fulfillment center, or an alternate time to include in the alternate suggestion, generating the alternate suggestion based on the identification of at least one of the alternate item, the alternate fulfillment center, or the alternate time to include in the alternate suggestion, and providing the alternate suggestion to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Leona Seaward, John Thirlaway
  • Publication number: 20160307255
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for recommendation is provided. The process includes, on the basis of layer information in which dealing objects are classified into items in plural layers, calculating a value indicative of a variation in information for each of the layers from information obtained by dividing information of a dealing history of a user into the items included in the layers; and recommending a dealing object to the user on the basis of the calculated value indicative of the variation in the information of each of the layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaka IZUMO, Masahiro SATO, Takashi SONODA
  • Publication number: 20160307256
    Abstract: Example methods and systems are directed to adapting legacy endpoints to modern application protocol interfaces (APIs). A legacy endpoint may provide a powerful and complex API. A modern application may desire access to the legacy endpoint. One or more layers may be added between the modern application and the legacy endpoint. Each layer may provide a different API. These layers of APIs may transform the interface from a powerful and complex interface to a more limited but simpler and easier to use interface. In some example embodiments, a proxy layer, an adapter layer, a facade layer, and a service layer may be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Nikhil Vijay Thaker, Kamal Zamer
  • Publication number: 20160307257
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for reorder point management in a smartphone. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for purchase reminding includes monitoring payments performed by a payment application executing in memory of a smartphone and determining by a processor of the smartphone for each of the payments, an ordered product. The method further includes associating each ordered product for which payment has been made with a corresponding reorder point indicating a lapse of time subsequent to which the ordered product is to be reordered. Finally, the method includes periodically processing each reorder point to determine whether or not to reorder a corresponding ordered product and, in response to the processing, displaying in the smartphone a reminder to reorder each ordered product for which a corresponding reorder point indicates reordering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Paul Huang
  • Publication number: 20160307258
    Abstract: There is provided systems and method for a virtual assistant server providing services requested through device communications. A service provider may provide a virtual assistant that may receive a message from a user's communication device having a text identifier that identifies a merchant and an item to order from the merchant. The user may input the text identifier through voice input using a voice to text module of the communication device. The message may include further information, such as a location of the user and communication device when communicating the message and a timestamp of the message, which may further be used to identify the merchant and/or item. The service provider may then determine a request for the item by the user and may utilize an ordering application provided by the service provider or a third party to submit an order to the merchant corresponding to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Ryan Christopher May
  • Publication number: 20160307259
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating, via an interactive display platform, a sales transaction conducted in real time between a consultant associated with a consultant device and a customer associated with a customer device. Independent user interaction control capabilities are assigned to the consultant device and the customer device for controlling the sharing of information, the identification of selections pertaining to the shared information and the population of a virtual shopping cart based on the selections, and/or for interacting with the shared information, selections and populated virtual shopping cart. The disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus can facilitate a sales transaction involving any type of product and/or service, including the sale of a report containing product data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Lauren Lubeck, Vivek Sudarsan, Ron Fisher
  • Publication number: 20160307260
    Abstract: A processing system and a method therefor are provided. The method includes receiving a selection signal that a payment on delivery linked with a mobile application is designated as a payment mode for goods, from a terminal of a user, in which the mobile application is installed, generating an order request signal as a payment server which connects with the terminal over a network matches goods identification data associated with the goods with user identification data of the user who is registered in the mobile application to correspond to each other; verifying ordered records associated with the user identification data and starting a payment session for payment as the terminal executes the mobile application according to an operation of the user who receives the goods, and receiving a payment completion signal generated from the payment session and paying for the goods according to the goods identification data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Eun Su PARK, Young Su KO, Kye Wan JUN, Kyun PARK, Hee Young KIM, Jin Woo LEE
  • Publication number: 20160307261
    Abstract: A system for ordering a product online includes a communicating object configured to order a set of products referenced in a database by means of an order signal (CMD), and a database for listing a set of products corresponding to the order signal (CMD). A server is in communication with said database and is configured to publish a list of said set of ordered products. A computer likely to validate said list such that the communicating object may be a mobile device provided with a processor, a random access memory (RAM) and a hibernation software program such that the processor is stopped and the content of the random access memory (RAM) is not kept when said communicating object has not been used for a predefined period, or depending on the status of the communicating object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Worldline
    Inventors: Guillaume Lefebvre, Jacques Poly, Colombe Herault, Denis Faivre
  • Publication number: 20160307262
    Abstract: A shopping memo which is easy to dairy use can be prepared in a simple manner. A smart phone is provided with a shopping-memo preparing unit and an indication processing unit. The shopping-memo preparing unit registers commodity information on an electronic receipt to a shopping list in response to user's operation to prepare shopping-memo data. The indication processing unit displays an electronic receipt in such a manner that allows a user to clearly discriminate whether or not each piece of commodity information has been registered to a shopping list of the shopping-memo data prepared in the past by the shopping-memo preparing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SATO, Hiroshi AKAO, Hideo SUZUKI, Kiyoshi OGISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20160307263
    Abstract: A client device retrieves a retail page listing products for sale by an online retailer. The client device receives a selection of a product from a user and displays extended information about the product in an extended product page near the product. The extended information includes a template with images of the product and advertising copy for the product to provide a compelling, magazine-like view of the product. The user may add the product to a bag that provides a staging area for a group of products prior to purchase. The user may visit additional retailers and add products from those retailers to the bag that provides a unified view of the products from across the various retailers. When a user is ready to purchase the products in the bag, a purchase flow is initiated at each online retailer for the products at that retailer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Sarah R. Fletcher, David J. Sturman
  • Publication number: 20160307264
    Abstract: A method for processing a service request is provided, which includes: assigning, by a server, an identifier to a service request; if processing of a first service times out, marking a processing state as a first processing state, if the processing does not time out and the processing succeeds, continuously processing the second service, and if the processing times out, marking the processing state as a second processing state; and querying for the processing state of the service request according to the identifier regularly, acquiring a processing result of the service request, and sending the processing result to the user terminal, the processing result including a first processing result corresponding to the first service and a second processing result corresponding to the second service, where when it is queried that the second processing result is unsuccessful, an identifier is reassigned to the service request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: YANG CHEN, QINGDONG YIN, JIANMING YAO, JINSHAN TANG
  • Publication number: 20160307265
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing orders. The methods include actions of tracking performance of a fulfillment center in fulfilling orders for items at the fulfillment center, storing historical preparation information that describes historical performance of the fulfillment center, and receiving an order for an item to be fulfilled by the fulfillment center for a fulfillment time. Additional actions include obtaining a portion of the stored historical preparation information that is relevant to fulfillment of the item by the fulfillment time, obtaining current order information that describes other orders to be fulfilled at the fulfillment center, determining whether the fulfillment center can fulfill the order by the fulfillment time based at least on the portion of the stored historical preparation information and the current order information, and providing an indication to a user device that the order cannot be fulfilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Leona Seaward, Jonathan Haynes, John Thirlaway
  • Publication number: 20160307266
    Abstract: A method for matching in a social-networking system. The method includes obtaining a first criteria from a first user, displaying, on the social-network, a first request that corresponds to the first criteria, receiving first bids from second users who satisfy the first request, filtering the first bids to a first predetermined number, displaying, to the first user, profiles associated with remaining second users, accepting, from among the remaining second users, a selected second user selected by the first user, creating a mapping between the first user and the selected second user and a mapping between the first user and each of eliminated second users, and matching the first user and the selected second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Kevin Hwading Chu
  • Publication number: 20160307267
    Abstract: An alerting method which actively alerts the user if the trading he/she is making fulfills a predetermined trading strategy is disclosed. This method firstly determines an alerting condition of a security in a client device. The alerting condition is associated with a disciplined operating rule. The client device then accesses a historical trading record of the security, and calculates a prime cost of the security based on the record. When the user uses the client device to perform a trading of the security, and inputs a volume and a price of the security, and then, according to the alerting condition and the prime cost of the security, the client device determines whether or not the input volume and price fulfills the disciplined operating rule defined by the alerting condition, so as to display an alerting message on the client device based on the result of determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Fonestock Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chu Tsung Chen, Yi Hsuan Kuo
  • Publication number: 20160307268
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for exchanging alternative currencies. The method includes creating, at an alternative currency platform, a plurality of user accounts and receiving, from a first user in the plurality of user accounts, an alternative currency exchange offer. The alternative currency exchange offer includes one or more offer terms and associated assets. Furthermore, the method includes extending the alternative currency exchange offer from the first user to the second user, in response to receiving acceptance of the offer from the second user, verifying the associated assets of the first user and the second user, and in response to verification of the assets of the first user and second user, providing settlement of the alternative currency exchange offer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: The Western Union Company
    Inventors: Evans Mehew, Gail Galuppo
  • Publication number: 20160307269
    Abstract: A trading interface is provided for displaying market data related to a tradeable object being traded at an electronic exchange. According to one example embodiment, market data related to a tradeable object is displayed in relation to a value axis, such as a price axis. As new market data is received, the displayed market data is updated and may be repositioned so that a trader can view current market conditions in a viewable portion of the interface. The interface also includes a number of market movement indicators that assist a trader in tracking market movement. These viewable references allow a trader to navigate and immediately understand the “real” direction of the market activity despite any underlying adjustment of the viewable area of the trading interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Douglas R. Duquette
  • Publication number: 20160307270
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for presenting trading information. One example method includes displaying a plurality of effective trade indicators corresponding to price levels at which effective trades have been initiated, and displaying trading information corresponding to each effective trade. The effective trades can be determined based on user-configured trade definitions. The trading information can include a traded quantity and profit/loss corresponding to each effective trade. In addition to the trading information, current market information could be displayed as well in relation to the plurality of effective trades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Alvin F. Tanpoco
  • Publication number: 20160307271
    Abstract: A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if a rules violation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: David H. Campbell
  • Publication number: 20160307272
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for reducing computational costs associated with predicting demand for products. The system typically includes a network comprising a processor and a memory storing a pricing database, a prediction rules module, a server, and a dynamic cannibalization module. The system identifies a first financial product and a plurality of competing financial products, groups the first financial product with one or more of the competing financial products based on business constraints and cannibalization analysis, and then determines an ideal price point for the first financial product based on the group of competing financial products. The invention retains the accuracy of an exhaustive system while significantly reducing the computational costs associated with such an exhaustive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Jason Thalken
  • Publication number: 20160307273
    Abstract: Computer-implemented architectures for providing a milestone-based contingent fundraising platform using actionable information from experts are described. Businesses may, in conjunction with experts, establish milestones and offer a liability based on an offered interest rate and a target amount of funds to raise. Funders may match the business' offer with funding to meet the target raise. Certain aspects of the invention isolate funds commensurate with the liability and a fender's offer from both the business and the funder until the milestone is evaluated. If the business achieves the milestone, then it may receive a portion of the funding. In some embodiments, if the business also has a revenue exceeding a threshold, then the funders may receive a portion of the revenue. Alternatively, if the business fails to achieve the milestone, then the funders may receive back their funding plus interest. Experts may be compensated with a portion of either the raised funds or the paid liability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph G. Williams, Christian Stucchio, David Kuriakose
  • Publication number: 20160307274
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to manipulating and visualizing database objects that represent layers and parts of layers in an insurance or other risk transfer program. In particular, a special purpose database system replaces manual use of spreadsheets and supports data visualization. The technology disclosed provides systems and methods for processing and displaying database objects that build a composite coverage structure capable of representing a complex program of multiple insurance policies or other risk transfer instruments during planning and placement. Reporting from the database of progress against the composite coverage structure and updating objects using a visual interface are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: OnRisk, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Joseph Sweeney, John Arthur Daves Kelley, William Harvey
  • Publication number: 20160307275
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed herein for identifying assets which pose a physical danger to a property through identification of such assets using IP-addressable devices located at a property. The system includes a communications base station at the property which receives program instructions for controlling an exchange of data between the base station, IP-addressable devices connected to the base station via a LAN, and a user computer. Responsive to installation of the program instructions, the system receives registration data from IP-addressable devices connected to the base station, the registration data based upon XML format messages between the base station and the IP-addressable devices. Upon detection of an asset which poses a physical danger to a property, the system and method execute a notification procedure to generate a message to a user computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Gary Charles English, George K. Popadin, Nicholas A. Zandes
  • Publication number: 20160307276
    Abstract: The invention relates an indemnification policy or bond for expense reimbursement and reconciliation associated with litigation. For a premium paid for the policy or bond an insured would be assured of a specified recovery amount, provided at least a fixed percentage (e.g., an amount greater than 100%) had been advanced by a litigant or its attorney, towards cost and expenses in a litigation case, and that the amount advanced was unrecoverable out of litigation proceeds. In order to facilitate such an invention, an electronic system must also be incorporated to ensure a premium pricing model for the indemnification instruments, a sufficient means to exchange and generation of a contract or policy or bond between the insured and insurer, and a means for determining, which contracts are subject to a indemnification claim event, and ultimately a means of payment between the insured and insurer for claims made against a policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: TIMOTHY J. YOUNG
  • Publication number: 20160307277
    Abstract: A system and method for statistically creating and managing general profiles, is provided in the present invention. The system comprising a plurality of communication devices connected to the internet and one or more computing systems implementing an application server. The method comprising an application server collecting particular profiles of at least one title and one attribute and or value and or associated content created by user accounts on communication devices; Analysing and identifying attributes and values of the profiles and their contents; Statistically creating and updating a general profile based on the received attributes, values and their associated contents, linking back to the related user particular profiles. Contents comprise one or more assets from one or more asset types; asset types include audio, video, images, text and other media files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Uriel Dario WENGROWER
  • Publication number: 20160307278
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for determining influence of users within a social media community for marketing purposes. For example, systems and methods described herein involve identifying terms of a marketing campaign and accessing a user context for a user. The systems and methods further involve determining a popularity metric and a relevance metric for the user based on the terms of the marketing campaign and the user context. Further, the systems and methods involve determining an influence level of the user for the marketing campaign based on the popularity metric and the relevance metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Nedim Lipka
  • Publication number: 20160307279
    Abstract: A social networking system generates one or more metrics describing user interactions with objects to describe the popularity of the objects among users. Data describing actions performed by social networking system users on objects stored by the social networking system to identify an action, the user performing the action and the object on which the action was performed. Stored actions performed on a selected object are retrieved and a subset of the actions is generated by sampling the stored actions at a sampling rate. A number of unique users included in the subset is determined and used along with the sampling rate to determine the number of unique users included in the retrieved actions, which is used to derive a metric describing user interaction with the selected object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Janaka Liyanage, David Gross-Baser
  • Publication number: 20160307280
    Abstract: A price information determination device of an embodiment includes a determiner. The determiner determines electric-price-related information to be output for a consumer from a harmonic intensity of electric current or electric power in an electric power system and from an electric power consumption reduction target; wherein the determination is made based on a correlation among the electric-price-related information, the harmonic intensity of electric current or electric power in the electric power system, and electric power consumption in the electric power system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kazuto KUBOTA, Takahisa WADA, Kyosuke KATAYAMA, Kiyotaka MATSUE, Akihiro NAGAIWA, Akihiro SUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160307281
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for processing search results. Search results are retrieved from a database of travel itineraries based on search criteria provided by a traveler, and a set of recommended travel itineraries selected from the search results based on a probabilistic profile comprising a plurality of value profiles. A set of near-optimal travel itineraries is defined for each of the value profiles. A probability is determined for each travel itinerary of the search results based on a sum of weights of each value profile including the travel itinerary in the corresponding set of near-optimal travel itineraries, and travel itineraries added to the set of recommended travel itineraries based on the probabilities. An online search may be performed to enrich the set of recommended travel itineraries depending on a distance between the probabilistic profile of the traveler and a probabilistic profile used to populate the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Laure Canis, Feten Zmerli
  • Publication number: 20160307282
    Abstract: Determining a location to consider when purchasing property may be difficult. A system for selecting one or more potentially appropriate neighborhoods for a user may generate profiles of different neighborhoods within a city. A generated user profile may be matched to the neighborhood profiles in order to provide potentially appropriate neighborhoods to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Craig Stewart
  • Publication number: 20160307283
    Abstract: A method of automatically authoring a document. The method comprises for each of a plurality of lawful aspects of a legal object repeating: accessing a hierarchal tree dataset defining questions as nodes and linking the nodes based on optional answers to each of the questions. Each of a plurality of alternative clauses for a respective lawful aspect of the lawful aspects is mapped to at least one leaf node of the hierarchal tree dataset. The method further comprises repeating the following: identifying a root to leaf path in the hierarchal tree dataset according to answers of a user to at least some of the questions during a question and answer session related to the respective lawful aspect, selecting at least one of the alternative clauses for the respective lawful aspect based on the root to leaf path, and adding the selected alternative clause(s) to an automatically authored document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Roy S. MELZER, Inbal BAUMER
  • Publication number: 20160307284
    Abstract: Today a law enforcement officer can retrieve, provide, act upon, and collaborate on existing information in real time or near real time with other officers locally, nationally and internationally. However, the increased access to and ability to create information can lead them becoming saturated and/or absorbed in the information and their effectiveness impacted. Correspondingly, providing information to and receiving information from the officer can negatively impact the operation of the overall organization that the deployed officer is part of. Critical information they provide can be lost, delayed or filtered to lower priority by disjointed systems where with many legacy systems the dominant mode of data entry has been manual. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for the officers to contextually access salient information that they want based upon their context and environment and for officers to be provided with ranked and prioritized investigative responses, duties, or cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: JORDAN PARSONS
  • Publication number: 20160307285
    Abstract: A system and method for predicting an event comprising a plurality of users having a user account comprising an identifier, and a log of current locations and historical geospatial/temporal data points of the plurality of users when using the system. The system and method are configured to receive information of a plurality of events from the plurality of users. The information of the plurality of events comprise a photograph; a sound recording; a geo-location marker; a custom message or descriptor; a digital time stamp; and/or, other location- and time-specific classifications. The system and method store the information of the plurality of events to a plurality of databases; record and perform longitudinal, geo-dependent analytics of the plurality of events; and from the information of the plurality of events predict an event of similar nature in geospatial and temporal dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Peter E Gallagher
  • Publication number: 20160307286
    Abstract: In order to improve communication and coordination among organizations, an information-management system conducts managed communication (including tracked delivery and duplication avoidance) with information systems, information sources and electronic devices used by organizations. In particular, in response to a message about a current or potentially imminent event (such as an emergency or a crisis situation), the information-management system generates an inter-organization message about the event based on information-sharing rules of at least an organization in the organizations that specify sharable information across the organizations and non-sharable information across the organizations. These inter-organization messages include the sharable information and generalized information corresponding to the non-sharable information to control distribution across the organizations of information about: the organizations, members of the organizations, and/or the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: ATHOC, Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Miasnik, Aviv Siegel, Itzhak Ziv, Ramon Jacinto Pinero, Joseph C. Ng, Oded Yehuda Shekel
  • Publication number: 20160307287
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for recommending one or more vehicles, commuting on a predefined route, for one or more requestors. The method includes determining a first additional distance traversable by each vehicle apart from the predefined route to accommodate each requestor. Further, a graph comprising a first set of nodes representing the one or more requestors, and a second set of nodes representing the one or more vehicles, is generated. Thereafter, a mapping between the first set of nodes and the second set of nodes is determined based on the first additional distance. The mapping corresponds to an allocation of a requestor to a vehicle such that an additional distance traversable by the vehicle is less than an additional distance traversable by remaining vehicles apart from the predefined route. Thereafter, the one or more vehicles are recommended for the one or more requestors based on the mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Sharmistha Jat, Koyel Mukherjee, Narayanan Unny Edakunni, Pallavi Manohar
  • Publication number: 20160307288
    Abstract: A user device allows arranging of transportation request or service and provides a user with an option to select a vehicle type and/or fare offer for the transportation. A geographical map displays the user device location determined via a GPS receiver. A user interface on the user device allows the user to enter or select a vehicle type and/or fare offer information. The geographical map is updated to show the positions of available vehicles within a defined area of a pickup location. The available vehicles may accept the fare offer or counter-offer. Based on the acceptance or counter-offer, the user may select a vehicle for transportation. The selected vehicle is notified of the selection. The geographical map is updated to show the position of the selected vehicle en route to the pickup location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Issac Yehuda, Steve Humphrey, Kevin McArdle, Kornel Cyrzyk, Armand Ensanian, Daniel V. Ensanian
  • Publication number: 20160307289
    Abstract: A system and method of providing information in connection with one or more services on a computing device is described. The system can receive data in connection with a location-based service from a remote system and can programmatically display information about the service on or as part of a user interface of the service application. A system can dynamically display content to instruct a user of the computing device to go to a particular location and to perform a particular task associated with the service based on the user's current condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Maya Paritosh Choksi, Christine Tao, Andrew Timothy Szybalski, John David West
  • Publication number: 20160307290
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating multi-level nesting of batch buffers at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating a hardware extension to accommodate a plurality of batch buffers to engage in a multi-level nesting, where the plurality of batch buffers are associated with a graphics processor of a computing device. The method may further include facilitating the multi-level nesting of the plurality of batch buffers, where the multi-level nesting is spread over a plurality of levels associated with the plurality of batch buffers, where the plurality of levels include more than two levels of nesting associated with more than two batch buffers of the plurality of batch buffers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: HEMA CHAND NALLURI, Balaji Vembu, Jeffery S. Boles
  • Publication number: 20160307291
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques related to media caching. A media hub device may include a media hub device configured to execute an operation on a current frame of media having a frame period. The media hub device may include a cache configured to provide, to a media accelerator of the media hub device, data associated with the frame period of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ramanathan Sethuraman, Arojit Roychowdhury, Ajaya V. Durg, Rajeev D. Muralidhar
  • Publication number: 20160307292
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising: medical image obtaining means for obtaining a medical image of an object in a first shape state; deformation information obtaining means for obtaining deformation information indicating deformation of the object from the first shape state to a second shape state; imaging region setting means for setting an imaging region of the object in the second shape state; deformation image generating means for generating a conversion image by converting the medical image deformed based on the deformation information in accordance with the imaging region; and display image generating means for generating a display image by overlapping the conversion image and the imaging region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Endo, Kiyohide Satoh
  • Publication number: 20160307293
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device capable of reproducing an original thin linear image region from a linear image region, which has become thick due to upscaling processing for a low-resolution image. In an image processing device (100), an amplitude estimation unit (1) calculates a magnification a in a local region so that an input image signal becomes similar to a low-resolution pattern PtnL. A similarity calculation unit (2) outputs a similarity s, which has a great value, at a pixel position which is similar to the low-resolution pattern PtnL. An FIR filter unit (4) sets an FIR filter coefficient by a difference pattern PtnDiff, receives a product of the magnification a and the similarity s, and performs FIR filter processing, and thereby acquires a high frequency component ?D. Then, when the high frequency component ?D is added to an input image Din by an adder (5), an output image Dout having excellent definition is acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimitsu MURAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160307294
    Abstract: To smoothly transition between zoom levels for patterns displayed along paths (such as roads and other paths) depicted on interactive digital maps, instances of a graphic element (such as a dash, a dot, a two-way arrow, etc.) may be arranged along a path. The displayed instances may appear to increase or decrease in density as zoom levels change. For example, a plurality of instances of the graphic element may be displayed when displaying a digital map at a first zoom level. A first subset of the plurality of instances of the graphic element may be displayed when displaying the digital map at a second zoom level. The transition from displaying the plurality of instances to displaying the first subset of the plurality of instances may be gradual. In some embodiments, the size and/or transparency of the displayed instances may change in accordance with changed zoom levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Travis McPhail
  • Publication number: 20160307295
    Abstract: Some aspects relate to reception from a user, via a sensor, first data indicative of activity of the user, determination of one or more values of a metric based on the first data, determination of a display scale based on the one or more values, reception from the user, via the sensor, second data indicative of activity of the user over a time interval, determination of a second value of the metric based on the second data, generation of a first graphical indicator representing the second value based on the display scale and the second value, and display of the first graphical indicator on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Timothy Roberts
  • Publication number: 20160307296
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of image processing technologies. Embodiments of the present invention provide an image zooming method and a terminal device, where the method includes: acquiring a displacement ?S that a terminal device moves relative to a holder of the terminal device; acquiring a time ?T consumed when the terminal device moves the displacement ?S; determining a zoom ratio of the terminal device according to the displacement ?S and the time ?T; and zooming, according to the zoom ratio, an image displayed on a display screen of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Wenxu Lin
  • Publication number: 20160307297
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for a non-uniform rasterizer. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a graphics processor to process graphics data and render images using the graphics data; and a non-uniform rasterizer within the graphics processor to determine different resolutions to be used for different regions of an image, the non-uniform rasterizer to receive a plurality of polygons to be rasterized and to responsively rasterize the polygons in accordance with the different resolutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: TOMAS G. AKENINE-MOLLER, ROBERT T. TOTH, BJORN JOHNSSON, JON N. HASSELGREN
  • Publication number: 20160307298
    Abstract: An image signal processing system may include processing circuitry that may reduce banding artifacts in image data to be depicted on a display. The processing circuitry may receive a first pixel value associated with a first pixel of the image data and detect a first set of pixels located in a first direction along a same row of pixels or a same column of pixels with respect to the first pixel. The first set of pixels is associated with a first band. The processing circuitry may then interpolate a second pixel value based on an average of a first set of pixel values that correspond to the first set of pixels and a distance between the first pixel and a closest pixel in the first band. The processing circuitry may then output the second pixel value for the first pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Guy Cote, Haiyan He