Abstract: A transaction processing apparatus includes: a communication unit which performs communication relating to a settlement process of transaction content using a card, with a predetermined settlement destination apparatus; a magnetic card reader unit which reads card information, which is used in the settlement of the transaction using the card, from the card; an input unit to which information regarding various matters relating to the settlement process of the transaction content using the card is input; and a printing unit which prints the card information and various matters of the transaction content as an offline settlement slip, according to the settlement process of the transaction content using the card, when the communication relating to the settlement process in the communication unit is not available. The risk of the transaction information regarding a settlement process performed in an offline state being taken is reduced.

Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method includes receiving a request to perform a transaction between a merchant and a user having a mobile device and an account at a financial institution, determining a first location of the user based on a location of the mobile device, determining a second location of the user based on a location of the merchant, comparing the first and second location to ensure a match, receiving an identifier, the identifier being embedded in a code displayable on the mobile device, and transmitting an indication that the transaction has been completed, the transaction being completed based on the identifier and based on the match of the first and second location.

Abstract: In a general aspect, a method can include establishing a contactless communication channel with a contactless transaction terminal and receiving a command from the contactless transaction terminal. The command can include an identifier of an application. The method can also include selecting, in a table in response to the command, an instance identifier corresponding with an instance of the application from a plurality of instance identifiers corresponding, respectively, with different instances of the application. Each instance identifier can be associated with a state indicator, and the state indicator associated with the selected instance identifier can specify that the corresponding instance of the application is in a selectable state.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for a system for providing a virtual value token. The system, method, and computer program product are configured to receive a request for a token associated with a virtual value; generate the token associated with the virtual value, wherein the virtual value is funded via a known currency; determine that a user is initiating a transaction using the token; determine a local currency for the transaction; convert, using a computing device processor, at least a portion of the virtual value into a converted amount in the local currency; and complete the transaction using the converted amount of the token. The virtual value may be based on a defined value, such as a known amount on a specific day, or a relative value, such as the current value of an underlying asset.

Abstract: An approach is provided for securely authenticating an identity of a user participating in an electronic transaction. A request for a biometric identifier/security question is converted to a first Quick Response (QR) code. Based on user attributes and a request from the user's mobile device to a computer to initiate the transaction, the first QR code is disassembled into first and second portions. The first portion, but not the second portion, is sent to the mobile device. Responsive to the mobile device reassembling the first QR code, receiving and converting the biometric identifier/answer to the security question to a second QR code, disassembling the second QR code into first and second portions, and transmitting the first portion of the second QR code to the computer, the second QR code is reassembled. The transaction is authorized based on whether the biometric identifier/answer matches a data repository record.

Abstract: A method and system for creating an assurance level based on authentication data attributes using a computer device coupled to a database are provided. The method includes receiving an authorization request associated with the financial transaction from the sender, the authorization request including a fraud risk assessment of the financial transaction determined by the sender using an authentication response received from the computer device by the sender, the authorization request including one or more reason codes associated with the sender fraud risk assessment. The method further includes transmitting the received authorization request to an issuer associated with the cardholder.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first login unit configured to perform login processing on condition that a user is authenticated based on authentication information input by the user, and a second login unit configured to perform login processing on condition that money is inserted by a user. The apparatus further includes an image forming unit configured to perform image formation according to an instruction from a user who has logged in via the first login unit or the second login unit, and a detection unit configured to detect occurrence of an error that requires maintenance, during the image formation performed by the image forming unit. The apparatus further includes a display unit configured to display a different screen depending on whether the user has logged in via the first login unit or the second login unit, when the occurrence of the error is detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a web page presented to a user includes a header section that substantially spans the top of the web page and provides a menu of selectable options as well as a search input box. A product display region may be presented below the header and display images and information about a selected product. A product carousel may be presented below the product display region and show information about other products in a horizontally scrollable list. Two columns of various types of product review information provided by sources such as professional reviewers, existing owners, and the user's friends may be displayed below the product carousel. A sortable and filterable grid of products may be displayed below the review information such that the user's attention is drawn to the variety of products available for purchase.

Abstract: Information is gathered from merchants such as car dealers by online forms or other means soliciting particular differentiating factors such as services and specialties (e.g., languages spoken, financing options, other information). When a consumer desires to perform a search, he or she is asked by the exemplary illustrative non-limiting implementation to input a geographical location. The illustrative exemplary non-limiting implementation may then access the merchant database and retrieve listings that comply with the geographical restraint the user requested. Those listings may be further filtered based on the user's specification of additional constraints related to specialties and/or servicesBy conveniently selecting such options (e.g., in one implementation, by simply checking a box on a web page), the users can be automatically presented with a new, filtered listing that lists only those merchants meeting the predetermined criteria the user has specified.

Abstract: A data mining system and method retrieve data related to an item from a database. A survey is generated for presentation in a game. The survey includes the retrieved item data and solicits from a user input data pertaining to the retrieved item data. The input data is received from the survey and stored in a database with the item data. The input data is transmitted to the game and incorporated into the game such that the user interacts with the input data as part of playing the game.

Abstract: A system functions to recommend equipment expansions, additions and/or substitutions; interconnections; supplemental capabilities; features; etc. based upon a knowledge of a consumer's existing audio and/or visual system configuration.

Abstract: Methods and systems for estimating a probability of re-sharing information include extracting keywords from a set of documents addressed to a user; weighting the keywords from the set of documents according a metric for the user's interest in the keywords' respective source documents to create an interest model; receiving a new document having one or more keywords; and determining a likelihood that the user will re-share the new document, where the likelihood is based on the interest model and the one or more keywords present in the new document.

Abstract: A tag recommendation for an item to be tagged is generated by: selecting a set of candidate neighboring items in an electronic social network based on context of items in the electronic social network respective to an owner of the item to be tagged; selecting a set of nearest neighboring items from the set of candidate neighboring items based on distances of the candidate neighboring items from the item to be tagged as measured by an item comparison metric; and selecting at least one tag recommendation based on tags of the items of the set of nearest neighboring items. The item comparison metric may comprise a Mahalanobis distance metric trained on the set of candidate neighboring items to correlate the trained Mahalanobis distance between pairs of items of the set of candidate neighboring items with an overlap metric indicative of overlap of the tag sets of the two items.

Abstract: RFID data is utilized for billing and management of 3D glasses in a cinema theater or group of theaters. RFID pedestals identify privately owned or rented 3D glasses brought into a theater by a customer. An invoice is automatically generated billing the theater operator for the use of the 3D glasses. Usage of the glasses along with other data collected about the customers is utilized for targeted advertising (e.g., e-mails, texts, selected advertise in pre-show, etc.). The invention reduces up front cost in installing a reusable 3D glasses system.

Abstract: A computing method and system is disclosed for analyzing interactions between a user and a customer support agent. Typical interactions include inquiries about a product or service, and a service call. When the user purchases a good or service, or successfully completes a service call, the customer converts, e.g. the sales pitch or service solution was successful. If the customer does not convert, then the interaction between user and agent is analyzed to determine why the user did not convert and whether the user should be categorized for potential retargeting.

Abstract: A system for diagnosing an object that includes a preset of an object, a visual representation associated with one or more sub objects of at least part of the object, and a module to analyze the applicable visual representation. The visual representation is captured by a device and provides a specified status of the object. Further the analysis provides a measure of fit between the preset and the specified status of the object as captured and is carried out based on keypoint descriptors used to separate sub objects on the applicable visual representation. The device has a reproduction capturing device and data connectivity.

Abstract: Methods and arrangements allow merchants to set up advertising campaigns that distribute special offers or discounts and allows users to forward the special offers to friends. The forwarding of the offers could expose merchants to offering more discounts than budgeted and this is a concern. The invention addresses this by having the forwarded offer check with the merchant server or advertising server to see if there is enough budget in the campaign left to allow the issuance of the forwarded offer, and if so, the server issues a new identifier. If not, the user receiving the forwarded offer receives a message saying the campaign has expired. Since every offer has its own identifier, the forwarding of the offers can be tracked, as well as the redemption, which allows for social metric collection.

Abstract: A system for user association attribution may include one or more processors and memory. The one or more processors may receive information pertaining to relationship events that each correspond to a participant and one of several entities in a social network, allocate, for each relationship event, attribution values to touchpoints accessed by the corresponding entity prior to the relationship event. The processors may further determine a weight for each of the attribution values allocated to each of the touchpoints, where the weight for each of the attribution values is based at least in part on each of the relationship events for which each of the attribution values was allocated, generate an aggregate attribution value for each of the touchpoints based at least in part on the weighted attribution values allocated to each of the touchpoints, and provide, to the participant, each aggregate attribution value generated for each of the touchpoints.

Abstract: Provided is a method for advertising and retailing products and services in cloud gaming environments. A game provider may configure its cloud gaming environment to display third party advertisement before, during, or after the game. The advertisement may be in the form of timeout screens, banners, gaming objects, prizes, and other forms associated with typical cloud gaming environments. Third party advertisers benefit from additional advertisement exposure in these cloud gaming environments, which tend to be dynamic and interactive, and target new audience. Advertisement interaction levels may be measure to determine effectiveness and, for example, to collect certain fees from advertisers. An interaction level of interaction may be determined based on a number of clicks on advertisement objects, duration of exposure to the advertisement, a number of players, and various other factors. Game providers may modify their cloud gaming environments to improve these interaction levels and, as a result, collect more.

Abstract: A duplicate keyword selection engine facilitates identification and selection of duplicate keywords that are associated with advertisements and advertising campaigns. The selection engine selects duplicate keywords from one or more sets of duplicate keywords. The duplicate keywords can be selected based on selection criterion specified by the advertiser. The selection criterion for selecting duplicate keywords for inclusion in set of duplicate keywords can be a relative attribute value that a keyword must have relative to attribute values of other keywords in the set of duplicate keywords to which the keyword belongs. For example, the selection criterion can require a duplicate keyword to have a highest attribute value relative to attribute values of the other keywords in the set of duplicate keywords.

Abstract: Targeting advertisements to a user on multiple devices includes: selecting an access point; maintaining an internet access log to track web activity across multiple devices within said access point; identifying the multiple devices involved in the web activity; distinguishing patterns of web activity for the multiple devices to identify users of the devices; generating a user interest vector populated with user interests derived from the patterns of web activity; initializing a master log of user interest vectors for all users within the access point, wherein the master log maps the users with the multiple devices; and updating the master log.

Abstract: A pay-per-click system and method for presenting pay-per-click information are disclosed. In one of many possible embodiments, information is provided remotely from a remote subsystem to an access device. The information includes hidden information and at least one link to the hidden information. The access device presents the link for consideration by a user of the access device. The hidden information is kept hidden by the access device until the user selects the link. The access device reveals the hidden information in response to the user selecting the link. The access device is able to reveal the hidden information by relying on information stored directly on the access device and without obtaining additional information from the remote subsystem or from another remote location.

Abstract: Merchants create ecommerce-enabled ad units advertising items offered by the merchants. The ad units contain functionality enabling customers to purchase the items by interacting with the ad units. The ad units have associated bid prices that the merchants agree to pay for sales through the ad units. The merchants provide the ad units to a broker. The broker publishes the ad units on web pages provided by publishers as comparison shop ad units that contain multiple ad units and functionality for navigating among them. A customer receiving a web page interacts with an ad unit to purchase the item. During the interactions, the broker dynamically updates the ad unit to conduct the transaction.

Abstract: Anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing and other anti-crimes measures are enforced in compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act in the USA or equivalent laws in other countries, and crimes in financial transaction activities such as online banking, trading, money services, shopping, payment, etc. are reduced. Embedded identification information is read from a machine-readable official government issued identification document such as a passport, driver's license, etc., and such information is sent to a financial institution for approval and for anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing and other anti-crimes purposes.

Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods provide media content through an electronic commerce server. In one implementation, a method for providing electronic content is provided. The method includes receiving an order of a user. The order of the user may comprise a request of the user for a physical copy of media content. The commerce server may determine whether to provide to the user an electronic copy of the media content based at least on the order. Further, a request to access the electronic copy of the media content is received from the user. The method further grants the user access to the electronic copy of the media content based at least on the request to access the electronic copy of the media content.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for providing price evaluation based on electronic receipt data.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for providing proximity-based product recommendations. A computing device detects an interaction between a product and a user. The computing device provides to the user a recommendation of another product, based at least in part on proximity between the another product and the location of the product in the detected product interaction.

Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A first third-party application program that was developed by a first entity receives a first request to purchase a first product for use within the first third-party application program. In response to receiving the first request, a purchasing user interface is customized to include first details that are specific to the first product. The purchasing user interface that includes the first details is displayed. A second request to purchase a second product for use within the second third-party application program is received from a second third-party application program that was developed by a second entity. In response to receiving the second request, the purchasing user interface is customized to include second details that are specific to the second product. The purchasing user interface that includes the second details is displayed.

Abstract: Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention allow users to efficiently manipulate, analyze, and transmit eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL”) reports. They allow users to automatically build financial reports that are acceptable to governing agencies such as the IRS. In one embodiment, the reports are developed by a parser that transforms text documents into software elements containing a format with a hierarchal relationship between the software elements, and an editor that develops reports by referencing the software elements transformed from the text documents. Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention also enable reports to be automatically scheduled by gathering desired information from an accounting system, formatting the information into an XBRL document, and transmitting it to an end source.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing perspective to market data. In one embodiment, market data is displayed in a three-dimensional perspective that emphasizes important aspects of market data while minimizing less important aspects. In some embodiments, market data is mapped to an object that automatically moves to display the inside market. In another embodiment, orders can be entered, manipulated, and/or canceled in conjunction with, or separately from, the object. Single and combination gestures can be used to perform one or more commands for entering orders and viewing market data. In one embodiment, multiple displays from one or more different types of computing devices are used in conjunction with each other for operating and/or displaying a portion of the aspects of the disclosed technology. In another embodiment, a filter component is used to show select market data and to enter or trigger specific types of market orders.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for a system for providing a multi-currency token. The system, method, and computer program product are configured to receive a request for a multi-currency token, wherein the multi-currency token is associated with at least two financial institution partners; determine a value of the multi-currency token; establish currency conversion parameters for the multi-currency token based on at least one of the value of the multi-currency token and a conversion rate between currencies associated with the at least two financial institution partners; determine that a transaction is being performed with the multi-currency token, the transaction associated with a local currency; and complete the transaction with the multi-currency token in the local currency when the local currency is a currency associated with at least one of the financial institution partners.

Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for executing a script to retrieve chargeback records. The method may execute a script for retrieving one or more chargeback records for one or more merchants from one or more web portals of one or more financial institutions. The one or more chargeback records may represent a return of funds to one or more purchasers by the one or more financial institutions. The script may have commands. These commands may navigate a web browser to a web portal associated with at least one financial institution. These commands may also provide authentication information for the at least one merchant into the web portal, access the one or more chargeback records for the at least one merchant, and download the one or more chargeback records. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.

Abstract: A method of processing a set of data collected by at least one sensor at successive points on the travel over a plot of land by at least one vehicle. Each piece of the data being recorded with a time lag in relation to the vehicle passing a given point on the plot of the land, and being associated with a recording time and with a geographical position of a measuring point supplied by a geolocation system. An optimum difference value is estimated by minimizing a degree of projection of a three-dimensional map of values measured at each geographical point, and correction of the data being measured from this difference.

Abstract: Fueling transactions (and other types of transactions) may be verified for legitimacy and validity by recording audio, video and/or images of the transaction as it occurs. The recordings may then be indexed according to one or more transaction parameters such as a driver identifier, a vehicle or transportation unit identifier, an invoice number, a fueling station and the like. A carrier associated with a driver and/or vehicle or other transportation unit may specify which transactions are to be recorded. Accordingly, the fueling station may automatically determine whether to record a transaction upon receiving a transaction initiation request. Transaction recordings may be made based on transaction recordation parameters defined by a carrier and stored and indexed based on transaction storing parameters.

Abstract: A centralized obituary service that effectively and efficiently distributes death notices, obituaries, to the general public. The service utilizes a user location for a user account in order to display obituaries from a plurality of obituaries to the user account. More specifically, the user location is compared to biographical information of each of the obituaries in order to identify location-related obituaries. Said location-related obituaries are then displayed with a user personal computing (PC) device. Next, the service prompts the user account to enter a search query request through the user PC device, wherein the search query request includes a set of biographical criteria. A set of biographically matching obituaries are then identified by a remote server. The biographical information for each within the set of biographically matching obituaries meets at least one of the biographical criteria. Finally, the set of biographically-matching obituaries is displayed by the user PC device.

Abstract: Providing multiple roles in computer-implemented workspaces. When a first computer workspace in which a user has been assigned a first role and a second role is accessed, a first subset of content defined by the first role and a second subset of content defined by the second role can be made accessible to the user. Input to switch access from the first computer workspace to a second computer workspace that is different from the first computer workspace and in which the user is assigned only the second role can be received. In response, only the second subset of content can be provided to the user and access to the first subset of content can be prohibited.

Abstract: A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically using the electronically received directive information to electronically direct control of the at least partial preparation of the ingestible product designated to be ingested by the particular individual living being upon electronically verifying, thru electronic use of the directive information that the authority is authorized to issue the controlled substance instruction and that the controlled substance instruction has been issued by the authority. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

Abstract: A system for tracking position and identification of a moving element on a conveyor system having a track, the system including: a machine readable medium provided to one of the moving element or the track, wherein the machine readable medium is configured with at least two channels with a predetermined phase difference therebetween; a sensor provided to the other of the moving element or the track, wherein the sensor is configured to read the at least two channels; and a controller configured to receive data from the sensor and determine a position and/or identification of the moving element on the track based on the phase difference.

Abstract: A graphical processing unit having an implementation of a hierarchical hash table thereon, a method of establishing a hierarchical hash table in a graphics processing unit and GPU computing system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the graphics processing unit includes: (1) a plurality of parallel processors, wherein each of the plurality of parallel processors includes parallel processing cores, a shared memory coupled to each of the parallel processing cores, and registers, wherein each one of the registers is uniquely associated with one of the parallel processing cores and (2) a controller configured to employ at least one of the registers to establish a hierarchical hash table for a key-value pair of a thread processing on one of the parallel processing cores.

Abstract: Provided are a cloud server-based image processing method performed by an image processing terminal, and the image processing terminal and system therefor. The method includes determining whether an image processing function is to be performed by the image processing terminal or a server; and controlling at least one of the image processing terminal and the server to perform the image processing function, based on a result of the determining. When it is determined that the image processing function is to be performed by the server, data and a request signal related to the image processing function are transmitted to the server.

Abstract: An input data controlling unit preferentially outputs pixel data of an area label for which the operation result is held in a cache. In regard to pixel data of an area label for which the operation result is not held, the input data controlling unit once accumulates the plurality of pixel data in an internal FIFO and then outputs the accumulated pixel data in a lump, to suppress occurrence of a cache miss in the cache. Besides, when accumulating the pixel data in the FIFO, the input data controlling unit reduces a frequency that the area label is changed, by accumulating the pixel data in the FIFO until the FIFO comes to be full of pixel data as much as possible, thereby further suppressing the cache miss.

Abstract: A first derived matrix of transport coefficients and a second derived matrix of transport coefficients are derived from a primary matrix of transport coefficients. Each of the transport coefficients describes transport of a respective image forming element from a first position onto one or more image forming elements at a second position. An approximate inverse of the first derived matrix is ascertained. A modified version of a projection image is determined from the projection image, the approximated inverse of the first derived matrix, and the second derived matrix. The modified version of the projection image is rendered from the first position onto a physical medium at the second position.

Abstract: A system (28, 32) generates an image registration map. The system (28, 32) includes one or more processors (32) which receive a first image and a second image. Corresponding interest points in the first image and the second image are identified. Corresponding structures in the first and second images are identified and corresponding boundary points are identified on their boundaries. A registration map is generated from pairs of the corresponding interest points and a subset of pairs of the corresponding boundary points. The registration map is applied to one of the first and second images to register the one image to the other and propagate objects of interest over.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for resampling a digital image. According to an implementation, a source image can be presharpened and upsampled to a first upsampled image having a specified image size and a first level of presharpening. The source image is also presharpened and upsampled to a second upsampled image having the specified image size and second level of presharpening that is less than the first level of presharpening. The first and second upsampled images are deblurred. A binary edge mask image is generated from the deblurred, upsampled images. The binary edge mask image is dilated and blurred to generate a deep mask image. The first and second, deblurred upsampled images are blended together using the deep mask image.

Abstract: A method of producing a high resolution image includes generating high resolution image data for a high resolution image using a processor, wherein the high resolution image has a resolution higher than a resolution of an original image, determining image content of the high resolution image data, and selectively adding dither noise to the high resolution image data based upon the image content of the high resolution image data to produce final image data.

Abstract: An image processing device in which a high-resolution viewpoint image and a disparity map is obtained with a simple configuration. A resolution of a viewpoint image imaged at a central viewpoint at first resolution is converted to a resolution of a viewpoint image imaged at a peripheral viewpoint at second resolution which is lower than the first resolution, and the viewpoint image at the central viewpoint and the viewpoint image at the peripheral viewpoint both having a same resolution are generated. Further, a disparity map based on a correlation value between the viewpoint image at the central viewpoint and the viewpoint image at the peripheral viewpoint both having the same resolution is generated.

Abstract: A method for performing super-resolution on an input image having low resolution, comprises generating a generic training data set of descriptors extracted from regions of training images, and for each patch of the input image, determining a defined number of nearest neighbor regions, extracting example patches from the nearest neighbor regions and collecting the example patches in an example patch data base, determining a combination of low-resolution example patches that, according to their descriptors, optimally approximate the current patch, and constructing a high-resolution patch, wherein a super-resolved image is obtained.

Abstract: A super-resolution method for generating a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) blurred image is provided. The method is based on a transform-invariant directional total variation (TI-DTV) approach with Schattenp=1/2 (S1/2-norm) and L1/2-norm penalties. The S1/2-norm and the L1/2-norm are used to induce a lower-rank component and a sparse component of the LR blurred image so as to determine an affine transform to be adopted in the TI-DTV approach. In particular, the affine transform is determined such that a weighted sum of the S1/2-norm and the L1/2-norm is substantially minimized. Based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), an iterative algorithm is developed to determine the affine transform. The determined affine transform is used to transform a candidate HR image to a transformed image used in computing a directional total variation (DTV), which is involved in determining the HR image.

Abstract: An image registration server which can communicate with a client device, includes an image data receiving device for receiving image data transmitted from the client device, an image data generation device for generating image data representing the same image as an image represented by the image data received by the image data receiving device and having a different form of representation therefrom, and an image data storage device for storing the image data generated by the image data generation device so as to be accessible.

Abstract: A method for combining images includes capturing a first image including a subject from a first camera. A second image is captured from a second camera and the second image includes the subject. First pre-processing functions are applied on the first image to produce a first processed image. The first pre-processing functions include applying a distortion component of a rotation matrix to the first image. The rotation matrix defines a corrected relationship between the first and the second image. Second pre-processing functions are applied on the second image to produces a second processed image. The second pre-processing functions include applying the rotation matrix to the second image. The first processed image and the second processed image are blended in a processing unit to form a composite image.