Abstract: An apparatus for enhanced outreach, the apparatus comprising a computing device configured to receive user data, identify one or more sets of potential data as a function of user data wherein each set of potential data is associated with a potential target, calculate one or more outreach indexes as a function of the one or more sets of potential data comprising, receiving at least one indicator weighting, calculating the one or more outreach indexes as a function of the at least one indicator weighting, sort the one or more sets of potential data as a function of the one or more outreach indexes, determine one or more outreach recommendations as a function of the one or more outreach indexes and the one of more sets of potential data, create a user interface data structure and visually display the user interface data structure as a function of a graphical user interface.

Abstract: An information processing device system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a customer identifier (ID) that identifies a customer at a store; generate action information that represents an action of the customer in the store; and assign points in association with the customer ID based on the action information.

Abstract: Systems and methods relating to a keyboard interceptor on a mobile device are disclosed. The keyboard interceptor receives a first input and generates a search query based on the first input. Data is located based on the search query, the located data being associated with a record, the record comprising a record identifier. The located data comprises at least one of: a coupon code, and one or more survey questions. The keyboard application associates a GUI element with the record identifier and receives a second input, by a user, corresponding to selection of the GUI element. Responsive to receiving the second input, the keyboard application performs an action comprising one of: passing the coupon code into a text field within a webpage, and displaying the one or more survey questions in the GUI of the mobile device.

Abstract: An information presentation method includes: sequentially obtaining, from a first appliance, appliance data including an operation status of the first appliance; receiving, from a second appliance different from the first appliance, notification of an opportunity of presenting information by the second appliance; determining, after receiving the notification in the receiving, whether to present the information by the second appliance, based on the appliance data obtained in the sequentially obtaining; and instructing the second appliance to present the information when determining to present the information by the second appliance in the determining, and prohibiting the second appliance from presenting the information when determining not to present the information by the second appliance in the determining.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and using seasonal affinity scores is disclosed. A set of user-specific historical transaction data is obtained and a user-specific affinity score including at least one of a user-specific season affinity score or a user-specific seasonal theme affinity score is determined by determining one or more product affinity scores for a set of product taxonomies and combining the one or more product affinity scores with one or more product index scores to generate the user-specific affinity score. The product affinity scores are determined by a trained scoring calculation model configured to receive the set of user-specific historical transaction data. One or more interface elements are selected based on the user-specific affinity score and an interface is generated including the one or more interface elements.

Abstract: A method implemented by a computer comprising collecting historical data for a plurality of items; categorizing each of the plurality of items; assigning at least one of the plurality of items as an index item for at least another of the plurality of items; collecting data for a plurality of context parameters related to at least one of the plurality of items; and forecasting a value for one of the plurality of items needed over a future period of time, wherein the method reduces a data storage capacity requirement for the computer and increases said computer's processing speed.

Abstract: A transaction card package assembly comprising at least one transaction card, at least one sample product, and a card holder, and methods and system for processing the same.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for generating subscription recommendations suggesting ways that one or more creators of content may increase subscribership and/or prominence of the one or more creators. Subscription recommendations can involve changing and/or updating subscription levels offered by a content creator to potential, existing, or previous subscribers of the content creator. Current and/or historical performance data associated with the content creator, other content creators, and/or the consumers making up a community of subscribers may be analyzed in order to generate subscription recommendations.

Abstract: The subject technology predicts consumer sentiment based on demographics and other statics features of the consumer as well as dynamic features generated based on engagement of the consumer with previously presented targeted content. The sentiment predictions are used to recommend and generated new targeted content that is published to the consumer.

Abstract: Systems and methods for real-time bidding of advertisement during live event broadcasting are disclosed including calculating intensity levels during a live event, opening advertisement space on screen for real-time bidding based on intensity levels, and displaying an advertisement in the advertisement space as an overlay on video images of the live event broadcasting.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of evaluating market participants' stock portfolios and distributing actionable environmental, social and governance (ESG) stock data over a network to multiple remote market participant terminals allowing market participants to easily rebalance their portfolios so that their investments align with their personal values or social tolerances. The method comprises receiving from multiple sources non-standardized electronic ESG data for a plurality of securities, mapping, scaling and normalizing the data to present a final impact score that the market participant can act upon.

Abstract: Provided is an application of the described (or similar) decision-theoretic approaches to ensure the quality, output and timeliness of manufactured products for flexible and adaptable production systems, by determining and integrating suitable quality assurance measures which are integrated into the production process in an optimal manner. Thereby, a pareto-optimal sequence of production steps and quality assurance mechanisms are determined that provides an optimal trade-off between target product quality, production time and production costs. Since the approach is performed in an automated way, it can even be performed for flexible production scenarios down to a production of lot size I.

Abstract: Systems and methods for change management are provided. An electronic product and/or service provisioning system is tracked as a function of experiences. Changes are implemented at a process level, where two or more processes make up an experience.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes a differential information generation unit (110) and an evaluation information output unit (120). The differential information generation unit (110) determines a combination of a first product package design and a second product package design, based on input information, and generates differential information indicating magnitude of a difference between the first product package design and the second product package design. The evaluation information output unit (120) evaluates a conspicuous degree of the difference between the first product package design and the second product package design, based on the differential information, and outputs evaluation information indicating an evaluation result of the conspicuous degree.

Abstract: Techniques for managing a collaborative data management and deployment platform and generating customizable blueprints for a data deployment program are disclosed. Techniques include receiving one or more parameters for generating the blueprint for the program, receiving a selection of one or more blueprint components satisfying the one or more parameters, and generating the blueprint template as a function of the selected components. In addition, one or more data sets for use in a program are obtained. A selection of the blueprint template is received. Objects of the selected blueprint are mapped to the one or more data sets. The selected blueprint is mapped to one or more third-party data channels.

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for deriving data elements from queries. In some implementations, a query is received, and one or more computers determine that the query involves an operation that satisfies one or more criteria. In response data is saved that indicates a derived data element corresponding to the operation. The one or more computers provide data causing a representation of the derived data element to be presented, such as data causing an interactive control representing the derived data element to be presented on a user interface.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for use in the implementation of a brain-computer interface that tracks brain activity, with or without additional sensors providing additional sources of information, while presenting and updating a User Interface/User Experience that is strategically designed for high speed and accuracy of human-machine interaction. Embodiments described herein also relate to the implementation of a hardware agnostic brain-computer interface that uses neural signals to mediate user manipulation of machines and devices.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to impute media consumption behavior are disclosed. An example system includes one or more media meters to obtain tuning data, one or more people meters to obtain viewing data, and one or more servers to, in response to a determination that a difference satisfies a first threshold, determine that a first subset of the tuning data associated with first panelist households having tuned to first media in a first area exhibits local bias, determine that a second subset of the viewing data associated with second panelist households having viewed the first media in the second area represents heavy viewing, and impute the second subset of the viewing data for the first subset of the tuning data in response to the second subset of the viewing data representing heavy viewing.

Abstract: The described implementations are operable to determine potential objects of interest to a user based on a blend of the user's long-term behavior and short-term interests. Long term user behavior may be determined for the user over a period of time and represented as continuous data. Short-term interest may be determined based on objects with which the user has recently interacted, and attributes of those objects may be represented together as continuous data corresponding to the short-term user interest. The continuous data of the short-term user interest and long-term user behavior may be blended to produce a user embedding. The user embedding may then be compared with objects to determine objects that are of potential interest to the user.

Abstract: In one example embodiment, a communication group for a communication space is determined from among a plurality of communication groups of a communication system based on comparisons of a plurality of attributes of the communication space to corresponding attributes and content of the plurality of communication groups. The communication space includes communication sessions between members and the plurality of communication groups include one or more from a group of communication spaces and communication threads. The communication space is placed within the communication group on the communication system.

Abstract: An abstraction system for generating a standard customer profile may receive customer data and perform unsupervised learning on the customer data to produce a plurality of clusters of customers with a plurality of features in common, determine that a cluster represents a standard customer and store a plurality of standard customer profiles based on the determined standard customers. The abstraction system may also provide the standard customer profiles to a cognitive system for generating synthetic transaction data based on the standard customer. Generating synthetic transaction data includes selecting a standard customer profile as a goal, simulating a plurality of transactions, comparing the plurality of transactions with the goal, providing feedback, adjusting a policy based on the feedback, repeating until a degree of similarity between the plurality of transactions and the goal is higher than a predefined threshold, and outputting the resulting plurality of transactions as the synthetic transaction data.

Abstract: Variants of an application, such as user interface variants and/or logic variants, can be used in a production environment as part of a designed experiment. An experiment manager can cause the application to operate based on different variants for different users and/or instances of input data. Synchronous and/or asynchronous results can be collected that indicate impacts of the variants at the application and/or other downstream systems. Such asynchronous and/or synchronous results can be used to prove or disprove a hypothesis associated with the designed experiment.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a data exchange method and apparatus, a readable storage medium, and a data exchange system. The method includes: determining whether each range in received data to be converted needs range conversion; in response to determining a range needs range conversion, acquiring a code and a name description of the range to be converted, and matching the code and the name description of the range to be converted with a preset matching rule; in response to a successful matching, performing range conversion on the range to be converted; in response to a failed matching, marking the range to be converted of which matching fails; and storing a converted range in a database, and storing a marked range in the database; and storing each range in the data to be converted in the database, to complete a data exchange process.

Abstract: A system for selecting an alimentary provider is disclosed. The system comprises a computing device configured to receive in input from a user device. Computing device is configured to generate a plurality of alimentary providers as a function of the input by identifying alimentary providers having a location within a threshold distance of the current geographical location of the user device. Computing device is configured to compute an alimentary combination factor for each alimentary provider as a function of a first machine-learning process. Computing device is configured to determine an alimentary combination assembly time and to select a transfer path to destination. Computing device is configured to output an alimentary combination total time. Computing device is configured to rank the plurality of alimentary providers as a function of decreasing alimentary combination factors and transmit the ranked plurality of alimentary providers. A method of selecting an alimentary provider is also disclosed.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for planning a product assortment based on a sales forecast without using a cross elasticity by receiving a percentage pricing change for at least two substitutable products of an inventory in a supply chain network having one or more supply chain entities, and at least two substitutable products are grouped in the same product category and at least one of at least two substitutable products is grouped in a product assortment, calculating an average percent pricing change for the product category including at least two substitutable products and a direct effect factor and cross-effect factor for each of at least two substitutable products, and identifying an item of at least two substitutable items to be removed from the product assortment based, at least in part, on a substitutable demand calculated by modeling a price increase of a substitutable item to infinity.

Abstract: An introduction necessity judgment unit judges necessity of introduction of an additional vehicle to a circuit based on a boarding demand on the circuit, and outputs an introduction request command when judging that the introduction is necessary. Upon reception of the introduction request command, an introduction timing determiner outputs an introduction command to the additional vehicle when a maximum value of actual operation intervals of operating vehicles is greater than or equal to an interval threshold determined according to a target velocity, and outputs a hold command to the additional vehicle for putting introduction to the circuit on-hold when the maximum value is less than the interval threshold Dr_th.

Abstract: A request is received, over a network from a requesting user to sort a plurality of comments relating to online content by a social status of a respective one of a plurality of commenters associated with each of the plurality of comments. The social status of the each of the plurality of commenters is determined using a computing device. The plurality of comments are sorted, using the computing device, by the social status of the respective one of the plurality of commenters associated with each of the plurality of comments. A representation of the sorted comments is transmitted, over the network, to the requesting user. The social status of commenters can reflect, in various embodiments, the status of commenters as favorite commenters of the requesting user, as members of the requesting user's social network, or as a top rated commenters in an online community.

Abstract: A method for identification of malicious activity based on analysis of a travel path of a mobile device through multiple geographic areas includes receiving at least three location data associated with the mobile communication device, the first location data comprising indication of the geographic area of the mobile subscriber and a receipt timestamp; determining the actual travel time of the mobile subscriber from the first geographic area and the third geographic area based on a difference between timestamps of the first location data and the third location data; determining a minimum transition time for the subscriber of the mobile device to move from the first geographic area to the third geographic area; and identifying a malicious activity based on comparison of the actual travel time and the minimum transition time wherein actual travel time is less than minimum transition time between the first geographic area and the third geographic area.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to enhanced dynamic training response output generation control systems with enhanced dynamic training response output determinations. A computing platform may receive, from the user device and in response to an initial dynamic training interface, a training request input. The computing platform may send, to an NLU engine, the training request input and commands directing the NLU engine to perform natural language understanding and processing on the training request input to determine a natural language result output. Using the natural language result output, the computing platform may determine third party data sources that correspond to the natural language result output, and may request source data from the third party data sources. Using the source data and the natural language result output, the computing platform may generate a dynamic training response output, and may direct the user device to cause display of the dynamic training response output.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and system for personalizing user experience in a gaming network. In particular, the user experience is personalized based on how users are characterized based on their interactions with the gaming network. By using the characterizations, the users are assigned labels that publicly identify the user experience, interest, and proficiency with various video games. Communities are then established based on users having the same labels. Lastly, user generated content can be characterized and promoted based on the characterizations to the appropriate communities.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods that improve network data flow efficiency by generating interaction leads. In various embodiments, the system provides at least one database containing user data, which is searched to generate at least one active lead from the user data. The system provides at least one interaction lead based upon analysis of the at least one active lead. The at least one interaction lead is transmitted to an agent device.

Abstract: A service robot may be autonomous, with respect to a portion of a customer service task, and coordinated, with respect to another portion of a customer service task. A resource, such as another robot or an agent (human or automated), may monitor or interact with the robot and, in such a combination, perform a customer service task. The robot may be instructed to pause or delay initiation of a robot portion to allow for a resource to become available at a common time that the interaction portion is to be performed to minimize delay and promote better customer service. Should the delay be beyond an acceptable threshold, the robot may engage in a delay task (e.g., slow down, pause, etc.). The delay task may include a social interaction with a human at a service location.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating engagement recommendations suggesting ways that one or more creators of content may maximize subscribership and/or subscription-based revenue, as well as support recommendations suggesting ways that the one or more creators of content may realize successful support of their content creation. Engagement recommendations can involve suggestions regarding when and/or how to engage one or more subscribers that results in a positive impact to subscribership and/or subscription-based revenue. Support recommendations can involve suggestions regarding when and/or how to elicit support in line with preferred indicia of success set forth by the one or more creators.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for anonymous checkout in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer system of the store, information associated with a payment account of a person; sending, by the computer system to a server associated with a payment system, the received information associated with the payment account of the person; receiving, by the computer system from the server associated with the payment system, a token associated with the payment account of the person; receiving, by the computer system from a plurality of sensors, data associated with the person; extracting, by the computer system based on the received data associated with the person, a plurality of features of the person; and storing, by the computer system, the received token in correspondence with information associated with the extracted features of the person.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems, apparatuses, and methods for controlling an electrical system using setpoints. Some embodiments include systems that receive a meter read schedule comprising anticipated meter read occurrences. The systems may set a demand setpoint representing a desired upper limit of demand of the electrical power system and adjust the demand setpoint during a billing period. The system may also reset the demand setpoint multiple times at different reset points around each of the anticipated meter read occurrences.

Abstract: In the case of a platform device (100) located at a web-site and capable of forming a network with a plurality of ID-detectable users or participants for gathering and processing items of information stored in a plurality of in each case code-identifiable and in each case topic-assigned storage spaces (110) of a platform (100) by the users or participants, a situation in which consensus-gaining evaluability and modifiability of the stored items of information with the formation of collective knowledge is achieved by the users or participants in that the storage spaces (110) present on the platform (100) and containing a plurality of various topics are in each case formed by a dual unit DuU, a dual unit DuU comprising in each case a first storage space (111) assigned to a predefinable topic and provided with initial items of information formulated by an initial participant but not editable by any other individual user or participant and a second storage space (112) assigned to the first storage space (111), wh

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method can include receiving a set of job descriptions and a set of candidate profiles. Each job description is associated with a first subset of candidate profiles from the set of candidate profiles. The method can further include executing a model to identify, from the first subset of candidate profiles, a second subset of candidate profiles that satisfy a fit metric and a third subset of candidate profiles that does not satisfy the fit metric. The method can further include calculating a bias metric based on a true positive value, a false positive value, a true negative value, and a false negative value that were calculated based on auditing the second subset of candidate profiles and the third subset of candidate profiles. The method can further include updating the set of job descriptions based on the bias metric.

Abstract: A system and method for managing and scheduling changes across an organization. A change management computer system can receive a request to implement a proposed change for a facility of the organization, determine a change score for the proposed change that quantifies a magnitude of impact for the proposed change on the facility, access, from a database, data records identifying other changes currently scheduled to be performed by the facility over a plurality of time periods, determine scheduled change scores for the facility for the plurality of time periods based on other changes scores for other scheduled changes, identify time periods from the plurality of time periods as suitable for scheduling the proposed change based on the scheduled change scores and change score for the proposed change, and output identification of the time periods as suitable for scheduling the proposed change for the facility.

Abstract: System and method for associating user-entered consumable item description to an entry in a consumable item database. In one embodiment, formally structured restaurant menu item is matched to a large database of food items that has been constructed via crowd-sourcing. A novel, practical, and scalable machine learning solution architecture, consisting of two major steps is utilized. First a query generation approach is applied, based on a Markov Decision Process algorithm, to reduce the time complexity of searching for matching candidates. That is then followed by a re-ranking step, using deep learning techniques, to ensure matching quality goals are met.

Abstract: A method is disclosed. A computer may receive a request message from an access device. The computer may search a supplemental database for updated supplemental data corresponding to a real credential. The supplemental database may store the real credential, supplemental data, and the updated supplemental data. The updated supplemental data may be provided to the supplemental database in connection with authorization processing involving the real credential. The computer may receive the updated supplemental data associated with the real credential. The computer may transmit a response message to the access device including the updated supplemental data. The request message may be, as examples, an authorization request message comprising a token or a token request message comprising a token.

Abstract: A method includes identifying, by a server, a content location assigned to a first content slot of a schedule template defining a display rotation loop based on multiple content slots. Each of the content slots in the schedule is associated with slot criteria, and the schedule template is associated with a digital display. The server generates schedule data that indicates the display rotation loop, the content location, and the slot criteria. Dynamic content retrievable from the content location is displayable at the digital display at a first time. The first time is based on the first slot criteria of the first content slot. The server transmits the schedule data via a network to the digital display.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, apparatus, device and storage medium for content presentation are provided. The method comprises presenting, in a first display region of a content presentation page of an application, a first set of contents provided by a first user in a first size. The method further comprises presenting a second set of contents provided by at least one second user in a second display region of the content presentation page different from the first display region in a second size different from the first size. The first user and the second user are associated users in the application. In this way, the content provided by the first user can be presented at the same time as the content provided by the associated user associated with the first user, so as to provide more rich and interesting content presentation.

Abstract: Customer relationship management (“CRM”) implemented in a computer system, including parsing, by a parsing engine of the computer system into parsed triples of a description logic, words of a CRM event from an incoming stream of CRM events, the CRM event characterized by an event type, the stream implemented in a CRM application of the computer system; and inferring, by an inference engine from the parsed triples according to inference rules specific to the event type, inferred triples.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for determining unique contacts from a collection or pool of merchant data are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for an apparatus including circuitry configured to determine programmatic match results indicating whether different instances of merchant data match (e.g., describe the same contact). The circuitry may further determine probabilities of precision or recall errors with the programmatic match results. Programmatic match results having a high probability of error may be annotated by a user to generate user match results. The user match results may be used to generate a more reliable contacts database including unique contacts, as well as to train and/or update the match scoring algorithm. As such, the accuracy of machine-implemented binary classification is improved.

Abstract: An online concierge system allows users to order items from a warehouse having multiple physical locations, allowing a user to order items at any given warehouse location. To select a warehouse location for a warehouse selected by a user, the online concierge system identifies a set of items that the user has a threshold likelihood of purchasing from prior orders by the user. For each of a set of warehouse locations, the online concierge system applies a machine-learned item availability model to each item of the identified set. From the availabilities of items of the set at each warehouse location of the set, the online concierge system selects a warehouse location. The online concierge system identifies an inventory of items from the selected warehouse location to the user for inclusion in an order.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards implementing a video monetization service into a social networking platform to form an information marketplace, enabling users to monetize information and digital content. A creator of a monetized video session can configure the monetized video session to his/her user preference and invite as many participants, e.g., all associations, a limited group of associations, including just one association, or other social media users in general. The associations may be followers, circles, friends, connections, or any other form of association.

Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums that provide users of a network-based financial account management system with a contextual user interface element, which when activated presents dynamic graphical user interfaces that provide financial account information as well as suggested financial performance improvement actions. Whether or not the contextual user interface is displayed may be based upon one or more of a context of the user, financial account information of the user, and account rules. Additionally, the suggested financial performance improvement actions may also be determined based upon one or more of: a context of the user, financial account information of the user, and account rules.

Abstract: Data associated a plurality of user interface elements may be retrieved from at least one database associated with a service business, such as a casino. At a first time, a first indication to turn on a first subset of the plurality of user interface elements may be received. The user interface elements may include content management, task management, property management, action management, player profiling, comp management, player development, asset tagging and flagging, profitability and comparative analysis, etc. Each of the first subset of user interface elements may be populated with the respective data associated that user interface element.

Abstract: An integrated processing resume device includes: a request receive part configured to allow an input of a request for an integrated order, the request for an integrated order being a request for integrating a plurality of wholesale services; a resource management part configured to record whether or not each of individual instructions of the wholesale service called by an execution of the integrated order has been successfully executed; and an order resume part configured to, when an individual instruction has not been successfully executed and the integrated order is thereby suspended, then, at a time of resuming the integrated order, reference whether or not an already-having-been-executed individual instruction has been successfully executed, from the resource management part, and, while skipping re-execution of a having-been-successfully-executed individual instruction, execute a not-having-been-successfully-executed individual instruction or a not-yet-having-been-executed individual instruction.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for predicting consumer spending behavior based on historical purchase activity progressions.