Abstract: An object is to provide a clustering system capable of performing clustering of a plurality of types of items to be able to recommend an item whose corresponding textual data exists but relational data with another type of item does not exist, to the other type of item. A first clustering means 3001 performs clustering of first IDs, based on the relational data. A second clustering means 3002 performs clustering of second IDs, based on the relational data and textual data associated with the second IDs. A topic assignment means 3003 assigns a topic for each word included in textual data corresponding to each second ID. A parameter decision means 3004 decides a parameter used for first clustering processing, a parameter used for second clustering processing, and a parameter used for topic assignment processing. The processing described above is repeated until it is determined that a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A technique for visualizing topics includes depicting topic bubbles including pixels. In one example, selected topics are identified from records based on scoring candidate terms in the records according to a user-specified metric and a metric selected from among frequencies of occurrence of records pertaining to the respective candidate terms, and negativity of sentiment expressed with respect to the candidate terms in the records. A visualization is generated including bubbles representing topics, the bubbles including pixels representing corresponding records. A bubble has a shape dependent upon a number of records and a time interval represented by the bubble. Visual indicators are assigned to the pixels in a given bubble according to values of an attribute expressed in the corresponding records for the topic represented by the given bubble, resulting in the analysis of the selected topics being less time consuming and labor intensive.

Abstract: The invention is a method for managing a response from an application embedded in a secure token acting as an UICC, in response to a command requesting opening a proactive session. The command is sent by an applicative server to the secure token via an OTA server providing a security layer. The method comprises the steps of sending another command from the applicative server to the secure token using the security layer provided by the OTA server, and in response to this second command, the secure token send the response of the first command to the applicative server using the security layer provided by the OTA server.

Abstract: Systems and methods for customer touchpoint pattern and sentiment analysis are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: detecting, by a computer device, the presence of a mobile device of a participant within a venue during a first event; monitoring, by the computing device, the location of the mobile device of the participant within the venue during the first event; detecting, by the computing device, at least one interaction event between the participant and a venue associate; recording, by the computing device, first event data including interaction event data; detecting, by the computing device, the presence of the mobile device of the participant within the venue during a second event; determining, by the computing device, one or more customer service parameters based on the first event data; and generating, by the computing device, an alert based on the one or more customer service parameters.

Abstract: A cloud services composition system allows customers to interactively create service constructs from network function virtualization resources. The network function virtualization primitives are modeled using a standard modeling language. An expert system suggests network function virtualization resources for use in the service construct, based on an expert system learning algorithm. The customer uses a graphical user interface to interconnect the resources and create the service construct. The process may involve collaboration with the network provider. The resulting construct is validated for use in a communications network.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for automating personalized out-of-the-box and ongoing in-application settings. A triggering event is detected for an exchange of information between an information service and one or more application or service. A trust level and domain of information of the one or more application or service is determined. Based on the trust level and domain of information, information to be shared with the one or more application or service is identified and the identified information is shared. The information to be shared can be all of the requested information, some of the requested information, or none of the requested information.

Abstract: A method and system for receiving digital artifacts from a management server. The method includes sending a request for a digital artifact from a mobile application to the management server for display within a specific mobile application generated screen, receiving the digital artifact from the management server, and displaying the digital artifact with the specific mobile application generated screen.

Abstract: A method and system for obtaining leads based on data derived from a variety of sources is disclosed. The method is executed by a system that includes a data processing module within a leads management system, among others system components. The data processing module scans one or more external data sources; collects lead data from those sources; analyzes the data collected; identifies attributes of interest about one or more potential quality leads; identifies one or more high quality leads; creates a profile for those high quality leads; stores those profiles in an internal database; and generates a list of one or more high quality leads.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for presenting targeted offer advertisements to qualified customers while browsing the Internet. A designated interaction region such as a frame or border is positioned on each advertisement, and when a customer activates the border by clicking on or hovering a cursor there over, a menu of selectable options is displayed, from which the customer may select to perform an action on the offer. For instance, the customer may select an option to save the targeted offer to an offer library for later review. Additionally, the customer may select an option to access the offer library to review details of saved offers.

Abstract: Provided is a method for sharing business information based on a mutual confirmation blockchain and more particularly, a method for sharing business information based on a mutual confirmation blockchain which secures reliability and integrity of the business information registered in each of a plurality of different nodes constituting the blockchain on the basis of the blockchain and supports rapid sharing of the business information.

Abstract: A method of recognizing artist ambiguity is performed at a server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes generating a feature vector that represents a first artist identifier of a plurality of artist identifiers in a first dataset. The feature vector includes a first feature indicating whether the first artist identifier matches multiple artist entries in one or more second datasets that are distinct from the first dataset. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the first feature of the feature vector, a probability that the first artist identifier is associated with two or more different real-world artists, and providing a report that specifies the first artist identifier as potentially ambiguous in accordance with a determination that the probability satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide automated techniques for checking store shelves for compliance with planograms that can handle unknown arrangements in a uniform way, with little user involvement, and with relatively low processing complexity. For example, a computer-implemented method for determining compliance with a planogram may comprise receiving at least one image of a plurality of shelves containing objects, receiving at least one planogram representing desired positions of the objects on the shelves, wherein each row of the planogram corresponds to one shelf, adjusting positions of objects in the planogram to reflect a size of the shelves, determining a tolerance for inaccuracy in object position in the image using object dimension data, detecting object positions in the image, aligning each row of the planogram individually to the detected object positions, and comparing the detected object positions with the adjusted planogram positions to generate compliance information.

Abstract: Each user is represented by a mixture of topics, e.g., one or more topics, and a probability of interest in each topic in the mixture, and given the target user, one or more other users can be recommended, each user that is recommended to the target user is determined to have a topical interest similarity with the target user, e.g., the target user's interest in one or more topics of the mixtures of topics is determined to be similar to a recommended interest in the one or more topics of the mixture of topics. The target user and the one or more recommended users can be said to have similar topical interests. The target user can use the user recommendation to establish an interactive dialogue, for example, with one or more users identified in the user recommendation.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to modifying a display of a portable electronic device to account for ambient light. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising determining an ambient light history including a plurality of ambient light color conditions sensed over a duration of device operation by an ambient light sensor, reading a display-ready image having a plurality of pixels from an image source, adjusting a manner in which the display-ready image is displayed by color-shifting at least a subset of the plurality of pixels based on the plurality of ambient light color conditions in the ambient light history to thereby generate a color-modified image, and displaying the color-modified image on the display of the portable electronic device.

Abstract: Method, system, and programs for hybrid information query. A request is first received from a user associated with a hybrid query. The hybrid query is expressed in accordance with an input in terms of one of a user, a feature, and a document, and a desired hybrid query result in terms of one of a user, a feature, and a document. A mapping is then determined between the input and the desired hybrid query result. A hybrid model is established based on hybrid information collected and associated with one or more users. The mapping is performed based on the hybrid model to obtain the desired hybrid query result based on the input. Eventually, the desired hybrid query result is provided as a response to the hybrid query.

Abstract: Interest-driven business intelligence server systems that provide performance metadata are described. In the disclosed embodiments, an interest-driven business intelligence server system receives a report specification. The report specification includes at least reporting data requirement. The interest-driven business intelligence server determines performance metadata information for an interest-driven data pipeline that is utilized to generate reporting data based on the report specification. The performance metadata information for the interest-driven data pipeline is transmitted to an interest-driven user visualization system by the interest-driven business intelligence server system.

Abstract: Method of retrieving event information is presented. Memento objects can be recognized by an archive engine. Based on the recognition, the archive engine obtains information related to the memento object, possibly one or more recognizable features, and uses the information to search for events associated with a timeline that have corresponding tags. The archive engine can then return the event information as a result set to a user.

Abstract: An online work management system provides a marketplace for multiple job owner and workers. The job owners provide a job description that defines task. The job description may be processed to generate task descriptions that may be published for workers' application. The task descriptions specify the qualification or restrictions for workers to have the task assigned. The online work management system also provides various functions supporting coordination and management of task assignment such as determining the trust level of the user's identity, search the tasks or workers, monitoring the progress of job, managing payment to workers, training and testing the workers, evaluating the review by the job owners, and generation of surveys.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a coverage area associated with an advertising display device, monitoring presence and motion of a plurality of communication devices with respect to the coverage area to determine a viewing time and a trajectory within the coverage area for each communication device, and associating each device with a user profile that comprises demographic data and preference data. Each user profile is assigned weighting factors based the viewing time and the trajectory for the associated device, thereby generating a weighted user profile for each of a plurality of users. The weighted user profiles are then aggregated to generate a time-dependent audience profile for the coverage area that is associated with an item of advertising content at the advertising display device. The audience profile is analyzed; a new item of advertising content can be selected and displayed. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for indexing economic impact of weather events is described. The method includes storing transaction data regarding payment transactions made by customers in a geographic area, receiving weather information regarding weather events in a time period, identifying transaction data related to the weather information, calculating an index value that indicates the economic impacts of the weather events based on the identified transaction data and the weather information.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a characteristic of a posterior distribution includes a sampling section configured to generate a plurality of samples from a prior distribution, an obtaining section configured to obtain, for each sample among the plurality of samples, a likelihood of observation given the sample, a calculation section configured to calculate a parameter relating to a density at each sample in the prior distribution, and an estimation section configured to estimate, for the plurality of samples, a characteristic of the posterior distribution based on the parameter relating to the density at each sample and the likelihood of observation for each sample.

Abstract: A method for generating predictive insights for authoring messages is provided. The method includes receiving a message to be sent as an input. Key performance indicator (KPI) whose value is to be predicted for the message is identified from the input or marketing tool configuration. A plurality of feature vectors of the message are generated. KPI contributions for the plurality of feature vectors are determined using feature vectors of messages sent in past and tracked KPI values of the messages sent in past. The KPI contribution is a measure of contribution of feature vector to value of the KPI. Value of the KPI for the message is predicted by applying determined KPI contributions to the plurality of feature vectors. Apparatus for substantially performing the method as described herein is also provided.

Abstract: A process at an electronic computing device that tailors an electronic digital assistant generated inquiry response as a function of previously detected user ingestion of related information includes receiving, from a video capture device configured to track a gaze direction of a first user, a video stream including a first field-of-view of the first user. An object is then identified in the video stream first field-of-view remaining in the first field-of-view for a determined threshold period of time, and the object processed via a video processing algorithm to produce object information, which is then stored. Subsequently, an inquiry is received from the first user for information, and it is determined that the inquiry is related to the object information. The electronic digital assistant then provides a response to the inquiry as a function of the object information.

Abstract: A report concerning the contents obtained by interpretation based on a medical image can be efficiently created without any constraints of expression. An information processing apparatus according to this invention includes an image analysis unit which acquires information concerning a region name or disease name based on an analysis result on the input medical image, an input unit which inputs the result obtained by interpreting the medical image as character information, a conversion candidate prediction unit which outputs conversion candidates concerning the input character information, and a display control unit which displays the input character information upon converting the character information into character information selected from the conversion candidates. The apparatus further includes a priority level setting unit which sets priority levels in advance for character information output as the conversion candidates.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments where wireless nodes are arranged in a wirelessly connected environment to support a variety of remote management operations, including location tracking, status monitoring, and remote control. In an example embodiment, the wireless nodes can be deployed in a retail store and provide remote management and control over any combination of product display assemblies, locks, power strips, display shelves, display hooks, and other node types.

Abstract: A method for determining a risk of an emotional response of an audience to at least one publication is described. Additionally, a computing device for determining a risk of an emotional response of an audience to at least one publication is described. Moreover, a computer-readable storage device having processor-executable instructions embodied thereon, for determining a risk of an emotional response of an audience to at least one publication, is described.

Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for analyzing sensor data to identify a bottleneck location within a physical establishment, and then providing a recommendation based on the bottleneck location. For instance, a payment service may analyze a layout of a physical establishment using sensor data representing movements of users within the physical establishment. Based on the analysis, the payment service can identify a location within the physical establishment in which movements of the users correspond to one another. For instance, the payment service can identify that the users are located at a similar location within the physical establishment at a given time period. The payment service can then generate and provide a message that indicates a location for moving an object such that users can utilize new routes through the physical establishment.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus and method for facilitating a purchase in conjunction with media content information. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a transmission of media content, information regarding the content, and information for facilitating a purchase of at least one of a copy of the content, a good, and/or a service. The content may include broadcast media content and entertainment media content. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to process the information regarding the content and the information for facilitating a purchase of the copy of the content, the good, and/or the service. The apparatus also includes a display device for displaying information.

Abstract: In some examples, computing devices can partition timestamped data into groups. The computing devices can then distribute the timestamped data based on the groups. The computing devices can also obtain copies of a script configured to process the timestamped data, such that each computing device receives a copy of the script. The computing devices can determine one or more code segments associated with the groups based on content of the script. The one or more code segments can be in one or more programming languages that are different than a programming language of the script. The computing devices can then run the copies of the script to process the timestamped data within the groups. This may involve interacting with one or more job servers configured to run the one or more code segments associated with the groups.

Abstract: A method of distributing purchase recommendations to a user terminal and tracking their effectiveness includes receiving an image of a product code captured from a user terminal at a store server through a wireless device, the store server connected to a first database from which the store server retrieves product information relating to the product code, the product information including one or more recommended products associated with the product, and a second database that tracks effectiveness of recommendations for each product, and transmitting the product information to the user terminal through the wireless device. The presence of at least one recommended product in the product information causes the self-registration program in the user terminal to display a user interface for accessing information about the recommended product on the user terminal and enable the store server to update the second database by tracking the user inputs made through the user interface.

Abstract: A system may obtain audio files of phone calls and predict the outcomes of the phone calls using a machine learning model. The system may translate the audio files to text transcripts and convert the text transcripts into vectors. The vectors may be input into a machine learning model trained on prior examples of phone calls and their true outcomes. The machine learning model may output a predicted classification of the outcome of the phone call.

Abstract: A system and method that automatically configures and adjusts computer systems and computer software (i.e., computer programs), on the basis of data collection and analysis to create usage patterns. An exemplary method includes collecting device information of existing computing devices and user information associated with operation of the existing computing devices. Moreover, the method include analyzing the device information and the user information to generate usage patterns associated with the existing devices. The method then compares device and user information of the computing device with the usage patterns associated with the existing devices to identify an optimal configuration for the computing device. The optimal configuration is used to generate installation instructions and configurations. Finally, the system settings of the computing device are automatically configured based on the instructions and configurations.

Abstract: A purchasing behavior analysis apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires posting information about a specific product from posting information posted to a social networking service; a conversion unit; and an artificial neural network. The artificial neural network includes a first determination layer which determines whether a user is interested in the product, a second determination layer which determines whether the user wants the product, and a third determination layer which determines whether the user is predicted to purchase the product in the future. The purchasing behavior analysis apparatus further includes an interest presence probability calculating unit, a purchase desire probability calculating unit, and a purchase likelihood probability calculating unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a completion score for a record object based on electronic activities. The method includes accessing record objects, each of which corresponds to a record object type and includes object fields having object field-values. The method includes selecting one of the record objects. The method includes identifying electronic activities transmitted or received associated with the record object. Each of the electronic activities has a timestamp indicating a receipt time or transmission time of the respective electronic activity. The method includes determining a participant of each of the electronic activities. The method includes determining a completion score indicating a likelihood of completing an event associated with the record object based on the timestamp of each of the electronic activities and the participant of each of the electronic activities. The method includes storing an association between the record object and the completion score.

Abstract: A social network data processing and profiling system generates a customer profile from customer attributes and information regarding the customer's social network profiles on a plurality of virtual social networks. The social network data regarding the customer is received from the plurality of virtual social networks. The received social network data is used to update the customer profile. One or more products from a products database are identified for recommending to the customer based on the customer profile. The identified products are output to a products page associated with the customer.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for publishing an aggregate rating indicator based on a plurality of discrete rating indicators associated with a rated entity. The method includes searching a plurality of repositories containing the plurality of discrete rating indicators associated with the rated entity. The method may include retrieving a first rating indicator, a second rating indicator, and a third rating indicator. At least one of the first rating indicator, the second rating indicator, and the third rating indicator may be a fraudulent rating indicator. The method may include filtering out the fraudulent rating indicator from among the first, second, and third rating indicators, wherein the fraudulent rating indicator is determined based on a combination of parameters. The method may include aggregating the first, second, and third rating indicators after filtering out the fraudulent rating indicator such that the aggregation results in an aggregate rating indicator.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for performing a total unduplicated reach and frequency analysis that analyzes a large set of variables practically. A plurality of variables are received. A subset of the plurality of variables is identified as variables of interest. Variables are partitioned randomly into groups. Each of the groups of variables contains fewer than a predetermined maximum number of variables for each group. The best combination of variables within each group is found through a total unduplicated reach and frequency analysis of each group. The winning variable or variables within each group are identified based on the highest reach score. The winners from each group analysis are then pooled into a group, and the process is repeated. The combination from the second stage with the best reach is then reported. Additional variable combinations ranked by reach may also be reported.

Abstract: The exemplified methods and systems facilitate the evaluation of user experience feedback in a manner that is secure and private by transmitting only representation of a user's response over the network (rather than the original data files of the recording). That is, complex interaction associated with a user to a stimuli is recorded, evaluated, and condensed through a machine learning operation (specifically, a convolutional neural network) performed at the user's computing device. Indeed, only a representation of the interaction is exposed over the network when it is transmitted for subsequent action there-at. Specific audio or image recording used to evaluate the user's user-experience feedback is maintained at the user's computing device. In some embodiments, the recording is preprocessed to generate a series of matrices that can be directly fed into the machine learning operation.

Abstract: One embodiment sets forth technique for computing a similarity score between two digital items is computed based on interaction histories associated with global users and interaction histories associated with local users. Global counts indicating the number of interactions associated with each unique pair of digital items are weighted based on a mixing rate. The weighted global counts are then combined with local counts to compute total counts. An effective interaction probability indicating the likelihood of a user interacting with one digital item in the pair of digital items after interacting with the other digital item in the pair is computed based on the total counts. The effective interaction probability is then corrected for noise, resulting in a similarity score indicating the similarity between the pair of digital items.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for full body measurements extraction using a mobile device camera.

Abstract: A spoken command analyzer computing system includes technologies configured to analyze information extracted from a speech sample and, using a joint speaker and phonetic content model, both determine whether the analyzed speech includes certain content (e.g., a command) and to identify the identity of the human speaker of the speech. In response to determining that the identity matches the authorized user's identity and determining that the analyzed speech includes the modeled content (e.g., command), an action corresponding to the verified content (e.g., command) is performed by an associated device.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for evaluating aggregate merchant sets, which are often generated by a payment network. One exemplary method includes accessing, by a computing device, a monitor score and a volatility score for an aggregate merchant set representative of multiple merchants having at least one disparate parameter in a transaction data structure, fuzzy sets for the monitor score and the volatility score comprising linguistic values, and inference rules that use the linguistic values in logical operations. The method also generally includes determining degrees of membership of the monitor score and volatility score to the associated fuzzy sets and generating an evaluation index based on the inference rules and the degrees of membership to the fuzzy sets, thereby providing an indication of a propriety of the aggregation of said multiple merchants.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunication method for monitoring with a mobile end user telecommunication device a telecommunication process on a digital telecommunication system using a telecommunication process monitoring server. The telecommunication process monitoring server is connectable with the mobile end user telecommunication device via a mobile wireless cellular digital telecommunication network. The telecommunication process monitoring server further is connectable with a real-time database. The digital telecommunication system further comprising a plurality of second telecommunication devices being connectable with the telecommunication control server via one or more second digital telecommunication networks. The telecommunication process comprises sending one or more telecommunication messages to the plurality of second telecommunication devices.

Abstract: The application describes systems and methods for associating a person with one or more wireless devices. The system includes a first wireless reader arranged to detect a first set of wireless device identities at a first time period and at a first location. The system also includes a second wireless reader arranged to detect second set of wireless device identities at a second time period and at a second location.

Abstract: In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for compressing content based on a social factor, an environmental factor, and a relational factor is described. The method may include monitoring access to the content, forming, by a processor, a contextual evaluation based on the monitored access and determining an importance of the content based on the contextual evaluation. The method may further include storing the content in a compressed form, where the compressed form is selected based on the importance.

Abstract: Technology is described for providing search results based on a search query. The method may include receiving the search query. A user interest based on the search query may also be identified. The user interest may be compared with currently trending interests. Interest items based on the currently trending interests that relate to the user interest may be identified.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a multimedia contact center. The method comprises providing multimedia communications session management support for a plurality of customers. Each customer maintains customer relationship management (CRM) data. The CRM data is uploaded from the plurality of customers into a multimedia database. The uploading includes transforming the CRM data from an original format maintained by the respective customer into a standardized format for the multimedia database. Communications sessions can then be handled using the transformed CRM data in the multimedia database.

Abstract: Influencers (individuals or groups) over a selected audience (observers or recipients of information, objects and/or events) on a given topic are measured based on influence features, which include a sentiment flipping influence feature indicative of ability of an audience member to influence other audience members to change their sentiment on the selected topic. Other influence features include the ability to influence others: to change followership; to express interest in a topic associated with a hashtag pioneered by the influencer, based on the effectiveness and phrasing of language used. The output of the influence engine can be a score representing the relative influence of audience members over the audience on the topic of interest. Influencers may be ranked according to their total influence score over the audience on the topic.

Abstract: An online survey platform and process for routing respondents who are attempting to take a survey from a mobile device to mobile-friendly surveys, thereby increasing the overall efficiency of the survey platform. A survey platform embodying features of the present invention comprises a plurality of online surveys hosted on the survey platform. When a respondent enters the survey platform for the purpose of taking an online survey, the survey platform will access the respondent's device information and prepare a list of available surveys. The survey platform will then determine whether the survey's mobile conversion delta meets the panel supplier's threshold requirements and, if so, route the respondent to one of the qualified surveys.

Abstract: Techniques for automated classification of mobile applications (“apps”) battery consumption using simulation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for automated classification of mobile app battery consumption using simulation includes an app analyzer for performing an analysis of the app; and a classification engine for classifying the app into a battery consumption category based on the analysis performed using the app analyzer. In one embodiment, a process for automated classification of mobile app battery consumption using simulation includes receiving an app; performing an automated analysis of the app; and generating a battery consumption score for the app based on the automated analysis of the app.