Abstract: A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive a record of data describing user engagement with content items in an online service; prepare the record of data for generating a model characterizing a network effect of a user interaction with a content item in the online service; generate the model characterizing the network effect of the user interaction with the content item in the online service; generate a predicted network effect score for a plurality of content items based on the model; organize the plurality of content items based on the predicted network effect score; and transmit the plurality of organized content items for presentation to a user. The disclosure also includes similar methods and computer program products.

Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining identified impressions that are detected from consumption data collected from a group of media processors where the identified impressions represent viewing of selected content and where the consumption data indicates channel tuning events at the group of media processors including changing of channels, applying a ridge regression analysis to the identified impressions to determine a predicted number of target impressions per advertisement slot, and generating a media plan based on a ratio of an advertisement slot cost to the predicted number of target impressions per advertisement slot. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A device may generate a transaction network associated with a plurality of accounts. The plurality of accounts may include a set of client accounts associated with a set of clients of an account manager, and a set of non-client accounts associated with a set of non-clients of the account manager. The transaction network may identify transactions among the set of client accounts and the set of non-client accounts. The device may identify, based on the transaction network, a community of accounts including a subset of client accounts for which transactions satisfy a threshold, and a non-client account that has transacted with one of the subset of client accounts. The device may determine target information, associated with the non-client account, including information associated with targeting a non-client, associated with the non-client account, by the account manager. The device may provide the target information and information associated with the community of accounts.

Abstract: An approximate data structure to represent clusters of observation records of a data set is identified. A hierarchical representation of a plurality of clusters, including the targeted number of clusters among which the observation records are to be distributed, is generated. Each node of the hierarchy comprises an instance of the approximate data structure. Until a set of termination criteria are met, iterations of a selected clustering methodology are run. In a given iteration, distances of observation records from the cluster representatives of a current version of the model are computed using the hierarchical representation, and a new version of the model with modified cluster representatives is generated.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for calculating an entity's cybersecurity risk based on identified relationships between the entity and one or more vendors. Customer/vendor relationships may impact the cybersecurity risk for each of the parties involved because a security compromise of a downstream or upstream provider can lead to a compromise of multiple other companies. For example, if organization A uses B (e.g., a cloud service provider) to store files, and B is compromised, this may lead to organization A being compromised (e.g., the files organization A stored using B may have been compromised by the breach of B's cybersecurity). Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a technique for calculating a cybersecurity risk score for an organization based on identified customer/vendor relationships.

Abstract: The present invention is a system which enables a marketing team to initiate and sustain directed and interactive communication with thousands or millions of existing or prospective customers. In the preferred embodiment, a marketer accesses a database and selects a group of qualified prospects, using lifestyle dimensions and or demographic information, from a stable group of prospective or existing customers conducting financial transactions online. Once a prospect list is selected, the marketer designs a series of questions, typically using branch and skip logic, and the system deploys the question sequence to the target list in the form of a response-redeemable savings coupon. When prospects are next performing their financial transactions online, they are presented with a lifestyle-relevant coupon which is immediately redeemable by responding to the question/communication.

Abstract: Described in detail herein are systems and methods for determining in situ locations of physical objects using mobile devices within a facility. Multiple mobile devices may scan different identifiers of different physical objects disposed in a facility. The mobile devices may transmit the identifiers to a distributed computing system. The distributed computing system may query a database to determine the in situ location of the physical objects associated with the identifiers. In response to not being able to retrieve a in situ location of a physical object, the distributed computing system may determine a path of the mobile device which transmitted the identifier associated with the physical object with the unknown in situ location. The distributed computing system may determine the in situ location of the physical object for which the in situ location was unknown based on the path and the known locations of the other physical objects.

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 is described that includes comprising receiving, by a first computing device and from a second computing device, an indication of user interaction with a first application. The method also includes determining, by the first computing device and based on the user interaction with the first application, a user engagement score associated with the first application, the user engagement score indicating at least one of how frequently or how long the user uses the first application. The method also includes responsive to determining that the user engagement score does not satisfy a threshold user engagement score, determining, by the first computing device and from a set of applications that are alternatives to the first application, a second application to substitute for the first application. The method further includes sending, by the first computing device and to the second computing device, for display, an indication of the second application.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for exploring relationships among entities are disclosed. The systems and techniques provide an entity-based information analysis and content aggregation platform that uses heterogeneous data sources to construct and maintain an ecosystem around tangible and logical entities. Entities are represented as vertices in a directed graph, and edges are generated using entity co-occurrences in unstructured documents and supervised information from structured data sources. Significance scores for the edges are computed using a method that combines supervised, unsupervised and temporal factors into a single score. Important entity attributes from the structured content and the entity neighborhood in the graph are automatically summarized as the entity fingerprint. Entities may be compared to one another based on similarity of their entity fingerprints. An interactive user interface is also disclosed that provides exploratory access to the graph and supports decision support processes.

Abstract: Methods and systems of modifying content displayed by a mobile device are provided. A region of interest (ROI) of a user is recognized. The ROI may be associated with content being displayed on a display of the mobile device. A time duration of interest based on the ROI is determined. The displayed content is modified based on the ROI, the time duration of interest, and a content type of the displayed content.

Abstract: The opinion expression application enables a user of the client device to conduct a public-initiated open-ended poll that is event-time specific in duration to express likes and dislikes about anything and anyone associated with the event. A subject field on a user interface enables the user of the client device to choose exactly about what subject matter to express his/her opinion on, and then to express his/her opinion level by activating a single opinion level button that has a very specific meaning. A server aggregates the opinion level expressed by activating the opinion level button with all of the other cast opinion levels previously submitted by users of different client machines on this poll. The server feeds the aggregation of the cast opinion levels back to each of the client devices in near real-time to be displayed. The opinion expression application limits a time period when the user can cast an opinion level about the event.

Abstract: A method implementable in at least one electronic device coupled to a network and a display device, includes receiving, over the network, a data set, receiving, from a user, a selection of a first topic, determining, based on the data set, a plurality of network sites hosting commentary of the first topic and an authority level of each site of the plurality, determining, based on the data set, an authority level of each site of the plurality, determining, based on the data set, a plurality of authors providing the commentary hosted by the plurality of network sites, determining, based on the data set, an authority level of each author of the plurality, determining, based on the data set, a value characterizing an opinion of each author on the first topic.

Abstract: Systems and methods for pre-fetching data based on memory usage patterns. An example method comprises: receiving a first memory access request identifying a first memory block; receiving a second memory access request identifying a second memory block; update a memory access tracking data structure by incrementing a sequence counter corresponding to a memory access sequence that references the first memory block and the second memory block; receive a third memory access request identifying a third memory block; identifying, based on the memory access tracking data structure, a sequence counter having a maximal value among sequence counters associated with memory access sequences that reference the third memory block; and pre-fetching a fourth memory block corresponding to the identified sequence counter.

Abstract: The application relates to a method for determining page impression in a client-server system, the method comprising opening a page in a browser running on a client device provided in the client-server system, starting an application in the browser in response to the opening of the webpage, establishing a persistent connection between the web browser on the client device and a server device provided in the client-server system, storing first electronic information in the server device, the first information indicating a start time for establishing the persistent connection, keeping the persistent connection, in the server device, receiving termination information indicating termination of the persistent connection, storing second electronic information in the server device, the second information indicating an end time for terminating the persistent connection, and determining an opening or presentation time from the first and second electronic information, the opening or presentation time indicating the time

Abstract: The present invention provides a comprehensive method for automatically and unobtrusively analyzing the in-store behavior of people visiting a physical space using a multi-modal fusion based on multiple types of sensors. The types of sensors employed may include cameras for capturing a plurality of images and mobile signal sensors for capturing a plurality of Wi-Fi signals. The present invention integrates the plurality of input sensor measurements to reliably and persistently track the people's physical attributes and detect the people's interactions with retail elements. The physical and contextual attributes collected from the processed shopper tracks includes the motion dynamics changes triggered by an implicit and explicit interaction to a retail element, comprising the behavior information for the trip of the people.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calculate long-term effects of marketing campaigns.

Abstract: Systems and methods to provide a navigated-shopping service are discussed. In an example, a method for navigated-shopping can include receiving a destination location, accessing a route to the destination, displaying the route with indications of a plurality of items for purchase, receiving selection of a selected item, and purchasing the selected item. The plurality of items for purchase can be within a predefined distance of at least one point along the route. The selection of the selected item can include selection of a retail location of a plurality of retail locations along the route.

Abstract: In each iteration of the process of mining association rules from transaction data by a cluster of computing systems, each mapper node in the cluster receives a split of the transaction data. Each mapper node scans the split to count an absolute support value of each candidate itemset for current search level(s), and passes the candidate itemsets and their support values to reducer nodes in the cluster. The number of reducer nodes will be determined adaptively based on the number of the candidate itemsets and the number of maximum available resource nodes in the cluster. Each reducer node combines the absolute support value of each candidate itemset, and finds frequent itemsets among them using a minimum support threshold. For each frequent itemset it finds, the reducer node creates association rule(s) satisfying a minimum confidence threshold, and exports all discovered frequent itemsets and association rules to a file system for storage.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for updating an index structure of a graph database storing a graph. During operation, the system includes, in the index structure, a first compressed edge store containing a first compact representation of edges in the graph at a first virtual time and a first series of updates to the edges after the first virtual time. At a second virtual time, the system creates a second compact representation of the edges from the first compact representation and the first series of updates. The system then appends, to the second compact representation, a second series of updates to the edges after the second virtual time to produce a second compressed edge store. Finally, the system updates the index structure by atomically replacing, in the index structure, a reference to the first compressed edge store with a reference to the second compressed edge store.

Abstract: According to certain aspects, a computer system may be configured to obtain information indicating a plurality of groupings of data stored in a data source, the information indicating a number of data items included in each of the plurality of groupings; determine a first grouping of the plurality of groupings including one or more data items that have changed by comparing a first number of data items included in the first grouping and a historical first number of data items included in a corresponding local version of the first grouping; access data items included in the first grouping from the data source; compare the data items included in the first grouping to data items of the corresponding local version of the first grouping to determine which data items have changed; extract the changed data items of the first grouping; and forward the extracted data items to a destination system.

Abstract: The invention relates to an illuminating device including a plurality of light sources mounted on a deck, the device being such that it includes a first set of light sources placed in a central zone of the deck and a second set of light sources placed in a peripheral zone of the deck, the light sources of one of the sets each being suitable for transmitting data by modulation of visible light, the light sources of at least one of the sets being associated with at least one fixed convergent first lens positioned on the axis of said sources.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a candidate node having a potential association relationship with a target node, an association node having an association relationship with the target node, and a grouping identifier of the association node are obtained. A relevance degree between the association node and the target node and a relevance degree between the candidate node and the target node within each grouping identifier are obtained. Based on the relevance degrees, the association node and the candidate node in each grouping identifier are combined for outputting.

Abstract: A method and system for designing a dental appliance for an individual. A 3D model of the individual's features including a portion of their face and arches is displayed on a 3D display. The 3D model includes an augmented reality dental appliance. The 3D model can be manipulated by inputs detected by a motion sensor, a brain-computer interface, both, or other sensors. In response to gestures neural activity, or other inputs, the augmented reality dental appliance or other aspects of the 3D model are modified. The 3D model is updated in response to the modified dental appliance or other changes, and repositioned to provide an updated 3D model. The updated 3D model is displayed on the 3D display. This system and method facilitates modification of the augmented reality dental appliance and observation of the resulting aesthetic effects.

Abstract: A method for generating a list of recommended merchants based on an input merchant is provided. The method uses a recommender computing device. The method includes receiving an input merchant identifier, retrieving a first electronic data signal based on the input merchant identifier including historical transaction data of the input merchant including historical payment transactions initiated by candidate cardholders with the input merchant, and storing a list of the candidate cardholders. The method further includes retrieving a second electronic data signal that includes historical transaction data for at least some of the candidate cardholders included in the list of candidate cardholders and a candidate merchant identifier that identifies the candidate merchants, generating a list of candidate merchants from the second data signal including a ranking of the candidate merchants, and generating a list of recommended merchants based on the list of candidate merchants.

Abstract: A computer system configured to generate data to provide an interactive graphical interface for display on a remote user device is configured to provide an interactive graphical interface including first and second screen areas, and icons for user manipulation, each icon corresponding to a user goal. Icons corresponding to user goals of a first set are displayed within the first screen area, and icons corresponding to user goals of the second set are displayed in the second screen area. A gap is calculated and displayed based on data associated with icons and stored data. Responsive to receipt of data indicative of drag and drop movement of an icon between the first and second screen areas, the gap is recalculated and a resized gap is displayed.

Abstract: A system for monitoring the use of resources by a user includes a mobile device, a resource usage monitoring device, a message display system, and a third party system, each have communication interfaces, memory devices, and processing devices. The system is designed to detect the presence of a user within a physical location where resources may be accessed and determine a time-efficient set of resource allocations that the user may engage in while located in a particular physical location. In some embodiments, a message may be directed to the user through visual and/or audio displays to notify the user of the time-efficient set of resource allocations and direct the user to a particular location where such allocations may be effected.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify affinity between segment attributes and product characteristics. An example method includes identifying, with a processor, a set of product characteristics from purchase transactions that exhibit a threshold product affinity, selecting, with the processor, a set of products having at least one product characteristic from the set of product characteristics that exhibit the threshold product affinity, the set of products associated with first segments, extracting, with the processor, segment attributes from the first segments, and improving a market success of the product of interest by identifying, with the processor, target segments based on ones of the extracted segment attributes exhibiting a threshold segment affinity.

Abstract: Techniques described herein include a platform configured to provide for association of an accounting element with one or more mapping policies. The accounting element may be associated with a plurality of line items, some of which may be associated with a mapping policy. Once associations between accounting elements and mapping policies have been created, transaction events related to the accounting element may be processed in accordance with the mapping policies. In some embodiments, information from the transaction event may be used to create an accounting event which may be recorded as a journal entry in a ledger. In some embodiments, accounting events may also be validated prior to being recorded.

Abstract: The described implementations relate to processing of electronic data. One implementation is manifest as a technique that can include obtaining a relational query that references one or more data items and associating progress intervals with the data items. The technique can also include converting the relational query into a corresponding streaming query, and providing the streaming query and the data items with the progress intervals to a stream engine that produces incremental results of the query. For example, the progress intervals can be based on row numbers of a relational database table. The progress intervals can be used to define event lifetimes of streaming events that are provided as inputs to the stream engine.

Abstract: Users are enabled to select a category with more ease than in the past. An information processing device estimates, for a target category that is one of a plurality of categories which have a tree structure including a plurality of hierarchy levels and to each of which one or more objects belong, whether a user is knowledgeable about categories below the target category, based on an input from the user, and controls whether or not display means displays the categories below the target category, based on whether or not the user is estimated as being knowledgeable about the categories below the target category.

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: Systems and methods for multi-dimensional query statement modification are described. A system presents a user interface including a first plurality of graphical elements representing a plurality of activity dimensions to a user. The system detects a user selection of a first activity dimension and a second user selection of a first attribute of the first activity dimension without a selection of the second attribute. The system searches objects using a search query based on the first activity dimension and the first attribute to return search results including a first object published on a network-based publication system by a client. The system provides a notification message to the user responsive to identifying feedback information that is received from a trading partner of the client as transgressing a first threshold. The feedback information is identified based on the first object and the second attribute that is not selected from the user interface.

Abstract: A user may capture an image of a document using a mobile device. The mobile device may crop and clean the image. The mobile device may perform optical character recognition on the image and output a character string. The mobile device may match portions of the character string with stored records and determine a likelihood that the stored record corresponds to the image. The mobile device may display potential matches for the image, and the user may select the record which matches the image.

Abstract: Mesh node modules are associated with movable and fixed items in a building such as a grocery store or factory floor to maintain a database of the locations of those items as they are processed through the establishment. The items form a mesh network and relay location information through access points, when in range, to control/monitoring computers.

Abstract: A system and method operates on a client device and acquires a suspect list of user products based on information derived from the client device. The system normalizes the list, and the user confirms the accuracy of the product list. The user product list is sent to a server where the user product list is compared to other lists using collaborative filtering techniques. The collaborative filtering techniques determine products of interest for the use and the level of interest of the user. The system computes a similarity measure based upon the number of similar products that match the user's product list and rankings provided by the user and others. Demographic and behavioral data may also be used in performing the comparison and the similarity measure. The system acquires editorial rankings of products from other users and provides a ranked list of recommended products based upon the editorial rankings.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system provides an interactive interface for displaying results of flexible travel planning queries is described.

Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein use one or more auxiliary time series to more accurately identify change points in a target time series. This involves receiving data for the target time series and one or more auxiliary time series, where the one or more auxiliary time series have a relationship with the target time series. A combined auxiliary time series is generated based on the relationship between the target time series and the one or more auxiliary time series and the change point is detected for the target time series based on the target time series and the combined auxiliary time series. In one embodiment, time series data is received on an on-going basis. Recent time series data for the target time series and the one or more auxiliary time series is identified and used to detect the change point. The change point can be detected without using time series data older than the recent time series data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing compensation on a display system. A computer system displays icons representing employees in a graphical user interface on the display system. The icons are positioned relative to each other and along a compensation axis and positions of the icons relative to each other indicate relative amounts of compensation between the employees. The computer system also displays a compensation change for an employee in the employees on the display system when an icon for the employee is moved along the compensation axis.

Abstract: Methods and systems to facilitate a search of an information resource is disclosed. In various embodiments, a distribution of a plurality of data items across a plurality of attribute value ranges corresponding to an attribute is identified. The attribute may be shared by at least two of the plurality of data items. Based on a determining that the distribution of the plurality of data items across the plurality of attribute value ranges includes at least two peaks, the distribution of the plurality of data items across the plurality of attribute value ranges corresponding to the attribute is communicated.

Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for processing available user data to determine a user profile for use in anticipating changing user interest. User data for a user may be collected, which may be used to determine a dynamic user profile for the user. The dynamic user profile may be responsive to changes in the user data, as the user performs more actions or indicates interests in certain areas. The dynamic user profile may include user interests and trends of the user, and may be used to perform predictive analysis of the user's potential interests. Additionally, using a plurality of users' interest areas and links based on common users between the interest areas, upcoming interests for the user may be determined through links between interest areas. Thus, if similar users based on interest areas are linked to a certain interest, the user may also be linked to that interest.

Abstract: A method for evaluating an electronic response message by a financial services product vendor for an online electronic inquiry message from a consumer concerning a financial services product inquiry, the method comprising the steps of: receiving the online electronic inquiry message; identifying the inquiry content pertaining to each of the plurality of inquiry content categories; receiving the electronic response message; identifying the response content pertaining to each of the plurality of response content categories; scoring each of the response content of each of the plurality of response content categories using a scoring model; comparing the message reception timestamp and the message send timestamp; generating a response score by combining the quantitative score to the message send timestamp and the quantitative score to the assigned response content; and sending a score message representing the response score over the communications network for display on a user interface of the financial services p

Abstract: A method of managing customer sentiment includes: monitoring an interaction of a customer with customer interactive media; deriving a sentiment of the customer from the interaction of the customer with the customer interactive media; generating sentiment data for the customer; and updating customer data in a customer database with the sentiment data in real-time.

Abstract: A method and system for providing account recommendations is disclosed. A server system stores sales data for a first member, wherein sales data includes profile information for one or more individual customers. The sewer system analyzes the profile information for one or more of the individual customers to identify one attributes associated with the customers. The server system determines one or more additional members with member profiles that include the one or more identified attributes. For a respective additional member in the at least one of the determined additional members the server system determines, based on stored information about the respective additional member, an respective organization associated with the at least one determined additional member; and selects the respective organization as an account recommendation.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for creating merchant profiles based on check transactions is provided. The method uses a computing device having a processor communicatively coupled to a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of payment transactions including payment by a check where each payment transaction includes plurality of fields from the associated check that include at least a payee field, an address field, and a memo field, generating a list of unique merchants based in part on the payee fields of the plurality of payment transactions, generating two or more merchant profiles, and determining one or more connections between two or more merchant profiles in the plurality of merchant profiles. Each connection represents a relationship or association between two or more merchant profiles. The method also includes storing the one or more connections and the two or more merchant profiles.

Abstract: Methods, and devices implementing the methods, use device-specific classifiers in a privacy-preserving behavioral monitoring and analysis system for crowd-sourcing of device behaviors. Diverse devices having varying degrees of “smart” capabilities may monitor operational behaviors. Gathered operational behavior information may be transmitted to a nearby device having greater processing capabilities than a respective collecting device, or may be transmitted directly to an “always on” device. The behavior information may be used to generate behavior vectors, which may be analyzed for anomalies. Vectors containing anomaly flags may be anonymized to remove any user-identifying information and subsequently transmitted to a remote recipient such as a service provider or device manufacture.

Abstract: Method and system for generating personalizing website layout. The method and system monitors a user's behaviors and assigns a user to a user group, which has an assigned personalized template. The templates are personalized in response to the user's behaviors and arranges content to be displayed to the user based on that behavior.

Abstract: A messaging system, in one embodiment, can establish messaging accounts for a plurality of organizations (e.g. businesses) to allow customers or users of the organizations to conduct two-way messaging sessions between a customer and an organization. The messaging system can use a registration portal to allow an organization to set up a business/organization messaging account by providing account information. The account information can then be used to update one or more searchable databases that allow a customer to have multiple entry points into a messaging session with each of the registered businesses in the messaging system. For example, a search through a web browser or a map application can provide search results that contain or otherwise provide access to a selectable messaging option that is presented on a customer's device.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for utilizing a caller wait time. When the caller's estimated wait time exceeds a threshold amount of time, an interactive voice response (IVR) system retrieves information (e.g., caller's previous purchases) about the caller. The IVR system then initiates a dialog with the caller to determine their experience with a product or service by prompting the caller with questions derived from the retrieved information. After recording the responses by the caller to the questions, the IVR system generates social media content based on the caller's responses. The IVR system then converts the text of the generated social media content to an audible version, which is provided to the caller to approve the posting of the social media content. The social media content is posted on a social media stream in response to the caller approving the posting of the social media content.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: collecting various word data from cross-domain sources and subject websites; assessing relevancy of feature vectors from external domains, live content of subject websites, and secondary terms derived from the live contents; expanding a language model for a domain by relevance passing a logistic regression threshold.