Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for credit dispute processing, resolution, and reporting. Credit dispute resolution requests may be received, processed, and sent to a credit bureau for submission to creditors. Status of credit dispute resolutions may be reported to consumers. If a creditor's response time is longer than its average response time or if a creditor does not respond to a credit dispute resolution request within a regulatory response period, alerts and reports may be sent to consumers to provide consumers with further options.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing images or video using computer vision. Data comprising real time or near real time information or historical information is retrieved that is associated with a sporting event at a physical location. A time segment is identified of a display device at the physical location for acquisition. The display device is configurable to present visual sponsorship data during the time segment for an assigned sponsor. It is determined that one or more rules are satisfied by the data. An indication is transmitted that the first rule is satisfied to a computing device of a sponsor. A bid or valuation is generated based at least on the first rule being satisfied. A request to acquire the time segment is received from the computing device of the sponsor, and the display device at the physical location is caused to present visual sponsorship data for the sponsor during the time segment.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a system and method of providing consistent metadata to storage appliance objects in a network, by: obtaining environmental information that is available to deduplication backup program accessing the storage appliance objects, the environmental information comprising application name, client name, and client IP address; identifying file systems objects created by the deduplication backup program; and using a client-side generic network mount for the deduplication backup system to automatically create extended metadata for each of the identified DDR filesystem objects created through the deduplication backup program.

Abstract: A system for facilitating an e-commerce transaction between a purchaser and a seller comprising a product catalog which includes product data, a seller product page which is adapted to display the product data and a negotiation button to the purchaser, a purchaser offer form which is adapted to receive an offer for a product displayed on the seller product page when the purchaser activates the negotiation button, and a purchaser offer processor which is adapted to receive the offer for a product displayed on the seller product page and automatically determine and convey an offer response. The offer response is determined using a pre-determined set of customizable rules. A method comprising installing a custom snippet, providing product data, generating a product catalog, configuring automation rules, receiving an offer from the purchaser, processing the offer, generating an offer response, and conveying the offer response.

Abstract: Archiving data in a relational database management system through a process in which an invisible index is created for each primary index of a data. When an input is received to initiate block copy of data to be archived; the data tables are locked and the identified blocks of data form the data table are block copied to an archive table. The invisible index is updated to correspond to the data table which had data archived. The primary index is then swapped with the invisible index and the data tables are unlocked. Data blocks from the main table which were copied into the archival table is deleted along with the old primary index.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assessing one or more fees in connection with occupancy of a user at a shared office environment. One exemplary method includes receiving, from a sensor associated with a workstation, confirmation of a presence of a user at the workstation, and receiving, from the sensor, an occupancy interval based on the presence of the user at the workstation up to a departure of the user from the workstation. The method also includes, in response to receiving the occupancy interval, determining a fee associated with occupancy of the workstation by the user, based on at least the occupancy interval, and initiating a transaction to a payment account associated with the user for the determined fee, thereby providing payment specific to the occupancy of the workstation by the user substantially upon the departure of the user from the workstation.

Abstract: A system and method for providing storage virtualization (SV) is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system includes a storage device having a tier 1 cache and a Tier 2 storage, an operating system and a file system having a Tier 0 memory cache that stores application data. The Tier 0 memory cache synchronizes the application data with the tier 1 cache and the Tier 2 storage.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve resource allocation for virtualized server systems. An example apparatus includes a resource identifier to identify a set of external storage resources when a host storage solution is not identified, a storage cost calculator to calculate a cost corresponding to the external storage resource set by comparing a parameter of an external storage resource in the external storage resource set to a requirement, a cost analyzer to determine whether the cost satisfies a cost threshold by comparing the cost to a cost threshold, and a workload domain allocator to allocate the external storage resource set to the workload domain when the cost satisfies the cost threshold.

Abstract: Video communications of residents of a controlled-environment facility are monitored to detect instances of non-verbal communications within the video, such as the display of written messages and hand signals. Residents may participate in live video visitation sessions with non-residents. Video recordings are generated for each video feed of the live video visitation. During the live video visitation, indications of non-verbal communications displayed in the live video are detected. If indications of non-verbal communications are detected in the live video, the recorded video is annotated to specify the locations of the detected indications in the recording. Upon completion of the video visitation session, post-processing of the recorded video detects additional indications of displayed non-verbal communication.

Abstract: An online system receives information from a third-party system identifying products offered by the third-party system and content publishing users associated with each product. The online system identifies products associated with a specific content publishing user to the specific content publishing user and receives a content item from the specific publishing user including a link to the third-party system. After presenting the content item to a user, the online system receives information from a tracking mechanism included in content maintained by the third-party system if the user interacts with the third-party system after being presented with the content item. Based on information from the tracking mechanism identifying products associated with the specific content publishing user, the online system may modify subsequent presentation of content items associated with the specific content publishing user.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a collaboration system and methods are provided to enable consultants to efficiently collaborate with one another by engaging in system-facilitated voice consultations. As used herein, a voice consultation may generally refer to communications established between two or more users of the collaboration system. In general, the system and methods described herein provide the ability for users to establish voice consultations with other users at a mutually convenient time, whether or not there exists a prior relationship between the users. The system and methods automatically place a consultation call at a time requested by the caller and which the callee has previously announced as available. Called parties may determine whether to accept a consultation based on data that is visually perceptible with a mobile device at which the call is received.

Abstract: A method comprising: storing, in a database, a list of geographical regions in which the party consents to their data being stored; receiving a request to store data of the party, wherein at least one of the data has a region-restriction that restricts the regions in which that data can be stored; determining, based on a respective region-restriction of a respective one of the data, in which of the list of regions the respective data can be stored; storing the data, wherein each respective data is stored in at least one respective storage centre associated with one of the regions according to the determination; storing, in the database, a list comprising a pointer to each respective stored data, wherein the pointer identifies the respective storage centre; receiving a request to retrieve a respective stored data; and using the pointer to route the request to the respective storage centre.

Abstract: This storage system has one or more non-volatile memory devices and a processor unit that comprises one or more processors connected to the one or more non-volatile memory devices. At least a portion of the non-volatile memory of each of the one or more non-volatile memory devices comprises a user area, which is a storage area to which data is written, and an update area, which is a storage area to which update data for the original data is written. The processor unit changes the user capacity, namely the capacity of the user area, of each of the one or more non-volatile memory devices on the basis of at least one of one or more resource usage rates of the one or more non-volatile memory devices.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide a negotiative chat bot that executes a back-end security process to resolve a status of a suspicious input as safe or unsafe; creates conversational chat bot messages that request content subject matter in response that are different from content of the suspicious request or chat bot message responses from the identified user; and generate and present conversational chat bot messages that present created conversational chat bot message content in a style that matches a preferred conversational style of the identified user. Aspects iteratively repeating presenting conversational chat bot messages requesting subject matter content different from subsequent conversational chat bot message responses in the style that matches the preferred conversational style, until determining that the suspicious input status is resolved.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a cloud service based on cloud service brokerage. The method includes receiving, by a cloud service broker, a first request for a cloud service from a cloud service client, wherein the cloud service broker is connected with the multiple cloud-computing systems; providing, by the cloud service broker, a cloud service brokerage based on cloud services of the cloud-computing systems, wherein the cloud service brokerage enables the cloud service complying with the first request to be provided to the cloud service client; and monitoring, by the cloud service broker, a service level of the cloud service during provision of the cloud service and controlling, by the cloud service broker, the cloud service such that the service level satisfies conditions of the first request.

Abstract: Using data from various sources, clustering or other unsupervised learning determines a relationship of the data to performance. Meta data or business data different than building automation data is used to diagnose building automation. Relationships of building automation to the meta or business data are determined with clustering or other case-based reasoning. For multiple building situations, clustering with or without the meta data identifies poor performing buildings, equipment, automation control, or enterprise function.

Abstract: Versatile Financial Mechanisms and Transactions Generators and Interfaces (VFMTGI) involve the creation of effective apparatuses, methods, and systems for solutions to create and/or leg complex versatile financial mechanisms. The VFMTGI facilitates user removal of significant transactional risk exposure as the methods, systems and apparatuses facilitate user data entry into spreads that represent alternative futures. Aspects of an implementation of the VFMTGI facilitate investor execution and completion of multiple financial transactions, simultaneously, as a single transaction. The methods, systems and apparatuses facilitates simplification of complex transactions.

Abstract: An application server provides an application or set of applications to one or more client devices. One or more users of the client devices interact with the applications to perform a business process. Data is stored on one or more of the client devices that tracks user interactions with the application. The data is transmitted from the client devices to the application server for analysis. Data from multiple client devices is correlated to enable analysis of a complex business process. As a result of the analysis, bottlenecks may be identified based on a particular process step taking a long time to complete or receiving repeated re-entry of data. The solution is automated and scalable, allowing for analysis of an entire business process landscape.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for determining API pricing. Consumption parameters are identified using a supervised learning model. The API consumption parameters refer to any parameters that can be used to describe an API (functionality or otherwise) and can be used to compare other comparable APIs in similar domains provided by other providers. Furthermore, reference pricing is determined using machine learning using the identified API consumption parameters. Additionally, the API price is determined dynamically using the identified API consumption parameters and the determined reference pricing. An API pricing score is then derived for the API price using the supervised learning model. The API price is selected as the suggested price for the API in response to the API pricing score exceeding a threshold value. In this manner, an API price is established that reflects the true value of the API assessed by the API consumer.

Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying available charging stations (e.g., charging stations available to be used by an electric vehicle) and/or determining travel routes for electric vehicles are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods receive a request to find an available charging station, determine a state of charge for an electric vehicle associated with the request, identifies one or more available charging stations located within a suitable distance to the electric vehicle, the suitable distance based on the determined state of the charge for the electric vehicle, and present information to the electric vehicle, or an associated mobile device, that indicates the identified charging stations.

Abstract: A system (2000-3300, 4200-4300) and method (100, 3900, 4300) are provided for modeling and interpreting a modeled digital asset and its evolution with respect to the rights of a plurality of parties, the method comprising: executing an await function (1200, 4320) instance no more than once using one of at least one choice defined therein for disposition of the digital asset with respect to the rights of at least one of the plurality of parties, said await function instance incorporated upon the consent of the affected parties to fulfil a configured function instance associated with the at least one choice; executing an agree function (1300, 3900) instance that requires the consent of at least one of the plurality of parties to execute; and storing (4100, 4370) the results of the executed function instances in an append-only ledger (4000, 4312-4314).

Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for deduplicating data on a distributed file system is discussed. Metadata requests are made to an object store to determine whether the store already contains a data object. If the object store does contain the data object, a commit request is sent to a metadata server. If the object store does not contain the data object, the data object is transmitted to the object store.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a data processing system comprises: one or more processors; one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing sequences of instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processor to perform: in a local data service, receiving a request for processing data; identifying one or more local policies applicable to the request; based, at least in part, on the one or more local policies, determining whether the request may be processed locally; in response to determining that the request may not be processed locally, transmitting the request to one or more remote brokers to cause the one or more remote brokers to determine a remote data service configured to process the request.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate information exchange using publish-subscribe with blockchain. An example apparatus includes a broker including a processor and a distributed ledger module. The example distributed ledger module stores a message to be relayed by the broker from a publisher to a subscriber. The example processor is to at least compute, triggered by receipt of the message by the broker, a proof-of-work (PoW) function. The example processor is to at least verify the computation of the PoW function. The example processor is to at least transmit, upon verifying the computation of the PoW function, the message to the subscriber. The example processor is to at least process feedback received by the broker to update the PoW function.

Abstract: A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium being operable to provide a shopping cart for a shopper, and segment items in the shopping cart based on the carbon footprint associated with each item. Additionally, the method may include displaying substitute or complementary items in the shopping cart for selection by the user to reduce total carbon values, and awarding carbon certificates.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a payment service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a merchant can enable customer use of the payment service by adding widget code to a web page, such as a catalog or shopping cart page, of the merchant's site. Thereafter, a user can invoke the payment service and complete a purchase transaction directly from the merchant site, without navigating or being redirected to a separate payment service site. In some embodiments, the user can complete the transaction without having or creating an account with the payment service.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a secured cloud storage system. An embodiment operates by receiving a compressed file comprising data that has been compressed using a compression algorithm. The compressed data is divided into a plurality of separate files. A password for each of the separate files is determined. Each of the separate files is encrypted with its corresponding password. The encrypted files are stored across a plurality of servers.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for intelligent payment capture in mixed fulfillment transactions. For example, the techniques described herein may include generating a purchase ticket associated with multiple items in a mixed fulfillment transaction. The purchase ticket may facilitate conducting a mixed fulfillment transaction in which a payment instrument is authorized for the cost of the multiple items in the mixed fulfillment transaction, with partial payment captures being made as items are fulfilled without requiring additional authorizations.

Abstract: In some examples, a system or method of implementing a smart contract on a blockchain can involve receiving an indication of a portfolio of assets, an amount from a buyer to invest in the portfolio, a number of assets in the portfolio that is based on exchange rates and the amount to invest, and a confirmation from the buyer of the number of assets. The system or method can involve calculating a cost of the portfolio to yield a contract, receiving the amount and excess collateral from the buyer as a buyer acceptance of the contract, and an entity acceptance of the contract including an entity amount. The system or method can involve receiving, at the smart contract, a request from the buyer to close the contract, and settling the contract via the smart contract at a current value of the portfolio based on pricing data from a valuation entity.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for correlating tip amounts to merchant ratings. In a generalized method, a merchant tip amount may be entered via a user interface. Based upon the merchant tip amount, the system then determines a corresponding merchant rating. Accordingly, merchant ratings and tips are seamlessly integrated with one another.

Abstract: To increase the efficiency of a used vehicle data processing process while still tailoring to an individual user's unique specifications on a used vehicle, at least some pre-calculations are performed by a backend process before a request for data for a specified vehicle is received through a web site or a web server on the Internet. A user can be presented with an interface where the user can make a variety of determinations. After the user requests data on a specific vehicle configuration, a frontend process handles user-provided data in conjunction with the data calculated in the backend process to ensure that the results are better tailored to the user's specific vehicle attributes. The results can include pricing data such as a trade-in price, a list price, an expected sale price or range of sale prices, market low sale price, market average sale price, market high sale price, etc.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are provided for defining a privacy zone between an asset platform and an offering platform within a network. A request is received from a customer for an offering to be deployed in association with an asset hosted on the asset platform. The offering has back-end offering logic and front-end offering logic that is operatively configured to collect and transfer a data element associated with the asset to the back-end offering logic. A privacy policy associated with the offering is identified. The front-end offering logic is deployed to the asset platform such that the front-end offering logic is operatively configured to communicate with the asset. A data element collection filter is then generated between the front-end offering logic and the back-end offering logic to control the transfer and the access of the data element in accordance with the privacy policy.

Abstract: A method and system for negotiating discount offers and generating discount coupons over a network. The method includes establishing an offer channel for secure communication between one or more users and a plurality of businesses over a network. The method also includes permitting the businesses to publish offers. Further, the method includes issuing a private identity and a public identity to the users of the channel, wherein the private identity is a unique and secure identifier to the user profile and the public identity is a public locator to the users profile as a short Uniform Resource Locator. Furthermore, the method includes allowing the users to interact and negotiate with the businesses for a suitable coupon offer. Moreover, the method includes transmitting the offer and offer entitlement corresponding to the public identity of the user, redemption center and to the business.

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein optimize the retrieval of missed content by playing back cached content to enable tuners with limited capacity to retrieve the missed content. A content presentation system may receive, with a tuner, a transmission of content comprising media content and advertisements. The content presentation system may cache the advertisements. The content presentation system may determine whether an interruption during the transmission resulted in a missed portion of content and, in response, determine whether an advertisement upcoming at a time period in the transmission of content is cached. If the upcoming advertisement is cached, the content presentation system may play back the cached advertisement at the time period and release the tuner previously receiving the transmission of content to retrieve the missed portion of the content during the time period.

Abstract: A method of outputting a recommended item implemented by a computer, the method includes: obtaining information on a search item selected by a user when the user searches for an item on an item search screen; storing the information on the search item obtained in the obtaining in a storage unit that stores information on a search item that a plurality of users have selected in the past with respect to each user; identifying a similar user to the user by referring to the storage unit; and outputting information on an item that the similar user has referred to in the past to the user as information on a recommended item.

Abstract: A system and method for deduplication of a file in a communication message are presented. An attached file of a communication message may be determined to exist in a cloud storage system. A link may be sent to a communication client for accessing an identical file on the cloud storage system of the attached file.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates multiple combinations of sensor data inputted to a machine learning apparatus, inputs the combinations of sensor data to the machine learning apparatus, and generates a recognizer corresponding to each of the combinations of sensor data. Further, the performance of the recognizers is evaluated in accordance with expected performance required for the recognizers, and the combinations of sensor data corresponding to the recognizers satisfying the expected performance are outputted. Thus, the rates of contribution of two or more pieces of sensor data inputted to the machine learning apparatus are evaluated, and the configuration of sensors is optimized.

Abstract: A carpool system is a system in which a vehicle that can autonomously travel on a predetermined route or a route based on a request of each of a plurality of users is used communally by the plurality of users. The carpool system includes a riding condition setting unit configured to set an attribute of each of the plurality of users as a riding condition for the users, and an attribute determination unit configured to, when the user rides the vehicle or reserves the vehicle for riding, determine whether the attribute of the user satisfies the riding condition.

Abstract: A latest block associated with a blockchain is received at a blockchain node device, where the blockchain node device includes a first storage system and a second storage system, and where the second storage system is interconnected with the first storage system. The latest block is stored at the blockchain node device and in the first storage system. Whether a migration trigger event for block data stored in the first storage system is detected determining by the blockchain node device. The block data stored in the first storage system and exists prior to a migration reference time is migrated to the second storage system.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a client-facing application for interacting with a transport service that transports items via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). An example graphic interface may allow a user to order items to specific delivery areas associated with their larger delivery location, and may dynamically provide status updates and other functionality during the process of fulfilling an aerial vehicle transport request.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses and techniques for replicating data between different cloud computing platforms. Examples include storage replicator components operable in different cloud computing platforms. The first storage replicator component may identify the second cloud computing platform as a location to copy a data file in response to an event related to the data file stored in a first cloud computing platform. The first storage replicator component may request a copy of the data file via an application programming interface of the first cloud computing platform. The attributes of the copy of the data file which involve modification to conform to data management conventions of the second cloud computing platform may be determined and modified to comply with conventions of the second cloud computing platform. The modified copy of the data file may be forwarded to the second cloud computing platform for storage.

Abstract: An accomplishment aggregation and review computing device configured for enabling articulation, aggregation, and peer review of accomplishments reported by people is provided. Additionally, a method and a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for enabling articulation, aggregation, and peer review of accomplishments reported by people are provided.

Abstract: Some aspects of this specification describe the use of Boolean algebra for patent claim mapping and analysis. In some instances, characteristics of a collection of technologies are represented as binary variables, and each of the technologies has a respective subset of the characteristics. The collection of technologies is represented as a collection of binary functions, and each binary function includes a respective subset of the binary variables. A patent claim is generated based on inverting the binary functions according to Boolean algebra.

Abstract: A computing apparatus includes: a portal configured to present a privacy control panel to receive input from a user to create a privacy policy; a data warehouse configured to store the privacy policy in connection with account information of the user; and a transaction handler configured to provide a privacy indicator, in accordance with the privacy policy stored in the data warehouse, in an authorization response for a transaction made using the account information of the user.

Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic transportation resource arbitrage (DTRA) may include configuring a server to dynamically manage the use of transportation resources. The server may identify, analyze, organize, and/or package available transportation resources (e.g., segments of roadways in a geographical area, etc.) as granular vehicular occupancy opportunity (VOO) elements/units that each identify an amount of a resource that is offered for allocation and use to travelers. The granular VOO elements/units may be well-defined, discrete, standardized, combinable, and/or fungible information structures or units that are suitable for comparison and/or mutual substitution. The server computing device may combine the granular VOOs to cover a specific corridor (e.g., an area that encompasses ten miles of the left lane of a highway, etc.), and dynamically offer a vehicle the right to access and use the transportation resources identified by a combination of VOOs.

Abstract: Telecommunication network management operations are performed based on accessing network management data (NMD) files via GUIs and general purpose computers including a network management system (NMS) server, and automatic routines for transferring binary NMD files between the general purpose computers and remote network elements (NEs) being managed. A system user produces configuration files at the NMS server for NEs using a network management GUI, and the hardware of NEs automatically complete the network management operations indicated by the NMD files transferred to them from the NMS server and produce their status files to the NMS server. The network management GUI displays network status based on the latest NE status files at the NMS server. This provides direct, binary file transfer based NMS communication that avoids the complexity and restrictions of intermediate messaging protocols or transaction languages and conversions thereof.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for replicating data to the cloud. A first dataset is replicated from a first storage subsystem to the cloud, with only the changes made to the first dataset since a previous replication event being replicated to the cloud. Additionally, the data may be deduplicated and compressed before being replicated from the first storage subsystem to the cloud. In some cases, the first dataset may be replicated to the cloud in a stream format which is not directly usable and then, at a later point in time, loaded onto a second storage subsystem from the cloud.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for facilitating a transaction between two or more parties. An electronic document is received at a processing device. Each portion of the received electronic document is identified and designated as one of a read-only portion, a read-only portion containing one or more editable fields, a selectable portion or any combination thereof. The received electronic document is converted into an application or embeddable frame based on the designated portions for a first party using the processing device. The application or embeddable frame creates a completed electronic agreement that is legally binding on at least a second party when executed by the second party.

Abstract: In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided that provide for delivering products to customers while analyzing and satisfying product-associated and/or delivery location-associated restrictions. The delivery attempt of the products is commenced after the product-associated restrictions are determined to be satisfied. The delivery of the product or products to the customer or an authorized person is authorized after the delivery location-associated restrictions are determined to be satisfied.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for managing electronic activity driven targets are disclosed. Example implementations may: maintain a plurality of node profiles; select, for a first node profile, using one or more field-value pairs of the first node profile, an endpoint profile generated using electronic activities of second node profiles including one or more field-value pairs that match the one or more field-value pairs of the first node profile, the endpoint profile specifying electronic activity driven targets that can be tracked by parsing electronic activities corresponding to the first node profile; store in one or more data structures, an association between the first node profile and the endpoint profile specifying the electronic activity driven targets; parse a plurality of electronic activities corresponding to the first node profile; and update a metric relating to the electronic activity driven targets responsive to parsing the second plurality of electronic activities.