AUDIENCE CENTRIC PRICING
Granted: February 5, 2015
Application Number:
20150039420
A system can include a server that includes or is associated with a revenue analysis module. The module can be configured to receive user web browsing session data from a data source. The session data may include page view data, page interaction data, and page referral data. The module may also be configured to determine page referral events, revenue generating events, and relationships between the page referral events and the revenue generating events, according to at least part of the…
KEYWORD PRICE RECOMMENDATION
Granted: February 5, 2015
Application Number:
20150039419
An system can include a server that includes or is associated with a keyword price recommendation module. The module can be configured to recommend an optimal price for a keyword, per referral event, in a search engine marketing campaign. For making such a recommendation, the module can be configured to determine revenue generated per referral event for the keyword according to a number of referral events for the keyword for a plurality of users and revenue generated for the keyword by…
DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT FOR ENTERPRISE COMPUTING
Granted: February 5, 2015
Application Number:
20150039360
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to managing dependencies among software components executed in enterprise computing environments, for example.
Methods and System for Device Authentication
Granted: February 5, 2015
Application Number:
20150038114
A request is received to access a user account. A geolocation of a mobile device registered with the user account is obtained directly from the mobile device. Authentication credentials for the user account are verified for correctness. A mobile device geolocation verification request is transmitted to a cellular data provider. The cellular data provider is equipped to independently determine a true geolocation region of the mobile device for comparison with the geolocation of the mobile…
MULTI-FINGER USER IDENTIFICATION
Granted: January 29, 2015
Application Number:
20150033194
A method for identifying a user is provided, including the following method operations: identifying at least three contact regions on a touch sensitive surface, the contact regions defined by simultaneous contact of at least three fingers of the user with the touch sensitive surface; for each contact region, determining a center point; determining distances between each of the determined center points of the contact regions; comparing the determined distances against predefined distances…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE MESSAGE INBOX
Granted: January 29, 2015
Application Number:
20150033141
Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information associated with an incoming email message in order to organize the recipient's inbox and display relevant message content from the inbox. The present disclosure identifies messages by their relevance to a recipient, and effectively displays the relevant portions of the message to the recipient in an efficient manner which allows users to interact with the messages from the inbox. According to some…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY CHANGING A HEADER SPACE IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
Granted: January 29, 2015
Application Number:
20150033132
Disclosed is a method and system for transmitting, by a processor to a client device, a software application (e.g., a mobile app or a web page) configured to load, by a computer processor of the client device, a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI including a header space and a content display space. The software application is further configured to display, by the computer processor, the GUI in a first frame, detect, by the computer processor, user interaction with content displayed…
OPTIMIZING DATABASE QUERIES
Granted: January 29, 2015
Application Number:
20150032720
A system and method for database management and accessing data stored in the database may be optimized based on the database structure. For example, data associated with a range (e.g. owners of IP addresses) may have query requests optimized by utilizing two tables. The first table may include all the ranges, such that the ranges are continuous and not overlapping, and an identifier for each of the ranges. The second table may include the identifiers and the data that is associated with…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT BASED SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND MONETIZATION THEREOF
Granted: January 29, 2015
Application Number:
20150032535
Disclosed is a system and method for automatically detecting social relationships from consumer image collections. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability to infer relationships between people thereby creating dynamic social networks from the occurrences of people appearing in digital images. Occurrences of people in pictures can be detected based on known or to be known facial recognition technology. These inferences enable relationship determinations regarding whether the…
AUCTION APPARATUS AND AUCTION METHOD
Granted: December 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140379494
An auction apparatus according to the application includes a communication unit and an auction providing unit. The communication unit communicates with a communication network. The auction providing unit presents a portion of plan information indicating a plan of content which is created by a content creator, presents the other plan information when a request is received from an advertiser who has browsed the portion of the plan information, and provides an auction service in which a bid…
AUCTION APPARATUS AND AUCTION METHOD
Granted: December 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140379493
An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which bid targets are a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content and a right to…
AUCTION APPARATUS AND AUCTION METHOD
Granted: December 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140379492
An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and a providing unit. The plan receiving unit gradually receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content a plurality of times. The providing unit additionally presents the plan information which is gradually received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising…
AUCTION APPARATUS AND AUCTION METHOD
Granted: December 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140379491
An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content by the content…
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: December 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140379446
An information management device includes a storage unit that stores distribution information representing whether shop information has been distributed. The information management device includes a determining unit that determines whether the shop information has been distributed when a request for distributing of the shop information from a first user to a second user is received. The information management device includes a distributing unit that distributes the shop information to…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECORDING AND REPLAYING USER SESSIONS IN BROWSER BASED APPLICATIONS
Granted: December 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140373030
A computer-implemented method for recording and replaying user sessions in browser based applications includes initiating a user session as a result of a user accessing an application in a web browser. The computer-implemented method also includes attaching an event handler to the application as a replacement for an original event handler. Further, the computer-implemented method includes executing the event handler in response to an event, wherein the event is a plurality of user…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY PAUSING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON USER ATTENTION
Granted: December 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140372229
A computer-implemented method for automatically pausing advertisements based on user attention includes rendering a digital video to a user, in response to the user initiating the digital video through a web multimedia player. The computer-implemented method also includes streaming an advertisement to the user once the user begins to watch the digital video and monitoring the user attention as the user watches the advertisement. The user attention is monitored based on keystrokes and…
IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: December 11, 2014
Application Number:
20140362099
An image processing apparatus includes an image storage unit, a conversion unit, and an output unit. The image storage unit stores therein multiple images with different viewpoint positions. The conversion unit converts each of the images stored in the image storage unit to each of images to be imaged by imaging devices that are arranged such that respective optical axes pass through a dynamically set position in a target object. The output unit outputs the images converted by the…
INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, WIRELESS TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD
Granted: December 11, 2014
Application Number:
20140365308
A wireless terminal according to an embodiment includes a list of identification information of wireless LAN access points according to a behavior history of a user, and receives information corresponding to an entrance place from an information management device when the entrance to a communication area of a wireless LAN access point whose identification information is included in the list is performed.
USER INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, USER INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Granted: December 11, 2014
Application Number:
20140365306
A user information providing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a database, an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, and a output unit. The database stores pieces of user information of a business operator. The acquiring unit acquires, as entry information, information of a place corresponding to the business operator and information of a wireless terminal which has entered the place. The extracting unit extracts a piece of user information of the business operator corresponding…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTO-ADJUST POSITIONING OF PREFERRED CONTENT FOR INCREASED CLICK AND CONVERSION RATES
Granted: December 4, 2014
Application Number:
20140359479
A computer-implemented user notification method includes displaying, at user-accessible locations on a graphical display of a mobile device, notifications corresponding to user interest, preference, and frequency of interaction with particular applications or activities on the mobile device. By increasing ease of interaction with particular notifications and advertisements that are of increased importance and relevance for the user, a higher click through and conversion rate is…
