ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD
Granted: June 12, 2014
Application Number:
20140164104
An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a predicted information storage unit, an allocating unit, and a reallocating unit. The predicted information storage unit stores information including user attributes of a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations. The allocating unit allocates the delivery target user to an advertisement delivery order request based on the information stored in the…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED OFFLINE MOBILE ADVERTISING
Granted: June 12, 2014
Application Number:
20140164101
Systems and methods for serving offline ads in a mobile device are provided. The mobile device includes a processor configured to determine whether the mobile device is online or offline. The mobile device includes a screen configured to display an offline ad in an active mobile application when the mobile device is offline. The mobile device includes an impression database configured to store impression information with the displayed offline ad and a communication unit configured to…
PRECISE TARGETED PROMOTIONAL OFFERS
Granted: June 12, 2014
Application Number:
20140164094
Techniques for facilitating targeted discounts are described. A request to distribute a promotional offer is received from a merchant. The promotional offer may be at least partially preconfigured, is maintained at the deal service, and may indicate an item (e.g., a product and/or service) offered by the merchant. The promotional offer is distributed immediately after the request is received. The user set to receive the promotional offer is determined. The promotional offer is provided…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING MINERAL BUILDUP ON DRIFT ELIMINATORS OF A COOLING TOWER
Granted: June 5, 2014
Application Number:
20140151906
A method directed to reducing mineral buildup on drift eliminators of a cooling tower by allowing irrigation of the drift eliminators of the cooling tower with fluid in the basin of the cooling tower to reduce mineral buildup.
MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEMBERSHIP MANAGING METHOD, SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND MEMBERSHIP MANAGING SYSTEM
Granted: June 5, 2014
Application Number:
20140157433
A management apparatus stores a usable or non-usable state representing whether a right is usable or non-usable by a user in a facility in which a service is provided by a service provider using a service providing apparatus. And, the management apparatus updates the use usable or non-usable state to a non-usable state in a case where a use request of the right is received and transmits the use request to a terminal apparatus. And, the management apparatus permits the use of the right to…
VIRTUAL WALL FOR WRITINGS ASSOCIATED WITH LANDMARKS
Granted: June 5, 2014
Application Number:
20140156787
The present invention provides techniques that allow a user to generate an image of a landmark, which can be a famous location, monument, etc., which image includes written comments added by the user. The comments may appear to be on or partially on the landmark. The comments may express sentiment of the user associated with or inspired by the landmark, similar to inscriptions or graffiti, but allowing the user to express such sentiments without altering or defacing the landmark itself.…
CLASSIFYING A PORTION OF USER CONTACT DATA INTO LOCAL CONTACTS
Granted: June 5, 2014
Application Number:
20140156650
Contact data for contacts of a user is stored. Each of the contacts is ranked (e.g., based on stored profile information for each contact). In one embodiment, each of the contacts is classified as either a local contact or a directory contact based on the ranking to provide local contacts and directory contacts. The local contacts are provided for local storage on a user device of the user. A directory contact is provided to the user device from the directory contacts by the server…
System and method for associating a geographic location with an Internet protocol address
Granted: June 5, 2014
Application Number:
20140156622
The present application is directed to systems and methods for associating a geographic location with an IP address. Generally, an IP address from which each of a plurality of users accesses a network is recorded. A geo tag is associated with each of the plurality of users and a subset of the plurality of users is identified, the subset including users associated with a first IP address. The subset of the plurality of users is clustered into a spatial cluster including users associated…
MEMBER REGISTRATION SYSTEM, MEMBER REGISTRATION APPARATUS, AND MEMBER REGISTRATION METHOD
Granted: June 5, 2014
Application Number:
20140156408
A member registration system according to an embodiment includes an information processing apparatus that performs an enrollment process in a member service of a store in which a wireless communication apparatus is installed. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a wireless terminal present within a communication area of the wireless communication apparatus, a determination unit that determines whether enrollment of a user of the wireless terminal…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING MINERAL BUILDUP ON DRIFT ELIMINATORS OF A COOLING TOWER
Granted: June 5, 2014
Application Number:
20140151909
An apparatus directed to reducing mineral buildup on drift eliminators of a cooling tower, using a control unit to selectively irrigate the drift eliminators based on the fluid temperature in the basin and the temperature inside and outside of the cooling tower.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AUDIO ASSISTANCE FOR NON-VISUAL NAVIGATION OF DATA
Granted: May 29, 2014
Application Number:
20140149868
A method and system for providing audio assistance for non-visual navigation of data. The method includes receiving a scroll input; determining a page length associated with the data; associating the page length with a plurality of steps; associating an audio pattern to each step; determining a step, of the plurality of steps, that corresponds to the scroll input; and playing, to the user, the audio pattern corresponding to the step. The system includes an electronic device, a…
FEATURE RICH VIEW OF AN ENTITY SUBGRAPH
Granted: May 29, 2014
Application Number:
20140149465
A data processing system employs a pre-processing step to create a simplified view of a received entity graph. During the pre-processing step, only the objects and the attributes of those objects within the graph that are required for data processing are selected. Pruned source and target objects are generated by omitting those attributes that are not required for processing. The pruned objects are included in the simplified view that enhances system performance.
METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DOCUMENT PROCESSING AT DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING NODES
Granted: May 29, 2014
Application Number:
20140149380
Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for document processing at distributed processing nodes.
ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD
Granted: May 29, 2014
Application Number:
20140149226
An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a predictive information storage, a counting unit, and an allocating unit. The predictive information storage unit stores information including user attributes of a plurality of delivery target users predicted as a future advertisement delivery destination. The counting unit counts a total of the number of user attributes of delivery target users which are not allocated on an advertisement…
ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD
Granted: May 29, 2014
Application Number:
20140149212
An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a score determining unit and an allocating unit. The score determining unit determines an allocation score representing a adequacy degree of allocation of a delivery target user on an advertisement delivery order request based on the number or the proportion of non-allocated users which are delivery target users which are not allocated on the advertisement delivery order request among a plurality…
CONSTRUCTING TRAVEL ITINERARIES FROM TAGGED GEO-TEMPORAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Granted: May 29, 2014
Application Number:
20140149036
One embodiment accesses two or more photos taken by one or more travelers at one or more destinations and one or more points-of-interest located within the destinations; constructs one or more photo streams for each unique traveler-destination combination, wherein each one of the photo streams comprises two or more of the photos taken by the corresponding traveler at the corresponding destination; maps each one of the photos to one of the points-of-interest; constructs one or more timed…
MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION SYSTEM AND MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION METHOD
Granted: May 22, 2014
Application Number:
20140143040
A membership registration system according to embodiments includes an information management apparatus and a store membership management apparatus. The information management apparatus receives user information from the terminal apparatus, and stores the user information in a user information storage unit. When the terminal apparatus makes a membership registration request, the store membership management apparatus transmits to the information management apparatus a transmission request…
INFINITE BROWSE
Granted: May 22, 2014
Application Number:
20140143243
An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may…
ONLINE MARKETPLACE TO FACILITATE THE DISTRIBUTION OF MARKETING SERVICES FROM A MARKETER TO AN ONLINE MERCHANT
Granted: May 22, 2014
Application Number:
20140143067
Methods and systems are provided for use, for example, in e-commerce. E-commerce data from a merchant may be received regarding interactions of customers with a website of the merchant. Characteristics of the e-commerce data may be identified. Based at least in part on the one or more identified characteristics, a plurality of marketing actions may be selected, or automatically selected, that are potentially effective for the merchant. The selected marketing actions may be ranked based…
SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING ADVERTISING CATEGORIES
Granted: May 22, 2014
Application Number:
20140143054
A method is disclosed for providing advertising content for display in a page over a network. The advertising content is displayed based on a category assigned to the advertising content and an identified geographic location of a search query. The category correlating to a given search may be based on the search results. The search results may be associated with one or more categories and the category for selecting advertising content is determined in accordance with the amount of search…
