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…
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…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TOKENLESS SECURE LOGIN BY VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY
Granted: May 15, 2014
Application Number:
20140136836
A method and system for providing tokenless secure login by visual cryptography. The method includes generating a password sequence and converting the password sequence to a password image. The method also includes encrypting the password image into a first image cipher and a second image cipher. The method further includes transmitting the first image cipher to a first electronic device of a user. Further, the method includes displaying the second image cipher on a second electronic…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING AUDIO OF A VIDEO TO DISPLAY SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE VIDEO
Granted: May 15, 2014
Application Number:
20140136596
A system and method for providing a user with supplemental content associated with a product or item the user sees or hears in a video. The system and method include receiving, by a server computer over a network from a client device, an audio clip associated with a portion of a video; determining, by the server computer, that the video is a specific media program; using, by the server computer, the captured audio clip to map the portion of the video with supplemental content for a…
PUSH PULL CACHING FOR SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION
Granted: May 15, 2014
Application Number:
20140136595
Embodiments are directed towards modifying a distribution of writers as either a push writer or a pull writer based on a cost model that decides for a given content reader whether it is more effective for the writer to be a pull writer or a push writer. A cache is maintained for each content reader for caching content items pushed by a push writer in the content writer's push list of writers when the content is generated. At query time, content items are pulled by the content reader…
ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD
Granted: May 15, 2014
Application Number:
20140136317
An advertisement information providing device, includes: an advertisement content storing unit configured to store impression-guaranteed type advertisement content and pay-per-click type advertisement content; an advertisement content type determining unit configured to determine which type of advertisement content between the impression-guaranteed type advertisement content and the pay-per-click type advertisement content to deliver when a page browsing request is received from a…
LOGO OR IMAGE RECOGNITION
Granted: May 15, 2014
Application Number:
20140133763
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to electronic image object or logo recognition.
NAVIGATION BRIDGE
Granted: May 8, 2014
Application Number:
20140129964
Described herein is a system that can link multiple electronic media production and/or publication applications. The linking of the multiple applications may be facilitated through a browser. Also, a toolbar included in the browser may facilitate the links between applications and assist a user in controlling one or more workflows that use the linked applications.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TIME-BASED CONTENT
Granted: May 8, 2014
Application Number:
20140130088
System and method for providing time-based content. In one embodiment, time-based offers are presented to viewers of broadcast content, and may be presented on the same display device being used to display broadcast programming. In another embodiment, time-based offers are commercial offers inviting the viewer to purchase goods or services at a special rate for a limited time. Time-based offers may also be customized based on programming content being viewed and/or viewer profile data.…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE ALTERING STATIC VIDEO CONTENT IN REAL TIME
Granted: May 8, 2014
Application Number:
20140129729
A method and system for remote altering static video content in real time. The method includes encountering one or more synchronization markers embedded in a video. The video includes the static video content that plays on an electronic device. The method also includes contacting a content server along with a plurality of user parameters. The method further includes receiving streamed content for the video from the content server. The streamed content is determined based on the plurality…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WORK LOAD BALANCING
Granted: May 8, 2014
Application Number:
20140129715
Method system, and programs for balancing work load in a distributed system. A plurality of resource units in the distributed system are ranked based a plurality of multi-dimensional load metrics determined from each of the plurality of resource units. The plurality of resource units are divided into a plurality of resource unit groups based on the ranking of the plurality of resource units. At least one pair of resource unit groups is formed. Each of the at least one pair of resource…
CAPTURING VALUE OF A UNIT OF CONTENT
Granted: May 8, 2014
Application Number:
20140129364
Various component values of original content items are extracted via an initial publication and republication of content items. An original, unpublished content item is initially made available for discovery and purchase by different content distributors. When a content distributor first purchases the content item for publication, it is no longer available to other content distributors for an initial time period which can be configured based on different component values of the content…
ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD
Granted: May 8, 2014
Application Number:
20140129350
An advertisement distribution apparatus of the present application includes a storage unit, a calculating unit, a determining unit, and a distributing unit. The storage unit stores a value related to degree of association with content to which advertisement information is allowed to be distributed. The calculating unit calculates degree of association between content and advertisement information upon receiving a distribution request for advertisement information to be distributed to the…
ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY METHOD
Granted: May 8, 2014
Application Number:
20140129327
An advertisement delivery device acquires a value regarding a degree of relevance with content to which advertisement information set to the content is allowed to be delivered when a delivery request of advertisement information to be delivered to content is received, calculates a degree of relevance between the content and the advertisement information, determines whether the calculated degree of relevance is higher than the acquired value regarding the degree of relevance, and delivers…
Systems and Methods for Generating A Dense Graph
Granted: May 1, 2014
Application Number:
20140118355
Methods and systems for generating a dense graph are described. One of the methods includes receiving a graph and computing a threshold to apply to the graph. The method further includes determining whether the graph includes a first set of at least one node, determining whether a second set of at least one node from the first set meets the threshold, and removing the at least one node of the second set concurrently from the graph upon determining that the at least one node of the second…
ADVERTISER DRIVEN ENGAGEMENT FOR PRODUCT SEARCHES
Granted: May 1, 2014
Application Number:
20140122225
An advertiser-driven single page product search and purchase process may be simplified for consumers. When a product search is performed, a single page may be rendered to the consumer that includes the necessary information to enable a consumer to avoid multiple searches and switching frequently between other tabs and pages. The single page may also provide an option to the advertiser to monitor these interactions so that the advertiser may perform an active role in the product search…
OPTIMIZING BIDDING WITH MULTIPLE CAMPAIGN TYPES
Granted: May 1, 2014
Application Number:
20140122221
A method, system, and computer program product for optimizing bidding over multiple advertising campaigns having a least two campaign types. The optimization is subjected to at least one constraint quantifying a multiple campaign spending limit amount. The method commences by identifying a collection of the multiple advertising campaigns, then evaluating each of the constituent member advertising campaigns to determine its respective optimized spending amount. Then the method calculates…
Cross-Platform Targeting
Granted: May 1, 2014
Application Number:
20140122194
A system and method for cross-platform targeting includes: receiving as input calendar entries from an on-line calendar associated with a first user, the calendar entries designating specified time slots associated with scheduled events; marking the specified time slots associated with the scheduled events as unavailable time slots; eliminating the unavailable time slots from the calendar associated with the first user; determining from remaining time slots those time slots wherein the…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION USING LANGUAGE TAGS
Granted: May 1, 2014
Application Number:
20140122055
Disclosed herein is an ability to identify a supported language. A current language tag including one or more subtags, each subtag providing language identification information. In response to determining that a language referenced by the current language tag is not a supported language, accessing a stored set of mappings including one or more mappings, each mapping associating a first language tag with a second language tag, determining whether or not a mapping in the set of mappings…
