INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD
Granted: March 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140090025
Access restriction is performed on access to a page on which information is posted from a terminal of a subject. It is determined whether positions of terminals used by the subject and a manager, who is associated with the subject in advance, accord with each other. A relaxation operation is received from the terminal of the manager, when it is determined that the positions accord with each other. The access restriction by a restriction unit is relaxed, when the relaxation operation is…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD
Granted: March 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140090015
An information processing device includes a meeting determination unit, an authentication reception unit, and an authentication determination unit. The meeting determination unit determines whether a user who is an authenticatee meets a user who is an authenticator based on information received from terminals used by the users. The authentication reception unit receives information indicating that an authentication operation is performed for the authenticatee from the terminal of the…
CONTEXT SENSITIVE USER GROUP COMMUNICATIONS
Granted: March 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140089439
A system and method for resolving topically relevant contacts for a user is provided. One example embodiment provides for a method including acts of presenting, within a web page, a communication list with content that is presented to various user based at least in part on the users being associated with another user and the topical content of the web page. Another example embodiment provides or a system that serves web pages including a communication list with content that is presented…
Personalizing an Online Service Based on Data Collected for a User of a Computing Device
Granted: March 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140089411
An Internet or other online service is personalized or customized based on data collected for a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons associated with communications received by a user of a computing device; receiving data associated with an online service; and filtering, using at least one processor, the data based on the plurality of person profiles, wherein the filtered data is for display to the user on the…
CONTEXT SERVER FOR ASSOCIATING INFORMATION BASED ON CONTEXT
Granted: March 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140089312
A system, method, and computer readable medium are provided for associating information (including information and services) based upon context. In one example, an apparatus includes interface logic for receiving, during a session (e.g., during a media object capture, upload session, data transfer session, or the like), context information from a user device, and user-generated information associated with the context information. The context information may relate to time, date,…
Personalizing an Online Service Based on Data Collected for a User of a Computing Device
Granted: March 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140089304
An Internet or other online service is personalized or customized based on data collected for a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons associated with communications received by a user of a computing device; receiving data associated with an online service; and filtering, using at least one processor, the data based on the plurality of person profiles, wherein the filtered data is for display to the user on the…
SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING LOCAL INTENT IN A SEARCH QUERY
Granted: March 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140089286
A system and method are disclosed for determining local intent. Local intent may reflect whether a search query should receive results and advertisements that are geographically specific. The local intent may be determined using probabilistic models that analyze historical searches to determine which search terms tend to have local intent.
TERMINAL APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD
Granted: March 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140089110
Provided is a terminal apparatus including a display unit, an acquisition unit, a detection unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires advertisement information from an advertisement delivery apparatus. The detection unit detects a scroll state of a page displayed on the display unit. The display control unit sets an initial display position of the advertisement information to a predetermined position of the page in a case where the page is not scrolling and which…
TESTING FRAMEWORK FOR DYNAMIC WEB PAGES
Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140082593
A system and method for bucket testing includes: retrieving a user's information from a user in a bucket testing group when a request to serve a web page is received; determining from the user's information if the user has an active bucket identifier associated with the user's account in a persistent store; retrieving bucket parameters from the user's information when it is determined that the user has an active bucket identifier; determining if the bucket parameters are within a range…
USER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND USER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD
Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140082748
A user information management apparatus stores various types of user information on a user in a storage unit, causes a providing unit to provide a user with an access code used to access the user information on the user stored in the storage unit, and when receiving the access code from the facility device installed in a facility that provides a service, causes the transmitting unit to transmit the user information corresponding to the service provided by the facility having the facility…
Personalizing an Online Service Based on Data Collected for a User of a Computing Device
Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140081964
An Internet or other online service is personalized or customized based on data collected for a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons associated with communications received by a user of a computing device; receiving data associated with an online service; and filtering, using at least one processor, the data based on the plurality of person profiles, wherein the filtered data is for display to the user on the…
Self Populating Address Book
Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140081914
System, methods and computer program products for creating and maintaining an address book are described. The address book may collect or update its existing contact information from sent or received communications. Contact information associated with the existing contacts also may be collected (or updated based on information received) from outside sources (e.g., external to an application hosting or accessing the address book). The address book may intelligently combine profile data…
PERMISSION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND PERMISSION MANAGEMENT METHOD
Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140081746
A registration accepting unit accepts registration of a card. A storage unit stores use permission information indicating a disabled state of use permission of the registered card. An instruction accepting unit accepts a use permission enabling instruction of the card from a user terminal. A providing unit provides the user terminal with code information associated with the card for which the use permission enabling instruction has been issued. A changing unit enables the use permission…
PRICING ENGINE REVENUE EVALUATION
Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140081743
A simulation framework for evaluating revenue that may use a pricing engine that runs at least one pricing algorithm with particular configurations and under particular model market conditions to provide revenue projections.
INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140081723
An information providing apparatus according to the present application includes an identifying unit, a checking unit, and a notifying unit. The identifying unit identifies a store or a site which a user plans to visit by analyzing a posting page posted by the user. The checking unit checks a current location of a user terminal which the user has against a location of the store or the site identified by the identifying unit when the user terminal performs processing to register the…
EMBEDDING CALENDAR KNOWLEDGE IN EVENT-DRIVEN INVENTORY FORECASTING
Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140081696
Systems and methods for automatically forecasting the future availability of one or more resources, such as Internet advertising opportunities, are described herein. In accordance with various embodiments, a forecasting model that accounts for event-driven resource availability is trained based both on historical supply data and calendar information specifying events and event duration. The trained forecasting model is then used to forecast the availability of resources at one or more…
TERMINAL APPARATUS, POSITION REGISTRATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140080507
A terminal apparatus of the present application includes a position acquiring unit, a searching unit, and a transmitting unit. The position acquiring unit acquires position information on the location of the terminal apparatus. The searching unit searches other terminal apparatus located near the terminal apparatus through short range communication. The transmitting unit transmits the position information acquired by the position acquiring unit to a predetermined server apparatus, as the…
SOCIAL CONTENT SUGGESTIONS BASED ON CONNECTIONS
Granted: March 13, 2014
Application Number:
20140074856
A system and method for recommending content to a user in a social network, including: logging user activity for the user in the social network; categorizing the user activity across all the user's networks, wherein each category is assigned a score based on relevance to the user; assigning weights to the user activities; calculating a social index score as a function of the weighted user activity categories; logging user content into categories; scoring the user content; and generating…
VOLUME BASED, TELEVISION RELATED ADVERTISEMENT TARGETING
Granted: March 13, 2014
Application Number:
20140075463
The present invention provides techniques that relate to television based advertising and advertisement targeting, such as advertisements presented via Internet TV, IPTV, and television programs streamed over the Internet. Techniques are provided that include monitoring user-initiated changes of volume during a television based advertisement. Based at least in part on such changes, a user's interest level in the advertisement may be assessed. Based at least in part on the assessed…
WEB PAGE LAYOUT
Granted: March 13, 2014
Application Number:
20140075293
Embodiments disclosed herein may relate to producing a layout for a web page.
