285 results about "Information product" patented technology

An advertising entity manages determinations, bidding, and / or billing for serving “generic advertisements” on a primary document. Generic ads are not for specific merchants or products; rather they lead users to a secondary document containing more specific information, product listings, and / or merchant listings. Such information and / or listings are determined to be relevant to a generic concept corresponding to the generic ad. For example, when a user selects a generic ad, they may be presented with a secondary document including product listings. If the user selects a merchant's product listing, then that merchant compensates an ad serving entity and / or a publisher of the primary document. Such management might include choosing or generating an appropriate generic advertisement creative for a potential advertising situation. A determination of whether or not to render a generic ad instead of one or more typical advertiser-managed ads may use an expected value of rendering the generic ad versus showing the advertiser-managed ad(s). The result of this determination may be reflected in a bid associated with the generic ad. Generic ads will often be useful for primary documents (e.g., Web pages) that are non-specific.

This invention provides a system and method that enable wired and wireless computing device users to create, access and share geographical positioning data and related information preferably in real time. It allows for the creation, storage, access, transmission and management of geographical positioning data determined by GPS (or any other known method) coupled with other data such as text, images, audio and video which provides information, products and services relating to the said geographical positioning data. In a preferred embodiment, the system comprises a wireless positioning system and a wireless two-way data communication between a portable device and a network server. Said system and method allow users to integrate the use of location bookmarks in various applications.

A system and method for generating custom geospatial information maps and precision corrected images allows real-time interactive production of a desired output image by incorporating user selectable parameters that define various image synthesizing operations. A graphical user interface allows a user to specify parameters that define the desired output image via a remote computing device over a public access network such as the Internet. The parameters define image synthesizing operations such as area, projection, datum, fusion, masking, blending, mosaiking, resampling, and others. The desired output image is processed by an image assembly server according to the parameters and a variety of geospatial image data sources, and electronically delivered to a user via a public access network. The geospatial information may also be correlated with non-georeferenced data such that relevant associations between non-georeferenced data and the geospatial data are integrated in the output information product.

A system for personalizing interaction between a user communicating over at least one communication channel and a provider of information / products / services, the user having a communication device for communication over the channel with the provider, the system comprising a channel interface for interfacing with the channel, an information / product / service interface for interfacing with an information / product / service provider; and a knowledge management system coupled to the channel and information / product / service interface, the knowledge management system comprising a knowledge management repository storing information concerning the user, the information obtained from interaction with the user over the channel including current interactions between the user and the knowledge management system, and further storing information concerning a plurality of information / products / services to offer to the user, and a personalization engine for making a decision as to which of the plurality of information / product / services to present to the user over the communication channel based on the stored information in the knowledge management repository.

The invention discloses an internet information product recommending method based on matrix decomposition. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) obtaining the user scoring record to the information product; 2) obtaining the social relationship record between internet users; 3) respectively building a scoring matrix and a social matrix according to the types of a target user and a target product; 4) learning a user feature vector and a product feature vector through a matrix decomposition technology; 5) calculating the scores of different products scored by the target user according to the feature vectors, so as to recommending the favorite products of the user according to the scores. In the method, analysis on user social relationship is introduced, and personalized product recommendation is provided for the target user based on the production type information. The calculation is simple and quick, and the method has better expandability and adaptability, so that the method is suitable for highly dynamic and immense amount of product-oriented recommendation for the internet users.

An application IC that can be applied in the control system of a memory storage device for the USB device for communicating with a server for receiving, reading and writing commands from the server and to access to the data stored in various memory storage devices is provided. Alternatively, the application IC can support the server, including IDE portable information product for data transmission. The data transmission having these two different specifications can share the same data source in certain mechanism. In this mechanism, the USB server is in the first priority transfer mode, the IDE server will take action only when the USB server is unavailable or discharged. When the IDE server is in operation mode, the interruption demand from the USB server is denied and after the IDE server completes the assignment, the interruption command from the USB server is executed.

Product order and shipping information received via email messages is automatically aggregated for ready user review. Once the user is authenticated, authorization to access their email mailbox is obtained and the email message headers of their entails are analyzed to identify those messages of interest. The bodies of the email messages of interest are parsed to extract the product order and shipping information which is stored and presented for display to the user typically grouped by individual product thus greatly simplifying user review of orders. The aggregated product order and shipping information can be augmented with additional information such as shipping status, delivery status, a product image, and / or a last date that the product can be returned.

Systems and methods are provided for monitoring transmissions of media content (such as audio and audiovisual content) in order to obtain independent and objective data regarding the use of specific media content recordings or works within the transmissions. Processing and reporting of such data is provided in various ways to serve a variety of business needs. Methods for employing content identification technology to efficiently and automatically obtain reliable, accurate, and precise monitoring data are also disclosed. Various information products and services based on such monitoring systems are proposed.

A method for controlling the release of an as-rendered configuration of a digital work, comprising the steps of presenting said digital work as a composite of a plurality of layers comprising at least a first layer and a second layer; providing a rendering protocol interface which is adapted for defining said as-rendered configuration of the digital work by specifying a first rendering status of said first layer and a second rendering status of said second layer; providing a rendering protocol facility adapted for storing and controlling the release of said first and second rendering status of said first and second layers respectively in accordance with said as-rendered configuration; restricting unauthorized access to the rendering protocol interface, thereby preventing unauthorized modification of said as-rendered configuration; and releasing said digital work with said as-rendered configuration. The method has application in selling books, movies, software, music and other information products. A method of selling a preview version of an information product along with an option of purchase of the original version is described.

A method of and system for organizing a hierarchy of sets of one or more parameters, for example, configuration parameters, maintaining the plurality of parameter sets, and combining two or more of the plurality of parameter sets to produce a single set of configuration parameters (i.e., an entity profile) for an entity, where such entity may be associated with a communications network. The generated entity profile may be used to configure a device, for example, a network device, associated with the entity. Provided is a digital information product, comprising a computer-readable medium; and first signals tangibly-embodied on the computer-readable medium. The signals define, for an entity associated with a communications network and that belongs to one or more entity groups of a hierarchy of entity groups, a plurality of sets of configuration parameters for configuring a network device of the communications network. Each set corresponds to either the entity or one of the entity groups and, for each set, for one or more configuration parameters, the set defines a value for the configuration parameter. Further provided are a method of and system for assigning values to one or more configuration parameters of a first entity associated with a communications network. The entity is a member of a hierarchy of entity groups, and the communications network comprises a computer-readable medium. A plurality of sets of configuration parameters for configuring a network device of the communications network are retrieved from the computer-readable medium, where each set corresponds to either the entity or one of the entity groups. For each set, for one or more configuration parameters, the set defines a value for the configuration parameter. The plurality of sets of configuration parameters are combined to produce an entity profile for the first entity, where the entity profile comprises one or more configuration parameters and comprises, for each parameter, a corresponding value assigned from one of the plurality of sets of configuration parameters.

The biometric authentication system of this invention includes user identification information product and authentication side system. The user identification information product acquires biometric information of user, encrypts the biometric information acquired using encryption key information provided by the authentication side system and provides encrypted biometric information to the authentication side system. Just after, the acquired biometric information is cleared up. The authentication side system stores reference encrypted biometric information and inherent encryption key when this reference encrypted biometric information is acquired, corresponding to the user identification information. At the time of authentication, encryption key information is created using at least the stored inherent encryption key and provided to the user identification information product, and then, an authentication result is formed by using the received encrypted biometric information and reference encrypted biometric information.

A method, system, computer program product, and device for providing product information, such as, for example, product price comparison information, product reviews, retailer information, retailer reviews, and information about similar products, to a user utilizing a mobile data processing system is provided. In one embodiment, a user, using a product code reader, such as, for example, an RFID reader, reads a product code from a tag, such as, for example, an RFID tag, located proximate to a product. The product code information determined from the product code is transmitted to a server. The server receives the product code information and retrieves the product information from a database. The server then formats the product information into, for example, a web page, and transmits the web page back to the mobile data processing system which receives the web page and presents the web page to the user.

Systems and methods are provided for monitoring transmissions of media content (such as audio and audiovisual content) in order to obtain independent and objective data regarding the use of specific media content recordings or works within the transmissions. Processing and reporting of such data is provided in various ways to serve a variety of business needs. Methods for employing content identification technology to efficiently and automatically obtain reliable, accurate, and precise monitoring data are also disclosed. Various information products and services based on such monitoring systems are proposed.

A check for a knowledge automation engine to use in detecting product issues on products. A knowledge automation engine may evaluate a check against a fact to detect a product issue on a product and provide a user of the product remediation information. A check may contain a product issue description, a rule to evaluate against a fact in order to detect the product issue, and remediation information to help a user address the product issue if the product issue is detected on the product. Product issues may include product installation validation and known product bugs. Facts used by the knowledge automation engine may include product configuration facts.

A system for creating and editing checks for a knowledge automation engine to use in detecting product issues on products. A knowledge automation engine may evaluate a check against a fact to detect a product issue on a product and provide a user of the product remediation information. A check may contain a product issue description, a rule to evaluate against a fact in order to detect the product issue, and remediation information to help a user address the product issue if the product issue is detected on the product. Product issues may include product installation validation and known product bugs. Facts used by the knowledge automation engine may include product configuration facts. Checks may be created and edited using a standard interface.

An electronic shelf label system includes a plurality of electronic shelf labels, plurality of transmitters, and a transmission controller. The transmission controller divides the transmitters into a plurality of communication groups so that each of the communication groups has a collective communication area including at least one of the transmitters, and to control the transmitters in units of the communication groups. The transmission controller also controls all of the transmitters included in one of the communication group, which is determined based on input of position specification information for specifying a position of a worker who is utilizing a portable information processing device, to cause product information of a target product to be transmitted to a target electronic shelf label by one of the transmitters that belongs to the communication group.

A system and method permit a user to browse and compare products of a merchant using information about a competitor. In one embodiment of the system and method, a page server serves a competitor electronic page to a customer browser which permits the user to select a competitor. The competitor electronic page includes a hyperlink having a manufacturer ID parameter, which hyperlink, when selected, issues a request to the page server for competitor product information. The request includes the manufacturer ID. Responsive to that request, the page server uses the manufacturer ID to form a query to present to a product database having competitive product information, manufacturer information, product information and associations between that information. A database engine processes the query and returns records satisfying the query. The records are used to construct a competitor product electronic page permitting a user to select a competitor product. The page server serves the competitor product electronic page to the customer browser. The competitor product electronic page includes hyperlinks corresponding to competitor products, each hyperlink, when selected, issuing a request for corresponding product information, and each hyperlink including a corresponding product ID parameter transmitted with the issued request. The page server responds to a request for corresponding product information by using the corresponding product ID parameter to query the product database for corresponding product information. The records satisfying the query are returned and used to construct an electronic page including corresponding product information. The page server sends the electronic page including the corresponding product information to the customer browser.

A system is provided for use by managers, employees, and customers to analyze the experience of customers involving the purchase of products / services at a facility to determine individual employee performance, team performance, and corporate performance. The system includes a database populated with facility information, employee information, product information, and transactional information. A processor is connected to the database to access sales information regarding the products / services sold, product information identifying products / services available for purchase, customer feedback information regarding commercial transactions, employee information regarding the identity and performance of each employee over a period of time, and facility information regarding an identity of the facility and customer satisfaction toward the facility. The processor executes computer-executable instructions for presenting to a unit level or corporate manager an integrated interactive display that provides a facility performance interface, an employee evaluation interface, a customer management interface, and a priority list interface.

The invention relates to an intelligent information extraction method and system based on remote sensing image. Firstly, the remote sensing big data GPU computing cluster based on Hadoop is constructed, then the decompression of remote sensing image is designed, high-precision cloud detection, panchromatic multispectral image automatic fusion, RPC image correction, intelligent information extraction method and process for intelligent extraction of ground object information and vectorization of geographic element information, in which the intelligent information extraction platform adopts Caffedeep learning framework, a high-precision cloud mask product of remote sensing image can be obtained through the above process, panchromatic multi-spectral band fusion products, RPC ortho correctionproducts, intelligent extraction products of ground object information and geographic element information vectorization products realize the goal of automatically converting 1A-level original remote sensing images into 2A-level products, which greatly shortens the time from satellite standard data products to information products.

A method for controlling the release of an as-rendered configuration of a digital work, comprising the steps of presenting said digital work as a composite of a plurality of layers comprising at least a first layer and a second layer; providing a rendering protocol interface which is adapted for defining said as-rendered configuration of the digital work by specifying a first rendering status of said first layer and a second rendering status of said second layer; providing a rendering protocol facility adapted for storing and controlling the release of said first and second rendering status of said first and second layers respectively in accordance with said as-rendered configuration; restricting unauthorized access to the rendering protocol interface, thereby preventing unauthorized modification of said as-rendered configuration; and releasing said digital work with said as-rendered configuration. The method has application in selling books, movies, software, music and other information products. A method of selling a preview version of an information product along with an option of purchase of the original version is described.

Information concerning personal investment and finance is developed and stored in first and second data sets containing topics and issue-questions related thereto. The information is accessed from these data sets by selectively combining an issue-question with at least one topic to produce a primary information product. A program means associated with the data sets modifies the primary information product by imposing thereon a plurality of answer-options to the selected issue-question. Each answer-options comprises at least one expert opinion and at least one prudent-investor opinion, stored in third and fourth data sets. The imposition of answer-options on the information product produces a polycentric information product, which is readily communicated by oral, written or electronic means. Advantageously, the method provides to a user a range of focused responses to an investor's questions in a time-efficient manner in order for investors to make prudent investments given their priorities and personal preferences.

A computer implemented Availability Checking Tool wherein tool users work within a common work environment, from common enterprise data, and considering assets and demands across multiple order management systems and manufacturing facilities within boundaries established by manufacturing specifications, process flows and business policies. Tool users can easily maintain a synergistic relationship between orders from multiple demand sources or ordering systems. A demand configurator receives demand information from each demand source and coordinates product requests in accordance with customer request rules and priorities. A supply configurator receives manufacturing and planning data from a planning source and manipulates the received manufacturing and planning data to create new supply data. A material resource engine provides material supply information from the new supply data, the received demand information following product supply rules and priorities. A solver for optimizes product availability information in response to the material supply information, product supply rules and priorities. Thus, customer business rule level

A method for generating a raster file based on a plurality of primary index raster files that are associated with an area of interest (AOI) uses a computer coupled to a remote sensing device via a network. The method includes receiving a plurality of AOI raster files via the network, and generating the primary index raster files including a green biomass index (GBI) raster file and a pigmentation index (PGI) raster file. The method also includes generating a plurality of levels for each of the primary index raster files, generating a combination vegetation index (CVIPP) raster file based on a highest level of the GBI and PGI raster files, and generating a corn soybean map (CSM) raster file based on the CVIPP raster file. The method also includes storing the CSM raster file into the memory, and displaying a CSM report based on the CSM raster file.

A fragrance generation device for information products is described. A receiving space is formed at the bottom of a disk body to receive a fragrance sheet like a sponge so that a fragrance can be successfully emitted by the activity of a device such as a heat-radiating fan inside an information product like a computer, a PDA or an electric appliance. Foul smells like scorching can thus be masked when the information product operates. Moreover, the effect of aromatherapy can be accomplished simultaneously.

Material management systems and methods include material storage vessels with information (e.g., electronic information) storage. Information may be communicated from a storage device to a process tool controller and employed to set or adjust a process tool operating parameter. Material information may be determined by remote analysis and subsequently communicated to an electronic information storage device of a vessel containing such material. Location and movement of material storage vessels within a customer facility may be automatically tracked, with further transfer of material-specific information. Product information may be associatively stored with material-specific information utilized in product manufacture.