513 results about "Product type" patented technology

Techniques described herein relate to using tokenization with BIN table routing by configuring a computer system, such as an acquirer computer, to utilize a token BIN translation table to determine which payment processing network(s) are eligible to route a transaction based upon a utilized token. In an embodiment, each token BIN translation table entry associates a token BIN with one or more payment processing networks that are eligible to route transactions. An acquirer computer, upon receiving a token for a transaction, thus may flexibly route the transaction to an eligible network from the set of payment processing networks identified by the entry corresponding to the token's BIN value. The entry may further identify verification methods for the eligible payment processing networks, and may identify product type attributes of the account associated with the token, either of which may be used in determining which payment processing network to select.

The present invention provides a dynamic pricing system that generates pricing recommendations for each product in each market. In particular, the system normalizes historic pricing and sales data, and then analyzes this historic data using parameters describing the user's business objectives to produce a pricing list to achieve these objectives. The system uses historical market data to forecast expected sales according to a market segment, product type, and a range of future dates and to determine the effects of price changes on the forecasted future sales. The system further calculates unit costs for the product. The system then estimates profits from sales at different prices by using the sales forecasts, adjusting these sales forecasts for changes in prices, and the costs determinations. The system optionally optimizes prices given current and projected inventory constraints and generates alerts notices according to pre-set conditions.

Methods and apparatus for improving word-of-mouth online advertising are provided. Construct a social network including multiple users based on the users' social network data and optionally further based on the users' demographical and / or other personal information. Categorize the users in the social network with respect to a type of product in terms of their propensity to adopt the type of product and to influence others in the social network in adopting the type of product. Determine appropriate content object(s) for each category of users, and send the content object(s) to each category of users via different channels at the appropriate time during the product's lifecycle.

A transportation system for secure, auditable and trackable smart mobile containers (SMC) for securely shipping less than truckload volumes of products that require special handing segregation as controlled products, such as ethical drugs, along with general, non-controlled merchandise. Dedicated semi-trailer lockers are secured under the deck I-beam framing, including lockable fold-down doors that become ramps for loading / unloading. The lockers are mounted back to back along the center line of the trailer under-deck. Each SMC includes a electronics package that can read RFID tags, has condition sensors and an RF module to permit remote monitoring of location and cargo / container conditions. The SMC can include an electronic lock that provides access security, and an audit trail of all opening and closing events.

An Internet auction method, system and computer site where independent and / or unrelated buyers are automatically pooled to buy products / services as a group in order to entice competitive bidding from pre-approved sellers who take advantage of the large group sales to bid (offer) discounts. The buyers purchase "buying power' or "value' from a winning seller, not a specific product / service at a specific price. In this way, buyers who have interest in a similar product type, join an auction pool to commit to a spending amount based on a discount rate they desire. Sellers competitively bid to win that pooled sales amount. The seller or sellers having the greatest discount and best meeting the buyer's individual conditions wins the business. All buyers who requested the winning bid discount rate or less, receive "buying power' redeemable at that seller.

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying products and monitoring planogram compliance using analysis of image data. In one implementation, the method may include accessing at least one planogram describing a desired placement of a plurality of product types on shelves of a plurality of retail stores; receiving image data from the plurality of retail stores; analyzing the image data to determine an actual placement of the plurality of product types on the shelves of the plurality of retail stores; determining at least one characteristic of planogram compliance based on detected differences between the at least one planogram and the actual placement of the plurality of product types on the shelves of the plurality of retail stores; and receiving checkout data from the plurality of retail stores reflecting sales of at least one product type from the plurality of product types.

The automated software upgrade utility allows a customer, product supplier or software vendor to upgrade the operating system, firmware, applications and data files on any product regardless of the product type and characteristics. This upgrade process can be invoked from a remote location or via interaction directly with the target device.

An insurance product class is defined which includes multiple data elements that are common to various insurance product types. Further, several classes derived from the insurance product class are defined, with each derived class extending the common data elements to include data elements that are specific to a certain insurance product type.

A system for mining data about activity performed within a virtual shopping cart includes a server node for serving the virtual shopping cart and for enabling activity within the virtual shopping cart, and a module running on the server for analyzing activity performed within the virtual shopping cart and for recording results of the analysis. The activity data mined is aggregated with other data mined over time relative to the same shopping cart such that preference data related to product types, product styles, merchants, brands, colors, and sizes may be determined to help fine tune product offerings.

An internet marketing analytics system to quantify visitor website activity, the system including a database having a plurality of parameters having any portion of the following; site visits, total revenue, bounce rate, conversion rate, orders, average order value, value per visit, pages per visit, new visits, units, cart additions, cart removals, internal search, click through rate, revenue per visit, open rate, email list, impressions, visit duration, percent new visitors, percent return visitors, post volume, net promoter score, social referring traffic, total cost, search term, exit rate, page views, and product type, plus non website related visitor internet activity. The system producing a multi-variate visual spatial display of the database including at least three parameters being simultaneously displayed and modifying the display to selectively emphasize a parameter to be displayed as an X, Y, or Z axis for clarity, for modifying a component of the database to optimize website efficiency.

Even in the case of a material producing company that uses common main starting materials and has in-house organizations corresponding to manufacturing processes, appropriate profit-and-loss management by each commercial product type can be realized. A solving method includes: a profit-and-loss storing step of linking at least product type information and profit information to each other by each order of products with order record to be stored in an order record profit-and-loss database; an information search step of accepting specific information on the virtual inter-organ organization and search condition information at least including product type condition, and reading from the order record profit-and-loss database, at least product type information and profit information on an order matching the search condition information and on an order belonging to the virtual inter-organ organization matching the specific information on the virtual inter-organ organization; a profit information aggregating step of sorting the product type information by each product type of a product type classification scale indicated in the product type condition and aggregating profit information corresponding to respective product information sorted by each product type; and a profit-and-loss management information presentation step of presenting the aggregated profit information by each product type as the profit-and-loss management information.

Product recommendation is disclosed, including retrieving user behavior data associated with a predetermined statistical period; sorting the user behavior data into one or more groups of data corresponding to one or more types of products based at least in part on associated product identifiers; determining a plurality of interest levels associated with the predetermined statistical period for at least one or more groups of data; determining a plurality of purchase peak probabilities using at least the plurality of interest levels, wherein a purchase peak probability is associated with a predicted likelihood of user interest in receiving recommendations associated with a type of product; ranking at least a portion of the plurality of purchase peak probabilities in response to receipt of an indication to present recommendation information; and presenting recommendation information based at least in part on the ranked at least portion of the plurality of purchase peak probabilities.

Documents containing information about product offerings in various natural languages are passed through transitional translation layers which convert the data to a single computer language using a universal character set encompassing the character sets used in all supported natural languages. The documents are stored in their original natural languages and in English with documents segmented into components which components are identified by search terms arranged in a taxonomy tree based on product types. The names of the products in the national languages are added to the English language documents enabling quick keyword searches when the product name or number is known. A bi-directional inverted index is provided for access by the keyword search terms so that keywords with the same meaning in different languages are accessible together when the keyword in one of the languages is queried.

A security system with wireless transmitters, a wireless receiver, and a control panel. A wireless message, which includes a transmitter product type, is received from the wireless transmitter. The control panel extracts the transmitter product type from the wireless message and then determines a response type to be performed as a function of the transmitter product type. A response to the wireless message is then executed in accordance with the determined response type. The response type may be determined by the control panel by using the transmitter product type to lookup an associated response type in a response type table at the control panel. The wireless message also includes a unique identification number, and the transmitter product type may be a separate field from the unique identification number or it may be integral with the unique identification number. The unique identification number is initially programmed in the wireless transmitter by assigning the product type portion as a function of the transmitter type.

A display and a method of displaying articles for sale in a mass retail environment. The method comprises displaying multiple product containers in an adjacent fashion, in a row, on a shelf, where each container includes the same brand display. The method further comprises including product containers having a common characteristic selected from the group consisting of fragrance, product color, container shape, container color and combinations thereof. The products include at least two product types selected from the group consisting of personal care products, home care products, and laundry care products.

On-line purchasing of products from an electronic commerce (e.g., a Web page) seller is assisted by providing users with a list of previously purchased products. The list of products can be used for simplified reordering of a product previously purchased. In one embodiment, the list is categorized based on, for example, product type, purchase date, etc. Additional product information can also be provided when a product is selected from the list.

The present invention is a method and apparatus for automatically generating an optimal configuration of a product having a complex design, using logic implemented on digital computer processing system. A general configuration for the product will be broken down into a hierarchy of subdesigns by a designer of an artifact type, such as a bus. A particular instance of the product type must satisfy a set of external parametric constraints specified by a user. These constraints may take the form of a range of values for some performance characteristic of the product. Constraints may also be imposed for other reasons, such as governmental regulations or business requirements. The hierarchical decomposition facilitates the solution of highly complex problems. Criteria for a best solution may be specified for a given subdesign, for a collection of subdesigns, or globally. The tentative selection of a particular subdesign may impose internally generated parametric constraints upon a subsequent subdesign solution. If no acceptable solution is found for a given subdesign, the candidate overall configuration is rolled back to the most complete viable partial collection of subdesigns. The method transforms the constraints into a concrete design. The method will ordinarily be executed on a digital computer, and the instructions to program the computer will be stored on tangible digital media.

Embodiments of the invention comprise a system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method for performing a process of creating the list of products that a user can purchase and a process of allowing the user to share a product from the list of products with a second user in real time. In some embodiments, the computer program product implements the steps of prompting the user for a selection of user tags from a list of user tags and a social media profile page associated with the user. For example, the user tags may include a user gender, a product type, a product manufacturer, and a product retailer. Responsive to the receipt of the user tags, embodiments of the invention create the list of products matching the user tags and display at least one product from the list of product on a mobile device associated with the user.

A refrigerator and / or freezer unit and system for storing, monitoring, and maintaining a supply of temperature sensitive pharmaceutical products in compliance with regulatory requirements. The unit contains compartments for each product type in multiple controlled temperature zones with sensors and readers to track product status and content. A user interface device in communication with an application service provider provides the user with a secure access to the content of the unit and product information. The application service provider provides the user with web accessed optimal management of product inventory.

The invention discloses a method and device used for determining a picking route. The method comprises the steps that orders cut off in a preset time period are obtained; an aggregation order is built according to storage areas of product types contained in the orders; a warehouse map is obtained, wherein the warehouse map comprises coordinates of following nodes including the picking table node, the traffic crossing node, the alley crossing node and the virtual storage location node; based on the aggregation order and the warehouse map, the picking route is determined. By means of the method, the aggregation order is built according to the storage areas of the product types, and when conducting order picking according to the aggregation order, the required picking route is short, so that the picking cost of the picker is reduced and the picking efficiency of the picker is improved; the picking route is determined based on the aggregation order and the warehouse map so that it can be determined that the route from which storage locations of products in the aggregation order are traversed is shortest, accordingly the total picking route is short, and the total picking efficiency of the warehouse is improved.

A shelf reader reads a product unique ID of an IC tag attached to a product on a shelf. In accordance with the reading result, a shelf terminal detects whether the product is taken out from the shelf or not, and forwards the detection result to a product information management server together with the product unique ID. In the product information management server, a related product information extraction section refers to a related product information database, and extracts any related product information including the type of the product taken out from the shelf. This related product information indicates a combination of a plurality of products that are considered preferable to purchase together. An advertisement information creation section creates advertisement information based on thus extracted related product information. The resulting advertisement information is forwarded to the shelf terminal, and then is displayed by an output section of the shelf terminal.

A method of auditing inventory. The method includes determining a first check as a function of an identifying tag. The first check is configured to identify at least one first condition. The identifying tag is indicative of at least one of a rating, a ranking within a hierarchical scale, a grade, or a type of product. The method also includes electronically communicating first data to a first user. The first data is indicative of the first check and includes at least one command configured to solicit second data from the first user. The method also includes establishing second data indicative of at least one second condition, as a function of the at least one command. The method further includes electronically communicating the second data to a second user and automatically comparing the second data with third data, the third data indicative of at least one third condition.

A measuring apparatus of this invention comprises: a projector; a camera; a generator that generates, from a photographed image of a fringe pattern projected by the projector at a time of calibration onto each of surfaces, first tuples, each including coordinates of a point on a light receiving plane (LRP) of the camera, light intensity of the point and the height of the surface; a converter that converts the light intensity to a phase angle of the projected fringe pattern (PFP), and generates second tuples, each including the coordinates of the point on the LRP, the phase angle and the height of the surface; a hypersurface generator that generates data representing a tensor product type composite hypersurface (TPTCH) from data of the second tuples; an extractor that extracts data of third tuples, each including coordinates of a point on the LRP and light intensity from a photographed image of a fringe pattern projected by the projector at a time of measurement onto an object to be measured; a second converter that converts the light intensity to a phase angle of the PFP to generate data of fourth tuples, each including the coordinates of the point on the LRP and the phase angle; and an interpolator that carries out interpolation by using the data representing the TPTCH to generate height data corresponding to the data of the fourth tuple.

A method for suggesting a product from a set of products at a retail point according to customer needs is presented. The method includes the steps of determining a set of consumer needs relating to a product type; creating a set of questions to be answered by a consumer, the set of questions relating to the set of possible consumer needs; determining a grading for the products for each of the possible consumer needs; obtaining from the consumer answers to the set of questions and determining from the answers a weighting of importance of the consumer needs; using the grading and the weighting to calculate a score for each product of the set of products and using the scores to differentiate between products such as to suggest to the consumer a product that best satisfies the expressed consumer needs.

A method for managing orders and dispensing products into a container. The method may include the steps of prompting a user selection of a product type at an order entry station, printing indicia on the container indicating at least the product type selected, reading the indicia at a product dispensing station, and dispensing the product type selected into the container.

The invention provides a method for generating a test case and a system thereof. The method comprises the steps as follows: test characteristic values fed back by a client side are received; the test characteristic values comprise product type, test type, a function module, a function submodule, neighbor quantity, route capacity, message filter option and the key value of message filter; and the characteristic values are calculated or processed according to an arithmetic which is defined in advance and / or a template which is defined in advance, so as to generate the actual test value to be fed back to the client side. The system and the method can generate the test cases based on market application, such as function test actual value, test script, message analysis chart and the like for use in actual test by the arithmetic defined by the system in advance, a function module template, a function submodule template, a script template and a massage analyzer according to the characteristic values input by a tester.