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A purchase-transaction-settled online consumer referral and reward system and method using real-time specific merchant sales information is provided. The system offers merchants a one-stop place for freely publishing of their real-time and specific sales offers and offers a risk-free service to merchants to use, who will be charged only after a referred purchase occurs and a revenue income is made. The system also allows merchants to determine how much they pay to the service provider for each referred purchase transaction, based on their profit margin and market competitiveness and the system serves all merchants, online or offline, big or small, and regardless of buy, sell, and payment settlement technologies in use. The system also offers consumers a one-stop place for finding matching sales offers specifically meeting their needs, refers consumers to merchants to buy at existing merchant establishments and rewards consumers with each purchase transaction led from the service provider.

A system and a method for rapidly tracking multiple faces uses a face-like region generator to find a face-like region by skin color, motion, and silhouette information. A face tracking engine tracks faces based on new and old faces, and skin colors provided by the face-like regions. The tracked face is fed into a face status checker for determining whether the face-like regions are old faces tracked in a previous frame or are possible new faces. If the face-like regions are old faces, a face verification engine checks whether there exists a predefined percentage of overlapping area between an old face and a skin region. If yes, the old face is still in the current frame and its position is in the center of the skin region, otherwise, the position of the old face is found by a correlation operation.

A computer-implemented method for managing medical information that includes the steps of: providing a central database of information having disparate data fields containing data, and performing an action based upon the data in the disparate data fields. The method includes of sorting, providing warnings or reminders, searching, organizing, transmitting, and presenting data from the database. The medical information management system includes a central database resident on a computing system. The central database has multiple disparate data fields containing data pertaining to patient-related information. A user interface communicates with the central database for accepting user input and transmitting system output. A visual display also communicates with the user interface to display the disparate data fields in selected or selectable formats. The system can include a report generating module, a device interface, and a compliance calculation module, all of which are in communication with the central database.

Devices and methods for registering, dynamically referencing, and navigating an anatomical region of interest of a patient are provided using a tracked Kirschner wire (K-wire), where the K-wire includes a position-indicating element.

It is the objective of the current invention to provide a system and method for more convenient and more measurable telephone call based pay-for-performance Internet advertising. The present invention remedies the shortcomings of the prior art by allowing callers to connect to advertisers over the telephone by just a single click from a generally distributed Internet-based advertisement, by providing the capability to efficiently track precisely from which channel, of a multiplicity of Internet-based distribution channels, a unique advertiser's advertisement attracted an incoming call, and by providing a simple set pricing structure for advertisers and a complex, behind-the-scenes, combination of category, keyword, random selection and historical experience for priority display of advertisements.

Techniques to facilitate a system to capture, process, and archive a series of user interactive events and subsequently retrieve the stored user interactive events are disclosed. The captured information is indexed and stored for future access either on a terminal device or an accessible remote server device.

An object location system and method is provided for locating objects. The system includes an RFID reader, an angle calculator, and a distance calculator to determine which of a plurality of zones an object is located in or passing through. An RFID tag is affixed with the object that is to be located. The RFID reader transmits signals to the RFID tag and receives backscatter-modulated signals from the RFID tag at one or more RFID antennas. From those received signals, the angle calculator determines an angle of position of the RFID tag relative to the RFID antenna. From the angle of position the zone in which the object is located is determined.

Tracking forms allow tracking of the completion status and implemented quality standards of a building construction project. A tracking form is prepared for one or more tasks requiring completion at the construction site. Each task is assigned two components on its tracking form: a quality control indicator form, which contains one or more quality control indicators indicating whether certain quality standards are met; and a completion indicator, which indicates the completion status of a task. The completion status may be a discrete binary value, or may instead be a continuous value. Preferably, the workers performing the tasks complete each task's quality control indicator form and completion indicator during design and construction as milestones relating to the task are completed, or at the end of some predetermined time period. The completion indicators relating to the tasks are logged so that the completion status of the project may be monitored, and the information recorded on the quality control indicator forms may be sampled and checked to verify that construction quality standards are being met.

A method for predictive maintenance of a machine includes collecting feature data for the machine which includes a plurality of feature vectors. At least some of the feature vectors are standardized to facilitate compatibility between different vectors. At least some of the standardized feature vectors are transformed into corresponding two-dimensional feature vectors. At least some of the two-dimensional feature vectors are clustered together based on operating modes of the machine. Similar steps are performed on additional feature data collected from the machine. Recently gathered two-dimensional feature vectors are compared to previously clustered feature vectors to provide predictive maintenance information for the machine.

The invention discloses a wisdom skynet video behavior analyzing system which comprises a plurality of front end video collecting systems and a central monitoring system. The central monitoring system comprises a plurality of video behavior analyzing servers, a storage server, a monitoring server and a client side, wherein each video behavior analyzing server receives video information of one front end video collecting system respectively, automatically analyzes all kinds of exception behaviors by the adoption of an advanced image analyzing processing technology, a computer vision technology, a computer network technology and an artificial intelligent technology and generates alarming signals, the video behavior analyzing servers are respectively connected with the storage server, the monitoring sever and the client end through an interchanger, and the monitoring server is further connected with a third party alarm linkage server. The wisdom skynet video behavior analyzing system is provided with multiple detection modules, users can selectively install certain modules according to actual needs, installation is convenient, the operation is simple, and video behavior analysis can be carried out automatically. A distribution type structure is adopted by the wisdom skynet video behavior analyzing system, and data transmitting and processing speed can be improved.

Systems and methods for, among other things, providing a storage system which allows for efficient tracking of in-use storage disk blocks using “sharing nodes”. Disk blocks are a result of low-level formatting, which breaks up the total storage capacity into a set number of blocks. High-level formatting of the disk creates the file system, and part of the file system may create metadata known as inodes, and associate an inode with each file, such that an inode tracks the disk blocks in use by that file, pointing from the file to a set of blocks. An S-node generator creates another type of metadata, complementary to an inode, known as an S-node data structure, such that an S-node data structure is associated with a block, and tracks the set of inodes using the block, pointing from the disk blocks to inodes.