73results about How to "Increase purchasing power" patented technology

Methods and apparatus are provided for determining a minimum distribution rate and an investment allocation among individual investments of different types, including income generating investments that may be counter-balanced by principal protection investments, according to predefined ratios, determining a distribution amount based upon a performance level of individual investments and the minimum distribution rate, and determining at least a portion of individual investments to liquidate to fund the distribution amount. The minimum distribution rate is greater than a predefined percentage of a current value of the investment per year and is maintained at a level at least equal to a highest level of all prior years. The present invention further provides distribution types that allow selection of a distribution method that best suits an investor's requirements. The distribution type selection provides methods for determining the amount of a distribution for a given period and how the distribution is to be funded.

A user is able to change one or more payment options after payment has already been made to a merchant. A payment provider processes a payment request during a transaction with the merchant with default or selected payment options. After the transaction with the merchant is completed and the merchant has been paid, the user may change one or more of the payment options, such as funding source(s) and terms/conditions of payment (e.g., deferment period, installment period/amount, etc.). During the transaction, the user may make a purchase through the payment provider even if the user does not have an account with the payment provider by providing user information, such as name, address, phone number, email address, and date of birth, but not a social security number or funding source information.

Discount processing auction methods and systems are provided where buyers pool their purchasing power in order to get more competitive offers from sellers. Instead of sellers directly bidding for the buyer's shopping lists, the sellers update their discount rules and a discount processing method processes the sellers' latest discount rules and presents the results to the buyers while the auction is active. Buyers dynamically form a group and invite others to join the group to increase their purchasing power and maximize the discounts. Customers can form a social network with other buyers to share wish-lists, shopping carts, and discount scenarios. Consumers who commit to buy a total number of items over a period of time increase their effective purchasing power across time. Sellers also group together to offer higher total discount on a combination of items to buyers.

A system, method and program for executing securely e-financial transactions over the Internet between merchants, clients and financial institutions using an electronic programmable device such as an electric vault, microcomputer or a smart card. The systems offers various secure options from which to make e-commerce financial transactions without entering credit card or personal financial information.

The invention discloses a natural gas heat value calculation method based on natural gas component spectrum analysis. In the prior art, the natural gas is still charged by using volume and the heat values of the natural gases from different gas sources are greatly different. In the method, a measured material is irradiated by using infrared light, the light absorbance of the measured material is measured and the content of the measured component is calculated according to the light absorbance. The volume fraction of the components of a mixed gas in a pipeline is calculated through the concentration of the components measured by infrared spectroscopic analysis by utilizing a Fourier infrared spectrometer to obtain the natural gas heat value, so that a possibility is provided for realizing that the natural gas is charged by using the heat value. According to the invention, the spectroscopic analysis technology is employed and is characterized by high resolution, high sensitivity, high signal-to-noise ratio and quickness, and the system is compact in volume and high in stability.

The invention discloses a preparation method of pucker-free non-cleaning dried jujubes, belongs to the technical field of food drying processing, and relates to a method of carrying out microwave vacuum puffing drying on red dates, aiming at solving the technical problems that jujube skin pucker, surface color darkening, nutritional ingredient loss, and the like appearing in a drying process of the red dates. According to the adopted technical scheme, the preparation method of the pucker-free non-cleaning dried jujubes comprises the following steps: pickling jujubes, grading the jujubes, rejecting defective fruits and impurities in materials; cleaning jujubes; drying water on the surfaces of the red dates by an air knife after cleaning the red dates; pre-drying for 3 hours-6 hours by cold air, regulating moisture of the red dates, and keeping the moisture of the red dates uniform, so that moisture content of the red dates reaches 35%-38%; carrying out microwave vacuum puffing drying on the red dates; spreading materials which are pre-dried by the cold air in a tray of a microwave vacuum unit, exhausting and then reducing pressure, wherein the conditions for carrying out the microwave vacuum puffing drying are as follows: vacuum degree is 65kPa-75kPa, microwave power is 6W/g-10W/g, drying time is 5 minutes-10 minutes, and final moisture content is controlled at 20%-25%.

The present invention is directed to a flexible affiliated consumer association business method that allows consumers to enjoy enhanced buying power with a variety of merchants while at the same time enabling merchants and other groups and institutions such as employers or associations of such consumers to establish flexible repeatable loyalty programs in a cost-efficient manner. A flexible repeatable affiliated consumer method having components which allow a provider to create customizable customer loyalty programs with greater flexibility and creativity while also being modifiable in the market environment in a manner that the program provider can design or alter the program or provide multiple tailored programs as needed to attract consumers to give custom at participating merchants. The flexible repeatable affiliated consumer method can include indicia of membership that is a debit, cash or credit card linked to an automated payment system, or any other device such as a card not linked to an automated payment system, and modes and media of communication, data flow and collection and interaction with consume members via the internet or otherwise. The flexible repeatable affiliated consumer method can include components, such as different merchants or marketing materials which are provided to allow the program provider to select different marketing characteristics with different branding characteristics and participating merchants to appeal to different consumer segments. The flexible repeatable affiliated consumer method enables linked databases for efficient program administration and a powerful consumer research mechanism that can be marketed to participating merchants by a program provider.

The present application provides information pushing methods and systems. A demand object of a user is determined according to historical behavior data of the user, and user generated content (UGC) associated with the demand object of the user is pushed to the user, so that the pushed information is more credible. Further, the present application can be applied to an e-commerce website to increase users' purchasing power.

The invention belongs to the technical field of solid-liquid separation process and apparatus, in particular relates to a rotary dynamic closed filtering process and device. The invention provides a new dynamic circulation filtering process, which has the following key points that: mother solution, namely suspension to be filtered, is fed into one or a plurality of collecting tanks connected in parallel; a mother solution pump in the collecting tank is pressed to a filter chamber of a filtering machine, filtrate is either recycled or discharged, a residue filtrate discharge hole is normally opened, the residue filtrate is refluxed to the collecting tank via a pipeline; the mother liquid is ceaselessly circulated and filtered and the residue filtrate is ceaselessly concentrated, until the filtrate is discharged in zero amount or extremely small amount, an electric motor and a conveying pump of rotating impellers of the filtering machine are driven to cease operation; the residue filtrate in the collecting tank is completely drained and then the above steps are repeated over and over again. The invention employs process method of the closed circulation system, which is simple, reliable, continuous in the process of filtration, crystal-clear in filtrate and unchanged in the middle; and the service life of the filtering machine is remarkably prolonged.

The invention relates to a preparation method for a polished-crystal crackled glaze tile. The preparation method includes the steps of: press moulding a ceramic green body, applying ground glaze and surface glaze, sintering the tile, printing color glaze, performing primary crack frit dry granule material distribution, performing primary low-temperature sintering, performing secondary transparent frit dry granule material distribution, performing secondary low-temperature sintering, and performing gold plating and polishing. In the invention, a special high-boron frit being high in expansion coefficient is employed, a dry granule stacking method is employed, and the low-expansion-coefficient transparent polished frit dry granule is employed for shielding the cracks, so that the cracks can be blocked for preventing dirt deposition, and meanwhile, through the high-temperature-sputtering multi-arc ionic gold plating process and high-glossiness crystal polishing process, the tile is more than 90 degrees in surface glossiness, so that the cracks has an intensive under-glaze texture and crystal-like sense, and in addition, the method ensures the flatness and internal performance of the tile.

The invention discloses a method for preparing unidirectional wet conduction polyester plaid jacquard cloth knitted fabrics. According to the scheme, the method has the advantages that grey cloth canbe produced from different combinations of two different types of polyester filaments by the aid of specific textile fabric designs, entry modes and online parameter setting, small plaid mechanisms are arranged on the obtained grey cloth, and specific dyeing and finishing are carried out, so that the unidirectional wet conduction polyester plaid jacquard cloth knitted fabrics with special mechanisms can be produced by the aid of the method; the polyester filament FDY (fully drawn yarn) and DTY (draw textured yarn) combinations are adopted, accordingly, uneven heather grey effects can be realized by means of one-step dyeing by the aid of a single type of dye, the unidirectional wet conduction polyester plaid jacquard cloth knitted fabrics have stereoscopic vision, and the yarn and dyeing costs can be reduced to a great extent; sweat can be directly drained on surface layers of clothes by the unidirectional wet conduction polyester plaid jacquard cloth knitted fabrics during exercise, the unidirectional wet conduction polyester plaid jacquard cloth knitted fabrics do not stick to bodies, and accordingly relaxed comfortable feel can be generated.

Provided is an automatic fashion outfit composition and recommendation method including a user's query item about fashion being input to a vendor item DB and the vendor item DB extracting the class and vector of the query item and transmitting the same to a reference DB, the reference DB retrieving and extracting similar items having vectors that are similar to the vector of the query item and then retrieving and extracting reference fashion outfit including the similar items, the reference DB extracting reference items included in the reference fashion outfit, computing the class and vector of each of the reference items, and transmitting the same to the vendor item DB, the vendor item DB retrieving and extracting recommended items having vectors that are similar to the vectors of the reference items, and the vendor item DB combining the query item and the recommended items to compose recommended fashion outfit and sorting and transmitting the recommended fashion outfit to a user.

The invention discloses a method for artificially breeding hairy crabs. The method comprises the following steps of pond arranging, stocking of young crabs, hairy crab feeding, day-to-day managing and catching. According to the method for artificially breeding the hairy crabs, a small slope is arranged at the bottom of a pond, and the problem that on the condition that oxygen supply is insufficient, the survival rate of the hairy crabs is low due to the fact that oxygen is lacked, and the hairy crabs die is solved; meanwhile, the activity amount of the hairy crabs is increased, and the quality of the hairy crabs is improved; according to different periods of the hairy crabs, an appropriate amount of feed is put into the pond, and composition of the feed is changed, so that the survival rate of the hairy crabs in the early period is increased, the hairy crabs rapidly grow up and gain weight in the middle period, and it is guaranteed that the hairy crabs are large in size in the late period; due to the fact that hairy crabs with diseases are isolated, cross infection is prevented, and the quality of the hairy crabs is improved; by controlling the water hardness, the situation that shells of the hairy crabs are overhard is prevented, and the purchasing power of clients is improved.

The invention discloses a marketing management method for smart tourism, a server, a client and a system, which relate to the technical field of tourism application. The invention mainly aims to solvethe problem that the demands of different users for tourism marketing cannot be satisfied in the prior art. The main technical scheme is as follows: clients send marketing management requests to a server according to different marketing demands input by users, and the server accesses the clients with different marketing identity based on different identity information; the server receives the marketing management requests sent by the clients, processes the marketing management requests and returns processing results, wherein the marketing management requests carry different marketing demandsinput by users, and the marketing demands include application access demand, and/or member adding demand, and/or commission calculation demand, and/or data storage demand; and the clients receive anddisplay the processing results returned by the server.

The invention discloses a method for increasing conversion and sales urgency in an e-commerce website. The method comprises the following steps: 1) tracking browsing records of a client in the e-commerce website; 2) according to the browsing time of the client for one commodity, the number of browsed similar commodities and the browsing time of the similar commodities, grading the demand degree ofthe user for the commodity; 3) making different discount and discount schemes for users and e-commerce websites with different demand levels. Different discount schemes can be customized for customers with different requirements, so that the conversion and sales urgency of the e-commerce website is improved, the purchasing ability of the customers can be greatly improved, purchasing of the usersis facilitated, and discount coupon pushing resources are also saved.

Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for promoting sales through a customer incentive scheme of an establishment. The establishment offers the customer a redeemable voucher of a first value on purchase of merchandise. The customer registers the redeemable voucher on an online website. The online website is managed by a promotion company. The promotion company places the customer in a promotion cycle on the online website. The promotion cycle comprises a predetermined sequence of redeeming registered vouchers of the customer and multiple registered customers. The promotion company tracks total value accumulated by the customer on the online website till the total value reaches an exchange value predetermined by the establishment and the promotion company. The customer then redeems the redeemable voucher for the exchange value for merchandise from the establishment or a company participating in the customer incentive scheme.

The invention relates to a method for combining the different minerals used for the jewels comprising the process steps of thinning and fixing to each other the bottom and the top layers (1, 3), thinning by means of extruding from the cylinder the structure (A) that forms as a result of fixing the bottom and the top layers (1, 3), preparing the mixture comprising the welding material in the form of a plate and thus forming the intermediate layer (2), placing the intermediate layer (2) comprising the welding material between the two layers (1, 3) and injecting an oxygen-repelling gas, in order to obtain a fixed structure (A) by means of kiln-drying process carried out for a certain time at a particular temperature, obtaining the thin structure (B) by thinning the obtained fixed structure (A) by means of extruding it from the cylinder.