243 results about "Entity identifier" patented technology

A method for providing secure transactions generates a Secure Card Number (“SCN”) for a first entity that is transferred with a first entity identifier to a second entity and then to a money source that verifies that the transaction is valid by use of the first entity identifier and the SCN. The SCN includes a 0Transaction Information Block (“TIB”), a Counter Block, and an encrypted Personal Identification Number (“PIN”) Block. The SCN is transferred to the money source in an account number or a non-account data field. The money source can use the TIB to determine whether the SCN should be used once or multiple times or to identify one of several physical devices, all of which are issued to the first entity, used to generate the SCN. The money source validates the SCN by duplicating the encryption process used to create an encrypted PIN Block and comparing the result to the encrypted PIN Block received with the transaction. A Triple Data Encryption Standard algorithm encrypts a PIN Block generated from a PIN, a Sequence Insertion Number (“SIN”) and a known starting value. The SIN can be a combination of three seed values and a random value generated by a Pseudo Random Number Generator (“PRNG”) initialized with the seed values. A Counter value is associated with the Counter Block and the seed values.

The present invention provides an efficient way of resolving telephone numbers and other entity / device identifiers into Internet addresses as well as accommodating portability of those telephone numbers and other entity / device identifiers without having to substantially modify or rework the domain naming system (DNS) infrastructure or established number portability schemes. Self-contained, additional functionality is implemented on a DNS server which allows smooth IP address resolution of telephone numbers or other entity / device identifiers by taking advantage of existing portability databases without impacting the existing networks that create and maintain such portability databases.

An efficient interface for service exchange is provided between a circuit-switched communications network and a domain naming system (DNS) in a packet-switched communications network. A node in the circuit-switched communications network receives from a first entity a request for a first service involving a second entity associated with a second entity identifier. A message is sent from the circuit-switched network node to a DNS server in the packet-switched network requesting a second service related to the second entity identifier. The result of the second service from the DNS server is used in providing the first service.

Systems and methods facilitate information sharing among a plurality of member institutions. Each member is associated with a member number and a corresponding member profile. A member contributes its data relating to small business entities to an exchange repository upon becoming a member, and thereafter on a periodic basis. Each member is eligible to query against the exchange repository. However, a response to a member's inquiry is determined by a reciprocity due to the inquiring member. If a member contributes comprehensive information regarding small business entities in its portfolio, then the member receives comprehensive information relating to a small business entity that becomes a subject of its inquiry. If a member contributes minimal information regarding the small business entities in its portfolio, the member receives minimal information relating to a small business entity that becomes a subject of its inquiry, regardless of the amount of information available in the exchange repository. Each business entity regarding which information is stored in the exchange repository is associated with a business entity identifier. A business entity identifier associates a record file for the corresponding small business entity. The record file includes trade data of the small business, data relating to one or more principals of the small business entity, as well as data relating to one or more guarantors of the small business entity, as appropriate.

Some embodiments may provide a method comprising receiving, from a remote machine, entity-identifying data and form identifying data, the form identifying data to identify a sequence of one or more electronic forms, the sequence including a target electronic form having a form element, determining an entity identifier, based on the entity-identifying data, accessing, from a data store, an entity attribute value based on the entity identifier, and transmitting, to the remote machine, form-filling instructions operable to cause a machine to automatically associate an entity attribute value with the form element.

A computer-based system connected to a remote user device and a plurality of services. A data collection engine having an input adapted to receive a set of collection data from a set of services, the set of collection data comprising a set of brand data for comparison against a control set of data stored in a database and having a set of fields and via the digital communications network a query. An entity identification module identifies and extracts within the set of collection data a set of entity data, compares the set of entity data against a set of entity control data to resolve entity identification, associates an entity identifier with the identified entity, and determines a set of relationship data between entities; a matching module adapted to receive data derived from the set of collection data and compare the received data against a set of known brand data and generate a set of comparison data and an output indicating a presence of a match; a scoring module adapted to generate a set of score data based on the set of comparison data. A graphic user interface presents a graphic representation of the set of scored data on a display device.

An interactive television application with mosaic browsing is provided. Selectable cells that may be associated with entities are used to display information corresponding to the entities. Information may include brand marks such as logos or any other suitable entity identifier. A cell may be in focus or it may not be in focus. When a cell is in focus the information displayed in the cell may be different than the information displayed when the cell is not in focus. Users may navigate among cells. The cells may be grouped into regions based on, for example, their association with similar entities.

An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data / voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.

A hand hygiene compliance monitoring system includes a method and computer program product for performing sanitation compliance monitoring including receiving sanitation compliance data. The sanitation compliance data includes a zone identifier corresponding to a first device in a zone and an entity identifier corresponding to a second device attached to a mobile entity in the zone. The zone is defined by an area over which the first device and the second device communicate via one-way or two-way communication. It is determined whether the entity is compliant with a sanitation protocol associated with the zone, and a database is updated with results of the determining.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates single sign-on services in a hosting environment. The system operates by first receiving a request from a user to access a partner application at an application server. The system then determines if the user holds a token granting access to this partner application. If the user does not hold this token, the system redirects the request to a single sign-on server. This single sign-on server requests a user authentication credential from the user. Upon receiving the user authentication credential, including an entity identifier, the single sign-on server verifies if the user is authorized to access the partner application based on the entity identifier. If the user is authorized to access the partner application, the single sign-on server issues a token to the user, which grants the user access to the partner application.

An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data / voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.

An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data / voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.

A system and method for graphing sport statistics is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: accessing a database storing sport data; receiving an input transmission of at least one sport entity identifier, wherein the sport entity identifier corresponds to either a player or a team; receiving an input transmission of at least one time interval; receiving an input transmission of at least one desired sport statistic and a plurality of sport data corresponding to the at least one sport entity and time interval identifier from the database; generating a graphical user interface image of a graph chart; and, plotting the transmitted sport data at a point corresponding to a correlative magnitude and point in time on the graphical user interface image; and, generating a graphical representation of the at least one desired sport statistic over the at least one time interval and corresponding to the at least one sport entity identifier.

An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data / voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.

An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data / voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.

An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data / voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.

An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data / voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.

An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data / voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.

A method of and a system for generating a dataset from data stored in at least one data base, for input into an analytical model. The method comprises the steps of: defining a time stamped population comprising a plurality of tuples, each tuple comprising an entity identifier of an entity for analysis, and at least one reference time stamp associated with the corresponding entity identifier; and creating a dataset by generating at least one time dependent attribute value for each entity identifier from data associated with said entity identifier in the at least one database, the or each time dependent attribute value representing a time dependent parameter of the corresponding entity identifier and being generated according to a corresponding attribute definition, wherein the or each time dependent attribute value is generated as a function of the corresponding time stamp. Preliminary steps of defining the entity as the object of analysis of the analytical model; and defining an analytical record for describing the entity, the analytical record comprising at least one time dependent attribute defined by the corresponding attribute definition are also described.

The present invention overcomes drawbacks with on-site, manual configuration of IP addresses for network nodes (like newly-installed base stations) with a method to automatically assign an identifier like a packet data address to a new node. In general., the automatic assignment of such an identifier to a network entity, node, or host includes two steps. First, an initial message is transmitted by the entity which specifies or indicates in some way geographical location information for the entity. Second, using the geographical location information in that message, an identifier is assigned and provided to that entity. In other words, a relationship is established between the geographical location of an entity identifier and its associated identifier. The geographical location information uniquely identifies the entity in the automatic identifier assignment process.

There is disclosed a method and apparatus for template based website development and management. The method includes obtaining input of an entity identifier designating an entity database record within a database and obtaining entity data including data pertaining to the entity of the website from the entity database record within the database using the entity identifier. The method further includes accessing a template including a content container and a style element and substituting the entity data for the content container. The method further includes enabling revision of the web page by customizing style elements to thereby create customized style elements, receiving a request to update the web page to include updated entity data from the database, and regenerating the web page using the template by substituting the updated entity data for the content containers, the updated entity data presented as directed by the customized style elements.

A system and method in a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network for automatically configuring Network Service Entity Identifiers (NSEIs) in a Base Station System (BSS) and a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) when the BSS is reconfigured. The Gb interface between the BSS and the SGSN is modified to operate using the Internet Protocol (IP), and the BSS and the SGSN are configured to run on IP. Whenever a new Network Service Entity (NSE) is added to an existing BSS, or a new BSS is added to the network, the BSS automatically sends a modified Network Service (NS′)-Reset message to the SGSN requesting an NSEI. The SGSN dynamically allocates a free NSEI from a pool of NSEIs and sends it to the BSS. When an NSE is removed from the BSS, the BSS automatically sends a modified NS′-Reset message to the SGSN to free an NSEI. The SGSN de-allocates the NSEI, and returns the NSEI to the pool of free NSEIs. All related entries for Base Station System GPRS Protocol (BSSGP) Virtual Circuit Identifiers (BVCIs) under the de-allocated NSEI are also removed by the SGSN.

An entity-based search system is described herein that detects and recognizes entities in Internet-based content and uses this recognition to organize search results. The system associates one or more entity identifiers with a web page and stores this information as metadata of the page in a search engine index. This metadata will enable entity-based queries as well as rich data presentations in a search engine result page (SERP), including grouping results by entities, filtering results by one or more particular entities, or re-ranking search results based on user preference of entities. Thus, the entity-based search system allows users to identify a particular entity the user is interested in finding, and to receive search results directly related to that entity.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an open and interoperable single sign-on session in a heterogeneous communication network. The open and interoperable single sign-on system is configured by exchanging an entity identifier, an account mapping, an attribute mapping, a site attribute list, an action mapping and / or the like. The entity identifier, account mapping, attribute mapping, site attribute list, action mapping and the like for each partner entity is stored in a partner list accessable to the particular entity. Thereafter, the open and interoperable single sign-on session may be provided upon receipt of a SAML request or assertion containing an entity identifier. The entity identifier contained in the SAML request or assertion is looked-up in the partner list of the particular entity which received the SAML request or assertion. A record containing a matching entity identifier provides the applicable account mapping, attribute mapping, site attribute list, and / or action mapping. The one or more mappings are then utilized to process the SAML request or assertion.

A system for characterizing email communications. Mail is first processed by a Sending Entity Identifier (SEI), to determine which person, company, or type of sender the mail appears to be from, answering the question “What entity would a typical human conclude this email is from”? The output of the SEI will typically be a person (“John Doe”) or a brand (“Amazon”). The SEI passes that information, along with the email itself, to a Sending Entity Verifier (SEV), to verify whether the email really is from the entity the SEI says it's from. A Markup Engine may add a human-readable banner and / or machine-readable headers and then pass the email to a Disposition Engine which may deliver, quarantine, or folder the email (e.g., to a Junk Folder) accordingly.

Methods and systems are provided for triggering a social match analysis. A user device such as a network connected device scans for one or more entity identifiers via camera, microphone, or wireless signal receiver and initiates a request to a social matching system. The social matching system retrieves attribute information for each of the identified entities and performs a match analysis, scoring the potential matches and noting common attributes. A match analysis report is generated and returned to the originating requesting user device.