48 results about "For profit" patented technology

A computer-based method and system accomplish automatic optimization of a preferred merchandising figure of merit like revenue, profit, etc. by concurrent optimization of prices and in-store promotion schedules for groups of interrelated products in a supermarket or in a chain of supermarkets. The basis of the system is a statistical model that combines effects of prices, promotion schedules and other factors that could influence demands, and produces a flexible nonparametric predictive demand function that can be optimized simultaneously in prices and promotion schedules. The system generates demand predictions for groups of interrelated products by applying data mining procedures to historical database that contains sales data along with various sales conditions, adjusting statistical predictive demand models, and then optimizing them in prices and promotion schedules. The user can interact with the system by selecting and customizing optimization and prediction scenarios provided by the system, and by requesting customized reports with results of particular optimization and prediction schemes.

A method and apparatus that eliminates blind networking and allows targeted networking amongst event attendees, both for personal as well as professional reasons, while also making events ubiquitously available anytime anywhere beyond the physical limitations of time and space, such that anyone anywhere in the world can not only attend the event from the comfort of his office desk or home but also network with the other event attendees without physically attending the event is disclosed. Event hosts can be any non-profit/for-profit organization or entity hosting events of any nature in any realm. Another embodiment of the invention provides enhanced, multiple levels of profile content privacy that give complete freedom, control, and flexibility to the users to express themselves fearlessly by controlling the specific chosen contents in their profiles for input, storage, analysis, retrieval, and/or display to specific chosen authorized users or groups. Another embodiment of the invention provides integration in a chat/instant messaging to allow a user to set up an online meeting with one or more participants in the chat and/or that allows a user to find a meeting place where one or more participants can decide to meet in person locally or globally in various parts of the world. Another embodiment of the invention is related to sales and revenue generation, particularly for e-commerce/e-services companies whose products or services, which include but not limited to, yellow page, directory, or business information databases by area, reach large numbers of users directly.

A business-to-business application service provider includes an Internet website and webserver with EDA-on-demand solutions for system-on-a-chip designers. Such website allows electronic designs in hardware description language to be uploaded into a front-end EDA design environment. A behavioral model simulation tool hosted privately on the webserver tests and validates the design. Such tool executes only in the secure environment of the business-to-business application service provider. The validated solution is then downloaded back over the Internet for a pay-per-use fee to the customer, and in a form ready to be placed and routed by a back-end EDA tool. Such validated design solutions are also downloadable to others in exchange for other designs, or available in technology libraries. The intellectual property created can be re-used, sold, shared, exchanged, and otherwise distributed efficiently and easily from a central for-profit clearinghouse.

The invention discloses a parallel data mining method for identifying a mass of mobile client bases. The parallel data mining method includes the steps of building a client value model and a client behavior model, classifying clients according to the client value model and the client behavior model, popularizing assigned preference services to the clients with the high purchasing power and the high potential purchasing inclination, and then achieving accurate marketing. According to the parallel data mining method, the mass of mobile client bases can be identified, the aspects such as Internet surfing time preferences, Internet surfing place preferences and browsed website preferences of the clients can be identified, and the social group classes of the clients can be accurately judged. Clustering and classifying can be rapidly carried out through the adopted parallel clustering algorithm and the adopted parallel classifying algorithm. By means of the parallel data mining method, different strategies can be formulated for the different client bases by an enterprise, and the important guiding function for profit maximization of the enterprise is achieved.

A system and method for analyzing the profitability of a company's products and services and then maximizing that profit is provided. A contribution margin per unit 138 is multiplied times the forecast in units per year 104. The product of this contribution margin per unit 138 times the forecast in units per year 104 is divided by the product of the total capacity hours per standard run 120 quantity and the planned production runs per year 106. The result is the contribution margin per capacity hour 150 which is also defined here as the capacity value analysis 150. The capacity value analysis 150 provides for determining product rationalization, and profitable growth determination, as well as a metric for profit optimization initiatives such as eliminating constraints, customer perceived value, design for manufacturability, reduced production frequency, and reduced setup time.

A gaming machine has a first determination unit, a selection unit, and a bonus game execution unit. The receiving unit receives a game medium. The first determination unit determines whether or not a payout number based on the result of a lottery is equal to or more than a threshold amount at which tax obligation occurs. The selection unit selects, based on an input made by a player, whether or not to execute a bonus game which gives the player an opportunity for profit, when the first determination unit determines that the payout number is equal to or more than the threshold amount. The bonus game execution unit executes the bonus game when the selection unit selects to execute the bonus game.

A system and method of providing package shipment by a package shipper including providing options for a shipment route, including at least one portion of the shipment route being air cargo, is disclosed, which may comprise receiving, via a communications network, from a package shipping customer, input including at least an origin, a destination and a latest time for delivery for a package; determining, via a computing device, a first optimized list of alternative shipment routes, optimized for profit to the package shipper; and providing, via the computing device, the customer with an option to further optimize according to a first optimization criteria selected by the customer from a list of a plurality of optimization criteria. The list of optimization criteria may include at least price, time of delivery and greenness.

The invention discloses an ownership-based data security transaction method and system. The method comprises: ownership encryption is carried out on data provided by a data owner and the processed data are stored; a data characteristic is extracted and registration is carried out; when a transaction application is received, transaction negotiation is carried out and a transaction contract is generated based on a negotiation content; transaction payment is carried out and ownership authorization is carried out on a data applicant; data-ownership-based recording is carried out on a whole transaction process; whether the data has multiple ownerships is determined; if the data has only one ownership, the operation is ended; and if the e data has multiple ownerships, data values are allocated to a plurality of data ownerships. Data encryption and transaction are carried out based on the ownership and the ownership conversion to provide a foundation for profit distribution after data transaction; the transaction behaviors of data owners and data applicants are supported; benefits of all data obligees are guaranteed by providing the method; a problem of loss of branch transaction information realized by the block chain technology is solved; and because the transaction data are in an encryption state, the safety is high.

An embodiment of the present invention is a business process shared services system and method for improving business operations by collaboratively managing operational support services, functions and/or resources. This is accomplished by employing a collaborative shared services business system strategy containing some of the key business model advantages of shared service functions, outsourced services, collective approach, cooperatives, and mutual funds. The collaborative shared services business system (System) is engaged in managing business support operations, functions, services or resources at a lower cost and higher performance to maximize profitability. Under this system a for-profit business entity, which is shareholder-owned, professionally manages the collaborative shared services and provides desired business operational support services to their customers at lower costs, while providing for lower taxes; better performance; share in profits through dividend distributions, and/or deductible benefits resulting from operational efficiencies; and increased velocity of cash flow.

The invention discloses a drug use monitoring system used for distributing new drugs and collecting old drug bottles. The outline of the drug use monitoring system is a vertical cabinet and comprises a new drug distribution part and a drug bottle recycling part; the new drug distribution part comprises an identity confirmation device and a plurality of drug cabinets; each drug cabinet comprises a conveyor belt driven by a motor to move, a baffle and a drug bottle accommodation part; and the drug bottle recycling part comprises a recycling cabin and a recycling barrel arranged below the recycling cabin. The intelligent drug distribution cabinet realizes accurate statistics, can avoid the careless omission caused by manual check, eliminates the opportunity of the lawbreakers to obtain narcotic drugs, and meanwhile avoids the medical workers with poor professional ethics in hospitals reselling precious drugs for profits.

A system and method for performing transactions with exchangeable cryptocurrency and legal tender, and more particularly relates to system and method that utilizes a complementary legal tender currency subsystem for operating a banking module, a vaulting module, a legal tender fund module that has accounting information for complementary legal tender, a cache fund module, a crypto-currency module that has accounting information for virtual monetary tokens, a crypto-shares module that has accounting information for virtual share tokens, an escrow fund module, a trust fund module, a payment processing module, banking module, and vaulting module. The modules store, exchange, and maintain accounts for cryptocurrency and legal tender through a payment processing module. The payment processing module allows a customer and manager to transact for products and services through legal tender and cryptocurrency; and then generate revenue for the merchant through affiliate profits, trading the currencies for profit, and lower transaction fees.

The invention provides an advertisement display method and device based on an application and an electronic device. The method includes the steps that the touch operational attribute of a user in an advertisement display area is determined; according to the touch operational attribute, the current-displayed advertisement content in the advertisement display area is adjusted. By means of the advertisement display method and device based on the application and the electronic device, a large amount of advertisement information can be displayed through the small advertisement display area, the multiplicity of advertisement display in the application is increased, user experiences are improved, and the condition is provided for profits of the application.

In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises a system and method for ensuring a desired profit percentage in a business that provides a service for fees. Businesses will know what prices to charge for any profit level desired. Three profit areas can be used to arrive at a service fee; labor, equipment, and inventory. Input of a desired profit will automatically recalculate how billable labor is charged out in each billable labor dollar of revenue. Preferably, electronic sales information is received that represents a sum of fees received for providing the service. Further, electronic inventory cost information is received that represents a cost of goods sold during the course of providing the service. Moreover, electronic billable labor cost information is received that represents a cost of billable labor, and electronic non-billable labor cost information representing cost of non-billable labor. Furthermore and in a preferred embodiment, electronic overhead cost information is preferably received that represents a cost of overhead. An electronic profit percentage value is preferably received that represents a percentage of fees charged for the service to be allocated for profit. Also, a portion of the labor fee charged is calculated to represent billable labor, non billable labor, and overhead.

The present invention is a method of facilitating the use of intellectual property as a financial tool in commercial, non-profit or eleemosynary transactions in the context of venture capital and commercial banking for-profit transactions comprising:

• • a) identifying one or more items of intellectual property;
  • b) identifying the owners of the intellectual property and any other principals in interest having rights and/or interests directly or indirectly in said intellectual property, which owners, or principals in interest have an interest in entering into commercial transactions involving said intellectual property;
  • c) valuing the intellectual property, identifying its strengths and weaknesses both commercially and legally;
  • d) underwriting the intellectual property for purposes of issuing one or more policies of insurance covering one or more of the identified commercial or legal strengths or weaknesses and,
  • e) structuring such transactions.

The invention discloses a rapid breeding method for salt and alkali rice. The method specially comprises the steps that wild seawater rice is used as a radiation induced breeding material, the breeding material is cultured through seawater, rice sprouts are radiated through the solar energy focus point in three steps, sea mud culture is performed, protogene pyramiding is performed, and the superior and stable variety fast to breed is selected. By implementing the rapid breeding method, the wild seawater rice is used as the radiation induced breeding material due to the exceptional function, and seawater and sea mud are adopted for training plants to obtain comprehensive superior plants. By the adoption of a radiation method, the percentage of seedling emergency is low, the aberration rate is high, variation produced by radiation is large, stabilizing is fast, and a stable, good and important way is provided for breeding high-quality rice seeds; meanwhile, by implementing the rapid breeding method, the novel early-maturing, medium-maturing and late-maturing rice varieties which are resistant to saline and alkaline, extensive breeding and low temperature, high in stress resistance, suitable for direct seeding and good in rice quality are cultured. A new way is opened for developing saline and alkaline land, irrigating planted rice through seawater, and obtaining employment, increasing income and seeking for profits for more people.

The invention discloses a multi-virtual power plant decentralized self-discipline optimization method. The method comprises the following steps: S1, initializing parameters; S2, classifying tasks andforming an initial knowledge matrix; S3, acquiring information; S4, determining an optimization individual action; S5, calculating an objective function value of each agent; S6, calculating a rewardfunction; S7, updating the knowledge matrix; S8, information feedback: each agent returns the current optimal solution to an information center; and S9, judging whether the maximum number of iterations is reached or not, and if yes, outputting an optimal knowledge matrix of the corresponding task, otherwise, returning to S3. By applying the multi-virtual power plant decentralized self-discipline optimization method, the technical problems that the existing distribution network regulation and control cannot meet the requirement that a plurality of virtual power plants participate in the power market in real time for profit-by-profit, and the grid connection behavior of distributed equipment is effectively controlled to support the safe and effective operation of the distribution network aresolved.

An apparatus and method for training a neural network model (21) to classify patterns (26) or to assess the value of decisions associated with patterns by comprising the actual output of the network in response to an input pattern with the desired output for that pattern on the basis of a Risk Differential Learning (RDL) objective function (28), the results of the comparison governing adjustment of the neural network model's parameters by numerical optimization. The RDL objective function includes one or more terms, each being a risk/benefit/classification figure-of-merit (RBCFM) function, which is a synthetic, monotonically non-decreasing, anti-symmetric/asymmetric, piecewise-differentiable function of a risk differential (Fig. 6), which is the difference between outputs of the neural network model produced in response to a given input pattern. Each RBCFM function has mathematical attributes such that RDL can make universal guarantees of maximum correctness/profitability and minimum complexity. A strategy for profit-maximizing resource allocation utilizing RDL is also disclosed.

The present invention provides a risk-control-based quantitative trend transaction decision making system and method. The decision making system quantifies the investment risk to calculate operation points of buying, selling, stopping profit, and stopping loss. The present invention further comprises a decision making method. The decision making method provides a transaction instruction based on probabilistic analysis, conducts trial and error of the transaction command on the premise of risk control, provides a stop-loss value to a false command to force to close a position, provides a stop-profit value to a correct command, and provides a quantitative transaction or a subjective transaction. a transaction can be subjectively conducted through a quantitative transaction model to try to gain the best profit in the condition of profitability; in the condition of loss, the transaction risk should be controlled to the minimum extent as the transaction is strictly executed according to the quantitative decision making system; and quantization illuminates the minimum actionable cycle of ups and downs, so that selection of the best point for profit taking and stop-loss is facilitated.

The invention discloses a network learning platform system and a rebating method, and belongs to the technical field of network application systems. The learning platform system comprises a user terminal and a network learning platform, wherein the user terminal and the network learning platform are connected through the network, and the network learning platform comprises an authentication management module, a database and a learning management module. The network learning platform rebating method includes a teacher rebating method and a student rebating method. A teacher or student types in the information of a referrer or introducer. After successful starting a course, the system rebates the referrer or introducer. The platform system and method are applicable to various training companies or websites for profits.

The present invention relates to a dynamic alliance benefit distribution method based on a bargaining model. Its technical features include the following steps: step 1, setting the project income, the project input of each participant and the acceptable income range of each participant. The participants take turns to quote for the benefit distribution; step 2, one participant proposes the distribution plan at each stage, and if the rest of the participants agree, the negotiation ends; step 3, under the condition of equilibrium and complete information, set each participant’s The psychological pressure and the discount rate are the same, and the equilibrium quotation of each participant is obtained by solving the solution. The present invention adopts the bargaining model, and by analyzing the equilibrium solution of the model, it is verified that the model can converge to the equilibrium solution as time goes by, and the sequence of quotations affects the final profit distribution result. The analysis demonstrated the effectiveness of the method of the invention.

Disclosed is a method and system implementing a useful algorithm as a tool for analyzing the use of profitability of an organization. The system calculates the profitability related to: the change in the level of revenues, the change in the operating leverage, and the change in the equity financing of total assets, for a fiscal period, or a series of fiscal periods. The three calculations are then summed to result in a total profitability ratio. The total profitability ratio is also equal to the Net Income divided by the Total Revenues of the subject organization for a given fiscal period. Multiplying the total profitability ratio by the total anticipated revenues for a given fiscal period results in a profit amount that has been or must be attained in order to achieve a targeted revenue growth and targeted financial ratios related to operating leverage and to equity to total assets. The system is both descriptive and prescriptive in that it can be used to analyze both past and future fiscal periods, as well as the current fiscal period. For the past and the current fiscal periods, the system can show how profit generated was utilized. For future fiscal periods, the system can show how much profit must be generated in order to achieve specified goals, or how changes in one or more variables will effect profitability. The system is usable by any organization or individual, for profit or not for profit, incorporated or non-incorporated.