66 results about "Referral system" patented technology

An Internet-based customer referral system enables individuals and other business entities (“associates”) to refer customers to a merchant's web site in return for compensation, such as commissions on resulting sales. Entities initially register with the merchant web site as associates, and are provided with instructions for creating links to the merchant web site. An associate may, for example, set up an associate web site (or other information dissemination system) with reviews, recommendations, and / or editorials of specific products in the merchant's online catalog, together with links to associated pages in the catalog. When a user follows such a link and then makes a purchase (as tracked by the merchant web site), the system preferably awards a commission to the associate. The system also preferably generates feedback reports that provide each associate with data regarding the effectiveness of each link provided by that associate.

An online interactive system comprising a business referral and income generation system linked to one or more listed web sites of businesses in a particular locality or geographical area. Revenue is generated by way of such methods as: Merchants listing their web sites in one or more web site directories for multiple communities; banner ads; local and national coupons issued by merchants; classified job listings; classified realty listings; “4 Sale” ads; and fees for supplemental services called “Extended Services” serving to provide interactive capabilities to static web sites. The system enables quicker and substantially automated and on-line self-posting, design, selection, updating and payment for listings, ads and coupons, among other things.

An Internet-based customer referral system enables individuals and other business entities (“associates”) to market products sold on a merchant web site in return for commissions. Following registration, the associate sets up a web site (or other information dissemination system) to distribute hypertextual catalog documents that include marketing information (product reviews, recommendations, etc.) about selected products of the merchant. In association with each such product, the catalog document includes a hypertextual “referral link” that allows a user / customer to access the merchant web site and purchase the product. When a customer selects a referral link, the customer's computer transmits unique IDs of the selected product and of the associate to the merchant's site, allowing the merchant to identify the product and the referring associate. If the customer subsequently purchases a product from the merchant's site, a commission is automatically credited to an account of the referring associate.

We present a data-driven system that seamlessly integrates the compilation of a diverse set of patient electronic medical records, family history, and environmental risk factor databases, a program that determines correlations and assigns weights through a neural network between illness and the state of symptoms, a program to create disease-specific questionnaires and content, a program alert that informs users of trends and potential illness outbreaks due to anomalous changes in regional or national symptom trends, and a program that enables medical practitioners to view patient-generated records and manage an online referral system. The automated diagnoses and alerts allow users to make informed and rapid medical treatment decisions.

The present invention provides a system and method, relating to the transfer of patient files over a secure, HIPAA compliant, patient file transfer and outpatient order system and a computer site therefore. The method includes obtaining and compiling a patient record pertaining to a patient; electronically inputting the patient record obtained into a secure computer database containing other patient records, allowing physician access to the patient record wherein the access includes allowing the physician to order outpatient services and send part of the patient information, including certain defined fields for a complete record and to send and receive referrals including certain defined fields for a complete record.

A method and a system of lead generation and lead demand fulfillment are provided. In example embodiments, a first environment may be maintained for a first party to present information related to an on sale transaction lead that the first party is interested in selling; a second environment may be maintained for a second party to present information related to a demanded transaction lead, that the second party is interested in buying; and a third environment may be provided to facilitate a transaction between the first party and the second party, including a sale and purchase of a transaction lead. In an example embodiment, a lead referral system for facilitating a lead referral network expansion in an online transaction lead auction system may be presented. In an example embodiment, the system may include a first and a second user interface to receive information and a server to process the received information.

A recruiting tool for leveraging social and business contacts of existing employees, contractors, franchisees and the like is disclosed. The system provides an application for evaluating contact data of employee contacts available through existing social networks or other applications. The application compares the contact data to opportunity description data and, if any of the contacts appear to possess the proper qualifications, matches those contacts to the opportunity of the employer. Feedback is provided to the employee identifying these matched contacts. The employee may then use the application to alert the matched contact of the opportunity, and to submit a referral to the employer relating to the matched contact. Additional system features and options for parties in the role of the employer, the employee, and the matched contacts are disclosed.

A method where sellers advertising on an Internet website pay a fee to a party that refers a customer to the seller for the seller's product or service. Buyers are also able to access helpful tools within the website that allows buyers to view specific pricing and feedback information on a company, product or service.

In one embodiment an apparatus includes at least one sensor for collecting data, the at least one sensor having connection to a first processor with a first memory, the first memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to record data associated with the act of driving a vehicle, upload the recorded data to a service control point having a second processor with a second memory, the second memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the second processor to process the data received according to one or more pre-defined rules to develop a needs assessment relative to a new vehicle type, match the needs assessment to existing feature data and technical data profiles generic to one or more new vehicle types, and send at least one advertisement, notification, or promotional offer based on the match to the vehicle owner or owners.

The present invention makes it easy to collect, manage, and communicate with consumers using e-mail and other forms of push-based messaging as the primary vehicle for communication of marketing content. The software makes it simple to offer bounties or other types of compensation to any participant interested in referring new users to into the system as well as offer a multiple tier referral system so that those participants can refer others as well. The present invention: makes it possible to track the entire path of a communication and all of the actions inside of it for modeling and other analytical purposes; simplifies the process for generating custom marketing communications in large capacity; simplifies the process of enabling the selection, insertion and delivery of marketing communications inside of the main communication layer and enables an administrator to easily administer all aspects of the software from an intuitive web based interface.

A virtual keyboard trackable referral system that inserts trackable referral links into communications from a referring user to one or more recipients, and credits the referring user for actions or transactions resulting from these referrals. Uses a referral matcher coupled with a virtual keyboard, so that it is usable with any application or service that uses the keyboard. The referral matcher analyzes text or audio input to identify matches from a database of participating products, services, and merchants, and offers the user the option to insert a referral link to matching items. The matcher may also obtain and analyze other input, including audio or images. If a recipient uses the referral link and completes the action, a referral tracker credits the referring user. Referral links may initially direct a recipient to an intermediate server that may perform additional matching and selection and then redirect the recipient to a target destination.

A job posting method, system, and storage device which allows users to create one or more talent networks each containing one or more connections, create job postings that trickle down to other users according to a set of rules, a referral system for rewarding users who recommend candidates for the job postings, and a recommendation system which allows both job posters and job seekers to have the system recommend potential candidates or jobs, as the case may be.

A system for providing trusted-referrals includes a database of member-assessments. The member-assessments are related to user-appraisals that are provided by members of a trusted network of users. The system receives a referral-request from a member of the trusted network, and a module creates a trusted-referral using at least a portion of at least one member-assessment. The system provides the trusted-referral to member that requested the trusted-referral.

The invention discloses a two-way hospital referral system, method and platform. A health archive data center stores health archives uploaded by a referral request client; a two-way referral processing module conducts automatic matching with referral receiving hospitals from a hospital resource information base on the basis of the preset referral principle. A referral receiving client retrieves health archives from a health archive data center after obtaining an instruction which represents the referral receiving request and is input by a referral receiving party. According to the system, method and platform, the health archives of a referral object can be shared between the referral request party and the referral receiving party, interconnection and interworking between hospitals during patient referral are ensured, and a referral receiving hospital doctor can conveniently retrieve the health archives of a patient in real time and know the illness condition of the patient. Automatic query matching of the referral receiving hospital is achieved, so that the referral efficiency is improved, the referral justice and equity are ensured, and medical resources are effectively deployed.

An on-line referral system. According to a preferred embodiment, individuals in need of having services rendered on their behalf post situations, preferably via a billboard maintained on a website. Service providers meeting certain competency thresholds capable and willing to perform services on behalf of such posted situations are enable to bid or otherwise forward advertising or promotional information to the individual posting such situation. In this respect, such posted situation is disseminated to those service providers capable of rendering such services on behalf of the individual. The individual may then consider the information, as submitted, and either select a particular service provider, or choose not to go with any service provider responding to such situation. In either event, the posted situation is caused to be terminated and withdrawn from the billboard. In further refinements of the invention, revenue may be generated by collecting subscription fees from service providers and / or fees from individuals for posting the situations.

A method and system of presenting advertisements for users of an online system across multiple devices and tracking user interactions with those advertisements through the use of hash values generates from the emails associated with the user account.

A system for processing lead referrals is capable of assigning leads by product line, language and / or availability of the representative. The system is also capable of high lead referral throughput using steps such as filtering repeat visitors to a company from new leads, non-corporate leads from corporate leads, and avoiding requests for information to external databases during black-out times, such as set by registrars.

The invention discloses a bidirectional referral method and a system thereof, wherein the bidirectional referral method comprises: the doctor client of a transfer-out hospital sends referral information to a medical data center and the referral information includes the referral letter information; the medical data center transmits the referral information to the sorting client of a transfer-in hospital; the sorting client of the transfer-in hospital sorts the referral information; the medical data center retransmits the referral information to the doctor client of the transfer-in hospital according to the sorting result; the doctor client of the transfer-in hospital sends a confirming referral information to the medical data center according to the referral information. The invention also provides a bidirectional referral system. The bidirectional referral method and the system realize a paperless transfer of referral information of the patients and realize bidirectional referral among each hospital.

A system and methods provide an annotated advertisement referral for presentation on an electronic device by employing the steps of receiving at an electronic processor an indication of a referral of an advertisement and the identity of a target to whom the advertisement is referred, and then directing the electronic signal representing a version of that advertisement to an electronic device associated with that target to whom the advertisement is referred. Preferably, that directed electronic signal includes an indication of the origin of the referral and a ranking of the advertisement given by the referring party.

A system and method for providing users with referrals to providers over the Internet. Each geographic area, or zone, is allocated exclusively to one provider, thus eliminating listing problems. The user navigates, using an easy point-and-click interface, to the zone where the user is located through a hierarchy of map web pages maintained at the referral system web server. When the appropriate zone is selected, the web page of the exclusive provider in the user's zone is displayed to the user.

A system and method for healthcare administration and, particularly, radiologic practice workflow. A referring physician applies chosen selection sets of policy configurations to at least one dashboard before an order is placed by the referring physician. Each dashboard includes a real time augmentation function and a plurality of ranged selection sets of policy configurations whereby each selection set is initially created by the referring physician. The policy configurations are updated in real time with, at least in part, shared data input received at a group application function of a radiology social network referral system. The referring physician generates a patient preorder workfile with at the at least one dashboard in response to a patient need. The group application function collects data input for the patent preorder workfile. After a physician order entry is entered, the patient preorder workfile is actively interfaced with an electronic medical records system.

The invention provides a registration and consultation transferring system and method. The registration and consultation transferring system comprises a community doctor workstation terminal, an urban area hospital information center and a mobile intranet special line, wherein the community doctor workstation terminal is arranged in a community hospital, the urban area hospital information center is arranged in an urban hospital, and the community doctor workstation terminal and the urban area hospital information center are connected through the mobile intranet special line. The registration and consultation transferring system and the method have the advantages that the transmission speed and the safety performance of data are ensured by adopting the intranet special line, the process of consultation transferring from the community hospital to the urban hospital of a patient is simplified, the patient does not need to queue up again for registration in the urban hospital, and seamless joint between a previous-level medical institution and a next-level medical institution is achieved; the medical guidance concept responsible for patients and oriented to the patients is embodied, doctors can be helped to more accurately and rapidly diagnose patients' conditions, and the working efficiency of the doctors is improved.

A healthcare delivery system that embodies methods of empowering collaborative multidisciplinary healthcare and the clinics that support them for providing everyday care to patients with chronic conditions, through in part by eliminating the current referral system to multiple specialists and providing collaborative multidisciplinary healthcare.

Systems and methods according to which a mobile application is running on a driver's mobile device for authenticating ride share drivers. When a driver initially registers with a rideshare service, the driver is prompted to provide biometric information via a mobile app running on the driver's mobile device. The biometric information is then stored in a database with a ride share management server in a file associated with the driver's account. Subsequently, when the driver expresses an offer to provide a ride share trip, the server performs an authentication check based on the pre-stored biometric information. Furthermore, the system discloses herein facilitates increased rideshare revenue generation by creating referral chains for a driver when a previously-registered driver, or an affiliate of the rideshare service refers a proposed new driver to the rideshare service and the proposed new driver then registers with the rideshare service.

A hospital system and method for providing medical care and patient referral in which a clinic is located off-site from a hospital at a facility which is open to the public for non-medical activity. The clinic is affiliated with the hospital such that the clinic provides medical care of a type and quality required by the hospital and is obligated to refer patients to said hospital. Patrons at the facility can seek and receive medical care at the clinic and can be referred by the clinic to the hospital.

The referral system described herein can give users the ability to recommend a vendor (such as, e.g., a company or a service provider) to another user via electronic sharing of a dynamically generated code when one or more pre-established conditions have been met, such as when the vendor has submitted a qualifying offer to the referral system and the user is verified to have previously utilized the referral system to redeem a prior offer of the given vendor.