United Services Automobile Association (usaa)

William Preston Culbertson, Ii

Ashley Raine Philbrick

Ryan Thomas Russell

Nathan Lee Post

Bryan J Osterkamp

Courtney St Martin

Will Kerns Maney

Gregory David Hansen

Reynaldo Medina, Iii

Susan Elizabeth Wright

Andre Rene Buentello

Gregory Brian Meyer

Jose L Romero, Jr

Oscar Guerra

Kelly Q Baker

Stacy Callaway Huggar

Jerry John Maestas

Ana Maldonado

Michelle Susan Croak

Mark Anthony Lopez

Steven Michael Bernstein

Keegan Patrick Hayes

Brian J Osterkamp

A system and method for performing a transaction and managing transaction data. The system and method operate by scanning an item for purchase with a point of sale system and obtaining image data of the item with an image capture device of the point of sale system during the scanning. The system and method operate by proceeding to store the image data in a memory of the point of sale system and generating, with a processor of the point of sale system, an association of the image data with purchase data acquired at the point of sale during the purchase. Further, the system and method operate by providing the association, the image data, and the purchase data to a graphical user interface, which displays the image data and the purchase data such that the image data is visually linked with the purchase data based on the association.

Point of sale image capture and transactional data management system and method

A dual wearable smart device system and a method of using the dual wearable smart device system for authenticating an electronic financial transaction are described. In one embodiment, a method for approving an electronic financial transaction using at least two wearable smart devices includes providing a first wearable smart device that is designated as a payment device for conducting electronic financial transactions. The method also includes providing a second wearable smart device that is designated as a confirmation device for confirming the electronic financial transactions by the first wearable smart device. The method includes initiating, by the first wearable smart device, an electronic financial transaction, and, approving, by the second wearable smart device, the electronic financial transaction initiated by the first wearable smart device. The method further includes authenticating the first wearable smart device to complete the electronic financial transaction.

Dual wearable device method and system for authenticating financial transactions

A system for controlling power in a facility having an electrical system including an energy storage device and a generator and an associated fuel tank. The fuel tank provides fuel to the generator and has a gauge indicating remaining fuel. Both the energy storage device and the generator operate. The generator may be used to provide power to the facility, the energy storage device, or both simultaneously. A first power consuming device imposes a first load connected to the electrical system and second power consuming device imposes a second load connected to the electrical system. The system receives information related to the loads and calculates an initial estimated run time of the energy storage device, and information related to the first load and information related to the second load. The system selectively removes the second load in a simulation and calculates a second run time of the energy storage device.

System for controlling power in a facility

A sensitive area activity monitoring system is provided. A non-intrusive sensor that does not provide image, video, or audio data is used to capture data in a sensitive area that is associated with an activity. The sensor data is logged and provided to a downstream service tasked with personalizing the service based upon the logged data.

Systems and methods for detecting physical presence while providing privacy

A system for managing a fleet of shared autonomous vehicles may comprise a plurality of specialized sub-systems. The sub-systems may coordinate to service requested rides using the vehicles. The system may comprise a reservation system configured to receive a request for a ride from a user device. The system may comprise a coordination system configured to determine a price for the requested ride. The system may comprise a routing system configured to determine a vehicle of the fleet to service the requested ride and/or a route for the requested ride. The determined vehicle may be caused to service the requested ride.

Ridesharing fleet management

An intelligent traffic control system may be configured to manage autonomous vehicle traffic, such as by communicating with autonomous vehicles. The intelligent traffic control system may be configured to output an indication of a traffic control command to autonomous vehicles and non-autonomous vehicles. The intelligent traffic control system may be configured to determine traffic control commands for autonomous vehicles and non-autonomous vehicles.

Systems and methods for intelligent traffic control

A method and system for a one-time authentication interaction to conduct electronic financial transactions using a wearable smart ring device is described. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting, by a mobile device, that a wearable smart ring device is being worn by a user. The method also includes receiving, by the mobile device, authentication information associated with the user, and comparing the received authentication information with stored authentication information associated with the user. Upon determining that the received authentication information matches the stored authentication information, the wearable smart ring device is authorized to conduct electronic financial transactions. Additionally, the wearable smart ring device remains authorized to conduct electronic financial transactions as long as it is worn by the user. Once removed from the user's finger, the wearable smart ring device is de-authorized.

Smart ring for financial transactions

A system comprising a plurality of sensor devices configured to acquire data related to a property and a processor configured to receive the data from the plurality of sensor devices and identify one or more hazardous conditions for the property based on the data. The processor is further configured to determine an amount of risk associated with the one or more hazardous conditions and initiate verification operations to confirm the one or more hazardous conditions in response to determining that the amount of risk associated with the one or more hazardous conditions exceeds a first threshold value. The processor may also send a notification to a computing device associated with the property in response to determining that the amount of risk associated with the one or more hazardous conditions exceeds a second threshold value, wherein the notification is displayed on a display of the computing device, and wherein the notification comprises one or more recommendations to address the one or more hazardous conditions.

System and methods for detecting hazardous conditions

A service tracking and guidance system includes processing circuitry configured to receive, from a location tracking device and/or an online service, usage data indicative of usage of a service by a consumer. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine a usage value based on the usage data, to receive remittance data indicative of recurring payments made by the consumer for the service, and to retrieve a usage threshold that represents a level of usage of the service that justifies the recurring payments. The processing circuitry is further configured to compare the usage value determined based on the usage data for a time period that corresponds to at least one of the recurring payments to the usage threshold and to provide an output with directions to increase the usage value or to facilitate cancellation of the service in response to the usage value being below the usage threshold.

Tracking and guidance system for recurring service management

A climate control system may include an electronic equipment room including one or more interior partitions dividing the chamber into two or more subchambers. The system may further include a cooling system configured to provide the subchambers with different levels of cooling, wherein at least one partition is movable from a first position defining a first subchamber to a second position defining a second subchamber in a different area of the room than the first subchamber. The system may also include a controller including instructions for controlling operation of the movable partition based on cooling requirements of the electronic equipment in the room; a first heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit and a second HVAC unit, each configured to provide cooling to a different subchamber of the electronic equipment room; and a third HVAC unit configured to provide backup for the first HVAC unit and/or the second HVAC unit.

Climate control system

A data processing system may include a plurality of host servers, each server including a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon and executable by the processor, wherein the computer readable medium of each server includes instructions for running one or more virtual machines. In addition, the system may include a system controller including a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon and executable by the processor, the computer readable medium of the system controller including instructions for receiving commands to host two or more virtual machines on the plurality of host servers; making a determination as to which of the virtual machines share commonalities with one another; and based on the determination, providing instructions to the plurality of host servers to host virtual machines determined to share one or more commonalities with one another on the same host server.

Data processing system with virtual machine grouping based on commonalities between virtual machines

A method for dynamically allocating computing resources to virtual computing machines in a shared system. An initial allocation is made for each computing resource. Current demand for each computing resource for each of the virtual computing machines is determined to identify changes in current demand. The system identifies a virtual computing machine for which usage of a first computing resource is approaching a first predetermined threshold allotted to the first virtual computing machine. The system identifies a second virtual computing machine in the system for which usage of the first computing resource is less than a second predetermined threshold of the first computing resource allotted to the second virtual computing machine. The server dynamically allocates at least part of the first computing resource from the second virtual computing machine to the first virtual computing machine to meet current demand for the first computing resource in the first virtual computing machine.

Dynamic allocation of resources

A system to create a dehydrating environment from the waste cooling air from a data center including a drying room above the data center. Waste cooling air dries moisture laden product in the drying room and is returned to the data center. Also, a system to distribute waste cooling air from a data center. The system includes a reservoir tank and a local tank for waste cooling air. Both tanks include insulated walls that assist in maintaining a temperature within the reservoir tank. A reservoir tank blower conveys waste cooling air from the data center into the reservoir tank and pressurizes the interior of the reservoir tank. Pressurized waste cooling air from the data center is delivered from the local tank through the blower when a blower valve is opened.

Heat recovery from data center cooling system

A system and method for operating fewer servers near maximum capacity as opposed to operating more servers at low capacity is disclosed. Computational tasks are made as small as possible to be completed within the available capacity of the servers. Computational tasks that are similar may be distributed to the same computing node (including a processor) to improve RAM utilization. Additionally, workloads may be scheduled onto multicore processors to maximize the average number of processing cores utilized per clock cycle.

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San Antonio, TX, United States of America

William Preston Culbertson, Ii