This disclosure describes a solution to assign values to personal objects. These values can be calculated based on a number of criteria and stored for the objects. Future values can also be projected. Types of value can include monetary, sentimental, and donation value. Personal objects, such as objects within the inventory of a house, apartment, or other dwelling, can be tagged using a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag or other tag that has at least a memory store, an antenna for communication within a near-field range, and optionally, a power supply, such as a battery. Such a tag can be applied to, or otherwise associated with, a personal object, such as a chair, a piece of artwork, or any other tangible object. The memory can be used to contain data associated with the object, which can be accessed via an RFID reader, which can be used to collect objects into an object inventory.

The systems and methods of automated auditing data entry for a distribution network of products: customizing product information based on an equivalent independent of brand; receiving data entry records from plurality of consumption locations operating independently with a product using a variable brand; applying a set of rules on the data entry records to identify errors that uniformly conform the following perspectives: consumer, seller and manufacturer; determining whether errors exist; identifying whether errors that exist are of error types that can be fixed; fixing errors if errors exist of error types that can be fixed; identifying whether errors that exist are of error types that cannot be fixed; queuing errors for human review if errors exist of error types that cannot be fixed; analyzing subsequent actions triggered by human review to modify the rules; and approving the data entry record for further processing or completion only if no errors exist.

A method for controlling a charge transfer of an electric vehicle using an electric vehicle charging station, a mobile device, and a cloud server is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, at a mobile device, a message for an electric vehicle of a user from the electric vehicle charging station, wherein a user of the mobile device is associated with the electric vehicle to be charged; sending, from the mobile device, the message for the electric vehicle of the user to the cloud server, wherein the charge transfer request relayed from the mobile device includes identification information; in response to a charging control signal being authorized using identification information received from the mobile device, receiving the charging control signal from the cloud server at the mobile device to be forwarded to the electric vehicle charging station, wherein the charging control signal is configured to adjust a charging parameter at the electric vehicle charging station.

A method for controlling a charge transfer of an electric vehicle using an electric vehicle charging station, a mobile device, and a cloud server is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, at a mobile device, a message for an electric vehicle of a user from the electric vehicle charging station, wherein a user of the mobile device is associated with the electric vehicle to be charged; sending, from the mobile device, the message for the electric vehicle of the user to the cloud server, wherein the charge transfer request relayed from the mobile device includes identification information; in response to a charging control signal being authorized using identification information received from the mobile device, receiving the charging control signal from the cloud server at the mobile device to be forwarded to the electric vehicle charging station, wherein the charging control signal is configured to adjust a charging parameter at the electric vehicle charging station.

In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by an eco fees classification service, receiving information regarding a product to classify and generating a feature vector for the product, the feature vector representing a plurality of relevant features determined from the information regarding the product to classify. The method also includes, by the eco fee classification service, predicting, using an eco fees classification engine, a commodity classification for the product based on the feature vector, and recommending the commodity classification for the product for use in determining an eco fee to apply to a sale of the product. In some aspects, the method may also include computing the eco fee to apply to the sale of the product based on the recommended commodity classification.

In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by an eco fees classification service, receiving information regarding a product to classify and generating a feature vector for the product, the feature vector representing a plurality of relevant features determined from the information regarding the product to classify. The method also includes, by the eco fee classification service, predicting, using an eco fees classification engine, a commodity classification for the product based on the feature vector, and recommending the commodity classification for the product for use in determining an eco fee to apply to a sale of the product. In some aspects, the method may also include computing the eco fee to apply to the sale of the product based on the recommended commodity classification.

Systems, methods, and other embodiments for predicting project pricing based upon project templates such as for use in the renovation and construction of buildings. In particular, the present invention interactively creates customer estimates and vendor specifications, and more specifically interactively creates customer estimates and vendor specifications that are less subjective and produce similar, repeatable results when run by different users.

Systems, methods, and other embodiments for predicting project pricing based upon project templates such as for use in the renovation and construction of buildings. In particular, the present invention interactively creates customer estimates and vendor specifications, and more specifically interactively creates customer estimates and vendor specifications that are less subjective and produce similar, repeatable results when run by different users.

An information processing apparatus communicable with a reader provided in a parking lot includes a controlling portion. The controlling portion executes an operation including: detecting a vehicle by the reader; detecting one or more vacant spots from among parking spots in the parking lot; calculating a parking fee for each of the one or more vacant spots; and notifying a user of the vehicle of the calculated parking fee.

A maintenance assistance system outputs a facility maintenance plan for a facility device. The maintenance assistance system includes: an acquisition unit that obtains operation data of the facility device; a memory that stores maintenance cost data corresponding to a content and scheduled time for maintenance of the facility device; a maintenance planning unit that uses the operation data of the facility device to plan a content and scheduled time of maintenance that will become necessary after the operation data is obtained; a maintenance cost calculator that uses the maintenance cost data stored in the memory to calculate a maintenance cost corresponding to the planned content and scheduled time of the maintenance; and a maintenance plan output unit that generates a facility maintenance plan including information in which the content and the scheduled time of the maintenance and the maintenance cost are associated with each other, and outputs the facility maintenance plan.