Abstract: A retail customer tracking system and method is disclosed. The retail system preferably includes at least one surveillance camera for generating image data of customer interactions with products and at least one point of sale camera for generating image data of customers at a point of sale area. An analytics system determines product interactions from the image data of the customer interactions with the products and stores facial image information and the product interactions for each of the customers. When a customer arrives at a point of sale area, facial image information of the customer determined from the image data of the point of sale camera is matched to previously stored facial information for the customer, and associated product interactions for the customer are provided to a management system. The management system then provides sale cues based on the product interactions to the customer at the point of sale area.

Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program capable of determining advertisements according to the intention of a person registering an article as advertisements to be displayed on a page supplied from a web site. The information processing device specifies a commodity classification of a commodity and an attribute value of an attribute of a commodity belonging to the commodity classification, based on an article described on a web page, and decides an evaluation made by a page supervisor for the attribute value based on the article. Then, the information processing device selects commodities that belong to the specified commodity classification and satisfy a selection condition according to the decided evaluation, as display target candidates. From among the selected commodities, a commodity of which an advertisement is to be displayed in an advertisement display area of the web page is determined.

Abstract: A computerized method of dynamically expanding an online advertisement campaign, comprising receiving from an advertiser an advertisement policy for an online advertisement campaign for offered item(s), the advertisement policy includes policy setting(s) and expanding the online advertisement campaign through multiple iterations.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide a system and method for effecting a transfer of goods in a transaction. Mobile communication devices held by parties to a transaction deliver geographic location information to a server, which coordinates data, including verification token data broadcast by one of said devices, so as to authenticate the identities of the parties to the transfer once the parties or devices are within a specified short-range to conduct said transfer.

Abstract: A game system includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to implement: a game process for a user to play a game; a purchase process for the user to purchase a virtual currency; a management process that manages purchase information of the virtual currency of the user, in association with user information; and a shop process that sets a virtual shop in which the user is able to obtain an item of the game by spending the virtual currency purchased. The processor implements the shop process including a process that makes a special shop different from a regular shop appear as the shop, based on the purchase information of the virtual currency of the user.

Abstract: A method, a device and a computer storage medium for promotion displaying are disclosed. The method includes: using user's behavior data to perform intent recognition for the user; under the condition that an intent in a specific class is recognized, determining a target entity corresponding to the recognized intent in the specific class; expanding the recognized intent in the specific class using attribute information of the target entity; and displaying promotional data corresponding to the intent obtained from the expansion to the user. According to the technical solution, promotional data may be displayed to the user according to the user's intent, and thus the displaying efficiency and coverage rate of the promotional data may be improved.

Abstract: The present teaching relates to providing content supply adjustment. A first dataset associated with user interactions directed to one or more content items placed on a target property and a second dataset associated with user interactions directed to the one or more content items places on a reference property are received for evaluation. Further, a cost of placing the one or more content items on the target property is determined based on the first and second datasets.

Abstract: A system for linking coupons to financial accounts using a mobile device that includes a financial institution database that stores an account of an account holder, a communication interface of a financial institution that receives, via a network, coupon data associated with one or more discounts from a mobile device of the account holder, a linking processor that associates the coupon data with the account of the account holder, an authorization network interface that receives transaction data relating to transactions associated with the account of the account holder, a comparison processor of a financial institution that determines compares the coupon data with the transaction data to determine whether a qualifying transaction has occurred, and a discount processor of a financial institution that provides a credit to an account holder when a qualifying transaction has occurred.

Abstract: A customer uses a mobile device to acquire a mobile app thereon. The mobile device is configured by a cloud-based service to escrow one or more card numbers mapped by a financial facility to the customer's primary account's number. Further security limitations can be configured into the mobile app by the cloud-based service. Subsequently, the customers uses the mobile app at a point-of-sale location to access one or more of the escrowed card numbers to make purchases; these purchases can be made while the mobile device lacks any connectivity to a network.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for generating incentivizing notifications to complete an uncompleted listing. A draft completion system determines, based on data included in an uncompleted listing for an item, a set of status values for the uncompleted listing. The uncompleted listing os associated with a first account of an online service. The draft completion system determines, based on the set of status values, a first incentivizing notification for the uncompleted listing. The draft completion system presents, on a client device associated with the first account, a user interface including the first incentivizing notification and at least one user interface element that enables a user to complete the uncompleted listing.

Abstract: A user action associated with a content item performed by a target user is detected. Information describing online publishers that delivered the content item to the target user is retrieved. For each publisher, a likelihood that the user action would have occurred without the publisher's delivery of the content item to the target user is determined. An estimated increase in the likelihood that the user action occurred due to the publisher's delivery of the content item to the target user is determined. A baseline value indicating a likelihood that the user action would have occurred without delivery of the content item to the target user by any publishers is estimated based on attributes for the target user. A performance metric is determined for each publisher, wherein ratios of the metrics are scaled based on the baseline value and are related based on corresponding ratios of the estimated increases in likelihoods.

Abstract: A system and method for usage-based application licensing in a hypervisor virtual execution environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises one or more computers, each with a hypervisor operating thereon and forming a hypervisor environment, together with one or more virtual machine images executing within that hypervisor environment. Each hypervisor aggregates usage statistics by each image instance for physical resources, and reports the statistics to a management framework. The management framework uses the statistics to ensure the system is adequately licensed with usage units. An initial allocation of usage units is recorded in the image and accessed during execution by the hypervisor. As the usage units near expiration, the hypervisor can signal that a particular image is about to become unlicensed. The management framework can then either allocate more usage units, shut down the image, or audit the unlicensed usage for later compensation.

Abstract: A platform receives an indication that at least a first user has performed a data collection activity. In response, the platform allocates at least one unit of a reward to at least the first user. Data collection activity can include the first user sharing, with a second user, product information that was transmitted to the first user by the platform in response to receiving a product identifier captured by the first user. Data collection activity can also include the first user re-sharing product information received from a third user. To allocate at least one unit of a reward, the platform adds units of the reward to the first user's account. Meanwhile, the first user can also request to redeem units of the reward, in which case the platform subtracts units of the reward from the first user's account.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for parallel data pool processing and intelligent item selection. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a first bid request comprising a first user identifier, determining a first set of product identifiers in a first user interaction history of the first user identifier, determining a second bid request comprising a second user identifier, and determining a second set of product identifiers in a second user interaction history of the second user identifier. Example methods may include determining estimated values for one or more product identifiers in the first set of product identifiers and the second set of product identifiers in parallel, and generating respective first and second responses to the first bid request and the second bid request using the estimated values.

Abstract: The systems and methods may be used to recommend an item to a consumer. The methods may comprise determining, based on a collaborative filtering algorithm, a consumer relevance value associated with an item, and transmitting, based on the consumer relevance value, information associated with the item to a consumer. A collaborative filtering algorithm may receive as an input a transaction history associated with the consumer, a demographic of the consumer, a consumer profile, a type of transaction account, a transaction account associated with the consumer, a period of time that the consumer has held a transaction account, a size of wallet, and/or a share of wallet. The method may further comprise generating a ranked list of items based upon consumer relevance values, transmitting a ranked list of items to a consumer, and/or re-ranking a ranked list of items based upon a merchant goal.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for caching selected data for use in real-time content selection. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a first set of user identifiers for users that are eligible to be presented with content associated with a first product identifier, the first set having a first number of user identifiers, determining a second set of user identifiers for users that are eligible to be presented with content associated with a second product identifier, the second set having a second number of user identifiers, and determining that the first number is greater than the second number. Example methods may include determining first content associated with the first product identifier, determining first product information associated with the first product identifier, and caching the first content and the first product information at a server instead of second content associated with the second product identifier.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content items. In one aspect, a method includes presenting an immersive content item at a client device. The immersive content item includes a first presentation interface that includes a scrollable image portion that presents an image having a first interaction point and a preview graphic indicating the availability of other images for presentation. The immersive content item also includes a second presentation interface that is initiated upon interaction with the first interaction point. The second presentation interface includes a scrollable image portion that presents an image from a plurality of images and an image sequencing indicator.

Abstract: Methods and systems for utilizing a listening application on a mobile device to limit multiple redemptions of an offer are disclosed. The method stores a listening application on a mobile device. One or more processors access an offer. The one or more processors open the listening application when the offer is accessed and access a microphone of the mobile device. The offer is then presented on a display of the mobile device. The listening application listens for one or more sounds occurring in an environment about the mobile device. A database of sound files is accessed and a comparing occurs between the one or more sounds occurring in the environment with one or more sound files in the database of sound files. When it is determined, based on the comparing, that a successful scanning sound has been heard the offer is expired.

Abstract: A method and digital signage server for managing display of a distributed digital signage content. The digital signage server stores a first placement target for the distributed digital signage content, and a second placement target for the distributed digital signage content. The distributed digital signage content is displayed on a first digital signage player according to the first placement target and displayed on a second digital signage player according to the second placement target. The digital signage server exchanges messages with the first and second digital signage players for negotiating a modification of the first and second placement targets. The digital signage server ultimately modifies the first and second placement targets based on the messages exchanged with the first and second digital signage players.

Abstract: Systems and methods can include collecting addressability information about users accessing a service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting information sufficient to identify when the user is accessing the service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting data from value-added services usage by the user and using the collected data to associate the user with certain marketing content. The systems and methods can further include sending the marketing content to the user through various distribution channels by using the addressability information. The systems and methods can further include recording the collected information over time to refine the ability to predict the user's receptiveness to certain marketing content so as to improve the effectiveness of TMS.