Abstract: Content relevant to an operator of a music player may be identified using contextual information from music and music player environmental factors. Identification information for a song and music player identification information, environmental information, and listener information may be received. A song may be matched with information in a song categorization database so that one or more categories associated with the song are identified. A listener profile may be matched using a listener knowledge database to identify one or more categories associated with the listener. Content may be selected by matching the one or more song categories with categories in a campaign database and by matching the one or more listener categories with categories in the campaign database. Content includes, but is not limited to, advertising, trivia, referential information, weather, stock market prices, traffic information, news information, social media information, etc. The selected content is sent to the music player.

Abstract: Described are systems and methods for automating the creation of advertisements, such as video advertisements. For example, an advertiser may utilize a self-service user interface to provide digital assets to an advertisement creation system that may utilize those digital assets to generate an advertisement for the advertiser, without further input from the advertiser. In one example, an advertiser may provide a video file, select a template for the advertisement, select a genre, provide one or more call to action text inputs, select a background color for call to action displays, and/or select an outro color theme for an outro or end card of the advertisement. The advertisement creation system may then utilize that information and, without further input from the advertiser, generate one or more jobs for execution by computing resources, such as remote computing resources to generate an advertisement based on the provided content.

Abstract: A system and method for distributing and providing access to media and for extending such access to a desktop environment is described. A media player in a webpage or in a desktop environment may reference a centralized location to access a playlist of media files. The playlist itself may reference remotely-located media files that may be streamed to the media player. The media player may be distributed in multiple environments, and updates to the playlist may be automatically distributed to all instances where the playlist is referenced due to the centralized reference in the media player. The embodiments of the media player may also be used in advertising as a mechanism for increasing user contact with an advertising entity and as a mechanism for distributing announcements and information by the advertiser.

Abstract: In response to receiving a text describing a news event, a centralized information provider applies semantic rules to the text to determine to which client attributes the text corresponds. The centralized information provider retrieves, from an electronic database, (i) identifiers for multiple clients, (ii) a set of client attributes for each of the clients, and (iii) for each of the clients, an identifier of a respective service provider. The centralized information provider then generates a metric of relevance of the news event for each of the clients, based on the client attributes of the client and the client attributes to which the text was determined to correspond. The centralized information provider transmits, to at least one service provider, an electronic alert message descriptive of the news event and an indication of a set of clients of the service provider for distribution to some or all of the set of clients.

Abstract: Provided is a method of operating a server to provide advertising information, the method including receiving a query from a user terminal of at least one user among users that participate in a chatroom, the query being created based on link information included in a message in the chatroom; acquiring advertising information corresponding to the link information; and providing a response signal that includes the advertising information to the user terminal in response to the query. The advertising information is determined to correspond to an entity that is determined based on the link information.

Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation and management of electronic associations between social media systems and web pages. Such associations promote greater interactions between web page visitors and users of social media pages. A social graph management system (SGMS) receives information related to a web page, and creates associations between the web page and social media pages. A process of creating such associations involves configuration of social media software for insertion into the web page. Furthermore, creating associations also involves creation of an intermediary page (and related data structures) by the SGMS in order to direct traffic between the web page and social media pages. User activity in the web page is tracked in addition to web traffic arriving at the intermediary page at subsequent times for computation of various analytics.

Abstract: Content relevant to an operator of a music player may be identified using contextual information from music and music player environmental factors. Identification information for a song and music player identification information, environmental information, and listener information may be received. A song may be matched with information in a song categorization database so that one or more categories associated with the song are identified. A listener profile may be matched using a listener knowledge database to identify one or more categories associated with the listener. Content may be selected by matching the one or more song categories with categories in a campaign database and by matching the one or more listener categories with categories in the campaign database. Content includes, but is not limited to, advertising, trivia, referential information, weather, stock market prices, traffic information, news information, social media information, etc. The selected content is sent to the music player.

Abstract: Systems and related methods of providing promotions to consumers based on proximity to communication beacons are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a system including a communication beacon and a central system. The communication beacon may be associated with a merchant and located at a merchant shop. Based on receiving consumer presence data from the communication beacon indicating that a consumer device and the communication beacon has formed a direct wireless connection, the server may be configured to provide merchant information, promotions, or other messages to the consumer device. In some embodiments, messages may be generated by the merchant and targeted to consumers based on consumer device location, consumer demographics, among other things. Furthermore, the server may provide consumer information to a merchant device to facilitate consumer service, point-of-sale, and seamless transactions and promotion redemptions.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, computer program product, and computer system for predicting store busy times. The method includes gathering data associated with the active carts in the store. The method may also predict the number of active carts within the store based on historical data indicating the crowd level on a particular date. A discount offer is determined and offered to users for visiting the store at a specific time slot.

Abstract: Caddies and caddy systems are provided. In this regard, a representative system includes a plurality of caddies located in the establishment, wherein each of the caddies incorporates: a housing, a display unit, a tray and at least one compartment for storing items for use by the patrons; the display unit being detachably mounted to the housing and having a touchscreen display for obtaining input from patrons in the establishment.