Abstract: An advertisement distribution system can log advertisement conversions using Near Field Communication (“NFC”). An online advertisement may be served to a user in response to a query or at a website. In response to the user selecting the advertisement, a landing page is displayed to the user and information regarding the advertisement is stored for logging purposes. The landing page may instruct the user to check in with an NFC-enabled device at an NFC base station of a merchant. The NFC base station transmits information identifying the merchant to the user's device and, in turn, the user's device transmits the information to the advertisement distribution system. The advertisement distribution determines that the advertisement resulted in a conversion using information regarding the advertisement and the information identifying the merchant received from the NFC base station via the user's device.

Abstract: An advertisement distribution system can log advertisement conversions using Near Field Communication (“NFC”). An online advertisement may be served to a user in response to a query or at a website. In response to the user selecting the advertisement, a landing page is displayed to the user and information regarding the advertisement is stored for logging purposes. The landing page may instruct the user to check in with an NFC-enabled device at an NFC base station of a merchant. The NFC base station transmits information identifying the merchant to the user's device and, in turn, the user's device transmits the information to the advertisement distribution system. The advertisement distribution determines that the advertisement resulted in a conversion using information regarding the advertisement and the information identifying the merchant received from the NFC base station via the user's device.

Abstract: In a data gathering/scattering system having a data gathering system and a data scattering system in a parallel computer constituted by a plurality of processors connected in parallel through a common bus or hierarchical common buses, the data gathering/scattering system includes: one processor having a buffer for temporarily storing data gathered from or transmitted to other processors, a three-state buffer for transmitting data from the buffer to the common bus, and a switching unit for switching a connection between a transmission and a reception to form the data gathering system or the data scattering system; each of the other processors having a buffer for temporarily storing data to be transferred or data to be received, a transfer control unit for controlling data transmissions from the buffer to the common bus, a reception control unit for selecting the reception data from among all data on the common bus, a three-state buffer for transmitting data from the buffer to the common bus, and a switching un

Abstract: An electronic device which has piezoelectric resonators and terminals piled in a box-like case. The electronic device has a couple of terminals, each of which has a contact portion and a junction portion extending from the contact portion. In the case, the couple of terminals are integrated by electrically connecting the junction portions.