Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and wearable computing devices for identifying activities and/or destinations of relative importance. More specifically, a system, a device and a method provide to predict activities (e.g., preferential activities) available at a geographic region association with lodging and to adaptively generate advisory data. In one or more embodiments, a method can include accessing traveler profile data associated with a user, identifying data representing a portion of traveler attributes associated with a geographic region including lodging for the user, and receiving data indicative of locality-related characteristics. The method also includes predicting a first activity as a function of a locality-related characteristic and a travel attribute, and generating customized advisory data configured to engage in an activity.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and wearable computing devices for identifying activities and/or destinations of relative importance. More specifically, a system, a device and a method are provided to predict a type of companion with whom a traveler collaborates to, among other things, predict activities (e.g., preferential activities) available at a geographic region association with lodging. In one or more embodiments, a method can include determining a location at which a user computing device associated with a user is disposed, and calculating that a computing device associated with a candidate companion is within a region coterminous with the location. Also, the method may include predicting data representing a companionship type for data representing the candidate companion based at least the location at which the user and the candidate companion are co-located.

Abstract: A computing device may be configured to transition control over one or more functions of a rental unit to a user (e.g., a traveler) based on one or more of time, geo-location and access credentials. Access may be granted to the traveler to use one or more home automation functions including a HVAC system, a thermostat, lighting, security alarm, automated door locks, etc. An owner of the rental unit may have access to some or all of the home automation functions blocked during the traveler's stay at the rental unit, and at an end of the stay owner access to those functions may be enabled. Some functions may be activated prior to the traveler's arrival at the unit based on a time to arrival and/or distance from the unit. An application on a traveler's computing device may be configured to summon a repair service for the unit.

Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to computer software and computing devices, and more particularly, to a system, an apparatus and a method configured to segregate data at an interface of a computing device to facilitate on-line electronic payment transactions. In one embodiment, a method includes presenting fields configured to accept a first type of data and to accept a second type of data for an on-line electronic payment transaction. The method includes generating an initialization signal for transmission to an isolated data management system to initialize a portion of a memory associated with first type of data, responsive to an interaction with a field, receiving data from the field, and generating a save signal to save the data from the field in a portion of the memory. This can be responsive to a second interaction with the field.

Abstract: A wireless mobile device in data communication with a platform may present on a display of the wireless mobile device graphic images and/or icons that may represent different information as a function of time, location, type of activity, type of event, anonymized trend data, push notifications and electronic messages. The graphic images and/or icons may be selectably visible on the display based on context-relevance of the information being displayed relative to an event, such as a rental of property by a traveler, for example. The graphic images and/or icons displayed may be determined by a data file that includes information configured to cause a visual characteristic of the graphic images and/or icons to dynamically change during different periods associated with an event, such as a pre-event, during-event, and post-event periods. Image/icon color, shape, size, opacity, position, transparency, intensity, invisibility, or other visual characteristics may be changed among images/icons being displayed.

Abstract: A datastore that includes property listings (e.g., for rental properties) may be accessed by a computing resource configured to execute a thumb printing algorithm to generate summary data values (e.g., thumbprint values, hash values) of digital data included one or more images of a property listing. The summary data values along with listing attributes (e.g., address, zip code, geolocation, brand, number of bedrooms/bathrooms/sleeps, amenities) of the property listing may be compared with summary data values and listing attributes of other property listings to determine if the summary data values of one or more images match and if one or more listing attributes match. A threshold number of image matches and listing attribute matches may indicate that the property listings are duplicate property listings, which may be merged, removed or replaced with links/pointers by the computer resource to increase data storage space and/or reduce data search latency times of the datastore.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to a system, a device and a method for providing a panel-based search interface as a function of incremental entry of user data, such as text representing a destination. Data representing user input is received at a search interface presented by a listing management system. One or more panel objects are determined based on the user input. Data representing one or more interests associated with the user input is retrieved. The one or more panel objects and the data representing the one or more interests are rendered within the search interface. Responsive to the received user input, the search interface comprising the rendered one or more panel objects and the data representing the one or more interests is provided.

Abstract: Social graphs using shared personal data are described, including techniques for capturing data from a social data source, determining one or more connections associated with an item using the data, and creating a social graph using the one or more connections, the social graph comprising the one or more connections associated with the item. Embodiments of the invention also include techniques for updating social graphs.

Abstract: Inquiry data from one or more sources (e.g., client devices) may be analyzed to determine if key terms, date terms, and locality terms are indicative of an event to occur at a locality during one or more dates. Events that are detected may be communicated (e.g., via an electronic message(s)). An owner of a property may receive the electronic message(s) that are communicated for detected events and the owner may act to garner interest in stays at their property. Travelers searching for a property to stay at during the event may receive the electronic message(s) in the form of an offer (e.g., an email, a text message, a Tweet, a newsletter, etc.). The inquiry data may be received in real time and/or may be accessed from a data store. The Inquiry data may be curated to remove non-essential information and/or to include edited key terms, date terms, and locality terms.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications for establishing a data stream processor configured to regulate consumption of message data. A system and method are configured to throttle data from a client computing device, whereby the detection of the subset of message data is accessed in real-time as message data streams through or adjacent to the data stream processor. In some examples, a method can include receiving message data including calls to access a pool of data, classifying a subset of messages, appending the classified subset of messages to a partition of memory, fetching the classified subset of messages to form a data stream, accessing the data stream by a data stream processor to extract a stream characteristic, monitoring a state of the data stream based on the stream characteristic against a threshold, and generating throttle data.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems for controlling a data stream processor configured to detect and/or resolve anomalies in data streams including message data. In particular, a system, a device and a method may be configured to access multiple data streams and to detect an anomaly, in real-time or in substantially real-time, that is associated with at least one of the data streams accessed by a data stream processor. In some examples, a method can include one or more of receiving message data to facilitate a computerized rental of property, classifying subset of messages, fetching the classified messages to form multiple data streams, accessing the data stream to indemnity a stream characteristic, detecting an anomaly based on an identified stream characteristic, and generating anomaly resolution data to counteract the detected anomaly.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications for calculating quotes for items via a distributed computing system. In particular, a system and a method may be configured to generate customized quotes for items, such as rental properties, in an efficient manner using aggregator and quoter computing devices. In some examples, a method includes receiving at aggregator computing devices a request, determining a subset of quoter computing devices as a function of a subset of the rental property unit identifiers, identifying a rate algorithm type, accessing an in-memory cache to retrieve data representing a rate algorithm and/or rate algorithm data, calculating one or more rate data components, and aggregating the rate data components to form an aggregated data structure as a response. A method may also cause presentation of a graphically-formatted representation of the response.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to a system, a device and a method provide for enabling clients to expose secured files via virtual hosts. A request may be received from a user device such that the request is associated with a content item. The request may include a file path and a content identifier. A host name of the file path may be determined from the request. Data representing a physical location of the content item within a file storage system may then be determined based on a mapped bucket associated with the host name and the content identifier. The content item may be retrieved based on the data representing the physical location within the file storage system and provided to the user device responsive to the request.

Abstract: Credential and/or location data included in data received by a networked system from a device that communicated the data to the networked system may be processed to determine if the credential data and/or location data validate an identity of a user (e.g., a guest, traveler, patron) and/or a location of the user based on a location of the device when the data is communicated. The data may be review data and the credential and/or location data may be included in review data. The device and/or the networked system may generate a location history database from location data from the device or other system that is periodically logged from multiple locations at different times during an event (e.g., a stay at a vacation rental). Data from the database may be used to determine if a location for a communication is with a threshold of an allowable distance from an allowable location.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and wearable computing devices for identifying activities and/or destinations of relative importance. More specifically, a system, a device and a method are provided to determine interactions at a mobile computing device predict activities based on one or more types of interactions. Examples of activities include preferential activities available at a geographic region association with lodging In one or more embodiments, a method can include receiving data representing an interaction with a user interface, generating data summarizing the interaction to include an interaction type, and determining data representing a prioritized value indicative of a degree of the interaction.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and wearable computing devices for identifying activities and/or destinations of relative importance. More specifically, a system, a device and a method are provided to predict a type of companion with whom a traveler collaborates to, among other things, predict activities (e.g., preferential activities) available at a geographic region association with lodging. In one or more embodiments, a method can include determining a location at which a user computing device associated with a user is disposed, and calculating that a computing device associated with a candidate companion is within a region coterminous with the location. Also, the method may include predicting data representing a companionship type for data representing the candidate companion based at least the location at which the user and the candidate companion are co-located.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to managing translation requests for content in a listing management system. In one or more embodiments, a method can include receiving data representing a plurality of requests to translate text for a plurality of entities, each request originating from a business unit having an allocated number of translation units. Requests may be analyzed to identify a translation cost for each request. A priority can be determined for each request based on its attributes. The requests may be sent to one or more translation engines based on the priority of each request. Translated entities from the one or more translation engines may be received and stored in association with the one or more listings.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to a system, a device and a method provide for a modification of direction of travel based on, for example, proximity thresholds and adaptive alerts specifying an action item. In one or more embodiments, a method can include receiving at a device action alert data including data representing a destination at which an action item resides and data representing an event time frame during which the action item is actionable. Also, the method can include determining at a processor data representing a proximity threshold value relative to a detected location data as a function of at least a rate of travel to form a subset of proximity threshold data specifying the proximity threshold value under which generation of an adaptive alert is enabled. The method can facilitate a change in travel from a first path segment to a second path segment to the destination.

Abstract: Social graphs using shared personal data are described, including techniques for capturing data from a social data source, determining one or more connections associated with an item using the data, and creating a social graph using the one or more connections, the social graph comprising the one or more connections associated with the item. Embodiments of the invention also include techniques for updating social graphs.

Abstract: Social graphs using shared personal data are described, including techniques for capturing data from a social data source (e.g., a social network service or website, or a professional network service or website), determining one or more connections associated with a connection target (e.g., an item for purchase, rent or sale) using the data, and creating a social graph using the one or more connections, the social graph comprising the one or more connections associated with the connection target (e.g., an item such as a vacation rental). Embodiments of the invention also include techniques for creating or updating (e.g., include in or add to) a social graph based on receiving an access request including update data, for example.