Abstract: Provided herein are methods whereby item provider services can define unique offerings, including categories of products, individual products, and information requests, and link them to a trigger, enabling the item provider service promote the offerings to the end users. A trigger can include any unique and specially formatted media entity that, in conjunction with software on a mobile device, can be detected using sensors to initiate a workflow. Triggers may include, for example, specially formatted images, videos, audio signals, QR codes, GPS locations, Bluetooth beacons, or similar mobile-detectable entities, among others. Triggers may be defined and associated with an offering.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods whereby item provider services can define unique offerings, including categories of products, individual products, and information requests, and link them to a trigger, enabling the item provider service promote the offerings to the end users. A trigger can include any unique and specially formatted media entity that, in conjunction with software on a mobile device, can be detected using sensors to initiate a workflow. Triggers may include, for example, specially formatted images, videos, audio signals, QR codes, GPS locations, Bluetooth beacons, or similar mobile-detectable entities, among others. Triggers may be defined and associated with an offering.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods of encoding messages into images. At least one server can identify a first image having a first plurality of pixels in a color space having a set of channels. The at least one server can generate, using a message to encode in the first image, a data matrix identifying a plurality of values. The at least one server can apply a machine learning (ML) model comprising a plurality of convolutional layers to the first image and to the data matrix to generate a second image having a second plurality of pixels in the color space. The second image can correspond to the first image encoded with the data matrix across the set of channels in the color space.