Abstract: Techniques herein provide an audience participation software application, system and method construction that enables remote and present users of the audience participation software application, system, and method to produce an accumulated output device effect wherein, components of the output device effect may be shared between the users, stored for further use, and/or used to control outputs of one or more communicatively coupled output device systems located and operated at one or more live entertainment events.

Abstract: The present disclosure in at least one embodiment provides a method of providing an advertisement disclosure for advertisement identification to a content that is displayed in a three-dimensional space by a visual interface, including detecting an advertisement object located within a user sight from the content, inserting the advertisement disclosure in an adjacent position to the advertisement object, and controlling the advertisement disclosure in position or orientation based on a user gaze upon detecting the user gaze.

Abstract: A method and system for generating recommendations across multiple product or service domains are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of domain servers for handling user events and for interfacing with users via the Internet, a database for storing the user events, and a recommendation engine. The recommendation engine further includes one or more computer programs containing instructions for collecting the user events across a plurality of product or service domains in the database, receiving a triggering event for recommendations, analyzing the user events to formulate correlations between the user events in the database, and generating recommendations in response to the triggering event in accordance with the correlations between the user events in the database. The disclosure uses user input data from different domains for producing recommendations in any of those domains. The disclosure allows for access to a greater amount of user input data which in turn improves the quality of recommendations.

Abstract: A market maker system associated with a diamond-backed cryptographic exchange stores for each of a plurality of diamonds, a rating of the diamond according to each of multiple properties. The system receives ratings of a target diamond for each of the multiple properties. From the stored diamond ratings, the system selects one or more diamonds with ratings within a threshold distance from a specified rating of the target diamond. A dynamic order listing the selected diamonds is generated.

Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for mailbox-based coupon display are provided. For example, a plurality of email messages stored in a mailbox of a first email account of a first user may be identified, and may be evaluated to identify a plurality of coupons. The plurality of coupons may be analyzed to determine one or more coupon features. User data and/or activity data associated with the first user may be analyzed to determine one or more user features. A predictive model may be tuned based upon the one or more coupon features and/or the one or more user features. A set of scores may be generated for the plurality of coupons based upon the predictive model. A graphical user interface may be controlled based upon the set of scores to display one or more coupons.

Abstract: Aspects as described herein are directed to providing an enhanced user experience for consuming content on a computing device. Secondary computing devices, such as handheld smartphones and tablet-style computers, may be identified by a primary computing device, such as a set-top box. The secondary computing devices may be configured to receive actionable instructions from the primary computing device. An actionable event associated with content being outputted to a user via the primary computing device may be determined and an actionable instruction may be transmitted to the secondary computing device in response to the determined actionable event.

Abstract: Disclosed here is a system that can obtain attributes of an advertisement, where an attribute has a continuous value, and a range of acceptable values is uncertain. The system can create a file including contents that when provided to a predetermined function produce a value of the attribute. Based on the file, the system can generate values corresponding to the attributes. Based on the generated values, the system can create the advertisement. The system can obtain a response data to the created advertisement and can fit a multidimensional function to the attributes and the user response data. Based on the multidimensional function, the system can determine next values and next ranges, where the next values and the next ranges indicate an improvement in the response data.

Abstract: Genetic modeling is used to generate new term sets from existing term sets within a population cluster. Term attributes corresponding to a first plurality of term sets are encoded as genes for a computer-executed genetic algorithm. Clients are clustered in categories based on client attributes. The genetics algorithm is applied to a category of clustered clients to distribute the term sets to clients in the category. A first subset of terms sets is removed after receiving, within a first duration of time, a number of client responses that falls below a first threshold. A second subset of term sets is retained after receiving, within a second duration of time, a number of client responses above a second threshold. The second subset is bred using the genetic algorithm and a second plurality of term sets is generated based on the results.

Abstract: Systems and methods that provide electronic bidding on digital advertising placed on non-personal digital devices in public or semi-public settings and enable subsequent consumer actions taken on other media channels and devices to be attributed to such advertising in digital ad buying systems.

Abstract: A system and method for providing and synthesizing data for publishers operating in the connected television ecosystem. Data from third party reporting platforms may be combined to present a unified view. Audience engagement may be measured, observed, and combined in a novel manner, providing unique insights to users.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for obtaining information from at least one computing system, the information including a set of records that respectively identify at least a network-based address of a computing device that accessed the computing system and an account hosted by the computing system that was accessed using the computing device; determining at least a first account and a second account were accessed from one or more computing devices that share a given network-based address based at least in part on the obtained information; and associating the first account and the second account with the network-based address.

Abstract: Systems and methods for digital coin exchange. A digital coin platform receives a distribution request from an entity server comprising digital multimedia content associated with an entity. Digital coins are created responsive to the request. Each digital coin comprises a first coin associated with the entity and a second coin associated with consumers. The first and second coins are linked via linking information. The first coins are transferred to the entity server. A consumption request including the digital multimedia content is transmitted to a consumer device. Responsive to an indication that the content is at least partially consumed via the consumer device, one or more second coins are transferred to the consumer device. The digital coins and the transferred first and second coins are recorded. The transferred second coins permit the consumer device to perform transactions associated with the entity.

Abstract: Techniques for implementing an interactive user interface for a personal circular based on transformed deal data are described. In response to a receiving of a query from a device of a user via an interactive user interface of a personal circular, the query specifying one or more keywords, or in response to a determination that an item has been included in a shopping list or favorites list of the user via the interactive user interface of the personal circular, a set of sale deals are identified that correspond to the one or more keywords or the item; a set of coupon deals are identified that correspond to the one or more keywords or the item; one or more visual representations of the one or more sale deals are caused to be displayed in a sale deals portion of the interactive graphical user interface for the personal circular; and one or more visual representations of the one or more coupon deals are caused to be displayed in a coupon deals portion of the interactive user interface of the personal circular.

Abstract: Social media content items are mapped to relevant time-based media events. These mappings are used as the basis for calculating metrics based upon the mappings, and ratings of the time-based media there from. Audience response metrics (ARMs) are calculated from the mappings, which provide an indication of audience engagement or response. In addition, ARMs provide information about the virality, depth, and breadth of the response by the viewing audience. The calculated metrics are stored and are used to generate ratings for the time-based media. The ratings may be published in whole or in part, e.g., as part of a ratings system.

Abstract: A self-consistent inception architecture includes a process that integrates online data and offline data to determine an estimated lift (“prior lift”) in the number of unique visitors (UVs) to a website caused by a television (TV) spot airing on an offline medium. The prior lift is used to adjust a UV profile of the website. A baseline thus produced is fitted through an inception process in which a locally weighted scatterplot smoothing algorithm is applied iteratively until a final baseline converges. The baseline from the inception process is used to determine a calculated lift. If the prior lift and the calculated lift are not consistent (e.g., within a threshold), the process is run iteratively until the prior lift and the calculated lift are consistent. The calculated lifts can be used to determine and visualize performance metric(s) relating to media creatives such as TV spots airing in the physical world.

Abstract: In general, techniques are disclosed to facilitate communicating within computer networks. For example, a layer three (L3) router including a service card and an interface card may be configured to perform the techniques. The interface card receives a query from a network that sources communications in accordance with a plurality of models. The query may specify a customer device and one of the sourced communications, and request that the service card select one of the models for the specified sourced communication and the specified customer device. The service card further stores data defining a profile for the one of the customer devices. The service card may also, in response to the query, analyze the profile data for the specified customer device to determine the selected one of the models for the specified sourced communication with respect to the specified customer device.

Abstract: A method for collaborative instantiation of remote session objects and interactive video-based modification thereof includes receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) via a first graphical user interface (GUI). A request is generated based on the URL, and is sent to a remote server. In response to the request, a data object including product data is returned, and the product data is modified, so as to generate normalized product data. A host server causes playback of a video within a second GUI that is associated with a mobile device of a user. A product selection is received at the host server during playback of the video and in response to a user interaction with the video. Normalized product data associated with the product selection is identified, and a message including the identified normalized product data is sent to the remote server to cause instantiation of a software shopping cart.

Abstract: The systems and methods of a blockchain platform for transactions, comprising: submitting one or more tokens for locking for a period of time; receiving free interest tokens for the locked tokens using a multiplier; sending the interest tokens to perform a transaction to one or more service providers; releasing the locked tokens; wherein submitting, receiving, sending and releasing of tokens is automatically regulated using smart contract protocol on the blockchain platform. The systems and methods of a blockchain platform wherein the smart contract protocol is comprising of: establishing a negotiated token rate for the transaction for negotiated terms of service; invoking signed markers for the transaction; transferring tokens from reward pool to a challenge pool; releasing tokens from challenge pool after authorization, verification and finalization of the transaction.

Abstract: An evaluation device according to one aspect of the present invention includes an extractor configured to extract data related to a brand preset by a company or an organization from data collected from an information medium, and a calculator configured to calculate a first index value indicating a frequency of appearance of a first term indicating content expected by the company or organization in the data extracted by the extractor and a second index value indicating a frequency of appearance of a second term indicating a response of a customer in the extracted data.

Abstract: One variation of a method for selectively serving advertising content comprises: receiving identification of an advertisement slot loaded within a webpage; receiving a set of advertisement slot characteristics corresponding to the advertisement slot; accessing a model associating advertisement slot characteristics and user interactions with advertisements; for each target outcome, in a set of target outcomes, calculating an outcome score for the advertisement slot based on the set of advertisement slot characteristics and the model, the outcome score representing a probability of the user interacting with advertising content, presented within the advertisement slot, according to the target outcome; in response to a first outcome score, corresponding to a first target outcome, in the set of target outcomes, exceeding each other outcome score, assigning the first target outcome to the advertisement slot; and selecting a first advertisement, designating the first target outcome, for presentation within the adver