Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to link electronic voucher offers with complementary voucher offers and consolidate redemption of electronic vouchers with electronic payments into a single transaction.

Abstract: The serving of advertisements with (e.g., on) video documents may be improved in a number of ways. For example, a system may (a) accept information defining at least one ad spot associated with at least one instance of an video document, (b) accept offers to have advertisements served in the ad spot(s), and (c) arbitrate among competing advertisements, using at least the offers, to determine at least one advertisement to be served in that ad spot(s). As another example, a system may (a) accept relevance information for an advertisement, (b) determine at least one video document using the accepted relevance information, (c) present information about the video document(s) to an advertiser associated with the advertisement, and (d) accept, from the advertiser, an offer to have its advertisement served with at least one of the video document(s) accepted.

Abstract: A method of payment using rewards points includes receiving authentication data and a payment amount from a customer's mobile device, determining an amount of rewards points available to fund the payment amount in a rewards account associated with the customer, and sending selectable payment options to the mobile device. The selectable payment options include an option to redeem a portion of the rewards points amount to fund a portion of the payment amount. The method also includes receiving a customer selection of at least one of the selectable payment options from the mobile device and sending a form of payment for the payment amount from the account management system at the mobile device. The form of payment is configured for presentation to a point of sale device.

Abstract: A system and techniques are provided that enable an affinity pooling application executing on the mobile device and an aggregation of affinity reward programs. The affinity pooling application may enable a mobile device to enroll in the aggregation of affinity reward program. The enrollment with an affinity exchange server enables the mobile device to select affinity reward programs for participation and management by the affinity exchange server. The affinity exchange server may enable determination of an affinity reward exchange rate. Other examples and techniques are also disclosed.

Abstract: Systems and methods to accommodate business relationships between a supplier, an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), and an end user. A supplier provides a server having a web site that is accessible by OEM's and end users to purchase subsystems and consumable parts and materials. The OEM's and end users are associated with each other by the server in accordance with established business relationships. The server manages accounts of the OEM's and associated end users to reward on-line credits to the OEM's and the end users when the OEM's and the end users make purchases from the supplier. The rewarding of on-line credits are structured to generate additional business for the supplier from the OEM's and the associated end users.

Abstract: A server-side technique to detect and mitigate client-side content filtering, such as ad blocking. In operation, the technique operates on a server-side of a client-server communication path to provide real-time detect the existence of a client filter (e.g., an ad blocker plug-in) through transparent request exchanges, and then to mitigate (defeat) that filter through one or operations designed to modify the HTML response body or otherwise obscure URLs. Preferably, the publisher (the CDN customer) defines one or more criteria of the page resources being served by the overlay (CDN) and that need to be protected against the client-side filtering.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to control inventory and/or server operations at a remote information handling system based on indirect characteristics of user input signals provided by a user to a client information handling system, and relayed to a server information handling system. Indirect characteristics of user input signals may include, but are not limited to, a pattern of mouse or touchpad pointer movements made on a given webpage, duration of time spent by a user on a given webpage, etc. Inventory and server operations that may be controlled based on monitored indirect user input signal characteristics include, but are not limited to, change of status or movement of inventory between locations and/or a change in the amount of inventory maintained at a given remote location, altering the amount of inventory reserved for future purchase and delivery, and altering duration time and/or expiration date of a limited-time reduced price offer.

Abstract: A relay server applies rewards in a rewards system that includes the relay server, a point of sale terminal, and a reward management server. The relay server includes a storage device, a communication interface, and a processor. The communication interface receives an update request for updating an accumulated reward provided to a customer, and transmits, to the reward management server, the update request. The storage device stores update request data indicating the update request was transmitted to the reward management server. The communication interface receives a reward updated result indicating that the accumulated reward provided to the customer was updated. When the reward updated result is not received within a predetermined time, the communication interface transmits, to the point of sale terminal, a reward update pending result indicating that the update request is pending.

Abstract: A data processor implemented method for gamification of activity tracking to determine a reward is provided. The method includes obtaining activity tracking information from one or more activity tracking sensors, and comparing one or more associated activity tracking target with the obtained activity tracking information to generate an activity tracking level. The method also includes assessing the activity tracking level for determination of the reward, and interfacing with a payment gateway to make payment to an entity associated with the reward, wherein an amount of the payment is dependent on the reward.

Abstract: Electronic payment card processing systems and methods include at least one host computing device that accepts transaction data as payment card transactions are made and processed over the multi-party payment processing network. Based on the accepted transaction data, the host computing device identifies a first payment card transaction between a first enrolled cardholder and a first enrolled merchant that includes a delivery of a first good to a location that is within a predefined geographic area including the first enrolled merchant. The host computing device retrieves at least one incentive offer relating to a second enrolled merchant and involving a delivery of a second good within the predefined geographic area, and sends the at least one incentive offer to additional enrolled cardholders within the predefined geographic area.

Abstract: An example electronic wallet device may include a plurality of card slots configured to hold transaction cards, each card slot, of the plurality of card slots, including a card reader, and the plurality of card slots holding at least two transaction cards; and one or more processors to receive transaction information associated with a transaction at a transaction terminal, select a transaction card, of the at least two transaction cards based on the received transaction information, and/or provide a transaction token, associated with the selected transaction card to be used in connection with the transaction terminal to process the transaction.

Abstract: An embodiment is directed to a non-expanding advertisement that displays a video loop or a portion of a video within the advertisement. If the user interacts with the advertisement, the entire video is played within the advertisement without expanding. The user is not given the option to stop or pause the video. In addition, since the advertisement does not expand, the user is not given the option to close the video, ensuring that a complete view of the video is delivered to the user.

Abstract: A system for adjusting a relevance weight value for a content item is described. The system comprises a content delivery module configured to deliver a plurality of content items to a device via a network. The content items are displayed on the device. A user provides a feedback input that is a positive review or a negative review for a content item. The feedback input is transmitted to a relevance weight adjustment module that subtracts a first point value from the relevance weight value associated with a first set of users when a negative review is received for the content item and adds a first point value to the relevance weight value associated with a first set of users when a positive review is received for the content item.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods of inserting video content. A media player can receive, from a primary video content server, a video content item including primary video content to be presented on a webpage. The video content item can be associated with an encoding specifying a content spot in the primary video content. The media player can, subsequent to initiating playing of the video content item, the encoding specifying the content spot within the video content item. The media player can generate a request for supplemental video content to play based on the parsing of the encoding. The media player can transmit, to a secondary video content server, the request. The media player can receive, from the secondary video content server, the supplemental video content item selected based on the request. The media player can play the supplemental video content item during the content spot on the webpage.

Abstract: Systems and/or methods for determining effectiveness of advertisements using devices and/or beacons and/or tags. A mobile device may send a request to an advertisement server. In response to the request, the mobile device may receive, from the advertisement server, an advertisement, an advertisement identifier, and a location identifier. Hie advertisement identifier and the location identifier may be associated with the advertisement. The mobile device may store one or more of the advertisement, the advertisement identifier, or the location identifier. The mobile device may scan (e.g., periodically scan) and/or receive a radio identifier. The radio identifier may be received via a short range signal. A watchdog component (e.g., a watchdog function), running on the mobile device may compare the received radio identifier with the location identifier. If the received radio identifier matches the location identifier, the watchdog function may send a message to the advertisement server.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods of inserting content into videos based on associated text. A video content server can receive a request for video content into a video content slot of a video item played on the client device. The request can be generated responsive to execution of an encoding embedded in the video item. The video content server can identify words derived from a segment of the video item playable prior to the video content slot. The video content server can determine a topical category for the segment slot based on the identified words. The video content server can select a secondary video content item based on the topical category of the segment of the video item. The video content server can provide the secondary video content item to the client device to insert into the video content slot during the video item played on the client device.

Abstract: An advertisement request identifying a user may be received by a computing device of an electronic marketplace provider. User information for the user may be determined based on the advertising request. An advertisement featuring an item offered on an electronic marketplace may be selected. The advertisement may be provided for placement within content of a third-party network page provider. A first plurality of user input options configured to elicit a level of interest of the user with respect to the first advertisement may also be provided within the content of the third-party network page provider. User interaction information indicating the level of interest of the user with respect to the advertisement may be received. A second plurality of user input options may be determined based on the item of the advertisement and the first plurality of user input options. The second plurality of user input options may be provided to the content.

Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to cooperation among computing devices to employ visually identifiable traits of a person and data concerning their online activities to determine subjects of interest to them and select advertisements. An apparatus comprises a processor circuit; an interface operative to communicatively couple the processor circuit to a network; and a storage communicatively coupled to the processor circuit and arranged to store a sequence of instructions operative on the processor circuit to: monitor online activities comprising interactions with a computing device via the interface and the network; store collected data about the online activities; store profile data comprising visually identifiable traits; detect a signage device; and form a link with the signage device via the interface and transmit the profile data to the signage device via the link in response to detection of the signage device. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein.

Abstract: An advertisement is delivered based on a first limiting element, a specified number of selections, and an expected selection rate. Based on an expected number of selections and an actual number of selections of the advertisement before the end of a counting period, the number of selections to be further needed at the end of the counting period is estimated. For each of a plurality of second limiting elements different from the first limiting element, an actual selection rate of the advertisement by a group, among the recipients of the advertisement, limited by the second limiting element is obtained. Based on the actual selection rates, a limiting element to be added to delivery requirements from among the plurality of second limiting elements is determined. Based on the determined limiting element, the corresponding actual selection rate, and the estimated number of selections, additional recipients of the advertisement are determined.

Abstract: A system and method for generating and publishing an indicator or score representative of influence, reliability, and/or trustworthiness of reviews and other forms of commentary is based upon actions of individuals over a communication network such as a social e-commerce environment.