Abstract: An initial small group of customers are randomly selected for participation in a campaign associated with a promotion. Transactions of the group are monitored for a redemption of the promotion. A redeeming member's transaction is modeled and mapped into a multidimensional space and transactions for customers not included in the group are modeled and mapped into the space. A neighborhood of the redeeming member and select ones of the customers not included in the group are detected as emerging from the space. Most similar customers to the redeeming member are determined from the neighborhood and a preconfigured number of the most similar customers are selected for inclusion within the group for the campaign. This process continues until a goal of the campaign is reached or the campaign is ended.

Abstract: Customers receive an incentive with use of an installed cellphone app to image an AR-bearing ad. Matches between data from the customer's accounts for each merchant are compared to the data in association with the customer's logical identifier for their cellphone, and particularly with each incidence of a rendering on their display screen of an AR view of a product advertisement containing the AR-triggering symbol to initiate the corresponding AR enhanced view of the ad. In conjunction with chronological time stamping of occurrences, a likelihood is derived that the customer's viewing of the AR enhanced product advertisement influenced the potential customer's subsequent purchase of the corresponding advertised product as evidenced within the potential customer's rich transactional data from the customer's debit and/or credit accounts. The certainty of each match is determined to further initiate the merchant's incentive to the customer which may be the merchant's donation to a community program.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program for enabling a loyalty system to be linked to one or more card issuers, cardholders, merchants, and thereby their cardholders. A system operable to create, implement and manage one or more loyalty programs that provide benefits to members of the loyalty programs in connection with transactions between the members and one or more merchants associated with the loyalty system. The method includes registering on the loyalty system one or more card issuers; one or more merchant acquirers associated with the one or more card issuers; a plurality of cardholders as members of the loyalty program. Establishing and applying rules for accrual and processing of benefits from the merchants to cardholders associated with the one or more card issuers in connection with transactions between the cardholders and the merchants with the loyalty system. Defining a rule based survey utility operable to issue surveys to members of the loyalty system on a transaction and non-transaction basis.

Abstract: A method to calculate discounts based on a quantity of visits to a business during a time period is described. A request is received from a first user identified as a customer for a service to be performed at the business during a first time period. If the first time period is within a predetermined time period, a quantity of visits of the customer to the business during the predetermined time period is identified, a first discount is generated based on a first quantity of visits of the customer to the business during the predetermined time period, and a second discount is generated based on a second quantity of visits of the customer to the business during the predetermined time period. The first quantity of visits is greater than the second quantity of visits and the first discount is greater than the second discount.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for accessing a plurality of inventory item listings accessible over a network, wherein each of the plurality of inventory item listings includes one or more text strings, and creating inventory word vectors for at least some of the text strings of the plurality of inventory item listings. The systems and methods further provide for receiving a user input including an input word, wherein the user input is input by a user to access a primary media content, creating an input word vector for the input word, calculating cosine similarities between the input word vector and the inventory word vectors, and analyzing the calculated cosine similarities to determine one or more keywords from the one or more text strings, wherein the one or more keywords are from the text strings having inventory word vectors with the highest cosine similarities to the input word vector.

Abstract: Provided is a content arrangement method, a website construction support method, and a website construction support method that automatically perform determination of a webpage that should be included, a content that should be included in each webpage, and a related webpage as a target of a hyperlink that should be included in each content, and support a work thereof by utilizing a search trend.

Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and systems for determining optimal interbank network for routing payment transactions. Method performed by server system includes accessing historical transaction data of acquirer from acquirer database, determining payment transaction types corresponding to future payment transactions processing via acquirer for particular period of time based on historical transaction data, predicting fixed interchange cost for each payment transaction type incurring to acquirer for routing future payment transactions through interbank network of interbank networks based on interchange prediction model, performing linear optimization utilizing set of metrics, to make decision whether to apply merchant-specific discount to particular payment transaction type, or not, and routing real-time payment transactions through optimal interbank networks with lowest total transaction cost.

Abstract: Implementations of the disclosed subject matter may provide a method of retrieving a data record including historic utility bill statements of a customer, determining a historic energy usage rate of the customer based on the retrieved data record, and determining whether the customer is eligible to subscribe to a community solar energy generating system based on geographic location of the community solar energy generating system, the determined historic energy usage rate of the customer, and the customer's geographic location. The method may determine an allocation of energy produced by the community solar energy generating system when the eligible customer is enrolled in a subscription to the community solar energy generating system. The method may generate a customer data record for the user based on credits for the allocation of energy of the community solar energy generating system and receiving energy from another energy generating system.

Abstract: Described herein is a method and system for generating product descriptions of vehicles. A request for a customized vehicle publication is received, which includes at least a vehicle type, a set of standard features, and a set of optional features. One or more story templates associated with the vehicle type input are automatically received, where each of the story templates have populatable fields corresponding to the vehicle type, the set of standard features, and the set of optional features. The story templates have a theme correlated to usage of a vehicle having the vehicle type. A selection of a story template is received, and the vehicle characteristics are automatically populated. The completed vehicle product description is then provided.

Abstract: First and second cookies are obtained from first and second devices, respectively. The first cookie includes a first ID corresponding to a registered user ID, which is in turn associated with first information indicating activities related to interactions of a registered user with a first website. The second cookie includes a second ID corresponding to an anonymous user ID, which is in turn associated with second information identifying activities related to interactions of an anonymous user with a second website. The first and second user IDS, and the first and second information, are stored in a database, and correlated to determine commonalities. In response to identifying at least one commonality a determination is made, based on the at least one commonality, that the registered user and the anonymous user are a single user. The database is updated to include a unified listener identifier (ULID) that links the registered user ID with the anonymous user ID.

Abstract: A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for referring contacts to receive text message alerts. An accounts module receives first user data including an indicator that a first user requested to subscribe to receive text messages alerts. The account module adds, based at least on the received first user data, a first user account to a database of subscribers. A message generator module generates, using the processor in response to receiving the first user data, a first text message corresponding to an offer to subscribe to receive text message alerts. A communication module transmits to the first user the first text message corresponding to the offer to subscribe to receive text message alerts. The transmitted first text message can be forwarded to a second user.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for implementing electronically generated promotion deployment is provided. The method includes receiving electronic data comprising shipment identification for a shipment of an item from a shipping client to a recipient. Specialized programable software code is generated and a resulting profile is generated for the recipient. A visible promotional structure associated with a package comprising the shipment is generated and presented during delivery of the package. Generating the visible promotional structure may include generating a physical structure or a digital structure.

Abstract: With an offer server computer system: receiving a first digital image file; receiving a first mapping of product codes to audience segment identifiers; receiving a temporary price reduction offer dataset; mapping a target identifier for an end user device of a consumer to an audience segment identifier; in response to determining, based on the audience segment identifier, that the TPR offer dataset has a product code and a retailer identifier that map to the audience segment identifier, and an effective date value that includes a current date value, and the retailer identifier corresponds to a retailer location within a specified distance of a then-current location of the end user computing device: creating and storing a digital offer dataset comprising both the first digital image file and a second digital image file that presents data elements of the TPR offer dataset; causing transmission of the dataset to the end user device.

Abstract: A method and a system include receiving an alert enrollment request based on a user selection from a mobile device of a user, the mobile device corresponding to a communication endpoint identifier; generating a user interface element that corresponds to a confirmation of an option to initiating a communication channel; in response to receiving an indication of the confirmation, initiating the communication channel via the mobile device; and transmitting an invitation of a survey communication through the communication channel, the survey communication including an identity verification request associated with a selected phrase to be repeated by the user.

Abstract: Methods and systems provide information products relating to past, present and future advertising transactions (i.e., contracts to place advertisements in various media) to enable a marketplace in advertising products. Information regarding a plurality of advertising transactions are gathered. Data is analyzed to determine its attributes. Some attribute values are transformed and the attribute values are stored in a database. Attributes are organized or indexed according to a taxonomy of attributes to provide indexes to advertising transaction records. Indexes and benchmarks for various selected types of advertising transactions can be generated by selecting certain records from the database and aggregating the data or otherwise synthesizing information products, such as benchmarks and market entities for the selected types of advertising transactions. Information products may be published and syndicated as market indexes and benchmarks.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for personalized product communication, conversion, and retargeting. In some embodiments, the disclosure is directed to systems and methods that allows users to capture product-specific purchase intent by sending a cellular message containing a picture of a product tag, receiving that product's internet URL in reply via cellular message, and receiving later promotions related to that product from a retailer via cellular messages. In some embodiments, the present inventions allows the unique capability to capture and convert in-store interest with product specific promotions and conversions in a way not previously utilized in the retail space.

Abstract: Provided is an information management device capable of prompting a first user of a general vehicle to be engaged in ride-sharing. An information management device (a server (4)) includes a ride-sharing detection unit (402), a ride-sharing path recognition unit (403), and a benefit information recognition unit (406). The benefit information recognition unit (406) recognizes benefit information for providing a benefit related to charging to the first user A of a moving body (a vehicle X) based on a move cost of a path including at least an entire ride-sharing path that is recognized by the ride-sharing path recognition unit (403).

Abstract: A cross-platform management system that handles cross-platform management of client requirements receives a request corresponding to a plurality of client-defined requirements to be achieved in a flight. The request for the plurality of client-defined requirements is associated with request parameters. The system generates a proposal plan corresponding to the received request based on adjustment of the one or more request parameters. The proposal plan corresponds to a distribution of target audience across a set of delivery platforms. The system executes the generated proposal plan for a first time period in the flight on one or more delivery platforms. The system re-optimizes the generated proposal plan and controls execution of the generated proposal plan for a second time period in the flight by an in-flight re-distribution of the target audience across one or more delivery platforms of the set of delivery platforms.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining information related to farming activities of a farmer; predicting an annotation category for the information, wherein the annotation category identifies a topic of the information; selecting an annotator for annotating the information based upon the annotation category, wherein the selecting comprises utilizing (i) a social proximity constraint identifying a social connection between the farmer and another farmer and (ii) a farm signature constraint identifying a similarity of the farmer to another farmer; assigning the annotator to annotate the obtained information; and receiving annotations for the information.

Abstract: A method for interpreting messages, user-defined alert conditions, voice commands and performing an action in response is described. A method for annotating media content is described. A method for presenting additional content associated with media content identified based on a fingerprint is described. A method for identifying that an advertisement portion of media content is being played based on a fingerprint derived from the media content is described. A method of one media device recording particular media content automatically in response to another media device recording the particular media content is described. A method of concurrently playing media content on multiple devices is described. A method of publishing information associated with recording of media content is described. A method of deriving fingerprints by media devices that meet an idleness criteria is described. A method of loading, modifying, and displaying a high definition frame from a frame buffer is described.