Abstract: A system for processing transactions can include a point of sale (“POS”) device, a payment server, a device monitoring server, a customer engagement server, a checkout assistance server, and a Harmonized Identity Management (“HIDM”) server. The POS device can transmit data associated with a transaction to gain approval of the transaction from the payment server. The device monitoring server can monitor and optimize the performance of the POS device. The customer engagement server can advance a promotion, track a loyalty plan, and distribute coupons and vouchers based on the data associated with the transaction. The checkout assistance server can reduce shrinkage associated with unexpected items in a bagging area near the POS device. The HIDM server can receive requests for authorization tokens from the other servers and provide the tokens.

Abstract: A digital promotion processing system may include a shopper device associated with a given shopper associated with respective loyalty programs at different retailers, and a promotion processing server. The server may generate a promotion identifier associated with a digital promotion. The promotion may be redeemable at the different retailers and having a redeemable value associated therewith. The server may communicate the promotion to the shopper device, cooperate with the shopper device to display the promotion, and determine a corresponding loyalty program redemption value corresponding to the redeemable value of the promotion for each of the different retailers. The server may also permit shopper-selection of one of the different retailers for redemption, and determine when the given product has been purchased by the given shopper, and when so, apply the corresponding loyalty program redemption value according to the shopper-selected one of the different retailers and based upon the promotion identifier.

Abstract: A method for attribution determination in a system including a plurality of vehicles having exteriors configured to convey messaging to occupants of other vehicles. Communication signals including information relating to time-stamped locations of the vehicles are received. Time-stamped location data including a plurality of the time-stamped locations is provided to a mobile location data aggregator. Anonymized identifiers associated with mobile device users within exposure zones associated with the time-stamped locations are received from the mobile location data aggregator. A control set of anonymized identifiers associated with users within a geo-fenced area but not within the exposure zones is also received. A record of conversion events is compiled. The conversion events include a first set of conversion events performed by the exposed audience and a second set of conversion events performed by the control audience.

Abstract: Systems and methods for gathering data regarding a specific fixture and the products displayed on that fixture. A user is guided towards the specific fixture and is directed to take images of the fixture as well as of specific products displayed on that fixture. Data regarding one or more of these products is also gathered from the user. The images taken as well as the data gathered are then uploaded to a remote server for processing. These images and the data may be crowdsourced to spread the effort required to gather the data.

Abstract: A method includes receiving at a media broadcast system, via a first packet-switched network interface, a station identifier transmitted from a hybrid media device using a second packet-switched network interface included in the hybrid media device. The station identifier corresponds to an over-the-air media station received by an over-the-air tuner included in the hybrid media device. An address of a streaming media station corresponding to the station identifier is transmitted from the media broadcast system to the hybrid media device. A request to receive the streaming media station is transmitted from the hybrid media device and received at the media broadcast system, which transmits the streaming media station to the hybrid media device, in response to the request.

Abstract: A method and system for providing advertisements to user device includes determining a first location of a user device within a premises. The user device is associated with a user device identifier. The method further includes communicating the user device identifier to an on-premises controller, matching a user profile to the user device identifier, identifying a product associated with the first location of the user device, communicating product data associated with the product to a controller, and communicating an advertisement to the user device from the controller based on the product data.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for tracking changes in a collaboration graph. The systems and methods determine communication flow changes in the collaboration graph in response to a change occurring in the collaboration graph. The systems and methods use an algorithm to analyze the communications of groups within the collaboration graph and calculate a bridging index for the groups. The systems and methods provide insights on the changes in the communication flow of the collaboration graph using the bridging index.

Abstract: A system for contextual modification of content based on multimodal extraction of metadata from the content, wherein the metadata is extracted by processing one or more scenes in the content to extract metadata corresponding to multiple extraction modes, and an embedding model for each extraction mode wherein an aggregated embedding model responsive to the extracted metadata for each mode formulates an aggregated embedding. A process controller may include an embedding extractor responsive to a control input. The control input may specify one or more features appearing in the content defining a content modification opportunity. The embedding extractor may include an embedding model coordinated with the embedding model for one or more of the embedding modes to generate an opportunity embedding in the form of a vector. A vector comparison processor determines the distance between the opportunity embedding and the aggregated embedding, wherein the embeddings are in the form of vectors.

Abstract: The technology is generally directed to determining whether a consumer being presented with a digital component is a disengaged and/or qualifying disengaged consumer at the time the digital component is being selected. An artificial intelligence model may be trained and used to predict whether the consumer is a disengaged and/or qualifying disengaged consumer. The prediction may be a probability representing the likelihood that the user is a disengaged and/or qualifying disengaged consumer for a given merchant. The probability may be used to dynamically adjust the merchant's bid at the time of auction to have the merchant's digital component selected. The probability may, in some examples, may be used to dynamically adjust the conversion values after the merchant's digital component is provided for output.

Abstract: A product offered by the advertisement is displayed to the consumer in a multi-retailer cart which allows the consumer to select the product from among a plurality of retailers identified in the multi-retailer cart that offer the same or similar products and the mobile. The plurality of retailers to be displayed in the multi-retailer cart is determined by application of any of several factors that include the current location of the consumer, where those retailers that are most proximate to the consumer are displayed; incentives that are uniquely available based on consumer location; profile information associated with the consumer, such as retail preferences, affinity memberships; retailer factors, such as the availability of discounts, coupons, availability of the product in inventory, etc. The retailers may be ranked in the cart based on any one or more of these factors, and/or based upon payment of a promotion fee.

Abstract: A computational approach is proposed herein for controlling a user interface for rendering of interactive graphical control elements representing offers and coupons that are inserted into a computational payment process. In particular, the offers and coupons can interact with stored payment information resident (or tokens thereof) on a digital wallet data structure. The approach can be implemented as a computing system, a computing method operable on a computing system, or a computer program product affixed in the form of a non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine-interpretable instructions.

Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide a system for dynamically serving personalized content for presentation across computing devices of different guests in an online retail environment. A server system can: retrieve, from a data repository, a subset of predefined content stories having a predetermined activation status and guest purchase data for at least a portion of guests in the online retail environment, the guest purchase data indicating products each guest purchased, determine product embeddings for each story in the subset, each embedding indicating a product linked to the story, determine, based on applying a guest story similarity (GSS) model to the guest purchase data for each guest, a similarity score between the guest purchase data and the embeddings that indicates a likelihood the guest would purchase products embedded in the story, and serve a content story having a similarity score that satisfies one or more guest personalization criteria.

Abstract: External notifications of events that take place within a virtual space may be provided to users. External notifications may be sent, for example, via email, text message, instant message (external from the virtual space), push notification and/or through other external communication media. These external notifications may be generated based on parameters, such as user parameters, event parameters, and/or other parameters. The parameters may include one or more parameters that are dynamic and/or one or more parameters that are static. The notifications may include incentive offers. The incentive offers may include offers of virtual items within the virtual space. The incentive offers may require a response to the notification for redemption. The incentive offers may enhance engagement with the virtual space by users.

Abstract: A system and a method for allocating energy credits is provided. The system includes circuitry that identifies a vehicle identifier associated with an electric vehicle and retrieves usage data comprising battery charging records for the electric vehicle. Each record includes a charging time-period, quantity of electrical power used, and geographic location. The circuitry determines a carbon intensity score for the electrical power consumed during each charging time-period based on the usage data. An adjusted quantity of electrical power for allocation of energy credits is determined based on the carbon intensity score and usage data. The circuitry transmits a request to an energy credit provider for allocation of energy credits against the vehicle identifier based on the adjusted quantity.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed regarding an e-commerce system that places customers into a plurality of clusters and tailors services provided to a customer based on the cluster in which the customer is placed. In one embodiment, the e-commerce system defines the clusters based on purchase history data for customers having sufficient purchase history data. The e-commerce system then places customers without sufficient purchase history data into one of the defined clusters based on demographic data for the customer and demographic data for the customers in the cluster.

Abstract: A computing platform may receive, from a user device, historical shopping information indicating previously purchased items and/or previous routes within shopping environments for a first user of the user device. The computing platform may input, into a shopping gamification model, the historical shopping information, which may output shopping recommendation information indicating one or more of: recommended items or recommended routes within a first shopping environment. The computing platform may send, to the user device, a shopping gamification interface that includes the shopping recommendation information and one or more commands directing the user device to display the shopping gamification interface. The computing platform may receive, from the user device, user feedback information indicating acceptance or rejection of the shopping recommendation information by the first user. The computing platform may update, based on the user feedback information, the shopping gamification model.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for identifying automatically refreshed advertisements are provided. In some embodiments, a method for modifying advertisement spending is provided, the method comprising: receiving advertisement delivery information associated with a plurality of advertisements displayed on a web page; generating a distribution of an amount of time that the plurality of advertisements were displayed on the web page using the advertisement delivery information; identifying a deviation in the generated distribution; determining whether the deviation correlates to an automatic refresh command performed by one or more browser applications; and providing an indication corresponding to the plurality of advertisements that were displayed on the web page in response to the automatic refresh command based on the determination.

Abstract: A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: reducing, using a multilayer perceptron, a dimension of feature embeddings for an item to generate a representation vector; extracting, using a recurrent neural network, sequential data from traffic features for the item; inputting the representation vector and the sequential data into a multilayer neural network, wherein the first scoring layer outputs one or more first performance metrics based on offline learning; and re-purposing the output of the second ReLU activation function of the multilayer neural network by feeding the output of the second ReLU activation function into a second scoring layer to output one or more second performance metrics based on online learning. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: An automated teller machine (ATM) includes a network interface, an input/output device configured to exchange data with a customer, and a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory.

Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, methods, systems, and media for setting and using an advertisement frequency cap based on causal conversions or impact of advertisements are provided.