Abstract: A method for generating and providing aggregated and analyzed merchant analytics for a sector is provided. The method includes defining a plurality of sectors and receiving transaction data for financial transactions associated with merchants and occurring within a period of time. The merchants are located in a sector. The method further includes generating aggregated merchant analytics for each sector based on the transaction data associated with all merchants located in the sector, identifying an impact event based on the aggregated data, and retrieving related content. The method further includes displaying on a user interface of the user computing device a graphical representation of the aggregated merchant analytics and the content associated with the impact event.

Abstract: A method for generating and providing aggregated merchant analytics for a sector location is provided. The method includes defining a plurality of sectors of a geographic region and receiving transaction data for financial transactions occurring within a period of time, the transaction data associated with a plurality of merchants. The plurality of merchants are located in the geographic region. The method also includes identifying, for each merchant, one sector of the plurality of sectors in which the merchant is located. The method further includes generating aggregated merchant analytics for each sector based on the transaction data associated with all merchants located in the sector, wherein the aggregated merchant analytics represent a ranking of each sector relative to all other sectors, and displaying on a user interface of the user computing device the aggregated merchant analytics, wherein the aggregated merchant analytics are graphically represented on a map of the defined sectors.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a radio communication system may be provided. The radio communication system may include: a portable device; a beacon receiving device; and a server. The portable device may include: a transmitter configured to repeatedly transmit signals; and a receiver configured to receive data from the server. The beacon receiving device may include: a receiver configured to receive signals from the portable device; and a transmitter configured to transmit an indication to the server based on the received signal. The server may include: a receiver configured to receive the indication from the beacon receiving device; and a transmitter configured to transmit data to the portable device based on the indication.

Abstract: Systems and methods of site outage management are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a service outage of an online service is detected. The service outage disables the online service from receiving a bid for an item listing on the online service. The item listing has a seller and a listing end time. Timing information for the service outage is determined, and the item listing is identified based on the listing end time and the timing information for the service outage. An outage management action is performed based on the item listing being identified. The outage management action comprises one of automatically extending the listing end time, automatically transmitting an outage notification of the service outage to the seller, and automatically issuing a credit to an account of the seller.

Abstract: A set of accounts usable for cashless transactions are electronically linked together. The accounts in the set may be associated with different accountholders, issuers, financial institutions, transaction handlers, or combinations thereof. A stakeholder sets up rules that govern, in part, processing of cashless transactions upon the accounts in the set. The rules alter routing of the cashless transaction from one account to another in the set. Loyalty features are determined accordingly. In one implementation, the rule alters the routing of the cashless transaction to optimize a loyalty feature. Amounts spent in transactions upon the accounts in the account set may be tracked, analyzed or reported on to create targeted offers. Fulfillment of the targeted offers may be conditioned on validating that the actual spend upon the accounts in the set match a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: Systems and methods for incentivizing users to collect real-world items and provide item ratings are described. Theses examples are applicable to a wide variety of different collection scenarios, including the collection of candies by trick-or-treaters during Halloween, the collection of Girl Scout cookies during the local cookie season, toys (e.g., action figures and Legos characters), and the collection of rare items (e.g., out-of-circulation baseball cards, stamps, and coins). These examples allow users to submit data relating to the items they collect (e.g., item types, item quantities, item collection times, and item collection locations). These examples generate a respective inventory of collected items for each user. The inventories are provided to the users for display on their computing devices. On the basis of data derived from the inventories, the examples provide incentives that are structured to encourage user to collect additional items and submit item ratings.

Abstract: Coupon and consumer identifiers are encoded directly or indirectly into coupon barcodes, and upon redemption of coupons, the coupon and consumer identifiers are used to identify fraudulent duplicate redemptions of coupons by consumers. Scores are created based on consumer redemption histories and used to represent a consumer's past history for over-redeeming electronic coupons (redeeming a coupon more than an authorized or allowed number of times). When a consumer is subsequently presented with an opportunity to receive another electronic coupon offer, the consumer's score can be checked in real-time in advance, and the offer can be tailored, adjusted, or even not presented at all to account for the consumer's past propensity to over-redeem coupons. A consumer's score can be checked in real-time upon presentation of a coupon and the coupon can be accepted or rejected based on the score.

Abstract: Methods and systems for processing an electronic transaction between a cardholder and a merchant using a payment card carried out over a payment network are provided. An example method comprises receiving tokenization data including identification data associated with a token representing payment data of the payment card, and issuer data indicative of rewards information associated with the payment card; receiving a rewards inquiry request from a merchant terminal, where the rewards inquiry request comprises the token and where the token is associated with the payment data for making the transaction; determining the rewards information associated with the rewards inquiry request using the tokenization data; and transmitting the rewards information to the merchant terminal for preparation of a transaction request to an acquirer using the rewards information.

Abstract: A method for automatically detecting, reporting and managing cases of unusual, unexpected, unauthorized or noncompliant transaction activity or points balances within a retail-based or online loyalty program, rewards program or discount scheme, wherein an hypothesis about abnormal activity may be adjusted upward or downward, based upon transaction counts and/or transaction values, in conjunction with one or more additional risk factors, which factors have different tolerances or thresholds, depending upon the sales channel, branch, store or line of business, and which factors are adjusted upward or downward, based on ad hoc groups of members. Alerts are delivered to designated person(s) responsible, with case management and tracking. An automatic second-level alert is sent to a different user, if the primary person responsible does not close the case within the amount of time designated to do so.

Abstract: Various of the disclosed embodiments concern systems and methods for tracking virality and social lift of media content. In some embodiments, an analytics engine creates and tags URLs to media content using generation codes, time codes, or both. The codes and their respective values allow the analytics engine to determine whether trends or patterns exist in how media content is viewed and shared. The generation codes and time codes can be used instead of, or in addition to, conventional UTM codes. The generation code, time code, or both, can be used to determine which segments (e.g., generations, time periods) of viewers generate a profit, subsequent viewers, etc. For example, the analytics engine can determine when an advertising campaign for a piece of media content should be terminated, rather than simply indicating whether the campaign should continue.

Abstract: Systems and methods of determining effectiveness of a test content item in a computer network environment are provided. A data processing system can receive a request for content from a computing device and predict a test content item as a winner of a content item auction. The data processing system can assign the computing device to a test group or a control group. The data processing system can execute the content item auction, while withholding the test content item from the auction if the computing device is assigned to the control group. The data processing system can transmit the winning content to the computing device. The data processing system can identify computer network activity associated with the test content item by the computing device. The data processing system can perform additional predictions if the computing device is the subject of additional experiments regarding additional test content items.

Abstract: Various of the disclosed embodiments concern systems and methods for tracking virality and social lift of media content. In some embodiments, an analytics engine creates and tags URLs to media content using generation codes, time codes, or both. The codes and their respective values allow the analytics engine to determine whether trends or patterns exist in how media content is viewed and shared. The generation codes and time codes can be used instead of, or in addition to, conventional UTM codes. The generation code, time code, or both, can be used to determine which segments (e.g., generations, time periods) of viewers generate a profit, subsequent viewers, etc. For example, the analytics engine can determine when an advertising campaign for a piece of media content should be terminated, rather than simply indicating whether the campaign should continue.

Abstract: Various embodiments concern systems and methods for tracking virality and social lift of media content. More specifically, metadata from shareable links (e.g., generation code, UTM codes) can be analyzed to determine the sharing habits of viewers. An analytics engine creates and tags links to media content with generation codes, time codes, or both. The codes and their respective values allow the analytics engine to identify trends or patterns in how content is viewed and shared, such as increases and decreases in viewership. The generation codes could be used instead of, or in addition to, conventional UTM codes. The generation codes can also be used to determine which segments of viewers are most profitable, produce the most “shares,” etc. For example, the analytics engine can determine when an advertising campaign for a piece of media content should be terminated, rather than simply indicating whether the campaign should continue.

Abstract: Online entities oftentimes desire to ascertain information about their audience members. To determine information about audience members and their activities, online transactions including information about transactions performed by audience members are collected. One or more audience analysis processes are applied to the online transactions to determine the collection of online transactions performed by a given audience member. With an accurate assignment of online transaction to the audience member, the audience member and associated transactions may be classified as a legitimate or illegitimate.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a camera retrieval server, a camera retrieval method, and a program for the camera retrieval server, which enables a network camera with high advertising effectiveness to be recognized and retrieved when a company's advertisement is published. The present invention provides a camera retrieval server associates and stores an identifier identifying a network camera, a link destination display request rate showing a display request rate when the display request is made for a link destination related to a banner advertisement replayed together with a moving image output from the network camera, and a keyword showing the type of the banner advertisement, and accepts an input of a predefined keyword from an advertiser's terminal, compare the entered keyword with keywords stored in the server, and extract an identifier of the network camera with a high display request rate for the link destination.

Abstract: Systems and methods to determine image pixel status on a hardware display are provided. The systems and methods can determine a status of a uniquely identifiable measurement pixel of a first content item displayed on a display of a client device. The status can indicate that the measurement pixel is present in a viewable region of the display. The systems and methods can receive viewability variables from the client device. The viewability variables can include information regarding physical and electrical characteristics of the display, and can include information regarding data displayed on the display. The systems and methods can generate a view probability predictive model based on statuses and viewability variables determined from other client devices that previously displayed content items having measurement pixels.

Abstract: A process is described for assessing the suitability of particular keyword phrases for use in serving contextually relevant content for display on pages of network-accessible sites. In one embodiment, the process involves scoring the key phrases based in part on collected user behavioral data, such as view counts of associated social media content items. A process is also disclosed in which selected keyword phrases on a page are transformed into links that can be selected by a user to view bundled content that is related to such keyword phrases.

Abstract: Mobile device proximity to purchase locations at times of purchases within at least one retail environment is monitored over time by a processor utilizing locationing technology. Mobile device identifiers of mobile devices in proximity to the purchase locations within the at least one retail environment at the times of the purchases are captured. A repeating mobile device proximity pattern of at least two mobile device identifiers being repeatedly located together and in proximity to the respective purchase locations at the times of the respective purchases is detected across several different purchases. Mobile devices identified by the at least two mobile device identifiers detected within the repeating mobile device proximity pattern across the several different purchases are paired.

Abstract: A method comprising displaying, on a virtual projection, at least one image of at least one product available for purchase to attract customers, the virtual projection comprising one or more displays Lo display the at least one Image of the at least one product. The method further includes initiating a shopping session with a customer on the virtual projection whereby the customer has access to one or more products related to the virtual projection. The shopping session transfers to and continues on a secondary device whereby the at least one image of the at least one product is accessed on the secondary device. The method further includes initiating a customization mode to a How a customer to customize properties of one or more of the images of products.

Abstract: A call analytics system for analyzing the effectiveness of advertising campaigns using performance data and call data. Specifically, the call analytics system evaluates the performance of different keywords in generating calls to displayed phone numbers. The call analytics system uses statistical techniques to correlate received calls to displayed phone numbers with those keyword or keywords that were associated with displayed advertisements. The system gives advertisers the ability to track and measure which keywords drive sales for mobile users that call advertisers directly from ads on their smartphones or other mobile devices. In some embodiments, the system uses the calculated effectiveness of certain keywords to recommend changes to present or future advertising campaigns of the advertiser.

Abstract: A method is provided for preventing delivery of advertising content server device to a client device, where an advertising blocker monitors attempts of the client device to establish a connection to the server device, in the event of a detected attempt to establish a connection, determines if the WebSocket protocol is used for the attempt to establish a connection, if the WebSocket protocol is used for the attempt to establish a connection, checks, for the URI of the attempt to establish a connection, and if the URI may be used to establish a connection, and if the result of the check is that the URI may not be used to establish a connection, ends the attempt to establish a connection. Also provided is a client device for displaying electronic documents, wherein the client device has an advertising blocker designed to implement the method described.

Abstract: A computer system locates objects and content by navigating an aerial or satellite image map of a geographic region. The system determines a search region corresponding to the geographic region by use of geospatial information associated with the geographic region. Once the search region is determined, the system searches a database for objects and content that are associated with the search region and that satisfy certain predetermined criteria and characteristics. Relevant ads are then shown to the user within an interactive mapping experience.

Abstract: A media channel can include a mix of media items and invitational content items. At some point during the playback of the media channel an invitational content item can be presented. In some cases, the invitational content items eligible for presentation can be of differing types, such as video and audio. In can be advantageous to restrict presentation of video invitational content items to times when a user is likely to view the screen of the client device during playback of the invitational content item. To accomplish this one or more heuristics or rules can be applied to client device data to predict a user attention level. The user attention level can then be correlated to an invitational content item type, which can then be used to select an invitational content item for playback.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, devices, products and other implementations, including a method that includes intercepting, by a monitoring system, communications in a closed system between one or more peripheral devices and one or more host devices, the closed system being configured to enable communication between only designated closed system devices, the designated closed system devices including the one or more peripheral devices and the one or more host devices, with the communications including information relating to one or more transactions. The method further includes generating, by the monitoring system, based on at least one of the intercepted communications, supplemental data relating to at least one transaction of the one or more transactions, and communicating from the monitoring system to at least one of the designated closed system devices the supplemental data relating to the at least one transaction.

Abstract: A system is disclosed as having a display device, one or more processors, and a non-transitory machine readable medium coupled to the processors. The non-transitory machine readable medium stores instructions which cause the one or more processors to receive data indicative of entity information for a set of entities. The processor presents an entity search tool comprising a plurality of search criteria sets. Each search criteria set comprising a first selector, a second selector, and a third selector. The processor receives a selection in the first selector, the second selector, and the third selector. The selections are indicative of selected search criteria. The processor identifies a result indicative of at least a portion of the entity information from the one or more entity corresponding to the selected search criteria. The processor presents the result on the display device.

Abstract: The present application discloses a system to efficiently index advertisement content using artificial intelligence to infer and generate meaningful thematic category groupings for said content. Said groupings are further matched to collected customer profile data and combined to deploy custom media solicitations via 5 predictive analytics, thereby addressing the problem posed by ineffective mass solicitations which often inadequately target—and therefore miss—their intended audience.

Abstract: This disclosure sets forth systems and techniques that integrates social networking services with vendor services, such that a user may directly or indirectly communicate their experience, impression, or intention to a vendor via a user's preferred social networking service. In some examples, the social networking services may facilitate a vendor providing technical service support for a product or service. In other examples, a user may initiate a transaction with the vendor via a preferred social networking service. The user may initiate payment for an outstanding bill, initiate a purchase of vendor products or services, solicit a trade-in estimate for a particular product, query an order status, or initiate a data-allowance transfer to a recipient of a telecommunications vendor. In each of these examples, the user may communicate with a vendor by via social media posts on a social networking services authorized via a vendor platform.

Abstract: The system and method described herein may use various natural language models to deliver targeted advertisements and/or provide natural language processing based on advertisements. In one implementation, an advertisement associated with a product or service may be provided for presentation to a user. A natural language utterance of the user may be received. The natural language utterance may be interpreted based on the advertisement and, responsive to the existence of a pronoun in the natural language utterance, a determination of whether the pronoun refers to one or more of the product or service or a provider of the product or service may be effectuated.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a candidate adword from an advertiser. The method further includes generating a score for the candidate adword based on a likelihood of a speech recognizer generating, based on an utterance of the candidate adword, a transcription that includes a word that is associated with an expected pronunciation of the candidate adword. The method further includes classifying, based at least on the score, the candidate adword as an appropriate adword for use in a bidding process for advertisements that are selected based on a transcription of a speech query or as not an appropriate adword for use in the bidding process for advertisements that are selected based on the transcription of the speech query.

Abstract: Systems and methods for building an index for matching queries and bidded terms are disclosed. The expansion of the bid-terms includes a collective expansion using graph mining techniques on a subgraph extracted from user actions on a <query, URL> bi-partite graph. The extracted subgraph is specific to an AdGroup (obtained using all the available context) and is personalized. The extracted subgraph can be tuned to various objectives such as head/torso/tail, specific vs generic etc. Multiple relevance measures of candidate query nodes are calculated with reference to multiple source nodes or context, and the final rankings are biased to commercial relevance using personalized random-walks.

Abstract: This disclosure sets forth systems and techniques that integrates social networking services with vendor services, such that a user may directly or indirectly communicate their experience, impression, or intention to a vendor via a user's preferred social networking service. In some examples, the social networking services may facilitate a vendor providing technical service support for a product or service. In other examples, a user may initiate a transaction with the vendor via a preferred social networking service. The user may initiate payment for an outstanding bill, initiate a purchase of vendor products or services, solicit a trade-in estimate for a particular product, query an order status, or initiate a data-allowance transfer to a recipient of a telecommunications vendor. In each of these examples, the user may communicate with a vendor by via social media posts on a social networking services authorized via a vendor platform.

Abstract: A method for securely presenting an HTML expandable display advertisement on a computer display, comprising: storing at a serving computer, an HTML object having an identifier associated with at least one securing computer, registering at the securing computer, the expandable display advertisement, and signaling, from a displaying computer, an expansion event for the expandable display advertisement wherein the expandable display advertisement is for display on the displaying computer. Additional operations for securely presenting an expandable display advertisement on a computer display include expanding, at the displaying computer, the expandable display advertisement; and signaling, from a displaying computer, a restoring event. Using this technique, the serving computer may be within a first domain, and the securing computer within a second domain, the second domain being different from the first domain.

Abstract: Present invention concerns software-driven subscription services providing custom-branded all-inclusive Member Websites and custom branded Marketing Materials including, among others, online Virtual Tours and Stand-alone Videos. Present invention further and uniquely provides means whereby such Branded Merchandise and related Marketing Materials originating with one Member Subscriber can be selectively shared with other Member Subscribers and Custom Re-branded for dissemination across all platforms and media concurrently, independent of browsers and viewers and mitigating meta data without loss of control of merchandise or merchandise listing by Originating Member Subscriber or loss of sales credit to shared Member Subscriber upon successful sale of offered merchandise.

Abstract: A processor-based system for electronically presenting virtual brochures to a customer. The system has a server with a memory for holding information relating to the brochures. A processor generates a page of selected brochures, and arranges the brochures in tiers on the page. the processor selectively shuffles an order of the brochures within the tiers upon occurrences of generating the page. An output sends the page to a customer device. In this manner, clients of the system can pay to have their brochures in higher, more visible tiers as desired, but each brochure within a given tier is provided with the same visibility as the other brochures within the same tier.

Abstract: A system includes a memory comprising a first preference profile and a second preference profile, a correlation module configured to determine a correlation value between the first preference profile and the second preference profile, and a module configured to take an action as a function of the correlation value.

Abstract: A method and device for sending and receiving virtual goods are provided. On detecting an invocation request from a virtual goods package generation interface, a server obtains the virtual goods package generation parameters included in the invocation request. The server transfers the virtual goods corresponding to the total amount of virtual goods in the account corresponding to the invoker client to the account corresponding to the server. Upon success of virtual goods transfer, the server generates a virtual goods package and a link for receiving the virtual goods package based on the virtual goods package generation parameters. The server sends the receiving link to the recipient client so that the recipient client interacts with the server to receive the virtual goods package by using the receiving link.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for creating and managing a product catalog including expanded product metadata in a multitenant computing environment. The method includes creating a new store and mapping it to a cloud service provider. A catalog is then created and mapped to the store. Catalog categories are then created and mapped to the catalog. A product is then created and mapped to the categories. A product family is then created, followed by the creation of a product bundle. The product bundle is presented to consumers in a web based interactive shopping experience hosted by the cloud based service provider.

Abstract: A real-time experience management method, system, and mobile device include checking in a person with an associated mobile device at a site comprising a wireless infrastructure, location tracking, and sensors; communicating data associated with the person to a cloud service; receiving personalization information about the person from the cloud service; monitoring and updating an experience associated with the person at the site during a duration the person is at the site; and communicating data associated with the experience to the cloud service.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for enhancing an online shopping experience by capturing and advertising a Quick Response (QR) code of the product. Products of the registered retailers are maintained in a repository along with the generated QR code and the generated QR code can be advertised on various marketing media. Further, the consumers can scan the advertised QR code or search for the product in the inventory database using a client application and purchase the product online through the online shopping platform. Further, the method handles the payment related aspect of the initiated transaction through the online payment system by adopting a security measure.

Abstract: The described implementations enable a seller to seller items through multiple e-commerce channels without having to maintain independent merchant accounts at each channel. For example, a seller may sell items directly and through a management service. When a user request to purchase an item from the seller through the management service is received, the management service sends the purchase information to the seller so that the seller can complete the purchase as if the purchase were being made directly with the seller. Upon completion of the purchase, the seller provides a confirmation back to the management service and provides the item directly to the user.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for allowing users to obtain personalized bereavement packages for a deceased individual. The present invention further provides, inter alia, a bereavement package ordering platform adapted to assist users with the selection, personalization and ordering of bereavement products and services and can generate bereavement package data based on the plurality of package selections received from the user. The bereavement package data includes product selection data indicating a plurality of print-based bereavement products selected or input by the user and product personalization data representing user content for inclusion in one or more of the print-based bereavement products. The bereavement package data can be provided to a printing vendor to produce the plurality of print-based bereavement products for delivery of the plurality of print-based bereavement products to an individual organizing a service.

Abstract: A product image depicting a customizable product with one or more annotations is displayed. Each annotation of the one or more annotations identifies an attribute group location upon the customizable product that represents an attribute group comprising one or more attributes of the customizable product that may be customized. A selection of a particular attribute group location of the attribute group location identified by the one or more annotations is received. The particular attribute group location represents a particular attribute group. In response to receiving the selection, information relating to one or more attributes included in the particular attribute group is displayed. An attribute selection shape comprising a plurality of regions, each of which represent an attribute of the particular attribute group may be displayed.

Abstract: An identifier (232) identifies an alternative product to an attended product getting attention from a user. A searcher (231) searches, when a search condition is given, a group of products satisfying the search condition. A first generator (233) generates a first search condition expected to obtain a search result containing the attended product and the alternative product. A verifier (234) verifies, based on an obtained first search result by the searcher (231) that has searched under the generated first condition, whether or not the first search condition is proper. A second generator (235) generates a second search condition that is the first search condition verified as proper and with an added or replaced condition of a price range that is different from a price range of the attended product. A presenter (240) presents an obtained second search result to the user by the searcher (231) that has searched under the generated second condition.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for matching user provided images that include representations of items with sellers of those items. A management service, as described herein, may provide a web site where users can post images, view images, share images, correspond with other users, etc. The management service may identify items represented in the images and determine one or more sellers that offer those items for sale. When another user requests to view the user provided image, the image, seller information identifying the seller determined to sell the item represented in the image, and/or a purchase control that may be selected by a user to initiate a purchase with the seller is presented.

Abstract: An obtaining unit (120) obtains a ranking of a commercial product belonging to a category defined on an e-marketplace. A collecting unit (121) collects a term relevant to a commercial product at an upper position in the obtained ranking from a text contained in a sales page for selling the upper ranking position commercial product or a search query that triggers the sales page to be viewed. A calculating unit (122) calculates a score of each collected term based on at least a number of collections of the term. A presenting unit (123) presents, as a suggested keyword for search refinement of the commercial product belonging to the category, the term with the calculated score in an upper ranking position.

Abstract: A labor marketplace exchange (LME) computing system and method are provided. The LME computing system communicates with communications devices of service providers and service users. The LME computing system receives service provider profile data from the service providers. Service users can submit service queries to the LME computing system. Based on the parameters of the service query, service providers are identified by the LME computing system. A service request is then sent to a service provider identified by the LME computing system and selected by the service user.

Abstract: A network-based property searching system having optimized search engine is disclosed herein. The property searching system comprising a computer system in electronic communication with an end user computer system and one or more remote data sources over a network, an optimization database including at least one pre-programmed database table identifying a geographic location and a plurality of geographic areas within a predetermined distance of the geographic location, an optimization engine which causes the computer system to: electronically receive over the network search criteria including a workplace location and commute criteria, querying the optimization database to identify a plurality of geographic areas to be searched that each satisfy the search criteria, electronically querying over the network the one or more remote data sources to identify individual properties located within the plurality of geographic areas to be searched, filtering the individual properties based on the search criteria.

Abstract: A process for locationally sorting and filtering mobile applications at a geographical level, utilizing location-specific information is disclosed. The ability to filter categories among location-specific displayed application results in an interface creates much greater additional value to consumers, as they can quickly and easily screen applications pertaining to “Dating,” “Transportation” or other categories near them, where both location and underlying functionality are equally important. Additionally, browsing is encouraged under this system, as users do not have to continually enter new terms and hit search to generate new application search results.

Abstract: The processor implemented method and system disclosed herein includes transmitting a search term to a server via a user computing device, wherein the server identifies a plurality of categories and a plurality of products corresponding to the search term. The method and system is adapted to access a plurality of weightage attributes and a plurality of ranking attributes through the server. The method and system thereafter determines a weightage level for each identified category and also determines a ranking level for each identified product. The method and system is adapted to sort the at least one category and the at least one product. The sorting is based on the plurality of weightage attributes and plurality of ranking attributes respectively. After sorting, the method is adapted to display said sorted category and sorted product through the user computing device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for inventorying existing products, evaluating the financial, convenience, and environmental impact of installing replacement more energy efficient products, purchasing energy efficient products, and/or assessing actual savings are described. Embodiments of the system are designed to allow a user to provide known and/or easily available information to quickly assess the attractiveness of changing to energy efficient products, prioritize potential purchases, buy or lease products, and assess actual and/or estimated savings, if desired. Some embodiments include a product database having entries identifying information about lighting products, an efficiency application causing a computing device to collect lighting product information currently in use by a user via one or more graphical user interfaces, and an efficiency platform connected to computing devices executing the efficiency application.