Abstract: A method and system for creating an app consistent with an arrangement of an object and an associated template using a platform. The method includes downloading a plurality of templates for creating an app and each of the templates contains identification information for associating a template with at least one of a plurality of online components. Then, defining an online component by selecting the associated template and an object for an online component selection, wherein the object includes at least multimedia data for display on the graphic app. Finally, capturing together by video both the object and the associated template with the identification information to match to an online component which corresponds to the identification information and to create the online component from the match together with the multimedia data in a manner consistent with the arrangement of the object and associated template when captured by video.

Abstract: User data overlap determination in a digital medium environment is described. Initially, a user selects segments of user data for which a determination of overlap is to be made. For example, the user selects a segment representing users that are working professionals and a segment representing users that are mothers, such that working-mother users may correspond to the overlap. Regardless of the particular segments selected, an indication of those segments is received. One of multiple different overlap determining techniques—which can include a combined MinHash and HyperLogLog (HLL) technique and an Inclusion-Exclusion technique—may be selected for computing the overlap based on a number of segments indicated and numbers of users represented by the segments. The selected overlap determining technique is then used to compute the user data overlap between the indicated segments. Digital content including values indicative of the determined overlap is generated for presentation to a user.

Abstract: The embodiments set forth techniques for delivering relevant news articles to users. The techniques can involve auditioning different categories of news articles (e.g., entertainment, sports, technology, etc.) to a user to create a pleasant onboarding experience that requires minimal user input. As time progresses, affinity information for the user is gathered from various sources (e.g., news readers, web browsers, third-party applications, etc.). The affinity information can be used to (1) suggest additional categories in which the user might be interested, and (2) increase the accuracy by which subsequent news articles are delivered to the user. Additionally, feedback information about the user's interaction with the subsequent news articles can then be obtained, and various metrics associated with these news articles can be updated to reflect the user's interaction. In turn, the various updated metrics can enable these news articles to be delivered to other users in a more accurate manner.

Abstract: The disclosed technology may include: a member account unit allocated to a member who joins in a product sales promotion system; an order calculation unit for determining distribution order defined on the basis of the amount of cyber money accumulated in the member account unit; and a dividend distribution unit for distributing a priority member dividend, which is a first part of a dividend calculated from a paid product price, to at least some of priority members to a purchaser.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a product sales promotion method that is extremely advantageous for acquiring a new product purchaser. This object is achieved by the product sales promotion method in which a storage means is caused to store a point in time when a purchaser fulfilled an entry requirement and an entry term to which each purchaser belongs is determined, each purchaser is assigned a serial number larger than a serial number assigned to an existing member belonging to an immediately preceding entry term, every time bonus granting time arrives, a member who maintains a bonus granting requirement is arranged such that the higher the serial number, the higher position the member is positioned at, and a value obtained by multiplying the number of subordinate persons viewed from each member by a unit bonus amount is calculated, and a bonus is granted to each member.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for receiving a participant report concerning an analysis project from each of a plurality of platform participants, thus defining a plurality of participant reports. Each of the plurality of platform participants is compensated based, at least in part, upon their received participant report.

Abstract: Embedding of digital incentive tokens within a digital image can occur cryptographically using a public key in some embodiments. An encrypted digital incentive token may be embedded within a digital image, including a variety of encrypted information. The digital image with the embedded digital incentive token may be sent to users via delivery mechanisms such as direct webpage embedding, email, text message, and social media sharing. An image recipient may be able to view the image and also take additional action including gaining access to the embedded digital incentive token. Digital incentive tokens can be embedded by altering image metadata so that the image itself is not changed in some embodiments, but data associated with the image is changed to identify the token. Pixel data can be altered to reflect a token for an image. Digital incentive tokens can also be tracked through different platforms to determine usage.

Abstract: A user verification system is configured to identify likely interactors approaching points of interaction to ensure accurate interactions and to provide loyalty rewards. In an example, a interaction system installs a user verification device with a stereo camera at an interacting device to capture images of the user and to obtain data from the device. The user verification device uses the stereo camera to determine the location of the user to determine if the user is a likely interactor. The user verification device recognizes motions of the user that are indicative of an interactor, such as reaching across the counter or looking at the operator. The user verification device identifies or verifies the interactor based on the record data or the display data. If the user is the likely interactor, then the system conducts a hands-free interaction with the user account or provides loyalty rewards to the user account.

Abstract: A SNS-linked reward granting system which has a higher adverting effect and is cost-effective for the predetermined product. An SNS-linked reward granting system for granting a reward in conjunction with SNS includes a friend number counting unit that counts a number of friends of an SNS user and an update frequency counting unit that counts an update frequency of articles on a predetermined product, which are written in the SNS by the SNS user. A reward for the predetermined product is granted to the SNS user when the counted number of friends is equal to or more than a predetermined number of people and the counted update frequency is equal to or more than a predetermined frequency.

Abstract: The disclosure is related to a data management platform (“platform”) for providing a secure storage environment for digital contents associated with a user. The platform may be accessible via an app installed on a user device, which allows the user to upload, modify, and view digital contents. Because a digital content is mapped to a universal scaffold in a structured format, the platform can organize and display the digital contents in meaningful ways. The digital contents can be hosted on a remote server. The platform provides zero-knowledge encryption so that the digital contents stored at the server are secure, as in one cannot know the contents of the encrypted information stored at the server. The platform also facilitates zero-knowledge offers in which offers are sent to multiple users but the server does not know to which users the offers are presented until an offer is accepted by the user.

Abstract: For various content campaigns (or content), an online system predicts a likelihood score of context violations (e.g., account term violations) of a content campaign. The online system derives a plurality of feature vectors of the content campaign. The online system predicts a likelihood score of context violation of the content campaign using a memorization model based on the plurality of feature vectors. The memorization model comprises a plurality of categories and a plurality of items of each category. Each of the plurality of categories has a category weight, and each of the plurality of items of each category has an item weight. The predicted likelihood score is based on a combination of a plurality of category weights and a plurality of item weights associated with the plurality of feature vectors. The online system performs an action affecting the content campaign based in part on the predicted likelihood score.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for k-best option identification of options subject to a supplied tolerance. One technique includes: sampling the options for a first period on a plurality of computers; computing an average and a sample count for each option based on the sampling; splitting the options into a highest group and a lowest group based on the computed averages; selecting a weakest one of the highest group (option A) and a strongest one of the lowest group (option B); and deciding whether or not to terminate based on the supplied tolerance and the selecting of options A and B. In some cases, the technique further includes outputting the highest group and terminating in response to a termination decision; otherwise continue with sampling options A and B for a next period; and updating the computed average and the sample count for options A and B based on corresponding next period sampling.

Abstract: An online system evaluates the quality of a content publisher displaying sponsored content items. To determine a likelihood of conversion actions associated with the sponsored content items, the online system uses information about users and their interactions with sponsored content items featured within the content publisher against interactions with sponsored content items featured within a benchmark system (e.g., online system). By determining a ratio of these interactions, the online system can determine a likelihood of conversion actions for the content publisher. The online system uses this likelihood of conversions to determine a publisher quality score that it uses to normalize third party value contributions toward placing sponsored content items on the content publisher. Thus, third party systems no longer need to be concerned about the intrinsic value of a given content publisher as third party value contributions are normalized based on the content publisher's conversion rates.

Abstract: Dynamic selection of an advertisement to present to a user including detecting, by an advertisement selection module, a proximity between the user and a device including retrieving sensor data from at least one sensor of the device; generating, by the advertisement selection module, a current environmental profile comprising the detected proximity between the user and a device; matching, by the advertisement selection module, the current environmental profile to a first personal skip profile of a plurality of personal skip profiles for the user, wherein the first personal skip profile comprises data indicating a likelihood that the user will skip the advertisement for the detected proximity; selecting the advertisement based on the first personal skip profile including the data indicating the likelihood that the user will skip the advertisement for the detected proximity; and sending, to the device, the selected advertisement for presentation to the user.

Abstract: A system, method and architecture for facilitating placement of native advertisements in an AR/MR environment. In one embodiment, the system is operative for receiving real world object identification and spatial mapping data relative to a plurality of real world scenarios sensed in respective AR sessions engaged by corresponding users using a plurality of AR devices. The real world object identification and spatial mapping data may be determined responsive to sensory and environmental information received from at least one of the AR devices and the corresponding users. Responsive to the real world object identification and spatial mapping data, one or more ads are obtained from an advertisement campaign management system that are contextualized within the respective real world scenarios.

Abstract: Techniques for avoiding race conditions in a content delivery system are provided. Multiple content delivery campaigns that are affected by at least one remapping in a set of remappings are identified. Each remapping in the set of remappings maps an old identifier to a new identifier that is different than the old identifier. For at least some of the plurality of content delivery campaigns, identification data that identifies the content delivery campaign is sent to a particular service. In response to the particular service receiving the identification data, the particular service retrieves targeting data associated with the content delivery campaign. The particular service applies a subset of the set of remappings to the targeting data to generate updated targeting data. The particular service causes the updated targeting data to be stored in association with the content delivery campaign.

Abstract: An embodiment of a method of evaluating an effectiveness of a sign includes detecting whether a user is within a selected range of a location of a sign, and based on the user being within the selected range, acquiring a visible image of the user. The method also includes estimating, by a gaze monitoring device, a direction of a gaze of the user, and determining whether the estimated direction of the gaze is toward the location. The method further includes, based on determining that the gaze is toward the location, performing, by a processing device, estimating an amount of time during which the estimated direction of the gaze is toward the location, and based on the amount of time being greater than or equal to a threshold amount, determining that the user has at least a threshold level of interest in the sign.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed provide technical details on fractional attribution using online content provision information. More specifically, embodiments disclosed herein use historical data to determine one or more conditional probabilities and assign credit weights to given events. In this way, more accurate attribution of conversions to particular events may be assigned.

Abstract: An online system estimates a long term value of various online system users to a publishing user who provides content to the online system for presentation to users. The publishing user may use the long term value when determining amounts of compensation to the online system for presenting content items from the publishing user. To estimate the long term value, the online system obtains retention data for a set of users describing user interaction with one or more objects during a time interval and determines a model describing user interaction with one or more objects over an additional time interval. From the model, the online system determines an average amount of time users interact with the one or more objects, which the online system uses along with an average revenue per daily active user to determine the long term value for the publishing user.

Abstract: An electronic commerce (e-commerce) system may send advertisement emails to customers that are registered with the e-commerce system. The advertisement emails may include mailto hyperlinks. Each mailto hyperlink may be associated with a product that is being offered for sale, and each mailto hyperlink describes an email message that may be generated when that hyperlink is selected. When a mailto hyperlink is selected, the generated email message may include one or more parameters related to the product associated with the hyperlink, such as an identifier of the product. The generated email message may then be transmitted to the e-commerce system. The e-commerce system may receive the message and, based on the parameters in the received message, execute a transaction to purchase the identified product on behalf of the customer.

Abstract: Merchants create ecommerce-enabled ad units advertising items offered by the merchants. The ad units contain functionality enabling customers to purchase the items by interacting with the ad units. The ad units have associated bid prices that the merchants agree to pay for sales through the ad units. The merchants provide the ad units to a broker. The broker publishes the ad units on web pages provided by publishers as comparison shop ad units that contain multiple ad units and functionality for navigating among them. A customer receiving a web page interacts with an ad unit to purchase the item. During the interactions, the broker dynamically updates the ad unit to conduct the transaction.

Abstract: A computer system determines that an item has been selected for purchase by a user on a user device. In response to determining that the item has been selected for purchase, the computer system determines that the purchase of the item was not completed. In response to determining that the purchase of the item was not completed, the computer system analyzes activity associated with the user device, and based on the analyzed activity, predicts whether the user intended to complete the purchase. In response to predicting that the user intended to complete the purchase, the computer system causes a communication corresponding to the item to be presented to the user.

Abstract: Rules for triggering geo-notifications, such as push notifications to a mobile computing device based on its location, are automatically generated based on a user's location, dwell time, and browsing activity. In some embodiments, a geo-fence communication system determines an average dwell time for a group of users in a user segment. The average dwell time indicates an average time for each user to respond to a geo-notification for a product, within a geo-fence. The geo-fence communication system generates a rule for the user segment/product/geo-fence tuple based on the average dwell time. In some cases, semantic similarities between geo-fence locations are determined, and a rule for a geo-fence is generated based on average dwell times for other geo-fences in similar locations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a delivery method for enabling the advertisement of a delivery orderer, the delivery method including: registering one or more call terminals and one or more delivery carrier terminals of one or more delivery persons, allocating IDs to the call terminals and the delivery carrier terminals, and storing the IDs; when a delivery order is transmitted from a customer terminal, allocating an ID to the customer terminal, and storing the customer terminal ID with information and advertising content associated with the customer terminal ID; transmitting a call for a delivery order request to the call terminals of the delivery persons; transmitting the advertising content corresponding to the ID of the customer terminal to the delivery carrier terminal of one of the delivery persons who has transmitted a call awareness request first; and displaying the transmitted advertising content on the display of the delivery carrier terminal.

Abstract: A method includes, receiving one or more merchant profiles, wherein each merchant profile includes data related to a related merchant including at least a respective merchant identifier, a respective merchant geolocation, and one or more payment methods accepted by the respective merchant as a form of payment; determining a geolocation associated with a mobile device of a consumer; identifying a first merchant profile, of the one or more merchant profiles, associated with a first merchant, wherein the geolocation associated with the mobile device of the consumer corresponds to the merchant geolocation included in the identified first merchant profile; transmitting an indication of the one or more payment methods accepted by the first merchant as a form of payment; and causing the mobile device of the consumer to output information associated with the one or more payment methods accepted by the first merchant.

Abstract: A method and system for advertising and screen identification using an electronic mobile device transparent screen having 3D image processing and analysis capabilities. The display may include one or more display screens varying in translucency on the rear display screen. Advertisements delivered to the electronic mobile devices by virtue of a mobile app are displayed on the electronic device screen outside the confines or borders of the mobile app. Advertisements are viewed on a rear display screen to non-users of the electronic mobile device. Advertisements are displayed based on GPS location of the electronic mobile device.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine a consumer classification segment. A disclosed example method involves generating, with a processor, a list of consumer classification segments based on geographic indicators associated with a mobile device, associating, with the processor, the mobile device with a first consumer classification segment of the list of consumer classification segments if the geographic indicators were retrieved while a first application was executed, and associating, with the processor, the mobile device with a second consumer classification segment of the list of consumer classification segments if the geographic indicators were retrieved while a second application was executed.

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus performing radio communication based on either role, a master or a slave, includes a role change receiver receiving a role change request from a slave to a master when the radio communication apparatus has a role of slave and has established connection to another radio communication apparatus operating as a master, and a receiver awaiting identification information transmitted by the other radio communication apparatus by receiving multiple channels including a given channel in a given pattern when the role change receiver receives the change request.

Abstract: Advertisement vendors can be dynamically selected in response to a request from a wireless communication device. A mediation router can receive an ad request from a portal interfaced with a wireless device. Specifically, the mediation router analyzes the request and dynamically selects an ad vendor to service the request, based in part on the analysis. The selected ad vendor supplies the ad and the mediation router ensures that the portal receives the ad. The mediation router selects an ad vendor in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, business decision rules or artificial intelligence and/or a combination thereof. The mediation router further employs customer profiles that help vendors target advertisements to specific consumers and wireless devices.

Abstract: Influence maximization determination within a social network system is described. In one example, a subset is selected from a plurality of user accounts of a social network system. Exposure of digital marketing content is then caused to the subset of user accounts. A determination is made as to a probability of each user account of the plurality of user accounts as being influenced by the exposure of the digital marketing content to the subset of user accounts. The determined probability is then output, such as to control output of digital marketing content.

Abstract: A method and associated computer program product for providing targeted digital advertisements to a user. The method includes receiving a detected electromagnetic noise signal of one or more objects, comparing the detected electromagnetic noise signal to one or more stored electromagnetic noise signals associated with one or more objects, and determining an identity of the one or more objects based on the comparison between the detected electromagnetic noise signal the stored electromagnetic noise signals. The method further includes providing targeted digital advertisement(s) to the user based on the determined identity of the one or more objects.

Abstract: An embodiment may involve receiving, from a third-party computing device, a bulk representation of textual search engine queries, and in response to receiving the bulk representation, processing each textual search engine query. The processing may include detecting non-conforming textual search engine queries and generating respective online advertising information for the conforming textual search engine queries. The embodiment may further involve transmitting, to a server device, at least one file representing the respective online advertising information for the conforming textual search engine queries. Reception of the at least one file and a subsequent command by the server device may cause a search engine device to carry out paid search advertising with the conforming textual search engine queries as keywords and in accordance with the respective online advertising information for the conforming textual search engine queries.

Abstract: Techniques for controlling resource usage in a computing environment are provided. In one technique, a target resource usage for a particular point in time is determined for a content delivery campaign. Determining, for the content delivery campaign, a current resource usage for the particular point in time. Also, a bandwidth associated with the target resource usage at the particular point in time is determined. Based on a difference between the current resource usage and one or more boundaries of the bandwidth, a throttling factor is calculated. Based on the throttling factor, a probability of the content delivery campaign participating in a content item selection event is determined.

Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of retrieving a first product offer from a first seller for a first product to offer for sale on a website of an online retailer, determining if the first product offer for the first product matches one or more existing candidate product offers in a catalog of the online retailer using one or more sets of rules, and, if the first product offer matches the one or more existing candidate product offers, coordinating displaying at least a portion of the first product offer on the website of the online retailer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and system for distributing electronic publishing content.

Abstract: A method for identification and elimination, avoidance or reduction of problems hidden in a particular experience, comprises the steps of providing a plurality of questions from a server (130) to a user device (110), receiving a plurality of questions from the server (130), at the user device (110) and providing a plurality of answers to the respective plurality of questions, to the server (130) from the user device (110), calculating a Workshop Effectiveness Score (WES) at the user device (110) and storing the plurality of questions, the plurality of answers and the WES at the server (130). A system for identification and elimination, avoidance or reduction of problems hidden in a particular experience is also provided.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for authenticated customer retail product review management. A system comprises a communication device configured to communicate nodes of a distributed transaction ledger over a network, wherein the distributed transaction ledger comprises digital product purchase records associated with a plurality of entities and a control circuit configured to receive a private key and a public key associated with a user, index transactions associated with the user in the distributed transaction ledger, determine products owned by the user based on the transactions associated with the user, display products owned by the user in a customer review user interface, receive a product review for a product owned by the user via the customer review user interface, generate a product review record based on the product review, and send the product review record to a distributed database as an update to the distributed database.

Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for maximizing revenue generating throughput of a multi-user parallel data processing platform across a set of users of the service provided with the platform. The invented techniques, for any given user contract among the contracts supported by the platform, and on any given billing assessment period, determine a level of a demand for the capacity of the platform associated with the given contract that is met by a level of access to the capacity of the platform allocated to the given contract, and assess billables for the given contract at least in part based on such met demand and a level of assured access to the capacity of the platform associated with the given contract, as well as billing rates, applicable for the given billing assessment period, for the met demand and the level of assured access associated with the given contract.

Abstract: An electronic platform (10) for facilitating mobile commerce transactions includes: a user interface (20) that is provided to a user (60), the user interface (20) being operable to retrieve from the user (60) a plurality of settings for different parameters that regulate a manner in which the platform (10) operates for a given entity that is being served by the platform (10); a conversation tracking engine (40) that monitors messages exchanged between the platform (10) and mobile device users (72) accessing the platform (10), the conversation tracking engine (40) being operative to recognize which ones of selected monitored messages together form a common conversation and keep track of a current state of that conversation; and, a mobile content rendering engine (30) that is operable to dynamically render mobile content in response to the platform (10) receiving a request from a mobile device (74) for mobile content, the mobile content being rendered in accordance with the parameter settings entered via the us

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling electronic storefronts presented using a set-top box over a communication network. The method includes sending, by a server, electronic video content over the communication network for delivery to a set-top box. The electronic video content includes a trigger that instructs a processor in the set-top box to display options in a graphical user interface on a display device, and an embedded selectable trigger that causes the processor to display at least one popup on the display device. The method also includes sending, by the server, a retrieved electronic storefront over the communication network to the set-top box, wherein the retrieved electronic storefront, including user-selectable assets, is virtually presented on the display device by the set-top box.

Abstract: Provided are a system and method for facilitating reverse auction process. The system includes a server configured to acquire input conditions by a user intending to get the service, and collect a plurality of pieces of bid information input by at least one service provider. The server is also configured to provide the user with a piece of bid information satisfying the input conditions based on which a winning bidder is determined The server is configured to receive the completed product pertaining to the service from the winning bidder and deliver it to user. The server is further configured to cross-verify the delivered product and handles any dispute therein.

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling shelf display units and for graphically presenting information on shelf display units are disclosed. A system includes one or more display units configured to be coupled to shelves of a modular shelving system, one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more display units, one or more memory components communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory components. When executed by the one or more processors, the machine readable instructions cause the system to determine a product identifier corresponding to a product, identify one or more display units to update in response to determining the product identifier corresponding to the product, and update a graphical output of the one or more display units identified to be updated in response to identifying the one or more display units to update.

Abstract: A system and method for presenting product-specific content on a client device, such as a smart cellphone, tablet, or laptop computer, based on a scanned DataMatrix barcode. A DataMatrix barcode is read by an optical scanner attached to the client device and an application recognizes and parses the data encoded in the DataMatrix barcode to obtain a unique alphanumeric identifier. The unique identifier is transmitted to a digital content server via a data communications network and used by the digital content server to retrieve product-specific content created and maintained on the digital content server by a content management system. The product-specific content, if found on the server, is transmitted to the client device and presented on an output device in accordance with a predefined presentation template.

Abstract: A system comprising a processor is programmed to receive vehicle data from a plurality of vehicles, user data of customers and user data of promoters who are offering his vehicle for test drive. The system allows the customers to find vehicles available for test drive based on a search query generated using the user data that includes the customer's driving profile. The test drive vehicles matching the search query is identified based on the vehicle data of the vehicles, in which at least some of the usage profile of the vehicle is originated from the vehicle computer, telematics system or sensors provided in the vehicle. The promoters availing his own vehicle for test drive by customers are rewarded upon verification of a successful completion of a test drive event.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system (100) and a method (1000) for generating and presenting on-demand detailing content (120) with communication interface (128) about a product or service (102). The invention facilitates a plurality of first set of users (106) to scan a product or service recognition code (140) and to obtain on-demand detailing content (120) about particular product or service (102) created by second set of users (110) using authoring module (112) and configured the communication user interface (122) to facilitate real-time communication between first set of users (106) and plurality of third set of users (132) over a live video and/or audio call or text.

Abstract: Product recommendations are provided to a target user that take into account the style, interests, and hobbies of the target user and a desire by the target user to be unique from the target user's social group. In some aspects, a list of recommended products may be generated for the target user based on data about the target user's purchasing habits, social media interactions, or any other data. A list of products associated with users in the target user's social group may also be generated, for example, based on products purchased, currently worn by, or previously worn by the users in the target user's social group. A uniqueness-aware list of recommended products may then be generated from the list of recommended products by removing any products found in both the list of recommended products and the list of products associated with users in the target user's social group.

Abstract: Included is a method for providing a customized product recommendation to a user. Images of people are collected from a database. A neural network is used to evaluate the images to identify a consumer trend. Information is collected from the user to determine if the user's style or desired style falls within the consumer trend. A product for the user is selected from at least two available products whose style falls within the consumer trend. The selected product is recommended to the user.

Abstract: Included is a method for providing a customized product recommendation to a user. Images of people are collected from a database. A neural network is used to evaluate the images to identify a hair trend. Information is collected from the user to determine if the user's hair style falls within the hair trend. A product for the user is selected from at least two available products whose hair style falls within the hair trend. The selected product is recommended to the user.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to facilitate implementation of an interface and one or more sensors, and, more specifically, to one or more sensors that implements specialized logic to facilitate in-situ monitoring of inventories of consumables and automatic reordering of a consumable. In some examples, a method may include receiving sensor data representing usage of a device configured to process a consumable, characterizing the usage to form a characterized value, correlating data representing a unit of the consumable processed via the device to a characterized value of the usage, adjusting an amount representing an inventory of the consumable, detecting an amount of the inventory of the consumable is associated with one or more ranges of threshold values, and generating data representing a request to replenish the inventory of the consumable.

Abstract: In one aspect, a computerized method for assisting a user in a real-life shopping situations includes the step of receiving an extracted a list of shopping intents in a computer with a memory. With at least one processor of the computer implementing the following steps are implemented. The process extracts the list of shopping intents from the memory. The process hierarchically organizes the list of shopping intents. The process maps a shopping intent to one or more products using a set of web-scale unstructured data. The process receives a product search query. The process parses the product search query The process matches the product search query with at least one shopping intent. The process uses a matched product search query and at least one shopping intent to obtain a set of products to return as a search result.