Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a merchant-customer engagement system include a physical merchant location in which a customer may be tracked to determine products within the physical merchant location that the customer is interested in. A merchant may use a wearable merchant device that is configured to identify the customer via a camera that captures an image of the customer, and that image may be used to retrieve customer account information for that customer. Using the customer account information and the products that the customer is showing interest in, the wearable merchant device may be used to display merchant-customer engagement information next to a view of the customer to allow the merchant to help the customer while utilizing a variety of displayed information about the customer including, for example, past purchases, products browsed in-store and previously browsed online, time spent in an area of the physical merchant location, etc.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for identifying and validating the routes and characteristics of roads unknown to a road mapping database. The systems and methods may combine feature recognition analysis of aerial images with other information sources such as location tracking information from a mobile device or client in order to improve the accuracy of road information stored within a road mapping database. The systems and methods may also facilitate the collection of additional information regarding the characteristics of the identified roads from a client device or user thereof.

Abstract: A customer information registration apparatus includes: a matching unit configured to match face data of a customer based on image data acquired by a camera in a shop against face data stored in a storage unit; a storing unit configured to store face data which is not stored in the storage unit into the storage unit in a case where the matching by the matching unit fails; a behavior information acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior information according to a behavior in the shop of the customer; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether or not to delete the face data stored in the storage unit based on the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquisition unit; and a deletion unit configured to delete the face data stored in the storage unit based on a result of the determination by the condition determination unit are provided.

Abstract: In an approach for identifying a user's interest in a media object and one or more personalities and presenting the user with a visual of how the media object looks on a particular personality, a processor receives a request to determine suitability of the media object for the user. A processor presents the media object to a multilabel classifier to be matched to a set of profile data of the user and a set of data of one or more personalities. A processor receives an output instruction from the multilabel classifier to combine the media object with a particular personality of the one or more personalities. A processor generates a combined media object of the media object with the particular personality using a generative adversarial neural network. A processor inserts the combined media object into an advertising template to generate an advertisement. A processor presents the advertisement to the user.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are described herein for determining a location from anonymous data. For example, a computing device may receive anonymous data associated with a browser session initialized by a user via a browser on a user computing device. The computing device may determine that the user has not been assigned a unique identifier. The computing device may determine whether the user opted-in to location tracking. If the user opted-out of location tracking, the computing device may determine a latitude coordinate and a longitude coordinate of the user computing device during the browser session. The computing device may identify a physical address for the user based on the latitude coordinate and the longitude coordinate, for example, using a map application programming interface (API). The computing device may assign the unique identifier to the user. The computing device may associate the unique identifier to the physical address.

Abstract: Efficient uniques querying is disclosed, including: receiving a search query for a number of unique audience members across a plurality of groups of audience members; obtaining a plurality of sets of representations corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of groups of audience members; selecting at least a subset from each of the plurality of sets of representations; merging the selected at least subsets of the plurality of sets of representations into a merged set of representations; determining the number of unique audience members across the plurality of groups of audience members based at least in part on the merged set of representations; and outputting the number of unique audience members across the plurality of groups of audience members.

Abstract: A message providing device includes a processor that is programmed to act as: an entry unit that causes a software robot application that exchanges a message with a user, to enter a messaging service in which a message is exchanged between users; an execution controller that performs a control in accordance with the message from the user so that a specific process is executed by the software robot application; and a leaving controller that causes the software robot application to leave the messaging service after the specific process is executed.

Abstract: Methods and systems for a media guidance application that provides advanced parental control features such as allowing parents to establish parental controls in a dynamic and individualized manner and allowing parents to track and/or limit the amount of time that a child views media content of a particular type.

Abstract: A process of ranking internet-of-things (IoT) data based on IoT analytics services. In operation, the IoT gateway receives IoT data captured by an IoT device and transmits the IoT data to IoT analytics servers each providing a different IoT analytics service. The IoT gateway receives acknowledgments including data rankings from IoT analytics servers. Each of the acknowledgments include a respective one of the data rankings indicating an importance of the IoT data as an input to the IoT analytics service provided by a respective one of the IoT analytics servers. The IoT gateway assigns an aggregated data ranking to the IoT data based on the data rankings included in the acknowledgments received from the IoT analytics servers. The IoT gateway then transmits, to the IoT device, an electronic notification including the aggregated data ranking assigned to the IoT data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus may be provided for signaling an auxiliary media stream during a main media stream using a MSE buffer including one or more main media segments being appended to a MSE source buffer based on one or more respective main time stamp offset and one or more auxiliary media segments being appended to the MSE source buffer based on one or more auxiliary period attributes associated with the one or more auxiliary media segments. An auxiliary period attribute may be a period type element comprising a start time attribute indicating a first time offset at which a main media segment among the one or more main media segments may be stopped during a preroll or midroll insertion to play an auxiliary media segment among the one or more auxiliary media segments. The media segments and auxiliary media segments may be dispatched.

Abstract: To promote a merchant's products on a social networking system, a promotion engine receives data from a merchant site regarding the merchant site's users' activities. The users' purchases of a promoted product are correlated with the user's activities performed in connection with a related product. An automated process running on a computer system then determines promotion criteria for the promoted product, based at least in part on the activities performed in connection with the related product. A promotion for the promoted product is generated and communicated to a social networking system, which displays the promotion to one or more users of the social networking system based on the determined promotion criteria.

Abstract: Systems, devices, media, instructions, and methods are provided for presentation of media collections with automated interactive advertising. In one embodiment, a client device receives content elements for display as part of a content collection. Advertising data is also received for display between selected content elements. Interaction elements are merged with the create an advertising element. During display of the advertising data, the interaction elements are presented on the client device output, and are controllable via user inputs. In various embodiments, interaction data recorded at the device is used to manage the presentation of future advertising data.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for automated testing of templates of a mobile message. One method includes generating at least a first template of the mobile message and a second template of the mobile message, each of the first template and the second template having at least a different content or a different send time, assigning a respective group of mobile message recipients to the first template of the mobile message and the second template of the mobile message, determining automatically whether the first template of the mobile message has a statistical advantage over the second template of the mobile message through testing, and sending the mobile message of the first template to a remainder of the planned mobile message recipients when the first template of the mobile message is determined to have the statistical advantage over the second template of the mobile message.

Abstract: A method for managing a client environment includes monitoring, by an upgrade management agent, the client environment for an application abstention by a plurality of client devices of the client environment, in response to the monitoring, obtaining device configuration information corresponding to each of the plurality of client devices, performing a text pre-processing on the device configuration information to obtain pre-processed information, applying a relational analysis to the pre-processed information to obtain a normalized context reference for application abstention corresponding to the plurality of client devices, and performing a clustering algorithm on the normalized context reference to generate a processed client intent dataset.

Abstract: A method for authentication of chat bots includes determining that a first chat bot is authenticated, by a server, for first session communication at a first chat session with a first chat application instance. The first chat session is hosted by a first chat service. The method includes determining authentication intent to authenticate, with the server, a second chat bot for a second session communication at a second chat session with a second chat application instance. The second chat session is hosted by a second chat service, where the first chat bot and the second chat bot simulate respective chat application instances. The method also includes providing authentication credentials, via the first chat session, to authenticate the second chat bot with the server for the second session communication.

Abstract: A purchase information utilization system according to the present invention includes a system provided with a reception unit that receives purchase information including identification information capable of identifying a product and support information which supports that the product is purchased from a terminal device of a consumer, a purchase information storage unit that stores the purchase information received by the reception unit, and a determination unit that determines whether or not the consumer has purchased the product using the support information included in the purchase information received by the reception unit.

Abstract: A photo design smart assistant system for reducing similar photos for display and product design includes a similarity distance computation module that can calculate hash values of images and to calculate similarity distances between the images using at least the hash values, a burst grouping module that can automatically group the images into a burst based at least in part on the similarity distances of the images, wherein at least one image is automatically selected from the burst of images, an intelligent design creation engine that can automatically create a photo product design using the selected image from the burst, and a printing and finishing facility that can automatically make a physical photo product based on the photo product design.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource.

Abstract: Systems and methods for natural language processing policies are disclosed. For example, content such as a response to a user command and/or user input such as a customer review, may be analyzed to determine if the content deviates from one or more content policies and to determine a severity of the content-policy deviation(s). A system may determine a number of content-policy deviations associated with the content and whether the content includes an indicator of a person, such as a pronoun and/or a proper noun. Content that includes multiple content-policy deviations and/or than includes an indicator of a person may be determined to be more severe than other deviated content. Applications associated with deviated content may be ranked and corrective action may be taken based on the ranking.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method, a system, and an apparatus are presented for mediating ambiance outputs among a plurality of users located in a common area. In some implementations, said ambiance outputs can be adaptive or interactive shared digital works. In other implementations, said ambiance outputs can be shared mediated augmented reality. In other implementations, said ambiance outputs can be the result of hierarchical schemes and algorithms. In another embodiment a method, system, and apparatus is presented for extracting and/or storing previously tagged items from a digital work.

Abstract: A method for finding a best solution to a problem is provided. The method includes evolving candidate individuals in a candidate pool by testing each candidate individual of the candidate individuals to obtain test results, assigning a performance measure to each of the tested candidate individuals in dependence upon the test results, discarding candidate individuals from the candidate pool in dependence upon their assigned performance measure, and adding, to the candidate pool, a new candidate individual procreated from parent candidate individuals remaining in the candidate pool, and repeating the evolution steps to evolve the candidate individuals in the candidate pool.

Abstract: Examples described herein involve switching between two user accounts of a streaming media service. In an example implementation, a playback device stores data representing credentials for multiple user accounts including a first user account of a first streaming audio service and a second user account of the first streaming audio service. The playback device receives instructions to play first audio content from the first streaming audio service and plays back the first audio content by streaming data representing the first audio content from one or more servers of the first streaming audio service using credentials of the first user account. The playback device detects a trigger associated with the first user account of the first streaming audio service and switches from streaming data representing the first audio content using credentials of the first user account to streaming data representing the first audio content using credentials of the second user account.

Abstract: Technologies for a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system including a plurality of IoT devices are disclosed. An example first Internet of Things (IoT) device includes at least one processor to execute instructions to access a first message transmitted by a second IoT device, the first IoT device and second IoT device communicatively coupled via a direct communication, identify that the first message is indicative of an administrative event, the administrative event associated with a function of one or more of the first IoT device or the second IoT device, update a status of a system of IoT devices based on the administrative event, the system of IoT devices including the first IoT device and the second IoT device, and send a second message indicative of the administrative event to a universal bus.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are provided for demographic matching and content selection for unidentified audiences. A method may include receiving, by a first device of a first device type, a request to present first content to a user of a first audience using a second device; determining a time at which the first content is to be presented to the first audience using the second device; identifying a second audience to which the second content is to be presented using devices of the first device type during a time period that includes the time; determining a probability that the user belongs to an audience group that includes users of the second audience based on the second content, the time period, and a second device type of the second device; and causing selection of the first content or third content for presentation to the first audience.

Abstract: A device may determine that a user has a threshold level of interest in a type of product. The device may receive an image of a face of the user, may perform a facial recognition analysis of the image, and may determine identification information of the user based on the facial recognition analysis. The device may identify account information associated with the user based on the identification information and may identify a product in an inventory that is associated with the type of product. The device may perform a preauthorization process associated with a transaction involving the product and the user based on the account information, and may perform an action associated with the transaction based on the preauthorization process.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described to a database comprising multiple database records, where each database record comprises an attribute of a content item consumed by a user and an indication of a user device used by the user to consume the content item, and is associated with an indication of whether a content provider should be granted access to the respective database record. An option to modify whether or not the content provider should be granted access to the respective database record is provided for each database record of the database records, and each database record that is associated with an indication that the content provider should be granted access is transmitted to the content provider, to enable the content provider to generate and transmit a content recommendation based on at least one of the database records transmitted to the content provider.

Abstract: An embodiment for generating an electronic coupon based on user preferences is provided. The embodiment may include receiving real-time and historical data relating to one or more reward coupons. The embodiment may also include identifying a contextual situation of the user and one or more preferences of the user regarding a coupon reward type. The embodiment may further include identifying one or more vendors that match with the one or more preferences of the user. The embodiment may also include generating one or more electronic coupons and presenting the one or more generated electronic coupons to the user. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the one or more generated electronic coupons match at least one preference of the user, adding the one or more generated electronic coupons that match the at least one preference of the user to an account of the user.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information sending method, apparatus, system and a computer readable storage medium, and pertains to the technical field of computers. The method in the present disclosure includes: analyzing video data of an offline user to determine an attribute of the offline user; searching for historical access information of at least one online user matching the attribute of the offline user; and determining at least one object recommended to the offline user according to the historical access information of each of the at least one online user, and sending information of the at least one object to the offline user.

Abstract: A distributed device rating system includes a device that is configured to send, to a central authority system, a query to identify at least one other device with which to perform a transaction, where the query specifies one or more criteria associated with the transaction, receive, from the central authority system, an identification of one or more candidate devices with which to perform the transaction, receive rating information associated with the one or more candidate devices, where the rating information identifies at least one characteristic of services previously performed by the one or more candidate devices, determine whether the rating information associated with at least one candidate device of the one or more candidate devices satisfies a rating threshold, and, responsive to determining that the rating information satisfies the rating threshold, initiate, with the at least one candidate device, performance of the transaction.

Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating interactions with embedded devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include obtaining a first set of data indicative of at least a plurality of interactions between a user device and a plurality of embedded devices associated with a building, and one or more locations of the user device associated with each respective interaction. The method can include generating a second set of data for each embedded device based, at least in part, on the first set of data. Each second set of data can be indicative of at least a number of interactions between the user device and the respective embedded device for each location. The method can include determining a particular location of the user device. The method can include identifying one or more recommended embedded devices and providing information about at least one recommended embedded device to the user device.

Abstract: An information search and display system searches for information in an organization and displaying it on a screen. The system includes a storage part storing correlation information showing correlation among information units including personnel and files in an organization and feature information showing features of the information units; a selecting part selecting information units with relevance to a search term based on the feature information if the search term is input; a correlation acquiring part acquiring a degree of correlation among the selected information units based on the correlation information; a generating part generating display data for displaying icons corresponding to the selected information units and connecting lines connecting these icons; and an output part outputting the generated display data. The generating part generates display data so that a display mode of a connecting line changes according to the degree of correlation.

Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile service information display method, a mobile service information server and system, which can avoid a waste of resources of the mobile service information system. The method includes: determining mobile service information according to obtained location information of a mobile terminal at a current moment and obtained location information of the mobile terminal within preset duration prior to the current moment; and sending the determined mobile service information to the mobile terminal for display.

Abstract: Among other things, a central server maintains information representative of requests communicated through the Internet from devices at request locations. Each of the requests represents a proposed reservation for services to be managed by devices at delivery locations.

Abstract: An automated method for managing, delivering and tracking dynamic content. The method includes processing customer data related to one or more customers, managing and selecting textual and graphical dynamic content to specify delivery to targeted subsets of customers as a function of business rules, and delivering that content to targeted subsets of customers via one or more appropriate customer touchpoints. A portion or location within the customer touchpoint is identified as a dynamic destination area for receipt of the selected content, which then contains that content qualified for delivery to the targeted subset of customers via the customer touchpoint dynamic destination area through execution of targeting business rules. The qualification, delivery and responses to the delivered content are tracked for each customer, across each touchpoint, and targeting rules are refined and updated to encompass past qualification, delivery, and responses.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for improving data migration operations including testing and setup of computing environments. In one example, the method may include receiving data for one or more application programming interfaces (APIs). The method may further include generating one or more tests to test the one or more APIs in a first computing environment, testing the APIs, storing the results in a database, and performing a change data capture operation. The method may further include augmenting the one or more tests with the CDC data to generate an updated test. The method may further include testing, using the updated test, a second set of the one or more APIs and comparing the test results. The method may also include outputting a confidence score indicating a correlation between the first environment and the second environment.

Abstract: Systems and methods include a database maintained by a financial institution that stores transaction data associated with a previous financial transaction performed via a financial account of a respective account holder, wherein the transaction data comprises a transaction location and a transaction timestamp, a spend memory processor of the financial institution that retrieves the transaction data from the database, interacts with a social linking application programming interface (API) to receive, via a network, social data from a social networking site, wherein the social data comprises a social location and a social timestamp, compares the social data to the transaction data, and creates a spend memory record based on one or more similarities between the social data and the transaction data, and a communication interface of the financial institution that provides the spend memory record to a mobile device associated with the account holder.

Abstract: The methods and systems described herein improve upon existing deep linking concepts, by creating links directed to a feature registry which may then serve the user's need of selecting and accessing a given feature. The feature registry may provide customized features that may populate a feature template in a user interface (e.g., of a feature registry application) on a local device. This population may occur in both a real-time (e.g., based on a continuously updated machine learning model) and modular fashion. For example, the system and methods may generate customized content on a website or mobile application through a hyperlink by filtering available features on a feature registry based on the identity of the user, the information from the user profile, and the description of the hyperlink content.

Abstract: Systems and related methods providing for dynamic message creation are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured receive generic configuration data that references work chunks for message generation and time data indicating a message send time. The work chunks may include references to message data, but not the actual message data. Based on the time data, the work chunks may be placed in a message queue. Circuitry may also be configured to retrieve a work chunk from the message queue and to generate one or more messages based on the retrieved work chunk. The references to message data in the work chunk may be used to retrieve the message data at the time of message generation.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate generally to efficient data encoding and transmission. An encoding system determines an encoding interval at which to encode different groups of related data in a data structure. The encoding interval for each group encoded together optimizes the amount of newly received information that is encoded and transmitted in a continuous, repeating loop.

Abstract: Embodiments of the systems described herein can implement one or more visitor tearing processes. Visitor tearing can include, among other things, one or more processes by which multiple visitors that may appear to be the same visitor may be separated into different visitor profiles due to the leveraging of one or more unique persistent identifiers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a new approach for client-side contextual engagement with a website visitor. A browser loads a page containing a reference to a script file implementing a visitor client. The visitor client may store visitor client data including site rules and a visitor profile locally on the client device. The visitor client may include a context monitor for calling the decision engine, a decision engine for evaluating the site rules relative to a context defined at least partially by events occurring on the page and the visitor profile, and a widget manager for managing visitor client data persisted on the client device. The content monitor may call the decision engine when the context changes. The decision engine may determine, in real time and relative to the context, that proactive or reactive engagement(s) may be appropriate and call the widget manager to launch and display corresponding engagement channel(s) on the page.

Abstract: A structural analysis computing device may generate a proposed insurance claim and/or generate a proposed insurance quote for an object pictured in a three-dimensional (3D) image. The structural analysis computing device may be coupled to a drone configured to capture exterior images of the object. The structural analysis computing device may include a memory, a user interface, an object sensor configured to capture the 3D image, and a processor in communication with the memory and the object sensor. The processor may access the 3D image including the object, and analyze the 3D images to identify features of the object—such as by inputting the 3D image into a trained machine learning or pattern recognition program. The processor may generate a proposed claim form for a damaged object and/or a proposed quote for an uninsured object, and display the form to a user for their review and/or approval.

Abstract: A system and method for determining social media trending activity of content on the internet is disclosed. The method may include establishing source(s) of internet content, detecting measurements of social media activity for the content in the sources, aggregating the measurements, storing the aggregated measurements in a database over a range of time, calculating a rate of change of the aggregated measurements over the range of time, and comparing the calculated rate of change with the aggregated measurement to obtain a trending value for the content.

Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and a computer system determine and arrange images to include in a visual representation. The method includes receiving a textual statement and identifying a plurality of terms in the textual statement that are to be visualized in the visual representation. The method includes generating a plurality of sequences of images where each image in a given one of the sequences is associated with one of the terms. Each image is associated with at least one tag. The method includes determining a global coherence and a local coherence for each of the sequences based on the tags of the images. The method includes selecting one of the sequences based on the global coherence and the local coherence. The method includes generating the visual representation where the images of the selected sequence are included.

Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein include accessing a query requesting a metric associated with a number of unique members of an audience of media over an aggregate monitoring interval corresponding to a plurality of component monitoring intervals. Disclosed example methods also include determining respective aggregate interval probability distributions modeling likelihoods of respective monitored individuals being exposed to the media during the aggregate monitoring interval, a first one of the aggregate interval probability distributions for a first one of the monitored individuals being determined by combining parameters of respective component interval probability distributions modeling likelihoods of the first one of the monitored individuals being exposed to the media during respective ones of the component monitoring intervals.

Abstract: Provided is a system and method for providing a virtual space tour, the system including: a plurality of user terminals; and a server configured to provide a virtual space corresponding to a real indoor space to the plurality of user terminals, to receive a plurality of pieces of motion data from the user terminals, to generate a plurality of motion objects corresponding to the plurality of pieces of motion data, and to generate user's tour information based on the plurality of pieces of motion data, wherein the virtual space includes 360-degree images provided at a plurality of points in the real indoor space, and the plurality of user terminals configured to be independently operated in the virtual space at a same point or different points based on the virtual space and individually generate motion data in response to a user manipulation input.

Abstract: A system is provided for determining customer attrition risk. Data can be aggregated, and risk determined by machine learning methods such as random forest. Alternate scenarios can be simulated. Relative importance of customer attrition risk factors can be determined and ranked. Individualized recommendations can be issued to a customer based on the results of determining that customer's attrition risk.

Abstract: There is described an apparatus for providing a recommendation to a first user, wherein the apparatus comprises: a processor arranged to: determine, at a first time, a first set of vectors for a plurality of users, including a vector associated with the first user; determine a set of clusters based on the first set of vectors; detect, at a second time, an event associated with the first user; determine an updated vector for the first user in dependence on the event; place the first user into a cluster of the set of clusters based on the updated vector; and determine a recommended item of content for the first user in dependence on the cluster; and a user interface and/or communication interface arranged to: output the recommendation and/or the recommended item to the first user.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a machine-readable storage medium that includes executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system, facilitate performance of operations which include modifying advertising content at a display responsive to a person being determined to be in a first zone relative to the display, determining a presence of a communication device of the person, wherein the second zone is closer in range to the display than the first zone, transmitting a query to the communication device, receiving from the communication device the identifying characteristic of the person, obtaining an image of the person responsive to the person being determined to be in a third zone relative to the display, wherein the third zone is closer in range to the display than the first zone and the second zone, and obtaining modified content for the person based on the identifying characteristic.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that analyzes video data obtained from an image capture apparatus to detect an article that has been pre-registered is disclosed. The apparatus, in a case where an article that is determined to be a property of an article holder that has been pre-registered is detected, searches for an advertisement viewer located within a range of a predetermined distance from the article holder from among advertisement viewers that have registered the article as an article they are interested in. The apparatus then informs an advertisement viewer found by the search of location information of the article.