A visual tracking system for tracking and identifying persons within a monitored location, comprising a plurality of cameras and a visual processing unit, each camera produces a sequence of video frames depicting one or more of the persons, the visual processing unit is adapted to maintain a coherent track identity for each person across the plurality of cameras using a combination of motion data and visual featurization data, and further determine demographic data and sentiment data using the visual featurization data, the visual tracking system further having a recommendation module adapted to identify a customer need for each person using the sentiment data of the person in addition to context data, and generate an action recommendation for addressing the customer need, the visual tracking system is operably connected to a customer-oriented device configured to perform a customer-oriented action in accordance with the action recommendation.

A method and system for managing, in real time and over time includes an electronic device with at least a processor, a memory and a display coupled to the processor and at least one network connection and an interactive management tool coupled to the electronic device. The interactive management tool includes features for managing captured leads such as Email Alerts, Exporting, Labels, Syncing, Value, and Mobility. Also provided is a method for utilizing the system to capture leads and to interactively manage the same. Further provided herein is a non-transitory machine-readable storage device comprising processor-executable instructions to perform the method.

A method and system for managing, in real time and over time includes an electronic device with at least a processor, a memory and a display coupled to the processor and at least one network connection and an interactive management tool coupled to the electronic device. The interactive management tool includes features for managing captured leads such as Email Alerts, Exporting, Labels, Syncing, Value, and Mobility. Also provided is a method for utilizing the system to capture leads and to interactively manage the same. Further provided herein is a non-transitory machine-readable storage device comprising processor-executable instructions to perform the method.

The present invention provides systems and methods for processing return transactions over a network. An embodiment of the invention discloses an online return application that generates an electronic return shipping label that can be delivered to a browser of a customer that wishes to make a return. Also, disclosed is the creation and transmission of label delivery links, which provide for dynamic generation and delivery of shipping labels.

A method includes receiving, by a computing device of a media service provider, a search request associated with a first product. The search request is received from a media device associated with a subscriber of a service provided by the media service provider. The method includes, in response to the search request, determining, by the computing device, a responsible party associated with the first product based on a purchase date of the first product and a return period for the first product. The method also includes sending, from the computing device to the media device, contact information of the responsible party. The contact information is to be displayed by the media device to a display device with an option to contact the responsible party.

A method including receiving, at multiple cloud computing servers, multiple streaming data sets for the same sensing task each from a respective client device. The streaming data set from each client device comprises sensed data sensed by one or more sensors of said client device. The streaming data sets are encrypted. Each respective streaming data set from a respective client device is divided into multiple streaming data set portions, each to be received at a respective one of the cloud computing server. The method also includes processing, at each respective cloud computing server, the corresponding streaming data set portions received to generate a corresponding share of a result for the sensing task. The method also includes encrypting, at each respective one of the cloud computing servers, the corresponding share of the result; and facilitating creation or update of a blockchain based on the encrypted shares of the result.

A computer-aided design system enables physical articles to be customized via printing or embroidering and enables digital content to be customized and electronically shared. A user interface may be generated that includes an image of a model of an article of manufacture and user customizable design areas that are graphically indicated on the image corresponding to the model. A design area selection may be received. In response to an add design element instruction and design element specification, the specified design element is rendered in the selected design area on the model image. Customization permissions associated with the selected design area are accessed, and using the customization permissions, a first set of design element edit tools are selected and rendered. User edits to the design element may be received and rendered in real time. Manufacturing instructions may be transmitted to a printing system.

A management server is configured to perform a process including: a step of obtaining a utilization history of each user in the previous month when a condition for performing a dividing ratio setting process is satisfied; a step of updating a utilization record evaluation; a step of calculating a first dividing ratio; a step of updating a driving record evaluation; a step of calculating a second dividing ratio; and a step of setting a dividing ratio.

Theft increases the average product cost to consumers. A mentoring system is presented that can help to reduce or prevent the inventory from lost or theft. Theft is a serious concern in the consumer market place. Industry loses billions per year on theft of merchandise. According to a Reuters report, last year, thefts by employees of U.S. retail merchandise accounted for $15.9 billion, or 44 percent of theft losses at stores, more than shoplifting and vendor fraud combined. Thus, the total thief by the customers and store employees during the year 2008 amounted to $36 billion. Several embodiments of ways to control or reduce the thefts in the market place are presented.

Theft increases the average product cost to consumers. A mentoring system is presented that can help to reduce or prevent the inventory from lost or theft. Theft is a serious concern in the consumer market place. Industry loses billions per year on theft of merchandise. According to a Reuters report, last year, thefts by employees of U.S. retail merchandise accounted for $15.9 billion, or 44 percent of theft losses at stores, more than shoplifting and vendor fraud combined. Thus, the total thief by the customers and store employees during the year 2008 amounted to $36 billion. Several embodiments of ways to control or reduce the thefts in the market place are presented.