Aspects of the present invention relates to providing a system and methods for an advanced digital retail platform for personalized shopping. The system, particularly, relates to enabling wise decision making while shopping, combined with improved personal experience and advisory messaging. Accordingly, the digital retail platform comprising two sub-systems, a frontend sub-system and a backend sub-system, each operable independently and continuously to yield personalized shopping experience. Further, the digital retail platform controls the shopping flow and configured to continuously monitor and analyze consumer behavior thereby identify changes and enable updating the advisory messages and personal shopping preferences.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a user interest estimation system and an information delivery system capable of accurately estimating user's interest and eventually capable of delivering specific information such as advertisements while corresponding to the user. After having received photographic data related to a commodity or service transmitted via a network from a user's information terminal device 1, geographical or spatial context information related to a time and location included in the photographic data is acquired by referring to a context information database, object information pertaining to the commodity or service related to the time and location included in photographic data is obtained by referring to an object information database, and a user interest information is generated by associating the context information and the object information with each other.

This application discloses a communications control method and a communications terminal, so as to implement a change between a point-to-point chat and a group chat among multiple persons, and a user may set a chat identity of the user by using a character. The communications control method provided in this application includes: controlling, by a communications terminal, a first character to move on a character layer, and displaying, on a communications display interface of the communications terminal, different characters on the character layer with the movement of the first character, the first character being displayed on the communications display interface of the communications terminal, the character layer including: the first character and at least one character other than the first character, and the first character being a user object that represents a user when the user chats using the communications terminal; obtaining, by the communications terminal, chat content entered by the user into the communications terminal; and displaying, by the communications terminal, the chat content on the communications display interface as an identity of the first character.

The present disclosure discloses a lyrics page generation method and a lyrics page generation apparatus, belonging to the field of network technologies. The method includes: receiving a lyrics page generation instruction, the lyrics page generation instruction being used for instructing to display a lyrics page of a selected multimedia file list; obtaining a lyrics file of at least one multimedia file in the multimedia file list; and generating a lyrics page according to the lyrics file of the at least one multimedia file, the lyrics page including lyrics information of the at least one multimedia file. The present disclosure provides a brand-new lyrics display manner, which can achieve an effect similar to a lyrics book, so that a user can collect lyrics that the user likes, for subsequent appreciation, so that an application becomes more humanistic, and an amount of information that a lyrics page can provide is greatly increased.

Network node devices that may be embedded into luxury goods are described. These devices may allow luxury goods to offer access to a social networking system that is based upon ownership of luxury goods, and may also be used to verify the authenticity of the luxury goods. The devices may include an interface so that the device may communicate with other network node devices, including other products or a smartphone or other device, and a memory that stores a unique identifier of the brand or of the luxury good itself.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system associated with a first user, a request to access a user-card interface. The method includes generating, in response to the request, multiple user-cards, each user-card being associated with a pre-selected query. Each user-card includes references to second users matching the pre-selected query associated with the user-card. The method includes calculating a user-card score for each user-card. The user-card score represents a relevance of the pre-selected query to the first user and a relevance of the second users referenced in the user-card to the first user. The relevance of each second user referenced in the user-card is based on an affinity coefficient of the first user with respect to the second user. The method includes sending, to the client system, instructions for presenting the user-card interface with user-cards in ranked order based on the user-card score associated with each user-card.

A user is enabled to interact with a virtual world environment using an instant messenger application by enabling a user to enter the virtual world environment using the instant messenger application that includes an instant messaging (IM) user interface, generating and managing an avatar to represent the user in the virtual world environment, monitoring a sub-portion of the virtual world environment corresponding to a current location of the user in the virtual world environment, determining descriptions of activities taking place in the sub-portion of the virtual world environment based on the monitoring, and providing the user with the determined descriptions of activities taking place in the sub-portion of the virtual world environment via the IM user interface.

Disclosed in one example is a method of authenticating with multiple social network services. The method may include storing first authentication information associated with a user for a first social networking service using at least one computer processor, receiving second authentication information associated with the user for a second social networking service from a social networking application, and sending to the social networking application the first authentication information. The first authentication information may enable the social networking application to utilize a protected application programming interface call for the first social networking service and the second authentication information may enable the social networking application to utilize a protected application programming interface call for the second social networking service.

A system for managing and processing of a user message as initiated by a sender messaging device of a sending user to an addressed receiver messaging device of a receiving user and transmitted through a telecommunication network to a multimedia messaging system (MMS) implemented therein for transmitting the received user message from the sender messaging device to the receiver messaging device based on an receiver message device address, a first server receives and manages brand-related data and configuration data for processing the messages and a second server creates a modified user message having the brand-related data (BRD) message inserted with the user message and within the messaging format of the user message and responsive to a BRD message insertion rule defined by the BRD configuration data associated with the BRD message, and then transmitting the modified user message to the addressed receiver messaging device.

The disclosed apparatus, systems, and methods relate to a location query mechanism that can efficiently determine whether a target entity is located within a region of interest (ROI). At a high level, the location query mechanism can be configured to represent a ROI using one or more polygons. The location query mechanism can, in turn, divide (e.g., tessellate) the one or more polygons into sub-polygons. Subsequently, the location query mechanism can use the sub-polygons to build an index system that can efficiently determine whether a particular location is within any of the sub-polygons. Therefore, when a computing device queries whether a particular location is within the region of interest, the location query mechanism can use the index system to determine whether the particular location is within any of the sub-polygons.