The present invention provides a system and method that enables users, such as institutional investors and financial institutions, to interactively engage in capital market transactions, including the trading of Over-the-Counter financial products, via the Internet (including the World Wide Web). The system includes a variety of servers, applications, and interfaces that enable users to interactively communicate and trade financial instruments among one another. Interactive communications supported by the system include: requesting price quotes, monitoring and reviewing quote requests, issuing price quotes, monitoring and reviewing price quotes, negotiation between users, acceptance of price quotes, reporting, portfolio management, analysis of financial information and market data, and communications among users via an automated processor. Such automated communications enable connectivity with users' internal, back-end systems to execute automated, straight-through processing, including transaction pricing, payment scheduling and journaling, derivatives trading, trade confirmation, and trade settlement.

A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a lending system for use with electronic commerce web sites such as auction sites. A seller may receive a cash loan for items placed for sale but not yet purchased by a buyer. The seller can be required to pay back the loan after a predetermined amount of time or as soon as the item for sale is sold and payment is received from the buyer. The lender would charge interest or commission for the loan. In this manner, sellers can receive cash for items listed on auction sites before those items are actually sold, generating additional cash flow for the seller.

Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems that interact with users so as to provide for social networking and/or other services. In certain exemplary embodiments, an entertainment system is configured to provide jukebox-related and entertainment system mediated services that are accessible from within and from the outside of the location, coordinating social networking services among and between patrons within and outside of the location and also providing for advertisement opportunities. In certain exemplary embodiments, the entertainment system within a location may serve as and/or be connected to a jukebox. The entertainment system within the location may be connected to one or more client devices, one or more displays, one or more bar-top or hand-held gaming devices, etc., in certain exemplary embodiments. The jukebox-related and entertainment system mediated services may provide mechanisms for enhancing patrons' experiences, creating a sense of ownership and/or belongingness to a connected community of entertainment system users.

Merchandise content is aggregated from numerous merchant sources and presented on computing devices of individual users. Users are able to purchase select individual merchandise items by performing a simplified action, such as a screen tap on a touchscreen device. When the user performs the action, a series of actions are performed programmatically and/or automatically on behalf of the user to initiate and complete the transaction for the selected merchandise item from the merchant source.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating, via an interactive display platform, a sales transaction conducted in real time between a consultant associated with a consultant device and a customer associated with a customer device. Independent user interaction control capabilities are assigned to the consultant device and the customer device for controlling the sharing of information, the identification of selections pertaining to the shared information and the population of a virtual shopping cart based on the selections, and/or for interacting with the shared information, selections and populated virtual shopping cart. The disclosed methods and apparatus can facilitate a sales transaction involving any type of product and/or service, including the sale of a report containing product data.

A secured virtual container is enabled to securely store personal data corresponding to a user, where such data is inaccessible to processes running outside the secured virtual container. The secured virtual container may also include an execution environment for a machine learning model where the model is securely stored and inaccessible. Personal data may be feature engineered and provided to the machine learning model for training purposes and/or to generate inference values corresponding to the user data. Inference values may thereafter be relayed by a broker application from the secured virtual container to applications external to the container. Applications may perform hyper-personalization operations based at least in part on received inference values. The broker application may enable external applications to subscribe to notifications regarding availability of inference values. The broker may also provide inference values in response to a query.

An example apparatus includes an account information circuit structured to interpret identifying information for a seller blockchain account and for each one of at least one buyer blockchain account, the identifying information for each one of the at least one buyer blockchain account including an attribute interest value. An apparatus further includes an asset attribute circuit structured to interpret an asset attribute value for an asset associated with the seller blockchain account. An apparatus further includes a buyer interest circuit structured to determine a buyer interest value for each one of the at least one buyer blockchain account in response to each corresponding attribute interest value and the asset attribute value. An apparatus includes a buyer identification execution circuit structured to perform a buyer identification operation in response to the buyer interest value.

A system and method for mapping product locations that can include: receiving, through a digital delivery ordering service, a plurality of orders, wherein each order includes a product list of products for delivery from a retail environment; assigning each of the plurality of orders to a user account of a plurality of user accounts for fulfillment of the orders; building a location dataset associating location data points and products, comprising for each order: determining an order to be undergoing fulfillment in association with a mobile computing device linked with the user account of the order, during fulfillment of the order, collecting location data points for products of the product list using input from the mobile computing device; and processing the location dataset for associations between the location data points and products and thereby determining an updated product location map.

A process and method for generation of 3D interactive rendition of space by first digitizing the space as a TXLD file from point clouds, 2-D floor plans, photographs and/or videos, and/or elevation views then processing the file to create 3D interactive renditions of the space using virtual reality, augmented reality, or mixed reality technologies, constantly growing and evolving 3D library of digital representations of both fixtures and non-fixtures based on real products, automating and personalizing product selection and placement for a given user and target environment, using an ensemble recommendation system, which relies on weighted averages of probabilistic, content-based, clustering, and collaborative filtering models, among other suitable models that may be added to the ensemble in the future. If a medium does not necessitate 3D model creation of the environment the products are automatically placed in the medium view based on the encoded position in the TXLD file.

Systems and methods are described for managing articles. The systems and methods described herein may comprise an example method for manufacturing an article. The systems and methods provides an end-to-end manufacturing value chain as a closed system and feedback loop.