A cloud-based system for use by retail store employees or customers at any location to facilitate the sale of automotive tires to consumers is provided. The system accesses multiple independent tire inventory systems from different distributors/manufacturers and provides a personalized set of recommendation tire options and accompanying TPMS service packs.

The present application discloses an automated restaurant comprising: a kitchen; a customer-tracking area comprising a dining area; and a plurality of vehicles. The kitchen comprises a storage apparatus to store ingredient containers, a transfer apparatus to move ingredient containers, and one or more cooking stations. Each vehicle is configured to move one or more food containers from cooking stations to dining tables. A tracking system comprises cameras, lidars, etc., which are fixedly mounted. The tracking system can dynamically map out the fixtures, humans and vehicles in the restaurant. Information from the tracking system is used to control the motion of the vehicles. The tracking system can dynamically track the positions of customers in the customer-tracking area, so that foods ordered by specific customers may be automatically sent by vehicles to the customers' locations.

A device, system and method for mode-based synchronization of data records is provided. Booking data is received, at one or more computing devices, from one of a first and second client device. When received from the first client device, in a first order mode for the booking data, the device(s): cause an order management system (OMS) to generate: order data at a first database; and cause a legacy system to generate a corresponding passenger name record (PNR) at a second database, the corresponding PNR being slaved to the order data. When received from the second client device, in a legacy mode for the booking data, the device(s): cause the legacy system to generate, a PNR and/or ticket data at the second database; and cause the OMS to generate corresponding order data at the first database, the corresponding order data being slaved to the PNR and/or the ticket data.

Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure allow a customer or payor to select from a plurality of nearby vendors or payees when a computing device of the payor is physically close to electronic devices of the payees. Payee devices and locations of those payee devices may be identified and displayed on a display of a payor device. Once displayed, a specific payee device may be selected by the customer and an order for a product or service may be sent to the selected payee device from the payor device. After the product or service has been provided to the customer, information that confirms that purchase may be sent to any of the selected payee device, the payor device, or a payment processing computer and funds to pay for the product or service may be deposited into an account of the payee based on the confirmation.

A computer-readable medium storing contents configured to cause a computing device to obtain image data describing a subject, measure the subject based on the obtained image data to obtain one or more spatial dimensions, and access data describing a wearable item based on the spatial dimensions of the subject.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for achieving privacy for both data and an algorithm that operates on the data. A system can involve receiving an algorithm from an algorithm provider and receiving data from a data provider, dividing the algorithm into a first algorithm subset and a second algorithm subset and dividing the data into a first data subset and a second data subset, sending the first algorithm subset and the first data subset to the algorithm provider and sending the second algorithm subset and the second data subset to the data provider, receiving a first partial result from the algorithm provider based on the first algorithm subset and first data subset and receiving a second partial result from the data provider based on the second algorithm subset and the second data subset, and determining a combined result based on the first partial result and the second partial result.

A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for receiving a complex task; processing the complex task to define a plurality of discrete tasks each having a discrete goal; executing the plurality of discrete tasks on a plurality of machine-accessible public computing platforms; determining if any of the plurality of discrete tasks failed to achieve its discrete goal; and if a specific discrete task failed to achieve its discrete goal, defining a substitute discrete task having a substitute discrete goal.

A cloud-based cyber shopping mall system is provided. The cloud-based cyber shopping mall system includes a cloud-based server module, a scene movement module, a product introduction module, a customer service module, a shopping cart module, a style change module, and an exhibition area switching module. The cloud-based server module includes a cloud-based database and a cloud-based shopping mall webpage. Through the scene movement module, the product introduction module, the customer service module, and the shopping cart module, a user can click on related options adjacent to any product viewed on the cloud-based shopping mall webpage to view an introduction of the product, contact the customer service, and place an order. Through the style change module, the user can change a style of a three-dimensional product model on the cloud-based shopping mall webpage.

An information processing system includes a first server, a second server connected to the first server, and a control apparatus connected to the second server and configured to control one or more devices. The first server includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive data about the one or more devices from a terminal connected to the first server; and a creating unit configured to create first data for the second server and second data for the control apparatus, from the received data about the one or more devices. The second server includes: a registration unit configured to save the first data in a storage unit; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the second data to the control apparatus.

A transformer categorization architecture is applied to image and text data sets to determine a taxonomy for items in a large database of products. Aggregating recommendations from a multi-modal categorization process achieves a more accurate product classification with potentially less training. The system is implemented to support an e-commerce portal and user facilitated access to products for online purchases.