A communication networking system and a method of email communication is described, wherein a solicitor sends a solicitor communication to an email list a selected contact organization from a plurality of contact organizations listed on the website of the communication networking system for a fee; wherein the plurality of email list recipients of the contact organization's email list is not divulged to the solicitor. This communication networking system enables solicitor organizations and individuals to have access to the email recipients of contact organization's email list for soliciting support, information, business promotions, educational information, announcement and the like. Each contact organization may have associated geographical information, medical condition information and the like stored on the communication networking system database. A contact organization may be charitable or non-profit organization and the communication networking system may be configured to help individuals and organizations that support those with ailments or medical conditions.

In accordance with an embodiment, an information processing apparatus acquires a rank of a visiting user and an amount according to the ranking. The information processing apparatus acquires a price at an own store of a commodity that the user has selected for purchase. The information processing apparatus acquires a price at another store of the commodity that the user has selected for purchase. In a case in which the price at the own store is higher than the price at the other store, the information processing apparatus adds an amount based on a difference in price therebetween to the amount according to the ranking, which is acquired by a first acquisition means.

A method and system for crediting a reward to an electronic wallet account, wherein an electronic wallet account is pre-established for a user who has a pre-authorized electronic device with an electronic wallet application module, a reward application module and an image processing application module. A table of identifiers associated with a reward is pre-established, and the identifier is encoded in an image to be shown on a product. A registration of the user as a participant in a campaign is pre-established. Identifier information contained in an image captured by the electronic device is received, and it is determined whether the identifier information is in the table of identifiers. The reward associated with the user's electronic wallet account is credited, the identifier is removed from the table of identifiers, and notification of the crediting of the reward is provided.

A gift redemption system may include a gift processing server configured to accept a gift value for a gift product for a gift recipient, and permit selection of a retailer from among retailers for the gift product. The gift processing server may also be configured to associate a gift recipient identifier with the gift recipient, and permit selection of a redeemable gift value from the gift value. The system may also include a retailer server associated with the selected retailer. The system may also include a gift redemption server configured to obtain the redeemable gift value and the gift recipient identifier, and cooperate with retailer server to generate a gift discount identifier for use by the gift recipient at a point-of-sale (POS) of the gift product based upon the redeemable gift value and the gift recipient identifier.

A controller of an information processing apparatus acquires, in a case in which a previous user of a vehicle has given consent to disclose history data for the vehicle, information indicating whether a current user of the vehicle has given consent to disclose the history data for the vehicle, and determines to grant the current user an incentive in a case in which it is determined, based on the acquired information, that the current user has given consent to disclose the history data for the vehicle.

Receiving, at a server, an identifier from a user to authorize fuel payment at a fuel station. Associating the identifier with a carrier, the carrier being entitled to a fuel discount at the fuel station. Authorizing the fuel station to provide fuel to the user with the fuel discount, which may be variable. The identifier may be received from a mobile application, a company credit card, a personal credit card, a virtual credit card, and/or an onboard electronic logging device (ELD). The authorizing of the fuel station to provide fuel to the user with the fuel discount may be limited by an amount and/or a type of fuel. A system is provided that includes a receiver module, and a server, and a transmitter module. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for operating a fuel discount sharing application is provided.

A method implemented on an electronic computing device includes receiving a request for an automated teller machine (ATM) transaction from an ATM. Authentication credentials are received of a customer of the ATM. The authentication credentials are associated with the request for the ATM transaction. A notification is received of a failure to execute the ATM transaction at the ATM. In response to the receiving a notification of the failure, a fee modification is issued to the customer of the ATM. The fee modification permits modification of a transaction fee associated with a subsequent ATM transaction at an alternative ATM.

The present disclosure belongs to the field of network technologies, and discloses a resource deduction method and apparatus, an intelligent terminal, and a deduction server. The method includes: sending a rule obtaining request for a deduction rule of a user-specified deduction item to the deduction server; receiving the deduction rule returned by the deduction server; calculating a second resource value that is obtained after applying the deduction rule to a first resource value associated with the user-specified deduction item; and sending a resource transfer request carrying the second resource value to the deduction server. The present disclosure resolves a problem that a merchant needs to manually calculate expense that is obtained after applying the deduction rule to the first resource, and payment efficiency is relatively low. Expense that is obtained after applying the deduction rule to the first resource is automatically calculated by using an intelligent terminal, and payment efficiency is improved.

A method, including: at a client terminal of a user of a social network platform: displaying a first network resource published by a first resource publisher; displaying a resource rewarding affordance in association with the first network resource or an identifier of the first resource publisher; detecting user selection of the resource rewarding affordance; and in accordance with a determination that the resource rewarding affordance has been selected while the resource rewarding affordance is displayed in association with the first network resource or the identifier of the first resource publisher, initiating a resource rewarding operation to reward the first resource publisher on the social network platform, wherein the resource rewarding operation transfers reward goods from a social network account of the user to a social network account of the first resource publisher on the social network platform.

Systems and methods for generating, administering and analyzing a user experience study are provided. In particular, intents can be generated from a user experience study by applying one or more screener questions to participants and subjecting the screened participants to one or more tasks. Corresponding clickstreams and success data for each participant engaging in the tasks can be recorded. The success and clickstream data can also be aggregated for all the screened participants as aggregated results. Video data including audio for each of the screened participants can also be recorded.