A control apparatus comprises: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating charging and discharging performance of an electric power device and environmental information on the electric power device; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a characteristic of operation of charging and discharging the electric power device; a correction unit configured to correct the information indicating the charging and discharging performance of the electric power device on the basis of the environmental information; and a control unit configured to control the operation of charging and discharging the electric power device according to a management plan, the management plan being based on the information indicating the charging and discharging performance corrected by the correction unit and the information indicating the characteristic of the operation of charging and discharging the electric power device.

A method and system for crediting a financial account of a user with an amount is provided. The amount is maintained in a lock mode for a set time period in the account. The crediting of the amount is based on a registration request received from the user. The user further provides the amount that the user wants to maintain in the account. Reward points are determined based on transaction history of a transaction card associated with the account and are blocked in the account based on the registration request. The reward points are settled as and when the user performs transactions in the set time period by way of the transaction card. The amount that is equivalent to the reward points is credited in the account of the user when the reward points are settled in the set time period.

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically generating acquisition IDs and using them to track and record how products are identified, offered, and sold, as well as how customers respond to particular variations of product offers. The acquisition ID can be associated with any product sale, transaction completion, or account creation initiated using or otherwise identifying or associated with the acquisition ID, where the connection to the acquisition ID can be maintained and retained with ongoing records associated with the interaction and created account, transaction, and/or product purchase. Using the stored information and the acquisition IDs, an organization can precisely determine what products were sold using which marketing tactic, campaign, or channel through which the transaction occurred and/or was initiated, among others.

Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to the merchant, requesting an acceptance of a membership status from the merchant, and receiving an indication of the payment for the first order.

Disclosed are systems and techniques for generating an electronic identity verification object for verifying the identity of a user. In one example, the systems and techniques can receive a current position of an electronic device associated with a user and a search request for filtering a plurality of locations. A list of available locations can be generated using the current position and the search request to determine a filtered subset of the plurality of locations. A selected location, from the list of available locations, can be received. An identity of the user can be verified to include or more user attributes. In response to verifying the identity of the user, a distance between the current position and the selected location can be determined. If the distance is below a threshold, an electronic identity verification object uniquely associated with a verified user attribute and the selected location can be generated.

The technology described herein is directed towards a system that provides a user propagated search platform. The system maintains campaign data for offers that when active, are made available to users of the platform. When a user of a (typically mobile) device selectively attaches to an active offer, the user device clones that offer, and as the user device travels, propagates the clone of the offer to other users (their user devices) for potential attachment. Those other users can in turn attach to the clone, to facilitate further propagation. The campaign data, as provided by a campaign producer such as a merchant, can specify various parameters, including location areas for attachment and clone travel, start and end times for a campaign's offer, different zones that can control different clone-related actions, and incentives for a user to attach to and propagate a clone of an offer.

A method and system for providing electronic universal incentive awards processing with blockchains. Universal incentive award points are earned for academic (e.g., tutoring, homework completion, lab completion, project completion, etc.) athletic (e.g., watching sports events, participating in sports events, assisting with sports events, etc.), mentoring, volunteering, extra-curricular activities, clubs, community service and/or other selected activities. The universal incentive award points earned are stored in a blockchain. The blockchain allows the creation and use of universal electronic universal incentive award points with transparency, authentication, verification and fraud prevention. The universal incentive award points are immediately redeemable from the blockchain for goods and services. The incentive award points information can be immediately sent and received with wireless, contactless transfer of information.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for determining a consumer's engagement with a brand of the business by tracking the consumer's activities in multiple platforms, such as social media platforms, content platforms, gaming platforms, other retailers, streaming video providers, service providers, etc. Method are described for probabilistically granting users variations of items that are otherwise being acquired. The granting may be random, but probabilities may be boosted based on the consumer's activities in the platforms.

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to generation and implementation of a new security protocol that is used to secure common data access transactions across distributed network examples. An exemplary proof of verification protocol is disclosed that implements consensus security mechanisms across a plurality of distributed nodes, which may be utilized to validate owners of data in common data access transactions. Extending principles of blockchain security to common data access transactions and Internet of Things (IoT) networking requires a solution that: improves speed in transactional processing; reduces computational complexity; and presents efficient, secure and repeatable validation for owners of data in distributed networking environments. An exemplary proof of verification protocol provides such technical advantages by validating both user-specific data for a subscriber of an application/service and session data for user activity (past and present) within the application/service.

An apparatus for secure decentralized rebate management is presented. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory containing instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a claim process request including a plurality of elements of a user data and generate a claim initial entry comprising a conditional claim trigger configured to deploy on an immutable sequential listing. The at least a processor is further configured to execute a claim mapping function including the at least a processor to generate a conditional rebate array including a plurality of rebate requirements, match each rebate requirement to each element of the user data, deploy a plurality of claim test entries representing matches on a private layer, and determine a claim mapping result. The at least a processor is configured to generate a claim result entry configured to deploy on the immutable sequential listing and execute the conditional claim trigger.