A method that includes receiving a request to access an account by a first user, receiving a request to add an item to the first user account, and displaying at least one of a plurality of items in the first user account for a public offer, is provided. The method also includes receiving an offer for the at least one item from a second user, the offer including an exchange request for a second user item, notifying the first user of the offer received, receiving a rating assigned to the second user offer by the first user, and displaying the second user offer and the first user rating publicly. Further, the method includes receiving a response to the second user offer by the first user, and notifying other users that the at least one item is no longer available when the first user accepts the second user offer. A mobile computer device and a computer device configured to perform the above method are also provided.

Techniques for determining a decision to acquire units of an item to be inventoried may be provided. For example, a demand for an item may be simulated to determine a consumption of a capacity for inventorying the item. A discrepancy between the consumption of the capacity and the capacity may be determined. An opportunity cost associated with the capacity may be updated based at least in part on determining that the discrepancy fails a convergence criterion. The opportunity cost may indicate a value associated with using the capacity. The consumption of the capacity may be simulated based at least in part on the updated opportunity cost. A resulting discrepancy may be determined. If the resulting discrepancy meets the convergence criterion, the decision to acquire the units of the item may be generated based at least in part on the updated opportunity cost.

This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying anomalies within a time series. In some examples, a computing device receives sales data identifying a sale of at least one item, and aggregates the received data in a database. The computing device may generate a plurality of time series based on the aggregated sales data. The computing device may extract features from the plurality of time series, and generate an alerting algorithm that is based on clusters of the extracted features. The computing device may apply the alerting algorithm to a time series generated from received sales data to determine whether the time series is an anomaly. Based on the determination, the computing device may generate and transmit anomaly data identifying whether the time series is an anomaly, such as to another computing device.

An online delivery ecosystem enabling buyers/delivery personnel to purchase grocery, restaurants, and other prepared foods on behalf of customers and check out using a mobile application, bypassing traditional person checkout systems, and storing this transaction information to blockchain based systems as immutable systems of record.

Systems and techniques are provided for enhanced and flexible ingestion of product-related data from various and diverse data sources. The product-related data is linked to interactions that allow end-user customers to view and manipulate product listings and product data using the ingested information.

The present arrangement is a system for connecting consumers with services. The system has a mobile application management platform for supporting connection with a plurality of third party service providers. A display module provides an interface for displaying interaction with the third party service providers in an integrated arrangement. The consumer requests at least two services offered by a plurality of the mobile application platforms of the third party service providers. A processor parses the service request and assembles at least one combination of at least the two services, based on a coordination of an optimized combination of the two services based on time and cost so as to allow the consumer to select and initiate a corresponding request for the combination to at least said two services. A fulfillment module configured to complete ordering of the transaction with both the consumer, the fulfillment module sending service request to the third party service providers, based on information received from the scheduling unit regarding the completion time of each service while each service is being performed.

In accordance with the present invention, an information management application that provides users with the ability to create and customize matrix displays of information relating to a particular product or service for navigation by other users is provided.

A method for coordinating a business transaction between a selling vendor and a shipping vendor including the steps of: presenting the shipping vendors selected by a transaction coordination hub to the selling vendor; approving at least one of the shipping vendors based on input of selling vendor; accepting an offer of the transaction based on the input of the shipping vendor; collecting payment, including commission from the selling vendor using a payment managing module; paying the shipping vendor using the payment management module; paying a shipping company and scheduling a time for product retrieval by the shipping company, using the payment management module and a shipping managing module; and tracking the product until delivery to a consumer.

Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, circuits, methods and computer executable code sets for generating and providing content recommendations to match the tastes and preferences of a group of users. a Recommendation Engine is used for generating two or more individual content recommendation sets for each of the members in the user group. A Recommendation Aggregation Module is used for adding and combining the individual content recommendation sets into an aggregated recommendation set. a Recommendation Selection Module is used for selecting at least a subset of the content items in the aggregated recommendation set for inclusion in a content recommendation result set. A Profile Engine is used for building individual group users profiles from which a merged group profile is constructed, or for building a single joint group profile based on inputs from multiple group users.

A system can determine that a mobile device, located at a physical place of business transmits a first electronic communication for redemption of an electronic offer at the physical place of business. The system can further detect a second electronic communication transmitted from the mobile device, which indicates a first identifier. The first identifier can be associated with a verifier of the electronic offer (e.g., a staff member) at the physical place of business. The system can further determine, based on analysis of the first identifier, a second identifier (e.g., contact data, a telephone number, etc.), that corresponds to the verifier, without providing the second identifier to the mobile device. The system can further electronically transmit, utilizing the second identifier, a third electronic communication that indicates information about the redemption of the electronic offer.