A display control method includes causing a display control device to perform: a step (a) forecasting a demand for a vehicle dispatch at an arbitrary point or in an arbitrary area at a time specified by a host vehicle; and a step (b) superimposing, at a position on a map screen, information about the forecasted demand, the position corresponding to the arbitrary point or the arbitrary area.

A location based measurement system monitors user interactions with media items, and visitation data to physical locations, to calculate an engagement score of the media item, wherein the engagement score serves as an indication of a “lift” incited by the media item on a population of users exposed to the media item. The location based measurement system may be or include any instrumentality or aggregate of instrumentalities operable to compute, process, store, display, generate, communicate, or apply various forms of data for geo-fencing, control, or other purposes.

Methods consistent with the present disclosure allow purchasers of a product to become a product distributor as part a multi-level marketing (MLM) organization. Once a person has purchased an item (a product or service) via their user device, they may be allowed to share information associated with the item with other user devices. These other user devices may be devices owned by members of a same social media group and the information shared with these other user devices may include materials that promote the sale of specific products. New users may be sent invitations to join an existing social media group, existing users may be sent invitations to join new or other social media groups, or both new users and existing users may be sent invitations to join particular groups based on these users being associated with a similar set of demographic data.

A system for selecting an expanded audience comprising: a seed audience; an elastic profile store comprising a plurality of consumer profiles each of the consumer profiles comprising a consumer identifier and consumer characteristics wherein the seed audience is matched in the elastic profile store to select a plurality of seed profiles and at least one candidate profile; at least one encoder engine to encode the seed profiles and the candidate profile to output a plurality of encoded seed profiles and an encoded candidate profile; an aggregator engine to receive the encoded seed profiles to determine similar characteristics; a matching engine to match characteristics from the encoded candidate profile with the characteristics from the encoded seed profiles; a threshold engine to determine whether the encoded candidate profile has sufficient similarity to the encoded seed profiles; and in response to a determination by the threshold engine to keep the candidate profile, inclusion of the candidate user id in an expanded audience.

The present disclosure relates to a customer flow line and customer flow hot zone determining method and apparatus. The customer flow line determining method comprises: receiving coordinate data sent from multiple mobile devices, wherein an environment in which the multiple mobile devices are located is divided into a plurality of grids; on the basis of the coordinate data of each mobile device, determining the grid to which each mobile device belongs; determining the number of the mobile devices in each grid; and on the basis of the number of the mobile devices in each grid, outputting a customer flow line distribution map.

Computer-implemented systems and methods for determining the value of display space in a retail store are provided. These values of display space are determined based on measured traffic densities in the retail store. Traffic density is used as a metric for real-world customer activity and customer patterns in the retail store. To determine traffic density, measurements are obtained from one or more sensors in the retail store, where the measurements include spatial information pertaining to a region of the retail store. Traffic density can provide a quantitative, accurate and unbiased metric with which to determine a value associated with displaying products in a region of the retail store.

There is provided methods for anonymously tracking and/or analyzing transitioning, flow or movement of individual subjects between health states or health-related subject states. A computer-implemented method is provided for enabling anonymous estimation of the amount and/or flow of individual subjects, referred to as individuals, in a population transitioning and/or moving and/or coinciding between two or more health states or health-related subject states. The method includes the steps of receiving identifying data from two or more individuals; generating, online and by one or more processors, an anonymized identifier for each individual; and storing: the anonymized identifier of each individual together with data representing a health state or health-related subject state; and/or a skew measure of such an anonymized identifier.

Described herein is a relationship based fulfillment system. Such a system may provide on-demand product fulfillment by personal and/or social contacts of a purchaser. The system may utilize the personal contacts and/or relationships of a user, as indicated through various contact databases or social groups of the user, to connect the user to various potential partners for providing relationship based fulfillment of products that are purchased by the user or performance of other relationship based services.

Methods, devices, and systems for automatically detecting, tracking, and validating transit journeys are provided. A transit data processing engine receives sensory data gathered by a plurality of sensors of a mobile device registered for automatic tracking of transit journeys and detects, based on transit data of one or more transit agencies and a first set of the sensory data, a potential transit event with the one or more transit agencies. Based on the transit data and a second set of the sensory data, received subsequently to the first set of the sensory data, the processing engine determines then whether the potential transit event defines a transit journey having a starting point with the one or more transit agencies. If the potential transit event defines the transit journey, the transit data processing engine continues to analyse the sensory data being received to detect an ending point of the transit journey.

An autonomous urban transport vehicle (AUTV) to transport a user, including a tricycle including brakes and steering and a controller. The controller includes an autonomous mode processor to control the brakes and steering when the AUTV is in an autonomous mode. The controller also includes a manual mode processor to control manual mode functions of the AUTV when the AUTV is in a manual mode. The manual mode functions are exclusive of actuation of the brakes and steering.