A computer to track earned points accumulated, to an online user account, related to a completed task is disclosed. More points may be earned based on a criteria level related to each category of dynamically changing categories. Earned points may be reduced based on redemption used to purchase and download to a mobile client computer music, video, or games provided on a custom menu.

A method of managing franchises using a credit-card payment system is provided. The method includes (a) inputting a goods selection or service use statement of a customer at a franchise to a franchise client to calculate an estimated payment amount, inputting member information of the customer to the franchise client, and transmitting the member information to a customer information server of a head office to request member authentication; (b) receiving, by the customer information server, a member authentication request signal for the customer, comparing the member authentication request signal with previously stored member information of the customer to perform authentication processing, and transmitting the result of authentication processing to the franchise client; (c) inputting credit-card payment information for the estimated payment amount to the franchise client, requesting a card company for payment approval, and receiving approval information; (d) outputting selection items for a satisfaction survey for service provided by the franchise through a sign pad connected to the franchise client; (e) when customer response data for the survey selection items is received from the sign pad, analyzing and statistically processing customer satisfaction evaluation information for the franchise according to the selection items, and storing the resultant customer satisfaction evaluation information in a database of the customer information server; and (f) switching the sign pad to a screen for obtaining a digital signature.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide mechanisms for selection of a user survey data object from a set of user data objects, and processing of survey engagement data associated with a selected user survey data object. The user survey data object selected is appropriate for providing associated with a particular user data object, and the survey engagement data received associated therewith enables programmatic selection and use of particular ranking model(s) for use in generating and providing an output ranked item data object set. Example embodiments utilize selected ranking model(s) of a set of ranking models to programmatically generate and output an output ranked item data object set for a particular user profile.

A method, system, and computer program product are described for quantitation of human food tastes. Such quantitation involves taste calibration of human food tasters, to constitute an initiation cohort of trained tasters who then taste and quantitatively score food items, from which a computing device determination of a normative distributized score for the food items is transmitted to user devices for quantitative guidance in selection of food and food providers, with food consumers receiving such quantitative guidance subsequently electively providing consumer scoring to enhance consistency and reliability of the food taste quantitation.

A system includes a network interface, a processing system, and a memory system. The memory system stores instructions that when executed by the processing system result in receiving a request and request data associated with a user from a web server and analyzing the request data to identify one or more data gaps associated with the request. One or more third-party services are called to fill at least a portion of the one or more data gaps. A question set is prepared based on determining that the one or more data gaps remain at least partially unfilled. The question set is selected by a machine-learning component trained to adapt a sequence and content of the question set over a plurality of interactions with a plurality of users. The question set is transmitted to the web server for presentation to the user. Data exchanges can be authenticated using tokens.

A social network content recommendation system allows users to identify friends, recommend content to friends, and receive awards for influencing friends. Internet pages can be used to display rankings of recommended programs, user profiles and their awards, and dynamic chats relating to specific programs, such as television shows.

A method includes receiving a request and request data associated with a user from a web server and analyzing the request data to identify one or more data gaps associated with the request. One or more third-party services are called to fill at least a portion of the one or more data gaps. A question set is prepared based on determining that the one or more data gaps remain at least partially unfilled. The question set is selected by a machine-learning component trained to adapt a sequence and content of the question set over a plurality of interactions with a plurality of users. The question set is transmitted to the web server for presentation to the user. Data exchanges can be authenticated using tokens.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a set of computer executable instructions for running on a processor that cause the processor to: receive a video link to a video from a third party system. The video has an advertisement with one or more actions. At least one question related to the one or more actions of the advertisement and at least one correct answer to the question and at least one incorrect answer to the question is stored. The question is displayed on a donor system and the donor system is directed to the video via the video link. Then, at least one correct answer and at least one incorrect answer are displayed on the donor system.

A system and method of acquiring and verifying information is provided. The system comprises a processor, and a memory comprising a sequence of instructions which when executed by the processor configure the processor to perform the method. The method comprises acquiring data from a data source associated with an author of the data, normalizing the acquired data, determining, by the processor, an identity of the author of the data, classifying the normalized data based on the identity and acquired metadata, and storing in a memory the normalized data. Normalizing the acquired data comprises parsing the acquired data for meaningful information, extracting metadata from the acquired data, and mapping the parsed information to internal data structures.

A system and method for providing awards and rewards to social media users for the content/posts they upload to their social media profiles is disclosed. The system uses a content management manager for creating, managing, and displaying a user timeline for each of the social media users, an ad insertion engine for creating, managing, and inserting ads into the user timeline for each of the social media users, an awards manager for awarding each of the social media users rewards in exchange for watching ads before viewing content, and a marketsquare manager for creating, managing, and displaying items for sale in an online marketplace in which each of the social media users may be buyers and seller.