A mobile device comprising a software application configured to detect the sound of a product use event; provide a user reward using said software application in response to said detection; capture data relating to said product use event; and provide said captured data to a remote computer system for analysis.

An object is to allow a signal to unfailingly reach a smartphone or the like carried by a customer in various places. An automatic door system (10) includes a BLE module (16) configured such that, in a predetermined direction from a surface of a door, a signal (containing information based on which the BLE module (16) can be identified) transmitted from the BLE module (16) reaches an area beyond a person sensing area covered by a sensor.

A system, method, and computer-readable media are described for facilitating management of vendor offers. In one embodiment, a loyalty card, or portion thereof, is presented, the loyalty card having a plurality of loyalty portions associated with a vendor that indicate loyalty of a user based on interaction with the vendor. Subsequently, an indication to fulfill one of the loyalty portions provided on the loyalty card is received. Upon fulfilling one of the loyalty portions, an indication that one of the loyalty portions is completed is provided. In one embodiment, the vendor is a school or a non-profit organization.

An online method for receiving feedback from an online community of a curated marketplace regarding apparel options is provided. The online method and system for its use includes transmitting a plurality of photos of different apparel options from a first computing device directly or indirectly to at least one second computing device and receiving the plurality of photos at the at least one second computing device. A user selection of one of the plurality of photos is facilitated via the at least one second computing device and transmitted from the at least one second computing device to the first computing device to aid a user in selecting apparel.

A smart operation system for puzzle collection comprises a servo device, a puzzle collection data cloud, a consumer operating device, a merchant operating device and a display device. The puzzle collection data cloud is communicatively connected to the servo device. The consumer operating device is communicatively connected to the servo device and the puzzle collection data cloud, separately. The merchant operating device is communicatively connected to the servo device, the puzzle collection data cloud and the consumer operating device, separately. The display device is communicatively connected to the servo device, the puzzle collection data cloud, the consumer operating device and the merchant operating device, separately.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for location-based trafficking for resource accumulation. The system may monitor location data of a mobile device of a user to determine when the user is within a predetermined distance from a specific geographical location of a resource. The system may then automatically transmit a token alert across a wireless network to the mobile device, activating a resource accumulation application to cause a user interface of the mobile device to display an augmented reality of a camera display that includes a virtual token. In some embodiments, the system determines that some advanced interaction has occurred between the user and a merchant associated with the geographical location of the resource and, in response, provides additional virtual tokens or improves the benefit to the user for one or more virtual tokens.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for automated audit analysis and providing of cost reduction recommendations associated with services used and/or received by an entity. In general, invoice data associated with a service associated with an entity (e.g. a customer) is obtained and processed in order to identify at least one of billing errors and inefficiencies. The processing of invoice data is generally performed by computationally identifying relevant invoice information and comparing this information with data from a proprietary service optimization database. When errors and/or inefficiencies are identified, recommendations to remedy the inefficiencies and/or errors are provided to the entity so that cost reduction actions can be taken.

Techniques for gamification for online social communities are described including receiving input data transferred from a client associated with an interaction on a website having one or more portions served from servers that are separate from each other, analyzing the input using a community analytic module to determine metrics associated with the interaction, the metrics having, at least, a first level, a second level, and a third level, the first level indicating a ranking associated with the input data, the second level being associated with feedback data transmitted by another client in response to the interaction, the third level being associated with generating one or more awards based on a determination generated by combining the first level and the second level, and storing metric data associated with the first level, the second level, the third level, the ranking, the feedback data, and the one or more awards.

There is provided an information processing device that can improve motivation of providers of biological information for healthcare, the information processing device including: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to biological information, the biological information being provided by a provider; and a determination unit configured to determine a reward value provided to the provider as feedback for provision of the biological information, based on the information related to biological information.

A client device detects a QR code (or NFC tag). The client device decodes the QR code. The client device determines that the data encoded within the QR code includes a URL. Based on the URL, the client device sends a first request to a first server identified by the URL. In response to the first request, the client device receives from the first server data configured to cause the client device to display, to a user of the client device, at least one of: a video or an interactive web page. Responsive to the data encoded in the QR code, the client device sends to a coupon server: identification data associated with a user of the client device, and a request for the coupon server to distribute a digital coupon for an offer associated with an identifier encoded within the QR code to an account associated with the user.