A system and/or method may be provided to notify a user of incentives offered by various funding sources based on the user's location. In particular, incentives offered by various funding sources at various merchant locations are determined. The user's location and movements are monitored. When the user approaches or is near a merchant location where a funding source offers incentives, a notification maybe generated and presented to the user to notify or remind the user of the incentives offered at the merchant location. The notification may include description of the incentives and directions on how to obtain the incentives.

A method for generating advertising content includes: during a content creation period, receiving a video advertisement from an entity; packaging the video advertisement with a pointer to the entity and a checkout portal for content linked to the video advertisement to generate an augmented video advertisement; during a live period succeeding the content creation period, for a first instance of the augmented video advertisement accessed at a first computing device associated with a first user, associating a first purchase completed within the checkout portal of the first instance of the augmented video advertisement with the entity based on the pointer; and, for a second instance of the augmented video advertisement accessed at a second computing device associated with a second user, associating a second purchase completed within the checkout portal of the second instance of the augmented video advertisement with the entity based on the pointer.

A request for information to verify integrity of program code of a first processor enclave is received from a remote requestor via a network. The requested information is provided. Private information for use by the program code of the first processor enclave is received. The program code of the first processor enclave is used to select based at least in part on the received private information a second processor enclave among a plurality of different processor enclave options. Integrity of program code of the selected second processor enclave is verified. At least a portion of the received private information is provided to the selected second processor enclave for processing by the verified program code of the selected second processor enclave.

Methods and systems for matching a consumer to benefits offered by enabling organizations provide flexibility and utility to consumers in the marketplace for various products. Information about benefits and enabling organizations are provided and stored in a memory of a computer system. A search query including consumer interest data of a consumer, or results of such a search query, are received. The enabling organization information, benefit information, and search query or information related to the search query results are analyzed automatically in the computer system to provide analysis results, to determine whether any enabling organization to which the consumer is affiliated is offering a benefit for the consumer that is applicable to the said consumer interest data. A message is sent to the consumer including a list of venues ordered according to a search score.

A method that comprises obtaining from end user equipment a location object caused to be stored on the end user equipment by a service provider; and validating an online transaction attempted using the end user equipment, based at least in part on the location object so obtained. The method may further comprise obtaining transaction object information provided via the end user equipment; and obtaining information to assist in validating online transactions attempted using the transaction object information. The validating of the online transaction may comprise comparing a location specified by the location object to the information to assist in validating online transactions attempted using the transaction object information and taking a validation action based on a result of the comparing.

An ad in a movie can be a static ad having a position in the movie that cannot be moved, or a dynamic ad having a position in the movie that can be changed. When a viewer wishes to skip a portion of the movie containing the ad, the playback system determines whether the ad is static or dynamic. If the ad is static, only the portion of the movie preceding the static ad can be skipped; the ad is unskippable. This technique is referred to as bounceback since the end of the skip bounces back to the start of the static ad. If the ad is dynamic, it is moved to after the end of the skip. This technique is referred to as slip-ad since the ad slips to later in the movie. When a movie has multiple ads, some can be static and some can be dynamic.

An advertisement request identifying a user may be received by a computing device of an electronic marketplace provider. User information for the user may be determined based on the advertising request. An advertisement featuring an item offered on an electronic marketplace may be selected. The advertisement may be provided for placement within content of a third-party network page provider. A first plurality of user input options configured to elicit a level of interest of the user with respect to the first advertisement may also be provided within the content of the third-party network page provider. User interaction information indicating the level of interest of the user with respect to the advertisement may be received. A second plurality of user input options may be determined based on the item of the advertisement and the first plurality of user input options. The second plurality of user input options may be provided to the content.

Disclosed is a big data advertisement system and method for advertising through a back of cash register paper. The system comprises a cloud advertisement server, at least one advertisement releasing terminal, and a plurality of double-sided printers, wherein the cloud advertisement server is configured for receiving advertisement information sent by the advertisement releasing terminal, generating corresponding advertisement pushing information, and then sending the corresponding advertisement pushing information to the double-sided printers, and also configured for outputting an intelligent maintenance advice or advertisement statistical information, the double-sided printers are configured for receiving the advertisement pushing information and printing the corresponding advertisement information on the back of the cash register paper when printing cashier information, and sending real-time working parameters and real-time printing data to the cloud advertisement server.

An image-based transaction system includes a mobile device with an image sensor that is programmed to capture, via the image sensor, a video stream of a scene. The mobile device identifies a document using image characteristics from the video stream and acquires an image of at least a part of the document, and then identifies symbols in the image based on locations within the image of the document. The symbols can include alphanumeric symbols. The mobile device processes the symbols according to their type to obtain an address related to the document and the symbols and initiates a transaction associated with the identified document.

Systems and methods can include one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of storing a plurality of user segments for users of an ecommerce website, recording an online browsing trail of a user during an online browsing session on the ecommerce website, the online browsing trail comprising a sequence of one or more actions by the user of the ecommerce website during the online browsing session, and predicting, in real-time, a first user segment for the user from the plurality of user segments during the online browsing session based on the sequence of the one or more actions of the user in the online browsing trail during the online browsing session as recorded by the one or more non-transitory storage modules.