A system and method for assessing personal preferences and interests of end-users by engaging one or more end-users in a game in which the end-user may be given a chance to win a product item from a collection of product items selected by the end-user.

A server device that communicates with a user device and the server device is enabled to receive a request for a copy of content, the request including a first identifier associated with the content, information associated with the user device, and information associated with a broadcast station that is broadcasting the content. The server device may obtain a user profile associated with the user device and obtain a station profile associated with a broadcast station, and identify the content, in the station profile. The server device may obtain the copy of the content to enable the user device to access the copy of the content and send, to the user profile, a notification indicating that the user device is authorized to access to the content.

Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for dynamic contact information assignment. A method includes: identifying a pool of telephone numbers; assigning the telephone numbers to a pool manager; allocating by the pool manager, subsets of the telephone numbers to a plurality of allocators, each allocator responsible for allocating telephone numbers to an associated group of content sponsors; determining a first allocation of a first subset, the first allocation being distributed among the content sponsors associated with a first allocator, creating first pools each associated with a respective one of the content sponsors associated with the first allocator; reclaiming one or more telephone numbers from a pool of the first pools; and assigning ones of the reclaimed telephone numbers by the first allocator into either other pools of the first pools or back to the pool manager for allocation to other allocators.

A system and method is disclosed for predicting user behavior in response to various tasks and or/applications. This system can be a neural network-based joint model. The neural network can include a base neural network portion and one or more task-specific neural network portions. The artificial neural network can be initialized and trained using data from multiple users for multiple tasks and/or applications. This user data can be related to characteristics and behavior, including age, gender, geographic location, purchases, past search history, and customer reviews. Additional task-specific neural network portions can be added to the neural network and may be trained using a task-specific subset of the training data. The joint model can be used to predict user behavior in response to an identified task and/or application. The tasks and/or applications can relate to use of a website by users.

A method of delivering advertising in an online environment includes determining a context of a user operating a client computer to interact with an e-commerce website, where the determined context representing an intent of the user to locate a product for purchase, defining a relation between one or more of a plurality of advertisements and the product based on at least one of a plurality of relevance types, and displaying, to the user, at least one of the advertisements having the relation to the product.

A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). To charge, the machines employ electrical current from an external source, such as the electrical grid or an electrical service of an installation location. The charging and distribution machines may distribute portable electrical energy storage devices of particular performance characteristics and other attributes based on customer preferences and/or customer profiles. The charging and distribution machines may provide instructions to or otherwise program portable electrical energy storage devices stored within the charging and distribution machines to perform at various levels according to user preferences and user profiles.

A method of delivering advertising in an online environment includes determining a context of a user operating a client computer to interact with an e-commerce website, where the determined context representing an intent of the user to locate a product for purchase, defining a relation between one or more of a plurality of advertisements and the product based on at least one of a plurality of relevance types, and displaying, to the user, at least one of the advertisements having the relation to the product.

Methods and systems for building impulse product shelves in online shopping platforms are disclosed. A user platform circuit and a user network circuit exchange product information with a merchant computing system over a network. The user platform circuit and user input and output devices generate a graphical user interface relating to the product information exchanged with the merchant computing system. A user impulse circuit and the user platform circuit identify available impulse products in the product information exchanged with the merchant computing system, and an impulse product shelf comprising at least one identified impulse product is constructed in the graphical user interface. The user platform circuit and the user input and output devices assemble purchase transaction requests, which are transmitted over the network.

A system and method relates to a decentralized infrastructure and system including smart contracts to facilitate clickable links embedded in a multimedia content using blockchain ledgers. A computer-implemented method of facilitating clickable link embedded in a multimedia content using a decentralized blockchain ledger. The computer-implemented method receives the multimedia content that includes the clickable link embedded in the multimedia content, retrieves one or more web links upon clicking of the clickable link that enables a user to view an advertised product and/or enables activation of one or more tokens, determines one or more interaction events, performed by the user, while viewing the advertised product and/or while retailing using the one or more tokens, generates a registration entry associated with the one or more interaction events for addition to the decentralized blockchain ledger, and distributes the registration entry in a blockchain to a plurality of nodes in the decentralized blockchain ledger management system.

A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices. To charge, the machines employ electrical current from an external source. As demand at individual collection, charging and distribution machines increases or decreases relative to other collection, charging and distribution machines, a distribution management system initiates redistribution of portable electrical energy storage devices from one collection, charging and distribution machine to another collection, charging and distribution machine in an expeditious manner. Also, redeemable incentives are offered to users to return or exchange their portable electrical energy storage devices at selected collection, charging and distribution machines within the network to effect the redistribution.