A method and apparatus for providing an incentive to an officer to travel through a particular area is provide herein. During operation a device will provide an officer with a map of their patrol area. Along with the map, various roads and/or paths will have “breadcrumbs” shown on them. These breadcrumbs will be “picked up” (disappear) when an officer travels over them.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing content. A method includes receiving a request for an advertisement to be displayed in a slot associated with a third-party content site; identifying a relevant advertisement to be provided in the slot; determining information to be included in an annotation associated with the advertisement, the annotation including customized information to be presented along with the advertisement; providing the advertisement responsive to the request including providing the annotation along with a control for re-publishing the advertisement along with the relevant advertisement; receiving user input selecting the control and designating the advertisement for re-publishing to a group, the group being designated by the user; and targeting additional content to the group based on the received user input.

A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for obtaining advert target information for a primary advert auction concerning a viewer of content, wherein the primary advert auction solicits bids for providing an advertisement to the viewer of the content, thus resulting in one or more primary bids; initiating a secondary advert auction based, at least in part, upon the advert target information, wherein the secondary advert auction solicits bids for providing the advertisement to the viewer of the content while requiring a donation to a charity, thus resulting in one or more secondary bids; and inserting at least one of the secondary bids into the one or more primary bids so that the at least one of the secondary bids may be considered when determining a winner of the primary advert auction.

A method and apparatus are provided for gathering analytics. In an embodiment, a method includes monitoring interactions of multiple users related to at least one of: multiple base content and multiple supplemental content. The supplemental content is associated with one or more products or services identified in the base content. The method also includes obtaining interaction information associated with the interactions. The method also includes selecting specified supplemental content to present to a specified user based on (i) the interaction information and (ii) specified base content presented to the specified user. The method also includes sending the specified base content and the specified supplemental content to an endpoint associated with the specified user.

The present disclosure describes a communication system that includes communication circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to collect a piece of user information of a user via the communication circuitry, analyze the collected piece of user information to obtain a user preference of the user, and identify a piece of advertisement as targeting the user according to the user preference. The processing circuitry is further configured to generate a guidance message based on reason of promotion information stored in association with the piece of advertisement, transmit the guidance message to a client terminal of the user, and transmit the piece of advertisement to the client terminal. The guidance message and the piece of advertisement are to be output as vocalized speeches of a voice agent of the client terminal.

Systems and methods for secure digital safe deposit boxes are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for using a secure digital safe deposit box may include: (1) receiving permission from a customer to access internal and third party financial or confidential information for the customer; (2) retrieving the internal financial or confidential information for the customer; (3) receiving account information accounts held with a third party that holds financial or confidential information; (4) jointly authenticating the customer with the third party; (5) receiving the third party financial or confidential information for the customer from the third party; (6) receiving permission to share at least some of the internal or third party financial or confidential information for the customer with an external party; and (7) sharing the internal or third party financial or confidential information for the customer with the external party in accordance with the permission.

Digital image selection techniques are described that employ machine learning to select a digital image of an object from a plurality of digital images of the object. The plurality of digital images each capture the object for inclusion as part of generating digital content, e.g., a webpage, a thumbnail to represent a digital video, and so on. In one example, digital image selection techniques are described that employ machine learning to select a digital image of an object from a plurality of digital images of the object. As a result, the service provider system may select a digital image of an object from a plurality of digital images of the object that has an increased likelihood of achieving a desired outcome and may address the multitude of different ways in which an object may be presented to a user.

Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media. For instance, the method may include: obtaining a media file; determining whether the media file includes transition-coded media; in response to determining the media file includes the transition-coded media, setting up a dynamic media environment; detecting whether a user is interacting with the transition-coded media; and in response to detecting the user is interacting with the transition-coded media, executing the transition-coded media with the dynamic media environment.

A marketing inference engine determines prospective clients, drawn from a population of users, for a commodity. A set of relevant consumer traits is conjectured or determined from data relevant to prior clients of the commodity. Massive data characterizing the population is analysed to determine a superset of user communities of the population of users, each community corresponding to a respective trait of a predefined superset of traits. A set of primary communities, corresponding to the set of relevant consumer traits, is selected from the superset of communities. A set of secondary communities, each determined to have a significant kinship to the set of primary communities, is selected from the superset of communities. A set of primary prospective clients is determined from the primary communities. An expanded set of prospective clients is determined from both the primary communities and the secondary communities.

Techniques are disclosed relating to methods that include receiving an indication of an access by a user to a web page that includes a beacon, and calculating a readiness score for triggering the beacon. The methods may also include determining, based on the readiness score, whether to perform a client-side or server-side triggering of the beacon. The triggering causes data associated with the access to be transmitted to a third-party computer system.