A system and associated method for assisting a user to efficiently query for product information and promotional information available from electronic commerce websites over the Internet includes a sub-server for searching the electronic commerce websites, a controlling server, and a local database. The method involves determining whether product information related to a user query is cached in a local database and if the requested information is not cached, searching the electronic commerce websites for the requested information.

Embodiments of this application provide an advertising monitoring method, an apparatus, and a system. The advertising monitoring method includes: sending an advertising request to an advertising platform server, receiving an advertising response returned by the advertising platform server, where the advertising response includes a monitoring URL, and the monitoring URL is generated after the advertising platform server replaces a macro parameter in an original monitoring URL based on a parameter replacement rule of an advertising monitoring platform and at least one of application information, network information, and device information; monitoring whether a to-be-monitored advertising event occurs; and if the advertising event occurs, sending a first notification message to the advertisement service server, and sending a second notification message to the advertising monitoring platform by calling the monitoring URL. The advertising monitoring method provided in the embodiments of this application improves adaptability of an advertising monitoring system.

A digital image depicting a digital representation of a scene is captured by an image sensor of a vehicle. An identification system recognizes a real-world object from the digital image as a target object based on derived image characteristics and identifies object information about the target object based on the recognition. The identification provides the object information to the vehicle data system of the vehicle so that the vehicle data system can execute a control function of the vehicle based on the received object information.

In accordance with some of the gift messaging based customer acquisition methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media that are described herein, a message for a gift recipient is determined in connection with a gift based on input from a first network node associated with a gift giver. A message notification that includes access information for accessing the gift message is generated. The access information is associated with the message. A request that includes the access information is received from a second network node associated with the gift recipient. Responsive to the request, the message is transmitted to the second network node based on the association between the access information and the message, and auxiliary customer acquisition information is transmitted to the second network node.

Systems, methods, and interfaces for generating information cards for a video and rendering the information cards during playback of the video are provided. In an embodiment, a client device can an interface component configured to generate a graphical user interface comprising media player configured to play a video streamed to the device from a streaming media provider. The interface further comprises an information icon positioned within the media player and overlaying the video during playing of the video, the information icon indicating association of one or more information cards comprising additional information associated with the video, wherein, the interface component is configured to generate the one or more information cards and include the one or more information cards in the graphical user interface in response to user input indicating selection of the information icon. A presentation component further displays the graphical user interface via a display of the device.

A self-contained unit in a form of a App. That is able to capture and send the product and customer Information to the seller of that product by the way of an electronic instrument

Systems are provided for analyzing the effectiveness of an advertisement using information provided by a wearable camera system. In one implementation, a system includes a memory storing executable instructions, and at least one processing device programmed to execute the instructions to receive, from the wearable camera system, information derived from image data related to an advertisement in an environment of a user of the wearable camera system. The processing device of the system may be further configured to receive information derived from the image data related to activities of the user, and may be configured to identify, based on this received information, a product acquired by the user that is associated with the advertisement.

The present invention provides a social networking platform offering various services, such as, facilitating aggregation and management of a user's interaction on one or more social networking platforms, offering enhanced control over the level of privacy associated with the flow of user data, offering tools to customize the user's exposure to advertisement-related content on the social networking platform(s), integrating features to control aspects of how data/content is presented to and visualized by the user, empowering the user to multi cast direct messages to other users without the other users having to meet certain constraints, empowering the user to create and/or join a group based on messaging threads, and the like. One or more of these enhanced services/features are associated with a powerful framework of authentication/permission model for access control.

A system and method for online marketing, comprises reading, by an electronic device, a machine-readable code corresponding to an object of interest or interpreting one or more characteristics of the object of interest itself in order to identify it; generating a request to a designated computer server for content related to the object of interest in response to processing a decoded address on the machine-readable code or the value of the one or more characteristics of the object of interest; and outputting a link to the content or outputting the content itself to a device in response to a receipt of the request.

A display technique for displaying an advertisement content which takes account of a relation with respect to any personal experience and/or any action of a target person is provided. An information system comprises a controller including at least one processor. The controller is configured to execute: acquisition of specification information for specifying display information to be displayed on a signage apparatus, of a user as inputted by the aid of an input unit; and output of the display information to the signage apparatus at a predetermined timing.