A method for providing information related to information displayed on a signage device to a mobile device carried by a user includes displaying on a screen of the signage device one or more images, establishing a connection between a mobile device and the signage device, displaying on the screen of the signage device a mark unique to the user, after the connection has been established, moving the mark on the screen in accordance with an operation of the mobile device by the user, and transmitting, to the mobile device, information related to an image at which the mark is located.

An online system receives a sponsored content item including a maximum amount of compensation for accessing the content, a budget, and a tracking mechanism identifying an action. When an opportunity to present sponsored content to a user eligible to be presented with the sponsored content item is identified, the online system determines a likelihood of the user performing the action identified by the tracking mechanism and an average likelihood of other users performing the action identified by the tracking mechanism. Based on the determined likelihood and the average likelihood, the online system determines a subsidy value. Additionally, the online system generates a penalty value inversely proportional to a number of the identified action that have been identified. The online system increases a bid amount by the subsidy value decreases the bid amount by the penalty value to determine whether to present the sponsored content item to the user.

A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database as part of a computer-based game. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access content information associated with the identified object and interact with the game based on the content information.

The innovations described in this disclosure include distinct differences that create a marketing and sales advantage. For convenience, these features are organized into several innovations, but the features described can be combined and implemented in various ways, both within a given innovation and across two or more innovations. Each innovation is unique in itself. Taken as a whole the innovations establish a demonstration category called Demo Automation or Demonstration automation. The innovations include, but are not limited to, automated self-configuring video content density and sequence based on personalization responses; automated responsive locked document library; sending a product demo that allows you to see who the recipient shared it with; and product demonstration analytics.

A system and method for creating multi-sided digital images involving at least one processor configured to run an image forming application, wherein the processor running said image forming application is configured to: (i) receive a digital sponsor image and a digital personal photo image from a user; (ii) generate an animated or video-based multi-sided digital image with at least one side depicting said digital sponsor image and at least another side depicting said personal photo, said animated or video-based multi-sided digital image configured to rotate and/or flip on a display of said one or more computer devices to show said digital sponsor image and said digital personal image; and (iii) transmit said animated or video-based multi-sided digital image to a user's computer device.

A customer uses a mobile device to verbally request an offer that includes an incentive to transact at a merchant's brick and mortar store in the customer's local community in exchange for the merchant's agreement to make an auditable donation to a charity serving the local community. Business rules limit the merchant's charitable donations over calendar periods, which donations can be made directly by the merchant to the community charity, or indirectly to the charity by way of a blind donation made by the merchant to a donation disbursement agency acting on the merchant's behalf to satisfy the merchant's commitment to donate.

Various implementations described herein provide systems and methods for online advertising and, more particularly, systems and methods that utilize user preferences in providing online advertising. In various implementations, systems or methods described herein facilitate user control of user-related data with respect to online advertisement systems, which can include supply-side platforms (SSPs), advertisement exchanges, demand-side platforms (DSPs), content delivery networks (CDNs), ad networks, or adservers. In some implementations, the system and methods implement or otherwise facilitate a user advertisement preference service that enables online users to manage one or more user advertisement preferences and selectively provide those user advertisement preferences to online advertisement systems.

An information processing device includes a database, an acquisition unit, a specification unit, a movement plan unit, and a transmission unit. The database stores providers providing a user with experiences and provision places where the providers allow providing the experiences while associating one another. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire experience desire data relating to an experience that the user desires. The specification unit is configured to specify, based on the data stored in the database and the experience desire data, an experience provider being a provider capable of providing the experience that the user desires and the provision place. The movement plan unit is configured to specify the provision place specified by the specification unit as a destination of the user, and generate a movement plan for the user to move to the destination. The transmission unit is configured to transmit, to the experience provider, a notification signal notifying that the experience is desired to be provided at the destination indicated in the movement plan. The specification unit configured to generate customer data including information of a plurality of the users who have desires the same experience and aggregate to the destination. The transmission unit configured to transmit, to the experience provider, the notification signal including the customer data.

A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (machine representation); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.

A bot automatically compiles transaction information for a consumer from merchants that sell products in various categories and merchants that sell products in only a single category. The bot categorizes the consumer's purchases from the merchants and determines percentages of consumer spending in each category. The bot may obtain a category for purchases from merchants selling a single category of items based on a merchant identifier such as a merchant code. For other merchants, the bot may obtain category information from the merchant or from an analysis of a category code, or a product or service description or identifier. The categories and percentages of the consumer's purchases may be provided by the bot to the consumer or to a third party. The bot may provide special offers and promotions to a consumer based on the compiled category information and percentage spending by the consumer by category.