Techniques described herein are directed to receiving audio input during playback of multimedia content to trigger purchase and payment for an item represented in the multimedia content. In an example, multimedia content is sent to a user device. The multimedia content may contain a representation of an item and an indication that the item can be purchased. Based on receipt of an indication that trigger words were spoken during playback, a recording is initiated. A purchase intent of the user for the item is determined based on the recording. A graphical user interface is displayed via the user device to initiate payment by the user for the item.

Viewers of presentations of entertainment, news, education and other the like, often observe unadvertised products of interest therein. However, in order to avoid degrading the artistic or objective integrity, producers and distributors of such presentations, do not provide sufficient product description information to permit the viewer to identify and/or purchase the product. The present invention describes methods and systems for permitting such users to research and/or purchase products observed to be involved in presentations by accessing presentation appearance data, product description data, and issuance data prepared, stored and associated in a non-transitory computer-readable database.

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.

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 computer implemented method for automated analysis or use of data, comprising: (a) storing in a non-transitory computer-readable medium a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language, wherein the data relates to social media postings; (b) automatically processing structured, machine-readable representation of data to determine if the social media postings are compliant with requirements preventing abusive or illegal social media postings.

A system for managing internet advertising content comprises a proxy server intermediary to an end user, a publisher of internet content, and an advertising network, wherein the publisher and the advertising network can communicate indirectly with the end user through the proxy server. The proxy server receives internet content from the publisher; detects advertising-related content in the internet content; modifies the advertising-related content; inserts an execution code into the internet content; serves the internet content to the end user; receives from the end user a request for advertising-related content; requests and receives advertising-related content from an advertising network; modifies the advertising-related content from the advertising network; and serves the advertising-related content to the end user. The end user may access the advertising-related content when the execution code is invoked by the end user.

A method to generate real estate leads includes publishing a plurality of marketing items for a real estate listing with a telephone number and a unique code printed thereon. The unique code is configured to be transmitted by a mobile communication device and the unique code printed on each piece of the plurality of marketing items is different. The method also includes sending the plurality of marketing items to a plurality of street addresses, where the unique code is assigned to a particular street address of the plurality of street addresses. In addition, the method includes receiving a communication from the mobile communication device at the remote device associated with the telephone number, where the communication includes the unique code, and in response to receiving the unique code, determining the particular street address assigned to the unique code and creating a file that stores data of the communication.

Virtual reality devices bring a new type of advertisement preference input command data. The data comes from a source of having your eyes at least partially viewing the sight of a virtual experience. For this reason, and many more, it is very important that this new generation of devices, as they exist and develop, control the advertisements the virtual reality device owners see and react to in the awe struck environment of something new. In order to do this, they will need many different ways to send commands at different points and complexities of advertisements, especially to enjoy the experience of this new device that would otherwise be lost in advertisements that have no ability to coexist without the participants giving orders of what they want to see.

One embodiment of the invention includes a method for allocating an advertisement to a plurality of users within a social network ecosystem, wherein each user is associated with a user summary comprising a keyword describing a user attribute extracted from the social network, the method including the steps of selecting a user audience for each of the plurality of advertisements from the plurality of users by altering the advertisement summary based on the target audience and an audience restriction, associating the advertisement with each user of the user audience, prioritizing each the advertisement list of each user, and serving an advertisement to the user in response to an advertisement request for the user.

A mobile media device user interface is described. In one or more implementations, output of a plurality of audio content is monitored by a mobile media device. Each of the audio content was received via a respective one of a plurality of broadcast channels by the mobile media device. A user interface is displayed on a display device of the mobile media device, the user interface describing each of the plurality of audio content and the respective broadcast channel from which the audio content was received.