One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide a promotional messaging system for efficiently providing promotional messages to customers via an electronic messaging system. For example, in one or more embodiments, the promotional messaging system identifies users of the electronic messaging system that have previously communicated with a merchant as part of a customized audience. Additionally, in some embodiments, the promotional messaging system analyzes activity patterns of the users to provide improved delivery of promotional messages in a non-intrusive, private, and timely manner. Overall, the promotional messaging system described herein improves communications via an electronic messaging system between users and a merchant.

One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide a promotional messaging system for efficiently providing promotional messages to customers via an electronic messaging system. For example, in one or more embodiments, the promotional messaging system identifies users of the electronic messaging system that have previously communicated with a merchant as part of a customized audience. Additionally, in some embodiments, the promotional messaging system analyzes activity patterns of the users to provide improved delivery of promotional messages in a non-intrusive, private, and timely manner. Overall, the promotional messaging system described herein improves communications via an electronic messaging system between users and a merchant.

One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide a promotional messaging system for efficiently providing promotional messages to customers via an electronic messaging system. For example, in one or more embodiments, the promotional messaging system identifies users of the electronic messaging system that have previously communicated with a merchant as part of a customized audience. Additionally, in some embodiments, the promotional messaging system analyzes activity patterns of the users to provide improved delivery of promotional messages in a non-intrusive, private, and timely manner. Overall, the promotional messaging system described herein improves communications via an electronic messaging system between users and a merchant.

One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide a promotional messaging system for efficiently providing promotional messages to customers via an electronic messaging system. For example, in one or more embodiments, the promotional messaging system identifies users of the electronic messaging system that have previously communicated with a merchant as part of a customized audience. Additionally, in some embodiments, the promotional messaging system analyzes activity patterns of the users to provide improved delivery of promotional messages in a non-intrusive, private, and timely manner. Overall, the promotional messaging system described herein improves communications via an electronic messaging system between users and a merchant.

A computer-implemented method of determining reaction to promotional items includes providing to a mobile device a promotional item associated with a geographic location, determining whether the mobile device is proximate to the geographic location, and charging an advertising account if the mobile device is proximate to the geographic location.

There is provided a method for monitoring of web browser media object(s) received in response to a web browser request rendering a web page, comprising: loading ad-monitoring code with the web page that includes at least one designation for placement of at least one web browser media object received in response to a web browser request by the web browser; monitoring, using the ad-monitoring code, at least one of actions and events driven by the at least one web browser media object; identifying a deviation from a set-of-rules according to an analysis of the monitored at least one of actions and events, wherein the set-of-rules define at least one of allowable and prohibited actions and events of the at least one web browser media object; and at least one of filtering and outputting an indication of the at least one web browser media object identified as deviating from the set-of-rules.

An apparatus and a method for displaying content of a third party to a cellular phone of a patron of premises are shown and described. The premises may be for example a restaurant in which a premises display apparatus which is part of the apparatus system is placed on a table used by the patron. The patron may utilize the premises display apparatus to cause a particular commercial solicitation by the third party to appear on a screen of his or her cellular phone by an initiating action by the patron. The communication may be a commercial transaction completed using the cellular phone. The premises display apparatus selectively enables a generic menu of third party icons, or a home web page of one or more third parties, or another specific web page of any selected third party or via an application to be displayed on the cellular phone.

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.

A method includes enabling a plurality of users to interact with a virtual world, each of the users represented as one or more avatars in the virtual world, obtaining preferences and consent of each of the users, displaying promotional messages to a user of the plurality of users in the virtual world based on the user's preferences and consent, and after displaying the promotional messages to the user, filtering the user's preferences and consent from the virtual world to remove transaction footprints.

Techniques described herein are directed to determining that multimedia content displays a representation of an item offered for sale (1) at a first timestamp and (2) at a first location relative to a viewable window of a user device; generating an interactive element comprising an e-commerce tag interactable for purchase of the item; rendering, at the first timestamp, the interactive element on a first portion of the multimedia content and positioned relative to the representation of the item in a predetermined spatial configuration in the viewable window; rendering, at a second timestamp, the interactive element on a second portion of the multimedia content and positioned relative to the representation in the same spatial configuration; detecting an interaction with the interactive element; and based on detecting the interaction, displaying a graphical user interface configured to allow the user to purchase the item.