A dynamic digital advertising content system having a front end system and a back end system, and used to present product content to a user's computing device in the form of a digital circular. The back end system provides retailers and third party access to upload, and update, product content information for the digital circular, including videos and animations. The dynamic digital advertising content system can include integrations for third-parties such as digital coupon providers and loyalty program providers. The system permits users the ability to share with other users merchandise displayed in the digital circular and/or selected for a shopping list. Such shared content can be dynamically arranged for subsequent presentation on a computing device of the recipient. The digital circular is further customizable for individual retailers or retailer locations, as well as customizable based on detected histories and/or characteristics of the user receiving the digital circular.

Provided is a system for providing a message transmission and reception service using a message standby station, including a transmitting terminal configured to upload message content and transmit the message content to a message standby station for message transmission to an unspecified multitude, a receiving terminal configured to competitively receive a message queued in the message standby station, and a transmission and reception service providing server including a receiving unit, a standby station management unit configured to, in response to a recipient being set as an unspecified multitude by the transmitting terminal, queue the message content in the message standby station, a processing unit configured to, in response to the message queued in the message standby station, record processing of the reception in a log, and a statistics management unit configured to store statistical data on the message content of which the reception has been processed.

Delivery of a wrap package in response to the selection of an advertisement appearing in a web page, social media feed or in an email, text or other electronic message. In some embodiments, the advertisement may be a cover for the wrap package that contains an identifier associate with the wrap. When the cover is selected, the identifier is used to access and deliver the wrap package to the requesting device. In other embodiments, the advertisement may contain a link including the identifier that is then used to retrieve and deliver the wrap when the link is selected.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, for defining and monitoring an event for a physical entity and the performance of an action in response to the occurrence of the event. A method includes receiving data indicating an event for a physical entity, the event specified in part by a physical environment feature for which the occurrence of the event is to be monitored by the data processing apparatus; receiving data indicating an action associated with the event and to be taken in response to the occurrence of the event; monitoring for the occurrence of the event for the physical entity; and in response to the occurrence of the event, causing the action associated with the event to be performed.

Computer code for, a method of, and a system for supporting financing of products offered for sale. The invention may include delivering personal credit information of the buyer for use in analyzing the buyer's credit. If qualified, the buyer is provided with the amount he or she is approved for, along with at least one product that he or she may purchase. The invention may also complete the sales transaction.

A system and method for supporting the purchase of products offered for sale. The system and method may include delivering for display to a buyer information regarding the product being offered for sale, along with retrieving profile information relating to the potential buyer from one or more other systems, for use in consummating the purchase of the product.

A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object.

Advertisers today seeking to exploit social networks and social media to garner one of the oldest and most effective advertisements, word of mouth and the recommendation of a friend, colleague, family member, etc. At the same time friction for users has become more important over time in that users want to get to the desired information or perform a desired action with the minimum effort, i.e. mouse clicks, webpages, etc. It would be beneficial for an advertiser to establish a presence with a user with low friction and further beneficial for that low friction engagement to then result in the advertiser or the advertiser's content being pushed from a user to other users to establish their presence with these other users and reduce the friction between the advertiser and these other users

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting content items. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining, for each of one or more first applications, a user's level of interest in obtaining content based on a number of user requests for content from the application that result in less than a given amount of content being presented to the user. Based on one or more obtained levels of interest, a content item for a second application that has available content is selected. The second application can be different from the first application. The content item is displayed on a display of a user device.

Described herein are methods and systems allowing a company to market and advertise its brands, products and/or services in a mobile platform by use of an application converting a user input into a corresponding branded icon, logo or image and displaying the same. The user input is in the form of a text entry from the device keyboard, e.g., a brand name or a generic search word, or a voice or sound input or audio demand from the device speaker. By providing various menu functions associated with the displayed icons, logos or images, the application combines mobile texting with online search or browsing to provide for a much simpler and more convenient mobile experience.