Proposed is a signage system operating in conjunction with a user terminal, wherein a user's social activities, such as exchanging opinions, on an online business place local page are output to a signage installed in an offline business place, and the social activities are supported through various community services, such as exchanging opinions related to the business place, filling in questionnaires, and participating in social games, and the details of the social activities are output to the signage, thereby providing a variety of fun to customers visiting the business place and customers participating in the social activities and enabling the local page to be frequently used.

Techniques for identifying groups of local features in an image and presenting advertisement information associated with stored images that match one or more features within the group of local features are described. The techniques include providing an image, identifying a region of interest in the image, providing a user-selectable link associated with the region of interest in the image, receiving a request for the region of interest in the image via the user-selectable link, and presenting advertisement information associated with a stored image that matches one or more features within the requested region of interest.

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for determining advertising conversion metrics. In some implementations, a method includes receiving spatial information associated with a user in connection with an advertisement presented through a wireless device 102. The advertisement is associated with an offline 110 store having a geographic location. A likelihood of conversion is determined based, at least in part, on the spatial information and the geographic location of the offline store 110.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for generating a schedule for promotions using promotional windows. A set of product data associated with a plurality of products is received. Promotion data is received, and a plurality of intensity scores are calculated for the associated promotional data. A set of target product data associated with a target product is determined. A set of target promotional attributes is determined and a plurality of promotion windows are generated for display. A confidence value is determined for each generated promotion window of the plurality of promotion windows. An order list is generated for display. In response to receiving a second set of promotion data, the determined confidence value is modified for each generated promotion window of the plurality of promotion windows.

Disclosed are a device for recommending locations in a building using fingerprints of access points and a method using the device. The locations of access points are detected by collecting fingerprints for the access points from terminals of multiple users, the locations of stores in the building are detected by using the fingerprints and payment histories of the multiple users, and locations may be recommended to a recommendation target user based on a meta-path, using a metamap generated by integrating the locations of the access points and stores with the indoor plan of the building. Indoor positioning is enabled by detecting the locations of access points using the information obtained from the terminals of multiple users, whereby constructing infrastructure information for the access points in the building in advance may not be required.

Methods and systems providing digital signage and interactive gaming services in compliance with federal and state laws and regulations are described. A service fee is collected from a retailer, and a service fee may or may not be collected from a retailer (e.g., a bar). An advertising fee is collected from a first advertising provider. The first advertising provider is involved in alcohol distribution/wholesaling or manufacturing. A second advertising fee from a second advertising provider is collected. The second advertising provider is involved in a non-alcohol related industry. A portion of a subscription fee is collected based on a separate source of fees (e.g., text message or jukebox fee) received from a patron. The message may contain information indicating that the patron wishes to pay a service fee. Revenue sharing is implemented by distributing a portion of the service fee to the retailer and distributing a portion of the advertising fee from the second advertising provider to the retailer in compliance with federal and state laws.

Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for dynamically retrieving and monitoring geo-fence activity. A meta geo-fence may be identified based on a user device geolocation. The meta geo-fence having a radius that is dynamically generated to include previously defined geo-fences within or touching the meta geo-fence. User device geolocation may be monitored in relation to the defined geo-fences included in the radius of the meta geo-fence. A communication may be sent to the user device when the user device reports that the user device has entered or exited one of the previously defined geo-fences within or touching the radius of the meta geo-fence.

An online system uses a model to determine affinities of users for geographical locations. Using the affinities, which may indicate travel-related preferences of the users, the online system may customize content items to include content captured by client devices of other users of the online system. For example, the online system presents to a particular user a content item including a photo or video of a geographical location captured by a camera of a client device of another user who is connected to the particular user. The model may implement, for example, collaborative filtering or other machine learning techniques to determine commonalities between users' travel affinities. Additionally, the model may determine latent properties or temporal trends of user preferences based on training data including historical actions performed on the online system or social data. The model may also classify different types of geographical locations.

An information providing system includes a plurality of charging stations, a vehicle equipped with a power storage device, and a management server. The vehicle may charge the power storage device by using electric power supplied from the charging station. The management server may communicate with the vehicle and the plurality of charging stations. The vehicle sends information about a destination designated by a user to the management server. Upon receiving the information about the destination from the vehicle, the management server acquires congestion information indicating a congestion degree of a charging station installed in the destination among the plurality of charging stations and incentive information from a charging station installed around the destination among the plurality of charging stations, and sends the information to the vehicle. The vehicle displays the information sent from the management server to the user.

.[.A semiconductor memory cell and arrays of memory cells are provided.]. In at least one embodiment, a memory cell includes a substrate .[.having a top surface, the substrate.]. having a first conductivity type selected from a p-type conductivity type and an n-type conductivity type; a first region having a second conductivity type .[.selected from the p-type and n-type conductivity types, the second conductivity type being.]. different from the first conductivity type.[., the first region being formed in the substrate and exposed at the top surface.].; a second region having the second conductivity type.[., the second region being formed in the substrate, spaced apart from the first region and exposed at the top surface.].; a buried layer .[.in the substrate.]. below the first and second regions.[., spaced apart from the first and second regions.]. and having the second conductivity type; a body region formed between the first and second regions and the buried layer.[., the body region.]. .Iadd.and .Iaddend.having the first conductivity type; .Iadd.and .Iaddend.a gate positioned between the first and second regions and above the top surface; .Iadd.wherein a state of the body region is maintained by applying a voltage to the substrate .Iaddend.and a nonvolatile memory configured to store data upon transfer from the body region.