Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for ranking devices based on a distance from a merchant device. One of the methods includes displaying, in a point-of-sale system, a listing of buyers located proximate to the point-of-sale system, the buyers having indicated using their mobile devices a desire to pursue a financial transaction in association with the point-of-sale system. The point-of-sale system determines relative distances of the mobile devices of the buyers with respect to the point-of-sale system and arranges the displayed listing in the point-of-sale system based at least in part on the determined relative distances.

A system and method are presented that presents targeted messaging to recipient's devices. The system operates by providing a control system server containing message programming and a relational database. The system receives trigger data at the relational database as well recipient data. A recipient data source provides recipient data to the message programming. A messaging purchase interface is also provided, and is configured to provide the control system server with an ordered messaging program including business rules and message content. The system determines that a first trigger data item meets the business rules of the ordered message program and uses the business rules to identify a first subset of recipients to receive the ordered message content. The system then reviews and transmits that content to at least one digital device of at least one healthcare provider.

Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system that may facilitate communications between drivers who share a route. The system may allow communications to be sent from one driver to another driver and allow drivers to post queries to other drivers sharing a route. Computing devices in the vehicle may collect route data for the system to evaluate and to use in identifying drivers sharing a route.

Determining and sending an optimal set of notifications from a campaign for a consumer within a venue by determining a frequency count of notifications for the consumer within the venue based on criteria related to the consumer. Notifications applicable to the consumer are ranked based on criteria related to the consumer. Based on location events triggered by the consumer within the venue, notifications are sent to the user in ranked order until the number of notifications has not exceeded the frequency count determined for the consumer.

A second related location event within a marketing program is listened for by a listener after a first location event has occurred. If the second related location event occurs before the program exits, the program is moved to an exit state and any further processing regarding the program is disregarded.

A technique for sensor network, Machine to Machine (M2M), Machine Type Communication (MTC), Internet of Things (IoT) is provided. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety service) based on the technique. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a first signal comprising a first category identification (ID) and a first unique ID from a first beacon device, determining a distance from the first beacon device based on the first signal, if the distance is below a threshold, registering the first category ID, and if a second signal comprising the registered first category ID from a second beacon device, displaying information corresponding to a second unique ID of the second signal.

Technology is described for providing electronic product listings for products available at a destination. In one example of the technology, destination information may be obtained from an aircraft data bus, where the destination information may be from a plurality of aircraft information systems located on the aircraft. The destination information may be sent to one or more vendor application programming interfaces (APIs) to obtain product details for at least one product that is available for purchase through an inflight entertainment system and available to be delivered to a customer at a flight destination. Product details received from a vendor API may be sent to a client device to be displayed in a graphical user interface of an inflight entertainment system, allowing a passenger on the aircraft to view the product details with a plurality of product details for a plurality of products and purchase the product through the inflight entertainment system.

An approach is provided for providing a collaborative reply to a flooding message over an ad-hoc mesh network. A reply message to a flooding message is received by a wireless node within the ad-hoc network. The wireless node monitors for an acknowledgement of receipt of the reply message according to a routing table and initiates a scheduled transmission of the reply message based on the monitoring.

Systems and methods for identifying optimal promotion-types for plurality of products are described. The system may consider various factors like time, location, non-promotional scenario, promotional scenario and user-defined constraints for computing different values like total sales, total loss, total cost, total profit and profitability ratio. These values may be computed in both non-promotional and promotional scenarios. Further, the system may compare the profitability ratios computed in both the scenarios and based on application of user-defined constraints, the system identifies the optimal promotion-types amongst a plurality of applicable promotion-types. The optimal promotion-types indicates most suitable promotion-types for a particular product at particular location and time period.

A digital license plate interface for interacting with government and other regulatory authorities is described. A user can provide authorization to release data from the digital license plate to government authorities and allow for automated payment of governmental transportation licensing and usage fees.