Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided herein. A method for providing a shared map interface includes causing display of a shared map interface on a first mobile device and on a second mobile device; receiving a first shape drawing input on the shared map interface displayed on the first mobile device; generating a first circumscribed region on the shared map interface of the first mobile device and the second mobile device; receiving a second shape drawing input on the shared map interface displayed on the second mobile device; generating a second circumscribed region on the shared map interface of the first mobile device and the second mobile device; and determining a search region based on combining the first circumscribed region and the second circumscribed region.

Apparatus' and methods are disclosed for distributing sellers' offerings within an advertising system in which a seller generates a profile containing a list of offerings for mobile buyers and wherein mobile buyer's devices display the seller's offerings based on the buyer's preferred purchases or vendors. At least some of the buyer's preferred profile entries are associated with a geographic area. A mobile network is used to connect the mobile buyers and the sellers. The network further includes a brand sponsor that offers branded content through the network and the seller's offering processes. Branded content may be displayed based on a bidding process. Buyers mobile devices may include a bypass function to allow the display of the branded content on the buyer's mobile device even of that branded content does not meet the criteria of the buyer' preferred offerings.

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for facilitating and/or automating project specification, vendor/supplier selection, packaging/processing, and/or mailing for bulk or direct mail campaigns are described herein. Via computer-facilitated techniques, a project manager (or other authorized user) of a mail campaign electronically provides various project information (e.g., project type, design specifications and quantities of materials, mailing list(s), deadlines). Multiple authorized suppliers of services germane to direct mail campaigns (e.g., print shops, lettershops) electronically access the project information and in turn provide respective bids to perform at least some services required by the project. The methods, apparatuses, and systems may also generate logistical recommendations to the user for the bulk or direct mail campaign based on the processed data and on logistical information obtained from a variety of sources.

A wireless device is enabled to provide offers. The wireless device receives card data for a financial account card and stores the card data in a memory associated with the wireless device. Responsive to using the card data in a transaction at a first merchant location, the wireless device receives transaction line-item data from a computing system associated with the first merchant location. The wireless device determines merchant information for a second merchant location and determines an offer associated with the second merchant location based on the line-item data and the merchant information for the second merchant. The wireless device presents the offer when the wireless device is near the second merchant location.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a user interest estimation system and an information delivery system capable of accurately estimating user's interest and eventually capable of delivering specific information such as advertisements while corresponding to the user. After having received photographic data related to a commodity or service transmitted via a network from a user's information terminal device 1, geographical or spatial context information related to a time and location included in the photographic data is acquired by referring to a context information database, object information pertaining to the commodity or service related to the time and location included in photographic data is obtained by referring to an object information database, and a user interest information is generated by associating the context information and the object information with each other.

Systems and methods for providing interactive content for display in low-bandwidth communication environments are provided. A system can receive request for a web page including primary content. The system can determine that the end user computing device is communicating with the data processing system via a network connection corresponding to a bandwidth below a predetermined threshold. The system can, responsive to determining that the network connection corresponds to a bandwidth below the predetermined threshold, provide the web page including the primary video content and web page code invoking a low bandwidth advertisement rendering script responsive to the request for the web page. The low bandwidth advertisement rendering script can be configured to cause the client device to receive an ad rendering application and an ad content package, and then render an interactive ad corresponding to the ad content package.

An object is recognized from image data as a target object and linked to a user based on an interaction by the user, information about the target object is obtained and a purchase of the target object is initiated.

A system and methods for delivering targeted marketing offers to consumers during a session with an online (web-based) Internet portal, particularly suitable for online banking portals of financial institutions. An offer management system receives information corresponding to an advertising campaign of an advertiser corresponding to terms of a targeted marketing offer to be provided to a consumer accessing the online portal, and provides advertising campaign data corresponding to the targeted marketing offer and to an offer-triggering event to an offer placement system. An offer placement system receives the advertising campaign data, determines the occurrence of the offer-triggering event by a consumer during an online session with the online portal, and delivers information corresponding to the targeted marketing offer to the consumer. In response to the offer-triggering event, such as display of a list of transactions, the predetermined targeted marketing offer is delivered to the consumer during the online session.

The disclosed apparatus, systems, and methods relate to a location query mechanism that can efficiently determine whether a target entity is located within a region of interest (ROI). At a high level, the location query mechanism can be configured to represent a ROI using one or more polygons. The location query mechanism can, in turn, divide (e.g., tessellate) the one or more polygons into sub-polygons. Subsequently, the location query mechanism can use the sub-polygons to build an index system that can efficiently determine whether a particular location is within any of the sub-polygons. Therefore, when a computing device queries whether a particular location is within the region of interest, the location query mechanism can use the index system to determine whether the particular location is within any of the sub-polygons.

A mobile device includes at least one processor, a memory and computer-executable instructions stored thereon. The mobile device is structured to determine first geolocation information indicative of a location of the mobile device and determine, based on the first geolocation information, that the mobile device is located within a predetermined geographic region from a plurality of merchant locations. The mobile device generates an electronic alert message regarding the plurality of merchant locations and displays the electronic alert message to the user. The mobile device determines a user selection of a payment card via a mobile wallet application running on the mobile device. Second geolocation information regarding a location of the mobile device is determined. A code generate a code for a purchase transaction is generated. The code includes the second geolocation information, tokenized payment card information, and a merchant identifier.