Systems and methods including mobile devices determining their locations using location determination units, such as GPS receivers. A computing device generates a statistical measurement of location pattern changes in relation to a predetermined region for a predetermined period of time. The measurement is generated from a difference between responses of exposed mobile devices and responses of non-exposed mobile devices, which devices are selected based on a cluster analysis to match the distributions of the exposed mobile devices and the non-exposed mobile devices in an attribute space. Each response of a mobile device can be computed based on applying, at a time instance, an anti-symmetric weight function having an exponential distribution to a time series of visitation measurements to generate a response corresponding to the time instance, and summing the responses corresponding to time instances falling within the predetermined period of time as the response of the mobile device.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a mobile device gateway that receives an HTTP POST message including an advertising identifier from a mobile device, determining whether a uniform resource locator of the HTTP POST message is on a list of URLs for data management platforms; and routing the HTTP POST message to the Internet responsive to determining that the URL of the HTTP POST message is not on the list of URLs for data management platforms. Other embodiments are disclosed.

An advertising network includes a first network server containing real world media of consumers from a live event, a second network server containing sample media, virtual world media, and supporting meta data belonging to vendors, merchants, or service providers, a server interface to the first server distributed to consumer and third party computing appliances and a non-transitory medium resident on the first server containing machine-readable code thereon, the code instructing the first server to (a) process the real world media against sample media to identify virtual objects associated with virtual world media and supporting meta data, (b) upon recognition of a virtual object(s), retrieving associated virtual world media and supporting meta data, (c) integrating the retrieved virtual world media and supporting meta data with the real world media producing an augmented reality overlay layer, and transmitting that to a computing appliance operated by the consumer for display and interaction.

Methods and systems for call processing are described. A call from a caller intended for a first party is received at a call processing system, which stores call signaling information associated with the call. A greeting is played to the caller, and a voice communication is received and recorded. At least a first portion of the voice communication is transmitted in substantially real time to a terminal associated with the first person. At least a portion of the voice communication is converted to text and the text is stored and transmitted to a terminal associated with the first party. When a search query is received from the first party, the system searches the data store to determine if there is matching call having related matching call information. If there is a matching call, related information may be provided to the first party.

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for enabling advertisement interaction with an electronic device, for use in a digital media content environment. A media device includes a touch-sensitive display screen, and user interface that enables access to a stored media application. During the streaming of media content from a media server, an audio advertisement or other type of advertisement can be inserted into a stream, for playback at the media device. Using playback controls provided either by the user interface, or by a headphones, headset, or other type of device, a user can interact with the advertisement (even if the user interface is locked), by performing a defined gesture, which, if received at the media application during a defined time period associated with the advertisement, is interpreted as a signal to select or otherwise interact with the advertisement.

The present invention provides an electronic device and computer program product, and the computer program product includes an application that is loaded into the electronic device to perform the method as follows. After a user logs into his account, the selected mobile advertisement is accepted and then played; when the mobile advertisement is selected or played, it offers a record of promotion information to be stored in the user account, the promotion information includes at least one of the following: points, a voucher, and a discount coupon, in which the point is utilized to redeem goods. At least one photo of the user account is selected, so that the portable printer can print this photo through a wireless transmission unit of the electronic device.

A method of client mediated advertisement selection comprises sending, by an electronic device, a request for an advertisement to an advertisement gateway, where the request comprises a request for an advertisement in a first format, receiving, from the advertisement gateway, a response message that comprises an indication that no advertisement is available in the first format, receiving, from the advertisement gateway, instructions for invoking a first media adapter of a plurality of media adapters on the electronic device based on the request for the advertisement in the first format, invoking, by the electronic device, the first media adapter based on the instructions, requesting, by the first media adapter, the advertisement in the first format from an advertisement provider, and receiving, at the electronic device, the advertisement in the first format.

Methods and systems are provided for providing an alternative payment platform, including method and systems for providing a platform for presenting an alternate offer to a user who is engaged with a primary offer and receiving an indication of the user's engagement with the alternate offer, wherein the user's engagement with the alternate offer serves as an alternative form of payment for an item associated with the primary offer. Such methods and systems may further include methods and systems for selecting one or more alternate offers engagement with which serves as an alternative form of payment for an item associated with a primary offer, presenting the selected alternate payment offers to a user, receiving an indication of engagement with at least one of the alternate offers, receiving payment in exchange for presenting the accepted offer and providing payment to the offeror of the primary offer.

In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for managing playback of content delivered to a mobile device with a pause and resume functionality. The method and system including receiving delivered content on a mobile device, initiating playback of the delivered content, pausing playback of the content being delivered to the mobile device in response to an action and resuming delivery of the content upon a request.

Systems and methods are provided for checking many users in to a location using a Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) beacon. The provided systems and methods may allow a BLE beacon to facilitate a check in with a remote server that processes check ins and then disconnect from the device used to check in. The device may be assigned a unique identifier that may be broadcast from the device during the check in so that the BLE beacon can quickly scan for the identifier and connect with the device based on the identifier to provide content and other information to the device.