A mobile application is made available for download to a device associated with a mobile business. Data describing a varying location of the business (and including an ID) is obtained by exposing an API to the application over a wireless network. The varying location is tracked by the application interfacing with a GPS unit of the device. A database of payment card transactions is queried based on the ID to obtain payment card transaction data (amount and time stamp) for a plurality of transactions at the mobile business. A location is assigned to each of the transactions, based on matching the time stamps of each of the transactions with a corresponding location in the data, to obtain augmented transaction data; and an alert is sent to the mobile application based on the augmented transaction data.

In some implementations, methods and apparatuses herein relate to generating shared memory spaces that can share files or applications between users and between user devices. For example, a processor can allocate a first portion of a memory of a client device to serve as a shared memory space for at least one dynamic application object, and instantiating a user interface on a display associated with the client device. The user interface can be based on a content of the shared memory space and representing the at least one dynamic application object. A processor can define access rights for a user of a second electronic device for receiving a copy of the instantiated user interface. The processor can define user rights for the user for use of the at least one dynamic application object with the second electronic device. The at least one dynamic application object can be a data file or a live user experience.

A user targeted advertisement delivery system for delivering one or more targeted advertisements to the user is provided. The system includes a parking server that receives the user parking related information from the user device and one or more advertisements from the one or more advertiser devices. The parking server identifies and serves one or more targeted advertisements based on a location of parking, a time of day, a day of week, a calendar, and a duration of parking. The parking server communicates a notification (e.g., a parking receipt, reminders for timer expiry, thank you note once the time is over) along with one or more targeted advertisements to the user device when the user initiates a parking timer after parking his/her vehicle in a parking slot.

Subscriber authorization information from a wireless communication device is identified. The subscriber authorization information indicates that an identity of a subscriber associated with the wireless communication device is authorized to be shared without sharing information that identifies a location of the wireless communication device. Subsequent to the subscriber authorization information being identified, the identity of the subscriber associated with the wireless communication device is received or retrieved without information that identifies the location of the wireless communication device.

A system for providing real-time targeted advertising based on one or more categorical identifiers, the system comprising a social networking platform requiring users to create user profiles, one or more computing platforms capable of storing a cookie, said cookie used to track a user's navigation on the social networking platform, an incentivized data collection technique comprising of a plurality of incentivized activities executed through the social networking platform, said incentivized activities for obtaining demographic information and interest information from users, means for assigning one or more first unique identifiers to a user based on the demographic and interest information obtained from said user, and a module operating on the social networking platform, said module for allowing advertisers to preassign to one or more ads one or more second unique identifiers applicable to the advertisers' targeted users, said module matching the one or more second unique identifiers of the ads to the one or more first categorical identifiers in real-time as the one or more first categorical identifiers are assigned to a user, said module immediately displaying said ads to the matched users.

An advertising method for securing and expanding customers by using contents, and a technical object thereof is to provide an advertising method of using a basic sponsor, in which a first sponsor matched with identification information received upon a request for a service application is to be registered as a basic sponsor of a first category of business to which the first sponsor belongs, for a user terminal from which the service application is requested.

A method of displaying media content on a display screen of a communication device. The method includes receiving an indication of a state transition of a first Activity of an application program being executed on a processor of the communication device. The processor, in response to the indication, executes program code in order to monitor a memory state of the operating system so as to determine a user interface state associated with the first Activity. The processor further determines whether the first Activity is finishing based at least in part on the user interface state. Upon determining the first Activity is finishing, the processor causes the media content to be displayed upon further determining that a predetermined condition associated with the communication device exists.

In some embodiments, a user can create a location-conscious mobile banner. The user can specify the appearance and content of the location-conscious mobile banner, and can also specify where and when the location-conscious mobile banner is provided to other users, and/or a type of campaign to initiate. A mobile application may communicate with a server in order to store and/or distribute the location-conscious mobile banner for display within mobile applications and/or other media. The server can also provide the user with statistics about the location-conscious mobile banner, and can allow the user to dynamically alter portions of the location-conscious mobile banner and/or the campaign criteria for the location-conscious mobile banner, based on the statistics. The server may also facilitate interaction between other users viewing the location-conscious mobile banner, and the information incorporated within the location-conscious mobile banner.

A computer-executable method, a computer system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for causing electronic marketing communications of one or more promotions to be generated on a mobile computing device associated with a consumer. A method includes programmatically retrieving promotion data indicative of a plurality of promotions from a computer memory. The method includes determining, using processing circuitry, a promotion score for each of the plurality of promotions. Each promotion score is determined based on consumer profile data, stored consumer activity data, and at least one of: current consumer activity data, current local context data, or predicted consumer activity data. The method further includes outputting indications configured to generate electronic marketing communications associated with the plurality of promotions based on the promotion scores of the plurality of promotions.

A portable display apparatus and system are provided that is not limited to placement by the presence of mains power and avoids mains power leads that may pose a tripping hazard The portable display apparatus comprises: a self-standing housing; a digital display screen mounted to the housing and viewable from an outside of the housing; and a rechargeable battery provided in the housing, wherein the rechargeable battery is configured to power the digital display screen to thereby enable the digital display screen to display media thereon.