A control device as an advertisement display device that is mountable on a vehicle includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a time for which an occupant of another vehicle is able to visually recognize a video displayed on a display attached to a host vehicle based on a driving state of the host vehicle, and a display controller configured to display an advertisement edited such that a video time corresponds to the visually recognizable time calculated by the calculation unit on the display.

A location-aware electronic device is provided. The electronic device trains feature extraction layers, reconstruction layers, and classification layers. The training may be based on a reconstruction loss and/or a clustering loss. The electronic device processes a fingerprint to obtain an augmented fingerprint using randomization based on statistics of the fingerprint. The feature extraction layers provide feature data to both the reconstruction layers and the classification layers. The classification layers operate on the codes to obtain an estimated location label. An application processor operates on the estimated location label to provide a location-aware application result to a person.

A mobile device system comprising a global positioning satellite processor to locate a position of the mobile device, a mobile display interface for displaying at least one event and the position on a map and an event processor coupled to a server and a remote database and to filter at least one event in the mobile display interface, wherein the at least one filtered event includes a destination and is filtered from a plurality of categories based on selected criteria, wherein a collection of events is selected from the database based on the selected criteria, and displayed on the map as the destination.

A contest method and system including sponsor displaying advertisement accompanied by contest invitation in association with a spectator event. Plurality of spectators within or outside of the spectator event, becoming contest participants and entering the contest using Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to access the information about the contest, by submitting the affection-demonstrating digital images representing demonstrations of kissing, hugging, or otherwise conveying personal affection between at least two individuals or pets. Entering the plurality of affection-demonstrating digital images into an electronic batch of a plurality of affection-demonstrating digital image entrants. Selecting an affection-demonstrating digital image from the electronic batch of the plurality of affection-demonstrating digital images and designating such selected affection-demonstrating digital image as a winning entry of the contest according to the selected affection-demonstrating digital image having received the most votes from all spectators both within and outside the spectator event.

A secure communication method for ordering a product or a service by way of a communication terminal is described. The method is performed by the terminal and includes sending, to a server, a request containing information relating to a product or to a service, establishing, in the background, a communication to N supplier terminals (N≥1) identified by the server as being able to supply the product or the service, based on all or some of the information in the request, the communication being established while masking the communication identifier of the terminal and of the N terminals, and, in the course of the communication, receiving, from at least one supplier terminal out of at least K supplier terminals, such that 1≤K≤N, an offer for a product or for a service corresponding to the information, the offer having been generated during the communication.

A sales administration system that manages online sales via overlays on a video stream. Customers can comment on or respond to the video stream, and may order products using simple phrases such as “Sold”. The system can stream video with overlays to multiple clients simultaneously, including websites and mobile apps. Comments from all clients are received, aggregated, processed for orders, and displayed to the sales administrator. The system is coupled to a merchant's operational data, providing immediate visibility to changes in inventory and orders. Video overlays may be updated automatically by the system as this operational data changes, for example highlighting products with low stock. The system may analyze customer comments and orders both during the video stream and after the sales session is complete, and may generate recommendations to improve sales effectiveness. For backorders, customers may preauthorize charges to be at the front of the queue for shipment.

Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes generating a zero-knowledge proof that proves that a hash of the scrubbed plurality of mobile telephone numbers is computed correctly in response to a complaint about a message. The method also includes generating a zero-knowledge proof that proves that the message maps to the specific template identifier in response to a complaint about the message.

A system and method for creation, distribution and tracking of advertising via electronic networks, enabling creation of advertisements using licensed third party content and placement of said ads at desired network locations, utilizing an auction of ad spaces based on bids placed by advertisers to have their ads displayed at such locations. When a network user/ad viewer requests an ad by clicking or other action, an auction algorithm executes to select the ad to be displayed from those that bid for display at such ad space location and then the ad is composed and delivered to the ad space location by accessing a relational database storing commands that retrieve, assemble and dispatch the licensed ad content. Usage and display of licensed content on designated ad space is tracked to enable cost-er-use charging for both use of licensed content and ad display at the designated ad space.

A subscription-based system for providing commerce information for one or more mobile devices for one or more merchants. Some techniques employed feature a subscription-based method for presenting commercial resources to a mobile device. The method involves receiving mobile device user information relating to a geographic location to locate one or more merchants within a subscription-based shopping network, and receiving mobile device user information relating to a merchant type within the subscription-based shopping network. The method also involves receiving, from a database over a communication network, information for one or more merchants associated with the mobile device user information for the geographic location and the merchant type, and presenting the associated merchant information on the mobile device. The associated merchant information can include a merchant name and address, a merchant telephone number, a merchant advertisement, a merchant coupon, or a merchant product or service offering to subscribers of the shopping network.

A system for retargeting customers is based on a mobile device query initiated by a user, and includes a query module configured to receive a query with geographical information from the mobile device and determine geographical identifiers of the mobile device. An indexed database stores an aggregated plurality of customers having a geographical identifier proximate to the determined geographical area, and a processor selects an advertiser located proximate to the determined geographical area. A performance feedback module is configured to assign an effectiveness rating to one or more advertisements provided by the selected advertiser based on marketing attributes of the aggregated plurality of customers. An advertisement recommendation module then recommends one or more advertisements provided by the selected advertiser based on the assigned effectiveness rating, and the aggregated plurality of customers are retargeted by transmitting the recommended advertisements to one or more customers of the aggregated plurality of customers.