According to a shared signboard service of the present invention, traditional wall signboards, which are individually installed and independently managed by respective store owners mainly to display a store name, are recreated into network-connected digital shared signboards by fusion with ICT technology, so that a self-advertisement, a third-party advertisement, and public information content can be displayed in addition to displaying a trademark, and multipurpose use is possible. In addition, as a signboard replacement procedure can be implemented only by changing display content, sign replacement costs can be reduced, and environmental problems can be prevented.

A personalized advertisement and checkout system and method for generating personalized merchant advertisements to specific device users includes a communications network, an advertisement system, at least one merchant administrator operable by a respective merchant user, at least one partner system and at least one user device operable by a respective device user. Each of the advertisement system, the merchant administrator, the partner system and the user device includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. Each of the merchant administrator and the user device includes a display and a user interface, the user interface of the merchant administrator receiving input from the respective merchant user and the user interface of the user device receiving input from the respective device user. The advertisement system ranks merchant campaigns entered by the merchant users and generates a list of merchant offer advertisements that is displayed on the user device.

A service provider may receive item price information and/or point of sale (POS) transaction information from a plurality of merchant devices associated with a plurality of merchants. The service provider may categorize the plurality of merchants according to the types of items offered by the respective merchants, and may further categorize the merchants according to the locations at which they conduct business. The service provider may subsequently determine a price recommendation or other pricing information for a particular item offered by a particular merchant. A merchant device of the particular merchant may present the pricing information in a user interface that enables the merchant to view projected sales at various different price points. Further, the merchant may be able to specify one or more factors used for determining the recommend price, such as a desired business model, a desired clientele, a desired profit margin, or the like.

A contextual services delivery system that may deliver different contextual services to a smartphone and/or a POS terminal in response to a context environment, which can provide a user with a customized contextual services experience. In one embodiments, the system may be configured to identify a mobile device of a user entering a store location based on a POS terminal detecting the mobile device. The system can cause a display of an inventory of products for the store location and receive a selection of a product. A payment amount for the product can be displayed on the mobile device. An additional product can be selected based on a context characteristic of the product. An update for the additional product can be displayed on the mobile device. An acceptance of the additional product from the mobile device can be received. The payment amount is modified at the POS terminal.

The present technology relates to an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an electronic shelf label, an image pickup device, a communication device, an information processing device, electronic equipment, a computer, a storage medium, a system, and the like.

Systems, methods and computer readable media for providing a point-of-sale system that can be configured to facilitate the sale of products and transmit transaction data to a cloud based system are provided herein. The cloud based system can be maintained by a promotional party and be configured to generate deal offers and/or provide other services based on the transaction data received. In some embodiments, a fee may be charged for some or all of the services offered and/or the transactional data provided to the promotional system may be governed by an agreement between the promotional party and the merchant.

A computer-implemented method of providing information about an individual product includes: using a product information server comprised in a product information system, deciding, by the product information system, using the product information server, an application by a system applicant applying to register as a system user of the product information system; creating, by the product information system, using the product information server, a product passport configured to provide item-specific product information regarding a unique individual product; populating the product passport, by the product information system, using the product information server, with item-specific product information regarding the product; receiving from a system user, by the product information system, using the product information server, a user request for item-specific product information regarding the product; providing, by the product information system, the item-specific product information to the system user; and recording, by the product information system, a product transaction involving the product.

The disclosure describes, in part, techniques for performing pre-authorization during a transaction between a merchant a customer. For instance, a payment service may receive, from a merchant device, payment information of a payment instrument that is used to satisfy a cost of a first item. The payment service may then send an authorization request to a card payment network to hold a first amount of funds based on previous purchase activity. The payment service may further send the merchant device information associated with the customer. Next, the payment service may receive an indication that the customer requests to purchase a second item. In response, the payment service may send a request to the card payment network to capture a second amount of funds that is based on the cost of the first item and a cost of the second item. In response, the payment service may receive approval from the card payment network.

A system and method for content selection and presentation is disclosed. A plurality of content elements configured for presentation in at least one content container is received and one of the plurality of content elements is selected for presentation in the at least one content container. The one of the plurality of content elements is selected by a trained selection model configured to select one of an individual context or a global context. An interface including the selected one of the plurality of content elements is generated.

A machine-learning algorithm is trained with features relevant to a visual/video analysis performed on subjects conducting transaction at transaction terminals. The algorithm is also trained on weather data known at the time of the transactions and on selective details of the transactions. The algorithm produces as output predictions relevant to: whether a given subject for a current transaction is likely to enter a store, likely items that the given subject might purchase if the subject were to enter the store and likely amount of money that the subject would spend in the store, an effectiveness of providing an incentive for the subject to enter the store, and what type of incentive would most likely entice the subject to enter the store.