A system and method for providing cross device identity matching service is provided. An request is received by an ad exchange, which includes an ad impression opportunity and information of one identity associated with a user. The user is determined and at least one identity of the same user is selected for at least one bidder to generate at least one bidding request for online advertising.

A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including: extracting a consumer, from among plural consumers, whose degree of being influenced by recommendation for a specific product satisfies a predetermined condition; and recommending the specific product to the extracted consumer.

Systems and methods are provided for directing advertising content to advertising media specific to one or more consumers proximate the advertising media. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, a media proximity message (MPM) associated with an advertising medium. The method also includes accessing, by the computing device, location context for the advertising medium from an advertising media data structure, based on an advertising medium identifier in the MPM, and accessing a consumer profile for the consumer, based on a consumer identifier in the MPM, from a consumer profiles data structure. The method further includes selecting, by the computing device, an advertising content, from an advertising content data structure, based on at least the consumer profile and the location context, and causing the selected advertising content to be displayed at the advertising medium.

A method for web browser-based distribution of targeted advertising messages is provided. An advertising party registers with a distributor of targeted advertising messages. An advertising campaign for goods targeting user demographic categories chosen by the advertising party is created, with advertising messages being customized for each category and the advertising messages being stored on a web server of the distributor. The advertising party pays the distributor for the advertising campaign. A user registers with the distributor for receiving advertising messages through a web browser and the user providing user demographic data and value account information at registration. The web browser home page of the user is configured with a user-specific URL corresponding to a set of targeted advertising messages according to the user demographic data. The user opens the browser and views the home page containing a target advertising message of the set of targeted advertising messages according to the user demographic category and the distributor credits the user value account upon the user viewing the advertising message.

A method of providing a personalized advertisement campaign includes receiving from a financial institution anonymized customer data associated with a plurality of customers of the financial institution, creating key lifestyle indicators, which describe customer attributes, from the anonymized customer data, delivering online a pre-advertisement to at least one selected customer of the plurality of customers, receiving a prospective unique customer identification code from the financial institution when at least one prospective customer accepts the pre-advertisement, matching the prospective unique customer identification code to at least one prospective customer of the plurality of customers, and delivering a financial application associated with the pre-advertisement to the at least one prospective customer with the matched prospective unique customer identification code.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining a preference of a user for or against a participant of an event when a media asset relating to the event is being played based on monitoring user reactions to the event. Specifically, the media guidance application may detect a change of at least one of the biometric state (e.g., pulse rate, blood pressure, etc.) and physiological state (e.g., facial expression, gesture, body movement, etc.) with a user. The media guidance application may determine that an event has occurred within the sporting event that triggered the change. The media guidance application may determine that the user favors the first participant over the second participant, if the user reacts positively towards a score for the first participant in the event.

Embodiments of the invention provide a vending machine for enabling a transaction between a user and one of a plurality of remote sources. Vending machine may include a communication interface communicatively coupled with each source. Vending machine may include an input interface for receiving an input regarding the selection of a source. Vending machine may include a speaker and a microphone for audio communication with selected source, as well as a display for providing information related to the transaction from selected source. Vending machine may include a processor that transmits an indication that a source has been selected and establishes, via the communication interface, audio communication. Processor may receive, via the communication interface, a control command from selected source directing a hardware peripheral of vending machine to perform a function. Processor may receive an issuance authorization from selected source. The issuance authorization may cause a transaction item to be issued.

A wearable apparatus and method are provided for capturing image data. In one implementation, a wearable apparatus for capturing image data is provided. The wearable apparatus includes at least one image sensor for capturing image data of an environment of a user, wherein a field of view of the image sensor includes a chin of the user. The wearable apparatus includes two or more microphones, and an attachment mechanism configured to enable the image sensor and microphones to be worn by the user. The wearable apparatus includes a processing device programmed to capture at least one image, identify the chin of the user to obtain a location of the chin, select a microphone from the two or more microphones based on the location, process input from the selected microphone using a first processing scheme, and process input from a microphone that is not selected using a second processing scheme.

In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to database driven computer systems providing real-time updatable graphical user interfaces to track real-time value of media airings, including: a specifically programmed server; a database accessible by the server, where the server includes a plurality of modules configured to perform: electronically and periodically obtaining media data, web tracking transaction data, call center transaction data, and fulfillment transaction data; associating, in real time, media data records of airings of creatives to fulfillment transaction records by matching records among database tables having media data, web tracking transaction data, call center transaction data, and fulfillment transaction data; continuously calculating, in real-time, a current value of a particular airing of a particular creative; and displaying a graphical user interface, including real-time updated look-up items, outputting one or more real-time report based at least on the continuously calculating the current value of the particular airing.

The invention relates to methods, systems, and computer-readable media related to a system having a plurality of users, designed to display a user-customized subset of item and/or provider information to the user.