A media sharing and communication system, including a recording mechanism that records a desired portion of media upon activation by a first individual user, a first user transmitter/receiver that transmits the portion of media and a message generated by the first individual user regarding the portion of media to a second individual user and is capable of transmitting a message to a second individual user, a confirmation mechanism that confirms that the second individual user is authorized to view the portion of media, a notification mechanism that notifies the first individual user if the second individual user is not authorized to receive the portion of media, a second user transmitter/receiver that receives the portion of media and voice message upon authorization of the second individual user, a search mechanism, and a video recording mechanism, an online betting module, and an online food ordering module.

A retail customer tracking system and method is disclosed. The retail system preferably includes at least one surveillance camera for generating image data of customer interactions with products and at least one point of sale camera for generating image data of customers at a point of sale area. An analytics system determines product interactions from the image data of the customer interactions with the products and stores facial image information and the product interactions for each of the customers. When a customer arrives at a point of sale area, facial image information of the customer determined from the image data of the point of sale camera is matched to previously stored facial information for the customer, and associated product interactions for the customer are provided to a management system. The management system then provides sale cues based on the product interactions to the customer at the point of sale area.

A method and apparatus of monitoring interaction with unstructured data. The method may include receiving, from a content generator, generated content, tagging content with one or more tags to associate generated content with other content, associating content with the content generator, extracting marketing information from received generated content based on the one or more tags, and targeting the associated content generator with marketing information based on extracted marketing information.

An Menu Advertising system is disclosed which presents menu items to a user and that allows a user to input menu selections in connection with making purchases while using an electronic device. In connection with inputting user characteristics gleaned from a history of user purchase history, menu selection, demographic data, etc., menu items may be tailor to a particular user or what's determined to be a particular type of user. In addition, advertisements may be presented to a user during the user interaction with the electronic device. The advertisement may be a video or a number of still images presented in accordance with analytic data determined from prior purchases and an volunteered information from the user.

A method and a system are provided for interaction with a digital signage board. An electronic device receives, via a transceiver, a first metadata associated with a first grid displayed on the digital signage board that is configured to display a plurality of multimedia content items in a plurality of first cells of the grid. The electronic device receives, via the transceiver, a second metadata associated with the plurality of multimedia content items. The one or more processors in the electronic device display a second grid comprising a plurality of second cells that are based on the first metadata and the second metadata. The one or more processors in the electronic device further update a property associated with at least one of the plurality of second cells based on a user profile stored in the electronic device and the second metadata.

A method for storing a first data object, includes: on a client device, decomposing the first data object into a first fragment associated with a first original record locator and a second fragment associated with a second original record locator; on the client device, obfuscating the first original record locator to generate a first obfuscated record locator and the second original record locator to generate a second obfuscated record locator; on the client device, encrypting the first fragment using a first encryption key and the second fragment using a second encryption key; and storing, to at least a first of a plurality of storage locations, the first encrypted fragment with the corresponding first obfuscated record locator and the second encrypted fragment with the second obfuscated record locator.

A method for authenticated communications between devices, includes: establishing communications for data streaming between a first device and a second device; establishing a shared key; exchanging the shared key between the first device and the second device; encrypting a dataset by the first device using the shared key; decrypting the dataset by the second device using the shared key; evaluating key regeneration criteria to determine whether the shared key should be regenerated; in response to determining that the shared key should be regenerated, generating a new shared key, and encrypting a next dataset by the first device using the new shared key.

A system for storing and managing credentials and encryption keys, includes: a first data store and a second data store; a client device configured to transmit a request to retrieve user data stored in the first data store; a secure key platform configured to: store user credentials and data store credentials in the second data store separate from the user data stored in the first data store; receive, from the client device, the request to retrieve user data stored in the first data store; retrieve, from the second data store, user credentials associated with a user of the client device and data store credentials associated with the first data store in response to the request to retrieve user data; use the user credentials of the user of the client device and data store credentials of the first data store to retrieve user data from the first data store; and provide the user data to the client device.

The subject personalized consumer advertising/ad placement system provides the ability for advertisers, ad agencies, and any other applicable organization to determine and electronically present their “ideal” consumer profile and have their advertisement/promotion placed in front of all consumers who match the profile based on the anonymous mining of the consumers actual spending across a broad base of spending categories.

Systems and methods are disclosed for accessing first party Internet cookies. One method includes receiving, over an electronic network, a request for an electronic advertisement or an Internet cookie, wherein the request is received in response to a user requesting content from a subdomain of an advertising entity domain; and sending, to a device associated with the user, an Internet cookie having the subdomain of the advertising entity domain. The method further includes receiving, from the device associated with the user, a request for content from the subdomain of the advertising entity domain, wherein the request is received in response to the user requesting content from a domain of an online publisher; and accessing data stored in the Internet cookie sent to the device associated with the user.