Disclosed herein is an integrated communications system application (ICSA) employed in conjunction with a suitable chat application (executed by a bot) for delivering an automated customer service support for businesses. ICSA herein may include an information storage system, a communication platform, and a facility system mutually sharing information and registering said information in web servers. A bot, connected to ICSA via web servers, may interact with a user employing channels such as chat applications, and may connect to said user via a bot connector. A user may not need to download any additional application to interact with bot herein and receive an automated customer service for different types of businesses.

Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in monitoring product placement within a shopping facility. Some embodiments provide an apparatus configured to determine product placement conditions within a shopping facility, comprising: a transceiver configured to wirelessly receive communications; a product monitoring control circuit coupled with the transceiver; a memory coupled with the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to: obtain a composite three-dimensional (3D) scan mapping corresponding to at least a select area of the shopping facility and based on a series of 3D scan data; evaluate the 3D scan mapping to identify multiple product depth distances; and identify, from the evaluation of the 3D scan mapping, when one or more of the multiple product depth distances is greater than a predefined depth distance threshold from the reference offset distance of the product support structure.

A system for trading goods over a computer network based on image processing includes an image processor that analyzes a picture received from a user to build a description of entities in the picture and correlations among the entities, a description interpreter that analyzes the description to determine an underlying message in the picture and detect information regarding the user's interests, emotions and affinities to goods and services, wherein the information is stored with the user's profile, the user's list of items to trade, and the user's past transaction history, and a trade matching component that uses the user's profile and produces a ranked list of other users with items to trade, or intermediary trade steps, when another user initiates a new trading transaction.

In some embodiments, system, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein useful to leveraging an existing point of sale system to facilitate sale of a product by a third party seller. In some embodiments, the system comprises an existing point of sale system, the existing point of sale system configured to receive, from a third party seller, information about a product, establish an entry for the product based on the product information, receive an indication of a retail shopping facility in which to house the product, receive payment from the buyer, and provide, to the third party seller, value related to the payment from the buyer, the retail shopping facility configured to present, to the buyer on behalf of the third party seller, the product.

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for managing commerce-related communications within a social networking system. For example, systems and methods described herein can identify a particular social networking system post and can generate an optimized version of that particular post. In one or more embodiments, systems and methods described herein can also identify additional social networking system posts that are related to the particular social networking system post.

[Object] To provide an agent robot control system, an agent robot system, an agent robot control method, and a storage medium that can support optimum shopping in a physical shop and an online shop. [Solution] An agent robot control system including: an acquisition section configured to acquire a purchase master list indicating a candidate of a purchase commercial product of a user; and a control section configured to generate a purchase execution list for recommending purchase in a physical shop for a partial commercial product of the purchase master list, and recommending purchase in an online shop for another commercial product.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to implementing and using a data processing system to generate a plurality of user profiles including linked user accounts. An instruction for a transaction may be received from a first user computing device, and a request to complete the transaction on behalf of the first user may be transmitted to a second user computing device. Upon receiving appropriate authorizations, the computing platform may transmit to a participant an instruction to complete the transaction with the second user on behalf of the first user.

A combination automated-service and self-service store for implementation at brick-and-mortar retail locations is provided. The store and corresponding method of implementation is an automated-service model in which robots, deployed at the brick-and-mortar location, fill orders for fungible goods placed by customers either online or in-store. The store also includes a shopping section where customers can select/order items and/or personally select non-fungible goods. The store includes a shopping section for non-fungible goods that customers prefer to pick out by hand and a back end automated order fulfillment section for other goods (e.g., fungible goods, dry goods, etc.). The two sets of goods are merged to a delivery bundle and delivered together for pickup by the customer. The combination automated-service and self-service store combines the convenience of online shopping and self-service shopping using an unconventional approach that reduces costs for the retailer and simultaneously increases customer satisfaction.

A system for presenting properties includes: a server, coupled to client devices via the internet, the server including: a unification module, that periodically accesses data sources for listings, where the data sources include on-market sources and off-market sources, and that retrieves the listings from the sources, converts the listings to a common format, and stores the listings in the common format, and that detects deficiencies in the listings that cannot be resolved by accessing public data sources; and an intelligence module, that receives a request from the unification module for data that can resolve the deficiencies, and that accesses an external entities database to select external entities that can provide the data, and that automatically generates requests to the external entities to provide the data, and that automatically receives the data to enable the unification module to update a parcel record in a parcel database associated with the deficiencies.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for determining item availability are provided. A computer implemented method for determining item availability in a shopping space comprising: receiving a request for an item for purchase, instructing a motorized transport unit to travel to a display space in the shopping space corresponding to the item for the purchase, determining whether the item is available in the display space based on information captured by one or more sensors of the motorized transport unit, and in an event that the item for purchase is not available in the display space: determining an item unavailable response to present to the customer.