Computationally implemented methods and systems that are designed for receiving one or more first directives that direct a transportation vehicle unit to transport a first end user; receiving, while the transportation vehicle unit is en route to or is transporting the first end user, one or more second directives that direct the transportation vehicle unit to transport a second end user while transporting the first end user, the transportation vehicle unit having been determined to be able to accommodate transport of the second end user while transporting the first end user; and verifying that compliance with the one or more second directives will not conflict with one or more obligations to transport the first end user by the transportation vehicle unit. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

In some implementations, a device may receive data identifying products and encoded data identifying smart tags of the products. The device may map the data and the encoded data to generate encoded product data. The device may receive encoded data provided by smart tags of products received by a store. The device may receive images of the products. The device may compare the encoded data and the encoded product data to identify a set of the products received by the store. The device may correlate the images with the set of the products. The device may process the correlated data to identify locations of the set of the products in the store. The device may generate an instruction to relocate a product to a new location and may provide the instruction to a device, associated with the store, to cause the product to be relocated to the new location.

Methods and systems for improved creation, monitoring, and updating of energy transactions are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a request to originate a contract for an energy transaction. Transaction information concerning the energy transaction may be received and may identify a type of energy resource and parties for the energy transaction. A requirement for the energy transaction may be identified within the contract codex and at least one condition may be determined based on the requirement. An updated contract may be generated by adding the at least one condition to the contract. Information regarding the updated contract may be stored on the distributed ledger.

Disclosed is a quotation method executed by a computer, comprising: obtaining structure parameters and electrical parameters of a product (S101); constructing an external view of the product by using the structure parameters of the product, and performing similarity comparison on the external view of the product and the external view of a historical product to obtain an appearance similarity sorting (102); performing similarity comparison on the electrical parameters of the product and the electrical parameters of the historical product to obtain an electrical parameter similarity sorting (103); on the basis of the cost weights of a structural member and an electrical component and the appearance similarity sorting and the electrical parameter similarity sorting, obtaining a comprehensive sorting which is based on the structure parameters and the electrical parameters (S104); and determining, based on the comprehensive sorting, a bill of materials of the product, and calculating, based on the bill of the materials of the product, the product quotation (105).

The present disclosure describes transaction-enabling systems and methods. A system can include a facility including a core task including a customer relevant output and a controller. The controller may include a facility description circuit to interpret a plurality of historical facility parameter values and corresponding facility outcome values and a facility prediction circuit to operate an adaptive learning system, wherein the adaptive learning system is configured to train a facility production predictor in response to the historical facility parameter values and the corresponding outcome values. The facility description circuit also interprets a plurality of present state facility parameter values, wherein the trained facility production predictor determines a customer contact indicator in response to the plurality of present state facility parameter values and a customer notification circuit provides a notification to a customer in response.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for generating and transmitting tiered supplemental resources based on identifying event triggers. The system is configured for retrieving one or more digital artifacts from a data repository, generating one or more supplemental resources associated with the one or more digital artifacts, continuously monitoring one or more resource pools associated with one or more users to identify one or more event triggers, identifying at least one trigger associated with a resource pool of a user of the one or more users based on continuously monitoring the one or more resource pools associated with the one or more users, and transmitting at least one supplemental resource of the one or more supplemental resources to a digital supplemental resource wallet of the user.

In general, this disclosure describes a multi-zone secure AI exchange. The multi-zone secure AI exchange may be implemented in a multi-cloud, multi-data center environment, where each zone may be in a different cloud or data center. The multi-zone secure AI exchange may include a data repository, a data exchange, and shared services. The data repository may be configured to store algorithms and datasets, each having a respective owning user. The data exchange may receive datasets and algorithms from the data repository, and may perform the algorithms to produce output data. Each of the data repository, data exchange, and shared services may have a different level of security. The data repository may implement the highest level of security, allowing the owner user, and only the owning user, to control how their data and algorithms move in and out of the data repository, or are changed while in the data repository.

A method for calculating sales trend of a product at a store shelf based on crowdsourcing, includes receiving, by a retail store server, availability data of a product measured on a shelf in the retail store from a portable device, where the availability data is in the form of a picture acquired of the product on the shelf, identifying products on the shelf using tags attached to the shelves, calculating sales velocity and sales trends of the product from the identified products, and transmitting the sales velocity and sales trend of the product to one or more third parties' systems in a supply chain of said retail store. Products and their locations on retail store shelves have been cataloged in a product database.

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for scheduling tasks to field professionals include: storing, in a database, a plurality of records reflecting characteristics associated with completing a set of technical services, wherein information in each record is derived from historical experience of completing each of the technical services; receiving a request for a new technical service associated with a location; and assigning a field professional to perform the new service having determined from information in the database a likelihood that the field professional will complete the new technical service in a single on-site visit at the location.

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for facilitating and/or automating project specification, vendor/supplier selection, packaging/processing, and/or mailing for bulk or direct mail campaigns are described herein. Via computer-facilitated techniques, a project manager (or other authorized user) of a mail campaign electronically provides various project information (e.g., project type, design specifications and quantities of materials, mailing list(s), deadlines). Multiple authorized suppliers of services germane to direct mail campaigns (e.g., print shops, lettershops) electronically access the project information and in turn provide respective bids to perform at least some services required by the project. The methods, apparatuses, and systems may also generate logistical recommendations to the user for the bulk or direct mail campaign based on the processed data and on logistical information obtained from a variety of sources.