Business methods related to contests, coupons, and advertising are described. Methods according to the disclosure can include methods related to movies and/or films, and can include company and/or product placement within the movies/films. The movies/films can be released in segments to users, and can be made using user input.

A system and methods for delivering targeted marketing offers to consumers during a session with an online (web-based) Internet portal, particularly suitable for online banking portals of financial institutions. An offer management system receives information corresponding to an advertising campaign of an advertiser corresponding to terms of a targeted marketing offer to be provided to a consumer accessing the online portal, and provides advertising campaign data corresponding to the targeted marketing offer and to an offer-triggering event to an offer placement system. An offer placement system receives the advertising campaign data, determines the occurrence of the offer-triggering event by a consumer during an online session with the online portal, and delivers information corresponding to the targeted marketing offer to the consumer. In response to the offer-triggering event, such as display of a list of transactions, the predetermined targeted marketing offer is delivered to the consumer during the online session.

A method that includes receiving a string from a remote station, the string associated with an interaction event between a user and the remote station, is provided. The method includes verifying that the string includes a content validation for a user account in a network service, mapping at least a portion of the string to a ticker symbol associated with an entry in a database and transmitting, to the user, a message indicating that a fractional value associated with the ticker symbol has been added to the user account in the network service. A system configured to execute the above method is also provided.

A control method is executed by a first node holding a first distributed ledger in which a first blockchain is managed, and includes: obtaining, from a second node, a second blockchain managed by a second distributed ledger held by the second node, and comparing the second blockchain with the first blockchain; updating the first blockchain by adding the greater of at least one first different block contained in the first blockchain but not the second blockchain and at least one second different block contained in the second blockchain but not the first blockchain, after at least one common block, and adding at least one additional block containing at least one instance of transaction data contained in the lesser; and determining whether at least two instances of transaction data each containing at least two instances of contract information that conflict with each other are contained in the updated first blockchain.

The present disclosure relates to blockchain and social media, and more specifically, to a unified engagement platform that incentivizes blockchain use and provides avenues for companies to foster brand loyalty amongst consumers. In accordance with aspects and embodiments, a method of facilitating blockchain use is provided. The method comprises providing a social media platform in communication with a blockchain and providing each user of the platform with a blockchain account. Social media influencers and creators, brands, and retailer users of the platform, referred to as partners, are provisioned with a set of digital collectibles having value and are provided with tools to create additional digital collectibles. A partner's digital collectibles are distributed to non-partner users on the platform that support the partner, users referred to as supporters. Supporters may obtain digital collectibles by purchasing them, by engaging in social media activity that benefits the partner, offering the digital collectible, or digital collectibles may be offered by partners as contest and sweepstakes prizes. The platform uses the blockchain for the construction, management, and distribution of all digital collectibles, and each time a digital collectible is created or distributed, a transaction must be posted to the blockchain to complete the distribution.

According to a business method using neutro system of the present invention, participants can earn enough profits from sales made by themselves, commissions from the recruit of downline participants, and an additional bonus from the company. Participants also can earn double commissions by re-enrolling himself or herself as avatars under his or her own placement tree.

In addition, as participants are encouraged to sell products and recruit people based on the strong compensation plans, the company also can earn continuous and secure profits from participants' active sales activities, recruiting, and periodical re-enrolling as avatars.

A computer-implemented open bidding system for real estate transactions is disclosed. The system comprises of agent or owner entities, an escrow of incentives associated with property entities, property entities, and buyer entities, as performed in the respective apparatus. The system is controlled by collecting information related to property entities from agents or owners in the open bidding system, storing the information in a database, determining incentives for the property based upon the information stored in an escrow database by an agent or owner, and availing the incentive to a buyer upon completion of a purchase transaction. On the whole, the system enables a method of listing properties in an open bidding system and a method of purchasing properties an open bidding system.

Systems and methods for managing usage of charging stations. In one embodiment, a system may include a request module, a membership module, and a schedule module. The request module receives a reservation request from an account associated with vehicle. The membership module determines a membership benefit associated with the reservation request. The membership benefit is based on a membership level of the account. The schedule module schedules a charging session based on the reservation request and the membership benefit.

There is provided with a vehicle following travel system configured to cause a following vehicle to perform following travel following a leading vehicle. A departure point and a destination desired by a user of the following vehicle. Based on the departure point and the destination, for the leading vehicle that the following vehicle follows is searched. A travel plan that includes a section of the following travel in at least a part between the departure point and the destination. A reward to the leading vehicle for the following travel is calculated based on the travel plan.

Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamic resource allocation based on vehicle route selection. The present invention is configured to receive an origin and a destination for a user; determine travel routes for the user; determine resource distribution entities along the one or more travel routes; determine resources associated with the resource distribution entities; display the travel routes, the resource distribution entities along each of the travel routes, and the resources associated with each of the resource distribution entities; receive a user selection of at least one of the travel routes; and distribute the resources to the computing device of the user along the at least one of the one or more travel routes selected by the user.