97results about "Marketing" patented technology

A system and method for managing and presenting entity information is described. In an illustrative implementation, information such as product availability and operating hours is stored in a server (130). A query may be sent from a client (202) having a time (1402), date (1410), or both inquiring, for example, which entities are open at a certain or range of times, in the past, present or future. The server (130) compares the queried time with stored information, such as hours entries (4000, 4050). The results are displayed on a map (300) with open entities represented by a first symbol (930R) and closed entities by a second symbol (930G) such that all the entities on the map (300) are viewable without further searches. Clicking on a symbol (422) leads to a display (940) containing information about the associated entity, thereby enabling an entity's information to be found using only its location.

A telecommunications system includes a network (202); a plurality of client devices (212) operably coupled to said network, said plurality of client devices adapted to select one or more of others of said plurality as contacts on a contact list (404); a presence server (204) coupled to said network and adapted to monitor presence status of selected ones of said others, wherein said presence server maintains one or more records of past presence data for said selected ones; a calendar server (1304) adapted to maintain a calendar for selected ones of said plurality; and a scheduler (1306) adapted to receive said one or more records and said calendar and determine a likely presence status at a predetermined time.

Computing devices capable of internetworking and receiving, storing and viewing programmed (scheduled) television and multimedia content provide a platform for access to a combination of Internet and Television content and services. On this platform, a mix of pre-scripted and live interactive dialog (chat with offered responses) are broadcast by a connected server or servers to provide supplemental entertainment, information regarding programmed content, enhancements to scheduled television advertising, a community experience, and an interface to Internet applications and services. The dialog provides a “Social Interface” allowing fictional and non-fictional characters to interact with viewers. The fictional and non-fictional characters are each emblematic of a specific affinity group categorization, which a user personally identifies with and is drawn to. Selection of an affinity character also provides a filter for selecting internet and broadcast content associated with that character. Second level content is also associated with and mediated by each character. This provides e-commerce opportunities whereby sponsors can direct advertising content based upon factors such as the relative popularity of each character or the demographic group associated with each character.

A network or web-based point of sale (WPOS) system employs a store server and point-of-sale client computers that are connected over a store LAN or over the Internet to the server. The server provides all necessary operating drivers for cash drawer, scanners, and other point-of-sale peripherals via the web browser of the client computers. An instant kiosk retail solution can involve a remote computer terminal installed via the Internet, and will support peripheral POS devices. The web-based system permits management to obtain store performance reports remotely, and permits customers to schedule and reschedule appointments and delivery times. Servers at two or more store sites can communicate with one another and with a headquarters mainframe. The WPOS can be implemented as an integrated suite for collaboration between store locations.

The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates reducing network traffic between a plurality of servers located on a social-based network. The system and method involve identifying a plurality of vertices or service users on the network with respect to their server or network locations. The vertices' contacts or connections can be located or determined as well. In order to minimize communication traffic, the vertices and their connections with respect to their respective server locations can be analyzed to determine whether at least a subset of nodes should be moved or relocated to another server to facilitate mitigating network traffic while balancing user load among the various servers or parts of the network. Thus, an underlying social network can be effectively partitioned. In addition, the network can be parsed into a collection of nested layers, whereby each successively less dense layer can be partitioned with respect to the previous (partitioned) more dense layer.

Embodiments of the present invention include an information sharing system that provides an online business service from a provider that uses the Internet to enable individuals and organizations to link together contact databases that reside in multiple desktop applications and create a unified meta-database. This database can be searched by individual subscribers in order to locate a specific entity (such as an organization or a person, by name, title or organization, such as an executive in a target organization), identify if a path to the executive exists through a chain of contacts across the linked contact databases, and request a referral based introduction to the specific executive.

The invention provides a position-based discount coupon management platform, releasing method and releasing system and an intelligent terminal. The electronic discount coupon releasing system comprises the position-based discount coupon management platform, a positioning service system and the intelligent terminal. The intelligent terminal obtains a terminal current position through the positioning service system and sends a request for acquiring discount coupons containing the discount coupons at the current position to the platform; according to position information carried in the request, the platform retrieves and releases discount coupons of shops close to the intelligent terminal in the discount coupons containing position tags; and the intelligent terminal receives and displays the discount coupons sent by the platform to enable users to select and use the discount coupons. By means of the technical scheme, an effective communication channel is established between shops and intelligent terminal users, and the fact that the discount coupons are released to the intelligent terminal users becoming customers of the shops most possibly is ensured, and potential customers active in surroundings of the shops are fully found for the shops.

A social networking mobile software application for particular mobile device which allow end users on their mobile devices to view profiles of themselves that contain images and/or videos while simultaneously hearing and audio description of their ad via wireless connection to the internet and/or cellular provider data network using streaming or intact multimedia file.

The embodiment of the invention provides a goods information and keyword matching method, and a goods information releasing method and device. A releasing server firstly determines a goods information set used for being released; then corresponding keywords are matched for each goods in the goods information set and after the keywords are added by a user, matching operations are performed on the keywords added by the user and goods information; combination of the goods information determined by the releasing server and the keywords matching the goods information, and keywords added by the user and a set of keywords matching the keywords are combined so that a keywords set which is to be released at last is generated and then releasing operation is performed. The goods information and keyword matching method, and the goods information releasing method and device solve problems that in the prior art, correlation degree between goods information which needs to be released and keywords is not high, matching flexibility of the keywords and the goods information is comparatively poor, goods information releasing effect of a website is affected and releasing procedure of the releasing server is comparatively low in efficiency.

The system and method of the present invention automatically extracts the top k recommendations of objects, such as topics, items, products, books, movies, food, drinks, etc., from a local probabilistic recommendation system. Unlike prior systems, the present invention accomplishes the extraction of the top k recommendations of objects without examining a probability for every object that can be recommended. Further, the system and method of the present invention is capable of being implemented using probabilistic recommendation systems based on any conventional type of probabilistic distribution or machine learning technique, including, for example, decision trees and Bayesian networks.

The invention is applicable to the technical field of cloud computing, and provides a cloud computing application method, a cloud computing application system and terminal equipment, and a cloud computing platform. The cloud computing application method comprises the following steps that: the terminal equipment acquires and recognizes a face image and then transmits the recognition results; and the cloud computing platform receives the recognition results and implements the application related to the recognition results according to the recognition results. The cloud computing application method provided by the invention has the benefits that cloud computing application is combined with a face recognition technology, the face image is acquired and recognized by utilizing the terminal equipment, and the corresponding application is implemented by the cloud computing platform according to the face image acquired by the terminal equipment; the cloud computing application method can be widely applied to the field of commodity consumption; and compared with the prior art, different ages, different genders and other features can be distinguished, so that the cloud computing application is widened, people obtain better experience in a consumption pattern, and knowing the development direction of a product and the consumption demand of a consumer to establish a good interaction between the consumer and the company is facilitated for the company.

A dynamic parking management platform (10) includes a mobile communication device (20), a parking server (12), and an electronic ticket device (30) that cooperate to enable a vehicle driver to effect electronically a secure parking fee payment transaction. The electronic ticket device emits a beacon signal to enable transmission of vehicle parking time and other information to a wireless communication device (40) carried by a parking service provider officer or attendant walking past a parked vehicle and not having to view a display surface on the electronic ticket device. A lock and key capability enables secure parking fee payments and prevents unauthorized parking fee transactions. The parking management platform configured to induce vehicle drivers to purchase a product or service by parking discount inducement or advertisement information from merchants whose stores are located nearby the vehicle parking area.

Improved systems, methods and computer program products are provided for improving the efficiency and quality of the process of purchasing digital and online advertising. Through the use of the invention, one may more effectively use competitive research, build a media plan, generate a creative piece from scratch for an advertising campaign, purchase media across multiple publishers and track the campaign through a single web based platform.

A computer program product and method for sales forecasting and adjusting a sales forecast for an enterprise in a configurable region having one or more clusters of stores. The method includes periodically receiving a sales forecast for an enterprise over a configurable period of time, periodically receiving actual sales information, sales anomalies and anticipated events within the at least one of the clusters of stores over a computer network, determining positive and negative deviations from the anticipated sales of the sales forecast based on the sales information, determining whether one or more trends are occurring or have occurred using a pre-defined mathematical expression based on the sales information, the positive and negative deviations, and the sales anomalies, adjusting the anticipated sales of the sales forecast based on the sales anomalies, the trends and the anticipated events, and outputting the adjusted sales forecast to a user. The sales forecast includes anticipated sales for a plurality of items within at least one of the clusters of stores.

A computer-implemented method can automatically select a plurality of advertising and/or marketing materials associated with goods and/or services offered for sale via a networked communication system. A networked communication system can be adapted to receive and organize a variety of customer specific, business specific, and general demographic information and can provide a marketing score for each customer known to be present at a commercial establishment. The system can further be adapted to provide a comparison of marketing scores for a plurality of customers and create a video playlist for display in a customer waiting room. The system can include a selectable and adjustable set of marketing parameters that may be adjusted based on one or more relevant considerations. The system can be adapted to determine, based on the marketing scores, advertising and marketing content for display at a commercial establishment.

A social content distribution network (SCDN) allows content producers to search over content sponsors to learn about demand in content sponsor sub-networks. Audience tracking tools are provided for the content sponsor to learn about demand for content within different audiences (content consumers) in any of the content destinations and within different audiences in any of the content destinations. Content sponsors are also provided facilities to search over an index of content producers to find relevant content to push. Having discovered content the sponsor wishes to push into a particular audience, the sponsor may use the SCDN platform to create a payload that includes a link to the selected content and a creative that annotates the link, deliver this payload, and track its performance in the content destination.

The present invention relates to an App-based electronic-member system oriented for merchant and consumer and a management method thereof. The electronic member system includes a merchant terminal, a user terminal, a backstage management system and a WeChat public account management platform. The backstage management system includes an operation management platform and a membership management system; the WeChat public account management platform is used to enable the merchant to create, store and manage the WeChat public account; the operation management platform is used for the maintenance of the merchant's business activities, the management of the payment transactions and the membership information between a consumer and the merchant; and the membership management system is used to store the merchant's coupons and their usage rules, the promotion information of the merchant, the display information of the commodities and membership information of the merchant's consumer. The merchant terminal, the user terminal and the backstage management system are mutually accessible through a wireless network o perform corresponding operations. The backstage management system and the WeChat public account management platform are mutually accessible through the wireless network to perform corresponding operations.

A method of manufacturing a memory device addressing reliability and refresh characteristics through the use of a multilayered doped conductor described. The multilayered doped conductor creates a high dopant concentration in the active area close to the channel region. The rich dopant layer created by the multilayered doped conductor is less suspectible to depletion from trapped charges in the oxide. This improves device reliability at burn-in and lowers junction leakage, thereby providing a longer period between refresh cycle.

The invention provides a continuous calculation method of advertisement effectiveness optimization and a device. According to the method, a large number of user information excavated in a video website is fully utilized, the information comprises population basic information and preferences, and combined with the industry description of a material, the data are integrated and cleaned; then the characteristic extraction and formatting are carried out, and the characteristic for model training is obtained; through obtaining characteristic data, the tree model training is carried out to obtain an optimization model and carry out validation, and the subsequent test data and a click rate threshold are compared to carry out advertising delivery judgment. Practices prove that the various indicators of new advertisement delivery are greatly improved, advertisements are more precisely delivered to users, and the click rate is raised.

A recipe providing system and a recipe providing method for presenting a suitable recipe that matches to a user request on specific foodstuff basis and/or specific cooking process basis. A recipe element storing unit stores a recipe element data related to recipes. The recipe elements are hierarchized according to cooking process of one recipe and each of the recipe element has link information to a finished-dish for which the recipe element is used. A recipe generating means retrieves/extracts recipe element data from the recipe element storing unit in accordance with user's recipe request, and generates a recipe. A recipe sending means sends the recipe generated by the recipe generating means to users.

The invention discloses a second-hand car pricing optimization method, which comprises the following steps: S11, obtaining the vehicle type information of the second-hand car to be priced input by a user; S12, according to the input vehicle type information, adopting an estimation model, calculating and obtaining the estimation value of the second-hand vehicle; S13, selecting the corresponding objective function from the objective function library, obtaining the boundary conditions of the objective function input by the user, optimizing calculation according to the set optimization algorithm and the estimated value obtained by calculation, and calculating to obtain the optimal price which maximizes the objective function as the second-hand vehicle pricing. As that estimate value of the second-hand vehicle is obtained by adopt an evaluating model, the objective function is also used to optimize the calculation according to the estimated value of the used car. As the optimal pricing of second-hand car, the method can optimize the pricing of second-hand car based on the dealer's situation, and can obtain more accurate pricing, which can be widely used in second-hand car pricing optimization industry.

The invention relates to a consuming data sequence trend information acquisition method which comprises the following steps: carrying out periodic judgment concerning a consuming data sequence meeting the preconditions of the periodic judgment; if the consuming data sequence is judged to be periodic, carrying out long-term trend discrimination and/or short-term trend discrimination of the consuming data sequence after eliminating the impact of periodicity factor to obtain the long-term and/or the short-term trend information of the consuming data sequence. The invention also relates to a consuming data sequence trend information acquisition system which comprises a periodic judgment module, a first long-term trend discrimination module and a first short-term trend discrimination module. The invention carries out periodic judgment of mass data; if a periodic data sequence is found, the impact of periodicity is eliminated during predicting the trend, thereby eliminating the impact of periodicity on prediction results.

A method for sharing content information in a communication system includes transmitting a content payment request message to a content providing server, if a payment of a specific content is requested from a user of a first portable terminal, transmitting content information with regard to the specific content in response to the content payment request message to the first portable terminal and a content information registration server, receiving the content information and databasing the received content information, transmitting a content sharing message with regard to the specific content to the first portable terminal, if a wireless communication with the first portable terminal is available, detecting the content information among the databased content information and transmitting the detected content information to a second portable terminal, when the content sharing request message is received; and receiving and storing the content information in response to the content sharing request message.