195results about "Protocols using social networks" patented technology

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for using information in conjunction with a data repository includes encrypting data associated with the information with an encryption key, sending at least the encrypted data to the data repository, and possibly deleting the information. The method also includes receiving a request for the information from a remote device, and sending a request for the encrypted data to the data repository. The method further includes receiving the encrypted data from the data repository, decrypting the encrypted data using the encryption key, and sending the information to the remote device.

A technique for resource allocation estimation for media content items is described. In accordance with the described techniques engagement by a set of user accounts with respective media content items of at least one media content service provider system is obtained. The media content service provider system and / or a payment service system generates historical streaming data for the respective media content items based on the engagement of the set of user accounts. An estimated streaming count of a media content item over a time period based on the historical streaming data for the respective media content items is determined. An estimated resource allocation for the artist is determined based on the estimated streaming count and an advance of funds is facilitated based on the estimated resource allocation to an account of the artist during the time period.

A system and method are disclosed for enabling secure and low-friction peer-to-peer financial transactions using email communication without requiring user login. A payment server receives an email message from a responder that includes a token embedded in a mailto hyperlink. The server extracts and decodes the token to retrieve transaction data, including the responder's email address and a transaction amount. The server authenticates the responder by comparing the email address extracted from the token with the sender address of the email. Upon successful validation, the server initiates a financial transaction with a payment processing system—without requiring the responder to access a login page, enter credentials, or navigate to a website. The invention improves upon conventional browser-based payment workflows by reducing user interaction and enhancing transaction efficiency and security.

A social networking system is provided. The system encompasses a robust processing subsystem hosted on a server, comprises various modules including a registration module linking social media accounts, a blockchain-backed bio page module storing audience metrics, a payment gateway with a reward system, and a CRM module offering dashboards for influencers, brands, agencies, and followers. An analysis module integrates natural language processing to assess content tone, engagement, and sentiment. A button module generates emoticon categorization and auto-suggestions based on metadata, leveraging machine learning for predictions. A compliance analysis module ensures adherence to regulations in paid social media content, and a royalty distribution module calculates and allocates royalties based on engagement, location, compliance, and fan type via smart contracts, This comprehensive subsystem integrates functionalities to elevate user interaction, content analysis, and monetization opportunities within the social media platforms.

Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for calculating a trust score. The trust score may be calculated between entities including, but not limited to, human users, groups of users, organizations, or businesses / corporations. A system trust score may be calculated for an entity by combining a variety of factors, including verification data, a network connectivity score, publicly available information, and / or ratings data. A peer trust score targeted from a first entity to a second entity may also be calculated based on the above factors. In some embodiments, the peer trust score may be derived from the system trust score for the target entity and may take into account additional factors, including social network connections, group / demographic info, and location data. Finally, a contextual trust score may be calculated between the first and second entities based on a type of transaction or activity to be performed between the two entities.

A system to manage a contract between a plurality of parties is disclosed. The system includes a processing subsystem including a contract generation module to generate a contract between parties. The contract includes predefined conditions. The parties includes a brand, an influencer and followers. The processing subsystem includes a compliance module to invoke the predefined conditions based on at least one of a geographical location of the influencer, and a type of the influencer. The compliance module is to evaluate an advertisement revenue based on the predefined conditions, and an engagement score of a social media post made by the influencer. The compliance module is to generate second non fungible tokens based on the advertisement revenue to append the same into the blockchain network. The processing subsystem includes a transaction module to issue a receipt of a transaction upon performing a transaction.

A computing system can provide an interface for users of a messaging service to exchange messages with other users of the messaging service. The system can associate each exchange of messages with an underlying document, and structure the underlying document of each message exchange so that each message as a comment that is embedded or linked to the document.

A system for reward generation on a social media platform is disclosed. The system includes a processing subsystem having a. registration module linking multiple social media accounts for a user. An engagement calculation module identifies key metrics like likes, comments, and shares, calculating individual metrics for each engagement type. The engagement calculation module computes a total engagement value for specific posts or overall accounts. The training module uses historical data, to train machine learning models, fine-tuning hyperparameters for iterative improvement. The reward generation module establishes a conversion rate between total engagement and reward points, dynamically assigning loyalty through trained models. A reward redemption module facilitates the accumulation of points in a virtual wallet, converting them into various assets like money or cryptocurrency using blockchain integration. This comprehensive approach ensures a fair and personalized reward system based on user engagement levels.

Tokenization, social distribution, and redemption of digital entitlements, including: a digital entitlement ingestion and tokenization engine configured to receive and escrow value-bearing digital entitlements from an entity; a token engine configured to generate transferable tokens from the entitlements with embedded redemption rules; a distribution module enabling third-party entities to purchase and airdrop the tokens to end users based on location or contextual triggers; a user wallet interface enabling the end users to collect, store, gift, and redeem the tokens; a social gifting module configured to allow the end users to transmit the tokens to other users subject to transfer rules; and an optional redemption bridge configured to un-tokenize the tokens that have been redeemed and initiate value transfer to accounts of the end users within the originating system.

Techniques described herein are directed to generating group data objects and monitoring inputs associated with the group data objects to determine if attribute thresholds are satisfied. When satisfied, functionality may be enabled for the users associated with the group data objects. Additionally, when change to the group data object are detected, user interfaces associated with the group data object may be updated to provide real-time indications of information and functionality associated with the group data object.

Disclosed are a system and process of providing social networking purchasing processes. A method includes receiving, from a posting entity and at the social networking entity, a posting or a submission of a text, an image or a video. When the submission is associated with a product within a product catalog of the posting entity, the social networking entity presents in a newsfeed of users or otherwise on the social networking entity, the text, image or video with an associated option to buy. The option to buy might be presented through a messenger application or as the user browses the posting. When there is a correlation between the posting and the product catalog, and when the user makes a purchase of the product, the user is not transitioned away from the social networking entity. Initiating a payment process occurs within the social networking entity.

A method assigns token requirements to service subscriptions in a service platform, such as a service platform containing entities or a database containing a plurality of said entities. The operator of the service platform establishes customization factors and maintains records reserving data services associated with token requirements for delivery to entities. In addition, customization factors are determined from values representing information associated with objects in a database. Token requirements associated with data services are calculated from one or more formulas utilizing customization factors. Sponsorships associated with the entities can be accepted by the service platform. The service platform can apply credit toward the fulfillment of token requirements. An entity can be provided a data service based on a relationship with a sponsorship such that an entity assigned a subscription having a token requirement fulfilled as a result of applying credit from a sponsorship will receive services related to the subscription.

A system for reward generation on a social media platform is disclosed. The system includes a processing subsystem having a registration module linking multiple social media accounts for a user. An engagement calculation module identifies key metrics like likes, comments, and shares, calculating individual metrics for each engagement type. The engagement calculation module computes a total engagement value for specific posts or overall accounts. The training module uses historical data to train machine learning models, fine-tuning hyperparameters for iterative improvement. The reward generation module establishes a conversion rate between total engagement and reward points, dynamically assigning loyalty through trained models. A reward redemption module facilitates the accumulation of points in a virtual wallet, converting them into various assets like money or cryptocurrency using blockchain integration. This comprehensive approach ensures a fair and personalized reward system based on user engagement levels.

System, device, and method of protected electronic commerce and electronic financial transactions. A method includes: analyzing (i) content of an online destination that sells an asset to an end-user, and (ii) data about ownership in the online destination, and (iii) meta-data about that content; and determining that an offering to sell that asset to the end-user is fraudulent. The system further provides digital tokens or crypto-currency, that end-users should pay in order to submit a user-report about a possible scam. The collected crypto- currency tokens are used by the system, to reward a user that submitted a scam report that turned out to be correct, to fund operations of a fraud-prevention entity, to fund guarantee payments to defrauded end-users, and for other purposes. The system generates authenticity stamps for online venues and for crypto-currency wallets that are determined to be legitimate.

Methods for product recommendation are provided. This includes collecting personal user data including profession, gender, size, preferences, user's apparel size, user's address, who the user's friend are, user's friends' information, users' medical records including eyeglass and contact lens prescription information; collecting vendor data including product size, product description, product location, price; and recommending vendor products that best match the users' personal data.

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that leverage smart contracts and distributed ledgers, such as blockchains, to provide a trustless or substantially trustless ecosystem that includes distributed ledger crawler functions, advertising functions, risk mitigation for secondary sales of distributed ledger tokens, and various methods of acquiring and using distributed ledger tokens, among other uses.

A mobile computing device can be configured, with an improved user interface, to synchronously play audio (or video) and text associated thereto, such as text stored in a synchronization index. Using the synchronization index, the device can periodically compare the current track time with that time associated to a word or range of words, such as a line (or segment) in a plurality of lines of text (or segments of text). Improved navigability of content using an improved mobile computing device and user interface is provided, because a user of the device can scroll through the lines of text associated with the audio or video to find a target word or range of words. If the user selects a particular word or range of words, by making a gesture on the mobile computing device, the device can identify a start time for the selected text. The device can then play the audio or video at the identified start time of the selected text. The improved user interface is a practical application for navigating audio (or video) and text associated thereto on a mobile computing device, providing bimodal reading on mobile computing devices and ease of navigability.

A method 100 for verifying transactions includes a preparation phase including: analyzing past transactions and categorizing the transactions into multiple categories 101; analyzing a social network o

A social networking system is provided. The system encompasses a robust processing subsystem hosted on a server, comprises various modules including a registration module linking social media accounts, a blockchain-backed bio page module storing audience metrics, a payment gateway with a reward system, and a CRM module offering dashboards for influencers, brands, agencies, and followers. An analysis module integrates natural language processing to assess content tone, engagement, and sentiment. A button module generates emoticon categorization and auto-suggestions based on metadata, leveraging machine learning for predictions. A compliance analysis module ensures adherence to regulations in paid social media content, and a royalty distribution module calculates and allocates royalties based on engagement, location, compliance, and fan type via smart contracts. This comprehensive subsystem integrates functionalities to elevate user interaction, content analysis, and monetization opportunities within the social media platforms.

In some implementations, an identity verification device may receive a request to verify an identity associated with a user accessing a social media account to share information on a social media platform. The identity verification device may generate, based on the request, a virtual credential linked to a primary credential associated with a financial account belonging to a holder of the social media account. The virtual credential may be used in an identity verification transaction to prove that the user accessing the social media account has access to the financial account associated with the social media account holder. The identity verification device may store a record indicating that the virtual credential was used to conduct the identity verification transaction and may provide, to the social media platform, information to verify the identity associated with the user accessing the social media account based on the record.

Various embodiments are related to apparatuses and methods for enabling a sender to perform monetary transactions for a requestor. A sender can use, for example, a payment application associated with a payment processing system to perform a monetary transaction for a requestor. The payment processing system can send information related to the monetary transaction to, for example, a sender-requestor association component. When the monetary transaction is a deposit, the sender can receive funds for the deposit from the requestor. The platform can debit the requestor's financial account for the deposit amount and credit the sender's financial account with the debit account as a physical cash transaction occurs between the sender and the requestor.

A system user computer, a payment system and a method are provided for facilitating split fee payments within existing financial institution infrastructure. The system user computer includes a processor, a memory database connected to the processor, and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor, the computer readable medium including code executable by the processor, to cause the processor to implement a method including steps of (a) creating an account for split fee payments for a financial transaction from multiple funding sources using payment processing infrastructure of a merchant and (b) specifying authorization evaluations required to approve the financial transaction.

A method for performing a split payment in the payment system includes generating split payment information for splitting a single payment amount with one or more other electronic devices to make a payment, transmitting the split payment information to a payment service server for providing a payment service, receiving a payment request, checking whether the received payment request is a split payment request, when the received payment request is the split payment request, checking whether the split payment is possible, and if the split payment is possible, performing the split payment based on the split payment information, and when the split payment is completed, respectively transmitting a notification about completion of the split payment to the electronic device and one or more other electronic devices.

To provide an electronic transaction management system for providing a tip that enables users who give tips and tip recipients to send and receive tips, even when located away from each other; that provides tip distribution to a user randomly selected from all users; that can be expected to improve the interest due to the expectations for the distribution, and as a result, enhance the motivation for users to give tips; that enables increasing the strong sense of connection between the users and the tip recipients; and that enables elevating the mere act of giving tips to a kind of event.SOLUTION: Regarding a management server 10 and an electronic transaction management system comprising the management server and a plurality of user terminals, the management server comprises distribution means 5 for distributing an arbitrary percentage, an arbitrary amount, or other forms of an arbitrary tip transferred from the user terminals, to a recipient of distribution for the tip, a user selected randomly by the management server from all users giving a tip, and distributing the remaining percentage, the remaining amount, or other forms to the tip recipient or the like.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Disclosed are a system and process of providing social networking purchasing processes. A method includes receiving, from a posting entity and at the social networking entity, a posting or a submission of a text, an image or a video. When the submission is associated with a product within a product catalog of the posting entity, the social networking entity presents in a newsfeed of users or otherwise on the social networking entity, the text, image or video with an associated option to buy. The option to buy might be presented through a messenger application or as the user browses the posting. When there is a correlation between the posting and the product catalog, and when the user makes a purchase of the product, the user is not transitioned away from the social networking entity. Initiating a payment process occurs within the social networking entity.

We provide computing systems and methods for communicating with customer devices and trusted third parties. [Solution] In the currency conversion system, the network interface receives customer identity data and a request to restore the customer wallet from the customer device. The processor verifies the customer identity data received from the customer device. Once the processor has verified the customer identity data received from the customer device, the network interface communicates a request to a trusted third-party key repository for a first key associated with the customer wallet. The processor uses the first key associated with the customer wallet and a second key associated with the customer wallet to restore the customer wallet.

Various implementations directed to price time priority queue for a multi-dimension map tile device repository are provided. In one implementation, a method may include receiving origin location data and destination location data. The method may also include generating data networks based on the optimized origin location data and the destination location data. The method may further include determining data hubs along the transmission or transit route and network, where the virtual hubs include a first virtual hub based on the origin location data and a second virtual hub based on the destination location data. The method may additionally include receiving IoT device data for the geolocation exchange units. In addition, the method may include receiving market depth data for a geolocation exchange for the geolocation exchange units based on the multi-dimension map tile repository nodal sequences.

Systems and methods for identity-based interconnected transactions are disclosed. The system may receive an interconnected transaction request comprising a first financial subsystem identifier, a second financial subsystem identifier, and a transaction request. The first financial subsystem and the second financial subsystem may not be in direct communication with each other. The first financial subsystem may write the interconnected transaction request to an interconnected transaction ledger. The second financial subsystem may retrieve the interconnected transaction request from the interconnected transaction ledger. In response to retrieving the interconnected transaction request the second financial subsystem may complete the transaction request.

To allow a user of a service of a transaction service provided in a store to easily notify a third party before settlement of a content of the transaction to be settled.SOLUTION: In a transaction processing system for generating transaction data indicating a content of a transaction according to an operation of a user interface terminal, an information processing program of an embodiment causes a computer provided to an information communication device being used as the user interface terminal to function as execution means, acquisition means, and delivery means. The execution means executes a function as the user interface terminal. The acquisition means acquires transaction data generated by the transaction processing system on the basis of a function executed by the execution means. The delivery means delivers previous confirmation data being determined at least as a part of data contained in the transaction data acquired by the acquisition means, to an information process executed by the computer for causing another information communication device to acquire arbitrary data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10

A product exchange system comprising a controller and a memory coupled to the controller. The controller is configured to: provide an application programing interface configured to receive a delivery request from a first user for delivery of an item, wherein the delivery request includes an identifier of a sec-ond user, and wherein the API is configured not to receive a physical address of the second user; in response to receiving the delivery request, access a data stor-age system that stores an association between the identifier and the second user, and further stores one or more permission settings associated with the second user defining delivery requests to allow in response to receipt of the identifier from the first user or in response to receipt of one of the item and product characteristic; and, in response to receipt of the delivery request, tests the permission settings.