263results 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.

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.

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.

An automated system / method for identifying and enabling viewer selection / purchase of products or services associated with digital content presented on a display device. Products within the digital content are identified and existing product placement data is ascertained. For products that do not include such data, other methodologies, with the assistance of third-party servers, are employed to assess identity and purchase availability. Viewer input designate products to assess or products can be automatically assessed. Viewers initiate purchase of identified products via the display device or other electronic devices controlled by viewers, such as via viewers' smart phones. Various processes for identifying products include use of AI processing, access to data on third-party servers, crowd sourcing and other methodologies. Various techniques for selecting products for purchases are employed including employing 3D codes (e.g., QR codes) alongside presented products to enable other portable electronic devices to facilitate purchase. Other features are described.

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.

In a method, system, and computer readable medium for distributing messages in a network environment, a message distribution system receives, from a device of a first user who is a follower of the second use, a selection of a plurality of communications endpoints for receiving messages from the second user. The system stores the selection in a storage. The system later receives, from a device of the second user, a message for distribution to one or more unspecified recipients. The system identifies the followers of the second user (including the first user) as recipients of the message, and identifies the plurality of communications endpoints selected by the first user. The system then sends the message to the followers of the second user, including the first user, sending including sending the message to each of the plurality of communications endpoints selected by the first user.

A group payment vehicle and process for establishing and utilizing the group payment vehicle may be utilized to make proxy payments for group members and associate payment mechanisms with the group payment vehicle. The group payment vehicle may be virtual or physical and may be time limited (or have another payment limitation). The group payment vehicle may be a debit-type or credit-type as established by a creator of the group payment vehicle. A system may be configured to enable the creator to invite potential group participants to participate with the group payment vehicle that functions as a single payment mechanism to vendors for an event. The system may limit the group payment vehicle to be time limited, geolocation limited, and / or merchant limited to limit potential financial exposure and fraud.

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.

The embodiments disclose a an interactive system for creating personalized advertisements, including a client application having a profile manager module configured to gather personalized preference information about each plural audience user, wherein the personalized preference information includes images, spoken language, facial expressions, detected emotions, nonverbal cues, demographics, online queries, and browser history of each audience user, an interactive admin application operating configured to allow a creator user to generate advertisements and social media communications content and a template with a main message of the advertisement, wherein the responsive artificial intelligence processor is configured to learn and compare the personalized preference information of each audience user to known analytics for automatically determining an appropriate audience user of the advertisements and social media communications content as personalized content.

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