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The present invention relates to perfume delivery systems, products comprising such systems and the use of same. Unfortunately current perfume delivery systems do not always provide the most preferred or ideal sensory experience. Thus there is a need for one or more perfume delivery systems that obviate the short comings of the current perfume delivery technologies. The systems of the present invention meet the aforementioned need as they employ symbiotic combinations.

In some embodiments, techniques for rewarding presence include detecting a presence of a mobile phone within an enclosed space, transmitting information relating to the presence of the mobile phone within the enclosed space to a server computer, wherein the server computer processes an award for the presence of the mobile phone within the enclosed space, wherein the award is associated with a user account associated with the mobile phone; and receiving from the server computer information relating to the award.

The transmission system transmits an encrypted identifier ultrasonically in an open-air environment using an ultrasonic transmitter. The ultrasonic identifier is associated with a location, which may be a store or a department within a store, and may be received by a microphone on a mobile phone. The identifier may be used to infer presence of the mobile phone user at the location associated with the identifier. The transmitter may include an ultrasonic transducer. The system may further provide a reward, responsive to inferring presence at the location.

The presentment and redemption system offers discounts directly to consumers through their mobile phones. The discounts are based upon the user of the mobile phone meeting a targeting criterion and the discounts are determined using the targeting criterion. Mobile phone users that do not meet the targeting criterion are not eligible for the discount. Because the discounts can be targeted to each individual consumer, there can be a better correlation between consumers' interests and the transmitted discounts.

To improve the consumer experience with electronic devices, an improved system and method is provided for selecting and applying optimal settings for listening to digital music. In exemplary embodiments, optimal equalizer settings for a given song or music category may be stored in the metadata of the music file. When the song is played by an electronic device, the optimal equalizer settings are extracted from the music metadata. The equalizer of the electronic device then may adjust automatically to the optimal settings as extracted from the metadata. The optimal settings may be defined by a content provider or selected by a user as a series of personal preferences. By adjusting the equalizer settings automatically to the optimal settings, enjoyment of the music may be enhanced.

An improved touch display input device for incorporation into a portable electronic device is described. In exemplary embodiments, the touch display includes a smart glass layer that selectively blocks and transmits light from a light source to a transparent touch input surface. As a result of the selectivity of the smart glass, a particular set of characters and/or symbols may become visible to the user through the transparent touch surface. The user may select a visible character or symbol by touching the character or symbol on the touch display. The selective blocking and transmission of light by the smart glass may be altered to display different sets of input characters and/or symbols depending upon the operational state of the portable electronic device.

A dynamic content modification system dynamically modifies content playback based on a user reaction so as to provide an individualized entertainment experience. The system includes a sensor module configured to receive a plurality of sensor measurements of at least one user, and a user model database including a plurality of user models associated with content preferences. A controller is configured to receive the sensor measurements and apply the sensor measurements to at least one user model to determine a prediction of a user reaction to content. The controller further is configured to determine a content modification to a playback of to the content based on the prediction, and to a cause a content reproduction device to play back the content in a manner that incorporates the determined content modification.

A method for constructing electronic commerce services and conducting electronic commerce transactions is disclosed. The method is illustrated by instantiating and storing the electronic contract on a server; issuing and transmitting a token message to one or more contracting party's client device. Using a processor to intercept the token message and contact the server to retrieve the electronic contract associated with the token message; and downloading or uploading digital media as instructed by the electronic contract. The method is based on the uniform, highly expressive representation of electronic contracts as digital objects. A system based on a distributed object architecture that implements the method is also described. The architecture enables the execution of the promises encoded as part of an electronic contract to be executed on any device that implements an electronic contract interpreter mechanism.

The disclosed system and methods include a power saving scheduler that maintains timed events in an event table. Each timed event has an associated tolerance period within which the event should begin execution following a trigger, and a timestamp indicating a scheduled execution time for the event. When a device is in a low-power sleep mode, a trigger may wake up the device to a wake state. The power scheduler then accesses the event table of upcoming timed events, and reorders the event table from the event having the shortest tolerance period to the event having the longest tolerance period. Each event for which the timestamp is within the tolerance period as measured from the trigger time is executed. After a plurality of such events are executed, the device may return to the sleep mode.

To improve the consumer experience with electronic devices, a system and method is provided for customizing media content, and particularly video content, by creating highlight portions of the video content. In exemplary embodiments, the video files are “marked” or “flagged” about the portions of the video content to segment the highlight portions within the media file. The marks or flags may be inputted and incorporated as part of the metadata associated with the video file. A user's electronic device may then extract the marks or flags from the metadata, which causes a media player on the portable electronic device to play only the marked highlight portions. In addition, a user may share the highlights with others by transmitting the marked video files to others' electronic devices. Alternatively, the highlight creator may transmit only the metadata to another's electronic device, and the metadata marks may be extracted and applied to a video file stored on the other's device or streamed thereto.

The invention discloses a search based service information management system and method. The system comprises a plurality of user clients, a service provider client and a service information management platform, wherein the user clients are used for sending search words input by users to the service information management platform and receiving recommendation information fed back by the service information management platform; the service provider client is used for making statistics on behaviors, corresponding to service providers, of the users to generate statistic information and feeding the statistic information back to the service information management platform; and the service information management platform is used for generating the recommendation information, providing the recommendation information in a result page, generating behavior data according to the statistic information of the users, fed back by the service providers and managing service information data of the users. According to the system, the search words and attribute information of the users are combined for providing the recommendation information of the service providers, commodities or the like for the users, and the commodities, services, merchants, promotional information and the like interested by the users are accurately recommended for the users, so that the user experience is improved.

The invention provides a control method of self-service shopping on a self-service terminal. The method comprises the following steps: a. receiving shopping request information from a consumer; b. sending the shopping request information to an order processing system corresponding to the self-service terminal; c. providing processing information of the shopping request information to the consumer according to the order processing system. The invention also provides a corresponding control device and system. According to the invention, the self-service terminal receives the shopping request information from the consumer and feeds back the order processing information to the consumer which is user after the finish of shopping order processing. So a shopping approach different from the prior art is provided for the user, being widely applied to fields of shopping, food and drink, ticket business and the like.

The present invention relates to a system and method for enabling customer self-checkout using a portable device. The system allows the customer to walk in to a retail store, check out items at the store, pay for the goods and present a proof of payment at the store exit. Thus the invention asserts the possibility of having unmanned stores and benefits the stores and the customers alike. The store benefits by not having to invest in separate space, terminal and employees for check out process, while the customers benefits by not having to wait in queue to check out their goods and pay for the same.

A system and method that aggregates investment, educational and entertainment data for consumers in a visually simplified way. In an embodiment, a system for such aggregated data can include a database containing investment data and investment education data and a processor in communication with the investment database and investment education database. In an exemplary embodiment, the processor may be included in a web server. The processor may be configured to execute instructions to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to display visuals and accept queries from users according to at least one of the investment data and the investment education data. The GUI can include an educational portion and an investment portion. The processor can be configured to display through the GUI appropriate educational content from the educational portion and appropriate investment content from the investment portion.

A system and method for pre-allocating resources for use by registering consumers of applications and/or services available via a protocol that identifies a user through items including, but not limited to, a cookie and/or a persistent connection (e.g., the Internet) is provided. The system includes one or more components for pre-allocating resources for use by consumers registering to use applications and/or services available over the Internet. Since consumers can be served by more than one application and/or service server, and since resources can be managed by more than one resource manager, information concerning a consumer may be replicated to the more than one resource manager. The system thus includes one or more components for processing requests from consumers that require access to resources so that requests from newly registered consumers can be processed by a resource manager that has information concerning the newly registered consumers.

A method (and a computer-readable medium comprising executable instructions for generating a user interface on a display) are disclosed for controlling a plurality of media objects connected to a network. The method displays a subset of a group of predefined functional interfaces. A functional interface comprises one or more user menus and each user menus is associated with at least one media object. The method forwards a user request to a control server and to receive a response to the user request from the control server. A user request comprises one or more user interactions with the subset of the functional interfaces. The method further comprises updating the subset of the functional interfaces on the display screen.

The invention discloses a transaction information management system and a method thereof. The transaction information management system comprises a commodity information module, a transaction management module, a user information module and a financial module; the commodity information module is used for storing commodity two-dimension codes and corresponding commodity information and transmitting the corresponding commodity information to a point-of-sale terminal to be browsed after the commodity two-dimension codes are scanned in the point-of-sale terminal; the transaction management module is used for establishing a primary transaction order according to the commodity information and purchasing information; the user information module is used for storing commodity seller information and commodity buyer information and adding the commodity seller information and the commodity buyer information to the primary transaction order after the primary transaction order is established to form into a final transaction order; the financial module is used for controlling fund and distributing generated benefits and settling accounts according to the final transaction order and a predetermined rule comprising associated information. The transaction information management system and method can fairly distribute the benefits generated by the transaction on the basis of information sharing.

The invention provides a display device and a fingerprint recognition method thereof. The display device comprises an OLED display panel; a fingerprint photo-sensor array which is arranged on the backsurface of the OLED display panel; and a control device which is connected with the OLED display panel and the fingerprint photo-sensor array and used for controlling working of the fingerprint recognition function, wherein the specific display frame of the OLED display panel acts as the light source of the fingerprint photo-sensor array. The structure of the display device is effectively simplified, lighting and thinning and miniaturization of the display device can be facilitated by using the specific display frame of the OLED display panel as the light source of the fingerprint photo-sensor array, full-screen fingerprint recognition can be realized with no requirement for independently providing the light source for the fingerprint photo-sensor array, and thus the space occupation is small, the energy consumption is low and the cost is saved.

A system and method are provided for incorporating music into other, non-music applications of an electronic device. The metadata of music files on an electronic device may be searched according to specified search criteria. The metadata search identifies matching music that would be appropriate to play while using, or incorporate into, a non-music application. If the metadata search indicates that the mobile device does not have stored in memory an appropriate matching music file, then the user may be directed to a server or other location on a communications network that stores music files. The user may then download or stream the music files whose metadata matches the search criteria from the network for incorporation into the non-music application. In one exemplary embodiment, the non-music application is a video game, and the game program searches music metadata to find one or more music files in which the musical style matches the style of game play

The invention discloses an intelligent automatic vending machine, comprising a vending machine body, a controller, a commodity display stand and a payment and pickup device, and also includes an image recognition component for judging and outputting age information and height information of consumers; and a weight detection component; Non-invasive blood glucose detector; temperature detector; pulse detector; data storage, used to store product number, nutrient composition and content, and nutritional composition and content data that should be ingested under various physiological parameters of the human body; automatic recommendation module, retrieval and matching The nutritional components and contents required by the human body are outputted in sequence according to the matching degree; the commodity selection module is used to facilitate consumers to purchase commodities; the display component, compared with the traditional vending machine, the intelligent vending machine of the present invention It can recommend some foods that are beneficial to consumers' health in combination with consumers' personal health conditions, which is conducive to improving consumers' shopping experience and promoting the increase of vending machine sales.

The invention discloses a canteen payment system and a method based on an image recognition technology. The canteen payment system comprises a camera, a pressure sensor, a host, a card swiping machine and a displayer, wherein the camera, the pressure sensor, the credit card machine and the displayer are all connected with the host. The canteen payment method comprises the following steps: taking out a dish sample from a sample database after the whole image data is obtained and traversing the whole image data, when the similarity of a certain dish image data in the whole image data and the dish sample data is larger than 80%, determining that the current traversal dish is the same with the dish sample, the host calling successfully matched dish information which is corresponding to the dish sample from the sample database by the host and outputting the dish information and the total number of dishes to the displayer and storing the dish information and total value of the dish into a consumption database; and calculating and outputting the total price of the dishes after all the dishes in the whole image are identified, and reminding a consumer by the displayer to pay the amount of consumption through the credit card machine.

The invention provides a microstrip antenna, a preparation method thereof and electronic equipment. The microstrip antenna comprises a first substrate, a second substrate and a third substrate which are sequentially stacked from bottom to top, a transmission line arranged on the upper surface of the first substrate, a ground electrode arranged on the lower surface of the second substrate and having a radiation slot, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a feeder line and a radiation patch arranged on the upper surface or the lower surface ofthe third substrate, wherein orthographic projection of the feeder line, the radiation patch and the transmission line at least partially overlaps the orthographic projection of the radiation slot onthe first substrate, the transmission line and the ground electrode form a signal transmission line, the signal transmission line and the liquid crystal layer form a phase shifter, and the ground electrode, the transmission line, the feeder line and the radiation patch are arranged on the single-side surfaces of the different substrates respectively. The microstrip antenna has the advantages of simple preparation and low cost, is precise in alignment and has a high yield.