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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.

The present invention provides an a electronic payment system for bank, financial institutions, portals and companies to receive payment from their customers for one or more payees. The electronic payment system allows payer (consumer or business) to use any funding method (bank account, credit / debit cards or any other business or personal account or method associated with one or more banks) accepted by the payee to initiate a payment and the payment transaction is routed to the appropriate payment processor based on payee's preferences. The electronic payment system also provides a instant payment delivery notification to the payer directly from the payee. The system also creates a unique payment tracking number which can be used by all parties associated with the transaction to track a payment's status and other attributes associated with the payment. The electronic payment system also provides a rule based payment management system for the payees to use for managing the processing and posting of the payments. The system also allows for payees to manage their payments received and post to various receivable systems based on rules defined. Additionally, the system allows payees to create rules for other aspects of payment processing. The system also allows for much simplified electronic bill delivery system which uses biller's existing infrastructure to create bill data for distribution to 3rd party consolidators.

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 (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 system, a method and a device for processing article information. In the system for processing article information, a panel system comprises a panel for bearing an article, a state acquisition device for acquiring state data of the article on the panel and a first positioning device for acquiring the position data of the article on the panel. A shelf system comprises a second positioning device for acquiring the position data of a customer marker. A customer system comprises the customer marker, and a mobile device for binding the customer marker, receiving an article list, and facilitating operation and settlement by the customer. An inventory management system is used for matching the position data of the article on the panel and the position data of the customer marker, determining types and quantities of articles bought by the customer according to a matching result and the state data of the article on the panel and generating an article list for the mobile device. Thus, capturing and transmission of real-time and dynamic article data can be realized, close relation between the article and the customer behavior can be realized, and checkout by the customer freely at any time and at any place can be realized.

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.

Techniques are disclosed for capturing, transcoding, and caching off-air programming at a location local to the consumer. According to certain embodiments, a device is provided that receives off-air (e.g., broadcast) and / or cable (e.g. ClearQAM) programming via one or more antennas and caches the programming in various streams having various bit rates for later viewing using, for example, Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) streaming. Such a device can be incorporated in a larger system that can stream content via a data communication network (e.g., the Internet) and the device in a seamless manner. The device also can be controlled by a remote system via the data communication network, and further can be configured to stream content to a remote device via the data communication network.

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 method and system for merchants to participate in delivery staff order competition and is applicable to the technical field of order allocation of an internet O2O industry and a city wide logistics industry. The method comprises the steps that a server receives delivery orders and delivery demands issued by the merchants through smart terminals and pushes order information to all online delivery ends; the server receives order competition instructions fed back by the delivery ends, preliminarily screening a plurality of delivery staff according to the order competition instructions of the delivery ends and the delivery demands proposed by the merchants and pushes the information to the merchants; and the merchants carries out secondary selection on the preliminarily screened delivery staff, and the server pushes final order competition results to related delivery ends. According to the method and the system, through adoption of a mode for the merchants to participate in the delivery staff order competition, the enthusiasm of the delivery staff is fully aroused, moreover, the previous working quality of the delivery staff is taken into full consideration, the participation degree and supervision degree of the merchants for delivery links are enhanced, and the integrated quality of the order delivery service is effectively improved.

The invention discloses a non-cotton atomizer and an electronic cigarette. The non-cotton atomizer comprises an atomization sleeve, an oil storage cavity sealed inside the atomization sleeve, an oil blocking sleeve fixed on the inner wall of the atomization sleeve and an atomization assembly arranged inside the oil blocking sleeve and capable of moving in the axial direction relative to the oil blocking sleeve, wherein the atomization assembly is provided with an oil injection port; the oil injection port can be opened or closed when the atomization assembly moves to control the entering of tobacco tar, and is communicated with the oil storage cavity. According to the invention, the oil injection port can be opened or closed through enabling the atomization assembly to move in the axial direction, so that when the non-cotton atomizer is in use, tobacco tar can be injected into the atomization assembly from the oil storage cavity to be atomized; when the non-cotton atomizer is not in use or is transported, the oil injection port can be closed, so that the tobacco tar leakage is avoided; therefore, the non-cotton atomizer is convenient to operate, can effectively prevent oil leakage, and improves the consumption experience.

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.

An improved camera system for manipulating multiple images of similar subject matter is described. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for the analysis of subject matter depicted in the viewfinder of the camera. Subjects previously photographed may be recognized automatically. Before or after a picture is taken, for each recognized subject, a user may be presented with existing images of the subject already stored in a memory or database. The user may then invoke one or more manipulation operations as to the various images of the common subject. For example, a user may retain the new image in addition to previously stored images, discard the new and / or previously stored images, transfer the new and / or previously stored images to third parties, and the like.

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 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.

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.