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20120005040 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CAPTURING VALUE FROM A PAYMENT DECLINE OR ERROR - Methods and systems for capturing value from a payment decline or error include receiving a token over a computer network identifying a merchant and a declined or failed transaction initiated by a consumer, receiving confirmation over the computer network that the consumer has accepted an offer for information about why the transaction failed or was declined, requesting transaction data from a payment gateway utilizing the token identifying the merchant and the transaction, receiving transaction data from the payment gateway for the declined or failed transaction, selecting a response to be delivered to the consumer based on the transaction data, and providing the response to the consumer. | 01-05-2012 |
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20110055321 | System and method for facilitating a social networking service via proximity based messaging - A system and method is provided for facilitating a social networking service via proximity based messaging. Users fill out a profile with a service or opt into a mobile dating service in partnership with an existing dating site. Messages are delivered to users based on a compatibility score and the users geographic proximity to another user. In one embodiment, users are pre-analyzed and given a score. The scores are saved on the users mobile devices and compared in real time. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055337 | System and method for communicating among a plurality of users over a wireless communication network using location based messaging - A system and method is provided to alert users if another user has entered within a prescribed geographic region selected by the user. According to a method embodiment, a method for communicating among a plurality of users over a wireless communication network using location based messaging comprises: receiving at a central server a location based message from a user, said message including prescribed geographic region information, extracting the prescribed geographic region information from the location based message at the central server; determining at the central server whether another user has entered a prescribed geographic region corresponding to said prescribed geographic information included in said location based message, and transmitting an alert message from the central server to the mobile device of the user sending said location based message, alerting the user that another user has entered the prescribed geographic region. | 03-03-2011 |
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20150269220 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A CUSTOMIZED DIGITAL IMAGE - There are provided methods and systems for providing viewers of a digital image with information about identifiable and scenes within the image. In an embodiment, digital images, uploaded to a host website, are customized through the incorporation of some number of selectable informational links and other text based information to provide viewers of the image real-time access to social and advertising related information regarding certain identifiable objects and scenes in the image. The selectable information links are incorporated within and around the digital image in a process referred to herein as image tagging. | 09-24-2015 |
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