Patents Examined by Allan J Woodworth, II
  • Patent number: 11978086
    Abstract: Systems and methods describe providing alternate redemption options. One aspect involves receiving an order, analyzing consumer information using a redemption options algorithm to obtain redemption options including an alternate redemption option, providing an initial gift notification to a recipient device based on the gift order, the initial gift notification including the alternate redemption option, receiving an alternate redemption request, transmitting an alternate redemption information request, receiving alternate redemption information, adding alternate redemption information to the historical consumer information to obtain updated historical consumer information, training the redemption options algorithm using the updated historical consumer information to obtain an updated redemption options algorithm, and performing an alternate redemption action set using the alternate redemption information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LOOP COMMERCE, INC.
    Inventors: Gabriel Saunkeah, Jenny Jeansonne, Julia McCaffrey, Soren Mills
  • Patent number: 11978088
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Impact Engine, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Greer, Bennett Blank, Bryan Depew
  • Patent number: 11928712
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for allocation-free control of online campaigns for distributing online content includes receiving a daily content distribution spending budget and one or more response functions, calculating one or more plant gain estimates based on the one or more response functions, calculating a marginal content distribution spending budget based on the daily content distribution spending budget, generating one or more control signals based on the calculated marginal budget and the calculated one or more plant gain estimates, generating a price control signal based on the generated one or more control signals, and calculating a bid for one or more impressions based on the price control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: Qixing Zheng, Niklas Karlsson
  • Patent number: 11875379
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for predicting imputed revenue of inquiries includes: one or more computing devices comprising computer hardware and configured to: obtain data relating to a plurality of inquiries. Each of the plurality of inquiries is (a) indicative of a request for information about one or more programs providing a service, and (b) received from a particular channel of a plurality of online channels for presenting the one or more programs. The plurality of inquiries are represented using one or more data structures in one or more data sources. The computing devices are further configured to determine a model for predicting enrollment rates of the plurality of inquiries based at least in part on historical enrollment data of at least one program of the one or more programs, the model specifying a predicted enrollment rate value for one or more characteristics associated with the plurality of inquiries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CPL ASSETS, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Ostrover, Jonathan Frederick Ripper
  • Patent number: 11842364
    Abstract: A system and a method allow for the provision of an incentive between different applications. A server stores information including, in association, a user identifier, a first identifier, and a second identifier received from a client terminal, and when receiving an incentive request, causes an application server to provide an incentive to the user pertaining to the first identifier corresponding to the second identifier based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ono, Takuya Watabe, Yugo Takino
  • Patent number: 11836755
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a client device of a customer, item data identifying a price of an item and customer data identifying the customer, where the item data may be received by a transaction card from a price tag of the item. The device may receive price data identifying prices associated with multiple items and other data identifying locations, availabilities, and terms of the multiple items, and may process the item data, the price data, and the other data, with a machine learning model, to identify an optimal price for the item. The device may provide, to the client device, data identifying the optimal price and data identifying a merchant associated with the optimal price, and may receive transaction data identifying the item, the optimal price, and the merchant when the customer purchases the item. The device may perform actions based on the transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Molly Johnson, Adam Vukich, James Zarakas
  • Patent number: 11810138
    Abstract: Provided is a method including determining a combined plurality of accounts, determining, for each account of the combined plurality of accounts, aggregate transaction data associated with a plurality of transactions involving the account; determining a first cohort level group including a group of exposed accounts and controls accounts; determining a first segment level group of accounts from the first cohort level group of accounts; generating a prediction model based on a plurality of control accounts that are included in the first segment level group of accounts; identifying a first exposed account of a plurality of exposed accounts; determining a first control account of the plurality of control accounts that corresponds to a first exposed account using the prediction model; and outputting a report comprising data associated with the first control account that corresponds to the first exposed account. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: William J. Burton, Tanya Soluk, Qingyuan Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Bingxin Mao, Jiaqi Xu, Linjun Chen
  • Patent number: 11803876
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Impact Engine, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Greer, Bennett Blank, Bryan Depew
  • Patent number: 11798031
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Impact Engine, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Greer, Bennett Blank, Bryan Depew
  • Patent number: 11798023
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining tax classification of benefits offered to subscribers of a membership platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Patreon, Inc.
    Inventors: Yacine Brini, Priya Sanger
  • Patent number: 11790116
    Abstract: At least one aspect is directed to determining an estimate of an intersection of user identifiers in a first set of user identifiers and a second set of user identifiers. The first and second sets of user identifiers can be populated with user identifiers that have interacted with the same content item or content item campaign. Estimates of intersections of the first and the second sets can be determined based on a binomial vector approach, a vector of counts approach, or a hybrid approach. The binomial vector approach generates vectors based on k hashes of each user identifier in the first set and summing the vectors to generate a first vector. The intersection can be determined based on a dot product of the first vector and a second vector similarly generated from the second set of user identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Daub, Scott Schneider, Joseph Sean Cahill Goodknight Knightbrook, Sheng Ma, Laura Book
  • Patent number: 11756081
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a computer-implemented method for rendering advertisements in a Mixed Reality space, including: profiling a plurality of users in a smart home sharing the MR space; building a social network graph between the plurality of users; building a user embedding matrix based on the social network graph; recommending a plurality of first advertisements for one or more target users; building a joint embedding matrix across the plurality of users and the plurality of first advertisements; identifying a particular position and a particular time period for the one or more target user, while the remaining users are not viewing the particular position during the particular time period; selecting one or more advertisements from the plurality of first advertisements based on the joint embedding matrix; and rendering the one or more advertisements to the one or more target users at the particular position during the particular time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam Lee Griffin, Shikhar Kwatra, Vijay Ekambaram, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri
  • Patent number: 11669863
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Impact Engine, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Greer, Bennett Blank, Bryan Depew
  • Patent number: 11625745
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed to promote good driving among users. A user-customizable good driving (GD) wish list may be created, populated, modified, and/or used to promote good driving. The GD wish list may be used in conjunction with a vehicle telematics unit (VTU) to monitor, process, detect, and/or record good driving events, and communicate and/or generate positive feedback for the user. In addition to positive feedback, good driving (GD) points may be accumulated based on driving behavior. The accumulated GD points may be used in conjunction with a product and/or service offering, such as by an insurance company. Furthermore, in some examples, the system encourages users to promote good driving behavior by pledging themselves to a challenging GD wish list that will earn them more GD points and the associated benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Thomas Michael Warden, Daniel Kraft, Nathan M. Bryer, Eric Huls, Margaret A. Brinkmann
  • Patent number: 11620675
    Abstract: A feature extraction unit extracts, from an advertising request to view an online advertisement, client information on a client as a transmission source of the advertising request and publisher information on a website of a publisher who displays advertising, and calculates a predetermined feature amount using the client information and the publisher information with respect to a plurality of advertising requests including at least a benign advertising request, and a determiner generation unit generates a determiner that determines whether an advertising request is malignant or not by using the calculated feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihiro Kanei, Daiki Chiba, Yuta Takata, Mitsuaki Akiyama, Kunio Hato
  • Patent number: 11593829
    Abstract: Systems/techniques for facilitating proxy objects for tracking processing of electronic coupon codes are provided. In various embodiments, a system can determine that a browser is performing a checkout on a frontend website. In various aspects, the system can cause the frontend website to instruct the web browser to transmit a validation request to a backend server, wherein the validation request identifies a coupon code and requests that the backend server determine whether the coupon code is applicable to the checkout. In various instances, the system can cause the web browser to append a proxy object to the validation request, wherein the proxy object fetches, during execution of the validation request by the backend server, an execution status of the validation request. In various cases, the system can receive, from the proxy object, the execution status and can initiate one or more electronic actions based on the execution status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Le, Taylor James Harwood, Jonathan Travis Huff
  • Patent number: 11587117
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: IMPACT ENGINE, INC.
    Inventors: Neil Greer, Bennett Blank, Bryan Depew
  • Patent number: 11582324
    Abstract: Methods and systems for transferring information, comprising: transmitting, by a first computing device of the first computing system, a first network function request to a decentralized network, the first network function request including first information; and transmitting, by a second computing device of the second computing system, a second network function request to the decentralized network, the second network function request including second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUARTER, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Diesch, Tim Enneking, Christopher Diesch
  • Patent number: 11568442
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to identify editorial content that is compatible with a promotion. The method includes receiving a selection of a promotion structure. The method further includes identifying editorial content that is compatible with the selected promotion structure. The promotion structure may optionally be selected from a list of promotion structures relating to a deal context. The method further includes transmitting the compatible editorial content to a user. Optionally, the method may include receiving a selection from the compatible editorial content, and transmitting a claim confirmation to a promotion and marketing service. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Sean McIntosh, Natalia Corominas Sustach, Ting Tu
  • Patent number: 11507961
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to receiving numerical product data indicative of a product, the numerical product data comprising numerical values indicative of at least one of chemical composition, radius, tensile strength, a diameter, position and yield strength, and storing the numerical product data in a non-volatile memory device. The numerical product data is processed in a processor to create a plurality of explanatory variables indicative of the numerical product data. Multivariate data analysis is performed on the explanatory variables indicative of the numerical product data, where the multivariate data analysis includes an iterative cluster based outlier detection procedure. A confidence indicator value indicative of the likelihood that the numerical product data includes at least one fabricated or false data entry is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Karen Scavotto