Patents Examined by Asfand M. Sheikh
  • Patent number: 11423351
    Abstract: A blockchain of transactions may be referenced for various purposes and may be later accessed by interested parties for ledger verification. One example method of operation may comprise one or more of identifying a production date associated with a product, creating a unique code to represent the production date and the product based on a hash of one or more blocks of a blockchain, and forwarding the unique code to a verification server to verify the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Changrui Ren, Bing Shao, Ning Sun, Bo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11416947
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for use in locating one or more merchant terminals based on transaction data associated with the terminals. One exemplary method generally includes accessing, by a computing device, transaction data for a transaction to a payment account between a merchant and a consumer at a merchant terminal where the transaction data includes a terminal ID for the merchant terminal, a merchant ID of the merchant, an acquirer ID for an acquirer associated with the merchant, and a temporal indicator. In addition, the method includes receiving, by the computing device, location data associated with the transaction, identifying, by the computing device, a location associated with the location data as a location of the merchant terminal, and assigning, by the computing device, a score to the identified location indicative of a confidence that the identified location is the actual location of the merchant terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jason Jay Lacoss-Arnold, Vincent A. Haulotte
  • Patent number: 11403627
    Abstract: A system for transacting in an environment with intermittent connectivity via a network backbone to a blockchain. A merchant device transmits a set of credentials for an ad hoc network to a buyer device and establishes a private peer-to-peer ad hoc network connection with the buyer device. It then conducts a transaction with the buyer device via the private peer-to-peer ad hoc network. If no network connection is available to a transaction blockchain, the merchant device stores a record of the transaction until such network becomes available and later sends the record of the transaction to the transaction blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LIQUINEQ AG
    Inventors: Dan Kikinis, Haim Dror
  • Patent number: 11397932
    Abstract: An example operation may include determining a fractional responsibility of an event, a sub-event and/or an occupant associated with a transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Manish Kumar, James H. Kikuma
  • Patent number: 11392915
    Abstract: An example operation may include determining a fractional responsibility of an event, a sub-event and/or an occupant associated with a transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Manish Kumar, James H. Kikuma
  • Patent number: 11393044
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for associating a merchant with an aggregate merchant uses a computing device having a processor and a memory. The method includes identifying an association rule for the aggregate merchant, including one or more antecedents. Each antecedent includes a model value for the antecedent associated with the aggregate merchant. The method also includes identifying one or more merchant data values associated with the merchant. Each of the one or more merchant data values correspond to one of the one or more antecedents. The method further includes applying the association rule to the one or more merchant data values by comparing the model value for each antecedent with a merchant data value associated with the corresponding antecedent, thereby generating a confidence score for the merchant. The confidence score represents a likelihood the merchant is associated with the aggregate merchant. The method also includes outputting the confidence score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Walter F. Lo Faro
  • Patent number: 11386410
    Abstract: A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include receiving, at a transaction system being situated along a proxy communication channel extending from a point-of-sale terminal of a first entity to a mobile wallet provider, an encrypted transaction code. The encrypted transaction code can be generated and sent to the point-of-sale terminal by a mobile device that runs a mobile application associated with the mobile wallet provider. The mobile device receives from a point-of-sale terminal an identifier of the first entity, a transaction amount of a transaction, and a transaction identifier for the transaction, receives an authorization from a user of the mobile device for the transaction while the user is at the point-of-sale terminal, and determines that the mobile device is unable to communicate with the mobile wallet provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: EARLY WARNING SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Bartrim, Paul Finch, Lou Anne Alexander
  • Patent number: 11373157
    Abstract: Smart table devices determine aspects associated with individual and items at a table. Sensors associated with a table are used to determine a location of each individual from a group of individuals at the table. The sensors also determine the location of a first item on the table. The first item is automatically associated with a first individual from the group of individuals based on proximity of the location of the first item on the table to the location of the first individual at the table. It is also determined using the sensors that the first individual has consumed at least a portion of the first item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Roy Leon Camp
  • Patent number: 11315093
    Abstract: Systems and associated methods for recycling and performing other processes with consumer electronic devices are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods for identifying and evaluating a used or pre-owned consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, laptop, etc. to facilitate purchasing the device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes a counter-top evaluation terminal that evaluates a device and facilitates purchase and recycling of the device. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ecoATM, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Vincent Bowles
  • Patent number: 11308445
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for dynamically managing data associated with transactions of wearable items. For example, a method may include receiving wearable item data from one or more electronic tenant interfaces, hosting an electronic warehouse operations portal and/or an electronic administrative portal, receiving one or more electronic user transactions initiated at one or more user platforms, updating one or more transaction databases and one or more analytics databases, based on the one or more electronic user transactions, receiving one or more wearable item operations requests, initiating one or more microservices to fulfill the one or more wearable item operations requests, and updating at least one of the one or more transaction databases and one or more analytics databases based on completion of the one or more wearable item operations requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CaaStle, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaswinder Pal Singh, Amy Kang, Christine M. Hunsicker, Georgiy Goldenberg, Dongming Jiang, Chirag Jain, Prashant Rao, Prashant T R Rao
  • Patent number: 11295246
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for portable network interfaces to manage authentication and license enforcement. A system may include a plurality of resource instances including a producer instance configured to implement a network-accessible service, and an authentication coordinator. The coordinator may assign an interface record to the service, wherein the interface record comprises an IP address and a set of security properties. The coordinator may configure the security properties to allow a client to request an attachment of the interface record to a selected resource instance, such that the selected resource instance is enabled to transmit network messages from the IP address using one or more physical network interfaces of the selected resource instance. The producer resource instance initiates authentication operations for the service, including at least one authentication operation based on the IP address of the interface record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Richard Jacques de Kadt, James Alfred Gordon Greenfield
  • Patent number: 11295286
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to a retail point of sale (RPOS) device and cloud service. An example system can include an RPOS agent controller and a cloud service controller communicatively coupled to one another. The cloud service controller can provide a notification of a state of the RPOS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Binh T Truong, Quoc P Pham, Amit Kumar Singh, David Gosman, Suzanne Broussard
  • Patent number: 11288652
    Abstract: A method includes scanning, by a checkout station, a plurality of items and determining, by the checkout station, a total price for the plurality of items. Each item of the plurality of items is coupled to a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that identifies that item. The method also includes detecting, by an RFID scanner of a centralized payment station, one or more of the RFID tags of the plurality of items moving within a threshold distance of the centralized payment station and retrieving, by a hardware processor of the centralized payment station and based on the detected one or more RFID tags, the total price. The method further includes processing, by the hardware processor, a payment in satisfaction of the total price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: David Steiner, Kimberly Wood, Timothy W. Crockett, Jose R. Figueroa, Suzanne M. Bleakley
  • Patent number: 11282025
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide shipping management system shipping documentation generation operation which spawns intelligent generation subprocesses are described. The intelligent generation subprocesses of embodiments facilitate autonomous shipping documentation generation functionality of a concatenated shipping documentation generation process. A user may initiate a shipping documentation generation process, whereby an intelligent generation subprocess is spawned, and thereafter the user may be freed to perform one or more independent operation and/or interaction with the shipping management system. One or more verifications, checks, warnings, and/or the like are suspended and one or more parameter, input, selection, and/or the like are defaulted for operation of an intelligent generation subprocess of embodiments. Embodiments implement a documentation queue to provide historical information with respect to intelligent generation subprocess operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Auctane, LLC
    Inventor: Byron Wier
  • Patent number: 11282091
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses that can provide, for example, dynamic page feed recognition for providing zero-configuration analysis of web pages and tailored advertisement provision to website visitors. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can be used to analyze inventory feed. Based on analysis of user interaction data on the web pages, one or more matching methodologies can be used to determine matching data between the visited web pages and the inventory feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Transitiv, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Ashley Messer
  • Patent number: 11276123
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for the recognition and allocation of revenue generated by a subscription based pricing model or plan that is applied to a product or service. Embodiments respond to customer needs for a flexible and powerful revenue allocation engine to permit correct revenue distribution within a subscription economy and effectively trace changes to a revenue schedule and the resulting revenue recognition. Embodiments can efficiently react to changes to a subscription agreement and calculate a new distribution for a revenue schedule and its impact on revenue recognition and future revenue projections. In one embodiment, the systems and methods includes a revenue recognition/allocation engine that operates to evaluate the impact of “charge events” on revenue generation, taking into account relevant business rules and revenue recognition principles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Zuora, Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Jin, John Banks, Kang Ao, Muyun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11257133
    Abstract: A system and method to attribute expiration dates and quantities of a product to an SKU code for pricing purposes. This method applies dynamic pricing to perishable food items. Using bulk tagging capabilities, the supermarket can attribute expiration dates to items without the pain of actually tagging the items with stickers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Wasteless Ltd.
    Inventor: Oded Omer
  • Patent number: 11227273
    Abstract: A method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed for recommending merchants. The method includes storing a first tip amount and a second tip amount corresponding to a first merchant and a second merchant, respectively. Then, categorizing the first tip amount and the second tip amount into a lower weighted category or higher weighted category. The method also includes generating, using a weighted model that includes machine learning logic: a first score for the first merchant based on the first tip amount and the category of the first tip amount; and a second score for the second merchant based on the second tip amount and the category of the second tip amount. Tip amounts in the higher weighted category carry more weight in generating scores than those in the lower weighted category. Then, either the first merchant or the second merchant is recommended based on the scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira, Joshua Edwards, Michael Mossoba
  • Patent number: 11216756
    Abstract: A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium being operable to associate each of a plurality of tenants with a respective virtual portal and individually meter virtual portal usage at each respective virtual portal. Additionally, the computer executable code is operable to determine a fee amount for the each of the plurality of tenants based on the individually metered virtual portal usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gennady Laventman, Randy A. Rendahl, Amber Roy-Chowdhury, Alexey Roytman
  • Patent number: 11216803
    Abstract: Transaction address data is received at a point of interaction (POI) device, from a payment-enabled mobile device. The transaction address data includes first address data and second address data. The first address data identifies a wallet service provider that is associated with the payment-enabled mobile device. The second address data indicates an internet address for a server function present in the payment-enabled mobile device. The first address data is used to dispatch the second address data from the POI device to the wallet service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Cristian Radu