Patents Examined by Christopher B Seibert
  • Patent number: 11676191
    Abstract: Efficient systems and methods for multiple-term searching and product ordering. A method includes receiving a plurality of independent search requests from a user and executing a product search for each of the plurality of independent search requests to generate a plurality of independent product results. The method includes providing at least a portion of the plurality of independent product results to the user simultaneously. The method includes receiving a product selection from the user and adding the product selection to a virtual shopping cart for the user while continuing to display at least a portion of the plurality of independent product results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventor: Brian E. Edholm
  • Patent number: 11669884
    Abstract: A mobile device can establish a communication with a separate device via a single function action such as bringing the devices near to each other. A method can include establishing a communication between a mobile device and a separate device a via a wireless link, presenting an instruction associated with the potential purchase and receiving, after the instruction is displayed and interpreted by the mobile device, a combination of a first type of input and a second type of input with the mobile device, at least one of which can be a security measure to prevent unauthorized purchase. The method includes retrieving the payment data from a memory of the mobile device and transmitting the payment data via the wireless link to the separate device to make a purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Monticello Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Thomas M. Isaacson, Ryan Connell Durham
  • Patent number: 11669879
    Abstract: This invention relates to a computer-implemented method, a computer program product and a system for generating an article of manufacture. More specifically, the method, computer program product and the system are configured for providing a highly individualised article of manufacture suitable for presentation as a gift or memento. The method comprises the steps of receiving user input data including one or more of the date, time and location of a special event and thereafter accessing an astronomical catalogue and retrieving from the astronomical catalogue astrometric and photometric data of a plurality of celestial bodies for the date, time and location before rendering a plot of the celestial bodies along with other pertinent information on the article of manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: EDRLL LTD
    Inventors: Ciara Dowling, Eoin Dowling, Kevin Burkitt
  • Patent number: 11669887
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure relates to a navigation system configured to use GPS or Wi-Fi to navigate users within a structure as well as on roadways. A mapping system may be configured to generate maps and transmit the maps to user devices in association with turn-by-turn instructions. A given user's current position may be monitored and corrective navigation instructions may be provided. A given user may be navigated to a position of a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: InstaProtek Inc.
    Inventors: Farsheed Atef, Angela Marie Myers
  • Patent number: 11645699
    Abstract: A method of providing information related to a service by an electronic apparatus, which includes acquiring order information for an item list including one or more items, performing an operation for picking work corresponding to the acquired order information, and when picking of all the one or more items included in the item list for the acquired order information is completed, performing an operation for pickup location assignment, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Coupang Corp.
    Inventors: Bo Ra Moon, So Hee Kim, Tae Hoa Lee, Sun Hee Hwang, Jeong Seok Oh, Sang Jin Ko, Sung Jin Park, Sang Hee Ahn, Sang Ho Lee, Se Hwan Chung, Hye Jin Oh, Yeo Joo Yang
  • Patent number: 11645698
    Abstract: An object tracking system includes a sensor, a weight sensor, and a tracking system. The sensor is configured to capture a frame of at least a portion of a rack within a global plane for a space. The tracking system is configured to detect a weight decrease on the weight sensor. The tracking system is further configured to receive the frame of the rack, to determine a pixel location for a person, to determine the person is within a predefined zone associated with the rack. The tracking system is further configured to identify the item associated with the weight sensor and to add the identified item to a digital cart associated with the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.
    Inventors: Sarath Vakacharla, Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Deepanjan Paul
  • Patent number: 11631123
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a voice shopping method, device, and a computer-readable storage medium, and relates to the field of voice recognition technology. The method includes: receiving a query instruction from a user by voice, and performing semantic recognition on the query instruction to determine one or more keywords of query content of the user; determining a search range of the keywords according to one or more shopping behavior records of the user; searching the keywords within the search range to obtain commodity information related to the query content, and performing voice output; and receiving an ordering instruction from the user by voice, and performing semantic recognition on the ordering instruction to determine whether an order is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING JINGDONG SHANGKE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING JINGDONG CENTURY TRADING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaochun Yuan, Linli Wang, Nanhua Lai, Zhiwu Yu, Xiaoliang Wang
  • Patent number: 11625763
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for facilitating migration of electronic shopping carts between devices. A user generates an electronic shopping cart based on interacting with a merchant website using a first device. In response to receiving a request for transferring the electronic shopping cart, cart data associated with the electronic shopping cart is obtained. The cart data is encoded, using a selected encoding technique, into a code, which can be a phrase, an emoji string, a QR code, or an image of a face that can be transferrable to a second device. The code is presented on the first device. In response to receiving the code from the second device, the electronic shopping cart is re-generated based on the cart data extracted from the code. The electronic shopping cart is made accessible to the user via the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Anthony Vannoni, Joshua Buck Powers, Aaron Whitfield Ross, Jon William Axelson, Nicolle Elise Mathews, William Richardson, Harsh Rajesh Vachhani, Atul Sanjeev Rai
  • Patent number: 11605122
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing aircraft modifications. A link to a customer information database is established in response to receiving a launch input for a modification marketplace entered by a user via a graphical user interface. The customer information database includes identification information and customer information associated with the user. A determination is made as to whether the user is authorized to access the modification marketplace using the identification information. A link to an engineering database containing aircraft product information is established in response to a determination that the user is authorized to access the modification marketplace. A selected level of access to the aircraft product information in the engineering database is provided, via the graphical user interface, based on the customer information associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Patrick C. Fahey, Sheldon D. Gilley, Mark A. Bowe
  • Patent number: 11605118
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide an attentive network framework that models dynamic attributes with item and feature interactions. Specifically, the attentive network framework first encodes basket item sequences and dynamic attribute sequences with time-aware padding and time/month encoding to capture the seasonal patterns (e.g. in app recommendation, outdoor activities apps are more suitable for summer time while indoor activity apps are better for winter). Then the attentive network framework applies time-level attention modules on basket items' sequences and dynamic user attributes' sequences to capture basket items to basket items and attributes to attributes temporal sequential patterns. After that, an intra-basket attentive module is used on items in each basket to capture the correlation information among items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Chen, Jia Li, Chenxi Li, Markus Anderle, Caiming Xiong, Simo Arajarvi, Harshavardhan Utharavalli
  • Patent number: 11605115
    Abstract: A system and method of identifying suspicious item-related features are disclosed. In some embodiments, a new item listing is received. The item listing may correspond to a request to list an item for sale on an e-commerce website. Item-related data for the item listing may be extracted. The item-related data can be used by a model to classify the new item listing. The model may be trained on data comprising identifications of which item listings in the sample of item listings are suspicious and identifications of which item listings in the sample of item listings are not suspicious may be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Scott Johnson, Michael Ching, Julie Lavee Netzloff, Vamsi Krishna Salaka
  • Patent number: 11599937
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a digital wardrobe are presented herein. A transceiver can be configured to receive a request having a garment identifier and a user identifier. Additionally, an access module can be configured to access a first garment model, access a body model of the user corresponding to the user identifier, and access a second garment model corresponding to the user identifier. Furthermore, a processor can be configured by a garment simulation module to position the body model inside the first garment model and the second garment model, and calculate simulated forces based on the positioning. Moreover, a rendering module can be configured to generate an image of the garment models draped on the body model based on the calculated simulated forces. Subsequently, a display module can be configured to cause presentation of the generated image on a display of a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Su, Jatin Chhugani, Mihir Naware, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 11587059
    Abstract: A system and related method for completing online transactions via mobile device includes a client-side e-commerce platform executing on the mobile device that identifies candidate items for purchase based on images related to an item desired by the user. The client-side platform determines attributes of the item based on an image captured by an onboard camera or otherwise stored on, or downloaded to, the mobile device. Purchase information for items offered by participating vendors, or third-party vendors, is retrieved by the platform via APIs of the vendor network or automated middleware respectively. The user may select items for purchase and complete the transaction via single click, and the middleware forwards payment details to the third-party vendors and retrieves purchase information and transaction records from the third-party vendors. The client-side platform generates a single transaction and invoice whether the selected items are purchased from in-network or third-party vendors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Slyce Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Avital Yachin, Andrey Petrenko
  • Patent number: 11568471
    Abstract: Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus and computer program code are provided to create a listing data record which include analyzing an item data record to identify item details, a user, and at least a first listing rule, determining that a degree of demand for the item exceeds a threshold, determining that the at least first listing rule is satisfied, and converting the item data record into a listing data record allowing the listing record to be viewed by a plurality of users interested in the item. The item details may be obtained from a point of sale device or a user device operated by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: OLX GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: Jasjit Singh
  • Patent number: 11568007
    Abstract: An e-commerce voice representation system is provided and generally includes a server, a database, and a customer computing device. The server may generate a hierarchical ontology to semantically represent user queries generated by the customer computing device. The server may receive from the customer computing device data representing an e-commerce user query. The server may parse the e-commerce user query based on syntactic dependencies between the words in the e-commerce user query and translating those dependencies into semantic relations between the words. The received e-commerce user query may be tagged with actions, entities, and properties of the hierarchical ontology. Identified products may be linked to conceptual classes of the hierarchical ontology. Syntactic dependencies between words of the e-commerce user query may then be determined, and a semantic representation of the e-commerce user query may be generated based on the syntactic dependencies and mapping rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Arpit Sharma, Vivek Kaul, Shankara Bhargava Subramanya
  • Patent number: 11568461
    Abstract: Merchandise content is aggregated from numerous merchant sources and presented on computing devices of individual users. Users are able to purchase select individual merchandise items by performing a simplified action, such as a screen tap on a touchscreen device. When the user performs the action, a series of actions are performed programmatically and/or automatically on behalf of the user to initiate and complete the transaction for the selected merchandise item from the merchant source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Blake Scholl, Andrew David Miner, Jason Alan Crawford
  • Patent number: 11544758
    Abstract: Provided herein are database structures, systems, and methods for an anonymous, information exchange platform. The information exchange platform described herein may comprise blockchain structures, decentralized networks, peer-to-peer technology, cryptographic techniques, and/or a combination thereof. Past and present actors associated with a topic of information (e.g., a product) may flexibly exchange information on the information exchange platform by implementing question and answer protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: CIRCULARISE B.V.
    Inventors: Jordi de Vos, Mesbah Sabur, Pietro Pasotti, Kaj Oudshoorn, Jelle Dirk Licht
  • Patent number: 11532033
    Abstract: A method for scan, try and/or buy may include receiving, from a mobile device, information that is representative of a clothing outfit. The clothing outfit may include a plurality of merchandise items available for purchase through a store. The information may be obtained by the mobile device by scanning a single code associated with the clothing outfit. The obtained information may be used to cause at least one user interface element associated with the clothing outfit to be displayed on the mobile device. In response to receiving a selection from the mobile device of the at least one user interface element, the plurality of merchandise items associated with the clothing outfit may be delivered to a merchandise check-out location within the store. The merchandise check-out location may be operable to receive payment from the user for the clothing outfit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Transform SR Brands LLC
    Inventors: Varun Reddy Agasti, Leena Munjal, Tara Stewart, Scott Multer, Catherine Michalski, Mark Mahurin
  • Patent number: 11521263
    Abstract: A computer that simulates a real-world showroom experience for a wholesale buyer is described. During operation, the computer may receive information corresponding to first user-interface activity associated with an electronic device, where the user-interface activity indicates selections of the wholesale buyer of fashion items in a first user interface. Then, the computer may generate instructions for a second user interface based at least in part on the first user-interface activity, where the second user interface corresponds to a virtual showroom of the wholesale buyer, the second user interface includes the selected fashion items and a clothes rack with available hangers, and wherein the second user interface allows the wholesale buyer to dynamically assemble one or more groups of the selected fashion items on one or more of the available hangers. Next, the computer may provide the instructions for the second user interface addressed to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CXN, Inc.
    Inventors: Jutta S. Kurz, Robert Marc Meadows, Paul Ritter, Mona Fawzy, Michael Zolfo, Yvonne Lao
  • Patent number: 11507991
    Abstract: This application relates to systems and methods for scaling and assembling framed images, and to offering the framed images for purchase. In some embodiments, a computing device is configured to receive a first customer selection of a frame style and a frame size, where the frame size indicates dimensions of a frame window. The computing device is also configured to receive a second customer selection of a mat style. Further, the computing device is configured to determine, based at least on the dimensions of the frame window and the mat style, a mat size, where the mat size includes dimensions of a mat window. The computing device is also configured to determine, based at least on the dimensions of the mat window, an image size for an image. For example, the computing device may execute a rule-based model, or a machine learning model, to determine the image size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Kingsbury Larson, Warren Lee Shoff, Steven Matthew Farmer, Brett Raymond Stone, Robert Dean Wenger, Timothy Wayne Stevens