Patents Examined by Dione N. Simpson
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Patent number: 11727345Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for scoring candidate routes. One of the methods includes obtaining a predictive model trained on training examples from trip log data, wherein each training example has feature values from a particular trip and a value of a dependent variable that represents an outcome of a portion of the particular trip, wherein the features of each particular trip include values obtained from one or more external data feed sources that specify a value of a sensor measurement at a particular point in time during the trip. Sensor values from one or more external data feed sources of a sensor network are received. Feature values are generated using the sensor values received from the one or more external data feed sources. A predicted score is computed for each route using the feature values for the candidate route.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Descartes Systems (USA) LLCInventors: Patrick Miller Coughran, Douglas David Coughran, IV, Evan Fields, Rany Polany, Raimundo Onetto, Nathalie Saade, Nasser Mohamed, Aurelio de Padua Gandra
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Patent number: 11699123Abstract: Systems and methods are described for detecting and determining information regarding substance transfer stations and for providing the information to users of an online platform in order to permit the users to make informed choices regarding which station to visit for vehicular loading or unloading of a carried substance. The systems and methods may be suitable for detecting and determining information regarding saltwater disposal stations in an oilfield region.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Inventor: Joshua Adler
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Patent number: 11669798Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for clearing internationally shipped items through government customs agencies. Aspects of the invention utilize a unifying database to consolidate information from different parties (e.g., government entities, shippers, carriers, brokers, and item recipients) associated with delivery of an internationally shipped item in a common location. The unifying database facilitates communication between different the parties that use different data protocols, different data formats, different data types, different EDI, etc., Parties can update relevant information corresponding to their responsibilities within the unified database. When one party updates information, other parties can be notified electronically in essentially real time of status changes relevant to item delivery. Brokers can be assigned for at-will clearance work based on broker profile information maintained in the unifying database.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: KlearNow CorporationInventors: Ulf Sandberg, Rick Tellez, Sam Tyagi
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Patent number: 11651298Abstract: A system and a method for simplifying payment of a vehicle parking fee for a user. The method includes detecting, by a sensor, that a vehicle is parked; determining a geographical vehicle position data of the parked vehicle; sending the parking request message to the vehicle parking management server from a communication device; determining, by the vehicle parking management server, at least a first vehicle parking fee service provider among plural of available vehicle parking fee service providers that is available for receiving payment of the vehicle parking fee where the vehicle is parked; displaying, via a user interface of the communication device, selection information associated with the a least first vehicle parking fee service provider available for receiving payment of the vehicle parking fee where the vehicle is parked.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.Inventor: William Andersson
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Patent number: 11625739Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means are provided for bulk costing using an application server which receives a bulk costing request from a remote user device, the bulk costing request including a list of items to be costed and a set of input variables. A final list of components and assemblies is generated including a scenario for each item to be costed for each combination of input variables. A deep costing analysis is performed of the final list, resulting in an estimated cost for each of the items to be costed for each of the input variables.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: APRIORI TECHNOLOGIES, INCInventors: Paul Meadows, Amanda M. Bligh, Karen B. Gold, Barton Christopher Phinney
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Patent number: 11620586Abstract: A method and system may reduce latency and improve connectivity by performing offline authorization of products and services related to airline reservations. A server device may receive a request for a product or service related to an airline reservation from a user including payment information for the user and may transmit the payment information to a payment service provider for authorization. In response to identifying an outage at the payment service provider, the server device generates a temporary approval code indicative of a successful payment to prevent latency during the outage at the payment service provider and stores transaction data including a representation of the payment information for the user in an offline database. The server device proceeds as if payment was successful and provides an order confirmation message to the user's client device indicating that the product or service has been reserved for the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: UNITED AIRLINES, INC.Inventors: Robert Erik Stogo, Namratha Prabhakara Rao Pavar
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Patent number: 11620584Abstract: A server communicates with a terminal device used by a user, and an external server. The server includes a memory, a server, and a processor. The memory stores map information and timetable information for public transportation. The server communication device acquires, from the external server, a rental place and a riding start time of a vehicle reserved by the user. The processor sets the rental place as a destination and the riding start time as an arrival time based on the map information and the timetable information, and executes a route search. The processor controls the server communication device such that the server communication device outputs a route, a mode of transport, and an estimated travel time, which are acquired from the route search, and that the second application displays, as the users' schedule, the route, the mode of transport, and the estimated travel time.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Suzuki, Makoto Akahane
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Patent number: 11615370Abstract: With respect to a package delivery system configured to optimize efficiencies associated with package delivery, a server computing device may monitor locations and conditions associated with a fleet of vehicles. A vehicle including a first delivery person may be dispatched with packages for delivery. The server computing device may provide updated delivery routes based on traffic and/or other conditions in the environment. At the completion of a work shift associated with the first delivery person, the vehicle may be parked at a location proximate the delivery route. The server computing device may dispatch a second delivery person to the location. Based on an indication that the second delivery person is proximate the vehicle, the server computing device may cause a user interface to surface on a computing device of the second delivery person, enabling the second delivery person to unlock the vehicle and continue delivering the packages.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jin Li, Xingang Guo, Shao-Wen Yang, Kaushik Mani, Taru Roy, Ahmet Can Musabeyoglu, Gerald J. Nievera
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Patent number: 11574350Abstract: A credibility evaluation device for evaluating a credibility of a user who uses a service provided by a communicable structure includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: acquire structure information on the structure during and after use of the service by the user and third-party evaluation information including evaluation about the structure made by a third party other than the user after use of the service by the user; and calculate the credibility of the user, based on at least one of the structure information and the third-party evaluation information.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD.Inventors: Daiki Kaneichi, Naoya Sugita
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Patent number: 11551183Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for managing exceptions to orders collected by autonomous vehicles. The exemplary systems may be configured to receive an indication of an exception that at least one item for an order cannot be collected with a first autonomous vehicle carrying a container associated with the order and determine a reconfigured path for the first vehicle responsive to receiving the indication of the exception. The reconfigured path may include a stop at a storage location configured to store containers associated with the exception. The systems may be configured to receive an indication that the container was removed from the first vehicle and deposited at the storage location, transmit an instruction to a second autonomous vehicle to collect the at least one item for the order, and receive an indication that the at least one item has been matched with the container deposited at the storage location.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLCInventors: Christopher Cacioppo, Alexa Mellon, Matthew Graham, Jeffrey Kreis, Christopher Payne, Timothy Deignan
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Patent number: 11537955Abstract: System, apparatus, device and methods relating to a telematic vehicle sharing platform ecosystem and a telematic vehicle share I/O expander to automate sharing and management of a vehicle that is shared by more than one operator.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Geotab Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Mendes, Stephen Michael Fox, Benjamin John Gordon Gaffney
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Patent number: 11538097Abstract: A network of collection and distribution machines may collect, charge and/or distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). Electric vehicles available for sharing, renting or otherwise available for temporary use may be located at such collection and distribution machines or other designated areas. Users may request temporary use of such electric vehicles via a user interface of the collection and distribution machine, the user's mobile device or that of the electric vehicle itself. During temporary use, the user may exchange depleted portable electrical energy storage devices of the vehicle being used for charged portable electrical energy storage devices at the collection and distribution machines and may be offered the opportunity to terminate the temporary use session or continue the temporary use session in conjunction with the portable electrical energy storage device exchange.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Gogoro Inc.Inventors: Hok-Sum Horace Luke, Matthew Whiting Taylor, Kenneth Edward Wall
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Patent number: 11521288Abstract: A server device includes: a receiver configured to receive, from a management device installed in a parking zone, information about a vehicle, which enters the parking zone, obtained from an exterior of the vehicle and wireless identification information obtained from a mobile terminal in the vehicle; a controller configured to generate first encryption information corresponding to the vehicle, by using the information about the vehicle and the wireless identification information; and a transmitter configured to, when a parking area is assigned to the vehicle, transmit information about the parking area to the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mark Andrew Dancel Bautista, Reuben Carlos N. Cruz, Richard Guinto, Nicholas Craig Ty Tan
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Patent number: 11501247Abstract: Systems and methods for using machine learning to estimate courier arrival times are described herein. According to an embodiment, a server computer receives a request to deliver to a requester prepared items associated with a preparation entity. The server additionally receives courier data identifying available couriers within the geographic region of the preparation entity and current request data identifying current requests to deliver prepared items from a plurality of entities in the geographic region. The server uses a trained machine learning system to compute an estimated pickup time, using at least the courier data and courier request data as inputs. The server computer then routes a preparation request to the preparation entity along with the estimated pickup time.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: GRUBHUB HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Sagar Sahasrabudhe, Gregory Danko, Carolyn Mooney
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Patent number: 11475424Abstract: The present specification discloses a method and system for implementing interworking of different payment operations. On a basis of determining a payment link by an entry passing operation, related data generated by a first exit payment operation belonging to a different type from the entry passing operation is superimposed on the payment link, fee deduction information is further determined, and the fee deduction information corresponding to the first exit payment operation is transmitted, by using the payment link, to a third-party payment system for exit fee deduction.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kaihua Lu, Wei Huang
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Patent number: 11392886Abstract: A computer system collects and processes data related to a series of shipments from a number of sources (e.g., in the form of a set of event streams formed by grouping and/or processing information from respective sources into information to be processed by the computer system). Some of the information received in the event streams is sufficient to enable the computer system to help carriers/drivers and transportation depots detect conditions that will affect a carrier delivery schedule (involving either pick up or delivery at a loading area of a transportation depot) that will likely result in detention.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Trimble Transportation Enterprise Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Leonard, Vasanth Srinivasan, Joseph M. DeBoth, Mark Botticelli
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Patent number: 11393271Abstract: A technique for controlling access to one or more attractions is achieved using a number of access keys, each being issued to one or more users. An electronic queue management part manages a virtual queue in respect of each attraction and receives electronic requests for attraction access, each request relating to an access key and being for the users associated with it to access a particular attraction. Receipt of each request causes the respective users to be added to a corresponding virtual queue. A time at which each group of users reaches the front of the virtual queue and can access the attraction is determined. The users access the attractions by presenting an access key to an access control part, in communication with the electronic queue management part. Only a user presenting an access key at the correct time for accessing the attraction is allowed access to the attraction.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: ACCESSO TECHNOLOGY GROUP PLCInventors: Christopher Simon Galley, Christopher Simon Peter Barnaby, Gary Richard Miller, Ian Michael Francis
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Patent number: 11361594Abstract: A method implemented on an electronic computing device for arranging activities for one or more individuals using an autonomous vehicle (AV) includes receiving a request from a first individual for the AV. An action is initiated to provide the AV to the first individual. One or more activities are provided for the first individual to perform during a trip using the AV. A detection is made as to when the first individual completes one of the one or more activities. A cost of the trip is adjusted based on a completion of the one of the one or more activities.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Jennifer L. Copeland, Suzanne M. Fisi, Simone O. Harvey, David C. Hatch, Chris Kalaboukis, Muhammad Farukh Munir, Aaron Francis Colfax Petrik, Darrell L. Suen, Timothy R. Ward, Steven J. Wirt, Ryan J. Wyler, Nancy B. Zimmerman
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Patent number: 11361272Abstract: A device for monitoring a mobile object having a sensor unit, which has at least one sensor for monitoring the mobile object. The device additionally has a processing unit, which is designed to record measured values from a sensor unit within a time span. The processing unit is designed to determine, as a function of the recorded measured values, in what kind of process in a transport chain the object is involved. A method for monitoring a mobile object is also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Roberto Ferrozzi, Ando Feyh, Fernando Suarez Lainez, Hannes Wolf, Hannes Rose, Henar Martin Rodriguez, Julian Bartholomeyczik
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Patent number: 11348055Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for clearing internationally shipped items through government customs agencies. Aspects of the invention utilize a unifying database to consolidate information from different parties (e.g., government entities, shippers, carriers, brokers, and item recipients) associated with delivery of an internationally shipped item in a common location. The unifying database facilitates communication between different the parties that use different data protocols, different data formats, different data types, different EDI, etc., Parties can update relevant information corresponding to their responsibilities within the unified database. When one party updates information, other parties can be notified electronically in essentially real time of status changes relevant to item delivery. Brokers can be assigned for at-will clearance work based on broker profile information maintained in the unifying database.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: KlearNow CorporationInventors: Ulf Sandberg, Rick Tellez, Sam Tyagi