Patents Examined by Ethan D Civan
  • Patent number: 11978111
    Abstract: An object virtualization processing method and device, an electronic device and a storage medium, the method comprising: acquiring and displaying a virtual entity model which is constructed according to an actual object and which has editable external features (S101); constructing a virtual scenario that corresponds to an actual scenario and that is acquired by a terminal device according to the real scenario (S102); projecting the virtual entity model into the virtual scenario (S103); and receiving an editing operation for the editable external features of the virtual entity model, adjusting the virtual entity model according to the editing operation to obtain an adjusted virtual entity model, and displaying the adjusted virtual entity model in the virtual scenario (S104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jinping He
  • Patent number: 11978110
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, information about a number of products may be obtained. Visual effects corresponding to each product may be applied to objects included in user content to change the appearance of the objects included in the user content. Augmented reality content may be implemented to cause changes to the appearance of one or more objects included in the user content. In various examples, a number of visual effects related to different products may be applied to objects included in the user content. A user interface including information about each of the products applied to objects included in the user content may be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Luo, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
  • Patent number: 11978099
    Abstract: Computer-based platforms and interfaces for trading a commodity such as primary production commodities, including meat, leather, grains, fruit, vegetables, flowers, seeds, living plants and timber. In particular, a user interface provides for input and output of data or information via an electronic screen. The interface has a text-based chat function for communication between a buyer and a seller, an order function allowing the buyer to order a first product from the seller, and a hyperlinking function to transform a keyword related to the product input by the buyer in the course of using the text-based chat function into a hyperlink actuatable by the buyer. When the buyer actuates the hyperlink, the order function presents an input option for the buyer to add the first product to an order by way of the order function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PRIME X CONNECT PTY LTD
    Inventor: Michael Chandler
  • Patent number: 11972467
    Abstract: A method includes receiving data characterizing a query for information associated with a first item of a plurality of items in an item catalog. The method also includes determining an attribute of the first item. The determining can be performed using a predictive model trained using question-answer pair data associated with a portion of the plurality of items. The portion can include a second item. The method can further include determining an attribute value of the attribute using a mapping of attributes and attribute values associated with the plurality of items in the item catalog. The method can also include providing, as an answer to the query, a characterization of the attribute value. Related systems, methods, apparatus, and computer readable mediums are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Vui. Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Phil C. Frank, Evgeny Stepanov, Giuliano Tortoreto, Giovanni De Toni
  • Patent number: 11972471
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for user's food taste intelligence-based personalized recommendations, wherein the method includes collecting evaluation information including an evaluation of each of a plurality of foods, calculating association scores of the foods on the basis of the evaluation information, and ontology-based information previously possessed for the foods, and recommending one or more foods on the basis of first behavioral information of a user and the association scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: FARMKIT INC.
    Inventors: Sun Hung Yang, Seok Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11972472
    Abstract: An approach to facilitating provisioning of in-vehicle services is provided. Trip-identifying information may be obtained from a user-provided device. The trip-identifying information may identify a trip that is to occur on the vehicle. A list of in-vehicle services, which are available for the trip on the vehicle, may be determined based on the trip-identifying information. The list of in-vehicle services may be provided to the user-provided device. A selection of at least one in-vehicle service that is to be provided during the trip may be received from the user-provided device. A request for the at least one in-vehicle service may be generated based on the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Kwivo, LLC
    Inventors: Alexandra Kathleen Heron, Julio Toro Silva, Manimeldura Janaka Mendis
  • Patent number: 11966806
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a commodity positioning method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring map information marked with multiple pieces of shelf identity information, wherein the multiple pieces of shelf identity information are in one-to-one correspondence with shelves; acquiring shelf image information corresponding to the shelf identity information; identifying, according to the shelf image information, a commodity corresponding to each of electronic price label apparatuses on a corresponding shelf and a first positional relationship between each of the electronic price label apparatuses and the corresponding shelf; generating location information of each of the commodities according to the first positional relationship and the map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HANSHOW TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiguo Hou, Min Liang, Jun Chen, Qi Jiang, Yang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11966909
    Abstract: A computing device provides enhancement of the capabilities of text messaging applications that execute on user devices. The computing device includes a processor that receives a text message via a network from a user device, the text message including a character representation of a product bundle of a merchant. The processor determines bundle data for the product bundle by referencing a database using the character representation. The processor provides one or more text messages via the network to the user device with transaction data including the bundle data, payment data, and shipping data. The processor receives a text message via the network from the user device confirming the transaction data. The user may use text commands presented by the computing device or natural language conversation in the text messages to the computing device to modify the transaction data and perform other ecommerce actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Stodge Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin Neil Foster, Jr., David Dennison Lacho, Brian James Swank, Vishak Swaminathan Visvanathan, Adam Sandstrom Turner, Colin Douglas Turner, Alex Elias Beller
  • Patent number: 11966962
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence-based curating method and a device for performing the same may include operations of allowing an artificial intelligence curating device to receive purchaser information, allowing the artificial intelligence curating device to determine recommended painting information on the basis of the purchaser information, and allowing the artificial intelligence curating device to transmit candidate sale painting information to a user device of a purchaser on the basis of the recommended painting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ARTISTY INC.
    Inventor: Hoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 11948211
    Abstract: Computing devices, systems, and methods for automatically prompting a foreign currency transaction by detecting a trip end condition associated with a registered user with respect to travel to a foreign location associated with a foreign currency. The methods and system may further determine that the registered user has a remaining foreign currency balance, and, as a result, may identify and send to the registered user's mobile device at least one option for using the remaining foreign currency balance. The at least one option may be a merchant offer from a merchant located in the area of the mobile device or may include an option to exchange the foreign currency for another currency. The trip end condition may be detected by determining that the registered user and/or user's mobile device is at an international departure location. The currency exchange may be with another registered user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: David Samuel Tax, Milos Dunjic, Kushank Rastogi, Joseph Matthew Capern
  • Patent number: 11941682
    Abstract: A vehicle recommendation system recommends an eco-friendly vehicle over an internal combustion engine vehicle. The system includes a server that calculates a first recommendation score indicating suitability for recommendation of an eco-friendly vehicle based on a previously stored vehicle use record for the customer, receives vehicle use information for using the car sharing service from a customer terminal possessed by the customer, and calculates a second recommendation score indicating suitability for recommendation of the eco-friendly vehicle based on the vehicle use information. The server transmits recommendation information related to an internal combustion engine vehicle a hybrid vehicle, or an electric vehicle to the customer terminal based on at least one of a result of comparing the first recommended score with a predetermined first reference value or a result of comparing the second recommended score with a predetermined second reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Sojeong Kim
  • Patent number: 11941686
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, information about a number of products may be obtained. Visual effects corresponding to each product may be applied to objects included in user content to change the appearance of the objects included in the user content. Augmented reality content may be implemented to cause changes to the appearance of one or more objects included in the user content. In various examples, a number of visual effects related to different products may be applied to objects included in the user content. A user interface including information about each of the products applied to objects included in the user content may be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Luo, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
  • Patent number: 11928718
    Abstract: A method for recommending fuel filling stations based on water in fuel content is disclosed. In one example, a data structure is generated to house data from a plurality of fuel filling stations. The data structure may include data that is indicative of water in fuel. A recommendation for refilling a fuel tank may be provided according to data that is held in the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yun Xing, John Erik Mikael Hellstrom
  • Patent number: 11922479
    Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) assisted technology for grocery recommendations and nutrient optimization includes an intuitive application (app) that can use AI to improve grocery recommendations during grocery shopping to optimize nutrition and encourage users to purchase foods that can help the user receive more complete nutrition. Automatically capturing nutritional information while grocery shopping can assist users seeking to improve their health because it operates while users are performing their grocery shopping, when users have the best opportunity to shape the foods that will be available to them to consume. Nutritional optimization while grocery shopping can improve the use of resources including time and money (due to the cost of food) because it can provide suggestions to address nutritional opportunities that represent nutritional surpluses and nutritional opportunities that represent nutritional deficits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Lili Xu Cai
  • Patent number: 11922482
    Abstract: A change detection means 840 detects an area of change in a product shelf on which a product has been arranged, on the basis of a captured image of the product. A classification means 850 classifies the change in the product shelf in the detected area of change. A shopping list generation means 860 generates a shopping list for a customer on the basis of the classification of the change in the product shelf and of shelving information on the product shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyota Higa, Emi Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11922473
    Abstract: Smart gesturing may facilitate smart shopping and other contactless experiences by enabling a user to perform a natural gesture toward one or more desired items with or while wearing a wearable or non-wearable electronic device. The electronic device may identify the smart gesture, and determine the one or more desired items are indicated by the smart gesture. The electronic device may identify the desired items by receiving location data of multiple items, determining a vector based on a first position a second position of the smart gesture, extending the vector to a location, and using the location data to determine which item or items correspond to the location. If more than one item is indicated by the smart gesture, the electronic device may enable selection of the items and, if at least one item is selected, provide information on the selected items or enable additional interaction with the selected items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Bert Etienne Hauspy, Biljana Badic, Christian Drewes, Christian W. Mucke
  • Patent number: 11915300
    Abstract: A method for generating personalized recommendations for procuring a product or service by a human entity is provided. The method includes accessing data for a set of transactions associated with a proposed procurement transaction between at least one of a plurality of purchaser entities and at least one of a plurality of supplier entities. The at least one of the transactions includes a line-item. The method includes identifying, based on the data for the set of transactions associated with the proposed procurement transaction, an identity or a behavioral pattern of the human entity associated with the proposed procurement transaction. The method includes generating a recommendation including a set of instructions for acting upon the proposed procurement transaction based on the identified identity or behavioral pattern of the at least one human entity, and providing the recommendation to the human entity associated with the proposed procurement transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ARKESTRO INC.
    Inventors: Edmund Adam Zagorin, Benjamin Kingsland Leiken
  • Patent number: 11915294
    Abstract: One example method includes data orchestration. Data sets are available to users in an online marketplace. Based on requests for data sets, other data sets may be recommended. The recommended data sets are moved or copied to recommended locations. This ensures that the data sets are available to the user more quickly if subsequently requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Farida Shafik, Nicole Reineke, Joel Christner, Omar Abdulaal, Shary Beshara
  • Patent number: 11915295
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for automatically customizing electronic commerce includes analyzing information relevant to the user's purchasing preferences, determining the user's purchasing preferences based on the analysis of the relevant information, determining a shopping list, wherein the shopping list comprises one or more products the user wants to purchase and one or more indications of the user's purchasing preferences for each of the one or more products, generating one or more digital shopping carts based on the shopping list, comparing a product in at least one of the one or more digital shopping carts to a corresponding product and a corresponding purchasing preference on the shopping list, determining one or more preferred digital shopping carts based on the comparison, and displaying to the user the one or more preferred digital shopping carts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Satisha C. Honnavalli, Bharat Khade, Reji Jose, Raghuveer Prasad Nagar
  • Patent number: 11907978
    Abstract: Subscription-based electric vehicle charging management methods and systems are provided. A server receives charging request with at least a user identification code from an electric vehicle charging station or a mobile device through a network. The server searches a database according to the user identification code to obtain contract situation corresponding to the user identification code and determines whether the contract situation is in a contract expiration status or an arrears unpaid status. When the contract situation is not in the contract expiration status or the arrears unpaid status, the server instructs the electric vehicle charging station to perform a charging operation. When the contract situation is in the contract expiration status or the arrears unpaid status, the server transmits a charging rejection instruction to the electric vehicle charging station. In response to the charging rejection instruction, the electric vehicle charging station rejects the charging request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NOODOE GROUP INC.
    Inventors: En-Yu Shih, Yu-Ting Liou, Yi-An Hou