Patents Examined by Jason B Warren
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Patent number: 10685392Abstract: Items within an item universe or item repository can be associated with subscription options. A subscription visualization user interface can allow a user to visualize subscription costs over a particular time window and within certain display time periods so that better cost transparency can be achieved. Cost transparency and cost containment can be extremely important in an era of increasing subscription sales.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shwu Fang Loh, Hongzhou Chen, Vinodth Mohanam
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Patent number: 10643258Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for determining pricing and availability of e-commerce entities. The determination includes accessing a web page that includes an entity of interest and generating a visual map representation of the web page that includes elements related to the entity's pricing/availability and stylistic identifiers that are applied to those elements. Stylistic identifiers are pricing/availability identifiers based on stylistic heuristics. Certain elements are identified as candidate elements and a likelihood that a candidate element is pricing/availability element of the entity is determined for the candidate elements. A candidate element is selected as the pricing/availability element of the entity by analyzing the determined likelihood of various candidate elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: KEEP HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Scott Philip Kurnit, Charles Myslinsky, Ryan Quigley, Mark Tozzi, Scott Craig Germaise
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Patent number: 10621645Abstract: A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media includes a computer system configured to receive a selected product to be located in a retail store of a retailer inputted by a user into a mobile computer application running on a mobile computing device, to perform a search for the selected product on a plurality of products records corresponding to a plurality of products offered by the retailer, to identify one or more of the product records relevant to the selected product, to transmit the one or more product records identified as one or more search results, to provide the one or more search results to the mobile computer application running on the mobile computing device, each of the one or more search results being associated with a product offered by the retailer, and to suggest at least one related product to the selected product, and to receive at least one product or at least one related product from the search results selected by the user using the mobile computer application runType: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventor: Justin Toupin
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Patent number: 10614499Abstract: A product search support server that is connected to communicate with a terminal of a user and provides product pages of a plurality of shops selling a same product includes a receiving unit to receive a display request of a product page of one shop from the terminal, an extraction unit to extract product specifying information for uniquely specifying a product on sale on the product page of the one shop from a product information storage unit that stores one or more product information containing shop information indicating a shop and information indicating a product on sale in the shop, and a transmitting unit to transmit search-related information related to search for the one or more product information using the product specifying information to the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.Inventor: Yuhei Nishioka
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Patent number: 10552887Abstract: The innovations described in this disclosure include distinct differences that create a marketing and sales advantage. For convenience, these features are organized into several innovations, but the features described can be combined and implemented in various ways, both within a given innovation and across two or more innovations. Each innovation is unique in itself. Taken as a whole the innovations establish a demonstration category called “Demo Automation” or “Demonstration automation”. The innovations include, but are not limited to, automated self-configuring video content density and sequence based on personalization responses; automated responsive locked document library; sending a product demo that allows you to see who the recipient shared it with; and product demonstration analytics.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Demochimp, Inc.Inventors: Garin Hess, Andrew Clark, Matt Behrend
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Patent number: 10521842Abstract: An on-line method of facilitating e-commerce sales of circular adornments (such as watches, bracelets, etc.) through the provision of selectable representations of such an adornment in its primary dimensions is provided. Such representations are generated in relation to specific adornment structures and are provided, in terms of three-dimensional polymer printed articles. A purchaser is allowed to select a specific adornment from an on-line source, and print a single part or multiple parts thereof in the form of a reliable representation of the subject article. The purchaser may then place the representation on his or her wrist, ankle, arm, etc., in order to gauge and assess the look, placement, and size thereof, in accordance with his or her own tastes and needs. Such an on-line system allows for reductions in returns and greater reliability in terms of actual purchases up front. The actual generated printed representations are encompassed herein as well.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Inventor: Chaim Felder
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Patent number: 10445816Abstract: Techniques for allowing a customer to order goods on-line or remotely and to pick-up the goods at a desired location or store are disclosed. The techniques include receiving a customer order. The customer order includes at least one good. The techniques further include establishing a list of alternative goods if one or more of the goods in the customer order are unavailable and allowing the customer to choose one of the alternative goods as a substitute good and establishing a revised customer order.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: David Jon Carr, Richard Mark Ramsden
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Patent number: 10366440Abstract: In various implementations, a visual representation of a product is presented to an online consumer. The visual representation can have one or more regions that are each associated with one or more feature tags associated with a particular category of the product. While the consumer interacts with the visual representation, interaction times between the consumer and the product's visual representation are monitored and measured to determine which features of the product appear to be of particular interest to the consumer. Based on the monitored interaction times, product upsell recommendations associated with the same category of the product are generated and presented to the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Suryadeep Kumar Agrawal, Sachin Soni, John Thomas Kucera, Ashish Duggal, Anmol Dhawan
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Patent number: 10360616Abstract: Customers may place orders for items for delivery, where merchants provide the items, and a service provider receives the orders and facilitates the delivery of the items. Upon receiving multiple orders, the orders may be prioritized based on users scores associated with users that placed the orders. An order objective for the orders may be determined and multiple fulfillment plans for each order may be generated. For a particular order, a fulfillment plan of the multiple fulfillment plans may be selected based on the order objective for that order, where the selected fulfillment plan may govern how and when the items included in the order are to be delivered to the user that placed the order. The service provider may cause the items associated with the order to be delivered to the user pursuant to the selected fulfillment plan.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gustavo Eduardo Lopez, Canku Alp Calargun
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Patent number: 10356575Abstract: An electronic tool is arranged to configure elements in an electronic communication network and the electronic tool is deployed at a central location. A control circuit is configured to execute decision logic and execution of the decision logic is effective to construct an appropriate product or service offer for the customer based upon parameters entered by the customer. A transceiver circuit receives acceptance of the offer and the control circuit responsively creates electronic signals that provision electronic elements in an electronic communication network to implement the product or service offer.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: CSG Media, LLCInventors: Sean Casey, Michael Mueller, Anish Shah, Doug Savage
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Patent number: 10325299Abstract: A mobile computing device configured for enabling distribution of digital pictures is provided. Additionally, a method for enabling distribution of digital pictures and a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for enabling distribution of digital pictures are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Manash Bhattacharjee, Debashis Ghosh, Randy Shuken
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Patent number: 10311510Abstract: A system and method of providing sequential media content. The system of some embodiments provides a library that displays representations of media items stored on a device. The library displays representations of a series object. Activating the series object displays purchased media items in a series of media items. After a threshold amount of a media item in the series has been consumed, the series object displays a representation of a next media item in the series along with a control for purchasing the next media item in the series.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Brett A. Rampata, Martin J. Murrett, Charles J. Migos, Casey M. Dougherty
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Patent number: 10296966Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating WiFi transactions are provided. A consumer device logs in to a merchant's WiFi network and a tab for the consumer is opened up with the merchant. The merchant adds items ordered by the consumer to the tab until the consumer decides to close the tab. The consumer can close the tab by logging off the merchant's WiFi network, pressing a button on a mobile device indicating that he or she wants to settle the tab, or specifying that the tab should be closed after a certain amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventor: Badrinath Vengalathur Srinath
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Patent number: 10255578Abstract: A system and methods for network-enabled cannabis product delivery, comprising at least a plurality of network-enabled portals for data entry, legality and identification checks, and more, allowing a user to order delivery of cannabis products from local retailers using third-party drivers that register with the system, for compensation, and allowing for feedback and automated communication between a retailer, driver, and customer using the system.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Inventor: David Comeau
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Patent number: 10019746Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating distinct software architectures are disclosed. In some implementations, a content management server receives, from a customer device, a request for a page associated with a product for sale. The content management server transmits, to a search/indexing server, using a bridge, a request to find content for the page associated with the product. The content management server receives a location of the content for the page associated with the product. The content management server transmits, to an ecommerce server, a request for ecommerce functionality for the page. The content management server transmits, to the customer device, data for loading the page associated with the product, the data for loading the page including the content for the page and the ecommerce functionality for the page.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Sunil Joshua Alexander Konaiyagarri, Bidhu Prasad Mahapatra, Samar Chowdhury, Shashidhar Hiremath, Viswanadha Reddy Panga, Sheeba Baby, Naveen Kumar Reddy Indurti
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Patent number: 9928542Abstract: A shopping list may be ordered in order to guide a shopper through a store in an efficient manner. Congestion in the store may be identified, such as using security camera footage. The shopping list may be reordered in order to avoid congested areas in the store. Expected areas of congestion may be determined based on velocities and maneuverability of other shoppers. Maneuverability of other shoppers may be estimated by analyzing video data and determining attributes of the other shoppers, such as whether they are pushing a cart or have children. The shopping list may be presented with directions to the locations of items within the store and may be periodically reordered throughout the shopper's visit responsive to detected congestion.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: WAL-MART STORES, INC.Inventors: Stuart Argue, Anthony Emile Marcar