Patents Examined by Kathleen Palavecino
  • Patent number: 11354726
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments are related to Application Programming Interface (API) technologies, and in particular, to Order APIs that are used to make modifications and cancelations to existing order objects. The Order APIs can be used to retrieve the current state of an order object, retrieve the summarized state of an order object as of a specified date, and retrieve a potential state of an order object along with specified changes. The Order APIs are also used to process order changes including changes to the quantity of an existing order object and applying line item changes to an existing order object. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Dandy, Danil Dvinov, Gaurav Salkar, Susan S. Levine
  • Patent number: 11348158
    Abstract: A method for automatically populating an ecommerce cart is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to add a product item to a shopping cart of an ecommerce shopping environment. The method includes adding the product item to the shopping cart. The method includes updating, responsive to adding the product item, a shopping cart status. The method includes determining a failure of the shopping cart status to satisfy a purchasing criteria associated with the ecommerce shopping environment. The method includes selecting, responsive to determining the failure, an additional product item based on information associated with an user account. The method includes adding the additional product item to the shopping cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Hamid Kassaei
  • Patent number: 11334930
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a digital method of centralizing, optimizing and negotiating the purchase of goods and services implemented by computer, wherein at least one authorised user (101) by the company or purchase centre (108), identifies the products (102) to be acquired and proceeds to consult with at least one potential supplier (103) through a digital purchase platform (109), hosted in a dedicated server, locally or in a cloud. The company or purchase centre (109) proceeds to validate the proposals (104) from the suppliers (103), and can create different, economically more advantageous choice scenarios from the proposals (104) that satisfy all the restrictions imposed by the company or purchase centre (109) and by the suppliers (103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: GSBS CONSULTING LDA.
    Inventors: Aníbal Jorge Da Costa Cristóvão Caiado, Júlio Miguel Da Silva Ribeiro
  • Patent number: 11334932
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a payment provide server of a payment provider from a point-of-sale (POS) device associated with a first merchant at a merchant location, a checkout request for a first user to purchase one or more items sold by the first merchant. The method further includes accessing an account of the first user with the payment provider based on authentication information included in the checkout request and identifying a previously stored payment token that is associated with the account of the first user, the previously stored payment token indicating one or more additional items for potential purchase. Further, the method includes in response to the identifying, transmitting instructions to the POS device that cause the POS device to display a request for the first user to add at least one of the one or more additional items for potential purchase for checkout at the merchant location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Pankaj Sarin
  • Patent number: 11308543
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing carousels specifically curated for a user. In some examples, a computing device obtains user transaction data identifying in-store and/or online transactions, and user engagement data identifying user interactions with items and carousels from user's prior sessions. The computing device determines a sequential order for presentation of carousels with a set of item recommendations. For example, the computing device scores each potential carousel based on prior user interactions and transactions with items and carousels. The carousels are then ranked and subsequently presented to the user based on their corresponding scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Aditya Mantha, Shubham Gupta, Anirudha Sundaresan, Gaoyang Wang, Shashank Kedia, Yokila Arora, Parveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11301920
    Abstract: Gesture functionality is provided in a computing environment. In example embodiments, a gesture input is received. A style difference is identified between a known gesture input of a set of known gesture inputs and the received gesture input. The set of known gesture inputs is caused to be modified to include the style difference by updating a database that stores the set of known gesture inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Melcher, Dane Howard
  • Patent number: 11301889
    Abstract: A method of accepting a bid for an item offered for sale through an internet web portal comprising the following steps: listing with an internet web portal bid program by an item being sold by a merchant; accessing the internet web portal bid program by a user to obtain of bid information of the item; placing with the internet web portal bid program by the registered user of a bid for the item, the bid containing a price that the registered user will pay for the item; presenting by the internet web portal bid program to the registered merchant of one or more economic factors to assist the registered merchant in selecting at least one bid from the one or more bids as a winning bid, one or more economic factors being based on item information and being other than the bid price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Allen J Evdokimo, Leslie K. Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11301913
    Abstract: Type completeness detection methods and systems are provided to determine a browse node completeness score for browse nodes in an electronic catalog. For example, the type completeness detection system may select a browse node, identify a plurality of search queries previously submitted by users of the electronic catalog, determine a plurality of items that are frequently selected after submitting the search queries, calculate a query completeness score for each search query, determine a browse node completeness score for the browse node, and initiate an action in response to determining that the browse node completeness score falls below a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Subhrangshu Nandi, Vishal Rathi, Emilio Ian Maldonado, Wisam Hussain, Hussain Badruddin Penwala, Yi Lei, Alice Helen Swanberg
  • Patent number: 11295284
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, device, storage medium, and system for sharing a nail printing pattern. The method may include receiving the nail printing pattern and price information of the nail printing pattern uploaded by a first account via a first user terminal or a first nail printing device; verifying the nail printing pattern and the price information of the nail printing pattern based on a preset rule; and if the nail printing pattern qualifies for the preset rule, storing qualified nail printing pattern to a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN DANYA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ran Li, Zhenqing Lin, Peng He
  • Patent number: 11295363
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating purchase offer selection across multiple online sales platforms are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain first information defining a first sales listing of a particular virtual item on a first online sales platform; obtain second information defining a second sales listing of the particular virtual item on a second online sales platform; receive at least two indications of offers to purchase the particular virtual item; obtain information that represents at least one sales characteristic by which the offers to purchase the particular virtual item are to be ranked according to desirability; determine and compare a first metric value for the first offer and a second metric value for the second offer; and determine an accepted offer that is accepted based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Liwen Kao, Rudy Koch, Cameron Thacker, Andrew Royer
  • Patent number: 11288735
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selling virtual items on multiple online sales platforms simultaneously are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a sales request that indicates the selling user will be offering for sale a particular virtual item through at least two online sales platforms simultaneously; assign ownership of the particular virtual item temporarily to a holding account; generate sales listings of the particular virtual item for publications on the at least two online sales platforms; effectuate the publications of the sales listings; receive indications of offers to purchase the particular virtual item; determine an accepted offer that is accepted; notify the at least two online sales platforms of whether the offers have been accepted or denied; identify a buyer's account of the buying user; effectuate assignment of the ownership of the particular virtual item to the buyer's account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Liwen Kao, Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 11288645
    Abstract: Systems and methods for buying and selling virtual items through multiple online sales platforms are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate publications of at least two sales listings; effectuate a presentation to a buying user that includes representations of the publications; receive indications of offers to purchase the particular virtual item; determine an accepted offer that is accepted; effectuate assignment of the ownership of the particular virtual item to the buying user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Liwen Kao, Rudy Koch, Cameron Thacker, Andrew Royer
  • Patent number: 11282134
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for auctioning vehicles or other products and services where bids or offers for items offered for sale are evaluated against auction conditions. A method for auctioning one or multiple products or services where during the course of the auction the value of a bid amount required to win is reduced based upon auction conditions. A method is disclosed for displaying, evaluating and accepting bids or offers to purchase in the form of multiple payments over time that are equivalent in value to a singular valued price during an auction. The methods can be implemented via a programmed module operating on a computing system as a special purpose computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KASSELRRL IP LLC
    Inventor: Michael Lewison
  • Patent number: 11276077
    Abstract: A system may generate a first transaction history from a plurality of records of charge. The system may select a plurality of merchants based on the plurality of records of charge, and generate a first user profile in response to the first transaction history and the plurality of merchants. The first user profile may comprise a merchant score for a merchant appearing in the first transaction history. The first transaction history may include transaction account issuer data. The system may receive a request for content that identifies a user account associated with the first user profile. The system may further generate the content based on the merchant score in response to the request for the content. The request may be automatically generated by the application or may be in response to an action by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily E. Gould, Kristen N. Oldenburger, Alice Park, Seth M. Ross, Mohammad Torkzahrani, Venkat Varadachary
  • Patent number: 11270370
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a vehicle listing generation and optimization system. An embodiment operates by determining a set of vehicle listings of a common vehicle type. The set of vehicle listings are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on the sales time metrics, and a first one of the clusters for which the sales time metric of the vehicle listings of the selected cluster is less than the sales time metric of the vehicle listings of a second one of the clusters is selected. The perspectives of the images in vehicle listings of the selected cluster are identified. A sales template for the vehicle type including the identified perspectives of images corresponding at least a subset of the vehicle listings of the selected cluster is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Dang, Elizabeth Furlan, Chih-Hsiang Chow
  • Patent number: 11270253
    Abstract: Examples of cognitive procurement and proactive continuous sourcing are defined. In an example, the system receives a procurement request. The system implements an artificial intelligence component to sort the supplier data into a plurality of domains. The system modifies a domain from the plurality of data domains based on new supplier data being received. The system generates user procurement behavior data based on the procurement interaction and a domain from the plurality of data domains. The system establishes a user procurement behavior model corresponding to a guideline associated with the procurement interaction. The system determines whether the user procurement behavior model should be updated based on modification in the plurality of data domains and updates the same. The system notifies the user regarding change in the user procurement behavior model due to change in a domain of the received supplier data selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Chung-Sheng Li, Guruprasad Dasappa, Krishna Kummamuru, Colin Connors, Guanglei Xiong, Christopher Banschbach, Thomas Michael Fahey
  • Patent number: 11257136
    Abstract: A computerized system for transacting the purchase and sale of consumer motor fuels between motor fuel merchants and retail consumers through software on a mobile or desktop connected device for periods in the future through the simultaneous execution of multi-party, multi-layered contingent transactions and pricing algorithms to ensure that all inter-related motor fuel merchant transactions are simultaneously transacted upon a retail consumer purchase execution. Motor fuels include refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, renewable fuels (e.g. ethanol, biodiesel), natural gas (including liquefied natural gas), jet fuel and electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Gasmart, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph H. LeBlanc, Jr., Nick DiCosola, Sagy P. Mintz, Leo E. Murphy, Robert A. Miller, William K. Ward, William F. Kerins, Luis R. Luque, Parker P. Drew
  • Patent number: 11250453
    Abstract: Embodiments of sales generation, including sales generation employing reverse lead generation using vehicle data systems and methods, are presented herein. In particular, in certain embodiments a user may utilize the vehicle data system to obtain pricing data corresponding to a desired vehicle configuration. When the user is presented with the pricing data associated with the specified vehicle configuration the user may additionally be presented with an upfront price offered by a dealer, where by providing their personal information the user may obtain the name of the dealer offering the upfront price and may additionally be offered the opportunity to purchase the desired, or similar, vehicle at the upfront price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TrueCar, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Inghelbrecht, Scott Painter
  • Patent number: 11244370
    Abstract: An apparatus for pricing offers of healthcare services includes an application server providing a pricing tool, and a service pricing information database and a cost adjustment information database that are accessible by the application server. The pricing tool is operable to receive an indication of a healthcare service set that is respectively associated with a service detail information record included in the service pricing information database, determine a base physician fee for a primary service of the indicated healthcare service set based on base pricing metrics for the primary service included in the service detail information record, receive an indication specifying a location for performing the primary service, calculate an adjusted physician fee for the primary service based on cost adjustment metrics for a geographic zone that corresponds to the specified location, and provide a recommended price for the indicated healthcare service set based on the calculated adjusted physician fee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MDSAVE SHARED SERVICES INC.
    Inventors: Paul J. Ketchel, III, Ani Osborne
  • Patent number: 11244334
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. Specifically, in certain embodiments, historical transaction data associated with a particular vehicle configuration may be obtained and processed to determine pricing data associated with the vehicle configuration. The historical transaction data or determined pricing data may then be presented in an intuitive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TrueCar, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Taira, Scott Painter, Chris Taylor, Robert Taylor, Michael D. Swinson