Patents Examined by Lindsey Smith
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Patent number: 11948178Abstract: Systems and techniques may be used for identifying a product from a uniform resource locator (URL) of a website. A technique may include receiving the URL based on a user interaction with the website, the user interaction triggering an event on the website. In an example, the technique includes comparing the URL to a database of stored URLs. The technique may include determining a portion of the URL, comparing, for example using a regular expression, the portion of the URL to entries in a specified product name column of the database, and identifying a product in the specified product name column corresponding to the portion of the URL based on comparing the portion of the URL. The technique may include outputting an indication of the product.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Content Square SASInventors: Michael Colombier, Julien Nehring, Romain des Fontaines
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Patent number: 9852459Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for analyzing customer communications to provide better customer service including generating customer related data from communications of a customer by at least one sensing device located in a venue, transmitting the generated customer related data to an analysis engine, determining based on an analysis of the customer related data a customer experience, identifying at least one suggestion to provide better customer service including the identification of a representative of the venue that the analysis engine has determined can assist the customer, and receiving the at least one suggestion including an indication that the representative should assist the customer from the analysis engine by a computing device associated with the representative of the venue.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marco A. Deluca, Timothy M. Francis, Leho Nigul, Brian W. Thomson
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Patent number: 9805411Abstract: Systems and methods for recommending and implementing network documents for users to offer items in a marketplace may be provided. A system can obtain user data that includes an item offered by a user in a first electronic marketplace. For example, the system can identify and catalog items offered by a particular user. The system can identify a second electronic marketplace for the user to offer the item. The system can determine implementation information for the second electronic marketplace. The system can generate a network document for the at least one item that is configured to be presented in the second electronic marketplace based at least in part on the implementation information.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sunil Singh Parihar, Huy Quang Dang, Janani Sowprnika Arvind, Joe Jony Jeyaratnam, Surya Kumar Senapati, Sarvesh Ganapati Pai, Sai Kishore Pavuluri, Edgardo Veloz Arroyo
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Patent number: 9779443Abstract: Systems and methods for designing personalized merchandising schemes that are responsive to events received in an event stream may provide, for example, one or more graphical user interfaces by which to receive parameters for a personalized merchandising scheme from a designer. Messages may be selected for delivery to a user responsively to an event according to a defined personalized merchandising scheme.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: BLUESHIFT LABS, INC.Inventors: Vijay Chittoor, Mehul Shah, Subramanyam Mallela, Olivier Van Laere, Cibin George, Aswani Nerella
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Patent number: 9754303Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided that receive first input via a console to configure a plurality of different combinations of performance parameters that correspond to a manner in which a service may be provided, wherein the console is configured to provide a plurality of other services. The system, apparatus, method, and computer program also publish a plurality of user-facing interfaces to a service request catalog as a plurality of different service offerings, wherein the plurality of different service offerings correspond to the plurality of different combinations of performance parameters for the service. Further, the system, apparatus, method, and computer program initiate the service in a manner that corresponds to one of the plurality of different combinations of performance parameters for one of the plurality of service offerings when that one of the plurality of service offerings is selected with second input received via the console.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: CA, Inc.Inventors: Sameer S. Jagtap, Muhammad Arif, Manoj K. Thopcherneni
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Patent number: 9754307Abstract: The recommender system uses a processing system configured to determine recommendation scores using a collaborative rating process. Collaborative rating process involves determining correlations between ratings for media items provided by a current user for which a recommendation score has to be computed and by further users, and computing recommendation scores from ratings for other media items from ratings from the further users, dependent on the correlation.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventor: Peter Joannes Mathias Veugen
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Patent number: 9734527Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for customizing consumer products. A display device may present a rendering of a customizable product to a user. The display device may also present a set of customizations on a scrollable axis. An input interface such as a touch interface may receive a selection of at least one customization from the user, and the rendering of the product may be updated to display the customizations selected by the user. An electronic file may be generated that includes product manufacturing details, which indicate the customizations selected by the user. The product may be an article of footwear, and a printer may print the selected customizations on the article of footwear.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Michael David Collier, Byron George Merritt, Esther S. Chang, Joshua A. Moore
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Patent number: 9665901Abstract: A system and method for facilitating private user interaction is disclosed. The method comprises capturing information with a first mobile information gateway device; processing the captured information to determine an identity of a first user; processing the captured information to authenticate the first user; processing the identity of the first user to retrieve information of the first user; and presenting the retrieved information of the first user overlaid upon a first field of view by the first mobile information gateway device; and presenting the retrieved information to a second user overlaid upon a second field of view by the second mobile information gateway device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Inventors: Nikhil Balram, Kathrin Berkner, Ivana Tosic, Wanmin Wu
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Patent number: 9665905Abstract: The present invention generally relates to web based electronic commerce systems. In particular, embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods configured to provide a three dimensional shopping cart for the display of items to be ordered by a user or group of users.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Inventor: Matthew Lehrer
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Patent number: 9659324Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for aggregating fallouts in an ordering system. In use, a repository of fallout errors associated with an ordering system is maintained. Further, one or more fallout events associated with the ordering system are automatically detected. Additionally, it is determined that the one or more detected fallout events are associated with at least one fallout error associated with processing an order in the ordering system. Furthermore, it may be determined whether the at least one fallout error corresponds to one of a plurality of stored fallout errors stored in the repository of fallout errors, in response to determining that the one or more detected fallout events are associated with the at least one fallout error from processing an order in the ordering system.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignees: Amdocs Software Systems Limited, Amdocs Development LimitedInventors: Yoav Guez, Yakov Eini, Tomer Sadan
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Patent number: 9639883Abstract: A system and method for transmitting information related to items offered for sale at a marketplace location includes reviewing a first video stream to identify items displayed in the first video stream which correspond to the items offered for sale at the marketplace location, and generating a second video stream related to and including images of the items for sale at the marketplace location. The method further includes causing the transmission of the second video stream to a user through a media outlet and receiving a purchase request from the user for at least one item offered for sale at the marketplace location and included in the first or second video stream.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Loui, David Vogt, Jared Kaplan, Tony Lam
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Patent number: 9639887Abstract: Systems and methods according to present principles involved highlighting objects such as on a store shelf. Highlighting is displayed by projecting a light directly on the object by means of a light source or may alternatively be indicated by displaying an indicator or image of the object on a display screen. Information about the targeted object may appear in a headmounted display, on a user's mobile device, or may be projected on a surface via the projector. Information provided to a user may include comparison product data, data about potential allergens, and the like. Highlighting can also be employed to suggest items of interest to the user. For example, products may be recommended to a user through analysis of user data and such products illuminated by a projector as a user walks through a store. Other highlighted objects may be those on a user grocery list or the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL LLCInventors: Charles McCoy, Leo Pedlow, True Xiong
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Patent number: 9619837Abstract: The non-bidding activity of one or more bidders of an auction is detected over an online interface of the auction environment. The activity of the one or more bidders is detected while the one or more bidders are participating in the auction. The non-bidding activity is correlated to an interest metric for the auction. Information is communicated that is based on the interest metric. The information can be communicated to either a seller or a bidder of the auction.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Ten-X, LLCInventors: Todd Gladis, James Corum, Robert Michealis, Sheridan Hitchens, Harshal Dedhia
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Patent number: 9619828Abstract: A customer with a customer device performs a search for reviews of a particular software product of interest to the customer. The customer is then presented with entries from reviewers that have the same device as the customer, or a device on which the product is expect to run or operate in a manner similar to how it runs on the customer's device.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Milena Nikolic, Nicolas Fortescue, Tyrone Nicholas, Miles Edward Barr, German W Bauer, Satoe Ishii Haile
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Patent number: 9607332Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a client computing device, a list of web applications from a network device associated with a digital goods marketplace, receiving, at the client computing device, metadata associated with the list of web applications, generating, at the client computing device, a user interface including at least one icon representing a web application available for download from the digital market place, and displaying the user interface in a browser of the client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Sergey Nazarov, Aleksey Surkov
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Patent number: 9589293Abstract: Techniques for cataloging items and relationships between items may be provided. For example, a computing service may be implemented to generate a description of an item and to determine a relationship between the item and another item. In addition to cataloging the description of the item, the computing service may also catalog the relationship. For example, the catalog service may generate a catalog page that may include a number of fields. Some of the fields may be used to capture the description of the item, while other fields may be used to identify the other item and a relationship type. Further, in response to a search for the item, the catalog service may return information about the item and, based on the cataloged relationship, information about the other item.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Aravind Yalamanchi
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Patent number: 9495699Abstract: A method for facilitating an image-based transaction includes: capturing, by a first input device, an image of a product to be sold; receiving, by a second input device, product data corresponding to the product to be sold; identifying, by a processing device, a transaction identifier; encoding, by the processing device, the captured image with at least the identified transaction identifier; adding, to the encoded image, an indication of availability of the product to be sold such that user interaction with the encoded image will initiate a payment transaction for the product to be sold based on at least the encoded transaction identifier; and transmitting, by a transmitting device, at least the received product data, the identified transaction identifier, and the encoded image including the indication of availability.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Zavida Mangaru, Brian Hart Dobson, Lisa Maria Bongiovi, John Gioacchini, Jennifer Diane Smith, Miroslaw Michalski
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Patent number: 9477980Abstract: A cubicle for trying on one or more items of clothing and a method for determining a body shape are described. A cubicle includes a display of an avatar with one or more items of clothing, and an interaction unit for a user to modify the items of clothing. The method includes gathering the spatial coordinates of a plurality of points on the surface of the dressed person and body parameters that at least partly define the body shape to be determined.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: adidas AGInventors: Christian Zagel, Dr.-Ing. Jochen Bjoern Suessmuth, Lukas Malcher
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Patent number: 9460460Abstract: Methods and a system for automated onsite customer assistance are provided. A customer operating a Self-Service Terminal (SST) onsite of an enterprise establishes a communication session with a host system. Information passed between the SST and the host system is relayed to a device operated by a clerk that is also onsite. A real-time determination is made as to whether the customer is in need of assistance of the clerk during the communication session.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Andrew R. Hamilton, Bruce Shepherd, Gordon D. Patton
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Patent number: 9418379Abstract: A system and method for allowing a consumer to quickly access product information and/or commerce functionalities as related to one or more products that are associated with an electronic document, such as a web page, that is currently being viewed by the consumer in an electronic document viewing program, such as an Internet browser.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.Inventor: Geoffry A. Westphal