Patents Examined by Maria C Santos-Diaz
  • Patent number: 11550307
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a blockchain platform having functionality that enables blockchain nodes to be shared among multiple entities while maintaining security with respect to the blockchain. Blockchain platforms of embodiments include a hash function (also referred to as a chain-code) that enables attributes to be generated and attached to user identifiers, where the attributes associate users with specific entities supported by the blockchain. For shared nodes, the attribute may be utilized, at least in part, to control access permissions to data recorded to the blockchain. Embodiments of blockchain platforms may find particular utility when applied to complex use cases involving multiple entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Senthilkumar Jahunnathan, Parag Pandit, Maiby Kunjachan, Rajendra Muthusamy, Prashant Sahadev Sawant, Prashant V. Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11551317
    Abstract: Automated property value calculation is provided. The method comprises receiving historic transaction data for a group of real estate properties over a specified time and receiving characteristic data regarding the properties for a number of defined categories. Historic data is also received for a number of demographic parameters over the specified time. The demographic data corresponds to regions in which the properties are located. A predictive valuation model is built with the financial transaction data, characteristic data, and demographic data. Individual values are calculated with the predictive valuation model for a new group of real estate properties according to their characteristics. The individual values are then aggregated. Financial transaction data is received for the new group of properties, and a net asset value of the new group of properties is calculated according to the aggregated valuations and financial transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: S&P Global Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunyoung Choi, Hao Yan, Xu Cai, Qiuhao Zhang, Dun Wang, Hao Jiang
  • Patent number: 11494858
    Abstract: To achieve a balance between convenience in managing/handling real estate properties and privacy protection of tenants while reducing the facility cost and operating cost. A real estate management system is equipped with: a camera robot 61 for capturing an interior image of a real estate property 3; a tenant side device 41 for controlling communications with the camera robot 61; an operation regulation unit 402c for regulating operation of the tenant side device 41 on the basis of an operation performed by a tenant of the real estate property 3; a communication service provider side device 7 connected to the camera robot 61 over a communication network and controlling a communication service using the camera robot 61; and a real estate manager side device 8 connected to the camera robot 61 over the communication network and executing a real estate management service using the camera robot 61.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ZWEISPACE JAPAN CORP.
    Inventor: Hayato Kameta
  • Patent number: 11461860
    Abstract: Implementations of the present specification describe a computer-implemented method, medium, and system. In one computer-implemented method, a contract creating request from a requesting user is received by a blockchain node of a blockchain network, where the contract creating request includes creation information of a target electronic contract to be created. A first smart contract is deployed for managing the target electronic contract in a blockchain based on the creation information. The target electronic contract is created according to the creation information and based on the first smart contract. In response to receiving a contract signing request from a signatory user of the target electronic contract, the target electronic contract is signed based on the first smart contract and a second smart contract corresponding to the signatory user, where the second smart contract is a pre-deployed smart contract for managing information associated with the signatory user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhe Han
  • Patent number: 11449834
    Abstract: An apparatus, including: a memory unit configured to include a business strategy map region for a business strategy map including a business specification in which a relation between a business project and a business executant has been defined, a business contents region for business contents accessible through the business specification and written by the business executant, a business chat message region for at least one business chat message accessible through the business contents, and a business object link region for a business object link included in the business specification and used to access a business object which is the business chat message and in which a business provider and a business recipient have been defined; and a processor configured to provide specific business contents within the business contents region through a specific business specification or to provide a specific business object through a business object link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: DELTA PDS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jae Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 11436610
    Abstract: The system obtains a set of tickets representing customer requests for a customer-support ticketing system. Next, the system produces a set of request vectors by feeding words from each ticket through a model to generate a request vector for the ticket, wherein the set of request vectors is represented as a set of points in a vector space. The system then performs a clustering operation on the set of points to form clusters representing support topics, wherein the clustering operation creates a new point for a new ticket in the vector space when the new ticket is received, and incrementally updates existing clusters to accommodate the new point. Finally, the system presents a user interface to a customer-support agent, wherein the user interface uses the support topics to organize the customer requests, and enables the customer-support agent to perform a customer-support operation in response to a customer request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Zendesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Soon-ee Cheah, Ai-Lien Tran-Cong
  • Patent number: 11430032
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for facilitating a transaction between two or more parties. A server computer is used to determine whether a contact information and an identity validation information of a second party are accurate. Whenever the contact information and the identity validation information of the second party are accurate, one or more documents are modified by attaching and identity validation from a first party and the identity validation from the second party to the one or more documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENTS, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Fremont Twining, John Christopher Hallard
  • Patent number: 11423496
    Abstract: To provide information useful to a variety of users engaged in real estate transactions. Provided is an information processing device including a graph rendering unit that renders a graph expressing an anticipated transaction price of a second real estate property, based on actual transaction prices and required transaction times of a first real estate property already bought or sold, and a display control unit that causes the graph to be displayed on a client device, wherein the graph includes an element expressing a probability distribution of the anticipated transaction price, and an element expressing an anticipated required transaction time corresponding to the anticipated transaction price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeto Takenaka, Masanori Morishita, Kazuo Nishiyama, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Hitomi Hoshi, Satsuki Eguchi, Hiroshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 11422516
    Abstract: A building management system for monitoring equipment status is provided. The building management system includes a processing circuit configured to generate one or more constants for a piece of building equipment based on thresholds and device specific templates. The constants are equation based relationships between a value and a threshold. The processing circuit is further configured to generate one or more sub-rules based on the one or more constants and one or more equipment points. The sub-rules are equation based relationships between the one or more constants and the one or more equipment points. The processing circuit is further configured to generate a rule based on the one or more sub-rules and the one or more equipment points. The rule is an equation based relationship between the one or more sub-rules and the one or more equipment points and indicates whether the piece of building equipment is experiencing a fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Subrata Bhattacharya, Braja Majumdar, Rajesh C. Nayak, Abhigyan Chatterjee, Jayesh Shirish Patil
  • Patent number: 11397952
    Abstract: During operation, the system receives a customer request. Next, the system segments the customer request into customer request sentences. The system then encodes each sentence from the customer request with information sequentially collected from the previously observed sentences. Next, the system translates the encodings to sparse probabilities that measure the importance of sentences from the customer request. The system then extracts relevant sentences from the customer request based on the importance. Next, the system forms an extracted-sentence customer request embedding from embeddings for the extracted relevant customer request sentences. The system then uses the extracted-sentence customer request embedding to select an agent response from a set of possible agent responses based on comparisons between the extracted-sentence customer request embedding and embeddings for the set of possible agent responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Zendesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Anh Thien Dinh, Wei Chu, Paul E. Gradie
  • Patent number: 11386393
    Abstract: Project asset and preference sharing techniques are described. In one or more embodiments, a request is received to assign a project asset or preference to a member of a team. The received request includes an identifier of a project for which the project asset or preference will be assigned. To assign the asset or preference specified in the request, a list of teams to which the member belongs is ascertained. The assets and preferences associated with each of the teams are then checked for the identifier to identify the project assets and preferences associated with the project. Once the project assets and preferences associated with the project are identified, a response is generated for communication to the member. The response is configured to include indications of the identified project assets and preferences that enable the member to access the identified project assets and preferences via the application, such that the member is also given access to the assigned project asset or preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Kumar Biswas, Dhiraj Sadhwani, Arijit Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11373191
    Abstract: Described and disclosed herein are various embodiments of methods and systems configured to calculate, store and display building or structure performance data, information or scores corresponding to a particular building or structure. In one embodiment, a central web server (“CWS”) is configured to operate in conjunction with, and to communicate with, a plurality of remote LEED dynamic displays (“LDPs”) or dashboards. In one embodiment, the LDPs or dashboards are configured to display building performance scores calculated by the CWS for the particular building or structure associated with a given LDP or dashboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: USGBC
    Inventors: Scot Horst, Mahesh Ramanujam, Dhruv Gami, S. Richard Fedrizzi
  • Patent number: 11334928
    Abstract: The technical problem of predicting the level of activity driven by a web page representing a company in an on-line social network system is addressed by providing a company page assessment system. A company page assessment system is configured to use a machine learning model to determine features and respective thresholds that signal the likelihood of a web page representing a company (a company page) to drive member activity in the on-line social network system. The company page assessment system also provides the ability to assess quality of a company page. Different quality levels of a company page can be indicated by respective labels “Complete Page,” “Quality Page,” and “Engaged Quality Page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rajan Ramesh Chaudhari, Sparsh Agarwal, Tomer Cohen, Divyakumar Menghani, Aaron Tyler Rucker
  • Patent number: 11301909
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for assigning a bias rating to a service based on bias and/or anti-bias testing. For example, unbiased data can be input to the service to, e.g., determine whether the service introduces elements of bias. As another example, biased data can be input to the service to determine whether the service provides elements of anti-bias. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises selecting, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, source data configured according to a bias specification indicating a criterion that defines bias. The computer-implemented method can comprise determining whether bias exists in output data of the service and determining a bias rating based on the determining whether bias exists in the output data. The computer-implemented method can further comprise assigning the bias rating to the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Biplav Srivastava, Francesca Rossi
  • Patent number: 11295402
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a blockchain-based approach for managing repair of physical property items. Any full node computing device in a network, including a physical property management computing platform, may register a physical property item onto a blockchain associated with the physical property item. The computing platform may further register one or more users onto this blockchain so that the registered users can use the physical property item. As one or more users use the physical property item, the computing platform may receive real-time usage information and may notify the owner of the physical property item when the item needs to be repaired or replaced. The computing platform may then execute an event based on a response to this notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Sasidhar Purushothaman, Suki Ramasamy
  • Patent number: 11266125
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for profit maximization and risk mitigation that uses nutrition modeling of animal, poultry and marine animals is a critical component of the respective enterprise optimization and managed environment pollution control. The optimization accuracy depends on the description of utilization efficiency of nutrients in a population of animals. Utilization efficiency of nutrients for meat production in a population are preferably based on at least three component parts of nutrient utilization, i.e., maintenance, linear gain, and non-linear gain, instead of one only. Efficiencies for maintenance and linear gain are fixed value(s), but nutrient efficiency is a result of intra-population variation and efficiency of linear gain, and affect profit. Similar processing is performed to obtain optimal crop growth and profit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: American Institute of Nutrition and Management Inc.
    Inventors: Fazal Wala, Charles A. Lemaire, Alexander B. Lemaire
  • Patent number: 11256712
    Abstract: In some possible implementations, a device may include one or more memories and one or more processors, communicatively coupled to the one or more memories, to: receive a document that includes a plurality of clauses relating to two or more entities; identify a selected clause, of the plurality of clauses, based on a characteristic of the selected clause; determine a domain-specific language (DSL) unit based on the selected clause, the DSL unit identifying the two or more entities and values associated with the selected clause, identified by the selected clause, associated with the two or more entities; automatically generate a smart contract based on the DSL unit, the smart contract being configured to enforce a condition or action, of the values, between the two or more entities; and perform an action based on the smart contract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Pradeepkumar Duraisamy Soundrapandian, Kapil Singi, Vikrant Kaulgud
  • Patent number: 11216831
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and applying a machine learning model. One of the methods includes the actions of obtaining a plurality of data points associated with a parcel of real property; using a machine learning model to generate a prediction from the obtained plurality of data points, the prediction indicating a likelihood that the real property will satisfy a particular parameter, wherein the machine learning model is trained using a training set comprising a collection of data points associated with a labeled set of real property parcels distinct from the specified parcel of real property, the label indicating the particular parameter and corresponding value for each real property parcel of the training set; and based on the prediction, classifying the specified parcel of real property according to a determination of whether the predicted value of the parameter satisfies a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: States Title, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Holligan, Andy Mahdavi
  • Patent number: 11080716
    Abstract: The invention is a platform that defines a new way and method of notifying and connecting a customer to a business with a recalled product and accelerating the refund, replacement or the fix of the product to the customer. The invention comprises processed data algorithms and techniques along with new extensions that integrate with existing systems or software. The platform facilitates the communication between users and manufacturers to provide customers with their refund, fix or replacement for defective products through a resolution center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HADASOFT, LLC
    Inventor: Mostafa Elzoghbi
  • Patent number: 11062394
    Abstract: In one aspect the present disclosure implements a method for providing a personalized recommendation to a user of a health care service. In this regard, the method includes receiving a user's profile data that includes at least a location of the user, automatically prompting for and receiving a set of constraints from the user regarding their need to seek medical care, identifying a result set of medical care providers responsive to a user request, determining whether the result set satisfies the imposed constraints, and if the result set satisfies the imposed constraints, creating, in real-time, a list that identifies at least one medical care provider from the result set for display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ALIGHT SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: Randolph Sentell, Preston Williams, Jared Ashman, Greg Morgan