Patents Examined by Matthew E Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 11538084
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a system consistent with the disclosure. For instance, the system may comprise a data lake including information relating to an in-store activity of a customer and an online activity of the customer, a processing resource, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by the processing resource to identify the in-store activity and the online activity of the customer, aggregate and store the in-store activity and the online activity of the customer in the data lake, reduce an amount of products in a product portfolio, compare purchases including in-store purchases and online purchases, and recommend a product of the plurality of products based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Pankaj Kumar, Aswinraj Govindaraj, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11538096
    Abstract: Machine learning-based approaches are used to create instances or visualizations of content appearing within an object in an image. For example, a user may submit a request for a preview or visualization of content within an object or other media such as a glass crystal. A trained model can process the content to generate adjustment data or other data that can be used to control image blending operations. The adjustment data can be applied to the pixel values of the content to modify the content in order to enable a visualization of the content within an object. The image portion can be modified such that the object appears to “blend” with and appear within the object. Image transformation techniques can be used to project the modified content onto a representation of an object. Thereafter, a visualization or preview of the content within the representation of the object can be presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Nicom Living LLC
    Inventor: Daniel James Nunn
  • Patent number: 11532028
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a digital cart management system for use by customers within a retail location. In use, a customer shops within a retail location and adds items to a digital cart as the customer is adding the items to a physical cart, e.g., at least in part by voice input. When the customer is finished shopping, the customer can checkout via a digital process, thereby bypassing point of sale devices at the retail location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Pande, Jesse Berwald
  • Patent number: 11532035
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes providing a user interface that allows selection of a product attribute and in the alternative allows selection of a previously defined rule. When a product attribute is selected in the user interface, a rule under construction that describes what products are to appear on a retail webpage is altered based on the selected product attribute. When a previously-defined rule is selected in the user interface, the rule under construction is modified so that the rule under construction uses the selected rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Alberto Trujillo, Dakota Reese Brown, Farhan Iqbal, Christopher Edward Johnson, Maxwell W. Thyen
  • Patent number: 11526886
    Abstract: Techniques for reducing fraud are disclosed. A transaction request is received from a user to perform a transaction using an account. In one approach, a source icon is displayed prior to executing the request. The source icon includes a graphical representation of an owner of the account. In another approach, at least one of a photograph and a voice of the user is recorded prior to executing the request. In a third approach, the user is informed that at least one of a photograph, a voice print, and location data will be taken prior to executing the transaction request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: RightQuestion, LLC
    Inventor: Bjorn Markus Jakobsson
  • Patent number: 11514503
    Abstract: Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to the merchant, requesting an acceptance of a membership status from the merchant, and receiving an indication of the payment for the first order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventor: Howard W. Lutnick
  • Patent number: 11494826
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods that facilitate purchase of objects from merchants. For example, a user may browse a website available from an object management service and identify objects that they desire to purchase. Rather than having to locate the seller of those objects to make a purchase, the implementations described herein facilitate a connection between the user and the merchant so that the merchant's sales are increased and the user is provided an efficient and safe shopping experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Jenkins, Catherine Cissy Lee
  • Patent number: 11494856
    Abstract: A method for providing economic information based on geographic parameters that includes providing a map for display on a device, receiving a user-defined area on the map, and providing data relating to the user-defined area. Obtaining the relevant information or data about a particular geographic region frequently involves consulting a plurality of sources. The current method is much more efficient and cost effective to retrieve from fewer sources and provide the information in a quick and easy to comprehend format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Meyers, Kent Mouton, Barry Schlesinger
  • Patent number: 11494824
    Abstract: Systems and methods for user personalization and recommendation schemes that are matched to a user profile and provide a highly personalized, interactive experience for the user on an entertainment platform are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, the highly personalized and interactive experience is facilitated through information from the user profile comprised of user-inputted information, historical data, and outputs from machine learning engines. In another aspect of the invention, the system is capable of outputting the highly-personalized and interactive recommendations onto a viewing screen while media content is continuously streaming on the same viewing screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NBTV CHANNELS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Leon Buzzell, Nicholas Theodore Buzzell
  • Patent number: 11488224
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing an improved user interface for efficiently browsing through and comparing digital content items are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving a request for one or more additional graphical widgets indicating at least one of a plurality of graphical widgets selected by a user for concurrent display with the additional graphical widget(s), the request also indicating at least one attribute value for each one of the at least one of the plurality of graphical widgets, with at least one attribute value having been selected by the user for use in determining the additional graphical widget(s). The additional graphical widget(s) may be determined from amongst a plurality of additional graphical widgets based on the attribute value(s) indicated by the request, and then displayed concurrently on the computing device along with the graphical widget(s) selected by the user for concurrent display with the additional graphical widget(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Lars Gregori
  • Patent number: 11488225
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system as described herein may receive financial institution product information from a plurality of financial institutions distributed across a computing network. The system may also receive data from the plurality of financial institutions distributed across the computer network and create or update an ontology. A relevance score may be generated for a set of financial institution products which may, in conjunction with a campaign definition provided by a financial institution administrator, be used to associate users with a list of campaigns which may be stored as campaign data. An online banking application at a user device may request campaign data for a user. In response, the system may return campaign data for the user to the online banking application. Using the campaign data, the online banking application may select one or more products to recommend to the user and display content for the selected products on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Q2 SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Jesse Lee Barbour, Adam David Anderson, Benjamin Ray Webster, Kristi Lynn Voll, Stephen John Zabel
  • Patent number: 11455676
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for recommending hardware configuration changes using a user satisfaction rating. One method comprises obtaining usage data indicating user activity for users on computing devices; generating a user profile for each user; clustering the users into user clusters based on the user profiles; determining, for a given user cluster, a satisfaction score for each user in the given user cluster based on the obtained usage data for each user on the computing device; providing suggested hardware upgrades for the computing device of a given user in the given user cluster, wherein the given user is selected based on a lower corresponding satisfaction score relative to the satisfaction scores of other users in the given cluster, and wherein the one or more suggested hardware upgrades are based on hardware configurations of other users in the given cluster having a higher corresponding satisfaction score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Anat Parush Tzur, Avitan Gefen, Amihai Savir
  • Patent number: 11455669
    Abstract: A system is provided and generally includes a server (e.g., application server), an associate computing device, and a client computing device. The server can receive a user arrival notification that indicates a user has arrived to pick up purchased goods. The server can transmit a scan initiation request to a remote terminal that causes the remote terminal to scan at least one network. The server can receive scan data for the scanned network from the remote terminal indicating, for example, a signal strength of that network. The server can determine a current wait time based on the received scan data for the scanned network, and can transmit the current wait time to the remote terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Arun Prasad Nagarathinam, Sneha Narahalli Balasubramanya, Madhavan Kandhadai Vasantham, Syed Aman, Rohit Jain, Deepak Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11449924
    Abstract: A system using a mobile device and computing device connected to a network includes an item list database containing information relating to gift items of interest, and a merchant database containing information on merchant geolocations and inventories. The mobile device uses geolocation identification software utilizing GPS technology to pinpoint the mobile device's geolocation. The computing device compares the mobile device's geolocation to the merchant geolocations and compares the merchant inventories with the items of interest. If a merchant located within a threshold proximity of the mobile device has as item of interest in its inventory, the computing device sends an alert over the network to the mobile device indicating information relating to the merchant and item of interest offered for sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: GiftTitan.com LLC
    Inventor: Rodd Salvatore
  • Patent number: 11443355
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for reducing food loss, and more particularly to electronic exchanges and computer systems enabling the purchase and sale of food products in a secondary market. The computer systems of the invention generally comprise at least a browser extension installed on a user computer and a product data application programming interface (API).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: FoodMaven, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Rembert
  • Patent number: 11443337
    Abstract: A method for planning deployment of image sensors may include determining a location of a store shelf within a retail store and obtaining a first coverage parameter corresponding to a first product type and a second coverage parameter corresponding to a second product type. The method may also include accessing a database to determine a first height of products of the first product type and a second height of products of the second product type, and determining a position for placing a camera configured to capture images of at least a portion of the store shelf by analyzing the location of the store shelf, the first coverage parameter, the second coverage parameter, the first height, and the second height. The method may further include providing, to a user interface of a user device, information relating to the determined position of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Youval Bronicki, David Dedi Arev, Odi Paneth, Ido Merkado, May Masha Mordechay
  • Patent number: 11436657
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system including a recommendation engine receiving a first user behavior data, the first user behavior data associated with a user action taken by a user, wherein the recommendation engine utilizes a recommendation model to generate recommendations to users based on first user behavior data; labeling the first user behavior; classifying the labeled first user behavior; generating, by the recommendation engine, a recommendation to the user based on the classifying of the labeled first user behavior; providing, by the recommendation engine, the recommendation to the user; receiving, by the recommendation engine, a second user behavior data, the second user behavior data associated with a user response by the user to the recommendation; and evaluating, by the recommendation engine, the second user behavior data and performing a corrective action to the recommendation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Shopify Inc.
    Inventor: Putra Manggala
  • Patent number: 11425186
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a personalized visual display of multiple products are provided. A described method includes receiving product information for a set of multiple products and user information for a particular user or user device and selecting a plurality of the multiple products estimated to be most relevant to the particular user or user device based on the product information for the set of multiple products and the user information for the particular user or user device. The method further includes generating a personalized visual display of the selected products including product images for multiple of the selected products. All of the products in the personalized visual display may be associated with the same content provider. The method further includes causing the personalized visual display to be presented via the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Dinkar Jain
  • Patent number: 11403866
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for displaying items of clothing on a model having a similar body shape to that of an ecommerce user. In one aspects, a system includes one or more hardware processors configured to perform operations comprising receiving, by one or more hardware processors, an image, the image representing a user height, user weight, and user gender, causing display, by the one or more hardware processors, of a second image via a computer interface, the second image representing a model, the model selected based on a comparison of a model height, weight, and gender with the user height, weight, and gender respectively, receiving, by the one or more hardware processors, a selection of an item of clothing, and causing display, by the one or more hardware processors, of a representation of the selected model wearing the selected item of clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Qiaosong Wang, Robinson Piramuthu, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Bryan Kent Ressler
  • Patent number: 11393010
    Abstract: Provided is a method of offering item information by an electronic apparatus. The method includes acquiring keyword information from a user, confirming one or more items corresponding to the keyword information and including a first item, confirming characteristic information on the first item and information on a representative review including at least a part of text of one review selected from a plurality of reviews of the first item, and providing item list information for the one or more items including the characteristic information and the information on the representative review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Coupang Corp.
    Inventors: Catherine Chang, Hye Young Cho, Seung Ho Jeong