Patents Examined by Michael R Stibley
  • Patent number: 11295274
    Abstract: A conversational and live interactions development and marketplace distribution system and process are disclosed for the purpose of enhancing customer engagement experiences by implementing lead/customer engagement and call-to-action strategy in social media advertisement, digital marketing, and customer success. The conversational and live interactions development and marketplace distribution system includes a stateful network of live interaction plug-ins that are triggered on demand and on-the-fly from inside social media, applications, or messaging channels. The conversational and live interactions development and marketplace distribution system provides a platform for development of conversational and live interaction plug-ins, chatbots, and smart human chat components. The conversational and live interactions development and marketplace distribution system hosts a cloud marketplace for distribution of conversational and live interaction plug-ins, chatbots, and smart human chat components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventors: Sepideh Ghasem Khan Ghajar, Alberto Rabindranath d'Souza
  • Patent number: 11195208
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for programmatic digital advertisements that are personalized and uniquely targeted to individually-identified consumers via non-personal, but individually accessed devices. The consumer accessing a non-personal device is identified and data cookie pertaining to the user is created and sent to third-party programmatic advertising exchanges for the use in real time bidding, private marketplace deals, or programmatic guaranteed sales. This allows for personalized digital advertisements to be delivered to a specific user accessing a non-personal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: PERPETUAL MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Wilton, Jay Wilton
  • Patent number: 11087366
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, computer-readable media, and methods that automatically modify a pacing plan for a digital content distribution campaign, which provides digital content to client computing devices based on the pacing plan. For instance, the systems disclosed herein can automatically detect when a service error causes a digital content distribution campaign to deviate from the pacing plan. In response, the disclosed systems can generate a new pacing plan based on the actual allocated budget at the conclusion of the service error. In particular, the disclosed systems can generate a new pacing plan that enables the digital content distribution campaign to efficiently maximize the remaining resources allocated to the digital content distribution campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Tung Nhat Pham
  • Patent number: 10769740
    Abstract: A cooperative environmental and life benefit exchange system is presented. The system includes a grid for transmitting available electrical energy, a plurality of rate payers using energy generated from renewable energy sources, a plurality of utility companies providing the grid, a plurality of credits redeemable for acquiring one or more of a plurality of life benefits, and an administrator overseeing a redemption process. In one embodiment, credits are accumulated by the rate payers based on either a predetermined amount of electrical energy purchased from or sold back to the grid. In the redemption process the credits accumulated by the rate payers are redeemed at a redemption rate to provide a redemption value. The redemption value is remitted by the rate payers to satisfy benefit cost for acquiring the life benefits, or portions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventor: Brett F. Eisenlohr
  • Patent number: 10699310
    Abstract: In general, techniques are disclosed to facilitate communicating within computer networks. For example, a layer three (L3) router including a service card and an interface card may be configured to perform the techniques. The interface card receives a query from a network that sources communications in accordance with a plurality of models. The query may specify a customer device and one of the sourced communications, and request that the service card select one of the models for the specified sourced communication and the specified customer device. The service card further stores data defining a profile for the one of the customer devices. The service card may also, in response to the query, analyze the profile data for the specified customer device to determine the selected one of the models for the specified sourced communication with respect to the specified customer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Panwar, David Weinberg
  • Patent number: 10685360
    Abstract: A system and method for updating advertising content for a recorded program (e.g., recorded on personal video recorder equipment), substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, Nambirajan Seshadri, Henry Samueli
  • Patent number: 10460340
    Abstract: A method for verifying an ad request includes verifying a signature including the ad request using symmetric or asymmetric keys. Using symmetric keys, after an ad request having a first signature is received, a signature generation algorithm is executed to generate a second signature. If the first signature matches the second signature, then the ad request is determined to be verified. Using asymmetric keys, after an ad request having a signature is received, a signature verification algorithm is executed to determine if the signature matches the ad request. If so, then the ad request is determined to be verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: WIDEORBIT INC.
    Inventor: Steve McCartney
  • Patent number: 10438233
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing events related to presented content. In one aspect, a method includes determining a time window count of a number of advertising events associated with an advertisement during at least one time window before a conversion event; and determining a credit that represents a strength of an association between the advertisement and the conversion event, wherein determining a credit includes selecting a weighting model for the at least one time window count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sheng Ma, Sarah Masters, Fan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10325290
    Abstract: A method of raising funds for a project, the method comprising the steps of providing a webpage for the project and determining a target fund amount for the project, the project being selected from a group comprising a non-profit related project, a business related project, a cause-related project, a real-estate related project and an art related project, providing a plurality of advertising buy options having respective media outlets available for purchase by an advertiser accessing said project webpage, upon an advertiser purchasing a selected one or more media buy, causing the advertisers advertising material to be placed on the media properties associated with the purchased media buys, and collecting the revenue from the completed advertising buy and applying the selected revenue produced by the completed advertising buy to the target fund.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventor: John E. DeTitta
  • Patent number: 10217117
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided using combined technologies for social networking interactions using tracking, predicting, and implementing online consumer communications, browsing behavior, buying patterns, and advertisements and affiliate advertising and communications, for online coupons, mobile services, products, goods & services, entertainment shopping, auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results for targeting and filtering of promotions, online coupons, mobile services, products, goods & services, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or services on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology, company-local information, social networking, and social networking communities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Inventor: Stephan Heath
  • Patent number: 10210533
    Abstract: The method and system of merges user-supplied electronic content with relevant ads based upon relevancy factors discerned form the ads and the content. Further, profiles and session histories of user-visitors are monitored and ad relevancy factors discerned form the profiles and session histories are employed to obtain user-relevant ads. The content relevant ads and user relevant ads are inserted into a preformed web page in addition to the user-supplied content. A revenue splitting module shares the ad referral or sales revenue from the click throughs to advertiser designated web sites. The relevancy factors relate to one or more of the supplied content, the user who uploaded the content, the user profile (previously input by the user), current session history, past session history, the user-group profiles and any user referral source. A comparator matches relevancy factors and ads. Ad selection by category, hierarchical or orthogonal match and high pay referral fees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Redgage LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Redlich
  • Patent number: 10152722
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for internet access to online advertisements, auctions, products, services, service providers, media and entertainment, sports, personal & financial network, real estate, service providers and business owners e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventor: Stephan Heath
  • Patent number: 10140620
    Abstract: Mobile device based systems and methods are provided for combined delivery system that will allow shoppers to search and pay for their purchases, redeem coupons and earn reward points via the web or a mobile device or portable device to engage in social networking integration & mobile: services, payment, wallet, express checkout, money transfer, social media widgets, keywords, coupons, instant messaging marketing, voting, eCards, short codes, commerce, shopping, push content, geo-mobile, and geo-social services (collectively referred to as “Mobile Services”) with access to advertisements, daily deal coupons and free or discounted printable coupons, products & services, clickable advertisements & mobile advertisements by geo-target location from merchants, business owners, B2B business directory, retailers and major brands around the world, in combination with geospatial website for a multidimensional representation of information and/or scalable versions of web content associated with entities pro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Inventor: Stephan Heath
  • Patent number: 10129211
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer readable medium, computer system, wireless or wired network, or system to provide an online and/or mobile security of a user's privacy and/or security method of internet or mobile access or system, apparatus, computer readable medium, or system using encryption technologies and/or filters to access data, encrypt and/or decrypt data, sync data, secure data storage and/or process data using cloud technology across many different networks and/or fiber optic communications from an endpoint accessed through multiple devices, browsers, operating systems, networks, servers, storage, software, applications or services integrated in a public cloud or a private cloud within an enterprise, a social network, big data analytics or electronic surveillance tracking or some mashup of two or more to prevent the unauthorized collecting, tracking and/or analysis of a user's personal data by a third party and/or for generating relevant advertising, mobile, internet social messaging, internet posted
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Stephan Heath
  • Patent number: 10127563
    Abstract: A technique, method, apparatus, and system to provide sports and sporting events related, integrated social networking, real time geospatial mapping, geo-target location based technologies including GPS and GIS and multiple points of interest, receiving current location of user's electronic or mobile device and multiple points of interest, cloud-type configuration storing and handling user data across multiple enterprises, generating user behavior data and ad links, promotions (“social/geo/promo”) links on a website for sports and sporting events related products, goods, gambling, and/or services, including sports related social/geo/promo data sets for user customized visual displays showing 3D map presentations with correlated or related broad or alternative categories of social/geo/promo links to be displayed with web page content for view and interaction by an end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Stephan Heath
  • Patent number: 10127564
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer readable medium, computer system, network, or system, is provided for using impressions tracking and analysis, location information, 2D and 3D mapping, social media, and user behavior and information for generating mobile and internet posted promotions or offers for, and/or sales of, products and/or services, for example, through an advertising application programming interfaces (APIs) on mobile devices, tablets, or computers, that provides mobile and web based promotions or offers that connect information and user behavior data to a user or related demographic location or user specified or predicted demographic location(s), such as through the use of as social networking, user or demographic profiles, behavior, and/or relationships, for targeted promotions or offers for products and/or services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Stephan Heath
  • Patent number: 10120877
    Abstract: A technique, method, apparatus, and system to provide related and integrated social networking, real time geospatial mapping, geo-target location and multiple points of interest, receiving current location of user's electronic or mobile device and multiple points of interest, cloud-type configuration storing and handling user data across multiple enterprises, generating user behavior data and ad links, promotions (“social/geo/promo”) links on a website for any product, good or service, including social/geo/promo data sets for user customized visual displays showing 3D map presentations with correlated or related broad or alternative categories of social/geo/promo links to be displayed with web page content for view by an end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventor: Stephan Heath
  • Patent number: 10108969
    Abstract: A method and system for providing personalized and integrated online services for communications and commercial transactions both in private and public venues. The invention provides personalized information that is conveniently accessible through a network of public access stations (or terminals) which are enabled by a personal system access card (e.g., smart card). The invention also provides advertisers the opportunity to directly engage actual and potential user-consumers with selected advertising or marketing content based on each user's profile and usage history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Streetspace, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom J. Mathai, Kenneth Margon
  • Patent number: 10102546
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for combined social behavior tracking, online surveillance and web bot software technologies via a mobile device or computer for tracking online consumer behavior and data, cookies, embedded advertisements, predicting online consumer behavior, buying patterns by monitoring online activities, online communications, search inquiries, social networking, social plugins, social applications, advertisements, purchasing, behavior, and buying patterns, consumer address books and contact lists, blogs, chat rooms, friends, acquaintances and strangers, instant messaging, text chat, internet forum, service providers, travel and hospitality, real estate, educational services, ancillary services (as defined herein) and delivery system for behavior targeting and filtering of coupons, mobile services, products, goods and services, advertisements and service providers and related company information on a three dimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapp
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventor: Stephan Heath
  • Patent number: 10096033
    Abstract: A technique, method, apparatus, and system to provide educational related, integrated social networking, real time geospatial mapping, geo-target location based technologies including GPS and GIS and multiple points of interest, receiving current location of user's electronic or mobile device and multiple points of interest, cloud-type configuration storing and handling user data across multiple enterprises, generating user behavior data and ad links, promotions (“social/geo/promo”) links on a website for educational related products, goods, and/or services, including educational related social/geo/promo data sets for user customized visual displays showing 3D map presentations with correlated or related broad or alternative categories of social/geo/promo links to be displayed with web page content for view and interaction by an end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Inventor: Stephan Heath