Patents Examined by Naresh Vig
  • Patent number: 11776018
    Abstract: Methods for generating one or more advertisement creatives for multiple advertisement types. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a selection and data entered in an electronic form, the selection being for two or more different advertisement types, the entered data being of one or more data types, the data types including text, image, audio, or video, generating two or more advertisement creatives using the entered data, the two or more advertisement creatives being for the selected two or more different advertisement types, and presenting the two or more advertisement creatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ariel H. Bardin, Rachel Garb, Mohammed Abdoolcarim, Si Shen
  • Patent number: 11776006
    Abstract: In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by a survey workflow module, receiving a survey request event for which a survey is requested and generating a first feature vector for the survey request event, wherein the first feature vector comprises features extracted from the survey request event. The method also includes predicting, by a first trained prediction module, whether the survey request event will result in a survey based on the first feature vector, wherein the first trained prediction module is trained using a training dataset generated from a corpus of historical survey request event-survey data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Bijan Kumar Mohanty, Hung Dinh, Divya Maddi, Cleber Souza
  • Patent number: 11769176
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing content. A method includes receiving a request for an advertisement to be displayed in a slot associated with a third-party content site; identifying a relevant advertisement to be provided in the slot; determining information to be included in an annotation associated with the advertisement; the annotation including customized information to be presented along with the advertisement; providing the advertisement responsive to the request including providing the annotation along with a control for re-publishing the advertisement along with the relevant advertisement; receiving user input selecting the control and designating the advertisement for re-publishing to a group, the group being designated by the user; and targeting additional content to the group based on the received user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Davi De Castro Reis, Eider Silva de Oliveira, Marcus A. Leal, Christian Oestlien
  • Patent number: 11727447
    Abstract: A mediator system, which serves as a conduit between a customer and merchants, includes customer profile data. The mediator system analyzes the customer profile data, and assigns an indication to a customer represented by the customer profile data. The mediator system then provides the indication to the merchants, and then receives bids from the merchants. The bids are for establishing a connection between the merchants and the customer. The mediator system provides to a portion of the merchants, based on the bids, a connection to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Jing-Ta Chow, Michael Macasek
  • Patent number: 11710418
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for augmenting a required curriculum of an individual in a nomadic group. The system retrieves, from a client device, a request for an accommodation recommendation from the nomadic group, which includes an individual with a required curriculum. The system maps the curriculum to destinations in a destination database and determines a set of geographic regions including the destinations. The system optimizes an accommodation recommendation based on available listings in the geographic regions and geographic locations of the destinations and transmits, for display on a user interface at the client device, a user interface comprising the accommodation recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: Joao Pedro Carvalho Oliveira de Miranda Reis, Cynthia Yue Chen, Sara Louise Sodine, Dan Young Li
  • Patent number: 11699174
    Abstract: A computing device can obtain data describing at least one document, the at least one document referencing at least one media object, wherein a portion of the at least one media object includes one or more characters. The computing device can obtain data describing the one or more characters in the at least one media object in the at least one document. The computing device can generate an updated copy of the at least one document that includes the data describing the one or more characters in the at least one media object. The computing device can present, on a display screen of the computing device and through an interface, the updated copy of the at least one document, wherein the one or more characters in the at least one media object are able to be selected or searched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: A9.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Ryan Gray, Arnab Sanat Kumar Dhua, Xiaofan Lin, Zhijiang Mark Lu
  • Patent number: 11694231
    Abstract: An advertisement presentation system includes at least one display device that is detachably provided to a vehicle, an information processing device, and a management server. The information processing device is configured to acquire advertisement information representing an advertisement, and to output the acquired advertisement information to the display device. The display device is configured to present the advertisement information output from the information processing device such that the advertisement information is directed outward from the vehicle. The information processing device is configured to transmit task report information representing a presentation task report for the advertisement information by the display device to the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Fukazawa, Takashi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11694232
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing content. A method includes receiving a request for an advertisement to be displayed in a slot associated with a third-party content site; identifying a relevant advertisement to be provided in the slot; determining information to be included in an annotation associated with the advertisement, the annotation including customized information to be presented along with the advertisement; providing the advertisement responsive to the request including providing the annotation along with a control for re-publishing the advertisement along with the relevant advertisement; receiving user input selecting the control and designating the advertisement for re-publishing to a group, the group being designated by the user; and targeting additional content to the group based on the received user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Davi De Castro Reis, Christian Oestlien, Eider Silva de Oliveira, Marcus A. Leal
  • Patent number: 11673070
    Abstract: Methods and systems for arranging audience members and musicians are described herein. An assembly of seats for an event location includes a plurality of musician seats and a plurality of audience seats. Each audience seat of the plurality of audience seats can be disposed in a particularly designated location on an event location surface relative to the plurality of musician seats such that each audience seat of the plurality of audience seats has an audience immersion score that is above a threshold minimal acceptable audience immersion score (MAAIS). The audience immersion score includes a musician adjacency component, a conductor position depth offset component, and a conductor position lateral offset component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: INSIDEOUT CONCERTS, INC.
    Inventor: David Bernard
  • Patent number: 11651673
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including an intelligence function that reminds a user of a task to be performed, even though the user does not manually set a reminder and notifies the user whether the task has been completed. This intelligence function may be implemented in various applications, such as a reminder, a calendar, or an artificial intelligence assistant. Aspects of the disclosure may also increase business utilization of a care service. For example, the electronic device may be used to check the progress of housework of a sitter who cares for a person such as a child, an elderly parent, or a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventors: Soojung Kim, Hyunjin Kim, Sangchul Yi, Seolynn Park, Hyori Park
  • Patent number: 11651394
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments generally relate to systems, methods, and apparatus for dynamic context-based electronic offer communication. In one aspect, a computer server is disclosed, comprising: a hardware processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory to: receive location data from a mobile device; determine a context of the mobile device based on the location data; generate a database query using the determined context; send the generated query to an events database; receive a conditional electronic offer from the events database; determine user data requirements based on the conditional electronic offer; send a request based on the user data requirements to a secure server; receive user data from the secure server; generate an electronic offer communication based on the conditional electronic offer when the user data received from the secure server meets the user data requirements; and send the electronic offer communication to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Adrian Bloy, Sebastien Forget, Ryan Edmund Vekeman, Connie Maun-Fong Chan, Daniel Lam Tin Cheung, Arun Victor Jagga, John Jong-Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 11651396
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for automatically creating a funding event in response to identifying an issue. The method includes one or more processors identifying an issue and an individual associated with the issue. The method further includes one or more processors determining whether the individual meets eligibility criteria of a crowdfunding platform. In response to determining that the identified individual does meet eligibility criteria of the crowdfunding platform, the method further includes one or more processors creating a funding event for receiving donations to resolve the identified issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charlet N. Givens, Cienn R. Givens, Tsz S. Cheng, Iris M. Rivera
  • Patent number: 11620699
    Abstract: In a system for renting vehicles to users, the operation rate of the vehicles is improved. An information processing apparatus for managing the rental of vehicles to users is configured to perform: generating a rental schedule of a vehicle for a first user; obtaining demand data related to a demand for the vehicle; and changing, based on the demand data, a vehicle return point included in the rental schedule, the vehicle return point being a point at which the first user returns the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Masaru Ando, Toshinari Honda
  • Patent number: 11620678
    Abstract: An advertising method, device and system, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring user information; sending the user information to a server that stores an advertising requirement, wherein the advertising requirement includes an advertisement content and an advertising condition of the advertisement content; receiving an advertising instruction of the advertisement content from the server, wherein the advertising instruction of the advertisement content is generated by the server when the user information meets the advertising condition of the advertisement content; and playing the advertisement content in response to the advertising instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongheng Li, Haibo Fu, Junwei Liu
  • Patent number: 11605097
    Abstract: A network access point may control access by limiting time of access to users, and by granting additional access time in exchange for certain user behavior, such as viewing advertisements. Other rewards may be granted as well, such as changes to the user's network access quality, or access to restricted content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Billy Edison Stephens, Kam-Cheong Anthony Tsoi
  • Patent number: 11599902
    Abstract: Delivering and presenting content including an interactive advertisement to a user, including: transmitting the content including the interactive advertisement to an entertainment device through an application, wherein the application is registered under a user account with an app store; playing the interactive advertisement including call-to-action icons to request the user to initiate a transaction for purchasing an item of second content; determining whether the user is requesting an immediate or later purchase; charging for the purchased item of second content to the user account and initiating a background download of the purchased item of second content, when it is determined that the user is requesting the immediate purchase; adding the item of content to the user account, when it is determined that the user is requesting the later purchase; and resuming the transmission of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Crackle, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Goldstein, Christine Coner, Ihor Yaskiw
  • Patent number: 11568453
    Abstract: An information technology platform for personalizing an experience of a visitor at a non-profit venue comprising: a network; a server in communication with the network; a mobile computing device to be carried by the visitor, the mobile computing device in communication with the server via the network, wherein the information technology platform determines personalized information about the visitor; a recommendation engine associated with the server, wherein the recommendation engine is to receive the personalized information about the visitor and to output a suggestion for a personalized experience for the visitor, wherein the information technology platform conveys the suggestion for the personalized experience to the visitor, wherein the personalized experience is to encourage philanthropic activity; and a social networking system for digital communication between the visitor and other visitors, and for sharing information or media related to the non-profit venue or to a philanthropic campaign associated wi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Olive Seed Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Christine Soule, Charles H. Cella, Richard Spitz
  • Patent number: 11568449
    Abstract: A server comprises a storage unit for storing a plurality of image data, a first end input request image data including a redisplay setting image for setting whether to display the image on the information processor again or not and a first end request image for ending the display of the image, a second end input request image data including a second end request image for rejecting the redisplay of the image and ending the display of the image, and association data in which one of the first end input request image data and the second end input request image data is stored in association with the types of the plurality of image data, and a controller for executing a process of transmitting any one image data of the plurality of image data and either the first end input request image data or the second end input request image data associated based on the association data corresponding to the image data to the information processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11526903
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes enabling a donor to donate loyalty points associated with a loyalty program to a receiver based on a donation profile. The donation profile is hosted by a loyalty points donation platform (LPDP) and includes a donation entry including a loyalty point type and a requested quantity. A donation request including a loyalty account identifier, credential data of the loyalty account, and a point donation quantity is received. Approval of the donation request is requested from the donor loyalty program including providing the loyalty account identifier and the credential data to the donor loyalty program. Based on receiving approval from the donor loyalty program, the donor loyalty program is instructed to transfer a quantity of loyalty points indicated by the point donation quantity from the loyalty account associated with the loyalty account identifier to a receiver loyalty account associated with the donation profile of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Loralee Bodo, Jennifer Huffman, Jason Hilliard Goodgold
  • Patent number: 11521228
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically generating acquisition IDs and using them to track and record how products are identified, offered, and sold, as well as how customers respond to particular variations of product offers. The acquisition ID can be associated with any product sale, transaction completion, or account creation initiated using or otherwise identifying or associated with the acquisition ID, where the connection to the acquisition ID can be maintained and retained with ongoing records associated with the interaction and created account, transaction, and/or product purchase. Using the stored information and the acquisition IDs, an organization can precisely determine what products were sold using which marketing tactic, campaign, or channel through which the transaction occurred and/or was initiated, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventors: Adrian Bloy, Morgan Klein-MacNeil