Patents Examined by Nicholas D. Rosen
  • Patent number: 11501355
    Abstract: Integrating an image capturing mechanism into an ecommerce application is described. Images of items offered for sale via ecommerce channels associated with an ecommerce service provider and performance metrics associated with the images and/or content items with which the images are presented via the ecommerce channels can be analyzed. Based partly on the analyzing, a characteristic associated with the images that are associated with a performance metric that satisfies a threshold or that are presented by the content items that are associated with the performance metric that satisfies the threshold can be determined. A new image of an item to be offered for sale by a merchant via an ecommerce channel can be received and, based at least partly on the characteristic, it can be determined whether to integrate the new image into a content item for the merchant, wherein the content item to be presented via the ecommerce channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine Swett, Bo Han, Drew Richards, John O'Brien-Carelli
  • Patent number: 11494832
    Abstract: A method for securely enabling a user to create a listing for equipment on an equipment online marketplace platform is disclosed. The method may include: receiving a request from a user to create a listing for the equipment on the equipment online marketplace platform; prompting the user to upload one or more images or documents of the equipment; receiving the one or more images or documents of the equipment from the user, the one or more images or documents containing information of the equipment; determining whether an identity of the equipment is verified based on the information of the equipment in the one or more images or documents; and if the identity of the equipment is verified, enabling the user to create a listing for the equipment on the equipment online marketplace platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Satyanarayan Kar, Lisa Estipona Butters, Sujay Rao, Keerthi Jayarajan, Sravan Kommuri, Sathish Muthukrishnan
  • Patent number: 11494816
    Abstract: A system for generating and completing a security task is provided. A security task may be generated by the system based on a security task request. A security task acceptance for the security task may be received at the system. The system may validate the security task acceptance for the security task. The system may transmit a security task acceptance notification in response to validating the security task acceptance. The system may verify an identity of a security provider and generate a report associated with the security provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Isner, Patrick Madden, Matthew Morstad
  • Patent number: 11468487
    Abstract: An apparatus for delivering information to a mobile computing device regarding a packaged food product includes an information delivery computing device comprising a processor and non-transitory memory. The non-transitory memory includes executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the information delivery computing device to send information about one or more characteristics of the packaged food product to the mobile computing device in response to a request from the mobile computing device. The request from the mobile computing device can be received by the information delivery computing device when a customer scans a QR code on the packaged food product with a camera on the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TYSON FOODS, INC.
    Inventors: Erin Tilley, Jake Wiedower
  • Patent number: 11455656
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing item advertisements to customers. In some examples, a computing device obtains transaction data identifying in-store and/or online transactions. The computing device determines a distribution of purchased items over a plurality of item categories based on the transaction data. The computing device generates factorization matrices based on applying a machine learning process to the distribution, and generates relevancy scores for the plurality of item categories based on the factorization. The computing device may then select or generate item advertisements for items associated with the item categories based on the generated relevancy scores. The selected item advertisements may be displayed to a customer, for example, on a website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Luyi Ma, Hyun Duk Cho, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11455343
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, an information management application that provides users with the ability to create and customize matrix displays of information relating to a particular product or service for navigation by other users is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TIVO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seth Haberman
  • Patent number: 11451641
    Abstract: A method for enabling a smart device to access a network can be applied to a server of an online shopping system, the method including: receiving a purchase order for the smart device submitted by a designated user, and determining the smart device shipped corresponding to the purchase order; and in response to that the purchase order includes at least one network configuration information, sending a write signal, the write signal is used to notify writing of the network configuration information to the smart device, so as to enable the smart device to access a network according to the network configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Juejia Zhou
  • Patent number: 11449918
    Abstract: The makeup scheme recommendation method provided by embodiments of the present disclosure includes: acquiring makeup parameters of a user, the makeup parameters including at least one of an environment parameter, a body parameter, and a makeup time parameter; searching for a target makeup scheme matching the makeup parameters from a makeup scheme pool; optimizing the target makeup scheme in accordance with cosmetic information about the user, and generating a recommended makeup scheme, the cosmetic information being used to indicate cosmetics owned by the user; and providing the recommended makeup scheme to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shihao Ji, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 11436559
    Abstract: A method of managing inventory comprising generating a list of inventory items, identifying removal of one of the inventory items from inventory, updating the list of inventory items as inventory items are removed, predicting a future rate of removal of inventory items, and developing purchasing plan for inventory items based on predicted rate of removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Taco Marketing LLC
    Inventors: Todd B. Ferguson, Andrew M. Czachowski
  • Patent number: 11430033
    Abstract: In one example aspect, a computerized method includes the step of providing an item listing. The item listing is listed in an e-commerce marketplace. The computerized method includes the step of identifying the item listing into a set of listing parameters. A listing parameter includes one or more listing images and one or more terms that are descriptive of the item listing. The computerized method includes using the listing parameters to do the following steps. The computerized method determines a trust score for the item listing. The trust score is based on a number of images of an item in the item listing. The computerized method a quality score of the number of images; a description score of a description of the item. The computerized method determines a pricing score. The pricing score is based on a percentage variation from a geographically relevant item valuation and an item research service, and a condition of the item. The computerized method determines a seller score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventor: Sandeep Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 11430031
    Abstract: A computing system and method leverage aggregated information regarding historical medication usage and medication availability to efficiently determine a unified purchasing solution. In a method, an order is received for a quantity of a medication. For a covered entity, a portion of the quantity of the medication that is able to be satisfied pursuant to a 340B program is determined based upon information regarding historical usage of the medication for outpatients and prior purchases under the 340B program. The method also includes determining the portions that are separately able to be satisfied pursuant to a group purchasing organization (GPO) program and a wholesaler/prime vendor program. The method further includes determining a proposed purchasing solution and to cause information regarding the proposed purchasing solution to be provided including information regarding savings based upon the prices of the medication for a respective period of time that was provided by the supplier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MCKESSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Stump, Christopher Shain, Andrew Wilson, Kevin Scheckelhoff, Gregg Niemiec, Matthew Bates, Jennifer Luker
  • Patent number: 11423454
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a novel system and method where users can promote, subscribe, license, train collaboratively, and/or trade AI models in real-time over an AI trusted model network that represents a group of trusted users across platform agnostic ways. The system and methods described herein may effectively provide a marketplace to collaboratively develop and reliably disseminate developed AI models to other users who may have similar needs. The system may include an AI user device server (AI-UDS), an AI trusted model network (AI-TMN), an AI secure marketplace system (AI-SMPS), an AI collaborative training platform (AI-CTP), an AI secure transaction fulfillment system (AI-STFS), and an AI model license subscription management platform (AI-LSMP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventor: Sateesh Kumar Addepalli
  • Patent number: 11416893
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform recording one or more actions of a user during an online browsing session; predicting, in real-time, a first user attribute for the user from one or more user attributes during the online browsing session based on the one or more actions of the user during the online browsing session; correlating the first user attribute, as predicted, for the user, wherein a first user preference of one or more user preferences is associated with the first user attribute, as predicted; and mapping each respective user preference of the one or more user preferences to a vector space, wherein: two or more user preferences of the one or more user preferences determined to be more similar to one another are closer together on the vector space than two or more user preferences of the one or more user preferences determined to be less similar
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Afroza Ali, Kannan Achan, Venkata Syam Prakash Rapaka
  • Patent number: 11403643
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to utilizing a graph convolutional neural network to generate similarity probabilities between pairs of digital identities associated with digital transactions based on time dependencies for use in identifying fraudulent transactions. For example, the disclosed systems can generate a transaction graph that includes nodes corresponding to digital identities. The disclosed systems can utilize a time-dependent graph convolutional neural network to generate node embeddings for the nodes based on the edge connections of the transaction graph. Further, the disclosed systems can utilize the node embeddings to determine whether a digital identity is associated with a fraudulent transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Shubhranshu Shekhar, Deepak Pai, Sriram Ravindran
  • Patent number: 11397977
    Abstract: Integrating an image capturing mechanism into an ecommerce application is described. Images of items offered for sale via ecommerce channels associated with an ecommerce service provider and performance metrics associated with the images and/or content items with which the images are presented via the ecommerce channels can be analyzed. Based partly on the analyzing, a characteristic associated with the images that are associated with a performance metric that satisfies a threshold or that are presented by the content items that are associated with the performance metric that satisfies the threshold can be determined. A new image of an item to be offered for sale by a merchant via an ecommerce channel can be received and, based at least partly on the characteristic, it can be determined whether to integrate the new image into a content item for the merchant, wherein the content item to be presented via the ecommerce channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine Swett, Bo Han, Drew Richards, John O'Brien-Carelli
  • Patent number: 11354650
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for providing a digital card asset construction service. In and embodiment, a digital card asset service computer provides access to a digital card asset application user interface (API) to an issuer device, then receives a request from a user to construct or update a digital payment card product and receives card art data for the digital payment card product responsive to one or more queries presented by the digital card asset API.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Marek Kurylko, Joseph Hayes, Pedro Chavarria
  • Patent number: 11354719
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: determining a list of substitutes for an item; determining qualities for each substitute; determining a similarity score for each substitute; determining a historical substitution score for each substitute; determining a final score for each substitute using the similarity score for each substitute and the historical substitution score for each substitute; ranking each substitute based upon the final score for each substitute; facilitating a display, on a user interface of a user device, of a highest ranked substitute; receiving, from the user interface of the user device, a selection of the highest ranked substitute; and after receiving the selection of the highest ranked substitute, substituting the highest ranked substitute for the item of the list of items. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Kamiya Motwani, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan, Vidya Sagar Kalidindi, Rahul Ramkumar, Derrick Lagomarsino
  • Patent number: 11354730
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying location-based information associated with a product on a web page. The method may include: detecting user navigation by the user of the web page; detecting the at least one product on the web page; identifying one or more merchants having the detected at least one product in stock; determining a user location of the user; determining the identified one or more merchants having the detected at least one product in stock and having a location within a predetermined distance of the user location; generating a list of merchants, the list including the determined one or more merchants having the detected at least one product in stock and having the location within the predetermined distance of the user location; and executing a browser extension to display, on the web page associated with the at least one product, the generated list of merchants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Abdelkader Benkreira, Joshua Edwards, Michael Mossoba
  • Patent number: 11334939
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing data associated with wearable articles for an electronic transactions platform includes receiving wearable article data describing wearable articles made available for physical shipment to users via electronic interactions; generating a user interface and causing display of the user interface depicting one or more of the wearable articles; receiving a selection of a wearable article of the displayed one or more wearable articles via the user interface; determining a listed amount for the selected wearable article; determining a borrow period to borrow the selected wearable article and a borrow amount at least based on the determined listed amount to borrow the selected wearable article during the borrow period; determining a daily amount to keep the borrowed wearable article; and monitoring the borrowed wearable article to determine whether a return notification for the borrowed wearable article has been received within the borrow period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CaaStle, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnab Bhattacharya, Georgiy Goldenberg, Christine M. Hunsicker, David Sabel, Tyler Young, Lei Yu
  • Patent number: 11334844
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide for order fulfilment using drop shipping from participating suppliers in an electronic marketplace are described. A drop shipping management system may utilize various rules and information regarding merchants, suppliers, items, etc. in facilitating electronic marketplace drop shipping. Drop shipping management systems may, for example, utilize merchant drop ship rules with respect to merchant drop ship information for determining whether drop shipping is to be provided for a merchant with respect to one or more items in the electronic marketplace. Further, drop shipping management systems may utilize supplier drop ship rules with respect to supplier drop ship information in determining a supplier to provide drop shipping with respect to one or more items in the electronic marketplace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Stamps.com Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Buerba, John Roland Clem, James Nathan Jones, Amine George Khechfe