Patents Examined by Paul Danneman
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Patent number: 11103841Abstract: A blending method is described for preparing a blended mixture. The blending method for preparing a blended mixture, the method includes: providing a control system having at least a processor, a computer-readable memory, and a display, wherein the memory contains software configured to receive a recipe defining instructions for preparing a blended mixture using one or more blending materials and amounts for producing a batch size of the blended mixture on a scale; monitoring a weight on the scale as blending materials are added to a receptacle on the scale; and indicating on the display the amounts of the blending materials that have been added to the scale to prepare an amount of a custom blended mixture based upon the selected blending materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: SureTint Technologies, LLCInventors: Mitchell H. Saranow, Charles C. Mayberry
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Patent number: 11107054Abstract: A computer server for a network-based transaction system is coupled to a kiosk via a data communications network. The kiosk includes a computer processor, an input device, an electronic display unit, a plurality of compartments, and a data communications port. The computer server receives input from a seller of an item. The input includes a listing of the item for sale on the network-based transaction system. The server identifies an available compartment from the plurality of compartments based on the size of the item for sale. The available compartment is configured to receive the item for sale from the seller. The server transmits an identification of the available compartment to the seller via the electronic display unit, and enables access to the available compartment by the seller.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Lindsay Strand, Mekdela Maskal, Anna Rasulova, Anand Ilesh Safi, Christopher Li, Jayni Shah
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Patent number: 11087277Abstract: Provided is a method of managing inventory, the method including receiving location information indicating at least one space location among a plurality of space units and space information corresponding to the location information, calculating a state change amount related to the at least one space location based on at least one of the location information, the space information, and information on a previous space state for each of the plurality of space units, or updating the information on the previous space state for each of the plurality of space units with information on a current space state based on the state change amount. An inventory management apparatus performing the method is provided. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium for performing the method is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Coupang Corp.Inventor: Byung Suk Yang
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Patent number: 11083183Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for managing and monitoring a sensor network that senses pest activity. A plurality of sensor stations may be controlled by the system, such sensor station configured for detecting the presence of pests at a baiting station, or for alerting users to the presence of a pest in a trap, as well as a related system of data collection and data management of pest activity data.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: ServicePro.NET LLCInventors: Andrew Deering, Richard Deering, James Rice, Denis Leanos, Jonathan Adam Holt
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Patent number: 11087271Abstract: Techniques for employing user interfaces to output information indicative of events occurring in an inventory facility, and receive feedback from a human regarding the events are described herein. In one implementation, an event may take place in an inventory facility, such as a customer taking an item from an inventory location, returning an item to an inventory location, and so forth. An automated system of an inventory management system may process sensor data collected by sensors in the inventory facility to determine details of the event. In some examples, the inventory management system is unable to determine with a high level of confidence what occurred during the event. The inventory management system may provide the sensor data to a human associate through an associate interface, and receive input regarding details of the event from the human associate through the associate interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Danny Guan, Prathiban Mohanasundaram, Shannon Thomas, Mirko Mandic, Helene Causse, Brett Richard Taylor, Waqas Syed Ahmed, David Echevarria Ignacio
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Patent number: 11080653Abstract: A virtual put wall system includes a storage apparatus with multiple containers, and different container identifiers attached to the containers. The system includes databases storing a first mapping that maps each customer order of a plurality of customer orders to a different container, a second mapping that maps each container to a different container identifier attached to that container, and a different visual identifier of each container. The system also includes a display device and a coordinating device that detects retrieval of an object, determines that the object belongs to a particular customer order, selects, based on the second mapping, a particular container that is used to store objects of the particular customer order, and directs the transfer of the object to the particular container by modifying the display device to present a particular visual identifier of the particular container.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: inVia Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Lior Elazary, Daniel Frank Parks, II, Randolph Charles Voorhies
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Patent number: 11080795Abstract: Entities may reference ledgers in order to better understand a historic use and/or status of an account. For example, a user may track historic spending or received payments based on referencing a ledger, or an enterprise may check a balance of an account for a user based on a ledger. However, the utility of ledgers in estimating an amount of funds available for a user's use is limited. Embodiments of a financial analyzer as described herein may provide entities with estimations of finances that include contributions from one or multiple income sources, including irregular sources. Some embodiments may provide recommendations to customers to meet needs based on a financial estimation.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Jeremy Phillips, Joseph Goldstein
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Patent number: 11074525Abstract: Physical space is allocated to members of a group to maximize collaborative efforts. Each member of the group is determined based on presence or detection of a wireless device. As the members of the group are wirelessly detected, physical space may be assigned based on historical usage, calendar entries, physical needs, and infrastructure traits. Desks, office space, conference rooms, and other facilities may thus be dynamically reserved to maximize collaboration and yet efficiently utilize existing physical spaces.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Craig Arthur Klein, Gregory O. Harp, Joseph Eric Sineath
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Patent number: 11069008Abstract: A system and method are described that can help gas stations detect attempted thefts of gas or when there is leakage from a fuel tank or pump. The fuel pump can comprise a payment processing system or is fuel sensor to detect the amount of fuel pumped. The large fuel tank that supplies the fuel pumps can comprise a fuel level sensor to detect how much fuel is being used. The fuel pumps and tanks can send their data to the kiosk or some other location for analysis. If more fuel is being lost from the fuel tank than is being paid for at the pumps, then a theft may be occurring, or there may be fault machinery or leaks.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Independent Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeffrey O. Smith, Rodney C. Montrose
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Patent number: 11068872Abstract: A transaction system includes a commodity registration machine and a check-out machine. The commodity registration machine includes an input device and a processor. The processor determines whether or not whether or not a predetermined condition for permitting check-out processing at the commodity registration machine is satisfied. The processor enables the input device to accept selection of either one of the check-out processing at the commodity registration machine or the check-out processing at the check-out machine if it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomonari Kakino
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Patent number: 11059713Abstract: A beverage order fulfillment system allows for beverage fulfillment from a mobile device without requiring a custom software application on the mobile device but uses a web connection to control beverage dispenser operations instead. The mobile device incorporates web browser software, and the web browser software is configured to initiate communication sessions with the at least one server. Data entry options are displayed on the interactive GUI for the first computer to communicate beverage selection commands to the beverage dispensing software, via the at least one server, in a respective instance of beverage fulfillment. The at least one server incorporates web socket application program interfaces (APIs) stored on the at least one server and configured to connect a communications link to the beverage dispenser and the web browser software on the first computer.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventor: Michael Connor
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Patent number: 11055662Abstract: A perpetual inventory (PI) value associated with the selected product and a last PI adjustment time that indicates when the retail store last adjusted the PI value are received. The PI value of the selected product is compared to the back room quantity value of the selected product, and a second time when the back room quantity value becomes greater than the PI value for the selected product is determined. An adjustment to the PI of the selected product is blocked when an indication of upcoming inventory adjustment for the selected product is received. An adjustment to the PI value of the selected product is also blocked when the PI adjustment time is after the second time. When the back room quantity value is greater than the PI value and the adjustment to the PI value is unblocked, the PI value is adjusted to be the back room quantity value.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Greg A. Bryan, Cristy C. Brooks, David B. Brightwell, Benjamin D. Enssle, Matthew A. Jones, Jesse L. Eaton
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Patent number: 11052359Abstract: A blending method is described for preparing a blended mixture.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SureTint Technologies, LLCInventors: Mitchell H. Saranow, Charles C. Mayberry
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Patent number: 11037170Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method (and corresponding system and program product) that includes identifying, by a data processing system associated with a financial institution that is a party to an electronic financial transaction (EFT), an end of the EFT; based on the identifying, collecting, by the data processing system, all communications into and out of the financial institution relating to the EFT required to be accessible during a retention period for regulatory compliance, resulting in collected communications; storing, by the data processing system, the collected communications such that the collected communications are immutable during the retention period, resulting in stored communications; and making, by the data processing system, the stored communications available for queries during the retention period on a per-transaction basis.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: MONA HOLDINGS, LLCInventor: Snezhana Malkin
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Patent number: 11037125Abstract: A point-of-sale terminal includes a storage device in which first form data specifying a first image layout of image elements on a paper slip to be printed by the printer is stored, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether or not a promotion is offered, and determine whether or not an electronic receipt is issued. The processor is further configured to control a printer to print an image indicating the promotion on a paper slip with the first image layout, when it is determined that the promotion is offered and the electronic receipt is not issued, and control a communication interface to transmit promotion data of the promotion in a text format, when it is determined that the promotion is offered and the electronic receipt is issued. The promotion data includes a form identifier of the first image layout and does not include the first form data.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Nambu, Yasuhiro Arai, Kenji Sakurai, Makoto Yoshimura, Yuriko Nishioka
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Patent number: 11037233Abstract: Various examples described herein are directed to systems and methods for generating a financial account statement. First financial data associated with a first financial account statement for a customer is received. Second financial data associated with a second financial account statement for the customer is received. The first financial data may be from an earlier financial account statement. Changes between the first financial data and the second financial data are determined. Highlighted changes to augment based on preferences of the customer and the determined changes are determined. Content associated with the highlighted changes is determined. The second financial account statement is created based on the second financial data. The content associated with the highlighted changes is linked in the second financial account statement.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Joseph Neil Johansen, Leonardo E. Gonzalez, Patrick L. Wilde, Christian P. Krobisch
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Patent number: 11030574Abstract: A system and method are including a computer and a processor and memory. The computer receives a product class representing a product in a supply chain network including one or more supply chain entities and generates one or more new products for the product class using one or more automatically generated templates including a graphical representation of an exemplary product using a first smart product attribute value, the first smart product attribute value defined by a quantifiable measurement of a product attribute. The computer further causes items to be transported among the one or more supply chain entities to restock the inventory of the one or more items of the product class according to the current state of items in the supply chain network and the one or more new products.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.Inventors: Karine Grande, Gabrielle Gauthier Melancon
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Patent number: 11030706Abstract: Automated provisioning, according to one example embodiment, enables a mutual customer to establish an intelligent and automated connection between an accounting software system and their financial institution. For example, this might be achieved by allowing a financial institution customer to make feeds from their bank accounts available to the accounting software system within financial internet software (e.g., hosted and operated by the customer's financial institution). Once a customer selects the bank account(s) they want to share with the accounting software system, they are passed along to the accounting software system to link the selected bank account with an account they have set up in the accounting software system.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Xero LimitedInventors: Rodney Kenneth Drury, Matthew John Vickers
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Patent number: 11010745Abstract: A system for receiving cash deposits at a point of sale includes a processor; a product inventory database; a communication interface; a product inventory item reader; and a purchase instrument reader. The processor is configured to receive a product code from the product inventory item reader; access the product inventory database to recognize the product code as a deposit product code; receive signals indicating an amount of a deposit associated with the deposit product code; receive signals from the purchase instrument reader identifying an account for the deposit; and send signals to a transaction processing network via the communication interface to thereby effect the deposit of the amount into the account.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)Inventors: Gunjan Vijayvergia, Bharat Prasad
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Patent number: 11004051Abstract: An electronic device includes a main body, a reading mechanism and a moving mechanism. The reading mechanism includes a payment object input region. The reading mechanism is located at any side of the main body. The moving mechanism is arranged between the reading mechanism and the main body. In response to an account signal or an external force, the reading mechanism is moved relative to the main body. Consequently, the payment object input region is retracted back or protruded over an outer periphery of the main body for facilitating the user to perform a payment action in a card-inserting manner or a card-swiping manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: FLYTECH TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventor: Wen-Shuo Hsu
