Patents Examined by Resha Desai
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Patent number: 11238505Abstract: A model trading method, system, and computer program product include extracting a feature-model list from a first application and a feature-model list from a second application on a device, creating a price model for a price for each feature-model of the feature-model list of the second application that matches a feature-model of the feature-model list for the first application, and facilitating feature-model trading between the first application and the second application based on the feature-model list and the price model.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Vijay Ekambaram, Syed Ali Hashim Moosavi, Swati Rallapalli
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Apparatus and method for providing cooperative shopping service in association with chat application
Patent number: 11232499Abstract: An apparatus that provides a cooperative shopping service in association with a chat application includes a friend information receiving unit configured to receive, from a host device, information about at least one friend or chat room selected from a list of multiple friends or multiple chat rooms managed by the chat application; an invitation unit configured to transmit an invitation message to a guest device corresponding to the friend or a member of the chat room through the chat application; and a cooperative shopping service providing unit configured to provide, both to the host device and the guest device, a list of products that are capable of being put into a shopping cart of the host device and receive order information about product selected from the list of products by at least one of the host device and the guest device, wherein the list of products provided to the host device and the guest device is generated based on a location of a delivery destination determined by the host device.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: KAKAO CORP.Inventors: Do Yon Hwang, Kyoung Jin Han, Jun Hwan Lee, Dong Wha Yuk, Woo Yeol Baek, Ji Yoong Choi, Ji Yeon Shin, Yeon Hee Shin, Mi Ran Kang, Sheung Min Shin, Yun Ji Koh, Du Hyeong Kim, Chang Sung Ban, Hyun Hee Park, Ji Eun Kim, Jin Young Choi -
Patent number: 11216859Abstract: Consistent with some embodiments of the invention, a web-based comparison shopping and marketplace service enables a user to search for and/or browse products of interest, and then obtain geographically-relevant, real-time product availability and pricing information for a product of interest that is offered by one or more physical retail stores. Additionally, with some embodiments, the service enables a user to conclude a purchase transaction for a product that is located at a retail store, and then provides the user with driving directions from the user's location to the retail store.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Wong, William R. Watt, II
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Patent number: 11205211Abstract: A method of analyzing images by a computing device to generate an e-commerce interface, comprising receiving, from a computing device associated with a first human user, a list of items associated with the first human user; receiving, from a computing device associated with a merchant, purchasing information for each item of the list of items; receiving, from a second human user, one or more images depicting the first human user using one or more items from the list of items; automatically analyzing the one or more images to identify the one or more items; and generating a user interface comprising at least one of the one or more images, links to a computing system of the merchant from which the second human user may obtain the one or more items identified.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Inventor: David Sazan
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Patent number: 11200612Abstract: Some aspects of the present disclosure are directed to computerized methods for extracting attributes from product titles. The method may include: retrieving first product identifier comprising at least one tag; determining, based on the at least one tag, a number of quantity related tags; flagging the product identifier as having a quantity based on an analysis of the quantity related tags; comparing the at least one tag and quantity of the first product identifier with at least one tag and quantity associated with a second product identifier; generating, based on the comparison, at least one similarity value between the first product identifier and the second product identifier; and transmitting instructions to at least one user device, wherein the instructions cause the at least one user device to display the at least one similarity value.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: COUPANG CORP.Inventors: Joon Shik Hong, Seong Jin Lee, Han Byul Bang
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Patent number: 11195227Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for visual search, discovery, and attribution in e-commerce systems. One example method includes receiving an image to be used as a basis for a visual search. At least one clothing item in the image and a determined clothing type for each clothing item are identified. A highlighted image is generated that includes highlights of the identified at least one clothing item and determined clothing types. The highlighted image is provided. A selection of a selected clothing item on the highlighted image is received. In response to receiving the selection of the selected clothing item, a visual search is performed that includes searching a clothing item repository to find similar clothing items that are visually similar to the selected clothing item. Information for the similar clothing items is provided in response to the selection of the selected clothing item.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Sladana Tufegdzic, Anja Wilbert, Georg Kreimer, Sebastian Mahr
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Patent number: 11195216Abstract: A system includes a federated marketplace portal to allow a user to browse, order, and manage business services offered by a plurality of cloud marketplaces based at least in part on application programming interface (API) abstractions. The system includes an integration system to transform the API abstractions into product-specific APIs used by the cloud marketplaces and cause the invocation of the product-specific APIs.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: ENT. SERVICES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LPInventors: Parag Doshi, Chandra Kamalakantha, Steve Marney
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Patent number: 11188972Abstract: Systems and methods involving a computer-implemented portal that enables a user to pre-authorize purchase of items not yet available for sale are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary method may comprise: providing an online portal that enables a user to manage a financial account; executing a first routine of the portal including interactive functionality enabling the user to specify and pre-authorize purchase of an item that is not yet available for sale; searching to determine at least one electronic source at which the item can be purchased when it becomes available for purchase; and executing a purchase transaction at the future date/time when the item is released for sale, to purchase the item for the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Bryant Yee, George Bergeron, Mykhaylo Bulgakov
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Patent number: 11182842Abstract: An easy authentication or payment is made by creating an account associated with a particular web browser or device that accesses an on-line page. Payments are made, such as for full-access viewing of an article or viewing content without visible ads, by selecting a payment button on the on-line page. Selection can be with a specific swiping motion or device motion previously defined for the user. Once selected, the payment is made without the user having to authorize or authenticate. The motion can be used independently to authorize or authenticate the user through the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventor: German Scipioni
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Patent number: 11176590Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, on a social media application, a media object comprising at least one image of a final product made from at least one purchased raw product; extracting, from the media object and text corresponding to the social media application post, (i) information related to the final product and (ii) social feedback regarding the final product; determining, based upon the social feedback, that the use of the at least one purchased raw product into the final product comprises positive social feedback; and providing a recommendation regarding the use of the at least one purchased raw product to one or more other individuals, wherein the recommendation is generated using the information related to the final product.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sampath Dechu, Mohit Jain, Amrita Saha
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Patent number: 11170422Abstract: A processor-based system stores different card templates in a database. Each card template has a card feature that can have any color from among a first set of colors. The system also stores, in the database, for each stored card templates, a corresponding envelope template. Each envelope template has an envelope feature that can have any color from among a second set of colors. The system receives a user selection of a card template from among the card templates and a user selection of a color to be applied to the card feature. The system displays the card template, with the card feature having the user-selected color. The system also displays the corresponding envelope template that corresponds, in the database, to the selected card template. The envelope feature is displayed with the user-selected color based on the user-selected color having been selected for the card feature.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: MINTED LLCInventors: Mariam B. Naficy, Tonia Misvaer, Sean McLucas, Nathan Glynn, Erica Meade, Namrata Patel
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Patent number: 11170418Abstract: Systems and methods for processing customer requests to access purchasable items using financial assessments are described. A customer using a mobile device can identify a good of interest and transmit a request to access and test it. A financial institution computing system with a database of customer financial information can generate a financial assessment of the customer and the customer's identified good, which can then be used to determine whether the customer's request should be granted.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Bipin M. Sahni, Balinder Mangat, David Hatch
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Patent number: 11157980Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating profiles using machine learning and influencing online interactions are provided. The methods include receiving, from a first user of a plurality of users, a first set of electronic documents, where each electronic document in the first set of electronic documents corresponds to a respective user in the plurality of users. The methods also include identifying a plurality of user profiles, where each of the plurality of user profiles was generated by processing a corpus of electronic documents associated with each respective user using a first trained machine learning model. The methods include determining a plurality of match coefficients, based on comparing a plurality of user profiles associated with each respective user in the plurality of users, filtering the first set of electronic documents based on the plurality of match coefficients, and providing the filtered first set of electronic documents to the first user.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Swaminathan Balasubramanian, Avijit Chatterjee, Rajiv Joshi, John J. Thomas
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Patent number: 11157993Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a user device, a location of the user device; determining, by the user device and based on the monitoring, that the user is within a threshold distance or a threshold arrival time of the service provider location; and outputting, by the user device, user information to the service provider based on the determining that the user is within the threshold distance or the threshold arrival time of the service provider location. The user information indicates services to provide to the user by the service provider upon the user's arrival to the service provider location. The outputting causes the service provider to receive the user information for serving the user upon the user's arrival to the service provider location.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Rhonda L. Childress, Kim A. Eckert, Ryan D. McNair, Minh Q. Pham
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Patent number: 11157989Abstract: A method for merchant-side tracking of customer selections includes receiving, via a user list script on a merchant webpage, a user selection of a product representation displayed on a UI of a user device. The method includes updating a user list with the user selection, the user list associated with a generic user representation. The method includes determining, based on a type of identifier associated with a user of the user device, to use a generic user representation with the user list. The method includes selecting, based on the generic user representation, an anonymous user flow type for tracking the user as an anonymous user of the merchant webpage. The anonymous user flow type associates the user device with the user list independently of associating the user with the merchant.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Braden Christopher Ericson, Arvind Naidu, Harshal Deo, Prasanna Vinjamuri
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Patent number: 11157987Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for presenting a recommendation. In one embodiment, a system is introduced that includes a plurality of models for obtaining a recommendation score. The recommendation score may be obtained using one or more recommendation models and a recommendation made based on the recommendation score determined. In another embodiment, the system is introduced that can re-train the recommendation model based on a feedback received in response to a recommendation made using on the recommendation score obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Dinesh Kumar, Yuanyuan Pan, Prashant Gaurav, Fransisco Kurniadi, Yue Xin, Krishnakumar Govindarajalu, Kimberly Kidney, Tao Sun, Kevin Ward
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Patent number: 11144987Abstract: A system, method and tools for normalizing product reviews and the presentation of product information viewed within a vendor's virtual storefront. Disclosed embodiments customize a user's navigation experience of a vendor's virtual storefront to be normalized to a target user's profile, social media or past information of the target user to prioritize relevant product reviews while de-prioritizing irrelevant ones. Normalization occurs through the identification of product reviews relevant to the target user's age, interests, purchasing history, activity levels, sizing, environment, location and internet activity or other distinguishing settings, features or information known. Sensor measurements from one or more TOT devices provide additional information which can be used to normalize the product reviews.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jeremy A. Greenberger
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Patent number: 11127066Abstract: A computing system generates recommendations for users within the context of a network service. To account for objectives of various users associated with the network service, some of which may not reach optimality at the same time, the computing system generates values associated with each of the objectives separately. For example, for each objective, the system may train a computer model to produce a representative value. To generate a recommendation of an entity for a user, the system uses the generated objective values as inputs to an optimization algorithm. The optimization step may use linear programming or quadratic programming to generate a recommendation score, for example. This two-step process allows the system to account for multiple objectives and makes the system easily adaptable to change when the set of objectives is updated.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yuyan Wang, Xian Xing Zhang, Isaac Suyu Liu, Yuanchi Ning, Chen Peng
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Patent number: 11113744Abstract: A method including training two sets of item embeddings for items in an item catalog and a set of user embeddings for users, using a triple embeddings model, with triplets. The triplets each can include a respective first user of the users, a respective first item from the item catalog, and a respective second item from the item catalog, in which the respective first user selected the respective first item and the respective second item in a respective same basket. The method also can include generating an approximate nearest neighbor index for the two sets of item embeddings. The method additionally can include receiving a basket including basket items selected by a user from the item catalog. The method further can include grouping the basket items of the basket into categories based on a respective item category of each of the basket items. The method additionally can include randomly sampling a respective anchor item from each of the categories.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Aditya Mantha, Yokila Arora, Shubham Gupta, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan
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Patent number: 11100560Abstract: A catalog of physical items associated with a target user is accessed. At least a portion of the catalog is at least in part automatically generated based on a retention of one or more of the physical items provided to the target user. A machine learning model trained using outfit combination information gathered from other users is used to automatically determine for the target user, at least a portion of one or more recommended outfit combinations of a plurality of physical items among the physical items within the catalog. An indication of a selected one of the one or more recommended outfit combinations is provided to the target user.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Stitch Fix, Inc.Inventors: Hilary S. Parker, Allison M. Barros