Patents Examined by Robert D Rines
  • Patent number: 11436544
    Abstract: A system for managing an industrial workflow including a plurality of asset tags, each tag associated with a corresponding asset, and a plurality of point of interest reader nodes, each reader node including at least one BLE radio in communication with a subset of the plurality of asset tags and a communications manager in communication with at least one cloud server. The system further includes a cloud server having a location services module, a process and workflow editor configured to enable a user to access a plurality of rules in a process flow library regarding how different types of assets are expected to move through a facility, and a real-time compute engine configured to generate a sequence of events for an asset and interpret the process and workflow plan to determine whether a trigger event has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CloudLeaf, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghavendra Kulkarni, Sharath Narahari, Ravindar Roopreddy
  • Patent number: 11436619
    Abstract: A real-time social and emotional mapping system enabling the visualization of state data in a geo-locational context, including goals, intentions, feelings, observations, and physical states, among others, in a-location based context visualized as a digital map. A structured framework may enables users to share state data by selection or guided entry of data or alternatively through some classification of submitted data. In embodiments, an integrated request-response framework is provided through a marketplace centered on geo-locational context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11423420
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to credit media presentations for online media distributions are disclosed. Example methods and apparatus determine a presenter of a media session based on a user agent identifier extracted from a proxy record associated with the media session, and in response to determining that the user agent identifier does not identify a publisher, identify a first domain referenced by a URL associated with the media session, and, in response to determining that the first domain matches a domain pattern associated with a publisher and does not match a domain in a list of hosting domains, classify the media of the media session as being published by the publisher associated with the matching domain pattern, the publisher being different from the presenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Susan Cimino
  • Patent number: 11410104
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage mediums are provided for facilitating event detection and device control in a distributed computing environment In response to receiving a request, a task flow including an execution sequence for services associated with a task is coordinated. The services are invoked in order according to the execution sequence. Rules and events associated with the services are triggered. Information is routed between rules, events, and services to facilitate completion of the task. The services are maintained and customizations are administered to the services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Todd, Timothy Webb, Jennifer McTeer, Jeffrey Kathman
  • Patent number: 11410224
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, software made in accordance with the present invention displays a marketplace interface, which displays at least a portion of a CAD model and a set of marketplace tool selectors to a user such that the user can manipulate the tool selectors to interact with an electronic marketplace. The marketplace interface may include a spectrum interface designed and configured to allow the user to selectively augment the marketplace interface with additional functionality. Various corresponding and related systems, methods, and software are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Desprez, LLC
    Inventors: James L. Jacobs, II, John E. Cronin, Christopher M. Huffines, Steven M. Lynch
  • Patent number: 11367090
    Abstract: A real-time social and emotional mapping system enabling the visualization of state data in a geo-locational context, including goals, intentions, feelings, observations, and physical states, among others, in a-location based context visualized as a digital map. A structured framework may enables users to share state data by selection or guided entry of data or alternatively through some classification of submitted data. In embodiments, an integrated request-response framework is provided through a marketplace centered on geo-locational context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11354759
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video-based integrated building construction and maintenance management method in which a series of processes of building construction and maintenance after the completion of the construction is produced as a video and registered in a building management server, and this video is configured to be checked by a building owner or resident so that a building can be transparently managed by fundamentally preventing faulty construction that may occur during a construction step and untrustworthy maintenance, and thus a sense of trust may be given to the building owner or resident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: DAESUNG INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., YOUNG CONSULTING LTD.
    Inventor: Young Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 11321675
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide a computer-implemented technique for monitoring deviation from a meeting agenda. A meeting moderator and meeting agenda are obtained. Meeting dialog, along with facial expressions and/or body language of attendees is monitored. Natural language processing, using entity detection, disambiguation, and other language processing techniques, determines a level of deviation in the meeting dialog from the meeting agenda. Computer-implemented image analysis techniques ascertain participant engagement from facial expressions and/or gestures of participants. A deviation alert is presented to the moderator and/or meeting participants when a deviation is detected, allowing the moderator to steer the meeting conversation back to the planned agenda.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ira Allen, Blaine H. Dolph
  • Patent number: 11301879
    Abstract: A health care provider (HCP) engagement engine is disclosed. The HCP engagement engine facilitates effective communication between pharmaceutical sales representatives (pharma reps) and HCPs by tracking actions performed by pharma reps to sell products to HCPs, analyzing the actions, and eliminating confounding effects due to inbound and outbound activities. Inbound activities include behaviors performed by pharma reps to the HCPs, while outbound activities are taken by HCPs in response to the inbound activities. Reducing confounding allows the pharma reps to have better information about which behaviors best drive HCP engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: AKTANA, INC.
    Inventors: Marc Cohen, Anna Decker
  • Patent number: 11282012
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method to generate a graphical user interface for a lead management system includes calculating, by a lead management system, lead management data based on determined type and format of the data and raw lead management data, generating first machine-readable instructions to render a graphical user interface including a first lead management data graphical representation, the first lead management data graphical representation including one or more graphical representations of electronic cards each configurable between: (i) a first orientation in which the electronic card displays a portion of the calculated lead management data; and (ii) a second orientation in which the electronic card displays first and second data relating to the type and format of the portion of the calculated lead management data, and transmitting, to a user electronic device, the first machine-readable instructions so as to cause the user electronic device to render the graphical user interface on a display associ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: EducationDynamics, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Mandaro, Steven Tyler Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11238412
    Abstract: A method for creating events for use by an electronic calendar application. A computer device running a calendar application displays a GUI having a representation of a calendar. A first widget on the GUI initiates a software routine for defining an event. The routine generates an interface window having a plurality of event detail widgets which allow the user to interactively define details of the event. Once the details are entered, the event is saved as a multimedia object, and the multimedia object is placed onto the calendar representation. Further, details of the event may include additional multimedia content. Also, the calendar representation itself may include multimedia content. The event may be defined with an approximate time frame rather than a specific time frame. For example, an event may be linked to another event rather than to a specific time frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Boaz Nathaniel Gurdin, Erez Kikin Gil, Asta J. Roseway
  • Patent number: 11238545
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and computer systems for reporting a consumer's usage of a resource. A computer system retrieves consumer characteristic data and resource usage data for the first consumer and a set of second consumers including characteristic data related to each consumer. The computer system selects at least one consumer that is similar to the first consumer from the set of second consumers based upon a plurality of common criteria between the first consumer's characteristic data and a second consumer's characteristic data. The computer processes may be performing iteratively until the total number of similar consumers is equal to or greater than the predetermined number of consumers. Once a desired number of similar consumers is found, the computer system generates a report that displays the first consumer's resource usage data and the at least one similar consumers' resource usage data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: OPOWER, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Tyler Curtis, Kyle Yost
  • Patent number: 11195190
    Abstract: An assessment structure for predicting reactions to source-customized remuneration vehicles. In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a server including a communication interface, a memory, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor, when executing a source-customized remuneration vehicle recommendation procedure, is configured to retrieve procurement data from data storage server, associate the procurement data to remuneration vehicle features, perform OLS modeling techniques to determine a linkage between the remuneration vehicle features, GDV, and the procurement data, retrieve results of quantitative research, and generate a benchmark and assessment structure for predicting a recipient reaction to a source-customized remuneration vehicle based on the results of the quantitative research and a determination of the linkage between the remuneration vehicle features, GDV, and the procurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gautam Chopra, Alan Gorenstein, Andrew Dietrich, Daniel Harrison
  • Patent number: 11157929
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying and communicating with a user through the user's mobile device. One example method includes receiving, from the mobile device, a user identifier associated with the user and an entity identifier associated with an entity location, the entity identifier being obtained by the mobile device from a wireless transmitter located adjacent to an entrance of the entity location; retrieving user profile data associated with the user identifier from a user database, the user profile data including a user qualifier; providing the user profile data to a display device at the entity location, the display device configured to display the user profile data, including the user qualifier; and sending at least one notification to the mobile device for display thereon, the at least one notification comprising at least one of information related to the entity location and a portion of the user profile data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Nicholas Eby, Joe Rago, Kartik Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11144854
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for project and task management. A user interface may be provided, which may display an individual's identifier along with one or more performance indicators. The performance indicators may include information based on the evaluation of the individual's past performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Taskworld Holdings Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Fred Mouawad
  • Patent number: 11120372
    Abstract: Techniques for processing task items are provided. A task item is electronic data that represents a task to be performed, whether manually or automatically. A task item includes one or more details about its corresponding task, such as a description of the task and a location of the task. Specifically, techniques for generating task items, organizing task items, triggering notifications of task items, and consuming task items are described. In one approach, a task item is generated based on input from a user and context of the input. In another approach, different attributes of task items are used to organize the task items intelligently into multiple lists. In another approach, one or more criteria, such as location, are used to determine when to notify a user of a task. In another approach, actions other than generating notifications are enabled or automatically performed, actions such as emailing, calling, texting, and searching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Gruber, Alessandro F. Sabatelli, Alexandre A. Aybes, Donald W. Pitschel, Edward D. Voas, Freddy A. Anzures, Paul D. Marcos
  • Patent number: 11093902
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for absentee management. Absentee management includes obtaining a demographic feed of employee records, each corresponding to an employee for an entity. Each record includes names of the corresponding employee and a least one other employee which the corresponding employee shares a reporting relationship. Use the demographic feed to construct an organizational tree with nodes, each node representing an employee. Obtain an absentee status feed comprising absentee statuses. Each absentee status corresponds to an employee and includes an absentee status category. Determine from the organization tree and the demographic feed a set of supervisors at the entity. Each respective supervisor in the set of supervisors supervises at least one supervisee having an absentee status category. Communicate a different supervisor status notification to each supervisor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Matrix Absence Management, Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon Smith
  • Patent number: 11087263
    Abstract: An automatic service monitor in an information technology environment has its operation controlled by information that, in part, define entities that perform services and define key performance indicators (KPIs) that indicate measures of performance of the services. KPIs are defined in terms of search queries applied against machine data by or about the entities that perform the services. The search query aspects of multiple KPI definitions may be tied to a shared base search. Implementation of the shared base search may permit improved performance of the service monitor and may permit a reduction in administrative burden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Stephen Boe, Rochit Gupta, Rehan Mulla, Tristan Antonio Fletcher, Alok Anant Bhide
  • Patent number: 11080632
    Abstract: A method and system. The method includes receiving datacenter context input information, processing the datacenter context input information, and outputting the cost-versus-datacenter-quantity information. The processing the datacenter context input information may generate the cost-versus-datacenter-quantity information. The cost-versus-datacenter-quantity information is a total datacenter cost to run an application versus a quantity of datacenters used to run the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nathaniel J. Gibbs, Matthew M. Lobbes, Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode, Brian J. Snitzer
  • Patent number: 11080768
    Abstract: An enhanced customer relationship management (CRM) system is provided. The enhanced CRM system performs activities automatically and with the assistance of artificial intelligence and machine learning based on historical information. The enhanced CRM system provides: a) scheduling assistance prior to a customer contact, b) assistance during a call to direct call focus and achieve a personal connection between a customer facing user of the CRM system and a target customer contact, and c) automated assistance to complete a contact and transition to a next target customer contact. Achievement goals for a customer facing user may be presented and monitored with respect to a goal achievement period. Schedules may be dynamically adjusted across multiple CRM system users and with respect to overall organizational goals to enhance achievement of goals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HighRadius Corporation
    Inventors: Abhinav Pachauri, Sonali Nanda, Pratyush Sunandan, Murali Dodda