Patents Examined by Talia F Crawley
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Patent number: 11638416Abstract: The present invention discloses a livestock tracing system and method. The system includes: a feeding module, an adopting and purchasing module, a weighing module, a server, a first commutation module and a second communication module; the feeding module is configured to provide food intake information of livestock and transmit the food intake information to the server via the first communication module; the weighing module is configured to provide weight information of the livestock and transmit the weight information to the server via the second communication module; the adopting and purchasing module is configured to provide vaccine information of the livestock and transmit the vaccine information to the server; and the server is configured to store the food intake information, the weight information and the vaccine information, and obtain corresponding tracing information according to a tracing look-up instruction.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Beijing Etag Technology Company., Ltd.Inventors: Xingfu Zhou, Jiping Ren, Chao Pang, Dongge Hu
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Patent number: 11631049Abstract: An inventory, disposition, and order management system and method utilizes multiple data sources to obtain complementary and augmented product data to determine an enhanced set of product data that reflects product inventory and disposition history information in a supply chain. The system and method can utilize the complementary and augmented product data to formulate recommended orders to achieve product dealer sales goals. The system and method compare the product data obtained from the data sources and reconcile any discrepancies. In at least one embodiment, the product data includes product identification data, product inventory data, product configuration data, and product disposition history data. Obtaining data from multiple sources allows the system and method to develop more accurate and complete data through an audit and reconciliation process as opposed to data obtained from a single source.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Versata Development Group, Inc.Inventors: Jon Loyens, David R. Middleton, Rahul Subramaniam, Aditya P. Kulkarni, Asif Ahmed Sheikh
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Patent number: 11615375Abstract: Supply chain factoring utilizing shared state information stored in a distributed ledger includes the selection of an electronic supply chain document associated with an order for goods by a purchaser of the goods and the minting of a cryptographic token on behalf of a seller of the goods. the token encapsulating a purchase price for the order and associated order terms. A location is reserved in the ledger into which the token is uploaded. Subsequently, factoring terms are published at the reserved location by a factoring agency supporting the factorization of the purchase price. The seller then validates an ascension to the factoring terms in the reserved location. Finally, the reserved location is annotated to indicate satisfaction of the factoring terms upon the purchase price being paid to the factoring agency and a fraction of the purchase price being paid by the factoring agency to the seller of goods.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: dexFreight, Inc.Inventors: Adrian Pablo Giannini, Renat Khasanshyn, Rajat Rajbhandari, Hector Hernandez, Ricardo Escobar, Judeh M. Handoush
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Patent number: 11610176Abstract: Methods and systems for providing inventory availability information to a web server from a plurality of inventory servers and/or intermediate servers. Inventory availability information may be retrieved from different sources, depending on whether the item is considered a high-traffic item. A high-traffic item may be one, for example, that is extremely popular, of limited release, on sale, or has a limited inventory.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Target Brands, IncInventors: Aaron Riekenberg, Paul Conway, Blake Kellar
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Patent number: 11580514Abstract: Improvements to existing technologies associated with point-of-sale transactions and merchant ecosystems to, among other things, reduce in-person contact and, in some examples, improve the efficiency at which point-of-sale transactions are completed (i.e., reduce friction) are described. In some examples, such reduced in-person contact and/or improved efficiencies can limit transmission of infectious diseases. As such, techniques described are directed to modifying aspects of point-of-sale transactions such that they occur on different computing devices (e.g., customer computing devices instead of merchant computing devices), are automated, and/or occur at different times than with conventional point-of-sale transactions.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Block, Inc.Inventors: Sivan Whiteley, Kirupa Pushparaj
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Patent number: 11580451Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for determining an estimated time of arrival (ETA). The methods may include obtaining feature data related to an on-demand service order; obtain a parallel computing framework; determining a global ETA model based on the feature data and the parallel computing framework; and determining an ETA for a target route based on the global ETA model.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shujuan Sun, Xinqi Bao, Zheng Wang
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Patent number: 11570152Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of determining, by a supply-chain node, a plurality of assets of a supply-chain node, and executing, by the supply-chain node, a smart contract to: assign aliases to the plurality of the assets; and match the plurality of the assets with a plurality of assets of a different supply-chain node based on the aliases.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yichong Yu, Igor Anatolyevich Naumov
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Patent number: 11562192Abstract: A wearable computing device reads near-invisible one- or two-dimensional barcodes having a size of 100 microns to one millimeter. The device includes a magnifying lens, a digital camera, a processor, program memory and a wireless communication module, all supported on a wearable device body. The wearable device body may be an eyeglass frame, a watch body or wristband, a headband or sweatband or a cap or other headgear, among other possibilities. Applications of the wearable computing device include unattended shopping in a physical retail store.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Simon Phillips, Alan Johnson, Mark Britten
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Patent number: 11551184Abstract: A method of inventory data aggregation and delivery over a distributed network comprises generating inventory data with respect to plural disparate sources, and publishing that data over a distributed network to an event processor. The method further includes receiving the published inventory data through subscription to the event processor and distributing it to a plurality of requesting devices, e.g., client devices, over the distributed network. This can include aggregating and filtering by locale or product-type the inventory data in response to requests received from those devices. This can further include reducing the aggregated, filtered data to accommodate inventory reserves, e.g., of retail outlets.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Sanjay Acharya, Robert Libby, Christopher Lish, Benjamin Busjaeger, Balachandar Mariappan, Amanda Hatker
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Patent number: 11544624Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for determining an estimated time of arrival (ETA). The methods may include obtaining feature data related to an on-demand service order; obtain a parallel computing framework; determining a global ETA model based on the feature data and the parallel computing framework; and determining an ETA for a target route based on the global ETA model.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shujuan Sun, Xinqi Bao, Zheng Wang
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Patent number: 11537981Abstract: Utilities (e.g., systems, methods, etc.) that deliver a streamlined process to users for making decisions that minimize cost and maximize production in the hauling of produced physical bulk assets (e.g., liquids, sand, etc.) to various destinations. The utilities can be used by producers and carriers in various manners to drive their unique interests in hauling and has representation for production operators or producers, carriers, and destinations.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: KSR UNLIMITED LLCInventor: Wesley Orin Dyk
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Patent number: 11535424Abstract: The present disclosure describes a computer-implemented method for determining and reporting compliance with rules regarding discarded material from an originating site. The method may include obtaining, for each batch of a plurality of batches of discarded material, identification information of a respective originating site, capturing image data for each batch and associating the identification and image data. The identification and image data may be sent to a server having rules regarding the discarded material. The server may then determine data regarding compliance and generate a report including data regarding compliance with the rules regarding the discarded material for each originating site.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Divert, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas L. Whitman, Ryan R. Begin
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Patent number: 11531957Abstract: In an embodiment, the methods and systems disclosed herein utilize a cloud-based service to accept measurements of commercial objects for storage in a database. In an embodiment, commercial objects are automatically grouped based on measured physical characteristics. In an embodiment, a build plan is generated to utilize the maximum amount of space possible in a shipping container based on the grouped commercial objects.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: FLEXPORT, INC.Inventors: Zoe Padgett, Phoebe Rockwood Ford, Emily Cutts Worthington
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Patent number: 11521289Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a processing device, one or more transportation parameters for a user type. The method further includes receiving, by the processing device from a client computing device associated with a user associated with the user type, a transportation request for a transportation vehicle and comparing, by the processing device, the transportation request to the one or more transportation parameters. The method further includes prohibiting, by the processing device, communication of the transportation request to one or more vehicle computing devices responsive to the transportation request not satisfying the one or more transportation parameters.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: GT Gettaxi Systems LtdInventors: Nir Waysbort, Yael Lipskin-Moshe, Eliya Aharoni
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Patent number: 11494728Abstract: 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: receiving a plurality of website orders on a website of an online retailer for delivery of a plurality of products; determining at least one fleet delivery route for delivery of the plurality of products of the plurality of website orders to a plurality of locations using a vehicle fleet of the online retailer; dynamically shuffling the at least one fleet delivery route, wherein dynamically shuffling the at least one fleet delivery route comprises: selecting a source route from the at least one fleet delivery route; selecting a first order of the plurality of web site orders from the source route, the first order scheduled to be delivered to a first location of the plurality of locations; selecting a destination route from (1) the at least one fleet delivery route and (2) one or more third-party delivery routes; evaluatiType: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Mingang Fu, Deepak Deshpande, Prakash Seetharaman, Devadas Pattathil
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Patent number: 11494733Abstract: A system and method for zero-touch payroll management that enables an employer to automate payroll recording, approval, and disbursement, while giving employees increased flexibility in their working hours and pay scheduling and enabling processing of payroll based on real-time and predicted business cashflow.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: ROCKSPOON, INC.Inventor: Nagib Georges Mimassi
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Patent number: 11488262Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for interfacing a computing system to a human user. For example, a graphical user interface may be provided to a user. The graphical user interface comprises a holding shape and a first income source shape indicating a first income source. The holding shape comprises a filled portion having a first filled portion level indicating a first holding balance of an account of the user. A first deposit shape may be moved from the first income source shape towards the filled portion of the holding shape. The first deposit shape may indicate a first deposit to the account from the first income source. The filled portion may be resized to a second filled portion level indicating a second holding balance of the account after the first deposit.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Tambra Nichols, Daniel Sanford, Akiva D. Kates, Laura B. Yeager, Christopher J. Williams, Hampton B. Castleberry
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Patent number: 11475416Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using video/still images captured by continuously recording optical sensors mounted on waste collection vehicles used in in the waste collection, disposal and recycling industry for operational and customer service related purposes. A system is provided for auditing the fill status of a customer waste container by a waste services provider during performance of a waste service activity.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: WM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Kalpesh Patel, Barry Skolnick, Shivkumar Vithal, Pamela C. Jansen
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Patent number: 11475047Abstract: A computer-implemented method of managing online bookings for transportation services inventory is provided. The computer-implemented method establishes a channel interface that provides bidirectional communication between at least one server computing device and a vendor computing device. Furthermore, the computer-implemented method stores, via a channel data structure, a channel record for each of a plurality of distribution channels. Additionally, the computer-implemented method receives, from the vendor computing device through the channel interface, a selection, from the plurality of distribution channels, of one or more participant channels for a transportation service. The computer-implemented method also establishes, via the channel data structure, one or more active channel records based upon the one or more participant channels for the transportation service.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SurgeTech, LLCInventors: Andrew Loch, Helen Johnson, Geoffrey Toogood, Daniel Paul Ruul
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Patent number: 11461735Abstract: A system and method for zero-touch payroll management that enables an employer to automate payroll recording, approval, and disbursement, while giving employees increased flexibility in their working hours and pay scheduling and enabling processing of payroll based on real-time and predicted business cashflow.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: ROCKSPOON, INC.Inventor: Nagib Georges Mimassi