Patents by Inventor Yogananth Mahalingam

Yogananth Mahalingam has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11893618
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing digital recommendations including discounted items with associated savings. In some examples, a computing device obtains savings data including savings items. In response to obtaining the savings data, the computing device obtains a plurality of clusters. Each cluster of the plurality of clusters includes a set of product types. The computing device obtains user data associated with a user, and based on the savings data and the plurality of clusters, determines a set of initial items for recommendation. The set of initial items includes a subset of the savings items. The computing device also determines final recommendation items for the user based on the set of initial items and the user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Vaidyanathan, Ashish Ranjan, Yogananth Mahalingam, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
  • Publication number: 20230186366
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing digital recommendations including discounted items with associated savings. In some examples, a computing device obtains savings data including savings items. In response to obtaining the savings data, the computing device obtains a plurality of clusters. Each cluster of the plurality of clusters includes a set of product types. The computing device obtains user data associated with a user, and based on the savings data and the plurality of clusters, determines a set of initial items for recommendation. The set of initial items includes a subset of the savings items. The computing device also determines final recommendation items for the user based on the set of initial items and the user data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Vivek Vaidyanathan, Ashish Ranjan, Yogananth Mahalingam, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11521256
    Abstract: A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform creating a standardized flavor list from flavors associated with items in a catalog; determining a respective score indicating a degree of affinity for a user for each flavor of each of one or more item types associated with the items; creating a respective ordered list of flavors for each of the one or more item types for the user in which the respective ordered list of flavors are ranked by the respective score for the each flavor in the ordered list; and re-ranking a non-personalized list of recommended items associated with an anchor item of the items using the respective ordered list of flavors for the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Vaidyanathan, Aysenur Inan, Venugopal Mani, Hyun Duk Cho, Yogananth Mahalingam, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
  • Publication number: 20220245708
    Abstract: A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform creating a standardized flavor list from flavors associated with items in a catalog; determining a respective score indicating a degree of affinity for a user for each flavor of each of one or more item types associated with the items; creating a respective ordered list of flavors for each of the one or more item types for the user in which the respective ordered list of flavors are ranked by the respective score for the each flavor in the ordered list; and re-ranking a non-personalized list of recommended items associated with an anchor item of the items using the respective ordered list of flavors for the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Vaidyanathan, Aysenur Inan, Venugopal Mani, Hyun Duk Cho, Yogananth Mahalingam, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan