Discount Or Incentive (e.g., Coupon, Rebate, Offer, Upsale, Etc.) Patents (Class 705/14.1)
  • Patent number: 11540013
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating a customized media asset to incentivize a first user to subscribe to a subscription service. A first user provides their subscription access information to a media provider. In response to receiving the subscription access information, the media provider determines whether the subscription access information is from an account subscribed for a trial period. If the account is subscribed for the trial period, the media provider presents a plurality of media assets for selection to the first user, receives a selection of a media asset available from the subscription service, generates a customized media asset based on a media asset consumption profile of the first user, wherein the customized media asset includes a segment from an additional media asset different from the selected media asset, and presents to the first user the customized media asset instead of the selected media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikram Makam Gupta, Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah, Reda Harb
  • Patent number: 11531974
    Abstract: A security application may provide a secure digital currency for a blockchain while maintaining anonymity and security from unauthorized third parties. One example may include one of accessing a retailer site from a device, selecting one or more items for purchase, transmitting a payment option to the retailer site for the selected one or more items, receiving a payment request message from the retailer site comprising a unique identifier linked to one or more incentives, creating a payment confirmation message comprising the unique identifier and the one or more incentives, and transmitting the payment confirmation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Bordash, Michael J. Hudson, Chih-Hong Wong
  • Patent number: 11528372
    Abstract: In a system, a setting window including at least a preview region in which a scanned image is previewed and a text field to which attribute information on the scanned image is input is displayed, when a character region within the scanned image previewed in the setting window is moused over, control to preliminarily display a character string corresponding to the moused-over character region in the text field is performed, and when the moused-over character region is clicked by a mouse, control to fix the character string preliminarily displayed in the text field is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ken Tokita
  • Patent number: 11521236
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for detecting the presence of a portable computing device (a smart phone device) in an area of proximity to a vendor to determine relevant pertinent information. A beacon device at a retail location establishes communication with a user's smart phone device which detection is then send to a remotely located server. The remotely located server determines if the detected portable computing device is associated with a predefined category of user. Contingent upon the category of user determination, a determination is made regarding information pertinent to the user. The pertinent information is then caused to be sent to the user's smart phone device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
    Inventors: Bradly J. Billman, Maland Keith Mortensen, Wayne Maurice Hartman, Meighan K. McNulty, Craig Kincaid, Joshua D. Maldonado, Gunjan C. Vijayvergia
  • Patent number: 11521241
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an advertisement marketplace where buyers and sellers can trade mediacast advertisement inventory programmatically at local, national, and/or worldwide levels. The marketplace system may include a seller-controlled marketplace system which connects sellers with buyers and offers revenue management tools for optimizing yields across direct and programmatic channels. The advertisement inventory is bought and sold as canonical inventory units which group similar but discrete advertisement slots together. The marketplace system may include a seller side platform (SSP) for sellers through which sellers can access demand across multiple sales channels and can make advertisement inventory available and accept or reject bids based on marketplace demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: WideOrbit LLC
    Inventors: Tyler Wallace Box, David Bridges, Brian M. Burdick, Geoffrey P. Coco, Ian P. Ferreira, Paul Jaffe, Alfred Lawrence Shiels, Brian Thoman, Sean Trigony, Alexander Meyer
  • Patent number: 11514475
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for location-based distribution of data. One or more sets of data from one of a plurality of partner systems are received and stored, each set of data including at least one of a location data and a range. Application information associated with each application of a plurality of applications stored on respective mobile device is retrieved. The application information includes at least application location information. A pool of eligible applications are identified from the plurality of applications, based on the application location information of each of the plurality of applications and at least one of the location data and range of one of the one or more sets of data. A message is generated for each of the applications in the pool of eligible applications, the message including at least a portion of the one of the one or more sets of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Thomas B. Hayes
  • Patent number: 11514462
    Abstract: Certain embodiments provide a computer-executed method for generating a future sales estimate for an item. The method includes programmatically accessing, from a dataset via a network device, an inventory residence time period of an item. The method also includes programmatically accessing, from the dataset via the network device, prior performance data associated with the item. The method also includes programmatically executing an inventory valuation engine to generate a future sales estimate for the item based on the inventory residence time period and the prior performance data. The method further includes executing a notification generation engine to adjust a notification policy defining a frequency or other characteristic of electronic marketing communications indicating the item transmitted to consumer devices based on the future sales estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Zahra Ferdowsi, Rajesh Girish Parekh
  • Patent number: 11507895
    Abstract: Product providers offer matched prices for the products to the customers through a platform surveying the available prices from sale agents. The platform can determine lowest prices from the sale agents, and use this information to have an agreement with the product providers to sell the products at compatible prices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Onriva LLC
    Inventor: Vajid Jafri
  • Patent number: 11507917
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute: acquiring information regarding a request of a user making a product while riding on a mobile object; acquiring information regarding an article used in making the product; acquiring information regarding a location of the article; and generating an operation command of the mobile object such that the mobile object carrying the user travels via the location of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Dogishi, Masaki Shitara, Keiji Yamashita, Nozomi Kaneko, Naoki Yamamuro, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryoichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11501329
    Abstract: Provided is a system that transmits a notification to a user electronic equipment associated with a user, based on a user location information. This notification includes information representative of a sound-based promotional campaign for a product at a location known by the user. The system also transmits a location-specific promotional information, associated with this sound-based promotional campaign and based on a user information, to a merchant electronic apparatus associated to this known location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: JT INTERNATIONAL SA
    Inventor: Theo Verlaan
  • Patent number: 11488192
    Abstract: A point applying unit associates a predetermined point according to a type of regular purchase contract with user identification information according to a contractual user, for each predetermined period; a number-of-points information storage unit stores number-of-points information representing the number of points for each reward, in a plurality of providable rewards; a selection information acquisition unit retrieves selection information that is associated with the user identification information and represents a selected reward of the plurality of rewards; and a reward management unit enables the selected reward to be used, based on the user identification information, in a case where the total number of points are set by the selection information retrieved by the selection information acquisition unit and the number-of-points information in the number-of-points information storage unit and are associated with the selected reward has a predetermined relationship with the predetermined point associated b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Endo
  • Patent number: 11486630
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of controlling an intelligent refrigerator, the method including: obtaining registration information of food comprising an expiration date; storing the registration information; and comparing an expiration date of foods stored in the refrigerator with a current date based on the registration information and visually indicating an alarm on the food, if the remaining days to the expiration date are smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Seungbum Hong
  • Patent number: 11488190
    Abstract: An offer processing system is configured to receive transaction data associated with user purchases from third party point of sales devices and/or third party payment processing systems. The offer processing system may then identify offers or savings that are applicable to the transaction data and redeem the offers on behalf of the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: DOSH, LLC
    Inventors: Ed Mock, Ryan Wuerch
  • Patent number: 11481770
    Abstract: A method for the use of electronic transactional tokens includes: generating a plurality of transactional tokens including a first token; associating each of the transactional tokens with a plurality of users, the first token associated with a first user; monitoring usage of the transactional tokens in a plurality of transactions in a local region or network; and in response to receiving transactional data for the first transaction, updating the first token from a first state to a second state (e.g., to provide a benefit when the token is applied in the local region or network). The tokens may be generated and monitored using a token processing system, which uses transaction data received by a transaction handler that is handling transaction processing for the transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Theodore Harris, Patrick Faith
  • Patent number: 11481814
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to improve selection of promotion pricing parameters. The method may determine one or more promotion pricing parameters for a promotion that is offered by a promotion and marketing service. The method includes generating one or more predictive models based on historical promotion performance data and generating a revenue equation using the one or more predictive models. The revenue equation provides an estimate of a revenue received by the promotion and marketing service based on the one or more predictive models. The method further includes determining an estimated revenue using the revenue equation based on one or more input sets of promotion pricing parameters provided as input to the revenue equation, and selecting at least one of the input sets of promotion pricing parameters for the promotion based on the estimated revenue. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Latife Genc-Kaya, Kamson Lai, Francisco Jose Larrain Wicha, Gaston L'Huillier
  • Patent number: 11475486
    Abstract: Certain embodiments herein relate to implementing collaborative bidding in online auctions. A determination may be made whether bidding entities, or bids associated with bidding entities, share promotional interests, such as promoting the same product. Bids submitted by bidding entities that share the same promotional interests may be combined to create a single, combined bid that may compete against other bids in an online auction. Costs associated with promoting the product may be allocated among such bidding entities in various ways, including proportional allocation of cost based on a bid price submitted by the bidding entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: James Caleb Kirschner
  • Patent number: 11475472
    Abstract: A management device includes: an application manager that manages a set of application-related information related to target applications subject to management. A first information acquisitor acquires a first information transmitted from a terminal in response to that any target application included in the target applications executed by the terminal. A first information notifier transmits, to the terminal, a second information upon receipt of a request based on a first target application executed by the terminal. A second information indicates at least one target application for which the first information has not been acquired from the terminal by the first information acquisitor. A reward processor performs a reward-granting process, based on that a second target application, included in the at least one target application which is indicated by the second information transmitted by the first information notifier, has been executed by the terminal or has become executable by the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko Nakai, Daisuke Sato, Shinsaku Inukai, Masato Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11477496
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for monitoring locally inserted media are disclosed. A disclosed system for detecting locally inserted media includes a tag encoder and a media monitoring device at a media presentation location. The tag encoder is to associate an identifying tag with a segment of a media stream carrying local media that was spliced into a primary media stream after the primary media stream was received by an editing station of a media distributor. The media monitoring device is to: detect presentation of the media stream; determine that the segment is local media that was spliced into the primary media stream based on changes in the media stream indicative of transitions between primary media and local media, the changes including changes in identifying tags; and store an indication to credit presentation of the media and to indicate that the media stream includes locally inserted media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Arun Ramaswamy, Paul C. Kemper
  • Patent number: 11468504
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a C to C rental platform through which one or more individuals who want to lend objects can be efficiently matched with one or more individuals who desire to borrow the objects. In a management server 1 which supports lender users UL1 to ULn who desire to lend an object and borrower users UB1 to UBm who desire to borrow the object, an exhibit acquisition unit 10 acquires exhibit information provided from each of the lender users UL1 to ULn. An exhibit presentation unit 102 presents one or more pieces of the acquired exhibit information to the borrower users UB1 to UBm. A borrow receiving unit 103 receives, from the borrower user UB, an application of wanting to borrow the object as a borrow application. A borrowing presentation unit 104 presents, to the lender user UL, that there has been the borrowing application. Accordingly, the problem is addressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Yosuke Imafuku
  • Patent number: 11455701
    Abstract: Computer-implemented functionality is described herein for assisting a user in interacting with an environment. In one implementation, the functionality operates by: determining that a particular user is within a prescribed proximity to an electronic sign, or will be in prescribed proximity to the electronic sign, based on sensor information provided by one or more sensors within the environment; determining an identity of the user; determining at least one destination of the user based at least on calendar information; providing directions to the destination(s), to provide unfiltered direction information; optionally filtering the unfiltered direction information with respect to restriction information (e.g., privacy information, security information, etc.), to produce filtered direction information; composing sign information based on the filtered direction information; and sending the sign information to the electronic sign for presentation by the sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hubert Van Hoof, David M. Gray, Scott E. Seiber, David J. Brennan, John R. Sanders
  • Patent number: 11455299
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for selecting keywords for resources are disclosed. In one aspect, a search query is received associated with a first user. A determination is made that the first user is a follower of an entity feed that is provided by a first entity and that is provided through a social network. A content item is selected having distribution parameters specifying that the content item is to be provided to users that are followers of the entity feed and that submit the search query. The selected content item is provided for the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Michael Chu, Michele Covell, Joshua J. Sacks, Shumeet Baluja, Zhengrong Ji
  • Patent number: 11449840
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and methods are provided for facilitating payment for a third party's use of an application by a current user. The current user, or payor, initiates the process within the application by selecting one or more recipients. The system that hosts the application then determines which of the third parties are eligible. A target recipient may be ineligible because her application subscription never expires, because it doesn't expire within a threshold period of time, or for some other reason. The system identifies the target recipients that are eligible, and the payor may configure the gift payment (e.g., by choosing a duration of the subscription). The payor then chooses a method of electronic payment and, depending on the method selected, may redeem a coupon with the application host system, or the process may complete automatically. The payor and/or the recipient(s) may be notified of successful activation of the subscription(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: WHATSAPP LLC
    Inventors: Vicki Wancheng Lee, Eugene Fooksman, Brian Lange Acton, Michael B. Donohue
  • Patent number: 11436628
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for predicting potential effectiveness of query-triggered internet advertisements received from different web page publishers using a deep learning neural network language model for clustering queries, and for automatically adjusting bids for advertisements by advertisers based on the predicted potential effectiveness. Using query-clusters rather than queries for adjusting bids for advertisements allows for more accurate and more consistent bidding strategy despite of sparsity in historical advertisement performance data, higher return on investments for the advertisers, and higher revenue for the publishers of the advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Suleyman Cetintas, Jian Yang, Ben Shahshahani
  • Patent number: 11433153
    Abstract: The invention provides method for organizing the disinfection of one or more items contaminated with biological agent(s) comprising (a) attaching a radio-frequency ID (RFID) tag to an item(s) to be disinfected; exposing the item(s) of (a) to a disinfecting means for a period sufficient to disinfect the item; and (c) obtaining a signal from the tagged item when disinfection is complete thereby organizing the disinfection of one or more items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
    Inventor: Chetan Jinedatha
  • Patent number: 11436608
    Abstract: One or more interfaces receive, from one or more sources, supplier data, comprising transactional data and an industry type, and supplier profile data, comprising supplier acceptance category information, associating each of a plurality of predetermined supplier acceptance categories with one or more industry types, and profile type information, associating each of a plurality of predetermined profile types with one or more transaction characteristics of a plurality of transaction characteristics and one or more supplier acceptance categories of the plurality of predetermined supplier acceptance categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Mary Mazzochi, Mark Ellefson, Marc Bacon, Barney Spann, Christine N. Hunsucker
  • Patent number: 11430037
    Abstract: Real time item listing modification is described. A listing modification system receives, via a real time communication protocol from a client device, user interaction data that describes an item listing of a network-based commerce system currently being accessed at the client device. The user interaction data further describes an identity of a user of the client device and a manner in which the user of the client device interacts with the item listing. A modification user interface is generated for output at a different computing device and configured to present the user interaction data together with controls that are selectable to cause modification of the item listing output to the client device. The modified item listing is selectively output to only the client device, such that other computing devices simultaneously accessing the item listing are not updated to display the modified item listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Korea Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hoon Boo, Hyunmuk Lim, Kyungsik Nam, Sunwoong Jang, Kyungyong Shim
  • Patent number: 11416896
    Abstract: Provided is a process, including: obtaining a first training dataset, training a first machine-learning model on the first training dataset, obtaining a set of candidate question sequences, forming virtual subject-entity records, forming a second training dataset, training a second machine-learning model, and storing the adjusted parameters of the second machine-learning model in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Cerebri AI Inc.
    Inventors: Alain Charles Briancon, Jean Joseph Belanger, James Cvetan Stojanov, Christopher Michael Coovrey, Pranav Mahesh Makhijani, Gregory Klose, Max Changchun Huang, Mounib Mohamad Ismail, Michael Henry Engeling, Hongshi Li
  • Patent number: 11416847
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for utilizing purchase incentives in an electronic mobile wallet application. The mobile wallet application may receive a committable coupon data structure comprising terms data describing a purchase incentive and cryptographic verification data. The mobile wallet application may send a request to tokenize the committable coupon data structure to an element management system. The request may include an indication of a payment element associated with the mobile wallet application. The mobile wallet application may receive, from the element management system, a tokenized coupon data structure that comprises at least a portion of the committable coupon data structure and credential data for the payment element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ramanathan Ramanathan, Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 11416953
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring of utility assets using crowd-sourced digital image data are disclosed. In embodiments, a method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, incoming real-time utility data; determining, by the computing device, that a triggering event has occurred based on the monitoring; sending, by the computing device, an event message to one or more agent devices comprising a request for digital image collection at a location based on the triggering event, the event message including event information, wherein the one or more agent devices are associated with respective agents in a crowd-sourcing network; receiving, by the computing device, event data from the one or more agent devices, the event data including one or more digital images; and processing, by the computing device, the one or more digital images to determine next steps with respect to the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harish Bharti, Pinaki Bhattacharya, Hemant Khadke, Dinesh Wadekar, Rajesh Kumar Saxena
  • Patent number: 11416877
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for computing a product drag effect is provided. The present invention may include receiving a plurality of transaction record data. The present invention may then include tuning a plurality of parameters based on the received transaction record data. The present invention may further include determining a product drag frequency based on the authorized parameter tuning and received transaction record data. The present invention may then include calculating a drag probability based on the determined product drag frequency. The present invention may then include deriving an observation from the calculated drag probability. The present invention may lastly include outputting the derived observation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aditya Basu, Jeanine C. Chong, Dinesh Garg, Alankar Jain, Aswin Kannan, Ramasuri Narayanam, Mark S. Squillante, Christian Toft-Nielsen, Jessica Lee Yau
  • Patent number: 11416930
    Abstract: A method for registering a point distributor and information on an exchange rate for providing a united point service is provided. The method includes steps of: a system managing server (a) verifying a registration transaction TrxA and a confirmation transaction TrxB if at least one of conditions is satisfied which include (i) a condition that the TrxA having (i-1) a public key of a point managing server, and (i-2) a first XEA, an exchange rate of a point A managed by the point distributor to a united point, is acquired from a point distributing server, and (ii) a condition that the TrxB having (ii-1) a public key of the point distributing server, and (ii-2) a second XEA, is acquired from the point managing server; and (b) recording it on a certain blockchain database, and acquiring a transaction ID which locates the TrxA, the TrxB on the certain blockchain database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: COINPLUG, INC.
    Inventors: Joon Sun Uhr, Jay Wu Hong, Joo Han Song
  • Patent number: 11410121
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for proactively predicting large orders and providing fulfillment support related thereto are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes classifying, via a first set of one or more machine learning techniques, a transaction quote as a transaction quote that exceeds one or more size-related parameters or a transaction quote that does not exceed the one or more size-related parameters; determining, if the transaction quote is classified as a transaction quote that exceeds one or more size-related parameters, supportability of converting the transaction quote into a transaction order via a second set of one or more machine learning techniques; and outputting, based on the determined supportability, information pertaining to converting the transaction quote into a transaction order and fulfilling the transaction order to one or more entities associated with transaction order fulfillment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Venkata Chandra Sekar Rao, Abhishek Gupta, Rashmi Sudhakar, Sham A R, Peter Shipman, Sumit Gupta, Velmurugan R
  • Patent number: 11407523
    Abstract: A method in an aircraft for activating functions on external equipment is provided. The method includes: encoding, in an optical code, information pertaining to an aircraft alert message displayed on a cockpit display; causing a graphical element to be displayed that indicates that the optical code is available for display; receiving the selection of the graphical element; causing the optical code to be displayed responsive to the selection of the graphical element; capturing, by a mobile device, a visual image of the optical code displayed on the cockpit display; decoding, by the mobile device using the visual image, the optical code to identify information pertaining to the displayed aircraft alert message; retrieving, by the mobile device, a checklist containing instructions for responding in view of the information pertaining to the displayed aircraft alert message; and causing the retrieved checklist to be displayed on a display on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Jin Ping
  • Patent number: 11403657
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing social media referrals based rewards to a customer. The systems and methods may provide incentives to customers of financial-service providers (“FSP”) based on their referrals to the FSP. Customer referrals may be determined for the customer by gathering data regarding referrals received from messages distributed by the customer via social media. Based on the referrals, an amount of rewards may be provided for business transactions initialed by the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Bor J. Sun, Mark Mendez, Jonathan R. Turfboer, Philip Kedy, George H. Williams, Matthew S. Butterworth
  • Patent number: 11397962
    Abstract: A blockchain-based loyalty point distribution system may be configured to provide decentralized loyalty IDs. The decentralized loyalty IDs may allow distribution of loyalty rewards in response to transaction-based events and non-transaction-based events, including behavioral interactions. The system may include a loyalty partner system that receives a rewards event from a customer. The loyalty partner system may determine a loyalty ID associated with the customer, and write the rewards event to the blockchain. A loyalty provider system may receive notification of the rewards event write and distribute the loyalty reward to the customer. The loyalty provider may instruct the loyalty partner to remit payment for the loyalty reward, and may update customer and loyalty partner balances on the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Calvin Chan, Christopher Cracchiolo, Andras Ferenczi, Andrew Martin Baal Thomas
  • Patent number: 11392932
    Abstract: A smart card with secure and efficient image capture and analysis is provided. The card may include a non-transitory memory embedded in the housing storing computer-executable instructions. The instructions, when run on the microprocessor, are configured to capture, via the camera, an image of a building (or other suitable image), process the image via an image processing module, determine, based at least in part on the processing of the image, a payment amount and a payment recipient associated with the building. The smart card may also display payment information on the display screen. The payment information may include the payment amount and/or the payment recipient. When authorization is received via a tactile sensor, the card may execute a payment or other communication, over a payment gateway from an account associated with a user of the platform to an account associated with the payment recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Saurabh Gupta
  • Patent number: 11392888
    Abstract: A method for an electronic price, inventory management and label system and an electronic price, inventory management and label system, which comprises an electronic label system, comprising at least one base station and electronic labels, which are configured to communicate with the base station using two way communication. The system further comprises means for reading remotely readable tags, such as RFID-tags, wherein remotely readable tags are attached to products and wherein certain electronic label is linked to remotely readable tag(s) of certain product(s). The system is configured to detect the number of certain product in a space by using the means for reading remotely readable tags, and the system is configured to identify the location of these products based on the location of the electronic label linked to the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MARIELLA LABELS OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Patent number: 11386175
    Abstract: A content recommendation apparatus selects an application for executing a content, by referring to a view history corresponding to a prime time, selects, as recommendation contents in the prime time, more contents that are executed by the selected application than contents that are executed by an application other than the selected application, and outputs recommendation-content information about the selected recommendation contents. The content recommendation apparatus recommends a suitable content timely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiroh Mukai
  • Patent number: 11386734
    Abstract: An information processing device detects that an information terminal carried by a user has approached a shop, detects that a user has taken a purchase action in a shop, accumulates history information relating to a visit to a shop and the purchase action of a user, and transmits recommendation information relating to a second shop to an information terminal of a user who is detected to have approached a first shop when visit history information to the first shop is detected and purchase action history information in the first shop is not detected, and both visit history information and purchase action history information in the second shop is detected from history information of one user. The visit history information and the purchase action history information in the second shop have been accumulated after the history information relating to the first shop has been accumulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Satake
  • Patent number: 11379872
    Abstract: Technologies for attributing purchases to a targeted marketing campaign include associating a captured payment card number and a captured cardholder identifier with a globally unique identifier. Additional payment card numbers related to the captured payment card number are associated with the globally unique identifier. A cardholder-specific marketing message associated with a targeted marketing campaign is transmitted to the captured cardholder identifier based on the globally unique identifier. The targeted marketing campaign is for an advertised product, which corresponds to a product identifier. A purchase transaction is attributed to the targeted marketing campaign in response to determining that a payment card number associated with the purchase transaction matches any of the payment card numbers associated with the globally unique identifier and determining that a product identifier corresponding to a purchased product of the purchase transaction is associated with the targeted marketing campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventor: Thirunarayanan Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11380435
    Abstract: Automated assistance program qualification and enrollment are provided. An assistance program qualification and enrollment (APQE) system determines whether a user qualifies for an assistance program that offers assistance with an ongoing transaction record with a service provider. The APQE system generates a set of questions based on qualification data (used to make a qualification determination) that are not included in collected user data and financial data about the user. The user's qualification is based on an evaluation of the user data, financial data, and user-provided responses to the questions. If the user qualifies for the assistance program, an option is provided to the user to enroll in the assistance program. If additional information is needed to complete an enrollment process for the assistance program, an interface is provided that enables the user to provide the data for completing the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: EXPERIAN HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Hoffman, Sean M. Porter, Kevin Otto Horvath, Elizabeth Donato Serie
  • Patent number: 11379518
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for implementing a search engine that generates search results for a natural language description of music. A music description and categorization schema is defined to provide a common terminology and taxonomy. Music catalogs are ingested to generate a searchable catalog index. A natural language description of music is analyzed using various natural language processing techniques to generate corresponding musical features of the schema to be searched. A query string is generated from the musical features using a query term profile including one or more query term generators. A ranking score and other search result statistics are generated. Various visualizations can be provided, including a visualization of the translated search and a visualization of search results. In some embodiments, word clouds are provided to allow a user to filter search results by a selected matched feature. As such, users can efficiently review search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sync Floor, Inc.
    Inventor: Kirt Debique
  • Patent number: 11373189
    Abstract: A method of protecting a computer system from fraudulent use includes collecting and aggregating sets of risk predictor values for user-initiated events into user-specific aggregations and organization-wide aggregations, and in response to a current event initiated by a user, generating a risk indicator as a combination of a user-specific indicator and an organization-wide indicator based on current event parameters and the user-specific and organization-wide aggregations. Based on the risk indicator indicating that the current event may be a fraudulent use, a protective control action is taken (such as denying or modifying a requested access) to protect the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Boris Gorelik, Marcelo Blatt, Liron Liptz, Yael Villa, Alon Kaufman
  • Patent number: 11367155
    Abstract: The methods and systems disclosed herein attempt to overcome the deficiencies of the conventional methods and systems by providing a prepaid card for reimbursing a healthcare service provider for the cost of providing a patient with a specific healthcare service. A prepaid card can identify a specific healthcare service and can be used by a patient at a healthcare service provider to obtain the healthcare service of administering a controlled substance for which the patient does not have a prescription. The prepaid card can be associated with one or more accounts of third parties who may be financially responsible for reimbursing the healthcare service provider for the cost of providing the controlled substance and/or the specific healthcare service to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CITICORP CREDIT SERVICES, INC. (USA)
    Inventor: Andrew D. Radlow
  • Patent number: 11366854
    Abstract: Disclosed are a multimedia poster generation method and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a poster generation instruction; acquiring a poster resource, the poster resource including a plurality of background files and a lyric file of a multimedia file, and the multimedia file being a multimedia file selected by a user; acquiring a background file to be shared that is selected by the user from the plurality of background files, and acquiring lyric information to be shared that is selected by the user from the lyric file; and generating a multimedia poster of the multimedia file according to the lyric information to be shared and the background file to be shared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU KUGOU COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongcheng Fu, Dongbai Nie, Guojin Zhou, Bo Li, Fuwen Mo, Xinxin Huang
  • Patent number: 11361049
    Abstract: When a first member transmits information on a network, a converted first hash code which includes a member ID of the first member is given. When a second member further transmits and diffuses the information transmitted from the first member, the converted previous first hash code which includes the member ID of the first member is associated with a converted second hash code which includes a member ID of the second member. When the still other member accesses the information transmitted by the second member, the second member is specified from the second hash code and the first member is specified from the first hash code associated with the second hash code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: J-DATA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Sasaki, Tetsuya Ban
  • Patent number: 11354697
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and techniques for managing merchandising cards. A merchandising card may be, for example, a gift card, loyalty card, or the like. Consistent disclosed embodiments, a system for managing merchandising cards may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to acquire, from a device over a network, a plurality of locations associated with the device, the device locations being acquired at different instances in time within a predetermined period of time. Additionally, the one or more processors may be configured to calculate an overall merchant confidence rating for a merchant using the device locations. Further, the one or more processors may be configured to, based on the overall merchant confidence rating, determine that the merchant matches a merchant that is associated with merchandising card, and send a reminder a user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Givol, Saumya Singh, Anand Kumar, Michelle S. Olenoski
  • Patent number: 11354642
    Abstract: A method for real time negotiation among parties to a transaction may include (1) a computer application executed by a computer processor on a mobile electronic device receiving, from a merchant computer processor at a merchant computer system, an offer to conduct a transaction using a first payment mechanism accepted by the merchant, the offer comprising a first consumer benefit; (2) comparing the first benefit to at least one consumer benefit preference; (3) automatically presenting a second payment mechanism associated with a second consumer benefit or a modification to the first consumer benefit; and (4) agreeing on an agreed payment mechanism and an agreed consumer benefit, wherein the agreed payment mechanism is the first payment mechanism or the second payment mechanism, and the agreed consumer benefit is the first consumer benefit, the second consumer benefit, or the modification to the first consumer benefit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Ayman Hammad, William S. Wallace
  • Patent number: 11354708
    Abstract: A digital brand asset system performs the steps of providing payloads for a smart brand asset to a plurality of web servers which include codes representing the smart brand asset, receiving feedbacks on how the smart brand asset is presented on the website servers, collecting web journey data of the website visitors' who have interacted with the smart brand asset, generating a report detailing how effective the smart brand asset has been on the website servers, and presenting the report on a dashboard. Generally, by monitoring the website servers and visitors interacting with the smart brand assets, a report can be generated for the brand owners to determine the effectiveness of the smart brand assets hosted on the website servers. The raw data used to generate the report can be used to autonomically and dynamically change the content based upon the interpretation of the feedbacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SYNQY Corporation
    Inventors: Nikolaus Chanda, Michael Weissman, David Mosby, John Hoye
  • Patent number: 11348158
    Abstract: A method for automatically populating an ecommerce cart is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to add a product item to a shopping cart of an ecommerce shopping environment. The method includes adding the product item to the shopping cart. The method includes updating, responsive to adding the product item, a shopping cart status. The method includes determining a failure of the shopping cart status to satisfy a purchasing criteria associated with the ecommerce shopping environment. The method includes selecting, responsive to determining the failure, an additional product item based on information associated with an user account. The method includes adding the additional product item to the shopping cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Hamid Kassaei