Auction Patents (Class 705/26.3)
  • Patent number: 11823503
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for remote diagnostics of automobiles are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include the steps of reading, by a mobile device, a vehicle identification number (VIN) from a vehicle, transmitting, by the mobile device, the VIN to a diagnostic database, receiving, by the mobile device, an indication that an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) diagnostic tool is required for a diagnosis of the vehicle, and selecting the OEM diagnostic tool for the diagnosis of the vehicle in response to the indication that an OEM diagnostic tool is required for the diagnosis of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: REPAIRIFY, INC.
    Inventors: Curt Jingle, Frank Terlep
  • Patent number: 11715017
    Abstract: Systems are methods are provided for training an automated agent. The automated agent maintains a reinforcement learning neural network and generates, according to outputs of the reinforcement learning neural network, signals for communicating resource task requests. First and second task data are received. The task data are processed to compute a first performance metric reflective of performance of the automated agent relative to other entities in a first time interval, and a second performance metric reflective of performance of the automated agent relative to other entities in a second time interval. A reward for the reinforcement learning neural network that reflects a difference between the second performance metric and the first performance metric is computed and provided to the reinforcement learning neural network to train the automated agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
    Inventors: Hasham Burhani, Shary Mudassir, Xiao Qi Shi, Connor Lawless, Weiguang Ding
  • Patent number: 11694255
    Abstract: A management server is configured to perform a process including: setting a basic fee of a first monthly fee when a utilization manner is battery lease; setting discount rates based on the weight, capacity, manufacturer, degree of initial deterioration, amount of power consumption, number of times of performing quick electric charging, utilization region, and utilization period of the battery; determining the first monthly fee; setting a basic fee of a second monthly fee when the utilization manner is vehicle lease; setting discount rates based on the weight of the battery, a utilization region of the vehicle, and a utilization period; determining the second monthly fee; and determining a total monthly fee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Igata, Shin Sakurada, Kuniaki Jinnai, Motoyoshi Hatta, Shota Hirose
  • Patent number: 11587048
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a system for a massage apparatus-based user information transaction. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for a massage apparatus-based user information transaction includes the steps of: inquiring whether a user gives prior-consent to provision of user information to the outside; if the user gives prior consent to the provision of user information to the outside, collecting, from the massage apparatus, user information including the user's biometric information, and storing same; providing the stored user information to a third party company server; calculating an amount of money to be paid to the user in accordance with the provision of the user information to the outside; and paying the calculated amount of money to the relevant user's account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: BODYFRIEND CO., LTD
    Inventors: Woong Chul Kang, Soo Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 11575731
    Abstract: A data transmission apparatus causes a computer to receive first data and second data, each of which has a different transmission destination, evaluate relevance between the first data and the second data, and transmit the first data and the second data to the respective transmission destinations, and the transmitting of the data further includes transmitting the first data to the transmission destination of the second data in accordance with evaluation results obtained in the evaluating of the relation, so that a diversity of the data that can be collected by the transmission destination of the data is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kojun Koshiji, Naoki Higo, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Masanao Nakano, Tatsuya Ishihara, Yoshiko Sueda
  • Patent number: 11568479
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, program products, and systems are disclosed for generating online auction listings. An apparatus includes a content processing module that processes, on a mobile device, one or more of image and video content of an item captured with a camera of the mobile device. The one or more of image and video content processed for posting on an online auction marketplace platform. An apparatus includes an information module that receives, on the mobile device, information associated with the item in the one or more of image and video content. An apparatus includes a transmission module that sends the one or more of image and video content and the information associated with the item directly from the mobile device to the online auction marketplace platform to be posted as an auction listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Derek MacFarland
  • Patent number: 11532174
    Abstract: In an approach for automatically extracting product baseline information from a request for proposal document, a processor receives the document. A processor detects a table in the document. A processor identifies a table header on the table. The table header is associated with a name and an associated volume of the product. A processor extracts context based on the table header from the table. The context includes the name and the associated volume of the product. A processor maps the extracted context with the name of the product in the table to an associated name of the product based on a pre-defined product ontology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Changhua Sun, HongLei Guo, Birgit Monika Pfitzmann, Dorothea Wiesmann Rothuizen, Lynette Yvonne Mitchell, Brent Alan Goebel
  • Patent number: 11532037
    Abstract: A management server is configured to perform a process including: obtaining, when an electric vehicle is returned, returning date and time, a returning location, and a use history of a vehicle; setting a fee-returning rate in accordance with a SOC at the time of renting, a SOC at the time of returning, the number of times of performing behaviors contributing to deterioration of a battery, and a leaving time in a state contributing to the deterioration of the battery; setting a correction coefficient in accordance with a cause of a behavior contributing to the deterioration; setting the fee-returning rate in accordance with the returning location and the returning time; determining the fee-returning rate; and performing a process for providing points corresponding to the fee-returning amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Igata, Shin Sakurada, Kuniaki Jinnai, Motoyoshi Hatta, Shota Hirose
  • Patent number: 11514409
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to security settlement in financial markets and cryptographic currencies. Particular portions of the present disclosure are directed to a cryptographic currency protocol and to a cryptographic currency that includes a positional item. The cryptographic currency protocol supports a virtual wallet that, in various embodiments, is a security and cash account for storing and managing the cryptographic currency. Opening a transaction via the virtual wallet to transfer the cryptographic currency is a strong guarantee of the availability of funds in the virtual wallet because, e.g., funds are not transacted unless the commit phase is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
    Inventors: Paul Walker, Phil J. Venables
  • Patent number: 11514509
    Abstract: A system for conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes a web server for receiving bid data for one or more users for basic generation service products, an application server host application software, which processes the one or more bids according to at least one auction rule, tracks the auction, monitors the auction, and/or determines when to end the auction, and a database server, which stores auction data. A method of conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes the repeating steps of receiving bids indicating desired tranche units of basic generation service products, calculating next round prices for each product, and sending round results to bidders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: Public Service Electric & Gas Company, Atlantic City Electric Company, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Rockland Electric Company
    Inventors: Anthony R. Robinson, Frederick W. Lark, Eugene Meehan, Chantale Lacasse, David Salant, Colin J. Loxley, Gerald W. Schirra, Robert Taylor
  • Patent number: 11514510
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing price guidance for sellers and buyers are presented. The system receives a present item listing and accesses a set of historical item listings. The system generates a price guidance model for the present item listing and generates a set of prices for the present item based on the price guidance model. The system then causes presentation of the set of process on a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Harita Yenisetty, Prashanth Patlolla, Bhavani Kumar Hari, Gayathri Ravichandran Geetha
  • Patent number: 11507962
    Abstract: A counterfeit item detection system detects counterfeit items during an item listing processes provided by an online marketplace. The system enhances the ability of the online marketplace to identify and reject potential counterfeit items. The system collects item data in various formats. The item data is analyzed using speech-to-text software and natural language processing to determine data elements representing items, item features, and language context. Questions are generated using the items and item features, and stored for each item. Answers to the questions have associated counterfeit indication weights. The weights are modified and used to rank the questions as feedback is received about counterfeit items. The ranking determines future question selection, allowing the best questions to continually be identified and provided. The counterfeit item detection system also trains a neural network to detect counterfeit items in images, where the training images are obtained from videos related to the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-David Ruvini, Ramesh Periyathambi, Lakshimi Duraivenkatesh
  • Patent number: 11502972
    Abstract: The current document is directed a resource-exchange system that facilitates resource exchange and sharing among computing facilities. The currently disclosed methods and systems employ efficient, distributed-search methods and subsystems within distributed computer systems that include large numbers of geographically distributed data centers to locate resource-provider computing facilities that match the resource needs of resource-consumer computing-facilities based on attribute values associated with the needed resources, the resource providers, and the resource consumers. The resource-exchange system monitors and controls resource exchanges on behalf of participants in the resource-exchange system in order to optimize resource usage within participant data centers and computing facilities. By optimizing resource usage, the resource-exchange system drives participant data centers and computing facilities towards maximum operational efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel James Beveridge, Ricky Trigalo, Joerg Lew
  • Patent number: 11481815
    Abstract: The Bidding on an Asset in Progress (BAIP) system allows live, real-time bidding on a work (song, artwork, invention, story, concept, etc.) during its inception and evolution. The system captures video and/or audio of the work and/or artist during inception and creation and/or production of the work. The live performance in the auction can take place in a metaverse. Depending on how the artist/musician/creator sets up an auction, fans can bid on digital representations of versions and/or parts of the work, the recorded video and/or audio of the work being created, the physical work created, specific copyright rights, and supplemental assets associated with the work or the artist/musician/creator. Such a system enables bidding on any number of combinations of assets captured, created, or modified during one or more auctions. Fans can band together to bid on any asset and establish fractionalized ownership that is optionally governed through a DAO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Prophet Productions, LLC
    Inventors: Bobby Elijah Aviv, Amy Leigh Pearson
  • Patent number: 11481839
    Abstract: In some examples, a computing device may process a plurality of transactions initiating on at least one of mobile applications or web applications. The computing device may determine eligibility of a first merchant to receive an offer for financing based on one or more attributes of transactions, of the plurality of transactions, that are associated with the first merchant or one or more similar merchants. In addition, the computing device may generate the offer for financing for a particular amount based on the eligibility of the merchant. Further, the computing device may cause presentation of the offer for financing on a first merchant computing device associated with the first merchant. For example, the offer may specify terms for the financing and terms of repayment, the terms of repayment including using a portion of funds from at least one additional transaction for repayment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: BLOCK, INC.
    Inventors: Ariana Poursartip, John Bryan Scott, Kevin Teh
  • Patent number: 11449525
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for facilitating voice-based interaction by a mobile device with an enterprise database. In some implementations, a command and a type of enterprise work record are identified in a first one or more voice signals obtained at the mobile device. One or more fields of the identified record type required by the enterprise database to be populated to carry out the identified command is determined. Field data can be identified in a second one or more voice signals obtained at the mobile device. Structured text data comprising the identified command, the identified record type and the identified field data can be sent to a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Subrata Ashe
  • Patent number: 11449880
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture methods, systems, apparatus and articles of manufacture to model ecommerce sales are disclosed. A system to model to eCommerce sales includes a trend identifier to compute commerce metric differences corresponding to products, the commerce metric differences based on first commerce metrics scraped at a first time and second commerce metrics scraped at a second time, a splitter to split the commerce metric differences into a first portion of the commerce metric differences corresponding to a first dataset of eCommerce cooperators, and into a second portion of the commerce metric differences corresponding to a second dataset of eCommerce non-cooperators, a machine learning engine to infer sales data by estimating eCommerce non-cooperators sales based on the second portion of the commerce metric differences, and a sales allocator to estimate sales missing from collected sales data based on the estimate eCommerce non-cooperators sales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLC
    Inventors: Ravish Khare, Prayag Bhatia
  • Patent number: 11449928
    Abstract: A system for conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes a web server for receiving bid data for one or more users for basic generation service products, an application server host application software, which processes the one or more bids according to at least one auction rule, tracks the auction, monitors the auction, and/or determines when to end the auction, and a database server, which stores auction data. A method of conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes the repeating steps of receiving bids indicating desired tranche units of basic generation service products, calculating next round prices for each product, and sending round results to bidders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: Public Service Electric & Gas Company, Atlantic City Electric Company, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Rockland Electric Company
    Inventors: Anthony R. Robinson, Frederick W. Lark, Eugene Meehan, Chantale Lacasse, David Salant, Colin J. Loxley, Gerald W. Schirra, Robert Taylor
  • Patent number: 11436591
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing stored-value instrument purchase functionality for online shopping systems. In various embodiments, a computing system might assess content and/or information presented in a checkout page of a retailer website, the checkout page listing items selected by a user for purchase and a total purchase amount. The computing system might autonomously modify the checkout page by generating a user-selectable option therewithin, the user-selectable option comprising an option to purchase the items using a gift card available for purchase from a service provider. In response to selection of the user-selectable option, the computing system might provide a purchase interface that presents the user with a process to purchase a gift card having a gift card value. After completing purchase of the gift card, the computing system might apply the gift card value toward the total purchase amount within the checkout page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Ibotta
    Inventors: Luke Swanson, Ron White, Garrett Floyd
  • Patent number: 11410203
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for optimized management of online advertising auctions are disclosed. An auction management system sends bids for one or more bidding units (e.g., keywords or product identifiers) to an advertising vendor. A bid comprises a value per click associated with one or more search results pages or web pages for one or more search terms. At least a portion of the bids represent winning bids in one or more auctions for the one or more bidding units. The system determines success metrics associated with the bids based (at least in part) on user traffic for links associated with the winning bids. The system determines an optimal bid for a particular bidding unit based (at least in part) on the success metrics. The system sends the optimal bid for the particular bidding unit to the advertising vendor for an additional auction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ehtesham Sam Haque, Han Wu, Kimberly Michele Wike, Rohan Gurappagouda Patil, Purak Jain
  • Patent number: 11379910
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling procurement systems where tender review process is by selecting external/internal reviewers randomly and by managing at least three levels of reviews. The method comprises collecting a tender information by an application server; collecting the bids; and collecting reviews at each level and transmitting the reviews to the next-level reviewers. The reviewers are selected from a reviewer register for each review level. The first-level reviews are transmitted or kept confidential as per entity preference to the second-level reviewer devices and the second-level reviews are collected within a limit period of time and simultaneously. The second-level reviews are collected from the second-level reviewers and transmitted to the third-level reviewers. The system may analyse the collected reviews and select the winner of the tender based on reviews collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ANICET GASORE
    Inventor: Anicet Gasore
  • Patent number: 11374868
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a communication node (10, 11) for a communication system (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: R-3 RELIABLE REALTIME RADIO COMMUNICATION GMBH
    Inventors: Mathias Bohge, Florian Bonanati
  • Patent number: 11360999
    Abstract: A method of managing inventory allocations includes the step of receiving, in a data processing apparatus, data relating to the sale of items of inventory allocated to respective re-sellers. The date is processed to obtain data relating to sales performance of one or more of the respective re-sellers. The method includes adjusting a price for which inventory allocated to that respective re-seller is to be sold by depending on said data relating to the sales performance of the respective re-sellers and/or re-allocation inventory items from that said respective re-seller to other respective re-sellers. The invention extends to a software product and to a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Surge Pricing Patent Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Loch, Helen Johnson, Geoffrey Toogood, Daniel Paul Ruul
  • Patent number: 11356503
    Abstract: Systems and methods for hybrid burst optimized regulated workload orchestration for infrastructure as a service are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for providing hybrid burst optimized regulated workload orchestration for infrastructure as a service may include: (1) receiving a job request for a job comprising at least one job requirement from a job requester; (2) calculating a cost of job for the job based on the at least one job requirement; (3) identifying an IaaS provider from a plurality of IaaS providers that meets the job requirements and the cost of job, wherein the plurality of IaaS providers comprises at least one on-premises IaaS provider and the at least one off-premises IaaS provider; (4) executing an IaaS request for the identified IaaS provider; and (5) monitoring execution of the job by the identified IaaS provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Darren Marvin, Thomas Williams, Lee Staples, Rupert Pigott, Donald Harper, Nelson M. Pereira, Sandeep Sarthavalli Ramesh, Charles Parkin, Brian Todd, Minlin Gao, Julian Leggett
  • Patent number: 11343161
    Abstract: A method of deploying a network service across multiple data centers, each having a cloud management server running a cloud computing management software to provision virtual infrastructure resources thereof for a first tenant among a plurality of tenants, includes maintaining for each data center static inventory data that indicate virtual infrastructure resources that are available thereat to the first tenant, identifying, in response to a network service request for the first tenant, a virtual network function associated with the network service, generating commands to deploy the virtual network function based on a descriptor of the virtual network function, selecting one of the data centers in which the virtual network function is to be deployed based on the descriptor of the virtual network function and the static inventory data of each data center, and issuing the commands to the selected data center to deploy the virtual network function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Allwyn M. Sequeira, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Mark Bryan Whipple
  • Patent number: 11334630
    Abstract: A multi-layer consumption unit estimation (CUE) stack may generate a consumption preview for prescribing cloud computing resource utilization. An input layer of the CUE stack may obtain computing resource utilization tracking data, consumption metric data, application execution tracking data, and computing resource reservation data for a set of computing resources. A configuration layer of the CUE stack may determine a CUE interval and determine consumption metric modifiers for a selected identity associated with the set of computing resources. A CUE engine layer may generate a consumption preview by advancing a dynamic consumption credit input/output flow analysis and executing a direct utilization consumption determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Madhan Kumar Srinivasan, Guruprasad PV, Manish Sharma Kolachalam
  • Patent number: 11334673
    Abstract: Systems and methods, disclosed herein, of a campaign controller that stores information to a database about execution of multiple simulated phishing campaigns for multiple users, where each of the simulated phishing campaigns use one or more models for communicating simulated phishing communications. Based on this information, the campaign controller may determine a rate of success of the model, in causing a user to interact with a link in one of the simulated phishing campaigns, and may display the model's rate of success via a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: KnowBe4, Inc.
    Inventors: Stu Sjouwerman, Eric Sites
  • Patent number: 11315373
    Abstract: Examples associated with device storage isolation are described. One example apparatus includes a set of receptacles for electronic devices. Each receptacle includes a power connector to provide power to an electronic device stored in the receptacle, a network connector to provide a network connection to the electronic device stored in the receptacle, and a locking mechanism to secure contents of the receptacle. Members of the set of receptacles are digitally isolated from other members of the set of receptacles. The apparatus also includes an authentication module to authenticate a user based on a credential provided by the user. The authentication module controls a selected locking mechanism of a selected member of the set of receptacles based on the credential and based on data received from a remote information technology module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gerold K. Shelton, Matthew Frederickson, Kyle J. Nottingham
  • Patent number: 11314756
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for managing and comparing data from multiple information sources. In one implementation, a method of operating a comparison service includes obtaining, from a plurality of data sources, data objects in a plurality of formats corresponding to an event, wherein the data objects each comprise data items for the event. The method further includes maintaining a data structure for the event, wherein the data structure relates data items of similar data type from the plurality of data sources. The method also provides identifying a user request for a summary of the event, generating an event summary based on the data structure, and providing the event summary to the requesting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Advertising Production Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Holly Vezina, Kathy Lynn Keith
  • Patent number: 11301889
    Abstract: A method of accepting a bid for an item offered for sale through an internet web portal comprising the following steps: listing with an internet web portal bid program by an item being sold by a merchant; accessing the internet web portal bid program by a user to obtain of bid information of the item; placing with the internet web portal bid program by the registered user of a bid for the item, the bid containing a price that the registered user will pay for the item; presenting by the internet web portal bid program to the registered merchant of one or more economic factors to assist the registered merchant in selecting at least one bid from the one or more bids as a winning bid, one or more economic factors being based on item information and being other than the bid price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Allen J Evdokimo, Leslie K. Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11301927
    Abstract: An art market pricing and commission system for the fine art market is disclosed. The art market pricing and commission system allows artists and collectors to see how others are reacting to particular pieces of artwork in real time. The art market pricing and commission system creates an electronic ledger and official photographic record that authenticates works of art now and into the future. The art market pricing and commission system encourages individuals to participate in determining what is good and valuable and create a cohesive, thriving market. The art market pricing and commission system is deployed as an Internet platform that combines a specific pricing structure with a special commission system to incentivize user interaction, assign value to works of art and create a transparent, thriving market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventor: William Mazor
  • Patent number: 11288709
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that train and utilize multi-phase learning models to predict performance during digital content campaigns and provide digital content to client devices in a real-time bidding environment. In particular, one or more embodiments leverage organizational structure of digital content campaigns to train two learning models, utilizing different data sources, to predict performance, generate bid responses, and provide digital content to client devices. For example, the disclosed systems can train a first performance learning model in an offline mode utilizing parent-level historical data. Then, in an online mode, the disclosed systems can train a second performance learning model utilizing child-level historical data and utilize the first performance learning model and the second performance learning model to generate bid responses and bid amounts in a real-time bidding environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Yan, Chen Dong, Abhishek Pani, Yuan Yuan
  • Patent number: 11282134
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for auctioning vehicles or other products and services where bids or offers for items offered for sale are evaluated against auction conditions. A method for auctioning one or multiple products or services where during the course of the auction the value of a bid amount required to win is reduced based upon auction conditions. A method is disclosed for displaying, evaluating and accepting bids or offers to purchase in the form of multiple payments over time that are equivalent in value to a singular valued price during an auction. The methods can be implemented via a programmed module operating on a computing system as a special purpose computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KASSELRRL IP LLC
    Inventor: Michael Lewison
  • Patent number: 11282302
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a method for monitoring and troubleshooting a vehicle using a communications server is presented. The communications server includes a plurality of request handlers, including a dynamic monitor request handler, each coupled to a message handler and to a client request dispatcher, a vehicle communications interface coupled to a message handler, which is coupled to at least one vehicle communications interface and to the plurality of request handlers, and a client interface coupled to the client request dispatcher and to the vehicle. The method includes coupling the vehicle communications interface to the vehicle, coupling the client interface to a client computer, storing in RAM formatting information for each of the vehicle parameters, receiving a request, sending a message representing the request to an appropriate request handler, communicating with the vehicle, receiving a response, and providing the response to the at least one client computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: William P. Horne, Erin E. Warr, Norman F. Kirby, Suzanne M. Schoonover
  • Patent number: 11275746
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods for enhancing search results based on recent user interactions. As described herein, embodiments may infer various refinements for search queries; these refinements are based, at least in part, on the user's recent interactions with the search platform (e.g., within a current session). In other words, as the user is interacting with the search platform, one or more refinements may be inferred to help make the search results more relevant to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Sameep Navin Solanki, Jayasimha Katukuri, Manas Haribhai Somaiya, Rajyashree Mukherjee, Rakesh Setty
  • Patent number: 11232443
    Abstract: An apparatus and computer-implemented electronic transaction method includes the operation of reading, via a payment-on-delivery device, a machine-readable transaction code in which transaction details of a collect-on-delivery transaction are encoded. A notification is transmitted to a consumer computing device. In addition, the transaction details are transmitted to the consumer computing device. The apparatus transmits payments details for funding the collect-on-delivery transaction to an interchange network for processing the collect-on-delivery transaction. The apparatus receives a payment authorization response message from the interchange network indicating completion of the collect-on-delivery transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Tara L. Sauer, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11222366
    Abstract: An online system selecting content items for presentation to its users accounts for likelihoods of users performing actions associated with content items when selecting content items. The online system maintains models determining likelihoods of users performing various actions. If a content item is associated with an action that infrequently occurs, information for determining the model for the action is limited, so the online system increases a bid amount associated with the content item during a time interval to an amount based on a likelihood of the user performing a more frequently occurring alternative action and an average bid amount for the alternative action from content items previously presented to users. The online system also determines an amount based on the model for the action and the bid amount for during the time interval and stops increasing the bid amount when the rate of change has less than a threshold magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Sumatilal Bhalgat, Hao Song
  • Patent number: 11217101
    Abstract: A method and system for management and anticipatory deployment of autonomously controlled vehicles are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include calculating the geographic locations and periods of time where self-driving vehicles might experience the greatest probability of being requested to provide transportation services to passengers or cargo, and then communicating the resulting locations and times to self-driving vehicles, causing the vehicles to deploy themselves to those certain locations at those certain times, all prior to and in anticipation of specific requests being initiated by users or entities for such transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Tribal Rides, Inc.
    Inventor: Kurt R. Laetz
  • Patent number: 11210623
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing authenticated delivery of a purchase to an authorised recipient comprises: a. authorising (S2-1) a purchase, including designating an authorised recipient for the purchase; b. providing (S2-3) corresponding delivery tokens (4a, 4b) to a recipient device (3) of the authorised recipient and to a delivery device (13) associated with delivery of the purchase; c. at the point of delivery, determining (S2-7) whether the delivery token (4a) of the recipient device (3) matches the delivery token (4b) of the delivery device (13); and, if so: d. confirming (S2-9) that delivery of the purchase is authorised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Barclays Execution Services Limited
    Inventors: Loren Barton, Colin McSkeane
  • Patent number: 11204965
    Abstract: Generating insight on a set of data is provided. A request for information regarding a specific topic is received from a client device corresponding to a requester. An analysis is performed on the request and a type of the information requested is determined based on the analysis. A set of information vendors is selected from a plurality of known information vendors based on the type of the information requested and other factors. Insights on the type of the information requested are obtained from the selected set of information vendors and an analysis is performed on the insights. A response to the request is generated based on the analysis of the insights on the type of the information requested that was obtained from the selected set of information vendors. The response to the request is sent to the client device corresponding to the requester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rama Kalyani T. Akkiraju, Karl J. Cama, Norbert Herman, Shubhadip Ray
  • Patent number: 11195526
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an indication management device includes voice acquisition means, indication recognition means, importance degree determination means, and output control means. The voice acquisition means acquires a voice which is input by a voice input terminal. The indication recognition means recognizes details of an indication from the voice acquired by the voice acquisition means. The importance degree determination means determines a degree of importance of the indication from the voice acquired by the voice acquisition means. The output control means controls output of indication details to an output device in accordance with the degree of importance determined by the importance degree determination means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunori Hirabayashi, Kazuhiro Ogura, Ryuichi Aoyama, Koji Nagai, Toshinori Fukuta
  • Patent number: 11182848
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein relate to processing of information, data and automated transaction information involving content and/or experiences. In some exemplary implementations, illustrative automated methods of computerized information processing may involve automated auction processing, sweepstakes processing, handling, fulfillment and/or particular checkout processing of product(s) and/or item(s), including product(s) and/or item(s) such as experiences, physical products, digital products, and/or other offerings by luminaries. According to certain implementations, various product types, flag and/or identifiers are utilized in automated transformations of various purchasable products among the various offerings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventors: Trevor Dow Traina, Joseph Peter Vierra, Jennifer Chih-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 11176579
    Abstract: A system can perform certain acts. The acts can include determining score values to identify a plurality of target customers associated with a plurality of potential offers. The acts can include receiving bids from the plurality of target customers for the plurality of potential offers. The acts can include performing an iterative process for each respective target customer of the plurality of target customers to take turns to submit a respective bid for each respective potential offer of the plurality of potential offers associated with the respective target customer. The acts can include determining a respective final bid for each of the plurality of potential offers such that an aggregate value for the plurality of target customers that can be maximized across the plurality of potential offers. The acts can include sending instructions to deliver the plurality of offers to at least a portion of the plurality of target customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Mindi Yuan, Wei Shen, Yannis Pavlidis, Jun Li
  • Patent number: 11151496
    Abstract: A lead time calculation system includes a configured lead time generator and a measured lead time generator. The configured lead time generator calculates a lead time estimate to move products between a first node in a supply chain and a second node in the supply chain based on expected travel times, expected warehouse times, expected sourcing times, delivery schedules, unloading schedules, and product-node relationship data. A measured lead time generator receives electronic data interchange (EDI) events, receipts, and purchase order data and calculates an actual lead time for the first node and second node. The actual lead time can be compared with the configured lead time to evaluate performance of different aspects of the supply chain. Lead time estimates can be adjusted based on actual lead times that are measured by the measured lead time generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TARGET BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Gagan Mahajan, Praveen Kumar Kumaresen, Abhilash Koneri, Kraig Narr
  • Patent number: 11138655
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing device, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a recording medium having the information program recorded therein which can present, to a seller, information which enables a setting of, for example, adequate putting-up conditions according to a putting-up purpose of an item. The information processing device acquires transaction history information of an item related to item information of an item specified by a seller for putting-up, from a database which stores transaction history information of items put up in the past. Further, the information processing device extracts transaction history information of other items which suit to a putting-up purpose of the item by the seller, as suited transaction history information, from the extracted transaction history information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Kentaro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11132731
    Abstract: The method and system for recommending, monitoring, selecting and delivering gifts includes maintaining a transaction profile and target profile in a data network for a giver, maintaining target sub-profiles corresponding to each recipient listed in the transaction profile, transmitting an alert, presenting a gift selection menu formed by a plurality of recommended gift options, choosing a selected gift option from the gift selection menu, transmitting a notice of the selected gift option to the recipient, and storing a response. Each gift option has been identified with a target rating from a filtered array of primary factors of the target profile. The array is filtered by a target template for the primary factors. The filtered array can be revised for increased accuracy. The response of the recipient includes accepting or rejecting, including re-gifting and consolidating, handling complex gift items, and revising the target templates for subsequent gifts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventor: Elizabeth Boruhovin
  • Patent number: 11113630
    Abstract: A correlithm object processing system that includes a trainer configured to send a node entry request to a node engine that triggers the node engine to generate an entry in a node table. The trainer is further configured to receive a source correlithm object and a target correlithm object in response to sending the node entry request. The trainer is further configured to send a real world input value and the source correlithm object to a sensor engine which triggers the sensor engine to generate an entry in a sensor table linking the real world input value and the source correlithm object. The trainer is further configured to send a real world output value and the target correlithm object to an actor engine which triggers the actor engine to generate an entry in an actor table linking the real world output value and the target correlithm object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Patrick N. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 11106515
    Abstract: A computing system includes a network circuit configured to communicate data over a network, an accounts database configured to store information pertaining to accounts associated with a plurality of customers, and a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs). The computing system also includes an integration circuit configured to receive a plurality of indications from different third parties of third party preferences to integrate different ones of the functionalities into different third party services. The integration circuit is further configured to select different subsets of the plurality of APIs for the different third parties based on functionalities identified via the indications. The integration circuit is further configured to provide, via a first selected subset of the plurality of APIs, information associated with a first functionality to an external device to facilitate access to the first functionality via a first third party service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Lila Fakhraie, Jennifer Greene, Christopher J. Hirth, Ashish B. Kurani, Andrea Renee Leighton, Margot Lockwood-Stein, Benjamin Soccorsy, Ronald H. Yang, Young M. Yang
  • Patent number: 11106682
    Abstract: A decision platform can be a computer-implemented platform for predicting and increasing the likelihood that directed information is relevant to a user or device. The decision platform can have capabilities for predicting rates of interactivity with the directed information updating models, and reacting to directed information inventory changes in real-time without human intervention. The decision platform can use a three-dimensional logistic regression model to predict interactivity based in part on a user interactivity rate, a directed information interactivity rate, and a placement interactivity rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Mandeep Waraich
  • Patent number: 11102357
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to generate audience measurement data from population sample data having incomplete demographic classifications are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Dipti Umesh Shah, Antonia Toupet