Patents Assigned to GURUNAVI, INC.
  • Patent number: 11961090
    Abstract: A payment support system includes a communication state determination processing unit, a payment processing unit, and a notification processing unit. The communication state determination processing unit determines a communication state of a user terminal of a user who uses a facility. The payment processing unit executes a process concerning payment of a use price of the facility when the communication state determination processing unit determines that communication of the user terminal has been interrupted. The notification processing unit causes at least one of the user terminal and a facility terminal installed in the facility to notify predetermined information when the communication state determination processing unit determines that communication of the user terminal has been interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11875334
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of improving a convenience of a user in an information code payment. A shop terminal includes: an authentication information acquiring unit configured to acquire authentication information corresponding to a user terminal; an authentication information transmitting unit configured to transmit the authentication information acquired by the authentication information acquiring unit to a plurality of payment apparatuses; and an authentication result acquiring unit configured to acquire an authentication result for the authentication information from at least one of the plurality of payment apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11769190
    Abstract: An image search apparatus includes a search processing unit and a display processing unit. The search processing unit extracts one or more images that meet a search condition, from a plurality of images associated with user accounts. The display processing unit displays the one or more images extracted by the search processing unit in such a manner that types of user accounts corresponding to the images can be discriminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventor: Seiichiro Kubo
  • Publication number: 20230214908
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first service server that provides a first service. The system includes a communication circuitry and a control circuitry. The communication circuitry communicates with a user terminal of a user not having a first account of the first service and with a second service server that provides a second service different from the first service. The control circuitry sends a purchase request screen to the user terminal when a purchase request for a commodity or service has been received from the user terminal, inquires of the second service server whether or not the user has a second account associated with predetermined identification information of the user when the identification information is entered on the purchase request screen, and sends display information for registering the first account and performing linking processing of the first account and the second account when the user has the associated account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventors: Koji OBANA, Airi KATO, Risako IWATA, Jiro HASHIMOTO, Yui HAMATANI, Kotaro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230214897
    Abstract: A system including a first server that provides a first service is provided and includes communication and control circuitry. The communication circuitry communicates with a terminal of a user having a first account of the first service and with a second server that provides a second service. The control circuitry sends a request screen to the terminal when a request for a commodity or service has been received from the terminal in a non-logged-in state with the first account, inquires of the second server or a server associated with the second server whether the user has a second account associated with identification information of the user when the identification information is entered on the request screen, and sends, to the terminal, display information for logging in with the first account and performing linking processing of the first account and the second account when the user has the associated account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Gurunavi, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji OBANA, Airi KATO, Risako IWATA, Jiro HASHIMOTO, Yui HAMATANI, Kotaro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220382816
    Abstract: To optimize content of a webpage in a manner that depends on whether or not a user has linked accounts to each other. The solving means is an information processing apparatus including a storage unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The storage unit stores information regarding a first account of each of a plurality of users and first content and second content to be placed on a webpage. The communication unit communicates with a user terminal of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Gurunavi, Inc.
    Inventor: Koji OBANA
  • Patent number: 11507637
    Abstract: To optimize content of a webpage in a manner that depends on whether or not a user has linked accounts to each other. The solving means is an information processing apparatus including a storage unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The storage unit stores information regarding a first account of each of a plurality of users and first content and second content to be placed on a webpage. The communication unit communicates with a user terminal of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Gurunavi, Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Obana
  • Patent number: 11436273
    Abstract: An image search apparatus includes a search processing unit, a first display processing unit, and a second display processing unit. The search processing unit extracts one or more images that meet a search condition, from a plurality of images associated with user accounts. The first display processing unit displays, as a result of search, the one or more images extracted by the search processing unit. The second display processing unit displays a predetermined specific page when, among the one or more images displayed as the result of search, a personally photographed image is operated, the personally photographed image being an image associated with a first-type user account and photographed at a facility corresponding to a second-type user account that is different from the first-type user account, the specific page corresponding to the second-type user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11386275
    Abstract: A menu generation system including a menu item information storage that stores menu information for each restaurant, a menu item property master storage that stores menu item properties including at least any one set of a plurality of ingredients that are used in menu items, a plurality of seasonings that are used in the menu items or a plurality of cooking styles of the menu items, processing circuitry that receives a request to edit a menu item property in the first language, consults the menu item property master storage, extracts choices of menu item properties, causes the extracted choices to be displayed, and receives input of a selected choice from among the displayed choices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Gurunavi, Inc.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Kubo, Makito Chiba, Hiroto Sumida, Koichiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11321699
    Abstract: A payment support system includes a terminal ID acquisition processing unit, a position acquisition processing unit, an association processing unit, and a payment processing unit. The terminal ID acquisition processing unit acquires identification information of a user terminal of a user who entered a facility. The position acquisition processing unit acquires position information of the user terminal. The association processing unit stores the identification information acquired by the terminal ID acquisition processing unit and a use price of the facility of the user in a storage unit in association with each other. The payment processing unit executes a payment process of the use price when the user terminal is separated from a predetermined area of the facility by a predetermined distance or more after exiting the predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventors: Shoki Aoyama, Hiroki Ono
  • Patent number: 11315096
    Abstract: A payment support system includes a terminal ID acquisition processing unit, a position acquisition processing unit, an association processing unit, and a payment processing unit. The terminal ID acquisition processing unit acquires identification information of a user terminal of a user who entered a facility. The position acquisition processing unit acquires position information of the user terminal. The association processing unit stores the identification information acquired by the terminal ID acquisition processing unit and a use price of the facility of the user in a storage unit in association with each other. The payment processing unit executes a payment process of the use price when a predetermined time has elapsed since the user terminal exited a predetermined area of the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventors: Asato Kubo, Rie Komori
  • Patent number: 11232164
    Abstract: An information providing method includes determining whether a request for displaying a retrieval result page has been made in a specific website including the retrieval result page on which a retrieval target extracted under retrieval conditions including one or a plurality of retrieval items, among a plurality of retrieval targets registered in advance, is displayed. Displayed contents are changed in accordance with whether or not the display request has been made in the specific website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Gurunavi, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nishizawa, Ryo Suzuki, Yoko Kawatsu
  • Patent number: 11221722
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes an information storage unit configured to store a plurality of types of information concerning objects, a first display data providing unit configured to provide first display data for arranging and displaying a plurality of display regions on a display screen of a user terminal in a predetermined display shape respectively in correspondence with a plurality of objects such that a part of the information stored in the information storage unit is displayed in the plurality of display regions, a switching instruction acquiring unit configured to acquire a switching instruction from the user terminal, the switching instruction instructing to switch among the plurality of types of information concerning the objects, and an information switching unit configured to, when the switching instruction acquiring unit has acquired the switching instruction, switch a type of information displayed in the display regions based on the first display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventor: Seiichiro Kubo
  • Patent number: 11200270
    Abstract: A search condition related to image and text stored in a first database is associated with the image and the text, and an information providing unit selects the image and the text associated with a received search condition from among images related to a facility associated with a facility information extracted by a search processing unit and the text describing the service provided at the facility, generates search result guide data in which the extracted facility information and the selected image and the selected text are included, and provides the search result guide data to a user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Komuro, Ryota Kimura, Kazumu Sugawara, Takao Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11137892
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes an information storage unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of information concerning objects, a first display data providing unit configured to provide first display data for arranging and displaying a plurality of display regions on a display screen of a user terminal in a predetermined display shape respectively in correspondence with a plurality of objects such that a part of the information stored in the information storage unit is displayed in the plurality of display regions, a switching instruction acquiring unit configured to acquire a switching instruction from the user terminal in response to a first operation performed on the display regions displayed on the display screen, and an information switching unit configured to, when the switching instruction acquiring unit has acquired the switching instruction, switch information displayed in the display regions based on the first display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20210287270
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a memory, communication circuitry and processing circuitry. The memory stores restaurant information containing menu item information for a plurality of menu items at each of a plurality of restaurants. The communication circuitry receives a restaurant search request including a menu item name from a user terminal. The processing circuitry generates a list of the restaurants determined to include at least one menu item corresponding to the menu item name based on the restaurant information, and controls the communication circuitry to transmit a search result page to the user terminal for display. The search result page contains one or more of the at least one menu item corresponding to the menu item name at each of the restaurants in the list of the restaurants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Gurunavi, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi NISHIZAWA, Yuki KAMIGAWA
  • Patent number: 11100112
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, system, method, and program are provided. The information processing apparatus includes storage circuitry, communication circuitry and control circuitry. The storage circuitry stores ingredients classification information that is information obtained by classifying ingredients into upper and lower classes. The communication circuitry receives menu information from a user terminal. The control circuitry specifies each low-order ingredient that is an ingredient included in a lower class of each high-order ingredient, which is an ingredient of an upper class, from the ingredients classification information in a case where the high-order ingredient is included in the menu information, controls the communication circuitry to transmit ingredient information including information of the low-order ingredient to the user terminal, and receives registration of the menu information when the communication circuitry receives the menu information including the low-order ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20210224489
    Abstract: A server connectable to a memory unit that stores a first master that associates an expression in a first language with an expression in a second language of a plurality of terms belonging to each category for each of a plurality of categories and a second master that associates a plurality of terms belonging to a key category with a template that defines an arrangement order of the terms in a case where the name including each term is expressed in the second language, and a terminal is controlled so as to transmitting selection data for allowing a user of the terminal to select the terms in the first language to the terminal, receiving the selected terms from the terminal, specifying the template associated with the selected terms belonging to the key category, arranging expressions in the second language of the selected terms in an arrangement order defined by the specified template to generate an expression in the second language of the name including the selected terms, and transmitting the expression in
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Gurunavi, Inc.
    Inventor: Satoshi OHISA
  • Patent number: 11055637
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control circuitry that judges that a mealtime of a user is included between a schedule time of departure of a mobile object that travels while carrying the user and a schedule time of arrival of the mobile object, estimates a location where the mobile object is traveling during the mealtime, and generates search conditions of restaurant search for extracting restaurants located within a first distance from the estimated location where the mobile object is traveling and located a second distance away from at least one of a point of departure and a destination of the mobile object, from restaurant information associated with location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: GURUNAVI, INC.
    Inventor: Shoko Hokari
  • Publication number: 20210173890
    Abstract: To optimize content of a webpage in a manner that depends on whether or not a user has linked accounts to each other. The solving means is an information processing apparatus including a storage unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The storage unit stores information regarding a first account of each of a plurality of users and first content and second content to be placed on a webpage. The communication unit communicates with a user terminal of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Gurunavi, Inc.
    Inventor: Koji OBANA