Patents Assigned to Vast.com, Inc.
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Patent number: 10127596Abstract: The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for generating recommendations of dynamic or unique items. A system for generating recommendations of unique items comprises a data collection engine, a scoring engine, a user penalty calculator, and a recommendation compilation engine, wherein the recommendation engine is configured to transmit to a user access point system a list of recommended alternative unique items predicted to be preferred by a user of the user access point system.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: VAST.COM, INC.Inventors: David Wayne Franke, Joshua Howard Levy, Hans Ulrich Grasemann, Lauri Janet Moore, David Pratt, William T. Moose, Andrew K. Moore, John William Prior
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Patent number: 10115074Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: VAST.COM, INC.Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandar Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
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Patent number: 10109001Abstract: The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for determining and displaying market relative positions and/or attributes of unique items. A visualization system for generating electronic visualizations of market-relative attributes of unique items comprises an item selection receiver, a visualization compilation engine, and a rendering engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: VAST.COM, INC.Inventors: Joshua Howard Levy, Thomas Wyatt Wilbur, Lauri Moore, Ron Maire Kurti, Benjamin David Cohen, Gary Joseph Marcotte
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Patent number: 10007946Abstract: The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for measuring similarity of and generating recommendations for unique items. A recommendation system for generating recommendations of alternative unique items comprises an items information database, a penalty computation engine, a recommendation compilation engine, and one or more computers, wherein the penalty computation engine comprises a customizations filter, a condition filter, and a dissimilarity penalty calculator for determine the dissimilarity of attributes of alternative unique items from a plurality of selected items.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Howard Levy, Lauri Janet Feldman, Andrew Philip Dove
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Patent number: 9830635Abstract: The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for determining and displaying market relative positions and/or attributes of unique items. A visualization system for generating electronic visualizations of market-relative attributes of unique items comprises an item selection receiver, a visualization compilation engine, and a rendering engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Howard Levy, Thomas Wyatt Wilbur, Lauri Janet Moore, Ron Maire Kurti, Benjamin David Cohen, Gary Joseph Marcotte
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Patent number: 9799000Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: VAST.COM, INC.Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandar Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
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Patent number: 9710843Abstract: The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for measuring similarity of and generating recommendations for unique items. A recommendation system for generating recommendations of alternative unique items comprises an items information database, a penalty computation engine, a recommendation compilation engine, and one or more computers, wherein the penalty computation engine comprises a customizations filter, a condition filter, and a dissimilarity penalty calculator.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: VAST.COM, INC.Inventors: Joshua Howard Levy, David Wayne Franke
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Patent number: 9690857Abstract: The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items. A significant attributes system for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items comprises an item analysis engine, at least one driver models database, and a model building engine, wherein the item analysis engine comprises an item description receiver and one or more driver calculators.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: VAST.COM, INC.Inventors: David Wayne Franke, Thomas Wyatt Wilbur
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Patent number: 9465873Abstract: The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items. A significant attributes system for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items comprises an item analysis engine, at least one driver models database, and a model building engine, wherein the item analysis engine comprises an item description receiver and one or more driver calculators.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: David Wayne Franke, Thomas Wyatt Wilbur
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Patent number: 9324104Abstract: The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for measuring similarity of and generating recommendations for unique items. A recommendation system for generating recommendations of alternative unique items comprises an items information database, a penalty computation engine, a recommendation compilation engine, and one or more computers, wherein the penalty computation engine comprises a customizations filter, a condition filter, and a dissimilarity penalty calculator.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Howard Levy, David Wayne Franke
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Patent number: 9104718Abstract: The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for measuring similarity of and generating recommendations for unique items. A recommendation system for generating recommendations of alternative unique items comprises an items information database, a penalty computation engine, a recommendation compilation engine, and one or more computers, wherein the penalty computation engine comprises a customizations filter, a condition filter, and a dissimilarity penalty calculator.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Howard Levy, David Wayne Franke
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Patent number: 8868572Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandar Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
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Patent number: 8375037Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The system and method can includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information by comparing the information to other item information, weighting the information for the item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the item of interest, and presenting the information of the item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandr Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
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Patent number: 8326845Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The system and method can includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information by comparing the information to other item information, weighting the information for the item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the item of interest, and presenting the information of the item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandr Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
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Publication number: 20120143924Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: VAST.COM, INC.Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandr Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
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Publication number: 20120143861Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The system and method can includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information by comparing the information to other item information, weighting the information for the item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the item of interest, and presenting the information of the item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: VAST.COM, INC.Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandr Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
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Patent number: 8126881Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandr Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws