Patents Examined by Afaf Osman Bilal Ahmed
  • Patent number: 10269039
    Abstract: An Internet telematics service providing system and method that may provide various Web contents and information is disclosed. The Internet telematics service providing system may include a request information receiver to receive request information about the Internet telematics service from a telematics system of a vehicle, a content selector to select Internet content associated with the request information via an Internet content providing server, and a content providing unit to provide the selected content to the telematics system. The telematics system may output the content to a user in an auditory form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyung Bo Nam, Choong Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 9854058
    Abstract: A third-party profile service based on a proxy server model is described, where a user's profile service resides at a URL, in contrast to a profile service that requires federation identity. A profile service is provided that augments location-based services offered by service providers targeting mobile users via, for example, wireless and Wifi Networks. Additional personalization is driven by identity/profile services. Participants in the scenario are not required to share an identity or profile (i.e., static federation is not required). The user establishes a single profile with a trusted provider, hands-off solicitations to a profile agent that operates on behalf of the user to apply policies and preferences. The agent also provides privacy and anonymity (opaqueness).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sreenivasa Rao Gorti, David Patron, Paul VanVleck, Javier B. Arellano
  • Patent number: 9785950
    Abstract: The present invention assists the critical real-time decision making required to make important decision on bidding on various customer procurement commodities in a telephonic sales market. The invention provides dynamic pricing as a function of Internet or other types of advertisement costs for the telephonic market. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is a virtual or physical e-commerce application with an interface connected to the telephonic routing system. A tracking identifier is used with an advertisement, usually a web-based ad, and routed via the vendor to the analysis and procurement system to measure advertising channel effectiveness. A pool of bidders can analyze the tracking data for effective and bid and procure an automated or manual 1800 sales call from a consumer based on a number of factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Inventor: Scott Dresden
  • Patent number: 8458025
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for generating scores related to interactions with a service provider partner. A historical dataset corresponding to a historical behavior of a set of service provider partners may be identified. The historical dataset may be processed to identify a feature vector. A classifier model may be generated from the historical dataset and the feature vector. Current service provider partner data representing a current service provider partner may be collected. The current service provider partner data may be processed to generate a current service provider partner feature vector. A score may be generated by applying the classifier model to the current service provider partner data feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Calvin Kuo, Craig Auzenne
  • Patent number: 8452648
    Abstract: A computer-assisted method of facilitating the marketing, redemption, and reimbursement of prepaid vehicle services in a vehicle service network. A network administrator screens vehicle service stations, and accepted participant service stations pay fees, which may be used to advertise the network to consumers. The network administrator enrolls consumers in the network as members, and receives prepaid vehicle service fees from the members to credit member accounts in exchange for vehicle services to be rendered by the participant service stations. The administrator issues voucher data to the members and associates the voucher data with member accounts. Members redeem the voucher data at participant service stations, wherein the voucher data is used to verify membership, authorize vehicle services at the participant service stations, and debit the member accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Inventors: Romelo Daher, Tim Barnette