Patents Examined by Alexandru Cirnu
  • Patent number: 11676080
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system of managing digital queues for multiple store locations are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by an enterprise computing system associated with the branch location, a request from a mobile device based on the mobile device navigating to a uniform resource locator (URL) from scanning a code associated with the branch location, in response to the request, causing a graphical user interface (GUI) to display on the mobile device that prompts a user for additional information regarding the request, receiving, from the mobile device via the GUI, the additional information including identity information regarding the user and a reason for the request, identifying a queue specific to the branch location based on the request and additional information, adding the user to the queue, and providing, by the enterprise computing system, a confirmation notification to the user indicating that the user has been added to the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Pamela Murphy, Therese Rainsbarger, Louann Millar, Jonathan Hartsell, Pankaj Parekh
  • Patent number: 11669852
    Abstract: In a wallet server including a processor having hardware, the processor acquires image information that includes a captured image of food provided to a user transmitted from a store terminal of a store providing the food, and user information related to the user provided with the food, and associates the acquired image information with the user information and transmits a display instruction to instruct display of the image information and a screen for accepting input of evaluation for the food to a user terminal of the user determined based on the user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika Tanaka, Hideo Hasegawa, Nozomu Yoshioka, Tsuyoshi Takeshita, Shoichiro Suzuki, Kohei Ichihara, Shota Yamamoto, Junya Chikanishi
  • Patent number: 11645671
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating dynamic content item recommendations are provided. Content item information, extracted from message data, is aggregated to calculate popularity and attributes of content items. The content items are ranked based upon the popularity and attributes to generate a ranked list of content items. Exploration traffic is served utilizing a set of eligible content items selected from the ranked list of content items. An eligible content item is promoted for participation in auctions for serving non-exploration traffic based upon the eligible content item being served a threshold number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Ariel Raviv, Yair Koren, Eliran Abutbul, Omer Duvdevany
  • Patent number: 11640627
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes receiving merchant profile data describing attributes of merchants; generating, using one or more machine-trained models and the merchant profile data, a respective first profile for each merchant of the merchants; generating, using the one or more machine-trained models, a respective second profile for each of the plurality of merchant services using at least one type of description for each of the plurality of merchant services, wherein the respective first profile for each merchant and the respective second profile for each of the plurality of merchant services are numerically comparable; identifying a list of merchant service recommendations for at least one of the merchants using generated first profiles and second profiles; and configuring a merchant computing device of the at least one merchant with at least one merchant service selected by the merchant from the list of merchant service recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephane Fotso, Zaki Ali
  • Patent number: 11636515
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communicator, and a processor configured to recognize a context in a game which is running in the electronic device, receive an advertisement content from an external server through the communicator, modify the received advertisement content based on the context, and control the display to display a game screen in which the modified advertisement content is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Cheil Worldwide Inc.
    Inventors: Jaehyuck Shin, Sanghyo Kim, Changsoo Moon, Kichan Ryu, Daewon Cho
  • Patent number: 11599919
    Abstract: An information exchange environment may be maintained. The information exchange environment may be configurable to allow users of an application or service to exchange suggestion data with product development. A user interface may be displayed on a device of a first user of the application or service. A request from the first user to submit first suggestion data may be processed. The first suggestion data may be classified. The first suggestion data may be provided to a first product development entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc
    Inventors: Adam McCormick Doti, Carly Berman, Jennifer Sacks, Daniel Everett Jemiolo, Kristen Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 11587110
    Abstract: A television service provider system includes interactive elements embedded within advertisements or other content related to a particular product or service that a user may select to receive an initially non-redeemable coupon for the product. The system then electronically communicates to the seller or advertiser system the indications of such electronic interactivity between the viewers of content and content related to the product being sold or advertised. The advertiser or seller may then electronically activate and thus convert the non-redeemable coupon into a redeemable coupon. A system for processing retail transactions redeems the coupons for the product for a particular user using an identifier of the user associated with the account of the user with the television service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
    Inventors: Kate Megan Carney Landow, Joerg Nonnenmacher
  • Patent number: 11587061
    Abstract: A system and method of interaction with beacons to execute a multiple layer authenticated transaction process including receiving a signal from the beacon, analyzing a relative signal strength of the beacon, enabling a portable computer device to complete the digital transaction based on the proximity of the portable computer device to an item for purchase. A first user verification input is additionally received via the portable computer system. In response to the first user verification, receiving a verification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Duane Cash, Patrick Faith, Scott Edington
  • Patent number: 11579766
    Abstract: A computing device can receive an interactive advertisement comprising a first content object and a second content object. The computing device can display the first content object corresponding to a collapsed version of the interactive advertisement. The computing device can receive a first action to activate the interactive advertisement. The computing device can provide for display, responsive to receiving the first action, a target object identifying a location on the display screen to which to move the first content object. The computing device can receive a second action to move the first content object towards the target object. The computing device can then provide for display, the second content object corresponding to an expanded version of the interactive ad on the display screen of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Brian Scot Cohen, Lloyd Dee Thompson, Armen Mkrtchyan
  • Patent number: 11551262
    Abstract: Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods to determine when a user remains engaged or stops paying attention to a content item. In response, a snapshot of the user's activity and environment may be obtained to ascertain the reason the user stopped paying attention. If the user stopped paying attention as a result of being uninterested in the content item, the system may replace the content item, such as an advertisement, with a different content item to regain the user's attention. Further, demographic information and the user's interests may be updated for use in scheduling future content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sallas, Ross Gilson, Chris Bastian, Slade Mitchell, Amit Garg, John Leddy
  • Patent number: 11551191
    Abstract: A computing system can establish asynchronous network communications with exchanges to facilitate cross-medium transactions between originating and recipient clients. Such communications can result in filtering out errant responses that would otherwise cause an open transaction to fail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ripple Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Conner McNamara, Dadi Armannsson, Gunnar Kristjansson
  • Patent number: 11532008
    Abstract: Systems and methods for interfacing with a third-party website. In one embodiment, a computer system is configured to directly interface with a website via a webpage to change certain numerical values through the use of digital codes. The digital codes are applied to a data entry interface on the webpage, and the responses are monitored and transmitted back to a server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Ryan David Hudson
  • Patent number: 11521258
    Abstract: Systems and methods for gift selection, attribution, and distribution are provided. The systems and methods may detect a gifting signal that is associated with an event corresponding to a recipient. The systems and methods can provide an option to generate a gift for the recipient. If the option is selected, the systems and methods can identify a set of product criteria associated with the event and the recipient. Based on the criteria, the systems and methods can obtain product selection options for the gift and provide these options to a gift sender. In response to a selection from the gift sender, the systems and methods can generate the gift, which includes a redemption option for the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: LOOP COMMERCE, INC.
    Inventors: Alex Sirota, Subha Shetty, Soren Mills, Shane Parrish, Gabriel Saunkeah
  • Patent number: 11494707
    Abstract: A system and method for determining location information of a portable device relative to an object is provided. In one embodiment, a booking control system is provided for booking a resource or service associated with the object. The system and method may determine location information with respect to the portable device, and identify the user as checked-in or checked-out (e.g., the resource is in-use or out of use) based on the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eric John Smith
  • Patent number: 11481791
    Abstract: A computer-implement method of predicting commercial effectiveness of a piece of media content without collecting data from potential consumers. The method comprises extracting an information-rich content-based parameter from the media content. The parameter may be a vector having a predetermined, e.g. fixed, dimensionality that is designed as an input in a performance data prediction engine. By enabling the same type of parameter to be extracted from media content of different types and durations, the technique proposed allows media content for which performance data has already been gathered to be used to predict performance data for new media content. The prediction can be done based on a comparison of the content-based parameters extracted from media content. Alternatively, machine learning techniques may be used to generate a model using known performance data, whereby the model can use the content-based parameter from new media content to predict performance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: REALEYES OÜ
    Inventors: Elnar Hajiyev, Martin Salo, Javier Orozco
  • Patent number: 11475478
    Abstract: A networked computerized advertising system used for integrating, processing and displaying location-based advertising information is provided. The system comprises at least one computing device, and a network that connects the computing device with multiple playback endpoints. The computing device includes a data storage subsystem component that stores information about the multiple end points, a data entry subsystem component that allows input of the information about the multiple end points, and a data analytics component programmed to process the information about the multiple end points and compute optimal advertising playback plans for each endpoint. Playbacks at endpoints are continuously monitored, and the playback plans are repeatedly reconstructed to provide flexible advertising campaigns to be customized in accordance with the schedule and the operations of the host business.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: REFLECT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: David Allen Kopaniky, Adam Lockhart
  • Patent number: 11461801
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for determining and resolving semantic misalignments between digital messages containing links and corresponding external digital content. For example, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems compare semantic message features from the digital message with semantic external digital content features from the external digital content. More specifically, in at least one embodiment, the disclosed systems compare semantic message feature vectors and semantic external digital content feature vectors to determine a relevance score for the digital message and identify semantic misalignments. Additionally, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems provide for display a user interface that presents a plurality of digital messages, the linked external digital content, and identified semantic misalignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Tak Yeon Lee, Eunyee Koh
  • Patent number: 11449889
    Abstract: A mobile wallet system includes an account module comprising a physical memory database to store account information associated with a plurality of transaction devices issued to a consumer, a location module comprising a location device to determine location information of the consumer, a reward program module comprising a physical memory database to store reward information of a plurality of reward programs associated with the plurality of transaction devices, a payment method module executed on a computer processor to determine a transaction device of the plurality of transaction devices that maximizes a reward for the consumer based at least in part on the account information, the location information and the reward information, and a processing module executed on a computer processor to use the determined transaction device to complete a transaction to purchase products or services in order to maximize rewards for the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TracFone Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Collart
  • Patent number: 11449891
    Abstract: A server comprises a communications module; a processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to monitor an active webpage associated with a web browser executing on a computing device; determine that the active webpage associated with the web browser meets predetermined criteria, the predetermined criteria including determining that the active webpage is found in a whitelist; and in response to determining that the active webpage meets the predetermined criteria, send, via the communications module and to the computing device, a signal causing the computing device to display an indicator indicating an option to apply loyalty points to offset a purchase price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Nolan Glynn-Udrow, Sahana Dorai
  • Patent number: 11443180
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for mapping review articles to locations in a marketplace catalog. Various embodiments include training a system using product reviews and images from the marketplace as training data. Product reviews and images can be provided to autoencoders to generate respective short codes. The product review short codes can be combined with the product image short codes to generate review short codes. These review short codes can be provided as training data for an attribute assignment network while associated attributes (e.g., attributes associated with related products) can be target outputs for the attribute assignment network. After the system is sufficiently trained, a review article can be obtained from the publishing platform. This review article can be provided to the trained system to receive predicted attribute assignments. These predicted attribute assignments can be effective to map the review article to locations in a marketplace catalog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: A9.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Adrian Boteanu, Shay Artzi, Adam Kiezun, Raju Matta