Patents Examined by Allison Wood
  • Patent number: 9799062
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing information regarding a product that is unique to a geographical region. In one or more embodiments a method may include determining a location of a user, receiving information indicative of one or more products unique to a particular geographical region corresponding to the determined location of the user, wherein each of the one or more products are offered for sale in the particular region by one or more merchants, and providing information about at least one of the products and about a merchant, from the one or more merchants, offering that product for sale in the geographical region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Lakshmi Narasimhan, Saikrishna Vaidyanathan, Muthukumar Ramasamymadasamy
  • Patent number: 9767499
    Abstract: A system is provided that searches and matches data. The system receives a payload including one or more data values, where the one or more data values represent an item configuration. The system further generates a match key for the payload that includes at least one data value of the one or more data values. The system further compares the match key with one or more match keys stored in a match repository. The system further retrieves a configuration item identity from the match repository when the match key matches a match key stored in the match repository, where the configuration item identity represents a previously ordered item configuration. The system further generates a new configuration item identity when the match key does not match a match key stored in the match repository, where the new configuration item identity represents the item configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel, Kshitij Ranjan, William Brand, Michael Lizio, Stephanie Merenda
  • Patent number: 9741011
    Abstract: An order and delivery system to be deployed over a regional delivery area includes a business, and a network of mobile storefronts that contain stored inventory and operate within the regional delivery area. An order server receives a query from a consumer, then determines the consumer's geolocation, verifies that the consumer's geolocation is within the regional delivery area, then logically pairs the consumer with the most strategic mobile storefront. The mobile storefront includes calculating and processing equipment and an onboard computer that receives the order from the consumer, evaluates a current location and heading of the mobile storefront, monitors real-time inventory on board the mobile storefront, prioritizes the order against other orders in queue, determines navigation and routing, estimates a time of arrival (ETA) to the consumer's geolocation, and communicates the ETA to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: MAIN GRADE ASSETS, LLC
    Inventor: James Beach-Drummond
  • Patent number: 9710845
    Abstract: In an example, aspects of this disclosure relate to a process for electronic commerce that includes providing, at a website of a manufacturer, an indication of one or more products for sale by the manufacturer, wherein the one or more products are distributed by a distributor that is distinct from the manufacturer. The process also includes receiving an indication of an intent to purchase the one or more products by a customer and an identification number that uniquely identifies the customer, and, in response to receiving the indication of the intent to purchase and the customer identification number, generating order information comprising data identifying the one or more products and data identifying the customer. The process also includes initiating an order with the distributor using the order information without transitioning to a website of the distributor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Keith R. Haig
  • Patent number: 9665902
    Abstract: Provided is a method, system, and a computer-readable recording medium for providing a personalized recommendation of products. The method may include extracting product recommendations corresponding to a prescribed recommendation time period using two or more purchase cycle algorithms, the purchase cycle algorithms configured to calculate purchase cycles of products for a customer. The method may further include performing performance evaluation, using a processor, with respect to the product recommendations extracted using each of the purchase cycle algorithms, and recommending to the customer the product recommendation extracted from the purchase cycle algorithm having a highest ranking based on the performance evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: LG CNS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwan Muk Lee, Dae Sik Lee, Byung Keug Kim, Soo Min Kim, Min Yong Park, Han Yi Song, Dong Yoon Lee, Yoon Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 9519931
    Abstract: Systems and methods of personalized actionable notifications are disclosed. In some example embodiments, event information indicating an event for an item is received, a determination is made to provide a notification of the event to the user based on the event information and user activity information for the user, the notification is generated based on the determination, and the generated notification is caused to be displayed on a screen of the computing device via an application on a computing device of the user without causing the computing device to leave a context of content being displayed on the computing device prior to the notification being displayed on the computing device, the application being independent of the context, the notification overlaying the content, and the notification further comprising at least one user interface element configured to enable the user to request an action to be performed for the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Piper, Mark Joseph Eppolito
  • Patent number: 9514491
    Abstract: A device and method of capturing one or more images and determining associated interest information are provided. After receiving a data input, an item is identified based on the data input. Subsequently, an instruction to capture an image of the item is received and the image of the item is captured in response thereto. An interest level of the item is measured based on a quantity of times that the image of the item is captured and the interest information is then provided to a server device. The interest information may be used to identify an interest level trend of the item, and/or create or update a user profile that stores information regarding the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventor: Mary Christine Virginia Baynham Pitts
  • Patent number: 9424599
    Abstract: A process stores, at a data storage device within a product and/or a product package, data associated with a bundle of products and/or services. Further, the process sends, from a proximity-based device within the product and/or the product package, the data to a mobile device when the mobile device is within a proximity to the proximity-based device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Acosta, Edward Drake, Mark Arana