Patents Examined by Alvin L Brown
  • Patent number: 11640623
    Abstract: A first data packet can be received from an origination terminal at a remote server operatively coupled to the origination terminal and an end user terminal. The first data packet can have a plurality of offers and image or video data acquired by an image/video sensor. The image or video data can be processed by the remote server using an image processing algorithm to estimate a current idle time associated with the origination terminal. One or more aspects of the plurality of offers can be controlled by the remote server based on the current idle time. A second data packet including the plurality of offers can be transmitted to the end user terminal by the remote server. A selection of a preferred offer of the plurality of offers can be received from the end user terminal at the remote server. The preferred offer can be provided to the origination terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Wayne Fueling Systems LLC
    Inventors: Sangamesh Gundappa, Anand Krishna, Raghav Verma, Shubhankar Sundriyal, Om Prakash Gupta, Hob Hairston, Henry Fieglein
  • Patent number: 11636506
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for classifying merchants. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising providing, a first promotion specifying a redemption and a charge monetary values, the redemption monetary value being specified by redemption parameters of the first promotion and a value indicative of a total amount of funds purchased in response to accepting an instance of the first promotion, wherein the funds purchased can be redeemed for offerings of one or more merchants specified by the promotion, the charge monetary value being a monetary value charged for accepting the first promotion, and providing a first classification classifying the first promotion as a promotion having a redemption monetary value that may be used to purchase offerings of the one or more merchants over the course of multiple transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Dylan C. Reynolds, Alan Deitch
  • Patent number: 11620664
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses may provide for the auto-determination of partial usage of a physical environment and use derived intelligence to take various actions. This may allow for partial resulting maintenance of the physical environment based on a single use or use over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Koch, Nikhil Marathe, James Pratt, Ari Craine, Eric Zavesky, Timothy Innes, Nigel Bradley
  • Patent number: 11615448
    Abstract: Methods and systems of facilitating at least one purchase over at least one network between at least one buyer and at least one seller are disclosed. Personal information from the at least one buyer can be stored. The personal information can be utilized to assign at least one account identifier to the at least one buyer. The at least one buyer can use the at least one account identifier to process payment over the at least one network for the at least one purchase from the at least one seller, such that the at least one seller does not obtain the personal information of the at least one buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: EMIGRANT BANK
    Inventors: Howard P. Milstein, David M. Seldin, Daniel P. Gregerson
  • Patent number: 11599896
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for acquisition of an item or service based on a directed content campaign. Embodiments include a computing system that can detect selection of directed content presented at a user device. The directed content identifies a mobile application and an action that results in the item being granted. After installation of the mobile application, the computing system can receive a device identifier of the user device in response to execution of the mobile application. The computing system can then generate data identifying events within the mobile application. The computing system can determine, using the user activity data, that a particular one of those events corresponds to the action, and can then generate a message that identifies the action and the item or service. The message also includes address data for a user interface to obtain the item or service. The computing system can then cause the user device to present the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew David Craig
  • Patent number: 11580572
    Abstract: A digital advertising system includes at least one processor configured to execute a plurality of functional modules including an analytics module to receive and analyze client attributes associated with a website visitor and a requested website to define an analytics event. The analytics module ingests and enriches data within the analytics event and provides it to a machine learning module that generates prediction models for potential bids. A management platform receives the bidding prediction and generates candidate configs. An optimization module receives the candidate configs and applies weights and additional features to select a config and generate an optimized script for the selected config. A deployment module receives the optimized script and delivers the script to the website visitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PUBWISE, LLLP
    Inventor: Stephen F. Johnston, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11580578
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating generation of electronic advertising messages based on model web pages. A visual content request is received that identifies a model web page. Source code is retrieved that includes patterns that can be matched to identify visual features of the model web page. Visual content information is provided to an advertising message generation service to construct advertising messages that include at least a portion of the identified visual features. Constructed advertising messages are received, including at least one modified advertising message that incorporates a user-selected image extracted from the model web page. The identified visual features of the model web page can include text format, text color, background color, images, and video sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: 2KDirect, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Bonzi, Shane Thomas, Jason Brown
  • Patent number: 11574337
    Abstract: A gift redemption system may include a gift processing server configured to accept a gift value for a gift product for a gift recipient, and permit selection of a retailer from among retailers for the gift product. The gift processing server may also be configured to associate a gift recipient identifier with the gift recipient, and permit selection of a redeemable gift value from the gift value. The system may also include a retailer server associated with the selected retailer. The system may also include a gift redemption server configured to obtain the redeemable gift value and the gift recipient identifier, and cooperate with retailer server to generate a gift discount identifier for use by the gift recipient at a point-of-sale (POS) of the gift product based upon the redeemable gift value and the gift recipient identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
    Inventors: Jess D. Walker, Andreas M. Benamou, Gregory L. Kerr, L. David Mounts, Srinivasan Varadarajan
  • Patent number: 11568440
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for integrated sales management. A sales resource may use the system to track and modify promotion proposals for providers. Data defining the proposed promotion may include information relating to the provider, capacity, the promotion structure, return on investment, and/or an auto-approval status. Some data defining the proposed promotion may be automatically generated by the promotional system and/or modified by the provider. The proposal may be auto-approved or approved manually by a sales resource. Upon approval, the promotion may be made available for sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Kavita Kochar, Marcus Sacco
  • Patent number: 11562389
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a system, method, and computer program for providing maximum savings in electronic commerce. Specifically, during a shopping experience, several products or service inputs, such as: electronic coupon codes, sales taxes, cashback rebates, customer loyalty programs, etc. are calculated and compared against numerous competitor retailer stores to ascertain the lowest price. Several optimization schemes are also disclosed which enhance a user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: PIGGY LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Corrieri, John Ginsberg, Nicholas Mahalec
  • Patent number: 11562409
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for displaying shoppable advertisements based on search query including receiving the search query from a user; retrieving an image comprising plurality of purchasable products related to the search query from a database; calculating a product relevance score for each of the plurality of products within each image based the search query; ranking each of the plurality products based on the product relevance score; selecting a subset of products based on the ranking; displaying the image comprising the plurality of products; and displaying the shoppable advertisements for the selected subset of products on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Umesh Unnikrishnan, Ramachandran Ramaswamy, Phuoc Jeremy Lenguyen, Jason Gouliard, Lilu Xu, Shi-Ting Zhou, Shishi Fu, Francois Toit Spies, Xi Liu, Amit Chandak
  • Patent number: 11562408
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising obtaining, by a processing system including a processor, device design information for a device depicted in media content; obtaining a first image for inclusion in a depiction of the device; and obtaining display information regarding an apparent size and orientation of a display of the depicted device. The processing system adjusts the first image in accordance with the device design information and the display information and inserts the adjusted first image into the media content, thereby generating a second image comprising the display of the depicted device with the adjusted first image shown on the display. The method also includes altering the adjusted first image in accordance with changes in the apparent size or orientation of the display of the depicted device and delivering the second image to a user device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Shantanu Deo, Jeffrey Dixon, Vaibhav Gandhi, Zhengfei Rui
  • Patent number: 11556954
    Abstract: An on-line marketplace provides systems and methods for a mutually beneficial messaging campaign with one or more merchants, in order to promote the merchants' products. One aspect of the messaging campaign includes augmenting the merchants' budgets across multiple commercial channels. The channels may include merchant-operated channels, marketplace-operated channels, and/or third party channels. The marketplace selects when and how to augment the merchants' budgets. The augmented budget comprises an overall content budget for the messaging campaign, including a first budget portion provided by the merchant(s) and a second budget portion provided by the on-line marketplace. The augmented budget may be determined based on a weighted combination of goals of the marketplace and one or more merchants. The augmented budget may be segmented into static and dynamic portions, in which the dynamic portion is varied between channels to determine variables to optimize budget allocation and message performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ETSY, Inc.
    Inventors: Maxwell Tang, Nicholas Daniel
  • Patent number: 11553057
    Abstract: A highway detection system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle having one or more sensors arranged therein, a mobile device associated with a user traveling in the vehicle, and a server computer. The server computer may receive traveling data for a trip of the user from the one or more sensors and via the telematics device. The server computer may then determine whether the user is traveling within a city or on a highway based on analysis of the traveling data for the trip of the user, which may include a statistical analysis to calculate standard deviations of metrics in the traveling data. In response to the determination, the server computer may generate a notification to transmit to the user based on whether the user is traveling within a city or on a highway and transmit the notification to the mobile device associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Solutions Private Limited
    Inventors: Rahul Kothari, Payal Patel, Anirudha S I
  • Patent number: 11551261
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing, for a given anchor item, a ranking of items. The ranking may include sponsored items. In some examples, a computing device receives a request for items for an anchor item. The computing device determines a relevancy of a plurality of recommended items and sponsored items. The computing device also determines a cost value for the sponsored items. The computing device determines ranking values for the plurality of recommended items and sponsored items based on the relevancy values and the cost values, and ranks the items based on the ranking values. In some examples, the computing device updates the final item ranking based on the application of one or more rules. The computing device transmits the final item ranking to a web server. The web server displays advertisements for the items in ranked order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rajagopal Manda, Kaushiki Nag, Shirpaa Manoharan, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11544746
    Abstract: A system and method for providing automated remote digital advertising, and more specifically, a system and method for providing a fully automated self-serve smart billboard or display device. is disclosed. The Smart Billboard system consists of a user smart device, a billboard with a display processing system, and a billboard operator server. The user smart device is constructed using a user app processor, a user interface, a content creator, a content uploader, an ad scheduler, a payment processor, a login processor, and a smart device network interface. The billboard display processing system may include an upload controller, a billboard network interface, a display processor, a traffic and content receiver, an external imaging device, and a billboard system data store. The billboard operator server may include an operator processor, a billboard content scheduler, an account manager, a content approver, and a live image receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Bismark Fernandez, Rafael Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11507973
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in point of purchase (“POP”) displays to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed herein. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from POP displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. A wireless signal from a POP display may be received by a mobile device. The mobile device may provide the unique identifier in the wireless signal and a retail location of the mobile device to a remote server. The retail location of the mobile device may he provided by a mobile application (e.g., a retailer app) on the mobile device. The remote server may determine the retail location of the POP display by associating the retail location of the mobile device with the wireless beacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Walden
  • Patent number: 11507970
    Abstract: A system may receive information representing a first item and an item price of the first item from a first user device operated by a buyer. The first item may be available for sale by a merchant of a brick-and-mortar store. A plurality of sellers may be identified, the plurality of sellers may list a second item as being available for sale at the calculated reduced item price in an item listing for the second item. Moreover, the second item may be similar to the first item. A reduced item price may be calculated based on the item price of the first item received from the user device, the reduced item price representing a price lower than the item price of the first item. The item listing for the second item available for sale may be presented to the first user device operated by the buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventor: Alpha Kamchiu Luk
  • Patent number: 11507969
    Abstract: Successful application of a coupon code on an e-commerce website is detected via network request tracking and page data tracking. Upon coupon application, the coupon code is stored, for example in a server-based database. The coupon code is then automatically applied to subsequent e-commerce purchases whose parameters match the requirements for the coupon. The coupon can be automatically applied to purchases made by the same user and/or other users, as applicable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Atwood, Ryan Engle, Jonathan Coon
  • Patent number: 11501361
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for providing user interfaces are discussed herein. Some examples may include an apparatus configured to determine one or more additional items based on relevance data related to a primary purchase item that is associated with a user profile, generate a user interface, determine at least one selected item from the one or more additional items, receive an expiration signal indicating expiration of an automatic completion time period, and execute an automatic purchase completion transition routine associated with the at least one selected item in response to receiving the expiration signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Justin Michael Hughes, Jeffrey A. Holden, Jeffrey M. Ayars