Patents Examined by Christopher C Busch
  • Patent number: 12620005
    Abstract: Systems and methods for applying a promotion to a payment transaction originating at a point of sale system of a merchant are described. Transactional information is provided to an acquirer computing system of the merchant. Based on identifying indicia associated with the transactional information, the acquirer computing system determines whether to modify the payment transaction messaging before communicating it along to an issuer computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Matthew Sterling, Brent Alan Badger
  • Patent number: 12614222
    Abstract: A trained model is used to generate action recommendations by predicting different metrics related to items ordered at an online system. The online system gathers replacement data related to replacement of an item either online or at a location of a retailer when a user uses a physical receptacle in communication with the online system. The online system applies a metric prediction model trained to predict, based on the replacement data, an irreplaceability score indicative of an item's irreplaceability feature and/or a brand stickiness score indicative of an item's brand stickiness feature. The online system applies an item replacement model trained to identify, based in part on the irreplaceability score and/or the brand stickiness score, a list of candidate replacement items. A device associated with the user displays a user interface with a replacement item from the list prompting the user to include the replacement item to a cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Scheibelhut, Naval Shah, Madeline Mesard, Charles Wesley, Darin Amos
  • Patent number: 12597051
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying corresponding content for vehicle services using a distributed set of electronic devices are provided. For example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data associated with a vehicle service instance. The vehicle service instance is associated with a request for a vehicle service for a user. The method includes determining, based on the data associated with the vehicle service instance, a first advertisement content item for a display device positioned on an exterior of a vehicle assigned to the vehicle service instance and a second advertisement content item for a user device associated with the vehicle service instance. The method includes communicating data that initiates the display of the first advertisement content item for the display device positioned on the exterior of the vehicle and data that initiates the display of the second advertisement content item for the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Peder Christopher Andersen, Kalyan Pabbisetty, Garrett Nicholas Spitzer, Jeremiah Martin Gelb
  • Patent number: 12536560
    Abstract: An ad player presents ads in association with a video player by evaluating an associated ad script. The ad player transforms data included in the ad script into operational instructions. Hence, the ad player flexibly and dynamically configures itself and presents ads in accordance with the contents of the ad script, enabling a publisher to modify advertising aspects simply by modifying the ad script. The ad script can comprise a script in a tag-based markup language that is readable by the ad player. For example, the ad script can include one or more tags, each tag including one or more attributes that are each set to a value. The ad player determines the values of the attributes and presents ads in accordance with associated ad characteristics or behaviors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan David Traupman
  • Patent number: 12488359
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selectively modifying web content are provided. An exemplary method includes providing a web content management application via a web site, the web content management application coupled to a web server associated with the web site, the web content management application adapted to maintain a global marketing framework indicative of a marketing campaign; generating a web marketing campaign from at least a portion of the global marketing framework; gathering marketing data from at least one of the web server associated with the web marketing campaign and consumer devices accessing the web marketing campaign, the marketing data including information indicative of interests of consumers; storing the marketing data in a database; analyzing the marketing data; and based upon the analysis of the marketing data, selectively and dynamically modifying the web content of the web marketing campaign to substantially correspond to the interests of the consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: SDL Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Serguei Martchenko, Marvin Smit, Rick Pannekoek, Erik de Voogd, Renze A. de Vries
  • Patent number: 12423732
    Abstract: Systems and methods of advertising in connection with AI systems and models, such as generative AI, in which user content is received from a user, advertiser content is received from an advertiser, and the AI system generates output influenced by both the user content and the advertiser content, and the resulting output is made available to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Inventor: John Hiram Oldroyd
  • Patent number: 12393962
    Abstract: A system for integrating various different advertisement platforms using different advertisement channels includes generating a logic campaign in an abstract layer. A basic unit is defined in the abstract layer by abstracting aspects of different advertisement campaign structures. The basic unit can be common among different advertisement structures for different advertisement channels. The advertisement structures are replicated by duplicating the structure and changing an advertising element node option associated with at least one advertisement element node of the replicated structure. The logic campaigns are generated from the advertisement element node options of corresponding advertisement element nodes. The logic campaign is associated with a physical campaign of a physical layer, which is employed by the advertisement platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Qingyu Ji, Sizhong Liu, Chinmaya Dubey, Bin Li, Peijun Xu, Mustafa Attiqullah
  • Patent number: 12387233
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an account holder with an incentive-consent matrix at a point-of-sale device of a merchant. The account holder can provide consent to store transaction related data and obtain an incentive in exchange. The incentive can be a coupon or other offering associated with the merchant. Varying levels of consent can be offered, with each level associated with an incentive having a different relative value. The transaction data can subsequently be provided to a recipient in accordance with the consent received from the account holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Matthew Sterling, Scott Wayne DeAngelo, Dennis A. Kettler, Balaji Janakiraman Iyer, Trevor Alan Bass
  • Patent number: 12354133
    Abstract: A method includes monitoring electronic network advertisements for policed advertising content via a fraud monitor, retrieving a pay-per-call advertisement of an advertiser via the fraud monitor based on the monitoring, analyzing the pay-per-call advertisement via the fraud monitor to confirm it as a suspect pay-per-call advertisement, establishing a fraud-detection telephone call via an advertisement telephone number of the suspect pay-per-call advertisement from a control telephone number of the fraud monitor and in response thereto connecting the fraud-detection telephone call to a target telephone number of the advertiser via a connection provider, and tracking and storing fraud-detection telephone call information, including the advertisement telephone number, the control telephone number, a publisher reference associated with the suspect pay-per-call advertisement, and the target telephone number, via the fraud monitor, of a telephone connection between the control telephone number and the target teleph
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Inventors: David E. Stafford, Jr., Kai Rossbach
  • Patent number: 12354131
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether and how to present digital animations in a user interface are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the systems and methods may facilitate the identification of a set of products or services purchased by an individual, and the determination of a reward level associated with the set of products or services. The systems and methods may select a digital animation, from a set of digital animations that is predetermined based on a set of probabilities, corresponding to the reward level, and present the digital animation in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Fetch Rewards, LLC
    Inventors: Aviral Gupta, David Berk, Bridget Schroeder, Brock Gibson, Dylan Ray Boss, Bennett Fortier, Ayo Jimoh, Erin Fuller, Birk Cooper
  • Patent number: 12243075
    Abstract: A method for optimizing target content on a search results webpage includes receiving source code defining the webpage from a search engine server. The method further includes processing the source code to identify a target source code block in the source code, the target source code block defining, at least partially, the target content. The method further includes processing the target source code block to determine a relative metric for the target content with respect to a layout of the search results webpage. Thereafter, the relative metric may be utilized to optimize advertising expenditures in order to improve a relative position of the target content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Overstock.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Yugang Hu, Seth Moore, JP Knab, Amit Goyal
  • Patent number: 12205136
    Abstract: An ad player presents ads in association with a video player by evaluating an associated ad script. The ad player transforms data included in the ad script into operational instructions. Hence, the ad player flexibly and dynamically configures itself and presents ads in accordance with the contents of the ad script, enabling a publisher to modify advertising aspects simply by modifying the ad script. The ad script can comprise a script in a tag-based markup language that is readable by the ad player. For example, the ad script can include one or more tags, each tag including one or more attributes that are each set to a value. The ad player determines the values of the attributes and presents ads in accordance with associated ad characteristics or behaviors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ADAP. TV, INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan David Traupman
  • Patent number: 12190354
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying corresponding content for vehicle services using a distributed set of electronic devices are provided. For example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data associated with a vehicle service instance. The vehicle service instance is associated with a request for a vehicle service for a user. The method includes determining, based on the data associated with the vehicle service instance, a first advertisement content item for a display device positioned on an exterior of a vehicle assigned to the vehicle service instance and a second advertisement content item for a user device associated with the vehicle service instance. The method includes communicating data that initiates the display of the first advertisement content item for the display device positioned on the exterior of the vehicle and data that initiates the display of the second advertisement content item for the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Peder Christopher Andersen, Kalyan Pabbisetty, Garrett Nicholas Spitzer, Jeremiah Martin Gelb
  • Patent number: 12175494
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether and how to present digital animations in a user interface are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the systems and methods may facilitate the identification of a set of products or services purchased by an individual, and the determination of a reward level associated with the set of products or services. The systems and methods may select a digital animation, from a set of digital animations that is predetermined based on a set of probabilities, corresponding to the reward level, and present the digital animation in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FETCH REWARDS, LLC
    Inventors: Aviral Gupta, David Berk, Bridget Schroeder, Brock Gibson, Dylan Ray Boss, Bennett Fortier, Ayo Jimoh, Erin Fuller, Birk Cooper
  • Patent number: 12165166
    Abstract: Multiple on-line coupons are automatically tested on items of interest to a customer, without requiring the customer to perform any action or to look for such coupons in various sources. Such testing can be automatically initiated and performed on items within the customer's shopping cart. Alternatively or additionally, testing can be automatically initiated and performed while the customer is browsing a page for an item on an e-commerce website, before the customer has even placed items in his or her shopping cart. The best coupon or coupons are then presented to the customer, or automatically applied to provide the customer with the appropriate discounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Engle, Jonathan Coon, Robert Duke
  • Patent number: 12106322
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a recommended payment account includes receiving location information from a mobile device of a user having one or more payment accounts provided by a financial institution computer system, and determining a location of the user relative to a merchant based on the location information. The method also includes, based on the location of the user relative to the merchant, determining that a payment account recommendation should be sent to the user, including a recommended payment account for use in a payment transaction with the merchant and an incentive offer for using the recommended payment account in the payment transaction, determining the recommended payment account based on an expected financial impact to the user, generating the incentive offer, and sending the incentive offer and the recommended payment account to the mobile device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Scott T. Dalton, Andrew J. Garner, IV, Ramanathan Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 12067590
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to control the position of an advertisement image in the depth direction in accordance with the priority of the advertisement image, the advertisement image being an image of an advertisement formed in the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 12026739
    Abstract: Multiple on-line coupons are automatically tested on items of interest to a customer, without requiring the customer to perform any action or to look for such coupons in various sources. Such testing can be automatically initiated and performed on items within the customer's shopping cart. Alternatively or additionally, testing can be automatically initiated and performed while the customer is browsing a page for an item on an e-commerce website, before the customer has even placed items in his or her shopping cart. The best coupon or coupons are then presented to the customer, or automatically applied to provide the customer with the appropriate discounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Engle, Jonathan Coon, Robert Duke
  • Patent number: 12026727
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for managing and modifying web content are provided. An exemplary method may include the steps of providing a web content management application via a web site, the web content management application adapted to maintain a global marketing framework; generating a web marketing campaign from at least a portion of the global marketing framework, wherein the data included in the web content is generated by the web content management application according to a predetermined format of rendering engines; gathering marketing data from at least one of the web server associated with the web marketing campaign and consumer devices accessing the web marketing campaign, the marketing data including information indicative of interests of consumers; storing the marketing data in a database; analyzing the marketing data; and periodically or continually modifying the content of a web marketing campaign to substantially correspond to the interests of the consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SDL Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Serguei Martchenko, Marvin Smit, Rick Pannekoek, Erik de Voogd, Renze A. de Vries
  • Patent number: 12026742
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for warming new accounts. One system includes a server electronically networked with a user and a plurality of recipients of an electronic mail campaign of the user, the server operating to obtain an initial contact list, check the initial contact list to determine that the initial contact list satisfies an initial set of engagement rules, generate an active contact list comprising modifying the initial contact list when the initial contact list does not satisfy the initial set of engagement rules, electronically send an electronic message campaign to the active contact list, analyze a success of the electronically sent campaign, and adaptively adjust the active contact list according to active engagement rules based on an evaluated success of the electronically sent campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Klaviyo, Inc
    Inventors: Thomas Blanchard, Michael T. Lawson, Christopher Schenker, Julian Zucker, Francis Baker