Patents Examined by Christopher C Busch
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Patent number: 11972460Abstract: Personalized electronic content is generated for display on a user computer. The content is generated by first matching a targeted user online identifier to one of a plurality of user online identifiers associated with a master ID in a database. Using online user behavior associated with the user online identifiers of the master ID, a preliminary set of personalized electronic content is generated. A set of content usage parameters is applied to the preliminary set of personalized electronic content to define the personalized electronic content, which is then transmitted and displayed on a user computer. The personalized electronic content may comprise targeted advertisement utilized to populate a webpage or an email template defined by an online marketing campaign.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Overstock.com, Inc.Inventors: J P Knab, Bradford Johnson, Cathy Diaz, Dustin Spangler, Kenneth Lines
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Patent number: 11948169Abstract: 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 telephType: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Inventors: David E. Stafford, Jr., Kai Rossbach
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Patent number: 11875373Abstract: 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 out 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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Worldpay, LLCInventors: Jacob Matthew Sterling, Scott Wayne DeAngelo, Dennis A. Kettler, Balaji Janakiraman Iyer, Trevor Alan Bass
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Patent number: 11861539Abstract: A processing system uses a set of rules that identify a set of keywords and stores a set of creative images associated with the keywords. The processing system identifies metrics for the social media that includes the keywords and displays the creative images associated with the keywords with the largest social media metrics. The set of rules may include promotions to display with the creative content and filters that determine what social media to use to generate the metrics. No manual curation of content is necessary. The processing system saves time and effort as well as taps into real time consumer trends.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SPRINKLR, INC.Inventors: Justin Trevor Garrity, Ryan Robert Parr, David James Stewart
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Patent number: 11854042Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing engaging, user-interactive advertising content, including rewarding users for engagement, based on a scheme for permissively reformatting archival copies of sporting events via, for example, splicing and resequencing sections of the archival copies, and re-presenting the content as a unique reconstituted sporting event, in an engaging manner that attracts mass audiences to engage the content with regard to the reconstituted event, and to further engage with the related advertising in a user-interactive manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Inventor: Frank S. Maggio
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Patent number: 11830037Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Peder Christopher Andersen, Kalyan Pabbisetty, Garrett Nicholas Spitzer, Jeremiah Martin Gelb
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Patent number: 11798027Abstract: 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 telephType: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventors: David E. Stafford, Jr., Kai Rossbach
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Patent number: 11756073Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: Klaviyo, Inc., XIssueInventors: Thomas Blanchard, Michael T. Lawson, Christopher Schenker, Julian Zucker, Francis Baker
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Patent number: 11748784Abstract: The disclosure relates to securing and enabling user control of profiling data, blockchain-driven matching of users and advertiser-identified anonymous profiling data records of interest, and smart contracts encoded by blockchain for executing transactions. The system may include an anonymized database of profiling data, which is unlinked to any user. The system may implement a private blockchain to store user-defined settings that provide user control over whether and how the profiling data may be used. If a grant to use the data is received, a link is stored that allows the system to identify a user associated with the anonymous profiling data records. If the grant is revoked, the link may be removed. The system may also implement public blockchain technology to record a public information relating to grants, online marketing transactions, making them verifiable, immutable, and transparent for various stakeholders including advertisers, publishers, and users.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Concord Technologies Inc.Inventors: Paul Lawbaugh, Dashiell Lavine
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Patent number: 11741507Abstract: Systems and methods for managing display fixtures, especially display fixtures for use in marketing and promotions. Multiple software modules allow a user to design/configure a tangible display fixture by selecting components used to assemble and populate the display fixture. Once designed, the various components of the display fixture can be tagged with suitable metadata to allow for easy generation of lists of components associated with that specifically designed or configured display fixture.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: UNEFI INC.Inventor: Samuel Arthur Vise
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Patent number: 11727428Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Ryan Engle, Jonathan Coon, Robert Duke
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Patent number: 11727425Abstract: An application platform configurable for collecting user data associated with a plurality of retail-branded credit cards is provided. The application platform includes a configurable front end comprising a graphical user Interface layer that is configurable to a specific one of the plurality of retail-branded credit cards, a backend layer comprising credit card functionality for directly performing credit card transactions associated with a specific one of the plurality of retail-branded credit cards, a data collection layer comprising a data collector for collecting user data associated with the plurality of retail-branded credit cards and an analytics engine coupled with the data collection layer for determining one or more attribute about a user from the user data associated with the plurality of retail-branded credit cards.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: BREAD FINANCIAL PAYMENTS, INC.Inventor: James Walz
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Patent number: 11694228Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Overstock.com, Inc.Inventors: Yugang Hu, Seth Moore, J P Knab, Amit Goyal
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Patent number: 11694215Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for managing web content. Exemplary methods may include the steps of providing a web content management application via a web site, generating a web marketing campaign from at least a portion of a global marketing framework via a web server, gathering via the web server 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, associating consumers together according to at least one common interest to create one or more consumer groups, and providing the one or more consumer groups to at least one marketing content author.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SDL Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Serguei Martchenko, Marvin Smit, Rick Pannekoek, Erik de Voogd, Renze A. de Vries
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Patent number: 11651390Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes one or more processors configured for receiving ad scoring data corresponding to a biometric response to an advertisement displayed on a computing device user interface at a first time, receiving ad feature data corresponding to the advertisement, and generating first model output data corresponding to a user engagement score based on ad scoring data and ad feature data. Further, the method includes receiving user interface activity data corresponding to graphical images displayed at the first time, generating second model output data corresponding to a watching ad classification based on the user interface activity data and the ad feature data, determining an ad effectiveness score based on the first model output data and the second model output data, and generating ad improvement data based on the ad effectiveness score and the ad feature data, the ad improvement data comprising recommendations to adjust features of the advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sanmitra Sarkar, Mukundan Sundararajan
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Patent number: 11645676Abstract: A server receives incoming data records comprising an ID value and respective user attributes corresponding to a user activity that originates at a user device. Characteristics of the activity and/or characteristics of the user device are considered in order to assign a probabilistic confidence value, which is in turn used to generate links from an incoming data record to other previously-received data records, and in so doing, generates a probabilistic link between one set of user attributes from the incoming data record and another set of user attributes from previously-received data records. A messaging campaign specification that describes target user attributes is used to identify a matching set of target audience member records. The determination of a match or not is based on the probabilistic confidence value and a threshold can be varied to extend audience reach. The identified set of target audience member records are transmitted over a network.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: David Abraham Wiener, James Kong Hsu, Stephen John Papa, Sherene Wael Hilal, Kendra Mariko Chen, Vernon Wah-Non Hui, Ben Hekster, John Patrick Connelly
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Patent number: 11580577Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of acquiring, by a promotion processor node, consumer exploration of a product data from a blockchain, determining, by the promotion processor node, features of the product, receiving, by the promotion processor node, a promotion plan from at least one product retailer node, and executing a smart contract to generate a plurality of promotion tokens based on the features of the product and the promotion plan.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yedendra Shrinivasan, Krishna Chaitanya Ratakonda, Rakesh Mohan
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Patent number: 11568448Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for monitoring and policing online advertisements. Content of a website is evaluated and assigned a score. The content evaluated may be either first-party content or third-party content or both. If the score fails predetermined criteria, a report is generated. Synthetic user profiles can be generated using a browser (or other software) to visit a number of predetermined or pseudo-random sites and accumulate user-specific data as it visits each of the sites. The browser stores off the accumulated user-specific data in conjunction with a synthetic user profile.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Ad Lightning Inc.Inventors: Ryan Kosai, Michael Galgon
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Patent number: 11544730Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Scott T. Dalton, Andrew J. Garner, IV, Ramanathan Ramanathan
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Patent number: 11475484Abstract: Personalized electronic content is generated for display on a user computer. The content is generated by first matching a targeted user online identifier to one of a plurality of user online identifiers associated with a master ID in a database. Using online user behavior associated with the user online identifiers of the master ID, a preliminary set of personalized electronic content is generated. A set of content usage parameters is applied to the preliminary set of personalized electronic content to define the personalized electronic content, which is then transmitted and displayed on a user computer. The personalized electronic content may comprise targeted advertisement utilized to populate a webpage or an email template defined by an online marketing campaign.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Overstock.com, Inc.Inventors: J P Knab, Bradford Johnson, Cathy Diaz, Dustin Spangler, Kenneth Lines