Patents Examined by Darnell A Pouncil
  • Patent number: 11250476
    Abstract: Dynamic header bidding configuration is disclosed. For example, ad slot entries associated with ad slots in a web content, further associated with ad identifiers and ad sizes are received. Header bidding partners associated with an ad slot entry are received, each partner associated with a parameter. The partners, parameters, ad slot entries, ad identifiers, and ad sizes are recorded as a configuration associated with the web content. A script associated with the configuration, further associated with a page of the web content including an ad slot associated with the ad slot entry is generated. The configuration is sent to a client device that invokes the script by loading the first page, and an ad from a partner is displayed in an ad impression of the ad slot on the client device based on a response to a notice sent to at least two partners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ENGINE MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Zacharski, Alex E. Cook
  • Patent number: 11244336
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a user device, credentials for a transaction account associated with a user. The device may provide, to a merchant device, authorization information enabling access to an indication of an incentive status associated with the user and the transaction account, wherein the incentive status indicates whether an incentive is available for the user. The device may receive, from the merchant device, an incentive status request including the authorization information. The device may determine that the authorization information is valid and is associated with the transaction account. The device may determine a current incentive status for the incentive, wherein the current incentive status is based on a satisfaction of a condition associated with the transaction account. The device may provide, to the merchant device, the indication of the current incentive status for the incentive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira, Michael Mossoba, Joshua Edwards, Matthew Carson
  • Patent number: 11238495
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a customized user experience is presented. A system can include one or more processing modules and one more non-transitory storage modules. The usage history of a user can be tracked at an eCommerce retailer. Static information about the user can also be tracked. Thereafter, using the usage history, the static information, and the available promotions of the retailer, a probability of conversion can be calculated for each promotion. Thereafter, the promotion being displayed to the user can be based on the probability of conversion. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Kannan Achan, Venkata Syam Prakash Rapaka, Jeremy King
  • Patent number: 11238486
    Abstract: A device may determine a multi-customer offer, wherein the multi-customer offer identifies a threshold quantity of customers of the multi-customer offer to allow access to the multi-customer offer. The device may receive one or more requests to accept the multi-customer offer, wherein a request, of the one or more requests, is associated with a customer device of the one or more customer devices. The device may determine, based on a quantity of requests of the one or more requests, that the threshold quantity of customers is not satisfied. The device may identify, based on the threshold quantity of customers not being satisfied, one or more candidate customer devices having a likelihood of requesting to accept the multi-customer offer, wherein the one or more candidate customer devices are associated with respective users that are the potential customers, and wherein the likelihood satisfies a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Mossoba, Tyler Maiman, Ljubica Chatman, Joshua Edwards, Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira
  • Patent number: 11238480
    Abstract: Technology for rewarding affiliates is provided. In one example, a method may include determining a physical location of a computing device. A purchase intent from the computing device while at the physical location may be identified. An affiliate associated with the physical location may be rewarded for the purchase intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daryn Edward Nakhuda, Siddharth Vivek Joshi, Vishal Bethur Sathyamurthy, Scott Kerns Windsor
  • Patent number: 11205195
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program capable of determining advertisements according to the intention of a person registering an article as advertisements to be displayed on a page supplied from a web site. The information processing device specifies a commodity classification of a commodity and an attribute value of an attribute of a commodity belonging to the commodity classification, based on an article described on a web page, and decides an evaluation made by a page supervisor for the attribute value based on the article. Then, the information processing device selects commodities that belong to the specified commodity classification and satisfy a selection condition according to the decided evaluation, as display target candidates. From among the selected commodities, a commodity of which an advertisement is to be displayed in an advertisement display area of the web page is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaishi Okuno, Kiminari Homma, Katsuhito Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11164192
    Abstract: Various systems and methods that may relate to referral and/or delivery services are described. Some embodiments may include incentivizing groups to meet goals. Various other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Howard W. Lutnick, Colin Sims, Ari Friedman, Richard Grech, Mark A. Miller
  • Patent number: 11132709
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) obtaining content displayed to the user on a computing device communicatively coupled to an input device(s) and/or output device(s). The processor(s) analyzes the content, to identify portions that represent types of content and tags the identified portions with one or more generic tags. The processor(s) generates a sentiment profile of the user by identifying interests of the user and identifying subjects of past electronic communications by the user. The processor(s) maps sentiments in the sentiment profile, to topics, based on the interests and the subjects identified. The processor(s) identifies an identified portion of the content relevant to a topic(s) mapped to a sentiment. The processor(s) generates and implements a physical change to the input device(s) or output device(s) to elicit a sentiment from the user, where the sentiment is mapped to the topic(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nadiya Kochura, Janani Janakiraman, Fang Lu, Susan M. Cox
  • Patent number: 11113730
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for parallel data pool processing and intelligent item selection. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a first bid request comprising a first user identifier, determining a first set of product identifiers in a first user interaction history of the first user identifier, determining a second bid request comprising a second user identifier, and determining a second set of product identifiers in a second user interaction history of the second user identifier. Example methods may include determining estimated values for one or more product identifiers in the first set of product identifiers and the second set of product identifiers in parallel, and generating respective first and second responses to the first bid request and the second bid request using the estimated values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Douglas Birkett, Andrew J. Bradley, Anirudh Dastidar, Anthony Richard McBryan, Sebastiano Merlino, Fady Mohamed, Sean Daniel Murphy
  • Patent number: 11087365
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for caching selected data for use in real-time content selection. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a first set of user identifiers for users that are eligible to be presented with content associated with a first product identifier, the first set having a first number of user identifiers, determining a second set of user identifiers for users that are eligible to be presented with content associated with a second product identifier, the second set having a second number of user identifiers, and determining that the first number is greater than the second number. Example methods may include determining first content associated with the first product identifier, determining first product information associated with the first product identifier, and caching the first content and the first product information at a server instead of second content associated with the second product identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Bradley, Andrew Douglas Birkett, Christopher de Beer, Shane Girish, Anthony Richard McBryan, Sebastiano Merlino
  • Patent number: 11064236
    Abstract: Systems and methods can include collecting addressability information about users accessing a service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting information sufficient to identify when the user is accessing the service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting data from value-added services usage by the user and using the collected data to associate the user with certain marketing content. The systems and methods can further include sending the marketing content to the user through various distribution channels by using the addressability information. The systems and methods can further include recording the collected information over time to refine the ability to predict the user's receptiveness to certain marketing content so as to improve the effectiveness of TMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Steven D. Whitehead
  • Patent number: 11049131
    Abstract: A management device that acquires a first information, which has been transmitted from a terminal in response to a first target application being executed in the terminal, acquires from the first target application a second information, which represents a second target application installed in the terminal, manages an install information based on the first and second information, and transmits to the terminal a third information, based on the install information managed by the install information manager. The third information includes information which indicates at least one target application for which install information with respect to the terminal is not managed by the information manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Miyazaki, Yoko Nakai, Daisuke Sato
  • Patent number: 11010727
    Abstract: A system and method to associate an electronic gift certificate with a payment services account to cause presentation of the electronic gift certificate based on meeting a predetermined condition. A gift certificate is purchased on-line and associated with a recipient's payment services account by the electronic gift certificate purchaser. A graphical user interface representing the payment services account of the recipient is presented with a record of the electronic gift certificate in a hidden state within the payment services account. Determining the predetermined condition is met, unmarking the record of the electronic gift certificate and causing presentation of a gift certificate button within the user interface representing the payment services account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Zhe Chu, Steven Chen, Franck Chastagnol, Aaron Kwong Yue Lee, Hugo Olliphant, Wendy Billman
  • Patent number: 10922719
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing promotion to networked consumer device groups are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system including one or more servers with processing circuitry configured to provide consumer interfaces to consumer devices that facilitate the sharing of a group promotion via a network between the consumer devices. The sharing may include the creation of the group promotion, the transmission of the group promotion to consumers via various communication channels, the tracking of consumer activity toward a group discount, among other things. For example, subsequent to purchase of a promotion via a consumer device, the processing circuitry may provide a sharing channel display to the consumer device for consumer selection of a communication channel for sharing the group promotion. The processing circuitry may create an impression of the group promotion compatible with the selected communication channel and provide the impression to other consumer devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Bengt Karl Bergstrom, Sebastian Heycke, Adam J. Muhlbauer, J. Gray Sandridge, Juhyeong Yu
  • Patent number: 10885551
    Abstract: A system and associated methods for enabling a tenant of a multi-tenant platform to customize the promotional functions of the tenant's eCommerce website which is hosted on the multi-tenant platform. The promotional offer(s) may be configured to suit the tenant's short term and/or long term business needs, such as to encourage purchase of a particular product or service at a particular time, to encourage a purchase in response to a particular business event or situation, to encourage a purchase in response to a particular action or lack of action by the consumer, to encourage a purchase in response to a particular inventory level or revenue amount of the tenant, to encourage a purchase in response to determining that the consumer was the object of a sales pitch from one of the tenant's salespeople, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: NETSUITE INC.
    Inventors: Alfredo Dimaunahan, Donnabelle Embuscado, Yukte Oberoi, Sean Kennedy, Brad Stoutimore
  • Patent number: 10867319
    Abstract: A container may hold one or more items and be associated with a customer order. The container may be identified as it moves along an inventory conveyance system. In response to identifying the container, a message may be selected that corresponds to one or more aspects of the customer order. The selected message may be provided to a laser marking system in a manner that allows the laser marking system to apply the message to the container as it moves along the inventory conveyance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Alan Snitselaar, Mangesh Suresh Kolharkar, Dean Christopher Fullerton
  • Patent number: 10839409
    Abstract: A method implemented on an electronic computing device includes identifying a user of an augmented reality (AR) device. Profile information is obtained for the user based on the identity of the user. An interactive game is activated on the AR device. The interactive game is tailored to the user based on the profile information. One or more rewards are provided to the user for implementing aspects of the interactive game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Christin Holt Aquilla, Kourtney Eidam
  • Patent number: 10832264
    Abstract: Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for facilitating the determination of an ideal discount rate or an ideal accepted value for a promotion based on a plurality of model-based decision trees. The decision trees may be generated based on a set of original data, which may include information from a set of past promotions. The trees may branch into smaller, more homogenous subgroups of the original data until a model is generated for each resulting node of the tree. The plurality of trees may be applied to a current promotion with a set of possible predetermined discount rates in order to determine an ideal discount rate or an ideal accepted value for the promotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventor: Nikhil Ranjan Garge
  • Patent number: 10825064
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for preventing duplicate content selection for digital presentation. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a first bid request for a first content delivery slot at a first time, the first bid request having a first user identifier, determining a ranking of candidate product identifiers for which the first user identifier is eligible at the first time, and determining a second bid request for a second content delivery slot at a second time, the second bid request having the first user identifier, where the second time is within a predetermined time interval of the first time. Example methods may include determining an impression counter value for the first user identifier at the second time, selecting a product identifier from the candidate product identifiers using the impression counter value, and determining a first bid amount using the product identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Bradley, Andrew Douglas Birkett, Anirudh Dastidar, Fred Grossman, Anthony Richard McBryan, Sebastiano Merlino
  • Patent number: 10776809
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique for applying rewards points associated with a payment card is disclosed. A computer system stores information associated with a person's payment card, such as a credit or debit card, including information indicative of rewards points associated with the card. The computer system then receives from a remote device a first message indicative of a transaction between the person and another entity. The transaction includes a payment of a specified amount from the person to the other entity. In some embodiments the transaction has already been completed, and the computer system causes rewards points to be applied to it post-transaction. In other embodiments the transaction has not yet been executed and may be a requested cash transfer. The computer system determines how many rewards points correspond to the specified amount and causes the rewards points to be used for at least a portion of the transaction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Aaron, Keisuke Omi, Matthew Dolan