Patents Examined by E Carvalho
  • Patent number: 11922470
    Abstract: Impact-based strength and weakness determination includes receiving a plurality of industry-wide feedback items, the industry-wide feedback items pertaining to a plurality of entities associated with an industry. It further includes, based at least in part on an evaluation of the plurality of industry-wide feedback items, generating an industry-wide reputation scoring model usable to determine an expected reputation score for a typical entity in the industry based at least in part on a combination of one or more reputation score components. Generating the industry-wide reputation scoring model comprises determining (1) a baseline reputation score, and (2) an expected impact of a reputation score component on reputation scoring for the typical entity in the industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Reputation.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley William Null, Pranav Desai, Hsin-wei Tsao, Chun Fai Chau
  • Patent number: 11836756
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to generate a user interface conveying subscriber behavior of subscribers within a membership platform. Exemplary implementations may: obtain subscribership information for content creators of a membership platform, the subscribership information characterizing subscribership of individual subscribers to individual ones of the content creators for individual intervals of time; determine, based on the subscribership information, values of a behavior attribute representing behavior of the individual ones of the subscribers with respect to the individual ones of the content creators for the individual ones of the intervals of time; effectuate presentation of a user interface based on the values of the behavior attribute; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Patreon, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Elizabeth Pugh, Bruno Wong
  • Patent number: 11741364
    Abstract: A promotion value model uses deep neural networks to learn to calculate the promotion value of a commercial brand. The model determines and reports the promotion value of a plurality of electronic media files each containing at least one commercial brand indicator. The learned model identifies the electronic media files and determines at least one context for each of the at least one commercial brand indicators. Promotion value is modeled with a deep neural network that maps the context for each of the commercial brand indicators to feature vectors mapped to an input layer of the neural network. Network parameters are learned to indicate relative weighted values between transitions of the layers of the neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: HOOKIT, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Tilton, Robert J. Kraus, Adam Smith, Michael Robinson, Esther Walker, Garrison Hess
  • Patent number: 11657377
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes authenticating, by a processor of a financial institution computing system, a user of a vehicle with a financial account of the user. The vehicle is associated with the financial account and the user is physically located within the vehicle. Data relating to the vehicle is received. A task is selected based on the data. The task is to be performed by the user. Performance of the task by the user is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
  • Patent number: 11620680
    Abstract: An information distribution system with a display screen and a network computing system is disclosed. The display screen may be capable of either being manually moved by a person or move automatically under its own power. The apparatus also includes a power system, a communication subsystem, a memory and a computing device. The communication subsystem communicates with the computing device, the network computing system, and the memory. The network computing system has an end-user display screen. The network computing system is configured to receive media and media secondary information, associate the media and media secondary information to a unique identifier, and show the media and the unique identifier on the display screen. The networking computing system is further configured to receive the unique identifier and an end-user account, and then show the media secondary information on the end-user display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventor: Raphael Tzmach Chudaitov
  • Patent number: 11599201
    Abstract: Architecture that enables the detection of a user by a user device and interaction with content of the user device by the user before the user physically contacts the device. The detection capability can utilize one or more sensors of the device to identify the user and the proximity (distance) of the user to the device. Based on the user identity and the proximity, the device operates/functions in a certain way. Moreover, ongoing interaction can be enabled by recognition of a natural user interface (NUI) gestures, alone or in combination with other recognition techniques (e.g., speech recognition). Device activity can include causing the device to operate in predetermined ways such as power modes, application launching and manipulation to cause control of hardware and other software (local and/or remote) and, obtaining and presenting specific types of content (e.g., advertisements, notifications, messages, reminders, news, incoming communications, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Neal Osotio, Eun Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11570131
    Abstract: Impact-based strength and weakness determination includes receiving a plurality of industry-wide feedback items, the industry-wide feedback items pertaining to a plurality of entities associated with an industry. It further includes, based at least in part on an evaluation of the plurality of industry-wide feedback items, generating an industry-wide reputation scoring model usable to determine an expected reputation score for a typical entity in the industry based at least in part on a combination of one or more reputation score components. Generating the industry-wide reputation scoring model comprises determining (1) a baseline reputation score, and (2) an expected impact of a reputation score component on reputation scoring for the typical entity in the industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Reputation.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley William Null, Pranav Desai, Hsin-wei Tsao, Chun Fai Chau
  • Patent number: 11551252
    Abstract: A system for a product bundle for purchase may include a user device associated with a given user, and a promotional server. The promotional server may obtain historical online browsing data associated with the given user, and obtain historical shopping data associated with the given user. The promotional server may also generate the product bundle based upon the historical shopping data and the historical online browsing data. The product bundle may include complementary products for purchase each having a purchase price associated therewith. The product bundle may have a bundle price that is less than a sum of purchase prices of each of the complementary products. The promotional server may communicate the product bundle and the bundle price to the user device for display thereon, generate a digital promotion redeemable toward the purchase of the product bundle, and communicate the digital promotion to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
    Inventor: Diana Medina
  • Patent number: 11544732
    Abstract: A client device detects a QR code (or NFC tag). The client device decodes the QR code. The client device determines that the data encoded within the QR code includes a URL. Based on the URL, the client device sends a first request to a first server identified by the URL. In response to the first request, the client device receives from the first server data configured to cause the client device to display, to a user of the client device, at least one of: a video or an interactive web page. Responsive to the data encoded in the QR code, the client device sends to a coupon server: identification data associated with a user of the client device, and a request for the coupon server to distribute a digital coupon for an offer associated with an identifier encoded within the QR code to an account associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUOTIENT TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Steven M. Horowitz, Jason Boehle, Bipin Pattan
  • Patent number: 11436635
    Abstract: When a server serves web pages and/or software application pages with digital ads to client devices, a system determines viewability scores for individual ad insertion spaces on the pages. The system determines viewability scores for each field based on the time at which at least a threshold percentage or ratio of the field's pixels where viewable and not off-screen or obscured by another open window. The system or the server may then select digital ads to serve to each field based on the field's viewability score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Optimera, LLC
    Inventor: Keith Candiotti
  • Patent number: 11416894
    Abstract: An information sharing system with a display screen and a network computing system is disclosed. The display screen may be capable of either being manually moved by a person or move automatically under its own power. The apparatus also includes a power system, a communication subsystem, a memory and a computing device. The communication subsystem communicates with the computing device, the network computing system, and the memory. The network computing system has an end-user display screen. The network computing system is configured to receive media and media secondary information, associate the media and media secondary information to a unique identifier, and show the media and the unique identifier on the display screen. The networking computing system is further configured to receive the unique identifier and an end-user account, and then show the media secondary information on the end-user display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Raphael Tzmach Chudaitov
  • Patent number: 11416885
    Abstract: A digital promotion processing system may include user devices each associated with a respective different user and a promotion processing server. The promotion processing server may be configured to store historical purchase data for durable good products purchased by the users. The historical purchase data may include a replacement lifespan and a purchase date. The promotion processing server may also be configured to determine an expected product replacement date for a given durable good product from among the durable good products based upon an elapsed time from the purchase date relative to the replacement lifespan, and upon reaching the expected product replacement date, generate and communicate a digital promotion for a replacement durable good product to a corresponding one of the user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
    Inventors: Melissa Bube, Jacob Bowman, Joel Corra, Jason Eudy
  • Patent number: 11403664
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for billboard aesthetics and safety rating generator are provided. The embodiment may include receiving, by a processor, a plurality of information related to a billboard. The embodiment may also include extracting specific billboard information from the received data. The embodiment may further include generating ratings on safety, aesthetics and legal conformance levels of the extracted billboard information. The embodiment may also include generating a 3D model of the billboard that incorporates updates based on the generated ratings. The embodiment may further include generating improvement recommendations designed to increase the generated ratings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vinod Bijlani, Manna Sui
  • Patent number: 11321688
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of facilitating context-aware, vehicle-based mobile banking includes authenticating, by a processor of a financial institution computing system, a user of a vehicle with a financial account of the user. The vehicle is associated with the financial account and the user is physically located within the vehicle. Operating data relating to the vehicle is received. A context is determined based on the operating data. A task is selected based on the context. The task is to be performed by the user within the vehicle. The task relates to the financial account of the user. Performance of the task by the user is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
  • Patent number: 11301896
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating third-party analytics with virtual-assistant enabled applications are disclosed. A third-party analytics service trains a machine learning model, using labeled training data including (a) phrases corresponding to sales offers made to consumers and (b) sales conversion outcomes associated with the phrases. The service receives, from a consumer-facing application, a user query submitted via a virtual assistant interface. The service applies the user query to the machine learning model, to obtain a recommended phrase for the consumer-facing application to use in response to the user query. The recommended phrase is: based on one or more of the phrases used to train the machine learning model; responsive to the user query; and based on a likelihood of achieving a sales objective associated with the consumer-facing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Pratyusha Tiruveedhula
  • Patent number: 11080752
    Abstract: An information sharing system with a display device apparatus and a network computing system. The display device apparatus includes a display screen connected to a base capable of being manually moved by a person while the base supports the screen. The display device apparatus also includes a power system, a communication subsystem, a memory and a computing device. The communication subsystem communicates with the computing device, the network computing system, and the memory. The network computing system has an end-user display screen. The network computing system is configured to receive media and media secondary information, associate the media and media secondary information to a unique identifier, and show the media and the unique identifier on the display screen. The networking computing system is further configured to receive the unique identifier and an end-user account, and then show the media secondary information on the end-user display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventor: Raphael Tzmach Chudaitov
  • Patent number: 11023933
    Abstract: The present technology is directed to a system and methods for estimating the impinging elements and traffic paths by an advertisement as it is delivered from its originating ad server to the web server from which the webpage including the advertisement is delivered to an end viewer. The methods are server-based and provide output to a viewer's browser upon receiving a web page as input and yield data for a particular advertisement frame about the various intermediate processes used to deliver the advertisement, for example, frames, pixels, advertisement servers, advertisement networks, advertisement tags, advertisement exchanges, cookies, supply side distribution systems, demand side buying systems, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonah Goodhart, Noah Goodhart, Robert Crowell
  • Patent number: 10997633
    Abstract: The Crowdsource and Conversational Contextual Information Injection Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“CCCII”) transforms communication data, advertising link click request, campaign generation request, campaign search request, campaign investment request inputs via CCCII components into commission settlement, vendor ad campaign data, campaign search response, campaign investment confirmation, campaign control outputs. A tracking link request is obtained from a source communication channel. A match target for the contents is determined, and an attribution link is retrieved. A tracking link configured to identify the source channel and the attribution link is generated and provided to the source channel. A tracking link click request is obtained from the receiving user. The tracking link is analyzed to determine the source channel and the attribution link. A tracking cookie is placed on the receiving user's client. The attribution link is configured using the pixel drop data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Click Sales, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Robert McClave, Christopher Edward Haffey, Edward Katzin, Andrew Hust, Vera Coberley
  • Patent number: 10997570
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of facilitating context-aware, vehicle-based mobile banking includes authenticating, by a processor of a financial institution computing system, a user of a vehicle with a financial account of the user. The vehicle is associated with the financial account and the user is physically located within the vehicle. Operating data relating to the vehicle is received. A context is determined based on the operating data. A task is selected based on the context. The task is to be performed by the user within the vehicle. The task relates to the financial account of the user. Performance of the task by the user is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
  • Patent number: 10943250
    Abstract: A method for engaging a message recipient includes receiving, by a computer system for a recipient, a message having a collectible associated with at least one predetermined area of the message, wherein the at least one predetermined area has been selected by a sender. The method further includes detecting, by the computer system, that the recipient has viewed the at least one predetermined area of the message and awarding the collectible to the recipient by the computer system, so that the recipient can use the collectible in a transaction, wherein the awarding is responsive to the detecting of the viewing of the at least one predetermined area of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alaa Abou Mahmoud, Paul R. Bastide, Fang Lu