Patents Examined by Ehrin L Pratt
  • Patent number: 11941642
    Abstract: A queue management system is provided having a customer device and service provider computing devices in different service provider facilities. The customer device is configured to prompt customers to select a services, receive a customer service request, and facilitate communication between the customer and a service provider in a first service provider facility. The system includes a server that receives availability information for service provider computing devices; generate virtual queues; receives a customer service request from a customer device identifying service type requested; assigns the customer service request to a virtual queue based on the availability information associated with the plurality of service providers and the service type requested; and notifies the customer of the assignment. The server is configured to consider a virtual queue for both an in-person service provider and a remote service provider when determining the virtual queue that the customer should be assigned to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ACF Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jose Gregorio Mora
  • Patent number: 11922517
    Abstract: The invention provides methods, systems and computer program products for implementing social networks that provide for reliable verification and validation of user content. In an embodiment, the invention enables implementation of social networks that enable recordation and validation of social contributions of members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Kamal Kant Jain
  • Patent number: 11854103
    Abstract: Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by machine learning models to produce one or more aggregate risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. The exam registration and delivery process may include multiple states—each being associated with a different set of entities. Aggregate risk scores for a given state may be calculated using only entity data for the set of entities associated with that state. The predetermined actions taken may also be dependent on the current state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NCS PEARSON, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Brutsche, Darrick Jensen, Michael Nealis, Peter Pascale, Vladan Pulec
  • Patent number: 11829956
    Abstract: An apparatus for selection based on a probabilistic quantitative field, the apparatus comprising at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to generate a time series model configured to generate a probabilistic quantitative field of a posting, wherein the generation includes receive a generation request from a user and generate the probabilistic quantitative field of the posting as a function of the generation request and a machine-learning model, determine if a hosting aggregator will host a posting or not as a function of the probabilistic quantitative field and a preconfigured threshold value, and create a prioritization list for a user as a function of the determination if a hosting aggregator will host a posting or not and the probabilistic quantitative field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MY JOB MATCHER, INC.
    Inventors: Arran Stewart, Steve O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11809473
    Abstract: A voice-initiated item search is received along with a current geolocation of a device from which the voice-initiated item search was initiated. The search is translated to text, and the text search and the current geolocation are submitted as a search to locate an enterprise within a configured distance of the current geolocation and to locate a specific location for an item within that enterprise. The enterprise and the specific location for the item are provided back to an operator of the device as search results in voice and/or text. The geolocation represents a location of a consumer and the results provide enterprise specific item-level detail and item-location information for the item within an enterprise location for the consumer to quickly navigate to the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Abdul Khaliq Zaheer, Daniel Bassett
  • Patent number: 11790323
    Abstract: Improved systems and methods of facilitating placement of candidates between employers and recruiters are provided. In various implementations, such systems and methods provide an integrated interface within the ATS platform for employers and integrated interface within the talent platforms for recruiters. In another implementation, a talent platform exchange is provided that permits disparate talent platforms to communicate and thus more effectively manage the hiring process from within the platform. To this end, interfaces and other components may be provided which facilitate communication between talent platforms and a talent platform exchange. Such communication capability would enable a direct hire marketplace where employers engage recruiters to fill positions through their presently implemented ATSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Scout Exchange LLC
    Inventors: John H. Chuang, David Daganhardt
  • Patent number: 11775933
    Abstract: Improved systems and methods of facilitating placement of candidates between employers and recruiters are provided. In various implementations, such systems and methods provide an integrated interface within the ATS platform for employers and integrated interface within the talent platforms for recruiters. In another implementation, a talent platform exchange is provided that permits disparate talent platforms to communicate and thus more effectively manage the hiring process from within the platform. To this end, interfaces and other components may be provided which facilitate communication between talent platforms and a talent platform exchange. Such communication capability would enable a direct hire marketplace where employers engage recruiters to fill positions through their presently implemented ATSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Scout Exchange LLC
    Inventors: John H. Chuang, David Daganhardt
  • Patent number: 11763403
    Abstract: Systems and methods for distributed, automated management of brownfield real estate asset remediation and/or redevelopment, including at least one server computer for analyzing and providing recommendations for a potential brownfield investment, wherein the at least one server computer is paired with a web-based graphical interface for accessing and editing stored documents, pictures, tasks, and budget information related to at least one brownfield asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Francis Darden
  • Patent number: 11748710
    Abstract: Improved systems and methods of facilitating placement of candidates between employers and recruiters are provided. In various implementations, such systems and methods provide an integrated interface within the ATS platform for employers and integrated interface within the talent platforms for recruiters. In another implementation, a talent platform exchange is provided that permits disparate talent platforms to communicate and thus more effectively manage the hiring process from within the platform. To this end, interfaces and other components may be provided which facilitate communication between talent platforms and a talent platform exchange. Such communication capability would enable a direct hire marketplace where employers engage recruiters to fill positions through their presently implemented ATSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Scout Exchange LLC
    Inventors: John H. Chuang, David Daganhardt
  • Patent number: 11704677
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for customer support ticket aggregation. One method comprises obtaining a customer support ticket; extracting a topic of the customer support ticket using a topic model based on natural language processing techniques; converting the customer support ticket to a topic vector representation that identifies the extracted topic and comprises a list of words describing the topic based on a collection of processed customer support tickets; extracting features from the customer support ticket; generating a fingerprint for the customer support ticket that comprises the topic vector representation and the extracted features; applying the fingerprint to a machine learning similarity model that compares the fingerprint to fingerprints of processed customer support tickets from the collection of processed customer support tickets; and identifying a processed customer support ticket from the collection of processed customer support tickets that is related to the customer support ticket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Amihai Savir, Omer Sagi, Avitan Gefen
  • Patent number: 11640445
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining gratitude scores for a plurality of people who have interacted with an organization. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining, for each of a plurality of people who have interacted with an organization, history data characterizing previous interactions of the person with the organization and third party data characterizing aspects of the person outside of their previous interactions with the organization; and processing, for each of the plurality of people, the history data and the third party data for the person using a gratitude prediction machine learning model to generate a gratitude score for the person, wherein the gratitude score for the person characterizes a likelihood that the person will take a specified action on behalf of the organization in the future.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: The Gobel Group, LLC
    Inventors: Chad Gobel, Nathan Chappell
  • Patent number: 11455693
    Abstract: Visual focal point composition of media capture based on a target audience is provided. An aspect includes activating a profile selection function via a media recording device and receiving, via the profile selection function, an identifier of a target viewer of media content. The profile selection function provides a list of social network contacts, including the target viewer, via the media recording device. Another aspect includes retrieving contact preferences associated with the identifier. The contact preferences are determined from data about the target viewer that is sourced from one or more compartmentalized entities. The contact preferences identify focal aspects of media content statistically determined to be of interest by the target viewer. A further aspect includes providing suggested focal aspects of a scene subject to media capture. The suggested focal aspects are derived from the contact preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter A. Balinski, Sasikanth Eda, John G. Musial, Sandeep R. Patil
  • Patent number: 11423412
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a queue management system which links with and utilizes service providers that are physically located in a facility which is different or remote from that of the location of the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ACF Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Opalka
  • Patent number: 11423361
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining an amount of correlation between non-orthogonal vectors characterizing quantified employee request submissions include generating a prioritization matrix for a request submission including entries associated with characteristics of the request submission considered important by one or more approvers; generating a request attribute vector characterizing attributes of a request extracted from the request submission; calculating a product for each entry of the prioritization matrix by multiplying corresponding entries of the prioritization matrix and the request attribute vector; applying a weighting factor to the product for each entry of the prioritization matrix resulting in weighted products for each entry of the prioritization matrix; accumulating the weighted products into a request quality score indicating an amount of correlation between the prioritization matrix and the request attribute vector; and transmitting an enhanced data packet to another computing device incl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventor: Ebtesam Abdullah Al-Suhaimi
  • Patent number: 11416870
    Abstract: Systems for centralized processing of regulatory control events. A method embodiment applies regulatory compliance rules against regulatory control events that occur at a plurality of heterogeneous remote cloud-based systems. A centralized cloud-based platform manages the compliance of the plurality of heterogeneous remote cloud-based systems by applying a set of data compliance rules pertaining to regulatory controls. The regulatory controls pertain to data access events and data manipulation events that occur on the plurality of computing systems. The centralized cloud-based platform receives control event messages, the control event messages being raised any one or more of the heterogeneous remote cloud-based systems. Rules are processed against the received control event messages to determine a set of compliance actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Crispen Maung, Jeffrey R. Queisser
  • Patent number: 11386469
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining gratitude scores for a plurality of people who have interacted with an organization. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining, for each of a plurality of people who have interacted with an organization, history data characterizing previous interactions of the person with the organization and third party data characterizing aspects of the person outside of their previous interactions with the organization; and processing, for each of the plurality of people, the history data and the third party data for the person using a gratitude prediction machine learning model to generate a gratitude score for the person, wherein the gratitude score for the person characterizes a likelihood that the person will take a specified action on behalf of the organization in the future.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: The Gobel Group, LLC
    Inventors: Chad Gobel, Nathan Chappell
  • Patent number: 11341506
    Abstract: An automated queue is provided including processing circuitry configured to receive one or more posts from a social media platform associated with a target entity, generate a case including the content of a post, enter the case in a virtual queue for agent review, in response to the case reaching the front of the virtual queue, causing the content to be displayed to an agent on a user interface, receive a response from the user interface, and cause the response to be posted to the social media platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ACF Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jose Gregorio Mora
  • Patent number: 11329939
    Abstract: A method, computer program product and computer system to generate a spatial visualization of topics contained in messages data is provided. A processor retrieves message data associated with a user. A processor determines one or more topics represented by the message data. A processor generates a spatial visualization of one or more user interface elements, where the spatial visualization includes a size and a location for the one or more user interface elements. A processor displays one or more user interface elements corresponding to the one or more topics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiao Xia Mao, Xin Feng, Ya Qing Chen, Wei Jun Zheng, Zhen Hong Ding, Chuan Le Zheng, Su Liu
  • Patent number: 11328304
    Abstract: An automated queue is provided including processing circuitry configured to receive an image including a face of a customer, receive an indication of a selected service, enter the customer in virtual queue based on the indication of the selected service, and in response to the customer reaching the front of the virtual queue, causing a transmission of the selected service and at least a portion of the image including the face of the customer to an agent user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ACF Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Opalka, Jose Mora
  • Patent number: 11323402
    Abstract: A method, computer program product and computer system to generate a spatial visualization of topics contained in messages data is provided. A processor retrieves message data associated with a user. A processor determines one or more topics represented by the message data. A processor generates a spatial visualization of one or more user interface elements, where the spatial visualization includes a size and a location for the one or more user interface elements. A processor displays one or more user interface elements corresponding to the one or more topics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiao Xia Mao, Xin Feng, Ya Qing Chen, Wei Jun Zheng, Zhen Hong Ding, Chuan Le Zheng, Su Liu