Patents Examined by Eric W. Stamber
  • Patent number: 10621557
    Abstract: An auto repair quote platform may be provided. The platform may allow a user to enter a set of parameters and request quotes from service providers based on those parameters. Service providers may also enter parameters for matching their quotes to a request. The platform may further allow a user to accept a quote and schedule an appointment with the chosen service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Top Brands Tire & Wheel
    Inventors: Boake Sells, Richard Goodwin
  • Patent number: 10613549
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for showing information from a management server on a mobile client device to facilitate the management of industrial vehicles. Embodiments of the system can include a plurality of industrial vehicles communicatively coupled to the management server, and a mobile client device communicatively coupled to the management server. The mobile client device can include a display, a wireless communication circuit, and one or more client processors. Encoded objects, vehicular objects, or combinations thereof can be shown upon the display of the mobile client device to show information from the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Kashyap Chandrasekar, Lucas B. Waltz, Lisa Wong
  • Patent number: 10607161
    Abstract: A technique of processing insurance-related address information includes receiving a starting address specification. It further includes determining a geocode location that is associated with the starting address specification. It further includes providing display information associated with the geocode. It further includes receiving updated address information that is generated within a display of the display information. It further includes determining a reverse geocode associated with the updated address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Guidewire Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Timothy Kreisel, Mike Burn
  • Patent number: 10579971
    Abstract: A method and system may automatically detect failures and schedule repairs for home equipment in a smart home environment. A smart home controller may receive sensor data from each of several pieces of home equipment to detect whether any failures have occurred. If the smart home controller detects a failure in one of the pieces of home equipment based on the sensor data, the smart home controller may communicate with a repair service provider to schedule a repair of the piece of home equipment which experiences the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Justin Davis, John Hailey, Edward P. Matesevac, III, Mark O'Flaherty
  • Patent number: 10572847
    Abstract: A method for generating a visual representation of transport schedule adherence in a transit system including collecting transport schedule data received by a plurality of sensors deployed in a plurality of transit vehicles of the transit system, organizing and saving the received transport schedule data to a data storage facility, and receiving a user selection for the generation of a visual representation of transport schedule adherence in the transit system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Conduent Business Services, LLC
    Inventors: Ion Ho, John C. Handley
  • Patent number: 10572889
    Abstract: According to various aspects of the subject technology, systems and methods for analyzing consumption data associated with a user to determine a projected consumption cost for the user. The projected consumption cost can indicate an expected monetary cost that the user will be required to pay for resource consumption during a specified time period. If it is determined that the projected consumption cost exceeds a threshold consumption cost indicating that the projected consumption cost of the user will be high, the user can be provided with one or more use reports notifying the user that the user's projected consumption cost will be high for the time period. The use reports can warn the user that a high bill should be expected, thereby reducing bill shock and ensuing call center calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: OPOWER, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Sloss, Koorosh Nouri
  • Patent number: 10559017
    Abstract: An auto repair quote platform may be provided. The platform may allow a user to enter a set of parameters and request quotes from service providers based on those parameters. Service providers may also enter parameters for matching their quotes to a request. The platform may further allow a user to accept a quote and schedule an appointment with the chosen service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Top Brands Tire & Wheel
    Inventors: Boake Sells, William Seltzer, Richard Goodwin, John Szabo, Douglas Masters
  • Patent number: 10552853
    Abstract: A determination is produced as to the number of leads that can be provided from a system to a target business entity, wherein the leads are generated from a plurality of platforms. The platforms may include platforms that comprise system sources for leads, i.e., sources that are internal or organic to the system, for which it is unnecessary to pay third parties for the leads. The platforms may also include platforms that comprise external sources for leads, such that the leads must be purchased from the external sources. In response to parameters related to the target business entity, an estimated number of leads per unit time is generated for a range of payments to the system by the target business entity. The number of leads to be originated from each of the respective platforms is determined by business rules preferences, which may be specified by the target business entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: YP LLC
    Inventors: Wendell Hicken, Corey McMahon, Deepak Thakral, Teodoro Gomez, Giri Damerla, Harish Goli, Nagendra Lavu
  • Patent number: 10540815
    Abstract: A governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) computer system is provided that includes at least one processor, a user input device, and a storage system that stores meta-model. The meta-model includes at least one process element, a plurality of dynamic risk elements, and a plurality of dynamic control elements. The risk meta-model is loaded from the storage system. Input is accepted from the user input device for creating a new dynamic risk model based on the loaded extended risk meta-model. At least one process element is added to the new dynamic risk model based on user provided input and the extended risk meta-model. A first dynamic risk element is added from the plurality of dynamic risk elements based on user provided input. A risk type of the first dynamic risk element is determined based on user provided input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: BWISE B.V.
    Inventors: Luc Brandts, Erik M. M. Voorbraak, Gerrit Hendrik Smit
  • Patent number: 10528903
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with generating a price schedule are described. A inventory quantity for the item is allocated amongst a plurality of customer segments based at least on a predicted contribution of each customer segment to the objective function. For each customer segment, based at least on a quantity of inventory allocated to the customer segment, a promotion portion of the price schedule is determined that maximizes the objective function. A quantity of remaining inventory allocated to the plurality of customer segments at the end of the regular season is aggregated. Based at least on the aggregated inventory, a markdown portion of the price schedule for the item is determined that maximizes the objective function. The promotion portion and the markdown portion are combined to create a price schedule for the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aswin Kannan, Kiran Panchamgam, Su-Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 10521746
    Abstract: A recovery workflow related to processing the cancellation of a subscription order is determined. A request for cancelling processing of the subscription order is received. A provisioning task related to the service, a stage related to the provisioning task and a state of execution related to the provisioning task is identified. A recovery workflow is executed based on the provisioning task related to the service, the stage related to the provisioning task and the state of execution related to the provisioning task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pradeep Seetharam, Sumit Chougule, Neil Evans, Gopalan Arun
  • Patent number: 10510032
    Abstract: A data collection method including collecting, by a configuration collector manager, configuration data, including configuration properties, from a plurality of data sources, creating, by a model discovery component, a business application model using the configuration data collected by the configuration collector manager, a collecting, from a business application model analysis user interface, edits and confirmations associated with the business application model, and a analyzing, by a feedback analyzer component, the edits and confirmations associated with the business application model and prioritizing the configuration properties based on the data sources and the edits and confirmations associated with the business application model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel W. Branch, Karin Murthy, Larisa Shwartz, Maja Vukovic
  • Patent number: 10474979
    Abstract: Review data associated with a plurality of entities is received. Each of the entities is associated with a particular industry and the review data comprises review data obtained from a plurality of review sites. From at least a portion of the received review data, a review benchmark for the industry is determined. The benchmark is provided as output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Reputation.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey James Piper, Brent Michael Franson, Thomas Gerardo Dignan
  • Patent number: 10460369
    Abstract: An auto repair quote platform may be provided. The platform may allow a user to enter a set of parameters and request quotes from service providers based on those parameters. Service providers may also enter parameters for matching their quotes to a request. The platform may further allow a user to accept a quote and schedule an appointment with the chosen service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Top Brands Tire & Wheel
    Inventors: Boake Sells, William Seltzer, Richard Goodwin, John Szabo, Douglas Masters
  • Patent number: 10460270
    Abstract: In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing cross-organizational processing of business intelligence metrics including, for example, means for scheduling a time for metrics collection from databases of a host organization; generating one or more messages and associated parameters to implement the metrics collection at the host organization; enqueuing the one or more messages and associated parameters for processing by the host organization; dequeuing the one or more messages and associated parameters into the host organization for processing, wherein the processing is to output the metrics collection into an intermediate table; capturing the metrics collection output via the processing at the intermediate table; and exposing the intermediate table to metrics queries. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Samarpan Jain, Steven Tamm
  • Patent number: 10452720
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receiving forecast information from sales people in a computer. The method further includes receiving comments on specific entries of the forecast information from non-sales people in the computer. The method also includes receiving changes of the forecast information from the non-sales people in the computer. The method additionally includes providing a display of the comments and the changes to the sales people in an interface to the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Right90, Inc.
    Inventors: Kim Orumchian, Art Stabenow, Dean Skelton, David Petiot
  • Patent number: 10453037
    Abstract: An auto repair quote platform may be provided. The platform may allow a user to enter a set of parameters and request quotes from service providers based on those parameters. Service providers may also enter parameters for matching their quotes to a request. The platform may further allow a user to accept a quote and schedule an appointment with the chosen service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Top Brands Tire & Wheel
    Inventors: Boake Sells, Richard Goodwin
  • Patent number: 10438220
    Abstract: A system for dynamic psychologically friendly pricing comprising a pricing engine that may generate payment structures and price values, a customer segmentation server that may analyze user behavior, and a pricing analysis server that proposes new price values based on analysis results, and methods for the generation and modification of payment structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Scientific Revenue, Inc.
    Inventor: William Grosso
  • Patent number: 10438147
    Abstract: A system that provides automated and semi-automated tools and methods that may be used by providers in the death care industry to manage time sensitive tasks and share information with third party providers of goods and services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: CRAKN, LLC
    Inventors: G. Scott Mindrum, Clifford Campbell
  • Patent number: 10430765
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for processing keyboard input to perform events in relation to calendar items using a web browser-based application or online service. A database storing data objects identifying calendar items can be maintained. Each calendar item can comprise a subject, a date, and a time range. A bounding window of a web browser comprising one or more panes can be displayed in a user interface on a display of a device. At least one of the panes can comprise visual representations of a plurality of calendar items stored in the database. Keyboard input from a user interacting with a first calendar item of the plurality of calendar items can be processed. One or more events to be performed in relation to the first calendar item can be determined based on the keyboard input. The determined events can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Hausler, Benjamin Snyder, Laura Nelson, Sumanth Anand, Cordelia McGee-Tubb, Kayvaan Ghassemieh, Matthew Davidchuk, Michael M. Pedersen, II