Patents Examined by Gabrielle McCormick
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Patent number: 11158016Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products leveraging the use of data collection, analytics and predictive modeling to selectively provide customized career and education counseling based on each individual user's interests, personality, preferences, geographic location, habits and experiences. The collected user data and user-defined parameters define a user profile, providing insight into career or educational options best suited to the user. Further educational and career information may be collected and presented to the user, including enrollment information from one or more colleges and universities, specific educational programs aligned with the user's defined profile, and descriptions of courses and curriculum.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sergio Varga, Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, Daniela Trevisan, Yankel Schwartz
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Patent number: 11157972Abstract: A device receives image data of a contractual document that includes an offer including terms of a proposed transaction, converts the image data to text data that identifies text within the contractual document, and receives preferences information for a recipient of the offer. The device identifies key terms within the contractual document by using term identification to analyze the text. The key terms may include a first key term that identifies subject matter of the proposed transaction and other key terms that are part of the offer. The device determines term scores that correspond to likelihoods of the other key terms being favorable to the recipient by using a data model to analyze the key terms and the preferences information. The device, based on the term scores, generates and provides another device with a recommendation to be used in determining whether the accept the offer.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Olalekan Awoyemi, Jason Hoover, Staevan Duckworth, Geoffrey Dagley, Stephen Wylie, Qiaochu Tang, Micah Price
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Patent number: 11151673Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing data correlation over a network. Student information may be provided. Position information based on potential employers may be provided. Student profiles may be generated based on translation models and the student information. The student information may be translated into unified facts included in the student profiles. Position profiles may be generated based on the translation models and the position information. The position information may be translated into other unified facts in the position profiles. The student profiles may be correlated with the position profiles based on recommendation models, the unified facts, and the other unified facts. Each student profile and position profile pair may be associated with a score based on a strength of the correlation. Reports may be provided that include each pair of the student profile. A plurality of pairs may be ordered based on the score associated with each pair.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: AstrumU, Inc.Inventors: Adam Jason Wray, Kaj Orla Peter Pedersen, Xiao Cai, Feng Zhang
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Patent number: 11151516Abstract: A networking database and system into which profile information is aggregated from online websites and services to correlate discovered identities to one another via Intra-Personal and Inter-Personal Relationships and Profile Information. Profile Information, Inter-Personal relationships and related content of those identities which have been determined to have an Intra-Personal relationship are aggregated into Meta-Profiles. The aggregated Meta-Profiles' information is used in place of their component Intra-Related identities for optimized social graph operations and content customization. Identity and Relationship data can be used to customize content for the primary service, registered or unregistered users, and third-party services. The system may define, categorize and group both identities and relationships belonging to individuals registered with the system and unregistered users through computational analysis.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Inventor: Jonathan Brian Vanasco
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Patent number: 11144881Abstract: Examples of techniques for computer-generated team based metrics for candidate onboarding and retention are described herein. An aspect includes determining metrics of a candidate that is interviewing for a position in a team of an organization. Another aspect includes determine metrics of each individual member of the team. Another aspect includes calculating a first score for the team based on the metrics of each individual member of the team. Another aspect includes recalculating a second score for the team based on the metrics of each individual member of the team and the metrics of the candidate. Another aspect includes determining a variance between the first score and the second score.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sushil Bhaskar Ravi, Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Chandra Sekhar Kalyan Devulapalli, Venkata Suresh Babu Golla
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Patent number: 11113669Abstract: In various embodiments, tools and user interfaces are provided that cater to the way that many employees desire to view their human resources data and human resources related transactions. These tools can be configured to provide appropriate, distilled contextual information, and transparency to the employment situation of the employee.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.Inventors: Helen Anne Miles, Linda Griffith, Scott Paterson, Zhen Zeng, Jen M. Levin, Elizabeth A. Spenko
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Patent number: 11108724Abstract: An information source, such as an advertiser or product vendor, transfers information to contacts for which the information source has no contact data. The information source stores information in an information database which communicates the information to a referrer which has the desired contact data. The referrer uses a communication device to transfer the information to one or more contacts using contact data.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Groupon, Inc.Inventors: James F. Kramer, Paul C. Ning
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Patent number: 11107135Abstract: The present specification provides a method for, including: collecting information about respective geographic positions of users using shared vehicles; determining, for each one of the respective geographic positions, popularity indexes of the shared vehicles in an area corresponding to the geographic position; determining, for each one of the respective geographic positions and based on the popularity indexes, a popularity score of the shared vehicles within the area corresponding to the geographic position; mapping the popularity scores to corresponding color values; and generating a presentation of the areas with visual attributes representing the popularity scores of the shared vehicles within the areas, wherein generating the visual presentation comprises rendering the presentation in accordance with the color values.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jie Li
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Patent number: 11093983Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods where an enrollment team is trained to get the customer set up on the systems, a second welcome call is placed within a predetermined amount of time to the customer to further solidify the deal, using social media groups that require customers to “check in” to encourage customers to participate in the groups, using purposeful placement of key information and announcements in the groups, welcoming new members to the group and providing strategies to encourage and lift up those customers are participating the most and live streams are hosted directly within the groups and posting the livestream schedule in the groups.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Blueprint Nine, LLCInventors: Kale Abrahamson, Taylor Hiott
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Patent number: 11093899Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for processing a document. A computer system identifies the document in a live view on a mobile display system for processing; performs optical character recognition on the document identified in the live view of the document on the mobile display system for a user to form document information for the document; and identifies human resources information relating to the document information using the document information and a policy. The human resources information is stored in a database, and the policy defines the human resources information relevant to the document. The computer system also displays a relation of the human resources information to the document information in augmented reality information on the live view of the document on the mobile display system and updates the human resources information in the database using the document information to form updated human resources information.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: ADP, LLCInventors: Roel Punzalan, Nacho Andrade
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Patent number: 11074359Abstract: A mapping between private information to be protected and identifier information for an object is recorded. The object is detected by analyzing sensor data received from a sensor device within a private computer network, in which the object has one or more attributes associated therewith. An analysis report is generated about the object by excluding the private information from the analysis report based on the mapping, in which the analysis report includes a non-private part of the one or more attributes. The analysis report is transmitted to a remote computer system located outside the private computer network without the private information.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hiroyasu Ohsaki, Satoshi Kawase
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Patent number: 11068845Abstract: Techniques for managing complaints are disclosed. The system may receive complaints submitted by users. A complaint may describe an incident, such as a safety issue or a cheating incident. The system analyzes a set of complaints to identify similar complaints. Upon identifying a threshold number of similar complaints, the system generates an incident report based on the complaints. The system may refrain from generating or submitting any incident report for a complaint if the threshold number of similar complaints have not been received by the system. The system may or may not include information such as the identity of the reporter, the identity of the accused party, or the incident location in an incident report based on threshold criteria.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Kent Arthur Spaulding, Kenneth Joseph Meltsner, Reza M. B'Far
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Patent number: 11068849Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to utilizing paid time off. In one example, the systems and methods described herein may provide an infrastructure to repurpose paid time off into other uses, such as cash, travel, bill payments, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: PTO Genius, LLCInventors: Adam P. Gordon, Ulises I. Orozco
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Patent number: 11049075Abstract: A method and system for victim notification functions by receiving a report from an accuser regarding conduct of an accused that is believed to constitute harassment, bullying and/or discrimination, the reporting being composed of structured data. The severity of conduct in the report is scored and ranked and the pervasiveness of conduct in the report is scored and ranked by comparing the reported conduct against prior reports regarding the accused. Other reports by the accuser are also analyzed.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Inventor: Ariel D. Weindling
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Patent number: 11042912Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product allow employee agents of an employer company to selectively communicate with potential customers to share content regarding various products and services offered by the employer company. In one aspect, a plurality of product records and a plurality of intermediary user records, storing information about the products/services offered by the company and the employee agents of the company, respectively, are stored on a data storage module. To send message to recipients, an employee agent may select one or more products, one or more recipients, and send messages having information about the selected products to the selected recipients. The employer company may retrieve tracking information regarding these sent messages via a message tracking module. The system may also include a message sending module that may intelligently send messages to requested recipients and a message processing module to track interactions of the recipients with the messages.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Inventor: Michael Stewart Shunock
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Patent number: 11037171Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for generating a record (R1-R1) corresponding to the validity of a proof of purchase including obtaining (98) product data elements (31-37) by a camera (24), a keyboard (28) or near-field communication through a mobile device (1), determining (99) contextual information of the mobile device (1) such as its geolocalization, transmitting (100, 101) product data elements (31-37) and contextual information to a server (2), determining (102) on the server (2) from the contextual information and the product data element (31-37) whether the proof of purchase is valid and generating (107) a record (R1-RI) corresponding a valid proof of purchase.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: QUOTIENT TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Eli Curetti, Quentin De Chivre, Philippe Cantet
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Patent number: 11037104Abstract: A resume remarketing method, system, and computer program product, including creating a remarketing cookie based on an interest factor of a first user in a first type of resume, matching the first user with a second user based on a similarity between a role of the first and second users, and transferring the remarketing cookie from the first user to the second user to remarket the first type of resume to the second user.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Kuntal Dey, Seema Nagar, Sudhanshu Shekhar Singh, Roman Vaculin
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Patent number: 11030535Abstract: Merchant quality may be inferred through machine learning techniques. A customer satisfaction classifier may receive data associated with a customer's engagement with a merchant, and may apply a machine learning model to the received data in order to infer a satisfaction of the customer with the merchant. The inferred satisfaction may be used to determine a rating of the merchant that is imputed to the customer.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Siddharth Arora, Maciej Golonka, Gustavo Eduardo Lopez, Dana Christopher LoPiccolo-Giles, Valerie Grace Millar
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Patent number: 11030583Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer program for removing or replacing information in candidate profiles that may influence bias. The system identifies data in candidate profiles that may influence bias with respect to one or more defined classes of bias, such as gender, race, or age. The identified data is removed or replaced with an abstracted/neutral form of the data. The system may also remove information that personally identifies a candidate. In certain embodiments, the system determines what data is relevant for the job for which a candidate is applying and, for data that is relevant, at what level it is relevant (i.e., at the base value or an abstracted level). In such embodiments, the system removes data from the candidate's profile that is not relevant for the job role and, where applicable, abstracts some of the remaining data to levels that are relevant for the job role.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Eightfold AI Inc.Inventors: Ashutosh Garg, Varun Kacholia
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Patent number: 11023861Abstract: A system and method for implementation and administration of an employer-sponsored retirement plan that assists employers and retirement plan providers with managing their fiduciary responsibilities for an employer-sponsored retirement plan by enabling users, such as an employer and a retirement plan provider, to implement and administer an employer-sponsored retirement plan in an efficient, and cost-effective manner, by collecting and analyzing data that is pertinent to a desired employer-sponsored retirement plan; receiving notifications from a notification manager if certain conditions of the retirement plan are met; drafting a retirement request for proposal based on the categorically analyzed data about retirement plan; bidding on the retirement plan from service providers; and monitoring the selected employer-sponsored retirement plan after implementation.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: BIDMONI, INC.Inventors: Stephen Daigle, Michael Steffan, Jr., Kendall Dixon