Patents Examined by Ilana L Spar
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Patent number: 12384412Abstract: An information processing circuitry for controlling a content provided to a user inside a cabin of an autonomous vehicle, wherein the information processing circuitry is configured to: obtain environment data; acquire abstract content data, representing abstract content, being associated with the obtained environment data; measure initial user body data of the user and determine, based on the measured initial user body data, an initial emotional state of the user; determine and provide a first content, being associated with the abstract content, to the user; measure, in response to providing the first content to the user, first user body data of the user and determine, based on the measured first user body data, a first emotional state of the user; and if the initial emotional state and the first emotional state of the user are different: acquire user content data from a database, representing user content associated with a past user experience, being associated with the environment data, wherein the userType: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Klaus Zimmermann
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Patent number: 12198151Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: CFPH, LLCInventors: Howard W. Lutnick, Colin Sims, Ari Friedman, Richard Grech, Mark A. Miller
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Patent number: 12159287Abstract: In some implementations, a system may identify a mitigation record in a record log associated with an account of an application. The system may append a message prompt to the mitigation record that causes the application to request, during a user session associated with the account, an indication of whether there is an association between the mitigation record and an event record. The system may receive, from a user device associated with the user session, feedback associated with the message prompt that indicates whether the mitigation record is associated with the event record. The system may perform, based on the feedback, an action associated with indicating whether the mitigation record and the event record are associated.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Jonathan Lee, Elijah Moreau-Arnott, Steve Frensch, Garrett Randall
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Patent number: 12131352Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: CADENT, LLCInventors: Michael Zacharski, Alex E. Cook
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Patent number: 12118593Abstract: A device, system and method for processing images that include amounts is provided. A receipt image is received at a controller of a computing device. The receipt image is rendered, at a display screen, the receipt image comprising a total amount region including a total amount of expenses in the receipt image. A total amount field, including a submission total amount associated with the total amount, is rendered at the display screen adjacent the receipt image. A link between the total amount region and the total amount field is rendered at the display screen, at the total amount region of the receipt image. Input is received confirming the submission total amount, via an actuatable option rendered at the display screen in association with the total amount field. The submission total amount is transmitted, via a communication interface, to an expense management system.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: AMADEUS S.A.S.Inventors: Jean Pierre Boutherin, Jose Da Cruz, Nicolas Guillon
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Patent number: 12081837Abstract: Systems, methods and/or computer program products issuing and transferring presentation rights between users during digital events using NFTs and incentivizing audiences to remain active attendees of digital event as new presenters take over the presentation. Value exchanged for obtaining NFTs representing presentation rights can correlate to a speaker score which is calculated using audience metrics collected by the platform. Presenters with higher presenter scores and larger or more active audiences can result in higher valuations, increasing the value of the NFT being purchased. Exchanges of value and NFTs are executed using non-custodial wallets and/or smart contracts. The value exchanged for the NFT can be split between original presenters' wallets and wallets of the audience members in pre-determined ratios.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Melanie Dauber, Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Jeremy R. Fox
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Patent number: 12056735Abstract: Methods and systems of providing alternative advert (AA) query items for an AA system are disclosed. A request is received to generate an AA query. In response to the request, it is determined whether a percentage of scoreable AA query items for which a viewer has a known or derived preference exceeds a threshold value. Each scoreable AA query item has an assigned equity score and an assigned viewer-item affinity score. In response to determining that the percentage of scoreable AA query items exceeds the threshold value, one or more first AA query types are determined to create for the viewer. The requested AA query is sent. A response to the sent AA query is received. Equity scores and viewer-item affinity scores of total scoreable AA query items are updated based on the response.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Rivit TV, Inc.Inventors: Wade Bradley, Shrikesh Karunakaran Pillai
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Patent number: 12039561Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to incentivize crowd sourcing of data by identifying and compensating content contributors based on a value of the content to training a neural network. Methods may include: receiving a request for a machine learning model trained from training data received from a plurality of data contributors, where the training data identified a contributor having provided the respective training data; processing the request for the machine learning model to infer a result based on a subset of training data relevant to the request; identifying one or more data contributors that provided the subset of training data relevant to the request; and providing compensation to the one or more data contributors that provided the subset of training data.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.Inventor: Tero Juhani Keski-Valkama
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Patent number: 12032999Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for intelligent allocation of a resource into an auxiliary tangible source retainer. The present invention may be configured to determine a difference between a transferred amount of resources provided to an entity by a user and a total amount of a resource distribution, where the difference includes a primary amount of resources corresponding to primary tangible resources and a secondary amount of resources corresponding to secondary tangible resources. The present invention may be further configured to determine, based on a machine-readable code on an auxiliary tangible resource provided by the user, an auxiliary tangible source retainer associated with the auxiliary tangible resource and allocate, from a source retainer associated with the entity, the secondary amount of resources to the auxiliary tangible source retainer associated with the auxiliary tangible resource.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventor: Rebecca Stepp Morgan
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Patent number: 12026736Abstract: A product reclamation system may include a mobile device associated with a given user. The mobile device may be configured to obtain an image of a product to be discarded. The system may also include a reclamation server configured to obtain the image of the product from the mobile device, and apply image recognition techniques to the obtained image to determine if the product is a reclaimable product. The server is configured to, when the product is determined to be a reclaimable product, operate a machine learning algorithm to determine a reclamation value for the reclaimable product, communicate the reclamation value to the mobile device, and prompt the given user, via the mobile device, to send the reclaimable product to a reclamation facility in exchange for the reclamation value, and generate and communicate a digital promotion to the mobile device based upon sending the product to the reclamation facility.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: INMAR SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Seth Maxwell, Nirajan Kharal, Mark Lingelbach
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Patent number: 12020296Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing contextualized reviews. A customer can make a review, such as reviewing a product or a business, outlining their experience. To provide additional emotional context, biometric data can be obtained and compared to the customer's historical biometric data. Upon determining that the biometric data has deviated from the historical biometric data, the review data from the review can be revised to include a notification. The customer can also be alerted and warned to not post the review if their emotional state is found to be negative. The process can be repeated on a plurality of customers opted-in to the contextualized review system. For the plurality of customers, a plurality of reviews can be analyzed for a business or service provider by, for instance, emphasizing emotional reviews, ranking the reviews, or filtering out non-emotional reviews.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Salik Shah, Michael Mossoba, Cruz Vargas
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Patent number: 12014392Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for instrumenting web pages. One of the methods includes providing a host website having a plurality of registered users, the host website including links to partner websites and a script library. The method includes providing access to the host website by a user. The method includes generating a security token in response to a user activating a link of the links. The method includes directing the browser of the user to the partner website. The method includes receiving a request from a partner web page presented in the browser of the user for a script from the script library. The method includes sending the script to the browser. The method also includes receiving from the browser of the user tracking information generated by the script and identifying actions taken by the user on the partner website.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Frank L. Bain, III, Daniel Davidson, Paul Bradford Langer
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Patent number: 11989749Abstract: A driver scoring (DS) computing device for scoring driving activity for a driver in real-time is provided. The DS computing device includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to: (i) receive sensor data about a driver in a vehicle; (ii) determine, from the sensor data, a driver activity including at least a duration for the activity; (iii) calculate a score for the determined activity, wherein the score depends on at least one of a type of activity and the duration of the activity; (iv) retrieve a driver profile associated with the driver from the at least one memory, the driver profile including at least one of user input preferences and a history of payment transactions; and (v) generate at least one merchant incentive based on the score and the driver profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Christopher T. Scholl, Regan E. Harmon
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Patent number: 11978074Abstract: A driver monitoring (DM) computing device for monitoring driving behavior of a driver in real-time is provided. The DM computing device detects a user computer device associated with a driver inside the vehicle. The DM computing device collects state data of the user computer device. The state data includes data as to a state of the user computer device during a currently occurring trip. The DM computing device collects vehicle operation data of the vehicle while the driver and the user computer device are inside the vehicle. The DM computing device compares the collected vehicle operation data and the state data of the user computer device to determine whether the user computer device was activated during the currently occurring trip. The DM computing device causes a driving reward to be applied to an account associated with the driver for inactivity of the user computer device during the currently occurring trip.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Christopher T. Scholl, Regan E. Harmon
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Patent number: 11978088Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Impact Engine, Inc.Inventors: Neil Greer, Bennett Blank, Bryan Depew
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Patent number: 11978086Abstract: Systems and methods describe providing alternate redemption options. One aspect involves receiving an order, analyzing consumer information using a redemption options algorithm to obtain redemption options including an alternate redemption option, providing an initial gift notification to a recipient device based on the gift order, the initial gift notification including the alternate redemption option, receiving an alternate redemption request, transmitting an alternate redemption information request, receiving alternate redemption information, adding alternate redemption information to the historical consumer information to obtain updated historical consumer information, training the redemption options algorithm using the updated historical consumer information to obtain an updated redemption options algorithm, and performing an alternate redemption action set using the alternate redemption information.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: LOOP COMMERCE, INC.Inventors: Gabriel Saunkeah, Jenny Jeansonne, Julia McCaffrey, Soren Mills
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Patent number: 11928712Abstract: A computer-implemented method for allocation-free control of online campaigns for distributing online content includes receiving a daily content distribution spending budget and one or more response functions, calculating one or more plant gain estimates based on the one or more response functions, calculating a marginal content distribution spending budget based on the daily content distribution spending budget, generating one or more control signals based on the calculated marginal budget and the calculated one or more plant gain estimates, generating a price control signal based on the generated one or more control signals, and calculating a bid for one or more impressions based on the price control signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Qixing Zheng, Niklas Karlsson
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Patent number: 11880870Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus provide the ability to generate and deliver digital content in a headless content management system. A layout engine exposes a visual editing interface to a business user and accepts input to compose a layout consisting of components that define structural entities that control what to render. Marketing content is associated with the components. Each component is added, via the visual editing interface, to zones of the layout. Developer code may restrict a type of component that can be added to each zone. The layout and zones control a conceptual design for rendering the digital content. The layout engine receives a request for content from one of multiple different client applications that are executing in different hosting environments. The content is delivered, based on the layout, to the client application for rendering to a consumer.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SITECORE CORPORATION A/SInventors: Adam K Weber, Nicholas J. Wesselman, Olexandr Shyba, Michael Seifert
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Patent number: 11875379Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for predicting imputed revenue of inquiries includes: one or more computing devices comprising computer hardware and configured to: obtain data relating to a plurality of inquiries. Each of the plurality of inquiries is (a) indicative of a request for information about one or more programs providing a service, and (b) received from a particular channel of a plurality of online channels for presenting the one or more programs. The plurality of inquiries are represented using one or more data structures in one or more data sources. The computing devices are further configured to determine a model for predicting enrollment rates of the plurality of inquiries based at least in part on historical enrollment data of at least one program of the one or more programs, the model specifying a predicted enrollment rate value for one or more characteristics associated with the plurality of inquiries.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: CPL ASSETS, LLCInventors: Steven Ostrover, Jonathan Frederick Ripper
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Patent number: 11842364Abstract: A system and a method allow for the provision of an incentive between different applications. A server stores information including, in association, a user identifier, a first identifier, and a second identifier received from a client terminal, and when receiving an incentive request, causes an application server to provide an incentive to the user pertaining to the first identifier corresponding to the second identifier based on the information.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventors: Yuichi Ono, Takuya Watabe, Yugo Takino