Patents Examined by James M Detweiler
  • Patent number: 11854059
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a smart apparatus, comprising: determining if an application is authorized to use a user profile, when the application installed on the smart apparatus requests the user profile; and transmitting the user profile to the server corresponding to the application when the application is determined to have a user right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myoseop Sim, Dongki Cheon, Huijeong Seong
  • Patent number: 11847583
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for providing point-of-sale functionality are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system including a merchant device and a consumer facing device. The merchant device may include a merchant display device configured to present interactive displays of a merchant facing interface configured to be used by merchants. The consumer facing device may be configured to present interactive displays of a consumer facing interface configured to be used by consumers. The point-of-sale system may be configured to facilitate financial transactions and other forms of consumer service. For example, merchant inputs provided via the merchant facing interface (e.g., entered menu items) may be shown on the consumer facing interface. In another example, consumer inputs provided via the consumer facing interface be sent to the merchant device and/or otherwise used by the merchant device to facilitate a financial transaction, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: David Scott Parker, Tim Loong Mun, Raul Eduardo Acuna Carrasco, Kavin Arasu, Peter Hong
  • Patent number: 11836768
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes determining whether historical profile data structures are stored in a database with corresponding structured supplemental data and selected health care plan option identifiers of a set of health care plan option identifiers. The method includes generating historical feature vectors using the historical data structures stored in the database or generating the historical feature vectors using created sample profile data structures. The method includes training machine learning models using the generated historical feature vectors, selecting one of the machine learning models for use in generating recommendation outputs, presenting an interactive voice interface to an entity to generate audio questions and prompts for obtaining response data from the entity, classifying voice survey responses of the entity, and generating feature vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Cigna Intellectual Property, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. McCormick
  • Patent number: 11836736
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for reduced-reliance onboarding with respect to a service provider application, including but not limited to vehicle service provider applications. Embodiments provide a custom onboarding message that enables onboarding of at least one data object via access, by a user device, of the custom onboarding message with reduced-reliance. Example embodiments receive, from a provider system, acquisition data including at least user communication channel data usable for transmitting information to a user device associated with the customer, generating a subject data object comprising at least a portion of the subject information, attempting initiation of an custom onboarding message to be accessed by the user device associated with the customer, receiving an indication that the customer accessed the custom onboarding message via the user device, and updating data associated with the subject data object to indicate completion of onboarding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Assurant, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronnie Blake Perkna, Dan Gronsbell
  • Patent number: 11823112
    Abstract: A server including an interface configured to communicate with a blockchain network having a plurality of nodes including a vehicle, and a first entity; and a processor, programmed to receive a plurality of trigger events of a first cluster broadcasted by the vehicle to the blockchain network, receive a first request from the first entity to access the plurality of trigger events of the first cluster, send a first key to the first entity to allow the access to the plurality of trigger events of the first cluster, receive a plurality of trigger events of a second cluster broadcasted by the vehicle to the blockchain network, receive a second request from the first entity to access the plurality of trigger events of the second cluster, and decline the second request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Abraham Mezaael, Thomas Woloszyn, Shaheer Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11823222
    Abstract: A power supply/demand management device includes: a battery health acquisition controller configured or programmed to acquire a battery health X of the storage battery; a power selling amount management controller configured or programmed to acquire a desired power selling amount and correct desired power selling amount based on the battery health X acquired by the battery health acquisition controller; a power transmission/reception management controller configured or programmed to manage an amount of received/transmitted power between the storage battery and the power transmission/distribution system, based on the corrected power selling amount; and an incentive management controller configured or programmed to calculate an incentive to be provided to the user of the storage battery based on the corrected power selling amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka Yamauchi, Jun Asakura, Hideki Sakata, Hideyuki Nagai, Masanori Iechika, Yasuhiko Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11810005
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to automated pairing of customers and businesses. A computing platform may determine, based on historical user activity of a user, a pattern of the user activity, and may identify, based on the pattern of the user activity, an anticipated purchase activity of the user. Then, the computing platform may determine a sales offering by a vendor. Then, the computing platform may match the anticipated purchase activity with the sales offering. Then, the computing platform may retrieve user-defined preference rules associated with the anticipated purchase activity. Then, the computing platform may determine whether the preference rules apply to one or more attributes of the anticipated purchase activity. Subsequently, the computing platform may trigger, based on a determination that the preference rules apply to the one or more attributes of the anticipated purchase activity, an action associated with the anticipated purchase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Siten Sanghvi, Morgan S. Allen, Matthew E. Carroll, Tamara S. Kingston, Stephen T. Shannon
  • Patent number: 11803874
    Abstract: A promotion server may generate the promotion campaigns based on input from a merchant. The input may include a request to generate the promotion campaign, a merchant preference, or other information shared between the merchant and the promotion server. The promotion campaign may include promotions, such as coupons, discounts, or the like, to encourage transactions with a merchant. The promotions may be generated based on merchant specified criteria, a merchant transaction history, customer preferences, a customer transaction history, and/or other information processed by the promotion server. The promotions of the promotion campaign may be distributed via one or more channels, such as electronic mail, website publication, receipts, etc. Each promotion of the promotion campaign may be linked to a particular customer, thereby limiting the number of times a particular customer can take advantage of the promotion campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramy Bebawy, Philip Zigoris, Lily Chiang, James Hart, Rujia Zha
  • Patent number: 11803871
    Abstract: A method may include generating a feature table, hierarchical segments, and a graph network based on raw interaction data of a set of users. The method may further include generating a set of rankings for features in the feature table. The method may further include targeting hierarchical segments of the set of users through marketing campaigns and calculate a set of elasticity scores for the set of users in response to the marketing campaigns in the hierarchical segments. The method may further include generating item recommendations for the set of users based on the graph network. The method may further include executing a machine learning model to generate an uplift score for each user from the set of users based on at least one of the raw interaction data, the set of rankings, hierarchical segments, the set of elasticity scores, or the item recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ZS Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Prakash, Gopi Vikranth Bandi
  • Patent number: 11798022
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for the maintenance of a virtual credit card pool for airline passenger vouchers. An example system includes server(s) that are configured to determine a target distribution of virtual credit cards within the virtual card pool for a current date-and-time. The server(s) are configured to, in response to determining that the current date-and-time corresponds with a predefined restocking time, for each card value: identify a current number of virtual credit cards within the virtual card pool; identify a threshold number of virtual credit cards based on the target distribution; compare the current and threshold numbers; in response to determining that the current number is less than the threshold number, transmit a request for virtual credit cards having the card value to an external server; and add the requested virtual credit cards to the virtual card pool upon receipt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TA CONNECTIONS IL, LLC
    Inventors: Ted Scislowski, Brian Olson, David Velasquez
  • Patent number: 11790430
    Abstract: Traditionally, strategies are carried out based on customer intention indicated from surveys, transactional data, location of the store and customer profile. They have limitations such as partial capture of customer intention, absence of transactional data, challenges in defining catchment area associated with store location and lack of customer profiles. This disclosure relates to determining unified user intention from digital environment for plurality of strategies. An information associated with user is received. The information associated with the user is processed to derive weights associated with the user. The weights are integrated and mined through a variable reduction technique to determine at least one significant latent variable from a plurality of significant latent variables and associated significant attribute values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventor: Jeisobers Thirunavukkarasu
  • Patent number: 11790399
    Abstract: A system and method for content selection and presentation is disclosed. A plurality of content elements configured for presentation in at least one content container is received and one of the plurality of content elements is selected for presentation in the at least one content container. The one of the plurality of content elements is selected by a trained selection model configured to select one of an individual context or a global context. An interface including the selected one of the plurality of content elements is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Yang Deng, Omkar Deshpande, Afroza Ali, Abhimanyu Mitra, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11769167
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dynamic price orchestration platform (“DPOP”) that creates dynamic item pricing for different users based on user profile data that is specific to each user, and pricing rules that specify different formulas and use different user profile data for the custom price computation for each item. The DPOP receives a request with an item identifier with a device identifier, obtains a user profile that is associated with the device identifier and that contains the user-specific data, and selects a pricing rule defined for the item identifier. The DPOP generates a dynamic price at which the particular item is offered to the user associated with the device identified by the device identifier based on the user profile data specified in pricing rule being provided as input to the pricing rule. The DPOP then adjusts the particular item price at a point-of-sale to the dynamic price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: BAMBUMETA, LLC
    Inventors: William Esclusa, Patrick James Faiola, Fabio Morato
  • Patent number: 11763350
    Abstract: Systems and methods of generating, for display on a graphical user interface (GUI), a personalized advertisement. The systems and methods can include receiving data indicative of initiating a browsing session, aggregating user activity data associated with a user of the application, the user activity data including current session data and/or past session data, applying machine learning on the user activity data to generate one or more excluded products, applying the one or more excluded products to a product database to generate a list of relevant products, ranking, using one or more ranking rules, the list of relevant products to generate a ranked list of relevant products, and sending, to the mobile device, the personalized advertisement including one or more relevant products from the ranked list of relevant products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: COUPANG CORP.
    Inventors: Vinay Verma, Jing Li, Xinli Bao, Hyun Jung Cho, Satyavaraprasad Vadlamudi, Michael Rowan Savio
  • Patent number: 11763335
    Abstract: Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for guaranteeing a cardholder her reward for using a specialized payment card to complete a transaction based on the price of an asset when the transaction actually occurs. Acting as a digital safeguard, the technology ensures that a platform responsible for disbursing the asset will be able to account for ineligible transactions. The technologies described herein may allow the cardholder to benefit from having her reward invested in a lower risk manner. Moreover, these technologies may allow the cardholder to benefit from gains in the value of the asset over the course of a payment cycle in contrast to conventional loyalty programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Gemini IP, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Hungerford Harrison, Jason Daniel Camp
  • Patent number: 11756065
    Abstract: In some examples, a system may be configured to obtain a set of features of a set of users including one or more features of transaction of the set of users and one or more features of engagement data of the set of users. Additionally, the system may be configured to implement a first set of operations that generate output data including a plurality of churn scores, based on the set of features. In some examples, each churn score of the plurality of churn scores being associated with a particular user of the set of users and characterize a likelihood of a churn event of the corresponding user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Ashish Ranjan, Aysenur Inan, Sooraj Mangalath Subrahmannian, Divya Chaganti, Hyun Duk Cho, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11748774
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for an interactive platform which facilitates the management of social media accounts and content across multiple social media networks, and which facilitates collaboration between influencers and brand owners with respect to social media marketing, advertising, and content publishing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Virality Media, Inc.
    Inventor: Rachin Dalal
  • Patent number: 11734711
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scoring promotions are provided. A set of training offers are received, which include combinations of variable values. These combinations of variable values are converted into a vector value. The offers are paired and the vectors subtracted from one another, resulting in a pair vector. Metrics for the success of offers is collected, and are subtracted from one another for the paired offers to generate a raw score. This raw score is then normalized using the pair vector. The normalized scores are utilized to generate a model for the impact any variable value has on offer success, which may then be applied, using linear regression, to new offers to generate an expected level of success. The new scored offers are ranked and the top-ranked offers are selected for inclusion in a promotional campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Eversight, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Montero
  • Patent number: 11734610
    Abstract: At least some embodiments are directed to an exemplary computer-based electronic activity tracking system that detects activity patterns receiving data values that represent at least one electronic activity. The exemplary electronic activity tracking system includes a detector of unsecure electronic activities that identifies electronic activity patterns performed by a user or non-person entity. The detector of unsecure electronic activities utilizes unsupervised machine learning techniques to detect the electronic activity patterns. The detected electronic activity patterns correspond to unsecure or malicious electronic activities. The electronic activity tracking system outputs notifications indicative of identified unsecure or malicious activity patterns and identifies entities associated with such unsecure or malicious activity patterns. The exemplary electronic activity tracking system implements a graphical user interface operated from a client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Anshul Jain, Sharad Kumar Agrawal, Bobby Chetal, Ayush Jain, Arun Dutta
  • Patent number: 11727430
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking transactions across multiple payment processing networks, wherein the system is operable to, in one embodiment, receive at least one real-time purchase record and match elements of the real-time purchase record to a consumer profile, wherein the system is operable to provide financing offers, incentives, and rewards based on the matching and the at least one real-time purchase record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventor: Bruce Mitchell