Patents Examined by James M Detweiler
  • Patent number: 11551265
    Abstract: The present disclosure described herein relates to a system and method for distributing messages to an electronic device. The method comprises: analyzing data relating to the device to determine a correlation of data relating to a user of the device; selecting an advertisement from a set of advertisements based on the correlation of data; and transmitting the advertisement to the device. The correlation of data may be determined from analyzing movement data and at least one status indicator relating to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Knowles, Bhavuk Kaul, Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott
  • Patent number: 11545138
    Abstract: Systems and methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based analysis of oral reviews are provided. An example method includes prompting a user to provide an oral review concerning a subject; providing the user with an interface configured to receive the oral review; receiving, via the interface, the oral review concerning the subject in a free format; generating, based on the oral review, a text for review and presenting the text for review to the user; and providing, to the user, an option to publish the text for review via at least one social media. Generating the text for review may include removing filler words from the oral review and converting the oral review from the free format to a format according to a grammar rule of at least one human language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: INSTREAMATIC, INC.
    Inventor: Stanislav Tushinskiy
  • Patent number: 11544754
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for providing items from an item store to an item store consumer. An item store organizer can request an item store from an item redemption system based on item store parameters. The item store organizer can receive a single use token from the item redemption system to provide initial access to the item store. The item redemption system can validate the item store consumer based on the single use token. The item redemption system can further validate redemption requests from the item store consumer based on the item store parameters. The item redemption system can fulfill the redemption request based on payment information of the item store organizer and shipping information of the item store consumer. The item redemption system can transmit redemption information to the item store organizer based on fulfilling the redemption request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Farley, Mark Thill, David Prody, Juan Carlos Lopez Sanchez, Justin Shane McRoberts, Daniel Micol-Ponce, Bradley Louis James Rosenfeld
  • Patent number: 11541720
    Abstract: A method for optimizing climate control in an autonomous vehicle. The method includes receiving a ride request for an autonomous vehicle from a customer. A desired temperature for an interior of the autonomous vehicle may be determined based on the ride request. The current temperature of the vehicle interior may then be adjusted such that the current temperature substantially matches the desired temperature when the autonomous vehicle reaches the customer. The temperature of the vehicle interior may be allowed to deviate from the desired temperature, within a pre-determined temperature deviation range, when the autonomous vehicle is unoccupied. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed and claimed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Boston, Nayaz Khalid Ahmed, Ali Soloukmofrad, Jimmy Kapadia
  • Patent number: 11538076
    Abstract: A computerized method of automatically generating a recommendation output includes training a machine learning model with historical feature vector inputs to generate a recommendation output, generating a set of inputs specific to an entity, and transforming the set of inputs into a profile data structure. The profile data structure includes multiple attributes. The transforming includes, for each attribute, assigning a preference according to the set of inputs. The method includes obtaining structured supplemental data associated with the entity. The method includes obtaining a set of option identifiers by filtering the option identifiers according to option criteria specific to the entity. The method includes creating a feature vector input according to the set of option identifiers, the structured supplemental data, and the assigned preferences of the profile data structure. The method includes processing, by the machine learning model, the feature vector input to generate the recommendation output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Cigna Intellectual Property, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. McCormick
  • Patent number: 11537688
    Abstract: The present invention includes a first operation (S100) of, by a terminal 10a, registering a clothes fashion design in a management site, a second operation (S110) of, by a management server (20), determining similarity between corresponding design data and a previously registered work, a third operation (S120) of, when the similarity is greater than or equal to a reference value as a result of the determining, generating a blockchain ledger related to a corresponding work, a fourth operation (S130) of, when the similarity is less than the reference value as a result of the determining, generating a blockchain ledger related to a new creative work, and a fifth operation (S140) of, when a profit on the clothes fashion design is generated, by a royalty management server, distributing the profit according to the similarity through a blockchain value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: D3D CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji-Tae Ha
  • Patent number: 11532009
    Abstract: A food portioning system may include a food plate body and a scale associated with the food plate body to sense a weight of food carried thereby. The system may also include wireless communications circuitry coupled to the scale, and a mobile wireless communications device associated with a given user. The mobile wireless communications device may be configured to obtain a user-selected food recipe from the given user, obtain user health data associated with the given user, and obtain a desired consumable food weight for the food plate body based upon the user-selected food recipe and the user health data associated with the given user. The mobile wireless communications device may also be configured to wirelessly communicate with the wireless communications circuitry to obtain a sensed consumable food weight, compare the sensed consumable food weight with the desired consumable food weight, and generate a notification based upon the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
    Inventors: Alise Raak, Diana Medina
  • Patent number: 11494798
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program products are provided for facilitating the application of a ledger, or data structure in general, to programmatically identify duplicate data objects, such as those indicative of card-linked offers provided against a single transaction, and more specifically, to the utilization of a global ledger to identify stacking of card-linked offers. One example method includes receiving an indication of an interaction between two devices, generating distributed ledger data, the distributed ledger data indicative of a previous interaction between the primary device and an entity, causing transmission of the distributed ledger data to each of a plurality of nodes in a offerer network, after a predetermined amount of time, causing performance of a comparison within the distributed ledger data to determine that the entity and a second entity comprise corresponding data objects, applying a rule to generate an adjusted value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Westhead, Kyle Oppenheim
  • Patent number: 11488447
    Abstract: A networked computer system for providing promotional awards to casino property patrons is described herein. The networked computer system includes a promotions management computer server including a processor programmed to execute an algorithm to receive an activity signal from at least one player tracking server indicating corresponding patron activity. The processor is programmed to determine whether the patron activity data indicates a qualifying promotional event, and responsively select a promotional award, generate an escrowed award record associated with the corresponding patron activity, and modify the award escrow data file to include the generated escrowed award record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: STATION CASINOS LLC
    Inventors: William Chad Little, Jon Von Tobel
  • Patent number: 11475474
    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: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TA Connections IL, LLC
    Inventors: Ted Scislowski, Brian Olson, David Velasquez
  • Patent number: 11468352
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product that aggregates sample data regarding a plurality of factors associated with income and geographic location; performs iterative analysis on the sample data using machine learning to construct a predictive model; populates, using the predictive model, a database with predicted values of average income for a selected set of predefined geographic regions; converts the predicted values of average income in the database into percentages of observed values of average income for geographic regions within the selected set over a specified time period to create indices of average income; and rank orders the regions within the selected set according to their indices of average income.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ADP, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt D. Newman, Debashis Ghosh, Ramsay Cole
  • Patent number: 11461797
    Abstract: Provided are a privilege granting device, a privilege granting method, and a program capable of providing motivation to continuously purchase a product by posting and checking, between shoppers having purchased the same product, that an activity associated with the product has been done. A post acceptor accepts, from a shopper having purchased a product, a post that the shopper has done an activity associated with the product. A publisher publishes the accepted post. A report acceptor accepts a report that another shopper having purchased the product has read the published post and checked a content of the read post. A determiner determines, when the shopper repurchases the product, a privilege to be granted to the shopper according to whether the report is accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Daigo Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 11443340
    Abstract: A method and digital signage player for managing display of a distributed digital signage content. The digital signage player stores the distributed digital signage content, and a local placement target for the distributed digital signage content. The digital signage player displays the distributed digital signage content in accordance with the local placement target. The digital signage player exchanges messages with a neighbor digital signage player, for increasing the local placement target of the distributed digital signage content at the request of the neighbor digital signage player. The neighbor digital signage player also displays the distributed digital signage content in accordance with its own placement target, which needs to be decreased. The digital signage player ultimately increases the local placement target of the distributed digital signage content based on the messages exchanged with the neighbor digital signage player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: BROADSIGN SERV INC.
    Inventor: Bryan Mongeau
  • Patent number: 11436639
    Abstract: A behavioral analysis device acquires designated location information regarding a location of a place designated in advance. The behavioral analysis device acquires a history of terminal location information regarding a location of terminal, user identification information associated with the terminal location information, and a history of operation information indicating at least one operation behavior taken through at least one terminal operation of a user having the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Tabara, Koji Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11429944
    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: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: David Scott Parker, Tim Loong Mun, Raúl Eduardo Acuña Carrasco, Kavin Arasu, Peter Hong
  • Patent number: 11423433
    Abstract: A payment system and method that changes a degree of disclosure of personal information provided for a store, including a settlement server that acquires a disclosure level of personal information when an electronic settlement from a user terminal to a store is detected, the disclosure level being set by a payer at present. A picker picks out a new disclosure level different from the acquired present disclosure level. A presenter presents first information about the present disclosure level and second information about the new disclosure level in a selectable manner at the user terminal. In accordance with a selection result in the user terminal, a provider provides the store with partial information extracted from the personal information according to the selected disclosure level. Then, an updater updates the disclosure level to the new disclosure level when the selection result is the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Daigo Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 11423446
    Abstract: An online advertising system provides a user interface that allows the majority of advertisers to receive an “instantaneous” decision on their ad as soon as it is created. Instead of starting the ad review process after the advertiser submits the full ad for review, each ad component and existing combination of ad components is reviewed when it is entered into the ad creation form. This method allows the system to begin time-consuming aspects of the ad review (i.e., crawling the landing page, analyzing image features) while the user is still spending time on creating the ad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Michal Zgliczynski, Igor Gevka
  • Patent number: 11416891
    Abstract: An electronic commerce (e-commerce) system may send advertisement emails to customers that are registered with the e-commerce system. The advertisement emails may include mailto hyperlinks. Each mailto hyperlink may be associated with a product that is being offered for sale, and each mailto hyperlink describes an email message that may be generated when that hyperlink is selected. When a mailto hyperlink is selected, the generated email message may include one or more parameters related to the product associated with the hyperlink, such as an identifier of the product. The generated email message may then be transmitted to the e-commerce system. The e-commerce system may receive the message and, based on the parameters in the received message, execute a transaction to purchase the identified product on behalf of the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: John P. Killoran, Jr., Dennis William Peek, Matthew Custer
  • Patent number: 11410192
    Abstract: Group actions may be performed on behalf of multiple users based in part on the suitability of the various user devices of the different users to perform such group actions. Different user devices may also be used to generate different query intent determinations for a query such that the query intent determination made by a particular user device may be used to fulfill the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Victor Carbune, Matthew Sharifi
  • Patent number: 11410120
    Abstract: Systems and methods for product imaging and provisioning include a mobile application (app) installed on an imaging device, where the mobile app activates the imaging device to generate an image of a product tag associated with an unavailable product at a first location. The mobile app determines, based on the image, a product indicator associated with the unavailable product. A provisioning app, executing on a remote device, receives the product indicator associated with the unavailable product. The provisioning app also receives a user indicator associated with a first user and executes one or more product provisioning rules that determine, based on a product availability database and the user indicator, an availability result. The availability result indicates whether the unavailable product will be available to the first user. The provisioning app is further operable to send the availability result to the imaging device for presentation by the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Jai Thomas, Teresa Joy Astreides, William A. Cuffe, Lindsay N. Mikos, Andrew G. Shotwell