Patents Examined by Jeffrey A. Smith
  • Patent number: 11037226
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for identifying top attributes are presented. Text content from an electronic document describing a product is extracted. A plurality of attributes associated with the product are identified using the extracted text content. A descriptor word proximate to each of the plurality of attributes in the extracted text content is detected. A weight is assigned to each descriptor word proximate to each of the plurality of attributes. The plurality of attributes are ranked based on the weight of the descriptor word proximate to each of the plurality of attributes. A predetermined number of top ranked attributes from the plurality of attributes are caused to be presented. Further, an image associated with each of the top ranked attributes is determined, the image being designated as a visual representation of the corresponding top ranked attribute. The image is caused to be displayed in association with the product on a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Kumar Vasthimal, Avishek Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11032153
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing resource distributions are disclosed herein. An example method includes: receiving, at a first server and from a first resource provider (e.g., an educational foundation), a first provision of resources for a resource recipient (e.g., a teacher) and at least one restriction that restricts the resource recipient's use of the first provision of resources. The method also includes segmenting the first provision of resources, within a repository of resources associated with the resource recipient, such that the first provision of resources is uniquely identified as associated with the first resource provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CLASSWALLET
    Inventors: Neil Steinhardt, James Rosenberg, Ronald Butler
  • Patent number: 11019300
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for providing soundtrack information during the playback of video content. A video content item is rendered upon a display. A command is received from a user. In response to this command, a current time in the playback of the video content item is determined. Further, an item associated with the current time in the playback is identified. The item is featured in corresponding video or audio content of the video content item at the current time when the command is received. An information user interface is rendered upon the display to provide information regarding the identified item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle Dianne Baxendale, Ike Eshiokwu, Ian Fuller, Sam Ahmed Akil Hassan, Salmen Hichri, Lucy Jane Spence, Alexandre Paul Collin
  • Patent number: 11017455
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses are disclosed for implementation and management of a dynamic compute and application marketplace. The dynamic computer marketplace system can coordinate access to one or more other computing resources, including on-premises computing resources, external (or off-premises) computing resources or a combination thereof. In various embodiments, the dynamic computer marketplace system advantageously can be used to facilitate inter-provider migration, transparent pricing, and/or competitive pricing, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Core Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Barnes, Max Alt
  • Patent number: 11010811
    Abstract: Among other things, information is received, from two or more competitor merchants offering products to customers, about one or both of a current price and units of inventory of each of the products. The information about the current prices and units of inventory of the product offered by the two or more competitor merchants is provided through a communication network for presentation to one or more customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Jane Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Socrates Munaf Rosenfeld, Abraham Munaf Rosenfeld, Benjamin Aaron Green, Howard Hong, Simon James Roddy
  • Patent number: 11010707
    Abstract: A system for interconnecting network devices based on queuing and servicing responses includes one or more processors configured to receive, from a first computer system, an order request for a product or service associated with a second computer system of a plurality of second computer systems. Instantiate an order messaging queue associated with the order request and add an identifier of the first computer system to the order messaging queue. Add an identifier of the second computer system and one of the third computer systems to the order messaging queue. Determine the contents of the communication and based on determining contents of the communication, consult a response rule table to determine a response to the communication. Access the order messaging queue to identify server devices corresponding with servicing the determined response and publish, to the identified server devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Coupang Corp.
    Inventor: Tae Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11010804
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a commerce platform coordinating a purchase of a product sold by a merchant system through a third party application are described. The method may include receiving a notification from the third party application requesting to purchase a product from within the third party application, wherein the notification comprises an identifier for the product and an identifier for the merchant system that sells the product. The method may also include a product checkout interface having an appearance consistent with an appearance of a user interface of the third party application, and transmitting the product checkout interface generated by the commerce platform to a user device executing the third party application causing the third party application to render the product checkout interface within at least a portion of the user interface of the third party application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: STRIPE, INC.
    Inventors: Rasmus Rygaard, Devesh Kumar Senapati, Christopher Ross Continanza, James William Danz
  • Patent number: 11010801
    Abstract: Price transparency via aggregation of real-time quoted prices is provided. Real-time quoted service price data corresponding to a service application is collected from registered client devices. The real-time quoted service price data corresponding to the service application is aggregated. It is determined whether a price quoted to a client device by the service application is fair based on the aggregated real-time quoted service price data. In response to determining that the price quoted to the client device by the service application is unfair, a graphical input button is provided within a price transparency display on the client device that enables a user of the client device to send a complaint to a service provider corresponding to the service application with a price transparency log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Geetha Karna, Danish Contractor, Sreekanth Kakaraparthy Lakshmi, Kuntal Dey
  • Patent number: 11004162
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating real estate transactions that is configured for receiving property information from a listing service or data feed, presenting a property information display on data communication devices for each property; generating a unique transaction actuator in each property information display, and responsive to selecting a unique transaction actuator, generating an offer form with an offer transmittal actuator, wherein the offer form includes a plurality of data fields relating to an offer to purchase property that are populated with the property information for the specific property associated with the selected unique transaction actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MLS Offers LLC
    Inventor: Alan J. Fenn
  • Patent number: 11004127
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for analyzing customer communications to provide better customer service including generating customer related data from communications of a customer by at least one sensing device located in a venue, transmitting the generated customer related data to an analysis engine, determining based on an analysis of the customer related data a customer experience, identifying at least one suggestion to provide better customer service including the identification of a representative of the venue that the analysis engine has determined can assist the customer, and receiving the at least one suggestion including an indication that the representative should assist the customer from the analysis engine by a computing device associated with the representative of the venue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marco A. Deluca, Timothy M. Francis, Leho Nigul, Brian W. Thomson
  • Patent number: 11004064
    Abstract: The DYNAMIC CHECKOUT BUTTON APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (DCB) transforms product page checkout request input and user identification input via DCB components such as offer/discount determination component and checkout button embedding component, into dynamic checkout button outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Thomas Purves, Clint Florez, Amit Gupta, Aparna Krishan Girish, Peng Zhao, Chunxi Jiang, Sang Wook Lee, Kevin Carvalho
  • Patent number: 10986475
    Abstract: A consumption-monitoring storage system comprised of consumption-monitoring racks and a control program. The consumption-monitoring racks can have a flat horizontal base and substantially vertical or diagonal sidewalls or siderails. The consumption-monitoring racks can measure the volumetric level of a consumable product for each product container occupying each consumption-monitoring rack. Each product container can have transparent sections or windows positioned opposite each other that provide access to its respective interior volumetric space and the consumable product, allowing measurement of the volumetric level of the consumable product. The control program communicates with the consumption-monitoring racks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventor: Rotem Grosman
  • Patent number: 10984458
    Abstract: A method whereby the date of birth (age) of a consumer engaging in e-commerce over the Internet is verified. The present invention is launched from a merchant's website when an age sensitive transaction—alcohol or tobacco purchase, access to an adult web site, etc., —is being undertaken. The system first checks to see if the consumer is a known entity with a known date of birth. If the consumer is not known to the system, then the system checks public records from information supplied to the system by the consumer. If the date of birth is still unknown after such a check, the consumer uploads an image of photo identification which is checked for date of birth either via software or manually. Once the date of birth is known, the transaction is approved or denied based on the totality of the facts of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Bankcard USA Merchant Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Ricardo Andres Alvarez Gutierrez
  • Patent number: 10977720
    Abstract: An augmented reality commercial platform is provided to simulate a product in an environment. The augmented reality commercial platform may include a merchant component, consumer component, augmentation engine, illustrator component, and monetization component. A method to simulate a product in an environment using the augmented reality commercial platform is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: 3View Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Miguel D. Ramos, Mark D. Polson
  • Patent number: 10969922
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving input for a message, including a comment from a user, in a first zone of a message area of a graphical user interface of a first interface, the graphical user interface comprising the message area comprising the first zone to allow the user to enter a comment and a second zone to allow the user to insert item details by accessing an item list generated from a database. The systems and method further providing for detecting input in the comment from the user indicating a request for an item list associated with the input, accessing the database to generate the item list based on the input entered by the user wherein the item list is displayed to the user, detecting a selected item in the item list displayed to the user, generating item details associated with the selected item wherein the item details are inserted in the second zone of the message area of the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Chongyao Wang, Filiberto Selvas
  • Patent number: 10970769
    Abstract: A system and method for creating an e-commerce, dynamic, internal search engine are disclosed. The system and method include providing a server having a memory and a processor, and providing the server with a search engine configured to perform the steps of: identifying a first user search term that results in a first search result and the number of occurrences the first search term is input into the search engine. The search engine then identifies a second user search term input into the search engine subsequent to the first user search term and the number of occurrences the second search term is input into the search engine and identifies the number of occurrences when the second search term yields a successful search result. The search engine then modifies subsequent search results facilitated by the first user search term to reflect the number of successful search results of the second search term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Overstock.com, Inc.
    Inventor: Nasreen Iqbal
  • Patent number: 10970722
    Abstract: A computerized system and method of managing events surrounding the lifecycle of used and new mobile devices. The system provides a “360 view” that integrates a mobile device's service options, such as financing and device protection, as well as at the device level regarding potential hardware/software errors. This provides an end-to-end view of consumers, such as claims on device protection plans, repayment issues, utilization of upgrades and/or other information in a user's profile across multiple underlying systems during the device's lifecycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Brightstar Corp.
    Inventors: Mariela Millington, Ranga Rajamanickam, John Harper, Clay Bodnarek
  • Patent number: 10970775
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recommending and implementing network documents for users to offer items in a marketplace may be provided. A system can obtain user data that includes an item offered by a user in a first electronic marketplace. For example, the system can identify and catalog items offered by a particular user. The system can identify a second electronic marketplace for the user to offer the item. The system can determine implementation information for the second electronic marketplace. The system can generate a network document for the at least one item that is configured to be presented in the second electronic marketplace based at least in part on the implementation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sunil Singh Parihar, Huy Quang Dang, Janani Sowprnika Arvind, Joe Jony Jeyaratnam, Surya Kumar Senapati, Sarvesh Ganapati Pai, Sai Kishore Pavuluri, Edgardo Veloz Arroyo
  • Patent number: 10956966
    Abstract: A method and system for online transaction using an offline experience. A computer-implemented method may include providing, to an electronic device, an internal image of an offline store registered as an affiliate to an online open market; recognizing a product displayed in the offline store in the internal image; generating a user interface using a virtual object for the product recognized in the internal image; and providing a service associated with a corresponding product with respect to a product selected through the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Youn Sik Lee
  • Patent number: 10944845
    Abstract: A content delivery system consolidates aggregates and analyzes content. Content may be construed broadly, such as text, video, audio, merchandise, news, bands, festivals, venues, release dates, concerts, performances, etc. The system may obtain content, filter content and/or apply preferences and/or analytics to determine a particular content. Analytics may include various content matching processes, such as hashing, for example. A notification may be generated based on the particular content and the notification may be sent, to a user's portable device for example. An aggregation application on the portable device may present an indication of the notification and response to selection of the notification. For example, the aggregation application may display the content associated with the notification. The aggregation application may track the user's behavior and update various analytics based on the tracking information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: JamFeed, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Gregory Gibson, Tyler Gibson