Patents Examined by Jeffrey Smith
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Patent number: 11551280Abstract: In various embodiments, a training application generates a preference prediction model based on an interaction matrix and a closed-form solution for minimizing a Lagrangian. The interaction matrix reflects interactions between users and items, and the Lagrangian is formed based on a constrained optimization problem associated with the interaction matrix. A service application generates a first application interface that is to be presented to the user. The service application computes predicted score(s) using the preference prediction model, where each predicted score predicts a preference of the user for a different item. The service application then determines a first item from the items to present to the user via an interface element included in the application interface. Subsequently, the service application causes a representation of the first item to be displayed via the interface element included in the application interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.Inventor: Harald Steck
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Patent number: 11551282Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for recommending items to users of a recommendation system. In some implementations, the recommendation system determines a plurality of contribution values based on interactions between a plurality of users and a plurality of items. Each of the plurality of contribution values represents a confidence level that a respective user prefers a respective item. The recommendation system further determines a capacity of each of the plurality of items. The capacity of each item represents a maximum number of users to which the item can be recommended. The recommendation system recommends one or more items of the plurality of items to each of the plurality of users based at least in part on the plurality of contribution values and the capacities of the plurality of items.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Intuit Inc.Inventors: Shlomi Medalion, Sigalit Bechler, Oren Sar Shalom, Guy Maman
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Patent number: 11544763Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of receiving a user identifier, receiving an item identifier, determining user item quantity information related to quantities of the item previously selected by the user, determining a respective household size for each user, and determining aggregate household item quantity information related to quantities of the item previously selected by an aggregate of users of the same household size. If a first threshold level of the quantity of transactions is met, a recommended quantity is based on the user item quantity information, and if not, the recommended quantity is based on the aggregate household item quantity information. The user interface of the electronic device is updated to notify the user of the recommended quantity. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer, Shubham Gupta, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan
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Patent number: 11544777Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selecting content items for transmission to client devices are provided. A request for content associated with a client device may be received. Bid values and/or click probabilities associated with content items may be determined. A probability of receiving a negative signal associated with a content item of the content items from the client device responsive to presenting the content item via the client device may be determined based upon a user profile associated with the client device. A content item score, of content item scores associated with the content items, may be generated based upon the probability, a click probability and/or a bid value associated with the content item. The content item may be selected from the content items for presentation via the client device based upon the content item scores. The content item may be transmitted to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLCInventors: Natalia Silberstein, Oren Shlomo Somekh, Yair Koren, Michal Aharon, Tingyi Wu, Dror Porat
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Patent number: 11544776Abstract: Top attributes of a product are identified from text content of an electronic document and are presented as visual depictions of the attributes. The attributes are identified and ranked based on the text content, such as whether the text content describes the attribute in a positive or negative manner. Top attributes are selected from the ranking and a visual depiction of the top attributes is identified. The visual depiction can be a universally recognized symbol or a custom image designated to an attribute. The visual depiction is superimposed on the text content associated with the attributes when the electronic document is presented at a display. In this way, top attributes for a product can be presented in a manner that condenses the relevant information provided by the electronic document into a format better suited for providing the information on small screens of mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Deepak Kumar Vasthimal, Avishek Mukherjee
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Patent number: 11544700Abstract: A system and method of transacting a prepaid product with an electronic mobile device that is used to electronically interface with a code, such as a QR code, bar code, RF signal or NFC signal, representing a prepaid product. The codes of multiple prepaid products of multiple prepaid product providers are grouped together on a single structure or in a single computer displayed in a shopping area. The electronic mobile device subsequently electronically interfaces with a point of sale device after electronically interfacing with said code to provide prepaid product information.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Blackhawk Network, Inc.Inventors: Tomas Ariel Campos, Patrick Ryan Flanagan
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Patent number: 11544766Abstract: A system includes one or more point of sale systems and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive purchase data for a plurality of purchases made by a purchaser via the one or more point of sale systems over a time period, wherein the purchase data includes an identifier of the purchaser, a timestamp, and a type of good. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a frequency with which the purchaser purchased a type of good over the time period based on the purchase data, determine a target time at which the purchaser should next purchase the type of good based on the purchase data and the frequency, and instruct output of a notification in response to receipt of an indication that the purchaser is attempting to purchase the type of good using the one or more point of sale systems prior to the target time.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Reynaldo Medina, III, William Preston Culbertson, II, Susan Elizabeth Wright
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Patent number: 11538081Abstract: System and computer-implemented method of permitting or arbitrating encrypted electronic transactions to occur among an intermediary and an author in an electronic data system only when an interaction occurs between the author and a candidate who was exposed by the intermediary to data published by the author. The author publishes criteria about a candidate, and the candidate posts information about the candidate, which is ingested and married to personally identifiable information about the candidate. A score is calculated indicating a correlation between the candidate and the published criteria, and an intermediary exposes the candidate to the criteria, which is tracked. When the candidate completes an interaction with the author, an encrypted transaction is permitted to occur between the author and the candidate through a proxy, without the author knowing the identity of the intermediary who facilitated the introduction.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Aliro Group LLCInventors: Robert William Archibald, Frederick Harold Reffsin, Brian Ross Lurie
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Patent number: 11538091Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method of digital product onboarding and distribution using a cloud service brokerage (CSB) infrastructure, whereby the method includes creating a product model at a vendor portal computing device, the product model based at least in part on a first product, storing the product model at a marketplace product catalog, exporting the product model to a third-party CSB platform, exporting the product model to an ordering system, configuring an application programming interface (API) to receive a request for integration of the first product, receiving, at the order system, the request for the first product, wherein the request includes a request product model payload, and fulfilling, at the order system, the request for the first product, based at least in part on a product attribute.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: CloudBlue LLCInventors: Marc Serrat Bote, Sr., Maxim Kuzkin, Vladimir Grebenschikov, David Wippich
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Patent number: 11526922Abstract: Assets in an asset portfolio are evaluated using historical data and, optionally, additional other measurable characteristics for the assets in the asset portfolio. Each asset is assigned a valuation that represents past consumption and expected future consumption of the asset. The valuation is used to create recommended sets of assets from the asset portfolio. The recommended sets of assets are sent to user devices for consumption which is further monitored for accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: IRIS.TV INC.Inventor: Thomas J. Sullivan
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Patent number: 11526931Abstract: A network of interconnected digital mirrors within a mall. A plurality of digital mirrors are installed in a participating stores, each comprising a digital screen, a video camera positioned to generate video stream of a user in front of the digital mirror, and a microprocessor. A centralized database stores merchandize data of participating stores. A controller is coupled to the mirrors and the centralized database and preprogrammed to perform the operations comprising: receiving the video stream from the video camera of one of the plurality of digital mirrors; identifying a merchandize item within the video stream; activating a recommendation engine to identify a complementary item from the centralized database that is complementary to the identified merchandize item; sending data regarding the complementary item and a store offering the complementary item to the digital mirror for display.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: EYESMATCH LTD.Inventor: Nissi Vilcovsky
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Patent number: 11514386Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for a supply chain entity having an inventory of one or more items and a warehouse management system receiving orders for one or more items, determining a container for the one or more items, and generating a packing plan for the items. Aspects of the embodiments may include one or more instruction rendering devices having a sensor and a displaying augmented reality instructions and feedback.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.Inventors: Justin Soles, BenoƮt Rochon, Christopher Tyler
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Patent number: 11514502Abstract: Techniques and systems for beacon triggered device to device content transfer are disclosed. A described technique includes presenting, at an interactive beacon device, content including an interactive store catalog; receiving, at the interactive beacon device, user input responsive to the content; generating, at the interactive beacon device, a beacon message that can include transaction information based on the user input and the content, the transaction information including a service or product identifier corresponding to a product or service selected from the interactive store catalog; and transmitting, from the interactive beacon device, the beacon message over a short-range communication link to a mobile device. The beacon message can be configured to cause an application on the mobile device to advance a transaction associated with the transaction information.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Vigier, Corey G. Fugman, Filip Krsmanovic
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Patent number: 11514501Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product of providing digital navigation to a user on a user device is provided. The present invention may include communicating a plurality of navigation commands to the user for navigation within a store, wherein the plurality of navigation commands are generated in response to a user-scanned QR code at the store, and are based on a user-provided specification.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Carsten Hagemann
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Patent number: 11507995Abstract: An information recommendation system and method of the present invention provide a user interface for the user to operate and thereby to generate some confirmation signals. A processing unit calculates recommendation parameters respectively based on aforesaid confirmation signals which includes a temperature confirmation signal, a physique confirmation signal, a residence confirmation signal, and a wearing habit confirmation signal. In another word, the generation of the recommendation information is based on the user's residence temperature and climate as well as the user's physique and wearing habits, and in particular, by further calculating on every recommendation parameters. Therefore, the products recommended by the recommendation information can better match the user's residence and habits whereby increasing the product fitness and decreasing the chances of waste due to unfitness.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Hop Lion Feather Works Corp.Inventor: Yen-Chen Chen
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Patent number: 11501347Abstract: The present technology pertains to a distributed server system for verifying vendors. The distributed server system comprises one or more nodes on a distributed network; a communication interface of a first node that communicates over a communication network with the one or more nodes on the distributed network, wherein the communication interface receives information about a unique seal associated with a product in response to a query; and a processor of the first node that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor verifies that a vendor is associated with the unique seal has been appended to a distributed ledger, determines a match between the unique seal and the vendor; and, after determining the match, confirms that the vendor is a certified vendor of the product.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: D. Brice Achkir, Pavan Mettu
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Patent number: 11501350Abstract: An intermediary device for mediating a transaction of used heavy equipment may be provided. The intermediary device may provide a semitransparent photographing guideline including guidance on a photographing portion and a photographing angle for photographing a heavy equipment image on a heavy equipment portion basis to a sale terminal device. When the intermediary device receives heavy equipment sales request information including at least one of a nameplate image and a registration certificate image of the heavy equipment to be sold, an appearance image, first heavy equipment information, heavy equipment location information, and a desired sale price from the sale terminal device, the intermediary device may recognize at least one of the nameplate image and the registration certificate image to extract second heavy equipment information.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Inventors: Seok-Ho Bae, Han-Jun Bae, Hyun-Woong Bae
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Patent number: 11501364Abstract: A user can easily grasp a state of wearing clothing, and information regarding coordination corresponding to the clothing is provided to the user. An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a communication interface that performs communication with an information providing apparatus that provides coordination information regarding coordination of clothing, and a controller that displays, using a display apparatus mounted on a vehicle, an image of a state in which a user is virtually wearing clothing. The controller transmits the image to the information providing apparatus and receives coordination information, provided by the information providing apparatus, corresponding to the image, via the communication interface, and informs the user of the coordination information received.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yukari Suzuki, Naoki Yamada, Toshihiro Arai, Kuniaki Jinnai, Keiichi Uno
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Patent number: 11501358Abstract: A computer system for matching users with visual items comprises a user-scoring component configured to receive user data about each of the users, and process the user data so as to assign the user a set of psychological test scores that characterize the user in terms of standardized personality traits of a predefined psychological test. Ann item-scoring component uses visual appearance information of each item to assign the item a corresponding set of psychological test scores indicating expected user visual preference for the item in terms of said standardized personality traits of the psychological test. A matching component matches each user with a set of the items, by matching the user's set of psychological test scores with the corresponding sets of psychological test scores of the items, and provide a matching output indicating, to the user, the set of items with which he or she has been matched.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Psykhe LtdInventors: Anabel Maldonado, Rene-Jean Corneille
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Patent number: 11501353Abstract: Described is a system and method for propagating and synchronizing the presentation of user specific information across multiple output devices. In some implementations, a location of a user is determined and user specific information is provided to a plurality of output device controllers configured to control output devices at the determined location. Control instructions are also provided instructing the output device controllers to store, render, present and/or remove the user specific information.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sridhar Boyapati, Felix Joseph Etienne Pageau, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Alexander Michael McNamara, Natalie Thuy-Tien Nguyen