Patents Examined by Jeffrey Smith
  • Computer-readable storage medium for presenting object identifiers for real world objects on wearable and portable devices
    Patent number: 11386479
    Abstract: This application describes a system and process for providing object identifiers relating to real world objects to users based on the location of the user and the anticipated interested of the user in an object within a defined distance of the user. For example, if the user is within a retail store, a portable device associated with the user may detect or receive a beacon transmitted from a location within the retail store and object identifiers representative of objects within the store may be generated and provided to the user. In some implementations, only object identifier representative of items determined to be of likely interest to the user may be provided for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Gavini, Jason Luke Wilson, Evan Sharp
  • System, method, and manufacture for outfit customization via a dynamic and interactive user interface
    Patent number: 11379902
    Abstract: A style-driven system may create a holistic shopping experience by generating a user interface (“UI”) with interactive controls and a single presentation for an outfit with two or more items selected from two or more different categories of goods having different utilities or purposes. The single presentation may provide a comprehensive and holistic presentation of the outfit by presenting the items together with a particular arrangement. The holistic shopping experience may include selecting a set of substitute items that are in a same category of goods as a particular item of the outfit and that have one or more style attributes in common with the particular item, and modifying the UI by presenting the set of substitute items for the particular item, and by replacing the particular item in the particular arrangement with a selected substitute item from the set of substitute items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Stylitics, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohan Deuskar, Jeremy Raines, May Do, Milusa Cickova
  • Electronic apparatus, manufacture, and information providing method thereof
    Patent number: 11379900
    Abstract: Provided is an information providing method of an electronic apparatus. The information providing method may include acquiring a search term from a user, identifying at least one first category related to a product corresponding to the search term, identifying a second category corresponding to a subcategory of the first category and an image corresponding to the second category, and displaying a product list corresponding to the search term in a first region and displaying the image and information on the second category in a second region distinct from the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Coupang Corp.
    Inventors: Jun Young Mun, Ha Yeon Kim, Yoon Mi Park, I Seul Han, Eok Hyun Lee, Min Ji Kim, Dong Geon Lim
  • Method, system, and computer readable storage medium for alternative email-based website checkouts
    Patent number: 11373156
    Abstract: An e-commerce system and method for facilitating transactions between a customer and a vendor is disclosed. The e-commerce system includes a receiver configured to receive a request for at least one token, the request including the details of at least one transaction for the purchase of at least one product, a processor configured to generate at least one token, a transmitter configured to transmit the at least one token to a customer browser, the customer browser being used to validate the token using at least one iframe, the receiver configured to receive submission in the iframe, the processor configured to decode the token, the processor configured to perform one or more validations, and the processor configured to process the transaction, on a condition that the validations are approved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: James Kassemi, John P. Killoran, Jr., Chad Person
  • Method for in-store object highlighting by a real world user interface
    Patent number: 11367130
    Abstract: Systems and methods according to present principles involved highlighting objects such as on a store shelf. Highlighting is displayed by projecting a light directly on the object by means of a light source or may alternatively be indicated by displaying an indicator or image of the object on a display screen. Information about the targeted object may appear in a headmounted display, on a user's mobile device, or may be projected on a surface via the projector. Information provided to a user may include comparison product data, data about potential allergens, and the like. Highlighting can also be employed to suggest items of interest to the user. For example, products may be recommended to a user through analysis of user data and such products illuminated by a projector as a user walks through a store. Other highlighted objects may be those on a user grocery list or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventors: Charles McCoy, Leo Pedlow, True Xiong
  • Method, system, and manufacture for min-cost flow item recommendations
    Patent number: 11367118
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for optimizing a graph. The graph can be generated with a source node, a plurality of item nodes, and a terminal node. Once generated, the graph can be optimized to determine a lowest cost flow from the source node to the terminal node based at least in part on respective budget measurements. A first account node and a first item node can be determined and an account corresponding to the first account node, as well as information that identifies an item corresponding to the first item node can be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Struble, Rahul Makhijani, Yi Liu, Shreya Chakrabarti
  • Method, computer program product, and apparatus for workspace recommendations based on prior user ratings and similar selections
    Patent number: 11361366
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for generating workspace recommendations based on prior user ratings of selected workspaces, as well as other similar selections. One method comprises obtaining user workspace ratings provided by a user; calculating a first workspace recommendation score for workspaces that the user previously rated based on the obtained user workspaces ratings; calculating a second workspace recommendation score for additional workspaces that are: (i) similar to workspaces previously rated by the user based on a predefined workspace similarity metric, and/or (ii) selected by similar users, based on a predefined user similarity metric; and recommending workspaces for the user based on the first workspace recommendation score and the second workspace recommendation score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Shiri Gaber, Avitan Gefen
  • Methods for pet wellness platform
    Patent number: 11361368
    Abstract: According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for recommending pet food for a pet is disclosed. The method includes receiving pet information corresponding to the pet from a client user device of a user associated with the pet and generating a set of attributes relating to the pet based on the pet information. The method further includes determining a temperature classification corresponding to the pet based on the set of attributes and determining a recipe score corresponding to the pet based upon the temperature classification and the set of attributes. The method further includes determining a pet food recommendation from a pet product database based on the temperature classification, and providing a diet recommendation indicating the pet food recommendation the user via a communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HABI, INC.
    Inventors: Carol E. Bramson, Marney Prince, Charles H. Cella, Elizabeth Ann Boh, Olivier Jean Claude Fischer
  • Method, system, and computer program product for data attribution of items and contextual content creation of coordinating groups for the items
    Patent number: 11361357
    Abstract: A method includes receiving data in an electronic format that describes an item, and assigning a unique identifier to the item. The data is normalized across one or more data sets of data that describe other items. The normalizing includes deriving functional and aesthetic attributes of the item based at least in part on the data that describes the item, where at least one of the derived attributes is not included in the data. The normalizing also includes programmatically mapping the attributes to a defined set of taxonomies for pre-defined attribute types. At least one other item is located in the one or more data sets having attributes that coordinate with the attributes of the item. A user interface that includes a styleboard with an image of the item and an image of the at least one other item having attributes that coordinate with attributes of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: THE NEIMAN MARCUS GROUP LLC
    Inventors: Kristen A. Miller, Lisa M. Perrone, Sophie M. Huang
  • System, manufacture, and method for distributed gifting transactions based on merchant website data
    Patent number: 11361353
    Abstract: A system comprising a file server configured to receive merchant and product data from a merchant server, a data backend that manages access and retrieval of the merchant and product data, a sender interface coupled to the data backend that communicates with a sender client device to create a gift transaction from a virtual shopping bag, the virtual shopping bag including a product assortment selected based on the merchant and product data, a recipient interface coupled to the data backend that communicates with a recipient client device to receive a selection from the product assortment, and a widget interface that interfaces with a website integration component that is embedded on a merchant website, the website integration component adds the virtual shopping bag to the merchant website and imports a feature to create the gift transaction with the virtual shopping bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SmartGift, Inc.
    Inventors: Monika Kochhar, Bernd Strenitz, Orhan Kutlu, Jakub Kohout, Ariel Schleicher
  • Systems, methods, and manufactures for applications for wearable devices
    Patent number: 11354729
    Abstract: Systems and methods of applications for wearable devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a wearable device receives data from a personal computing device communicatively coupled to the wearable device. The data can correspond to content of an online marketplace. In response to receiving the data, the content can be caused to be displayed on the wearable device. The wearable device can detect an input from a user. The input can correspond to a requested action. The wearable device can transmit at least one instruction to the personal computing device. The instruction(s) can be configured to cause the personal computing device to perform the requested action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: John Tapley, Charles Lin, Krystal Rose Higgins
  • Computerized systems and methods for providing product recommendations
    Patent number: 11354721
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing product recommendations, comprising receiving, from a user device, a search query, defining, using a query handler cluster, context associated with the search query, identifying, using a search cluster, one or more products associated with the defined context, filtering, using the search cluster, the one or more products associated with the defined context based on features associated with the one or more products stored in a database, ranking, using the search cluster, the one or more products associated with the defined context based on a score generated for each product, and displaying, on the user device, product recommendations, wherein the product recommendations comprise a number of the one or more ranked products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Coupang Corp.
    Inventors: Rui Jiang, Dongcheng Wang, Sungmin Oh, Ting Wang, Jaedong Shin
  • Methods, system, and computer-readable medium for automatic generation of image-based print product offering
    Patent number: 11354717
    Abstract: A method for generating and displaying a print product offering including a plurality of digital images is provided. In one aspect the method comprises: generating a group of digital images from the plurality of digital images; classifying each of the digital images within the group based on an image quality parameter that is a predetermined minimum image file size; selecting only the digital images in the group which conform to the image quality parameter; providing a pre-developed electronic image product layout including a plurality of virtual orifices; populating the plurality of virtual orifices with only the digital images which conform to the image quality parameter to provide an image product template design; and displaying the image product template design as the print product offering on a display of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM North America Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Asbury, Ryan Moore, William A. Fuss, Jason Womer, George Jegadesh, Victor Moudgil
  • Method and storage medium for private edge-station auction house
    Patent number: 11348167
    Abstract: An auction house for selling or auctioning, to consumers, private infrastructure that is configured for use as an edge station or a cloud-native cluster. The private infrastructure is configured for use in edge computing and is listed with the auction house. Bidding is performed and a winning bidder is awarded with the use of the private infrastructure. When listing, the hardware and/or other aspects of the private infrastructure are verified and the winning bidder receives a digital key that enables the winning bidder to use the private infrastructure in accordance with the auction and/or in accordance with a pricing model associated with the private infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Victor Fong, Robert A. Lincourt
  • Method and systems for a product list server
    Patent number: 11341553
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method related to generating or using a shopping list are disclosed. Shopping lists aid a consumer in purchasing items. The apparatus and method may be used to trigger when to generate a shopping list, what items to include on the shopping list, cost associated with purchasing one or more items on the shopping list, sharing of or collaborating on the generation or purchase of items on the shopping list, using location-based tools (such as geo-fencing) when using a shopping list, evaluating different payment methods when purchasing items, and routing to/within stores when purchasing items from a shopping list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
    Inventors: Adrian Borunda, Jack Conrad, Ferdinand Glenn Lyday, Jason H. Kilgrow, Marty Lee Mendivil, Seth A. Roberts
  • Method, system, and manufacture for inferring user lifestyle and preference information from images
    Patent number: 11334933
    Abstract: A method of monitoring user interactions with a networked device includes receiving image data associated with one or more images of a user, computing a plurality of visual features of the one or more images from the image data, and calculating, by a processing device, a style characteristic from the plurality of visual features. The method include calculating, by the processing device, a lifestyle characteristic based on the style characteristic and calculating, by the processing device, a user preference based on the lifestyle characteristic. The method includes determining a recommendation of a product based on the user preference and providing the recommendation to a user device associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert R. Price, Anirban Roy, Hoda Eldadiry
  • Method, system, and manufacture for light hypergraph based recommendation
    Patent number: 11334935
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include a computer-implemented method for generating product recommendations used a hypergraph. The computer-implemented method includes generating a product embedding vector for a product unpurchased by a consumer based on a hypergraph. Generating a consumer embedding vector for the consumer based on the hypergraph. An affinity between the consumer and a product unpurchased by the consumer is scored based on the product embedding vector and the consumer embedding vector. A digital description of the unpurchased product is retrieved based on the scoring. The digital description is presented to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chao Chen, Dong Sheng Li, Stephen My Chu, Jun Zhu
  • Method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for aggregating, accessing, and transacting a plurality of business applications
    Patent number: 11328376
    Abstract: A system and method for aggregating, accessing and transacting a plurality of business application has been described. The system is a conglomeration of the plurality of business applications which provide point solutions to everyday problems of small and medium businesses. The system allows the business application owners to register their business application on the platform. Further the system enables business owners to browse, view details, avail demos and purchase subscriptions to the business applications on the platform. The system further enables business application owners to provide a sales and access point to a wider business customer audience through a one stop shop for the plurality of business applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Viral Prakash Shah, Annie Dhairiamani, Santosh Dharamanna Kusanale, Sachin Bhardwaj, Stuti Shukla
  • Methods and systems for an e-commerce platform with augmented reality application for display of virtual objects
    Patent number: 11321768
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for augmenting a customer image with at least one virtual object. One or more customer images depicting a customer environment are received from a customer computing device and 3D feature data for the customer images is determined. A virtual object is determined which corresponds to a desired merchant item. A positioning signal is received which corresponds to a desired location of virtual object in the customer environment, and a corresponding first location in each customer image at which to overlay the virtual object using the positioning signal is determined. An appropriate size and orientation of the virtual object is determined for each customer image based on corresponding 3D feature data, causing an overlay of an appropriately sized and oriented virtual object at the corresponding first location in customer images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Shopify Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Beauchamp
  • Method and system using illustration to conduct an expedited electronic transaction
    Patent number: 11308493
    Abstract: A method to display an illustration to conduct an expedited electronic transaction is provided. Consumer identification information identifying a consumer is received. The consumer identification information is stored in association with a web browser of a consumer's device. A customized illustration is displayed based on the received consumer identification information on the consumer's device. A request is received for the expedited electronic transaction by swiping the customized illustration across a portion of the display of the consumer's device. Transaction data sufficient to complete the electronic transaction is sent to the merchant based on the swipe of the customized illustration across display of the consumer's device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Chunxi Jiang, Clint Florez, Peng Zhao, Kevin Carvalho, Sang Wook Lee