Patents Examined by Jennifer V Lee
  • Patent number: 10402875
    Abstract: A method for improved management of a purchase order comprises searching online for at least one product or group of products similar to each other to be ordered from a generic supplier and obtaining a confirmation of availability. The step of searching for the product to be ordered from the generic supplier can be extended to search for the product or the group of products or alternative products available at least one alternative supplier. The product or group of products or the alternative products found at the alternative supplier are inserted into a shopping cart of the alternative supplier and compared with the product or the group of products of the generic supplier. The extension of the search is started automatically by a search and compare software application authorized by the user and provided by the alternative supplier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Ingram Micro S.r.l.
    Inventors: Antonio Masenza, Pietro Viccardi
  • Patent number: 10387924
    Abstract: A device may determine an occurrence of a user interaction. The device may obtain information associated with the user interaction. The device may detect a mobile device transmitting a particular identifier. The mobile device may be associated with the user interaction. The device may establish a connection with the mobile device based on the particular identifier. The device may transmit the information associated with the user interaction to the mobile device to cause the mobile device to transmit the information associated with the user interaction to a server device associated with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventor: Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 10217175
    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: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: MLS Offers LLC
    Inventor: Alan J. Fenn
  • Patent number: 10140153
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments for facilitating action-based fair allocation and usage of thread resources, and by way of example, a method includes receiving job requests and bids from organizations over a network, where each job request and the corresponding bid is placed by a user associated with an organization having a resource currency value within a multi-tenant database system, determining resource currency values associated with pending jobs relating to the organizations, wherein the resource currency values corresponds to resources dedicated to the pending jobs, performing an auction of the received bids for resources that are not dedicated and remains available for purchase, where a bid includes a purchase request to purchase the available resources, prioritizing the job requests based on the dedicated resources and the auction of the available resources, and processing the job requests based on the prioritized job requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Xiaodan Wang