Patents Examined by John Van Bramer
  • Patent number: 11605107
    Abstract: A system for providing advertisements with search results in response to a search query comprises a front end and an advertisement server. The front end is configured: to receive a search query; to send a first search request to a search server and sending a first advertisement request to an advertisement server, wherein the first search request includes the search query or information based on the search query, and wherein the first advertisement request includes the search query or information based on the search query and an indication that an advertisement response is not to be provided; to receive search results from the search server; and to send at least some of the search results to the advertisement server in a second advertisement request, wherein the second advertisement request includes an indication that an advertisement response is to be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shivakumar Venkataraman, Srdjan Petrovic, Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson, William S. Robinson, Alan Blount, David L. Jones, Tarun Kumar Jain
  • Patent number: 11568446
    Abstract: The media preview system receives media content from one or more client devices, generates a preview of the media content, associates a coded image with the preview within a database associated with the media preview system, detects scans of the coded image from client devices, and causes display of the preview at the client devices in response to detecting the scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Omer Cansizoglu, Chang Li, Brennan Erbeznik, Giovanni Gardelli, Ryan Hornberger, Jingou Xu
  • Patent number: 11514479
    Abstract: An adaptive bidding system for networked advertising. A bid request is received from an exchange over a network. Each bid request represents the opportunity to bid on an advertising opportunity. A processing time limit is determined based at least in part on a network latency measurement and an exchange reported timeout. The execution of one or more tasks is initiated by the adaptive bidding system. A response is determined from one or more results which are available before the processing time limit expires. The execution of any tasks that have not completed execution before the processing time limit expires are terminated. The response is provided to the exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Quantcast Corporation
    Inventors: Crispin Edward Harold Flowerday, Faraaz Aejaz Sareshwala, Damian John Reeves
  • Patent number: 11508203
    Abstract: Some embodiments may include interaction among sports books. Various other systems and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Andrew Garrood
  • Patent number: 11508272
    Abstract: Described is a display system for a vehicle. The display system uses one or more active displays integrated into a new vehicle or coupled as an aftermarket product in an existing vehicle. The new vehicle with integrated displays of the system may be provided to a purchaser for a reduced cost for participation in the advertisement system. The system operates to provide nearby vehicle occupants, pedestrians, or others with advertisement and/or emergency messages using the displays. The display system can show advertising messages or emergency messages on the active displays that are relevant to the location of the vehicle. The system may operate to prioritize the advertisement messages or emergency messages that will be displayed based on determinations made by a server of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Charles Isgar
  • Patent number: 11501327
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for delivering promotion information. A delivery server obtains a set of promotion-information-items-to-be-delivered for a user, obtains a delivery-recommendation-degree corresponding to the user according to each of promotion-information-items-to-be-delivered in the set of promotion-information-items-to-be-delivered, determines, according to the delivery-recommendation-degree, one or more target promotion-information-items from the set of promotion-information-items-to-be-delivered; and delivers the target promotion-information-items to a user equipment corresponding to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Dapeng Liu, Xiaoqing Cao
  • Patent number: 11494800
    Abstract: A system for a website building system server, the server having at least one processor and a memory, the system includes: an analyzer and updater to construct a promotional package for a user of the website building system according to at least editing history and/or business intelligence of a website belonging to the user, a channel determiner to determine the best mode of interface to present the promotional package to the user and a marketer to modify the website building system interface for the user according to the best mode of interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Wix.com Ltd.
    Inventors: Orly Amrany, Omri Yunger, Elad Kaisi, Shai Lavie, Itay Shmool
  • Patent number: 11488202
    Abstract: A transaction for a customer is detected and transaction details are evaluated to obtain a federated customer profile that may span multiple channel communications. Policy conditions are evaluated to track and interact with the customer in a vendor-defined manner during the transaction. According to an embodiment, the transaction details, the customer profile, the tracked information, and other recorded interactions with the customer are accessible to the vendor for analysis, via a vendor interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Antonio M. Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11468472
    Abstract: A system and method for scalable, adaptive, real-time generation of personalized offers is disclosed. A profile of a user is generated, the profile being a summarized representation of historical behavior of the user, the profile containing recursively updated variables. The profile is updated for each new transaction and/or a time dependent event, the new transaction and/or time dependent event including purchase transaction data, user, item hierarchy, and offer data. A affinity scores is generated for the user based on the updated profile, and for each new transaction, one or more offers are generated for the user based on the updated user profile and the affinity scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FAIR ISAAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Michael Zoldi, Amit Kiran Sowani, Ujjwal Kumar, Sidakpreet Singh Chawla
  • Patent number: 11468470
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for attributing online advertising campaigns to in-store purchases. In particular embodiments, the system is configured for: 1) receiving and optimizing advertising campaign information; 2) uploading the optimized advertising campaign information to an advertising platform; 3) capturing customer data based on pixel and cookie interaction, including data regarding the advertising campaign; 4) receiving customer identifying information; 5) matching the customer identifying information to the captured customer data; and 6) matching the customer identifying information to in-store purchases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Force Events and Direct Marketing, LLC
    Inventors: John Fitzpatrick, Randy Sieger, Alex Appolloni
  • Patent number: 11461791
    Abstract: A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, including generating one or more ad-avatars in a virtual universe (VU) and monitoring information from the VU. Additionally, the method includes directing the one or more ad-avatars to perform one or more viral advertisements in the VU based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Rick A. Hamilton, II, Jenny S. Li, Clifford A. Pickover, Anne R. Sand
  • Patent number: 11461796
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for aggregating merchant offers include a network interface structured to facilitate data communication via a network, an accounts database structured to store account information associated with accounts held by the provider, including a payment account associated with a customer, and a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory. The processing circuit is structured to receive a pre-filtered offer from an offer vendor, aggregate the pre-filtered offer with other received pre-filtered offers from multiple offer vendors to create an aggregated offer list, filter the aggregated offer list based on the account information for the customer to create a filtered offer list, generate a prioritized offer list based on the account information for the customer, and transmit the prioritized offer list to a customer device of the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Krista L. Donels, Jennifer Miller, David Patron, Matthew S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 11449900
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing method, a server, a terminal, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: obtaining first information from a terminal, the first information comprising at least a media object on which an operation is performed and a user identifier; obtaining second information associated with the media object on which the operation is performed, the second information comprising more than one piece of media information; obtaining third information according to the user identifier, the third information comprising at least basic user information, user behavior information, and user relationship chain information; obtaining fourth information associated with the third information, the fourth information comprising more than one piece of media information; and sending the second information and the fourth information to the terminal, so that the terminal aggregates and displays the media information in the second information and the fourth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qian Wang, Bingfeng Dong, Lingling Yao, Junliang Chen, Xinming Luo, Yuan Wang, Lieqiang Li, Jianxun Zhou, Bing Wang
  • Patent number: 11449897
    Abstract: Protected audience selection system. Media consumption histories of browsers which have converted are received at a modeling system where targeting of browsers is prohibity. A model is built by determining a frequency of each respective media consumption event among the histories and comparing each determined frequency of a respective media consumption event to a frequency of the respective media consumption event among a population of browsers without the conversion event. The model is sent to a targeting system which excludes conversion events. A description of the conversion event is received at the targeting system. A history of a targetable browser is received at the targeting system. The model is applied to the history of the targetable browser at the targeting system, where conversion events have been excluded from the history. Advertising content is sent to the targetable browser according to a result of applying the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Quantcast Corporation
    Inventors: Konrad S. Feldman, Damian John Reeves, Paul G. Sutter
  • Patent number: 11449899
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to receive an initial targeting for an advertisement. The advertisement can promote a group of a social networking system. A refined targeting for the advertisement can be generated. The advertisement based on the refined targeting can be delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Ju, Zhen Li, Alkarim Nasser, Yuan Liang, Ritika Prasad
  • Patent number: 11392995
    Abstract: Efficient translation and load balancing of bid requests is disclosed. For example, a first network interface receives a notice from a publisher and triggering a first interrupt on a first processor. The first processor processes the first interrupt and provides the notice to a notice queue. A request translator executing on a distinct second processor translates the notice into a request. A request router sends the request to an advertiser through a selected network interface, which receives a first response triggering a second interrupt on a third processor. The second processor processes the second interrupt and provides the first response to a response queue. A response translator executing on the second processor translates the first response into an offer, which is sent to the publisher through the first network interface. Meanwhile, a second network interface triggers a third interrupt on a fourth processor after receiving a second response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ENGINE MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Louis Clayton Ashner, Michael Zacharski
  • Patent number: 11386457
    Abstract: The described implementations facilitate the discovery and presentation of video advertisements in a non-intrusive manner by users of client devices. In one implementation, an informed opt-in preview representative of a video advertisement is generated. The informed opt-in preview is a short video presentation that is formed from frames extracted from the video advertisement that can be presented on a client device to provide a user with an overview of the video advertisement corresponding to that informed opt-in preview. For example, the video advertisement may be a two-minute video advertisement. In comparison, the informed opt-in preview may be as little as three—five seconds in length and simply provide an overview of the video advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventors: Nipoon Malhotra, Justin Velo, Richard Neil Cancro, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11373217
    Abstract: Techniques and system are described for a real time bid platform to control output of digital marketing content to a potential consumer. In an example, impression data is generated by a physical retail environment or mobile device of the potential consumer based on a determined location of a user within a physical retail environment. The impression data is used by a digital marketing system to expose bid opportunities to a plurality of advertiser systems via the real time bid platform. The advertiser systems then generate bids based on impression data described as part of the bid opportunity, and may also be based on additional information the advertiser systems have about the potential consumer obtained from third-party systems. The bids are then used as a basis to control output of digital marketing content to the potential consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Chris Michaelson, Kevin Gary Smith, Natalee A. Villa
  • Patent number: 11373196
    Abstract: A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, including generating one or more ad-avatars in a virtual universe (VU) and monitoring information from the VU. Additionally, the method includes directing the one or more ad-avatars to perform one or more viral advertisements in the VU based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Rick A. Hamilton, II, Jenny S. Li, Clifford A. Pickover, Anne R. Sand
  • Patent number: 11367106
    Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to utilize household connections. A device is associated with a primary household. The primary household is connected with one or more additional households. Within a primary household profile, identification information (for the one or more additional households that are connected to the primary household) are stored. Media content based on data associated with the primary and connected households is then targeted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: VIANT TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Vanderhook, Jason J. A. Knapp, Brian C. DeFrancesco