Patents Examined by Julie M Shanker
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Patent number: 10929938Abstract: A portable remote processing apparatus facilitates various aspects of a transaction, such as a real estate property transaction. A seller of the real estate property can use the portable remote processing apparatus to prepare a walk-through of the property for prospective buyers, to configure the property for a showing, and/or to interact with a buyer device to negotiate a sale of the real estate property. Typically, the portable remote processing apparatus communicates with a remote server device, thereby limiting the amount of hard coding in the apparatus and improving the processing capability of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventor: Yvette Hatton
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Patent number: 10909555Abstract: The present disclosure relates to computer systems and methods for interactive web-based processing of real estate transactions. In one embodiment the system includes a seller device, a server system, counselor device, and one or more home listing websites. In one embodiment, the server system provides an online interactive tutorial to the seller device having a corresponding dashboard on the counselor device that provides guidance for a real estate transaction.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: FSBO System, LLCInventor: Kirk Wickersham
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Patent number: 10909643Abstract: Provided is a provided is a computer-based system, including computer processors and computer storage media, configured to display property value data over a period of timeāto dynamically show changes in one or more markets via a display. The system can implement a method of dynamically displaying property price (or value) data over time. User interaction mechanisms can be provided to enable the user to interact with the display and data.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: WEISS RESIDENTIAL RESEARCH LLCInventor: Allan N. Weiss
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Patent number: 10878646Abstract: Vehicle recorder systems are arranged in configured with a video camera, light-weight memory systems, and radio communications facility suitable for use in conjunction with an automobile. An automobile equipped with these video recorder systems used normally throughout the service today, provides a video record of unusual events which may occur from time-to-time. Events such as accidents, near-miss incidents, driving of use, among others, trigger a system to preserve video images collected before and after the moment of the event. Replay of these images yield information regarding cause and true nature of the event. These systems are particularly arranged about, and in support of fleet use of vehicles. That is, groups of vehicles are arranged and coupled together whereby a plurality of such vehicles may communicate with a common system providing a fleet manager advanced fleet management tools.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.Inventor: James Plante
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Patent number: 10740858Abstract: A system and method for conducting forensic investigations by investigators on an investigations field using a mobile device. A digital search warrant is downloaded to the mobile device prior to conducting the forensic investigation. The digital search warrant defines the search parameters of the search to be conducted, including key terms, file types, and the like. The mobile device is coupled to a target device in the investigations field that is the subject of the forensic investigation. The mobile device parses the digital search warrant and automatically identifies and collects data from the target device based on the parsed digital search warrant. The automatically identifying and collecting of the data is done without modifying a state of the target device to retain forensic integrity during the investigation process.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Open Text Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Shawn McCreight
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Patent number: 10699355Abstract: A system and method for generating an aggregate document comprised of at least one sub-document. The system comprises a document management system on a first computing device connectable over a network with a user computing system on a second computing device remote from the first computing device. The document management system on the first computing device has access over the network to a plurality of databases including an aggregate document database, a license database, and a document repository database. Each of the first computing device and the second computing device have software code operationally installed thereon for effecting instructions for controlling certain aspects of each computing device. The software code on the first computing device is operational at least for controlling hardware components of the first computing device to create a builder subsystem configured to enable a user to generate at least one aggregate document.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: David Russell Vandervort, Venkatesh Guru Rao, Jesse Silverstein
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Patent number: 10643257Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for customizing an electronic communication to include an option to make an online donation to a charitable cause, based on evaluating donation histories, and providing the customized communication to one or more recipients. The systems and methods described herein further customize electronic communications for multiple recipients such that the systems and methods provide each recipient with an option to contribute that is based on the individual donation history of the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Jonjo Twist, Nathan Ackerman, John Lawrence Connuck, Lisa Jones
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Patent number: 10636103Abstract: An integrated advance life planning and management system provides to a user, through a single convenient Internet interface, a plurality of advance life planning and management services including estate planning, will preparation, and funeral planning services.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2008Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance CompanyInventors: Bradley D. Molinsky, Karen L. Reich, Nathaniel J. Wilson
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Patent number: 10614417Abstract: A system and a method provide a lead verification service. A lead generator contacts a verification server when a visitor lands on a hosting site of the lead generator to enter lead information into a form. The verification server issues a reference key (token) to the lead generator and collects information about the visitor and the hosting site of the lead generator, using the reference key to identify the collected information. When the visitor submits the form, the lead generator sends the form data, which includes the entered lead information and the reference key received from the verification server, to at least one interested party. When the verification server receives a request for the collected information from the interested party, the collected information is retrieved based on the reference key included in the request and sent to the requesting interested party.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: ActiveProspect, Inc.Inventors: Steven M. Rafferty, Rickie N. Benavidez, Alexander K. Wolfe, Michael Shapiro
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Patent number: 10552854Abstract: The present disclosure relates to computer systems and methods for interactive web-based processing of real estate transactions. In one embodiment the system includes a seller device, a server system, counselor device, and one or more home listing websites. In one embodiment, the server system provides an online interactive tutorial to the seller device having a corresponding dashboard on the counselor device that provides guidance for a real estate transaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: FSBO System, LLCInventor: Kirk Wickersham
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Patent number: 10528990Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of raising funds for an organization. In one embodiment, the organization distributes a solicitation to a buyer, or for delivery to a buyer by way of a child relative of the buyer. The solicitation comprises an offer to sell a jewelry article made from a processed exfoliated deciduous tooth of the child, set in a jewelry object, as a gemstone would be set. The buyer sends a payment for the jewelry article to the manufacturer, who sends a payment to the organization for having distributed a solicitation that was converted into a purchase. The buyer sends the exfoliated deciduous tooth to the manufacturer. The deciduous tooth is specially processed in a manner that allows it to be set in the buyer's selected jewelry object as a gemstone would be set to create the completed jewelry article.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Tooth Fairy Designs, Inc.Inventor: John G. Fischer
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Patent number: 10474975Abstract: Software, databases, computer models, and a series of monitoring devices are provided that are used collectively to optimize farming operations for the purpose of efficiently utilizing the water right associated with the land while recognizing the potential to transfer a proportional amount of the water right in a lease or sale arrangement to other water users. The contemplated system encourages water conservation by allowing those owning water rights to determine the feasibility of changed farming practices intended to maximize net returns and profitability of their overall farming operations.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: SWIIM SYSTEM, LTD.Inventors: Kevin France, Stephen W. Smith, Donald Sanborn
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Patent number: 10453107Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a dispatch system having a controller element to receive from a communication device a first wireless message including a location coordinate and a request for taxicab service, and determine available taxicab services according to the location coordinate and the request. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2007Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Mark Roche
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Patent number: 10438173Abstract: A system manages handling and disposition of environmentally sensitive items. The disposition management system presents one or more environmentally sensitive questions indicative of the condition of an environmentally sensitive item, the disposition of which is to be managed and tracked. Based on answers to the environmentally sensitive questions, the system determines a disposition procedure for the item and generates a disposition label uniquely identifying the item so that it may be tracked from its entry into the waste stream to its disposition with an outbound disposition provider.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.Inventors: Amy D. Evenson, Venkata Nandakishore Kandikonda, Heidi K. Dwinnell, Corey M. Eikam, Brooke R. Klecker, Kim M. Makal, Bruce A. Schreifels
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Patent number: 10423989Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a vehicle condition query via a computer network and retrieving condition data corresponding to a vehicle from a vehicle condition database. Further, the method includes determining a condition of the vehicle based on a collective analysis of the condition data, wherein the condition of the vehicle relates to at least one of a quality or a value of the vehicle, and developing one or more condition descriptors reflecting the condition of the vehicle. Still further, the method includes generating a vehicle condition report including an indication of the one or more condition descriptors and communicating, via the computer network, the vehicle condition report to a remote computing device for presentation to a user of the remote computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2013Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Todd Binion, Kelly S. Minter, Heidi Brown-McCreery, Michael Harris, Jeremy Myers, Brian Fields, Joe Harr
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Patent number: 10332072Abstract: A social welfare services management method, apparatus, and computer readable medium is provided. The method includes inputting data about entities, linking the entities based on relationship between the entities; and performing a government defined unit of work based on said linking. The government defined unit of work relates to the social welfare services. As a result, a people centric approach to managing social welfare is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Case Commons, Inc.Inventors: Kathleen Feely, Nicole Tecco Reece, Arthur Chang, William Anderson, Andrea L. Hollen, James Lindstrom
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Patent number: 10140660Abstract: Systems and methods for enforcing compliance with fiduciary responsibilities related to the administration of a retirement plan are disclosed. The systems and methods include accessing compliance requirements corresponding to the fiduciary responsibilities related to administration of the retirement plan by a fiduciary. Upon accessing the requirements, compliance tasks are extracted in an example implementation. Once compliance tasks are extracted from the requirements, due dates for the compliance tasks are determined based on dates associated with the compliance requirements, or in some examples based on date chosen by a fiduciary. The compliance tasks are then stored in a database, in an example. The systems and methods then monitor the one or more compliance tasks and send alerts based on monitored activities. Finally, in an example implementation, responses to the alerts are tracked to determine whether any follow up action needs to be triggered.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Fiduciary Compliance Corp.Inventors: Larry E. Crocker, William Sean Harrison
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Patent number: 9684911Abstract: Described herein is, inter alia, a method and a device for providing a number of rental vehicles at a station, determining at least one of a number of rental vehicles available at the station and a number of vehicle-receiving spaces available at the station, and sending the at least one of a number of rental vehicles available at the station and a number of vehicle-receiving space available at the station to a user. A distance and historical use of stations are also considered to suggest preferred stations and provide incentives associated therewith. A graphical user interface and a systems adapted to carry the method are also provided hereby.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Inventor: Mathieu Audet
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Patent number: 9569803Abstract: Software, databases, computer models, and a series of monitoring devices are provided that are used collectively to optimize farming operations for the purpose of efficiently utilizing the water right associated with the land while recognizing the potential to transfer a proportional amount of the water right in a lease or sale arrangement to other water users. The contemplated system encourages water conservation by allowing those owning water rights to determine the feasibility of changed farming practices intended to maximize net returns and profitability of their overall farming operations.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: SWIM SYSTEM, LTD.Inventors: Kevin France, Stephen W. Smith, Donald Sanborn
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Patent number: 9542702Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of raising funds for an organization. In one embodiment, the organization distributes a solicitation to a buyer, or for delivery to a buyer by way of a child relative of the buyer. The solicitation comprises an offer to sell a jewelry article made from a processed exfoliated deciduous tooth of the child, set in a jewelry object, as a gemstone would be set. The buyer sends a payment for the jewelry article to the manufacturer, who sends a payment to the organization for having distributed a solicitation that was converted into a purchase. The buyer sends the exfoliated deciduous tooth to the manufacturer. The deciduous tooth is specially processed in a manner that allows it to be set in the buyer's selected jewelry object as a gemstone would be set to create the completed jewelry article.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Shawdon, LPInventor: John G. Fischer