Patents Examined by Kurtis Gills
  • Patent number: 10210467
    Abstract: Balancing a workload based on commitments to projects includes monitoring messages in a collaboration system, the messages representing correspondences between users of the collaboration system, selecting a number of the users associated with the collaboration system to form a group of users, retrieving the messages from each of the users in the group of users, analyzing data associated with the messages to determine which of the messages relate to at least one project, and executing, based on a threshold, at least one action to optimize a workload for at least one user in the group of users for the at least one project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo, Dale M. Schultz, Shunguo Yan
  • Patent number: 10204388
    Abstract: A method of construction project management is disclosed. In one embodiment, parameters of a construction project design are provided to an asset at a construction site. Geospatial information is then collected by the asset while the asset is implementing parameters of the construction project design at the construction site. The geospatial information is provided to a construction management computing system in real-time. The construction management computing system is remote from the asset. Progress on the construction site design is then dynamically updated in real-time by the construction management computing system based on the geospatial information to create a real-time, as constructed model of the construction project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Bryn Fosburgh, Rosalind Buick
  • Patent number: 10198735
    Abstract: A facility for determining a market rental rate index for homes located in a distinguished geographic area is described. The facility accesses a current market rental rate attributed to substantially every home in the named geographic area based on automatically comparing the attributes of each home to attributes of homes recently listed for rental in the named geographic area. The facility then applies an aggregation function to the accessed current market rental rates to obtain an aggregation result. The facility causes to be displayed a characterization of the current market rental rate of homes in the named geographic area that is based on the aggregation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Zillow, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley B. Humphries, Dong Xiang, Yeng Bun
  • Patent number: 10181142
    Abstract: Among other things, a central server maintains information representative of requests communicated through the Internet from devices at request locations. Each of the requests represents a proposed reservation for services to be managed by devices at delivery locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Jane Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Socrates Munaf Rosenfeld, Abraham Munaf Rosenfeld, Benjamin Aaron Green, Scott Robert Tracy-Inglis
  • Patent number: 10169769
    Abstract: Techniques and arrangements for determining a recommended number gift cards for a merchant to order and for determining values for the merchant to associate with those gift cards, based, in part, on comparing a business profile generated for the merchant with collected business profiles. The business profiles may include geographical locations of the merchants, a class of items offered by the merchants, and transactional information for the merchants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Lang Mocko
  • Patent number: 10147104
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for receiving consumer search data, aggregating by consumer and location, and utilizing the aggregated consumer search data in demand forecasting and relevance determination. An example method may include receiving consumer search data, the consumer search data indicative of search performed by a consumer, the consumer search data comprising one or more search terms and at least one of a consumer location or consumer identification information, storing the consumer search data for a predetermined time interval, and providing at least one of consumer aggregated search data to a relevance module for determining which of a plurality of promotions to present to a consumer at a second time or providing location aggregated search data to a demand forecasting module for utilization in forecasting promotion demand in a particular location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Greyson Gregory, Vincenzo Mannino, Alex Lester
  • Patent number: 10140667
    Abstract: The method includes receiving a target customer relationship management (CRM) opportunity from a social customer relationship management application. The method also includes extracting one or more structural elements from the target CRM opportunity. The method also includes extracting one or more structural attributes of each structural element responsive to extracting the one or more structural elements. The method also includes storing the one or more structural elements and the one or more structural attributes associated with each structural element in a template database. The method also includes creating a template from the one or more structural elements and the structural attributes in the template database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jorge A. Arroyo, Stephen P. Kruger, Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Luciano M. P. da Silva
  • Patent number: 10108974
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing a dashboard. An example method comprises determining, using a processor, a total demand for one or more promotion tuples, identifying a current supply, wherein the current supply is identified in an instance in which the current supply is usable to satisfy the total demand, determining one or more demand gaps based on a difference between the total demand and the current supply, providing a first view in a lead dashboard, the first view comprising at least one of a total demand, current supply or one or more demand gaps, receiving a selection of one of a plurality of granularities of either a location or category, and refining the first view into a second view, the second view comprising additional granularity of at least one of a total demand, current supply or one or more demand gaps when compared to the first view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Shafiq Shariff, Derek Nordquist
  • Patent number: 10108916
    Abstract: Systems and methods for supply chain design and analysis to optimize costs associated with a supply chain are described. According to an embodiment, the supply chain management system comprises a data extraction module, an analysis module, and a presentation module coupled to a processor. The data extraction module obtains supply chain data from one or more data sources. The analysis module analyzes a plurality of parameters and at least one future state map to ascertain at least one business scenario. Further, the analysis module identifies flow constraints in the at least one business scenario based on a flow analysis. Further, the analysis module selects decision parameters from amongst the plurality of parameters based on the flow constraints and a simulation feedback. Further, the analysis module simulates at least one experimental design based on the decision parameters. Furthermore, the presentation module generates, a plurality of maps based on visual analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
    Inventors: Amit Bhowmik, Gautam Sardar
  • Patent number: 10096036
    Abstract: An optimal design assistance device which assists in design of system configuration with minimum price of a computer system, even it is the computer system which performs complicated processing, so that it can be accomplished in a short time and with high efficiency is provided. The optimal design assistance device which assists in design of controllable design parameters of the computer system to which a plurality of Service Level Objects (SLOs) defining non-functional requirements are specified includes: a relaxation solution derivation unit which derives a relaxation solution evaluation value that is the minimum value of the price of the system configuration of the computer system which achieves a part of the SLOs among a plurality of the SLOs; and a search unit which searches for a parameter set of the design parameter by which all the plurality of SLOs are achieved and the price of the system configuration is made lowest by using the relaxation solution evaluation value unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sayaka Izukura
  • Patent number: 10089638
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to rapidly logging sales activities in a customer relationship management system. It also relates to simplifying logging of sale activities by offering a streamlined data entry path that as immense usability in a mobile environment. The streamlined data entry path can be completed by triple-action, double-action, or single-action. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to automatically identifying and selecting entities that are most likely to be selected by a user. The identification of entities as most likely to be selected is dependent at least upon access recency of records of the entities, imminence of events linked to the entities, and geographic proximities of the entities to the user. It further relates to automatically identifying and selecting sales activities that are most likely to be performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce, inc.
    Inventors: Sönke Rohde, Craig Villamor, Akhilesh Gupta, Grant Anderson, Jason Schroeder, Charlie Issacs, John Walter Taschek, Steve Gillmor, Girish Jashnani
  • Patent number: 10083410
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for implementing a system, method, and computer program product for a marketing automation tool that implements an advanced fairness scheme for resources. The order that work items are deployed is carefully managed to ensure that customers are treated fairly. This prevents and/or minimizes any customer from being adversely affected by other customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Paulsen, Jacob Ofir, Andrew W. Robinson, Umair Akeel
  • Patent number: 10068304
    Abstract: A vendor matching engine and method of use, which may be used by a prospective bidder on a government contract or another prospective selectee in order to determine which bids or applications are most worthwhile to pursue. The engine may perform steps of retrieving transactional or vendor registry information, such as Federal Procurement Data System data or System for Award Management data, and may then use this data to generate matchability scores characterizing the compatibility between the selector and selectee. To generate these scores, the distances between selector and selectee coordinates in n-dimensional space may be used in order to determine how similar the prospective selectee is to the selector's desired selectee, allowing a vendor to prioritize government contracts for which they may be best suited. The system may also be used for other pairings of applicants and awarding parties, such as universities and research granting organizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Stoqos, LLC
    Inventors: Prashant Shuklabaidya, Valentin G. Pavel, Leandro N. Giglioli
  • Patent number: 10055478
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for managing perspective data is disclosed. The method may include identifying a variant feature of an item having a first set of perspective data. The method may include grouping, based on the variant feature, the first set of perspective data into a first group and a second group. The method may include determining a first set of relevancy scores for the first group and a second set of relevancy scores for the second group. The method may also include establishing, using at least one of the first and second relevancy scores, a second set of perspective data configured to include a subset of the first set of perspective data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 10042913
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for managing perspective data is disclosed. The method may include identifying a variant feature of an item having a first set of perspective data. The method may include grouping, based on the variant feature, the first set of perspective data into a first group and a second group. The method may include determining a first set of relevancy scores for the first group and a second set of relevancy scores for the second group. The method may also include establishing, using at least one of the first and second relevancy scores, a second set of perspective data configured to include a subset of the first set of perspective data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 10037502
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a maintenance schedule optimization method for an electric power system including large-scale wind power to build objective function to make it get optimal results, then constrain the objective function, constraint conditions include: constrain according to maintenance natural environment; constrain according to maintenance time of wind power plant; constrain according to maintenance site of wind power plant; constrain according to system reliability at wind power plant; constrain according to maintenance continuity of generator unit. Under the above constraint conditions, the electric power system is modeled with heuristic algorithm according to the above objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignees: GANSU ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION WIND POWER TECHNOLOGY CENTER, STATE GRID GANSU ELETRIC POWER CORPORATION, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Ningbo Wang, Ming Ma, Yanhong Ma, Guangtu Liu, Long Zhao, Qiang Zhou, Dingmei Wang, Liang Lu, Jianmei Zhang, Qingquan Lv
  • Patent number: 10032180
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for managing a sales pipeline, and in some embodiments, generating demand based on real time demand and predicted demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Shafiq Shariff, Derek Nordquist
  • Patent number: 10032123
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a fleet management system that assists with management and monitoring fleets of powered machines and their operators, such as fleets engaged in landscaping, grounds care, and forestry service. In this regard, embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for automatically gathering data about one or more pieces of outdoor power equipment and one or more human operators of the equipment, processing the data into more useful data and data formats, and providing useful feedback, data, and tools to users of the system via, for example, a web portal that either assists users with management of a fleet of equipment and operators or provides useful information to owner-operators of outdoor power equipment about their performance and their machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventors: Peter Mejegård, Per Wahlström, Stefan Holmberg, Gary Philpott, Håkan Wahlgren
  • Patent number: 10026045
    Abstract: An enterprise hierarchical performance model and performance monitoring, evaluation and decision support system is disclosed to collect enterprise data, calculate and display performance information including performance, progress, and risk of one or more metrics and/or indicators, and execute an action in accordance with enterprise conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: INFORMATION SCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory Portnoy, Richard Wiseman
  • Patent number: 9996807
    Abstract: A method is provided for qualifying and analyzing business intelligence. At a first part of a data management system receives first, second and third streams of data. The first stream is client provided source data, the second is public source data and the third is data management system internal data previously collected and managed source data in the data management system. The three streams of data are organized into items and their attributes at the data management system. The source data is transformed at a data warehouse where it becomes normalized. Logic is applied to provide multi-dimensional analysis of transformed source data relative to a scale for at least one business intelligence. The data warehouse includes updated data from the multi-dimensional analysis. A user interface communicates with the data management system to create statistical information that illustrates impact over time and value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: RoundHouse One LLC
    Inventors: Mark Raymond Miller, Natan Goore, Signo Uddenberg