Patents Examined by Luis Brown
  • Patent number: 11379869
    Abstract: A computer system detects that a first user has selected an element corresponding to accessing a checkout page of a merchant. Based on detecting that the first user has selected an element corresponding to accessing the checkout page of the merchant, the computer system determines if one or more merchant criteria associated with the merchant have been met. Based on determining that the one or more merchant criteria associated with the merchant have been met, the computer system causes a promotional payment button to be rendered on the checkout page of the merchant displayed on a device of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Noam Marianne
  • Patent number: 11373209
    Abstract: A system and method for enhanced location verification and content delivery confirmation including building a customized pixel for location verification, appending the customized pixel to an ad tag, collecting a combination of data from the pixel, holding the combination of data collected and grouping the held data, and processing the combination of data collected from a previous day by performing a first enrichment process including enriching the combination of data with additional data corresponding to at least one of connection type and latitude and longitude data, wherein latitude and longitude data is based on IP in a case where latitude and longitude information was not provided. The method further includes performing a second enrichment process including enriching the combination of data with location data fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MobileFuse LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Harlan, Elizabeth Renfer, Israel Alvarez, Dan Barnett
  • Patent number: 11367098
    Abstract: A system and method provide rewards or loyalty incentives to card member customers. The system includes an enrolled card member customer database, an enrolled merchant database, a participating merchant offer database and a registered card processor. The registered card processor receives a record for charge for a purchase made with an enrolled merchant by an enrolled card member customer and uses the record of charge to determine whether the purchase qualifies for a rebate credit in accordance with a discount offer from the enrolled merchant. If the purchase qualifies for a rebate credit, the registered card processor provides the rebate credit to an account of the enrolled card member customer. The system provides a coupon-less way for merchants to provide incentive discounts to enrolled customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth L. Aloni, Benzion T. Axelrod, Jean L. Bowman, Jack J. Funda, Jonathan S. Polon, Sripriya V. Tiku
  • Patent number: 11361687
    Abstract: A control device as an advertisement display device that is mountable on a vehicle includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a time for which an occupant of another vehicle is able to visually recognize a video displayed on a display attached to a host vehicle based on a driving state of the host vehicle, and a display controller configured to display an advertisement edited such that a video time corresponds to the visually recognizable time calculated by the calculation unit on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Naoki Uenoyama, Yoshihiro Oe, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Patent number: 11354706
    Abstract: A system for retargeting customers is based on a mobile device query initiated by a user, and includes a query module configured to receive a query with geographical information from the mobile device and determine geographical identifiers of the mobile device. An indexed database stores an aggregated plurality of customers having a geographical identifier proximate to the determined geographical area, and a processor selects an advertiser located proximate to the determined geographical area. A performance feedback module is configured to assign an effectiveness rating to one or more advertisements provided by the selected advertiser based on marketing attributes of the aggregated plurality of customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Wentong Li, Yi Mao
  • Patent number: 11341531
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for contextual advertising and merchandizing based on user configurable preferences is disclosed. The system in an example embodiment includes an advertising (ad) preferences service to obtain user preference information related to advertising, enable user configuration of the user preference information related to advertising, and modify the presentation of advertising to the user based upon the user configured preference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Robert Shipman, Aaron K. Forth
  • Patent number: 11341536
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to execute acquiring a crowding level of a destination store that is a destination of a vehicle in which a user rides, extracting a store with a crowding level lower than the crowding level of the destination store as a predetermined recommended store from among other stores that belong to the same genre as the destination store and that do not belong to the same affiliated group as the destination store when the crowding level of the destination store is higher than a predetermined threshold value, generating a proposal advertisement for proposing to change the destination of the vehicle from the destination store to the predetermined recommended store, and presenting the proposal advertisement to the user who rides in the vehicle via a mobile terminal that moves with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuko Kobayashi, Yuichiro Ueda, Akira Iijima, Daisuke Tanabe, Manabu Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Goto
  • Patent number: 11328321
    Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to content presentation. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving ad information from a seller; generating, using one or more processors, a single conversion ad using the received ad information, where the single conversion ad has an available inventory of one such that only a single conversion of the ad can be performed; transmitting the single conversion ad to one or more potential buyers; receive an input from one of the one or more potential buyers; and notifying the seller of the user input. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Satyam Shaw
  • Patent number: 11321735
    Abstract: In a method and a device for controlling the issuing of advertising messages in a sales facility, wherein boundary condition data such as weather conditions and temperature data are detected by means of detection devices arranged inside and outside the sales facility and correlated with effective quantities of sold products promoted by advertising messages. The issuing of advertising messages is triggered in a targeted manner as a function of the results achieved when the boundary conditions determined to be optimal are occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Herbert Boos, Florian Meyer
  • Patent number: 11315144
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for evaluating the effectiveness of all types of communication carried on offline communication media so as to generate data equivalent to the data obtained in online communication media. The present invention uses tangible tools such as fixed-line telephones, cellphones, computers, tablets and any other wearable mobile device to generate that data that will be used in media plans that are much more precise and efficient than the plans currently known. Finally, the present invention relates to said media plan obtained using one of said methods as well as the purchase of optimized media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventor: Rodrigo Parana Sanches
  • Patent number: 11301899
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes receiving, in a server, a request from a service provider, the request including a consumer identification code associated with a consumer, and obtaining a personalized list of universal product codes based on the consumer identification code and a purchase history log in a database. The method also includes providing the personalized list of universal product codes to the service provider, and receiving a tracking pixel indicative that the consumer has interacted with a consumer payload, wherein the consumer payload is associated with at least one product from the personalized list of universal product codes. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions which cause the system to perform the above method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Catalina Marketing Corporation
    Inventors: Zubin Singh, Todd Schramek, Ryan Monahan, Ron Menich, Kirk Dikun, Eugene Kamarchik
  • Patent number: 11288692
    Abstract: A vehicle management system includes a vehicle cabin interior information acquisition unit, acquiring vehicle cabin interior information indicating a situation in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle, a dirt factor element recognition unit recognizing a dirt factor element related to dirt in the vehicle cabin based on the vehicle cabin interior information acquired by the vehicle cabin interior information acquisition unit, and a vehicle cleaning handling unit transmitting vehicle cleaning information about cleaning of the vehicle to a user terminal or a maintenance management server when the dirt factor element recognition unit recognizes the dirt factor element, the user terminal being used by a user of the vehicle, the maintenance management server managing maintenance of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Saiki, Jumpei Ichinokawa, Atsuyuki Suzuki, Naoko Imai, Fumiaki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11288697
    Abstract: Systems and methods for issuance of individualized promotional offers that can only be redeemed for purchase of specified items are disclosed. The promotional offers are only valid when they are used to purchase certain items. If an attempt to use the promotional offer is made and an authorized product is not part of the purchase transaction, the promotional offer will not be useable. Instead, the operator of the point-of-sale device that receives the promotional offer will not be able to validate the promotional offer. The validation of the promotional offer (when a correct item is part of the purchase) or lack thereof (when a correct item is not part of the purchase) occurs entirely at the point of sale, without requiring a point-of-sale device to communicate externally with any systems or devices to receive instructions relating to which products are authorized for use with the promotional offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SkuXchange, LLC
    Inventors: James Sampey, Bobby Tinsley, Robert Zaccardo, Kenneth Douglas, Moshe Joshua
  • Patent number: 11257122
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed utilizing cognitive computing to improve commercial communications from vendors to users. A user's financial account(s) and location may be monitored to determine when a user is within a threshold distance of a vendor. If the user is within the threshold distance the methods and systems disclosed may determine which targeted commercial communications to transmit to the user based upon a shopping profile for the user. The shopping profile may include a dataset indicative of the shopping habits of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Flowers, Puneit Dua, Alan Zwilling, Adam Mattingly, Melissa Attig, Reena Batra
  • Patent number: 11244338
    Abstract: A processor may detect a user interaction with a user interface provided through a network by a server. The processor may analyze the user interaction to identify at least one offer associated with at least one item available for purchase through the user interface. The offer may be associated with a first payment type. The processor may process a user transaction to purchase the at least one item. The processing may include automatically applying the first payment type to the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Avery Miller, Robert A. Martin
  • Patent number: 11244312
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for generation, deployment, and execution of a one-time abstraction coding network for resource deployment. The system may provide a single use code for a single anonymous resource distribution at any location. The system may provide a user with access to a one-time abstraction code to use to complete a resource distribution for event processing. The system may link to the entity associated with the event to process resource distribution via a system owned resource vehicle for complete anonymity of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Andrew DongHo Kim
  • Patent number: 11244349
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for determining a spam publication using a spam detection system are presented. The spam detection system receives, from a device, an image of an item and an item attribute for the item. Additionally, the spam detection system extracts an image attribute based on the received image, and compares the item attribute and the image attribute. Moreover, the spam detection system calculates a confidence score based on the comparison. Furthermore, the spam detection system determines that the item attribute is incorrect based on the confidence score transgressing a predetermined threshold. In response to the determination that the item attribute is incorrect, the spam detection system causes presentation, on a display of the device, of a notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Manojkumar Rangasamy Kannadasan, Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale
  • Patent number: 11238478
    Abstract: Methods and systems for commercializing vehicle data. The method includes writing, by an electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicle, to a distributed ledger, vehicle data. The method also includes providing, by a computing device associated with a third party, a communication to the vehicle based on the vehicle data on the distributed ledger. The method also includes writing, by a processor of the computing device associated with the third party, to the distributed ledger, a record of providing the communication to the vehicle. The method also includes receiving, by the ECU of the vehicle, the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael C. Edwards, David M. Goemer, Hazem Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11238497
    Abstract: A vehicle includes one or more controllers, programmed to responsive to detecting a vehicle location within a geofence of a first entity, qualify the first entity as one of business candidates to display to a screen; responsive to receiving a promotion from one or more of the business candidates, output the promotion; and responsive to receiving a user input, place a reservation to one of the business candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Brown, Keith Weston, Joshua Sharpe
  • Patent number: 11216852
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically generating remarketing lists based on client sessions are provided. The system can include a visitor management module to identify client sessions established at a website. The visitor management module can determine node pairs including destination nodes and referrer nodes. The system can include a graph construction module to construct a graph including the node pairs and edges between the node pairs representing click-through rates. The system can include a graph clustering module to assign information resources to a first group based on one of i) a number of edges between the nodes and a conversion node or ii) click-through rates of node pairs including. The system includes a remarketing list generation module to assign the first group of information resources to a remarketing list. The remarketing list generation module can assign client identifiers that accessed the first group of information resources to the remarketing list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Bharath Pattabiraman, Ardian Poernomo