Patents Examined by Mark Fadok
  • Patent number: 12154183
    Abstract: Implementations of various methods and systems to transform tutoring units with two waypoints or a destination waypoint or a series sequence of waypoints into objects which have associated price-time priority queues for transformed tutoring units. The present disclosed invention relates to combining the concepts of objected oriented programming, market price queues, tutoring, navigation systems and social networking and transportation as a fungible asset class or tutoring linked to transportation as an open market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: CIRCLESX LLC
    Inventor: Erik M Simpson
  • Patent number: 12141885
    Abstract: Implementations of various methods and systems to transform parking units with two waypoints or a destination waypoint or a series sequence of waypoints into objects which have associated price—time priority queues for transformed parking units. The present disclosed invention relates to combining the concepts of objected oriented programming, market price queues, parking, navigation systems and social networking and parking transportation as a fungible asset class or parking linked to parking transportation as an open market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: CIRCLESX LLC
    Inventor: Erik M Simpson
  • Patent number: 12106354
    Abstract: An easy authentication or payment is made by creating an account associated with a particular web browser or device that accesses an on-line page. Payments are made, such as for full-access viewing of an article or viewing content without visible ads, by selecting a payment button on the on-line page. Selection can be with a specific swiping motion or device motion previously defined for the user. Once selected, the payment is made without the user having to authorize or authenticate. The motion can be used independently to authorize or authenticate the user through the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: German Scipioni
  • Patent number: 12079857
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for smart recurrent orders are presented. An inventory indicator corresponding to an inventory level of a first item may be received. An order schedule for the first item may be identified. An adjustment to the order schedule based on the inventory indicator may be determined. The adjustment to the order schedule for the first item may be facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Sandra Lynn Godsey, David Beach
  • Patent number: 12079852
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system to create personalized artwork the system including an art creation server, a processor, a data store, and a controller that comprises a plurality of subsystems. The plurality of subsystems may include a data management engine, a randomization engine, and an online shopping engine. The art creation server may be in communication with a consumer client via a network. The data management engine may receive at least one art object and at least one word. The randomization engine may generate personalized artwork by selectively arranging a subset of the art objects and words. The data management engine may be operable by the consumer client to include in the art objects or words, user-specified fonts, art object size, font size, color, text, or images. The rendering may be displayed on a display screen. The data store may store the art objects, words, and the personalized artwork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: GIFTS FOR YOU, LLC
    Inventors: James Tuchler, Aram Avetissian
  • Patent number: 12045902
    Abstract: A variety of improved techniques for homebuyers to access undeveloped and/or uncompleted communities with homes that are not yet built and lots that are not yet parceled or recognized with addresses are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MFTB Holdco, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Phillips, Alexandria Phillips
  • Patent number: 12008619
    Abstract: Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for receiving a request for requesting assistance for evaluating a first item, the request being associated with a user account; identifying a plurality of closet items associated with the user account; a compatibility rule to determine a percentage of the plurality of closet items that are compatible with the first item; and causing display of a user interface of a device, the user interface including a display of the percentage of the plurality of closet items that are compatible with the first item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Akshay Gadre, Kerri Breslin
  • Patent number: 11989770
    Abstract: An online concierge shopping system identifies candidate items to a user for inclusion in an order based on prior user inclusion of items in orders and items currently included in the order. From a multi-dimensional tensor generated from cooccurrences of items in orders from various users, the online concierge system generates item embeddings and user embeddings in a common latent space by decomposing the multi-dimensional tensor. From items included in an order, the online concierge system generates an order embedding from item embeddings of the items included in the order. Scores for candidate items are determined based on similarity of item embeddings for the candidate items to the order embedding. Candidate items are selected based on their scores, with the selected candidate items identified to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Negin Entezari, Sharath Rao Karikurve, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Haixun Wang
  • Patent number: 11966958
    Abstract: A method for use in a computing system, comprising: outputting, by the computing system, a product configuration menu that specifies a first set of product components; outputting, by the computing system, information associated with a first product, the first product including the first set of product components; detecting, by the computing system, a user input that specifies a second set of product components, the user input being received via the product configuration menu; selecting, by the computing system, a second product that includes the second set of product components, the second product being selected by performing a search of a product distance data structure to identify a plurality of candidate products that include the second set of product components, obtaining a respective product distance score for the first product and each of the plurality of candidate products, and selecting one of the candidate products as the second product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Harikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Nair, Anshul Kumar, Shanil Cheriya Nalakath, Suman Shrestha, Prashanth Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11954717
    Abstract: A labor marketplace exchange (LME) computing system and method are provided. The LME computing system communicates with communications devices of service providers and service users. The LME computing system receives service provider profile data from the service providers. Service users can submit service queries to the LME computing system. Based on the parameters of the service query, service providers are identified by the LME computing system. A service request is then sent to a service provider identified by the LME computing system and selected by the service user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GigSmart, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore A. Catino, Beverly A. Catino, Mitchell A. Catino
  • Patent number: 11941589
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing transactions are provided. An aspect of the transactions is executed with a third party transaction service provider that may indicate its aspect of the transaction was a failure when in fact it was successful. After conveying this failure to a user, the system subsequently learns that the aspect of the transaction was not a failure. The system attempts to associate such a transaction with another transaction based on a comparison between the transactions. Upon determining that there is an association between the second transaction and the first transaction, the system communicates to a user options for how to proceed with the first and second transactions. One of the options is to proceed with the original transaction. If the original transaction goes ahead, this saves system resources associated with cancelling the first transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventors: Kai-Yanna Meighu, Hettige Ray Perera Jayatunga
  • Patent number: 11935004
    Abstract: A system for managing business to business communications may include an event generation unit configured to create a first event based on receiving a purchase order from a client. The system may also include an event detection unit in communication with the event generation unit, the event detection unit configured to detect the first event. The system may also include an action unit in communication with the event generation unit. The action unit may be configured to determine a first action to perform based on the detection of the first event, and perform the first action. The event generation unit may be further configured to create a second event based on the performance of the first action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBAL HEALTHCARE EXCHANGE, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Cochran, Hatem El-Sebaaly, Greg Wilson, Paul Knuth, Chad Maloney
  • Patent number: 11928725
    Abstract: In one instance, a system includes a server in communication with a computing device and comprising at least one processor and an application executable by the at least one processor to, among other things, generate a first graphical user interface (GUI) for receiving designer information associated with a designer, generate a second graphical user interface for receiving design purchaser information associated with a design purchaser, receive from the designer one or more clothing designs in a digital format available for matching and purchase, and perform a fraud check of any design received from the designer. The application further stores meta data concerning the desired design, generates another graphical user interface that is accessed in response to an identifying code read by a smart device, and provides at least some of the stored meta data to the smart device in response to reading the identifying code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Fashion for Globe, Inc.
    Inventor: Girisha Siddappa
  • Patent number: 11928724
    Abstract: Customer-device application sites (e.g., content presented via a progressive web applications) that are accessible via merchant-managed identifiers (e.g., identification codes) are described. An identification of a physical location associated with a merchant can be associated with an identification code. The identification code can be received from a computing device of a customer and, based at least in part on receiving the identification code, merchant data associated with the merchant can be caused to be presented via a web browser of the computing device of the customer. In an example, the merchant data can be presented via the web browser by a progressive web application downloaded onto the computing device of the customer via the web browser. An indication of an input received via the progressive web application can be received by the computing device of the customer and an operation based at least in part on the input can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine Swett, Drew Richards, Xuanhua Ren, Neil Straghalis, Vitaly Odemchuk, Lisa Fong, Katherine Ahn, David Pearson
  • Patent number: 11915297
    Abstract: A basket-aware recommendation system can include a computing device configured to receive an indication of a navigation from a user device. The indication includes a user identifier and a set of basket items. The computing device is configured to generate a set of eligible items based on the set of basket items. The computing device is configured to generate a feature representation based on the corresponding item category count within the set of eligible items and select items of the set of eligible items within the corresponding item category. The computing device is configured to compute a number of category display items based on the potential click value and the normalized relevance value. The computing device is configured to transmit the number of category display items for each category of the set of item categories to the user device for display on a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Kannan Achan, Lalitesh Morishetti, Kaushiki Nag
  • Patent number: 11915296
    Abstract: An item information providing method according to example embodiments may include checking a plurality of products corresponding to a search term received from a user who uses the service, and providing a first page that includes a first region in which a list of the plurality of products is displayed and a second region in which a filtering interface configured to filter the list of the plurality of products displayed in the first region according to a user's input is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Coupang Corp.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Yixun Zhou, Junjie Yang, Jun Young Mun, Hyang Eun Kim
  • Patent number: 11907993
    Abstract: Techniques are described for determining a value metric for each of a plurality of payment cards, and recommending payment card(s) based on their respective value metrics. Implementations provide a recommendation engine that analyzes user data and card data, and recommends payment card(s) that may be suitable for a user. The engine consumes usage data and credit score and uses that information, along with characteristics of various available cards, to develop a value metric for each payment card that indicates how valuable owning the card would be to the particular user, such as how much money the user can expect to make or lose every year if they use the card as indicated, given the card's interest rate, rewards, fees, and so forth. The engine can rank the cards according to their value metrics, and the top-ranked card(s) are presented to the user as recommendations in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Christopher Patrick Kelley, Jarrod Lawrence Joplin, Daniel Ronald Zaharia, Carly Jean Stevens, Sean Holstien, Cornelius Williams, Trisha Suzanne Mock, Elainie B. Hicks, Christopher Gregory, John Griffin, Ryan Clark, Audra Kelley
  • Patent number: 11908000
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, when a user creates a consignment issue item for a given product in a sales order, the system will reserve/temporarily allocate the available quantity in consignment stock. A synchronous call to lock the inventor makes a tentative update to the inventory stock on the quantity required for the request product on the created issue item. This update is tentative because the locked quantity should be released if the user decides not to save the document, but it also should be locked so that it is not available to another user who is also trying to create an issue item in a different sales order document for the same product in a parallel session. The allocation may also change several times before saving the document by additional synchronous calls that again update the tentative allocations. When the user finally decides the final state of the issue item, it asynchronously sends either a confirmation or compensate message based on whether the document was saved or not saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: V Krishna Anaparthi, Iris Zimmermann, Uday Kamte, Suanka Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11887176
    Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes receiving a device type identifier, network access data, and a user identifier that correspond to an order identifier from a terminal. An allocated device serial number corresponding to the order identifier is obtained, the device type identifier, the device serial number, the network access data being written into a customized controlled device. The customized controlled device that is identified by the allocated device serial number and the device type identifier is connected to. A device registration request is received from the terminal and, in response to receiving the device registration request, device registration is performed based on the device type identifier, the allocated device serial number, and the user identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Chang Xun Wan
  • Patent number: 11875391
    Abstract: According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic text message is received from a source telephone number, the electronic text message including content describing a product item. A seller of the product item is identified, based on the source telephone number, and the product item is identified, based on the content included in the electronic text message. Thereafter, a draft version of an item listing is automatically generated, where the item listing lists the product item as being for sale by the seller on a marketplace website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Matthew Olson, Vikas Singh, Sean Gates