Patents Examined by Mark Fadok
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Patent number: 11244412Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Zillow, Inc.Inventors: Richard Phillips, Alexandria Phillips
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Patent number: 11244366Abstract: In one example, a content catalog system may process a bulk set of errors to prioritize those errors that may benefit from manual review by a human error administrator. A catalog quality management sub-system of the content catalog system may receive an error output describing a catalog error for a product aspect of a product in a content catalog from an error detection module. The catalog quality management sub-system may categorize the catalog error by a degree of human interaction with an error fix determined from an error metric in the error output. The catalog quality management sub-system may apply an error fix to the catalog error based on the degree of human interaction.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Cedric Le Stunff, Victor Cazin, Alexandre Coutelier, Lucas Munoz, Nicolas Rival
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Patent number: 11232510Abstract: Images capture an object that a person in a frictionless store is looking at. A user interface is automatically initiated on a device identified as the object. If the person is holding an item, the user interface is automatically placed in a state that displays the item details and pricing within the user interface and provides a link to all item descriptions in possession of the user within the frictionless store along with a running price total of all the items. If the person is not holding any item, the user interface is automatically placed in a state that displays item details and pricing within the user interface to all item descriptions in possession of the user within the frictionless store along with a running price of all items.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Chario Bardoquillo Maxilom, Ferdinand Salarda Acedera, John White Go Mabute
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Patent number: 11216775Abstract: An on-demand shared luggage system and method comprising collapsible luggage assets or pieces of luggage. Each luggage asset has a reprogrammable label display configured to display shipping label data for a customer order. A central processing system receives an incoming customer order to use one or more luggage assets. The central processing system determines the specific luggage asset, carrier, and route to fulfill a customer order within the customer's requested parameters. The collapsed luggage asset assigned to the customer order is then delivered to a customer receiving location by a receiving location delivery date, expanded for packing customer belongings, and then delivered to a customer destination location by a destination location delivery date. Upon completion of the customer order, the luggage asset may be immediately assigned to a new customer order, loaded with new shipping label data, and delivered directly to a new customer receiving address, as determined by the central processing system.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Inventor: Brandon J. Ford
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Patent number: 11210721Abstract: Generating a vector space model to analyze menu items for restaurants in order to determine optimized geographic locations for merchants to position restaurants is described herein. In one example, the techniques include converting the menu items into vectors using the vector space model, and using the vectors, grouping or assigning the menu items to cuisine types. Once assigned to cuisine types, one or more servers of a food-ordering service may analyze transaction histories for customers in a particular geographic area to determine how “adventurous” the customers are, or how diverse the customer's orders are amongst cuisine types. If the customers in a particular geographic area are adventurous or diverse consumers, the food-ordering service may recommend that a merchant establish a dine-in restaurant in the geographic area, offer food delivery to the geographic area, and/or include the geographic area in a schedule for a mobile restaurant.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: David Feng, Christopher Skeels
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Patent number: 11210727Abstract: Systems and methods for managing and facilitating combined purchase of items by multiple customers are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving, from a computing device, notification by a first user to purchase one or more items. The method also includes determining whether to match the first user with a second user for combined purchase of the one or more items. Further, the method includes associating the first user with the second user for combined purchase of the one or more items in response to determining that the first user matches the second user.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings CorporationInventors: Yi-Sheng Lee, Te-Chia Tsai, Chih-Huang Wang, Hawaii Xuan
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Patent number: 11205209Abstract: In one instance, a system provides an electronic marketplace that matches designers, who can be geographically dispersed and who submit fashion designs into the system, with retailers and fashion companies, who are looking for designs to make finished garments and sale. The system can optionally include factories so that the designer, retailer can have the factories immediately fabricate the selected designs. Optionally, it may also include boutiques that are specialized version of the retailers looking for a particular product for a niche group or market. Other systems and methods are presented.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: FASHION FOR GLOBE LLCInventor: Girisha Siddappa
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Patent number: 11188962Abstract: A system and method for managing a request for roadside assistance includes receiving an electronic roadside assistance request made from a driver device. A set of available provider entities matching parameters of the request are determined. An electronic roadside assistance solicitation is transmitted to each of the available providers. Electronic roadside assistance offers made by a subset of the provider entities are received, each offer defining a respective offer price and an estimated time of arrival. The received offers are transmitted to the driver device. A response from the driver device indicating an acceptance one of the offers is further received. Electronic payment corresponding to the offer price is also received. A notification to an operator device associated to the provider entity of the accepted offer is further transmitted, the notification indicating the parameters of the roadside assistance request. The system and method are also applicable transportation assistance.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Letstow Transport Inc.Inventor: Gary Hayrabedian
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Patent number: 11182838Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method creates personalized artwork, including word clouds, for making personalized goods. The system may include an art creation server, a data store, and a controller with a plurality of subsystems. Each of the plurality of subsystems is configured to manipulate data included in the data store. A data management engine is configured to receive a plurality of art objects. A randomization engine is configured to automatically generate personalized artwork by selectively layering a subset of the plurality of art objects. The randomization engine is also configured to automatically generate a rendering of the personalized artwork that can be edited by a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: GIFTS FOR YOU, LLCInventors: James Tuchler, Aram Avetissian
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Patent number: 11176599Abstract: A method of providing access to auxiliary data for a provider subsystem includes: storing offer data corresponding to an item, the offer data including (i) primary data, and (ii) auxiliary data defining an adjustment between the primary data and corresponding published data stored at an external repository; storing the offer data in an auxiliary repository; in response to an order request from a client subsystem: obtaining an order identifier corresponding to the offer data; and updating the auxiliary repository to store the order identifier in association with the offer data; in response to obtaining the order identifier, generating a reporting message for transmission to a provider subsystem, the reporting message containing the primary data and omitting the auxiliary data; and subsequent to generating the reporting message, retrieving the offer data from the auxiliary repository, and sending at least the auxiliary data to the provider subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: AMADEUS S.A.S.Inventors: Corinne Francoise Pascale Landra, Michael Dominique Raymond Galopo
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Patent number: 11164233Abstract: A computing system comprising a database of users, a database of garments, and a database of mappings, wherein a mapping maps one or more users of the database of users to one or more garments of the database of garments and wherein each mapping includes a weight for its corresponding user-garment pair.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: SAVITUDE, INC.Inventors: Nicholas Daniel Clayton, Camilla Marie Olson, Kelli Tomie Howard, Jungah Joo Lee
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Patent number: 11120493Abstract: A payment method includes obtaining, by a platform application running on a terminal, order information from a web page corresponding to a merchant, sending the order information to a backend server by using the web page, obtaining a preparatory order number from the web page, and calling a payment application running on the terminal to complete a payment procedure with the backend server according to the preparatory order number. The merchant accesses the platform application through the web page. The preparatory order number is generated by the backend server according to the order information and is sent to the web page.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Lang Yang, Xiongwei Xu
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Patent number: 11107154Abstract: Described herein are a method and a system to monitor one or more items offered for sale by sellers in a network-based market place. In addition to the information provided by the sellers to describe the items, interested buyers may also provide their own information to further describe the items for the benefit of the buyers.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Jeffry A. Nokes, Michael Joseph Evans
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Patent number: 11107146Abstract: A system of routing a purchase order may include a purchase order identification unit configured to identifying a purchase order format associated with a client. The system may also include a routing control unit. The routing control unit may be configured to determine purchase order data based on the purchase order and the purchase order format. The routing control unit may be configured to generate a processed purchase order based on the purchase order data. The routing control unit may be configured to supplement the processed purchase order with additional purchase order data associated with the client. The routing control unit may be configured to apply purchase order security. The routing control unit may be configured to communicate, to a vendor, the processed purchase order.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: GLOBAL HEALTHCARE EXCHANGE, LLCInventors: Steve Cochran, Hatem El-Sebaaly, Martin Braure De Calignon, Dave Schanker, Hesheng Li
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Patent number: 11074634Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for probabilistic item matching and searching. A system including at least one processor may be configured to receive a data point relating to a specific item, generate a database query based on the data point, and receive a response to the database query. The response may include multiple candidate items relating to the specific item. The system may be further configured to receive a first input relating to the specific item and generate a probability score for at least two candidate items of the multiple candidate items in the response, based on at least the second input. The system may be further configured to select a selected item from the candidate items, based on the probability score for the selected item. The system may be further configured to output a reference to, or value representing, the selected item.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Mercari, Inc.Inventors: Byong Mok Oh, Dhruv Mehrotra, Chiaki Osaka, Naoya Makino, Patrick Michael Wiseman, Minami Sueyasu
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Patent number: 11074642Abstract: A system, computer-readable media and computer-implemented method for automated location interaction management. User input at least partly defining an item is received and stored via a mobile electronic device. A location interaction trigger for the item is automatically determined to have occurred, based at least in part on a geolocation of the mobile electronic device. An alert is generated describing the item for display on a display of the mobile electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Mastercard International IncorporatedInventors: Shawn Mehrhoff, Christopher T. Scholl
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Patent number: 11068965Abstract: There is provided an information processing device and an information processing method which are capable of processing information provided in a mobile object such as a vehicle and a mobile object. A calculation unit performs a process of extracting stores which can be stopped off or products or services which can be provided in each store on the basis of selection of a final destination, a boarding time, a purpose of boarding, a route, or a boarding course designated by a passenger via an input unit or information such as a budget or the like and giving a notification to the passenger through a display unit. Further, a driving route, an arrival time to a destination, and providable products or services are dynamically changed in response to selection of a product or a service by the passenger.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Hachisuka, Hiroshi Uji, Kenichi Matsuhisa, Kazuma Yoshii, Sho Tanaka
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Patent number: 11062383Abstract: A system for displaying a simulated room can comprise at least one projector, at least one wall structure element, at least one physical object, and a room customization station. The room customization station can be configured to permit viewing images of selectable products and selecting at least one of the selectable products to be displayed on at least one of the at least one wall structure element or the at least one physical object. The projector(s) can be adapted to display the selectable product(s) on at least one of the at least one wall structure element or the physical object(s). The physical object can be adjustable in size to correspond to different sizes of selectable products. The system can further include at least one physical accessory adapted to be placed in the simulated room to facilitate visualization of how the at least one physical accessory would appear in the presence of the simulated room and the at least one selectable product.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: LOWE'S COMPANIES, INC.Inventors: Blair Thomas Holt, Kurt James Jansen, Shannon Wadford Boggess, Randall Allen Miller, Paula Gragg Ferguson, Jeffrey Donald Key, Jeffrey Robert Pollard, Zeke Robert Markshausen, Garrett Lee Winther, Kathryn Soven, Carl David Sjunnesson, Kyle Fletcher, Elizabeth Spenko, Joseph Thomas Graceffa, Travis Schultz Lee, Aaron Randall Ferber
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Patent number: 11037222Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods for dynamically generating and providing personalized recommendations of newer products or services potentially of interest to a particular user who has previously purchased a similar product or service. Historical purchase data or other information indicating the user's preferences is analyzed to determine personal preference data. Candidate content is identified based on attributes found in the preference data. Similarity strategies and criteria can be used to test features and qualities in candidate content. Recommended product or service content comes in the form of candidate content which reaches a similarity threshold or otherwise achieves a sufficient confidence score based at least in part on a similarity metric is determined.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: A9.COM, INC.Inventors: Aishwarya Natesh, Pinkee Rasik Patel Gupta, Andrea Joyce Diane Zehr, Sharmila Nagaraja Reddy, Whitney Chan, Deborah S. Hoo
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Patent number: 11030594Abstract: A network server includes a communicator and at least one processor coupled to the communicator. The at least processing is configured to: receive a first data signal from a first user terminal that is shared with a game server; transfer to the game server a first request, together with the first data signal, to verify validation of a game item when a first message including information relating to the game item is received from the first user terminal; receive from the second user terminal a second message relating to the game item; and transfer to the game server a second request, together with the first data signal, to change an owner of the game item from a first game ID associated with the first user terminal to a second game ID associated to the second user terminal in response to determining whether second message is authorized.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: NHN Entertainment CorporationInventors: Cheolmin Ju, Yuik Yim