Patents Examined by Matthew L Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11270331
    Abstract: A method and system of providing personalized rewards for lifestyle management of a user includes receiving various target goals from the user. The target goals relate to the personal health, community involvement and financial planning of the user. As such, the method and system include receiving and analyzing a first set of data during a first period of time to determine whether the user has met the target goals during the first period of time. In response to determining that the user has met the target goals, the method and system include receiving and analyzing a second set of data during a second period of time to determine whether the user has maintained the target goals during the second period of time. In response to determining that the user has maintained the target goals, the method and system include determining and transmitting one or more personalized rewards to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Edward W. Breitweiser, Larry Ingrum, Jennifer L. Crawford, Jason W. Boice, Jeffrey G. Christianson
  • Patent number: 11270335
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and a method for automatic electronic order creation are disclosed. The system and method may be configured to: receive a digitized document comprising embedded metadata related to contents of the digitized document; analyze the embedded metadata to extract a boundary parameter; generate a unique reference identifier associated with the digitized document and the boundary parameter; receive a first input data setting one or more target measurements for one or more predefined periods of time, wherein a sum of the one or more target measurements is less than or equal to the boundary parameter; receive a second input data setting configuration data for achieving the one or more target measurements; and generate an electronic order based on the configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: COUPANG CORP.
    Inventors: Jun Young Mun, Ankit Arora, Young Jin Kim, Ji Hoon Kim, Byoung In Lim, Jin Su Lee, Seon Ah Kim, Jae Ho Jeong, Jung Min Song, Suk Min Ahn
  • Patent number: 11216846
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for conveying objects, comprising a computer platform, and comprising embedded devices in packages each having at least one digital recognition code, the platform including a database of the digital codes, the embedded devices each being capable of accessing geolocation resources, characterized in that the platform comprises a module for distributing advertisements to be distributed, each associated with a geographical distribution area datum, and in that it comprises transmitters/receivers, between the platform and the embedded devices, the platform being configured for receiving data on the geolocation of the packages and transmitting at least one advertisement to the embedded devices when the geolocation datum of said package enters the geographical distribution area of the advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: PA. Cotte SA
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain Cotte, Laurent Gaussin
  • Patent number: 11200596
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for delivering content to an audience member via one or more mediums based on an audience member profile are disclosed. Profile data for audience members may be initially collected from an offline source, such as a registration or subscription database. The profile data may be stored in a dedicated database. The initial profile data may be supplemented periodically with data reflecting online activity by the audience member. The combined offline and online profile data may be used to group the audience members into segments. Audience member segments may be used to identify audience members who are targeted to receive like content. An audience member's inclusion in a segment may be indicated by storing a segment-targeting cookie on the audience member computer. Content may be delivered to the audience member based on identification of the segment in the segment-targeting cookie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph G. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11176565
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for semi-opaque sales with bundles of items. An example bundle can include hotel lodging and a bonus service, status, or item associated with that hotel. An system can identify a first bundle of a first base and bonus item, and a second bundle of a second base and bonus item. The system can present a semi-opaque offer comprising the first bundle, the second bundle, and a discount price, wherein the semi-opaque offer does not identify which of the first bundle and the second bundle will be sold at the discount price to the user upon acceptance of the semi-opaque offer, and wherein the discount price is a full price of the first base item. After receiving acceptance of the semi-opaque offer from the user, the system can disclose that the user has purchased the first bundle at the discount price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: Joseph Bous
  • Patent number: 11157934
    Abstract: Product offering systems are provided. Product offering systems may include sending an offer to a customer that possesses a mobile computing device and has agreed to receive offers for products via the mobile computing device. Agreeing to receive offers would result in the unique data about the customer being available to offer provider. Unique customer data may include data related to the customers wireless service provider or from a financial account in a financial institution, and collecting customer data about the customer, wherein the customer data comprises financial data and personal data. Product offering systems may further include registering a wireless computing device of the customer to able the device to receive the offer, and determining opportunities to send the offer to the customer by monitoring the customer and the customer data. Product offering systems may also include sending the offer to the customer's registered device based on the determination of opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Comerford, Joseph M. DeFilippo
  • Patent number: 11151593
    Abstract: Provided is a process of identifying an offers engine configured to provide information about offers to users, the method including: receiving, at an offers engine, a request for an offers interface website from a mobile computing device; and in response to the request, transmitting to the mobile computing device a website configured to cause a browser of the mobile computing device to perform steps, including: detecting an offers intent in the transmitted website; retrieving from memory of the mobile computing device an identifier of a native application offers interface mapped to the offers intent; and in response to retrieving the identifier of the offers engine, launching the native application, the native application being stored in memory of the mobile computing device and configured to provide an offers interface to the offers engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: RETAILMENOT, INC.
    Inventors: John Newman Faith, Matthew Alan Howitt, Eithan Zilkha
  • Patent number: 11144951
    Abstract: Online advertising campaigns are operated responsive to keyword trends. The keywords used by a group of browsers is analyzed periodically over time. A list of the most frequently used keywords is separated into those that have previously appeared on the list, referred to herein as the stable keywords, and those that are newly emerging, referred to herein as the trending keywords. The advertiser selects at least one advertising creative that the advertiser associates with the stable keywords, referred to herein as the stable creative, and at least one advertising creative that the advertiser associates with the trending keywords, referred to herein as the trendy creative. The advertising system then operates the online advertising campaign to deliver the respective stable and trendy creatives in proportion to the frequency of use of the trending versus the stable keywords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Quantcast Corporation
    Inventors: Julie L. Heiser, Vera M. K. Dadok
  • Patent number: 11138613
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and system as a branded club product (goods and services) discounting membership, universal discount card technology, hardware infrastructure, operational and software corporate team amalgamation, seller and buyer critical mass, essential implementation and real-time operational approach to integrate interne e-commerce with in-store commerce in physical store locations, at the point of sale (POS) checkout at store registers, of initially hundreds and eventually thousands of sellers, electronically and operationally, launching and igniting a whole new generation of advertising, buying and selling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: John C. Abendroth, Marc B. Abendroth
  • Patent number: 11132705
    Abstract: The amount of dynamic content consumed by an audience at one or more locations in one or more content sites may be determined. This information may then be used by an inventory management system to forecast or estimate the future available advertising inventory at the locations. When the entity receives an insertion order, the entity may use the forecasted advertising inventory to help determine the locations to which the campaign should be allocated and when the advertising campaign should be scheduled so that the requirements of the advertising campaign can be met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: G. Thomas Des Jardins, Paul Miller, Jeffrey Dalton Porter, Bryan Slavin, Mark Westling
  • Patent number: 11100535
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a group recommendation is disclosed. First a group having at least one member is defined. A group profile having at least one activity and a set of conditions for the activity are created. Based on the set of conditions a corresponding set of trigger events are identified. A number of electronic data sources are monitored for information related to set of conditions. The monitored set of conditions are compared against the set of trigger events. If the threshold between the set of conditions and the set of trigger events is met, then an alert is generated that is presented to the members of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arindam Bhowmick, Carlos Chivardi, Jennifer M. Hatfield, Gregory S. Hurlebaus, Josef Scherpa
  • Patent number: 11074614
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a system that enables a user of a mobile communication device to view information that is presented on a billboard at a time after the user sees the physical billboard. The user inputs a billboard-information request into the mobile communication device, such as via an application executing on the mobile communication device. A current location of the mobile communication device at the time when the user input the billboard-information request is determined. Each billboard that is within a predetermined distance from the current location is identified as being a billboard-of-interest for the user. Information associated with each billboard-of-interest is provided to the user via the application executing on the mobile communication device or via a map on a website that is accessible to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: DH Capital, LLC
    Inventors: David Hannant, Jesse DeGroff, Damon Streetman
  • Patent number: 11074583
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to method and devices to receive biometric data and transaction data relating to a transaction, apply a model to the biometric data and the transaction data to determine an emotional state of the user during the transaction, and determine an action associated for the transaction based on the emotional state of the user during the performance of the transaction. Embodiments further include causing performance of the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Sophie Bermudez, Salik Shah, Latika Gulati
  • Patent number: 11068861
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein for creating a purchase voucher. In one embodiment, a method of creating a purchase voucher is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a network accessible user interface for configuring the purchase voucher, receiving a selection of a voucher type through the user interface, receiving a selection of one or more products through the user interface, generating voucher usage parameters based on at least the selection of the voucher type and the selection of the one or more products, associating the voucher usage parameters with a voucher identifier, the voucher identifier being configured to be used by a customer to redeem the purchase voucher with a retailer, and storing the voucher usage parameters and the associated voucher identifier at a networked database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Eric A. Letson, Emily D. McKenzie
  • Patent number: 11055476
    Abstract: A system is provided that permits the use of classification information that can be interpreted by a computer system. To this end, a system and method may be provided for creating classification information that may be interpreted by a computer system. Such classification information may be associated with content, and permit a computer system to process the content based on the classification information. In one example, classification information may be associated by a user, system, or process with a portion of content, and a computer system processes the content based on the classification information. For instance, the classification information may cause content to be processed in a particular way, presented to a user by a particular application program, cause the content to be forwarded to a particular user, or otherwise influence how the content is handled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Schachter, Albert Wenger
  • Patent number: 11037206
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a server computing machine provides an interface operable to permit a first user to broadcast a live video to one or more second users. The server computing machine provides sponsored content items to the second users while also providing the live video. In response to receiving an indication that the first user selected an option to display a sponsored content item while broadcasting the live video, the server computing machine reduces the image size of the live video, superimposes the live video of reduced size on the sponsored content item to define a combined image having a sponsored portion on which the sponsored content item is displayed and a live portion on which the live video is displayed. The combined image is then sent to the one or more second users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 11023906
    Abstract: Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based individual assistant capability may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
  • Patent number: 10979535
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for decoupled selection of content for semi-connected electronic devices. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a set of candidate content for presentation at a semi-connected device, the set of candidate content comprising first content and second content of at least one content campaign, determining that an impression of the first content was served while the semi-connected device was disconnected from a network, determining that the first content and the second content were eligible for presentation at a first timestamp of a first impression interaction for the impression of the first content, determining a first bid amount for the first content and a second bid amount for the second content at a second timestamp of delivery of the first content to the semi-connected device, and determining a winning bid amount for the first impression interaction using the first bid amount and the second bid amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Martin Miller, Deep Desai, Lucas Jacobs, Michael Lee Loritsch, Abhijeet More, Ross Tucker
  • Patent number: 10970749
    Abstract: An app server receives a device token from a software application on a mobile device. The device token identifies the mobile device for pushing notification messages of the software application to the mobile device via a push notification system. The mobile device is monitored while accessing the Internet in order to detect when the user may benefit from upgraded access to the Internet. The app server then sends one or more notification message(s) to the user such as by sending a message to the device token of the mobile device via the push notification system or to a display device associated with the user at the hospitality establishment. The notification message invites the user to upgrade their Internet access. The push notification system alerts the user to the notification message via the user interface of the mobile device even when the software application is not running on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.
    Inventors: Brendan G. Cassidy, Peter S. Warrick, Lindsey M. Carriere
  • Patent number: 10970745
    Abstract: A method and system for providing advertising to a moving target vehicle. Vehicle data is determined by one or more devices namely at least one sensor device and/or a global positioning system (GPS) device. At least one processor in communication with the one or more devices receives the vehicle data. The at least one processor initiates display of video data of advertising content data on a display device on a moving advertising vehicle to display the video data to the moving target vehicle in accordance with at least one display parameter that is based on the received vehicle data and initiates play of the audio data of the advertising content data by an audio device disposed within the display device in the moving advertising vehicle. The audio data played is configured to be heard as sound by the moving target vehicle, and the audio data relates to the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Dawson, Peter G. Finn, Stephen J. Houlihan, James W. Seaman