Patents Examined by Michael A. Misiaszek
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Patent number: 10430844Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating a primary display comprising information that facilitates visual presentation of a view of a game space to a primary client device and facilitating purchases of content for use in the game through a secondary client device such as a user's smartphone. The system may include a game device that allows a user to play a video game or otherwise interact with a virtual environment using the primary client device and purchase content for use in the video game using a secondary client device while playing the video game using the primary client device. The purchased content may be integrated into the game space such that purchased content is available for use while the user is playing the video game.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.Inventors: Kent Wakeford, Clifford J. Harrington
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Patent number: 10416831Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving input for a message, including a comment from a user, in a first zone of a message area of a graphical user interface of a first interface, the graphical user interface comprising the message area comprising the first zone to allow the user to enter a comment and a second zone to allow the user to insert item details by accessing an item list generated from a database. The systems and method further providing for detecting input in the comment from the user indicating a request for an item list associated with the input, accessing the database to generate the item list based on the input entered by the user wherein the item list is displayed to the user, detecting a selected item in the item list displayed to the user, generating item details associated with the selected item wherein the item details are inserted in the second zone of the message area of the graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Chongyao Wang, Filiberto Selvas
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Patent number: 10395298Abstract: A device that automates a design of an engagement ring. The handheld device comprises a display for displaying a series of questions to a customer and an input device that is capable of receiving at least one answer to the series of questions. The device also includes a microprocessor; and a memory that stores instructions, which cause the microprocessor to: input the at least one answer into an algorithm; identify on behalf of the customer a plurality of engagement rings that best matches the at least one answer; generate an information box in the display, in response to the selection of a specific engagement ring from the plurality of engagement rings; receive the customer's feedback on the specific engagement ring; and generating a recommended engagement ring to the customer.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ELECTRONIC COMMODITIES EXCHANGE, L.P.Inventor: Alex Berg
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Patent number: 10387927Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for managing the entitlement of digital assets. System identifier data associated with a target system, including its unique system identifier, is received, along with digital assets selection data corresponding to digital assets data to be processed by the target system. The system identifier data is processed with the digital assets selection data to generate digital assets entitlement data. The digital assets data and the digital assets entitlement data is then provided to a personalization agent associated with the target system. In turn, the personalization agent processes the digital assets entitlement data and the digital assets data for installation on the target system, thereby entitling the system to process the installed digital assets data.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Clint H. O'Connor, Gary D. Huber, Michael Haze, William A. Curtis
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Patent number: 10380582Abstract: The DYNAMIC CHECKOUT BUTTON APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (DCB) transforms product page checkout request input and user identification input via DCB components such as offer/discount determination component and checkout button embedding component, into dynamic checkout button outputs.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATIONInventors: Thomas Purves, Clint Florez, Amit Gupta, Aparna Krishnan Girish, Peng Zhao, Chunxi Jiang, Sang Wook Lee, Kevin Carvalho
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Patent number: 10373231Abstract: A system is disclosed that obtains an image of an apparel item and text describing the apparel item. The system also determines descriptive metadata of the apparel item by extracting information from the text. Further, the system further determines categorization metadata of the apparel item by analyzing the image. Additionally, the system stores the image, the descriptive metadata, and the categorization metadata in a virtual closet. Moreover, the system provides a recommendation of an outfit from a stylist to a user based on the virtual closet.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: SNAP+STYLE, INCInventors: Anna Jensen, Raul Fernandez, Gary Myers, William McComb
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Patent number: 10373236Abstract: A system architecture of a gift transaction system is disclosed. The gift transaction system can include a buyer interface module, a recipient interface module, a merchant backend interface module, a store front interface module, a curation module, a reminder module, an analytics module, or a media plug-in interface module. A method of operating the gift transaction system under the system architecture includes: providing an embedded widget on a website to determine gift intent to initiate a gift transaction by a buyer account for a recipient account; generating a gift buyer interface for a first client device to personalize a gift package including a gift item; generating a gift recipient interface for a second client device to customize the gift package; and communicating with a merchant backend system to complete the gift transaction to ship the gift package.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Loop Commerce, Inc.Inventors: Roy Erez, Alex Sirota
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Patent number: 10366440Abstract: In various implementations, a visual representation of a product is presented to an online consumer. The visual representation can have one or more regions that are each associated with one or more feature tags associated with a particular category of the product. While the consumer interacts with the visual representation, interaction times between the consumer and the product's visual representation are monitored and measured to determine which features of the product appear to be of particular interest to the consumer. Based on the monitored interaction times, product upsell recommendations associated with the same category of the product are generated and presented to the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Suryadeep Kumar Agrawal, Sachin Soni, John Thomas Kucera, Ashish Duggal, Anmol Dhawan
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Patent number: 10360601Abstract: Method for producing a list of parts and labor records to determine the total cost to repair and/or replace damaged parts of a vehicle involved in a collision that can evaluate millions of estimates previously written for vehicles similar to the one being assessed to produce a reliable repair estimate based on evaluation of all previous estimate data of vehicles that have incurred damage on the same points-of-impact, with similar extent-of-damage, presented as a number between 0 and 10, 10 representing the maximum amount of damage. A user inputs or selects a series of values and the method also receives input from various other sources to query a database containing millions of previously written estimates for vehicles, or structured repair data specifically produced for this propose. A cost estimate for repairing the damage and presents it as the output of the method based on the input and predictive models applied.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Inventor: Alexander Omeed Adegan
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Patent number: 10360616Abstract: Customers may place orders for items for delivery, where merchants provide the items, and a service provider receives the orders and facilitates the delivery of the items. Upon receiving multiple orders, the orders may be prioritized based on users scores associated with users that placed the orders. An order objective for the orders may be determined and multiple fulfillment plans for each order may be generated. For a particular order, a fulfillment plan of the multiple fulfillment plans may be selected based on the order objective for that order, where the selected fulfillment plan may govern how and when the items included in the order are to be delivered to the user that placed the order. The service provider may cause the items associated with the order to be delivered to the user pursuant to the selected fulfillment plan.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gustavo Eduardo Lopez, Canku Alp Calargun
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Patent number: 10359298Abstract: A device to be connected to first electrical power wiring and for displaying electrical power usage information of at least one first electrical load connected to the first electrical power wiring, the device including terminals to electrically connect to the first electrical power wiring of a building, a controller to receive information representing at least a current to the at least one first electrical load, determine first electrical power usage information of the at least one first electrical load using the received information, a user interface to display the determined first electrical power usage information of the at least one first electrical load, and a communications interface to transmit the determined first electrical power usage information to at least one second electrical device for display, and receive determined second electrical power usage information of at least one second electrical load from the at least one second electrical device for display.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Inventor: Curtis E. Quady
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Patent number: 10356575Abstract: An electronic tool is arranged to configure elements in an electronic communication network and the electronic tool is deployed at a central location. A control circuit is configured to execute decision logic and execution of the decision logic is effective to construct an appropriate product or service offer for the customer based upon parameters entered by the customer. A transceiver circuit receives acceptance of the offer and the control circuit responsively creates electronic signals that provision electronic elements in an electronic communication network to implement the product or service offer.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: CSG Media, LLCInventors: Sean Casey, Michael Mueller, Anish Shah, Doug Savage
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Patent number: 10346895Abstract: In one embodiments, initiation of purchase transaction in response to a reply to a recommendation comprises a method. The method comprises, at a computer system having one or more processors and non-transitory memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, detecting a recommendation associated with a first user, the recommendation associated with a product or service. The method further comprises detecting a response from a second user to the recommendation, determining whether the response from the second user comprises a purchase decision, and in accordance with a determination that the response from the second user comprises the purchase decision, initiating a transaction for the second user to purchase the product or service associated with the recommendation. Other embodiments are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Nathan Stoll, Andrew Mark Ellerhorst
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Patent number: 10332178Abstract: An activity-information system is provided. The system comprises an activity-information server and a plurality of activity-information devices. Activity-information devices may be proprietor devices (e.g., for bar owners/staff), affiliate devices (e.g., for club promoters or taxi drivers), or end-user devices (e.g., for patrons). The activity-information devices provide activity information (such as, a user's location or presence at a venue or within a district) to the activity-information server, which stores the activity information in an activity-information repository. The activity-information server then determines activity levels for venues and districts, which may be transmitted to devices. The activity-information device then may display activity level in an activity-information interface. The activity-information interface may comprise a map with highlighting and icons indicative of activity levels for districts and venues, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Barferno LLCInventor: Jaspal Singh Hare
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Patent number: 10332185Abstract: An SSO provider—i.e., a provider of user accounts that a number of other online services accept as a sign-on technique—identifies the online services to which its users sign on, as well as the digital content items that those users access. The SSO provider uses this information to associate particular content items with particular online services, or combinations of online services. The SSO provider can then use the associations to make recommendations of content items to users based on the services to which the users have signed on.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Justin Lewis
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Patent number: 10325299Abstract: A mobile computing device configured for enabling distribution of digital pictures is provided. Additionally, a method for enabling distribution of digital pictures and a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for enabling distribution of digital pictures are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Manash Bhattacharjee, Debashis Ghosh, Randy Shuken
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Patent number: 10311510Abstract: A system and method of providing sequential media content. The system of some embodiments provides a library that displays representations of media items stored on a device. The library displays representations of a series object. Activating the series object displays purchased media items in a series of media items. After a threshold amount of a media item in the series has been consumed, the series object displays a representation of a next media item in the series along with a control for purchasing the next media item in the series.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Brett A. Rampata, Martin J. Murrett, Charles J. Migos, Casey M. Dougherty
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Patent number: 10304099Abstract: The use of a just-in-time market for EV's (electric vehicles) to buy and sell energy from each other directly. Such a market enables the following: sellers to advertise the amount of energy they are willing to sell and the minimum selling price; buyers to advertise the amount of energy they are interested in buying and the maximum buying price. The market works at any location and at any time as long as there is a buyer and seller. The communications are directly between buyers and sellers without the involvement of any third parties.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Jayanta Basak, Devasenapathi P. Seetharamakrishnan
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Patent number: 10296954Abstract: The performance of functional items, such as headphones, cameras, etc., can be simulated in the context of a network-accessible electronic catalog by using virtual machines, and similar techniques. An electronic marketplace may provide a user with the option to sample the performance of an item being browsed, and can generate and/or configure one or more virtual machines to simulate functions of the item, using parameters that are specific to the item and/or that are tailored to the user's device. In some cases, the performance of different items can be compared, e.g. by simultaneous presentation of visual information, and/or item(s) performance can be virtualized in various ways that allow the user to identify differences or capabilities that might otherwise be difficult to discern. The described methods may also recommend products that closely match the user's preferences based on the user's modifications to virtualizations.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Pushpendra Narain Mishra
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Patent number: 10296955Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for an electronic search interface to identify artisan sellers. A search query is received from a client. An electronic item database is then searched to identify items that are relevant to the search query. Two or more items may be offered by each of multiple sellers. A search result listing is generated that includes one item offered by each seller with a greatest display prominence. Other items offered by the sellers may be excluded or displayed with a lesser prominence.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Hamilton Miller, Caroline Tracey Burns