Patents Examined by Michael C Moroney
  • Patent number: 11922342
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a subscription service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: INSPIRATO, LLC
    Inventors: Brent Handler, Brad Handler, Ashley Roybal, Rodolfo Rodriguez, Cody Holloway, Mark Wilson, Michael Webster, Kevin Baird, Sam Schulte, Jesus Gandarilla, Sienna Stonesmith
  • Patent number: 11922471
    Abstract: To automate a pricing strategy for an otherwise unpriced service or item, prices may be generated through a plurality of different pricing models, via a pricing engine passing input data to a plurality of discrete pricing models. Those pricing models may pass data back to the pricing engine, which then adjudicates the results of the pricing models to identify a most-relevant pricing model for the particular unpriced service or item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
    Inventors: David G. Cherryhomes, James A. Bailey, Robert Baker, Matthew J. Maurer, Ry Larrandson, Nick Rooda, Charles Heinzel
  • Patent number: 11887023
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform functions comprising: generating one or more feature vectors for a user, the one or more feature vectors at least comprising transaction-based features and slot-based features; generating, using a machine learning architecture, a repurchase prediction for the user based, at least in part, on the one or more feature vectors; generating, using the machine learning architecture, a time slot prediction for the user based, at least in part, on the one or more feature vectors, the time slot prediction predicting a time slot desired by the user for an upcoming transaction; and executing a reservation function that facilitates reserving of the time slot for the user. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Sonal Bathe, Rahul Sridhar, Sinduja Subramaniam, Evren Korpeoglu, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11861746
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a subscription travel service. The systems and methods include operations for determining a geographical location of a user of a subscription-based travel service; searching a list of travel services that are available for the user to consume on a travel date to identify candidate travel services; computing a likelihood of consumption value for the user based on transportation criteria associated with arriving at a given travel service in the list of travel services from the geographical location of the user; determining that the likelihood of consumption value for the user is less than a threshold; increasing a travel cost value associated with the given travel service in response to determining that the likelihood of consumption value is less than the threshold; and generating, for display in a graphical user interface to the user, an interactive visual representation of the given travel service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: INSPIRATO LLC
    Inventors: Brad Handler, Cody Holloway
  • Patent number: 11846951
    Abstract: There is provided a control system that manages running of an automatic driving home delivery locker going around in a specified region by automatic driving. The control system includes a communication unit that receives notification showing that the automatic driving home delivery locker has received a home delivery article, and a control unit that makes control such that an inquiry is made to a terminal device of a consignee of the home delivery article via the communication unit in accordance with reception of the notification so as to estimate a current position of the consignee, and when the consignee is in the specified region, a new running path on which the automatic driving home delivery locker travels a vicinity of the current position of the consignee or a sending destination of the home delivery article is generated and is transmitted to the automatic driving home delivery locker via the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ono
  • Patent number: 11790304
    Abstract: A logistics system for managing a network of independent delivery partners may include models to detect delivery defects. The models may generate defect scores for each onboarded delivery partner. The system may collect delivery data to continuously update the models. The updated models may score delivery partners for early detection of delivery defects and determine remediations steps. The system may train one or more models to determine the scores based on a terminating step of the delivery steps. The scores may indicate a likelihood the terminating step was caused by intentional action or by accident. The system may determine remediations steps based on the likelihood of intentional action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chengeng Zeng, Minghao Gai, Leah Autumn Thompkins
  • Patent number: 11790305
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatic delivery route generation and assignment. In some examples, a computing device determines delivery locations for each of a plurality of previous routes taken by each of a plurality of drivers over a period of time. The computing device also obtains a plurality of current routes to be assigned to the plurality of drivers. Further, the computing device determines a familiarity value for each of the plurality of drivers for each of the plurality of current routes based on the delivery locations of the previous routes taken by each driver. The computing device assigns each of the plurality of drivers to a current route based on the determined familiarity values, and stores the assignments in a data repository. In some examples, the computing device transmits the assignments to another computing device, such as a computing device of each driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Chittaranjan Tripathy, Abhijeet Rajendra Phatak, Kaiyi Zhang, Rekha Venkatakrishnan, Ioannis Pavlidis
  • Patent number: 11783271
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for directing resource transfers based on resource distribution data. The present invention may be configured to receive resource distribution data associated with a plurality of resource distributions, where the resource distribution data includes a plurality of resources, a plurality of receiving locations, and a plurality of delivery locations. The present invention may be further configured to receive a target efficiency rate for transfer containers corresponding to a percentage of capacity of the transfer containers occupied while the transfer containers are transferring the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Benjamin Castinado, Ann Ta
  • Patent number: 11676184
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a subscription travel service. The systems and methods include operations for receiving travel information with a travel date for a user; computing a subscription value as a function of a booking date and the travel date; determining a minimum travel value and a maximum purchase amount based on the computed subscription value; searching a list of travel services that are available on the travel date to identify candidate travel services each having a first cost that exceeds the minimum travel value; selecting a subset of the candidate travel services that each have a second cost that is less than the maximum purchase amount; and generating for display to a user, in a graphical user interface, one or more interactive visual representations of the selected subset of the candidate travel services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: INSPIRATO, LLC
    Inventors: Brent Handler, Cody Holloway, Jesus Gandarilla, Rodolfo Rodriguez, Ashley Roybal, Christopher Smith, Brad Handler
  • Patent number: 11507917
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute: acquiring information regarding a request of a user making a product while riding on a mobile object; acquiring information regarding an article used in making the product; acquiring information regarding a location of the article; and generating an operation command of the mobile object such that the mobile object carrying the user travels via the location of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Dogishi, Masaki Shitara, Keiji Yamashita, Nozomi Kaneko, Naoki Yamamuro, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryoichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11315068
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining secondary locations for fulfilment of items by a fulfilment system. A request is received for an item from a user. A primary location of the user is determined. User information in a data source is processed by a natural language processing module to determine whether the user has travel plans to a secondary location for a travel time period that includes an expected delivery date of the item to the secondary location. A determination is made of a secondary attribute of the item associated with the secondary location. A graphical user interface is generated with graphical elements visually representing a first attribute of the primary location, the determined secondary attribute, and computer commands to invoke a workflow to deliver the item to at least one of the primary location and the secondary location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Raghuveer P. Nagar, Satisha C. Honnavalli
  • Patent number: 11288620
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is provided including receiving, at a server computer, a communication that indicates controllability of an access control device by a client application associated with an e-commerce service. The access control device associated with a property and configured to selectively allow access to the property relative to interaction with the client application. The method further includes determining that the property is constituted by dwellings beyond the access control device and identifying, based on a reconciliation of addresses of the dwellings with information of user accounts of an e-commerce service, at least one of the dwellings associated with the e-commerce service. The method further includes causing relative to the reconciliation an update to at least one of the user accounts associated with the at least one of the dwellings, the update opting-in the at least one of the user accounts to a feature of the e-commerce service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: The Chamberlain Group LLC
    Inventors: David R. Morris, Cory Jon Sorice
  • Patent number: 11250532
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving identification information of a vehicle and identification information of a parking space to bind the vehicle with the parking space and generate binding information, receiving a time when the vehicle enters the parking space and a time when the vehicle exits the parking space, calculating a parking fee of the vehicle according to the time when the vehicle enters the parking space and the time when the vehicle exits the parking space, determining identification information of a shopping cart that corresponds to the vehicle according to the identification information of the vehicle, the binding information of the vehicle and the parking space, and a correspondence between the parking space and the shopping cart, and sending the parking fee of the vehicle to the shopping cart that corresponds to the identification information of the shopping cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shihao Ji, Xin Li, Hui Rao, Zhiguo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11216754
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a reception unit configured to receive a use reservation of car sharing including designation of any one of round-trip car sharing and one-way car sharing, designation of a pickup location, and designation of a drop-off location from a user and store the use reservation in a use reservation database, and a selection unit configured to select, as users who share a ride in a vehicle, both of a first user who has made a use reservation for designating round-trip car sharing and a second user who has made a use reservation for designating one-way car sharing among a plurality of users who have made a use reservation with a pickup location and a drop-off location satisfying a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Patent number: 11107171
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a subscription travel service. The systems and methods include operations for determining a geographical location of a user of a subscription-based travel service; searching a list of travel services that are available for the user to consume on a travel date to identify candidate travel services; computing a likelihood of consumption value for the user based on transportation criteria associated with arriving at a given travel service in the list of travel services from the geographical location of the user; determining that the likelihood of consumption value for the user is less than a threshold; increasing a travel cost value associated with the given travel service in response to determining that the likelihood of consumption value is less than the threshold; and generating, for display in a graphical user interface to the user, an interactive visual representation of the given travel service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Inspirato
    Inventors: Brad Handler, Cody Holloway
  • Patent number: 11055753
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a subscription travel service. The systems and methods include operations for receiving travel information with a travel date for a user; computing a subscription value as a function of a booking date and the travel date; determining a minimum travel value and a maximum purchase amount based on the computed subscription value; searching a list of travel services that are available on the travel date to identify candidate travel services each having a first cost that exceeds the minimum travel value; selecting a subset of the candidate travel services that each have a second cost that is less than the maximum purchase amount; and generating for display to a user, in a graphical user interface, one or more interactive visual representations of the selected subset of the candidate travel services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Inspirato
    Inventors: Brent Handler, Cody Holloway, Jesus Gandarilla, Rodolfo Rodriguez, Ashley Roybal, Christopher Smith, Brad Handler
  • Patent number: 11004018
    Abstract: A logistics prediction system includes an arithmetic device that executes a predetermined process, a storage device connected to the arithmetic device, a shipment information input section to which past shipment information is input, a constraint input section to which a calculation resource and a calculation time period are input as constraints for prediction, an integration prediction database holding shipment trends of products, a prediction method selector that selects a prediction method to be used to predict a shipment volume for each of the products from among multiple prediction methods so that the constraints input to the constraint input section are satisfied, multiple prediction method sections that predict shipment volumes using the prediction methods, an integrator that integrates the results of the prediction by the prediction method sections for each of the products, and a shipment prediction output section that outputs the result of the integration by the integrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yonekawa, Junichi Hirayama, Daichi Ojiro, Koji Ara, Yoshihito Shimazu