Patents Examined by Michael J Sittner
  • Patent number: 12314974
    Abstract: A software development kit (SDK) allow a user to be able purchase a gift card through an offer wall and, in return, the user can receive a reward in game currency, such as coins, diamonds, tokens or the like. Most mobile apps offer their users a way to purchase coins, diamonds, tokens, or the like, which is also known as an in-app purchase. The gift card offer wall can allow the game player to purchase a gift card from a choice of vendors, and, in return, obtain the desired game currency as a bonus. The system can include three elements—the SDK for various platforms, an electronic wallet application and servers that communicate with both the SDK and the wallet application. The SDK is something that the app publisher can add to their own mobile application that will launch the gift card offer wall for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: GCOW LLC
    Inventors: Chadi Hage, Kamil Grzych
  • Patent number: 12271924
    Abstract: Systems and methods which offer a loyalty program affiliated with different entities associated with an enterprise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Anthony J. Baerlocher
  • Patent number: 12141823
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes an audience size calculator circuitry to determine a first census-level audience size, and an impression count calculator circuitry to determine a first census-level impression count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Sheppard, DongBo Cui, Jake Ryan Dailey, Edward Murphy, Diane Morovati Lopez
  • Patent number: 12112349
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for summarizing a set of anomalies corresponding to a group of metrics of interest to a monitoring system user. Initially, a set of anomalies corresponding to a group of metrics is identified as having values that are outside of a predetermined range. A correlation value is determined for at least a portion of pairs of anomalies in the set of anomalies. For each anomaly in the set of anomalies, an informativeness value is computed that indicates how informative each anomaly in the set of anomalies is to the monitoring system user. The correlation values and the informativeness values are then used to identify at least one key anomaly and a plurality of non-key anomalies from the set of anomalies. A summary is generated of the identified at least one key anomaly to provide information to the monitoring system user about the set of anomalies for a particular time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Natwar Modani, Iftikhar Ahamath Burhanuddin, Gaurush Hiranandani, Shiv Kumar Saini
  • Patent number: 12008591
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, program products, and systems are disclosed for machine learning based user targeting. An apparatus includes one or more memory devices in communication with one or more processing devices. An apparatus includes a subject module that receives subject data associated with a subject. Subject data includes data that describes a subject. An apparatus includes an affinity module that determines, using a machine learning model, an affinity level of each of one or more entities in relation to a subject. Subject data is provided as input to a machine learning model. An apparatus includes a campaign module that generates one or more promotional campaign strategies for a subject based at least in part on an affinity level of each of one or more entities in relation to a subject. One or more promotional campaign strategies target a subject to one or more entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: WRENCH.AI, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel J. Baird
  • Patent number: 11987102
    Abstract: To realize a device and method that outputs scents according to an advertisement. A scent output control unit that executes scent output control and a scent output unit that executes a scent output under control of the scent output control unit are included, and the scent output control unit selects a scent to be output on the basis of an advertisement and outputs the selected scent via the scent output unit. The scent output control unit selects a scent to be output on the basis of an advertisement detected from an image captured by a vehicle exterior camera that captures the outside of the vehicle or an advertisement output to the information output terminal, and outputs the selected scent via the scent output unit. Furthermore, an occupant profile is analyzed on the basis of an image of an occupant, and a scent corresponding to the occupant is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Konya, Shuji Fujita, Yukito Inoue, Cedric Duvert
  • Patent number: 11935069
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to proactive intervention in a software application. Embodiments include selecting, by a proactive intervention system related to an application, an event of a plurality of events related to use of the application for processing based on event priorities associated with the plurality of events. Embodiments further include receiving, by the proactive intervention system, contextual information related to the event. Embodiments further include determining, by the proactive intervention system, a proactive intervention based on the event and the contextual information. Embodiments further include determining, by the proactive intervention system, that the proactive intervention can presently be provided based on intervention availability data. Embodiments further include providing, by the proactive intervention system, the proactive intervention via a user interface associated with the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Inuit, Inc.
    Inventors: Neha Giri, Hemanth Nellitheertha, Bhargava Narayana, Manish Jain, Divya Kumar, Arun Kumar A
  • Patent number: 11875376
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a computing device, a request for content from a content provider and determining one or more experiment variations of the requested content that the computing device is assigned to based, at least in part, on the request. The method further includes generating, by a processing device, code indicating the determined one or more experiment variations and inserting the code into executable code corresponding to the requested content. The executable code is transmitted to the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Optimizely North America Inc.
    Inventors: Whelan Boyd, Tyler Brandt, James Fox, Greeshma Yellareddy, Lauren Pappone, Michael Hood
  • Patent number: 11810140
    Abstract: A software development kit (SDK) allow a user to be able purchase a gift card through an offer wall and, in return, the user can receive a reward in game currency, such as coins, diamonds, tokens or the like. Most mobile apps offer their users a way to purchase coins, diamonds, tokens, or the like, which is also known as an in-app purchase. The gift card offer wall can allow the game player to purchase a gift card from a choice of vendors, and, in return, obtain the desired game currency as a bonus. The system can include three elements—the SDK for various platforms, an electronic wallet application and servers that communicate with both the SDK and the wallet application. The SDK is something that the app publisher can add to their own mobile application that will launch the gift card offer wall for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GCOW LLC
    Inventors: Chadi Hage, Kamil Grzych
  • Patent number: 11605101
    Abstract: As described herein, a collaborative filtering system, method, and computer program provide a model used to calculate ranked predictions for subscribers. In use, data is received which correlates subscribers of a service provider with offers provided to the subscribers by the service provider, wherein each correlation is associated in the data with an indication of whether the offer was accepted by the subscriber. From the data, a plurality of unique correlations between subscribers and offers are determined. An implicit ranking is calculated for each unique correlation, based on the associated indication of acceptance for correlations matching the unique correlation. Input data is generated that includes each unique correlation with the implicit ranking calculated for the unique correlation. The input data is processed utilizing a collaborative filtering algorithm to generate a model configured to provide predicted implicit rankings for new correlations between subscribers and offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Yosef Yehuda Kuttner, Moshe Yechiel Shtein
  • Patent number: 11334864
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for cognitive rewards recognition in a mobile wallet of a user. A cognitive rewards recognition software application installed in the mobile wallet for each purchase opportunity: determines payment options and associated rewards; determines cognitive factors linking and relating the user, the payment options, and the rewards to purchases; and generates a ranked list of the payment options in response to the cognitive factors, wherein the rewards are distributed between purchases to maximize benefits to the user in response to the related cognitive factors. The ranked list is presented for each purchase opportunity to the user on his mobile wallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Bloys, Michael J. Bordash, Lisa Seacat DeLuca
  • Patent number: 11144954
    Abstract: An online system promotes physical store visits by presenting users with content items for a physical store location and subsequently logs visits of online system users to the physical store location to track performance of a campaign associated with the presented content item. The online system registers attention events associated with the presented content items presented to users on third party publishing sites via tracking pixels and registers attention events as store front visit conversion events if, within a predetermined period of time from a valid attention event, a user has subsequently gone in and visited the physical store front location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Xu, Chaochao Cai, Qing Li, Goran Predovic
  • Patent number: 11144945
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing loyalty program identification data associated with a payment transaction may include receiving, with an electronic wallet system, loyalty program identification data associated with a customer; receiving, with the electronic wallet system, first transaction data associated with a payment transaction involving the customer and a merchant; assigning, with the electronic wallet system, the loyalty program identification data to the first transaction data based on receiving the first transaction data; receiving, with the electronic wallet system, second transaction data associated with the payment transaction, wherein the second transaction data is received after the first transaction data is received; determining, with the electronic wallet system, whether the second transaction data corresponds to the first transaction data; and communicating, with the electronic wallet system, the loyalty program identification data based on determining that the second transaction d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Christopher David Jones
  • Patent number: 11138617
    Abstract: Methods and systems for creating demographic profiles of mobile communication network users. A demographic classification system analyzes network traffic, so as to estimate the specific combination of application classes installed on a given terminal, and usage patterns of the applications over time. This combination of application classes and their respective usage patterns are a highly personalized choice made by the user, and is therefore used by the system to deduce the user's demographic profile. The demographic classification system operates on monitored network traffic, as opposed to obtaining explicit and accurate information regarding the installed applications from the terminal. The system then deduces the demographic profile of the user from the list of estimated application classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: VERINT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Gustavo Litmanovich, Eithan Goldfarb
  • Patent number: 11120478
    Abstract: For an input image of a person, a set of object proposals are generated in the form of bounding boxes. A pose detector identifies coordinates in the image corresponding to locations on the person's body, such as the waist, head, hands, and feet of the person. A convolutional neural network receives the portions of the input image defined by the bounding boxes and generates a feature vector for each image portion. The feature vectors are input to one or more support vector machine classifiers, which generate an output representing a probability of a match with an item. The distance between the bounding box and a joint associated with the item is used to modify the probability. The modified probabilities for the support vector machine are then compared with a threshold and each other to identify the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Kota Hara, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Robinson Piramuthu
  • Patent number: 11093970
    Abstract: To improve monetization of electronic advertisement placement, a profile owner company operates an automatic system for identifying media properties that have interests in specific profiles or profiles of a specified category or kind. The profile owner recognizes a collected visitor profile as one that a media property has previously requested or one that is within a category that a media property has previously requested and arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the media property that requested such a profile. The media property can use the tag in displaying customized advertising to the visitor. Using information received from the media property, the profile owner company then records usage of the profile by the media property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Datonics. LLC
    Inventor: Roy Shkedi
  • Patent number: 11055693
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for issuing and redeeming co-branded electronic certificates. In one example, a method includes receiving, via near field communication (NFC), a co-branded electronic certificate and an electronic payment card to conduct a wireless purchase transaction for at least one good or service. The method further includes determining whether qualification information contained in the co-branded electronic certificate matches at least a portion of the account number associated with the electronic payment card used to conduct the wireless purchase transaction. The method also includes applying the co-branded electronic certificate to conduct the purchase transaction if the qualification information matches the at least a portion of the account number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Mohammad Khan
  • Patent number: 11051056
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a machine-readable storage medium, including executable instructions that perform operations that include providing an interface to a client device to submit an advertising campaign, analyzing a plurality of segments of a plurality of subscribers of an interactive media system according to desired traits for the advertising campaign, determining content distributed by the interactive media system that correlates with the audience as selected media content, identifying a plurality of devices for a selected subscriber of the identified subscribers that receive portions of the selected media content from the interactive media system as an identified plurality of devices, analyzing break metadata for the selected media content, selecting a selected message from an advertising playlist to be assigned to the upcoming break segment, selecting a device for delivery of the selected message. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott Crawford, John Doehler, Roland Noll
  • Patent number: 11023918
    Abstract: A method for rewarding physical activity is disclosed. At a server computer, goal data is received from a user device for a user. The goal data comprises a description of a physical activity for traveling to a location of a retailer within a time goal. The goal data includes a reward to be provided to the user for completing the physical activity within the time goal. User data is received from the user device. The user data includes data from an activity monitor and geolocation data. Based on the user data, a determination is made as to whether the user has completed the physical activity within the time goal. When the determination is made that the user has completed the physical activity within the time goal, the reward is provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Michael Glynn D'Andrea, John Edward Cronin
  • Patent number: 10992817
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for selecting and delivering an electronic value certificate to a mobile device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes utilizing a certificate selection device to generate electronic certificate selection information and providing the electronic certificate selection information and associated recipient data to a merchant server. From the merchant server, electronic value certificate data derived from the certificate selection information is received. The method also includes establishing a communications link with a mobile device corresponding to the recipient data. The electronic value certificate data is provisioned on the mobile device over the communications link via over the air (OTA) communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pradeep Kumar, Mikel Robert Delagrange