Patents Examined by Mila Airapetian
  • Patent number: 12380477
    Abstract: An on-line venue provides a communication channel over which buyers can anonymously communicate what product or service they want to purchase by posting an interactive request that a number of sellers/service providers can then directly respond to. This may promote the buyers interests in directly matching their needs with qualified vendors. The on-line venue can then broadcast a buyer's needs to relevant/selected sellers/service providers, who may opt in to receiving buyer details for buyers who are self-qualifying leads to prospective sellers/service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Yellcast, Inc.
    Inventor: Ganesan Venkatakrishnan
  • Patent number: 12373877
    Abstract: Item vectors representing transaction contexts for items are mapped to multidimensional space. A request is received for an alternative to a given item from a resource. The multidimensional space is evaluated to identify closest candidate items to the given item based on the corresponding item vectors. An optimal candidate item is selected from the candidate items based on the request. The association between the given item and the optimal candidate item is injected within a process workflow associated with the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventors: Itamar David Laseron, Rotem Chudin, Julie Dvora Katz Ohayon, Moshe Shaharur
  • Patent number: 12354155
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for scheduling processing of an order for goods at a provider location obtains an arrival estimate for when a user associated with the order is expected to arrive at the provider location and uses the arrival estimate to schedule processing of the order. Processing may be scheduled so that completion of order processing is expected to substantially coincide with arrival of the user at the provider location. The method may also obtain an order completion estimate for when processing of the order is expected to be completed and use both the arrival estimate and the order completion estimate to schedule processing of the order. The method may update one or both of the arrival estimate and the order completion estimate. The method may be executed by a networked mobile wireless telecommunication computing device of the user, or by a data processing system associated with the provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Expose Retail Strategies, Inc.
    Inventor: David Napper
  • Patent number: 12333621
    Abstract: In a distributed ledger system including nodes of a plurality of organizations, a smart contract of a distributed ledger node of each of the organizations refers to information made open to the public in a public area, the information being related to an evidence held in a private area of each of the plurality of organizations, and in response to a trigger event of the information's meeting a given condition, executes a process of making the evidence open to the public in the public area, the evidence being held in the private area of an organization to which the smart contract belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sato, Taku Shimosawa
  • Patent number: 12321974
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for determining, sorting, or determining and sorting a set of items. The method includes receiving, via a user device, parameter values from a user and receiving parameter weights. The method further includes determining a sort score for each vehicle of a set of vehicles based on the received parameter values and parameter weights, and sorting the set of vehicles based on the sort score of each vehicle of the set of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Micah Price, Qiaochu Tang, Jason Hoover, Avid Ghamsari, Geoffrey Dagley
  • Patent number: 12314994
    Abstract: Systems and methods for organizing structured items in an e-commerce system are presented. In some aspects, the systems and methods may include a back-end structured item organizing system associated with a front-end category mapping system which is configured to process use case requests. In some aspects, a use case request may identify an item for classification by the back-end structured organizing system. In some aspects, the described systems and methods may select a listing bucket from a set of listing buckets of the back-end structured organizing system based on attribute values indicated in the use case request, and may cause a user interface of the front-end category mapping system to display one or more characteristics associated with items categorized within the selected listing bucket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventor: Yingwei Xin
  • Patent number: 12314999
    Abstract: An online system receives a recipe from a customer mobile device. The online system performs natural language processing on the recipe to determine parsed ingredients. For each of one or more of the determined parsed ingredients, the online system maps the parsed ingredient to a generic item. The online system queries a product database with the mapped generic item to obtain one or more products associated with the mapped generic item. The online system applies a machine-learned conversion model to each of the one or more products to determine a conversion likelihood for the product. The conversion model may be trained based on historical data describing previous conversions made by customers presented with an opportunity to add products to an order. The online system selects a product from the one or more products based on the determined conversion likelihoods and adds the selected product to an order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: William Silverthorne Faurot, III, Tyler Russell Tate
  • Patent number: 12293399
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided and include a computing device that receives a selection of a song available for streaming from the music streaming server and transmits a query to the music streaming service server for a musical attribute associated with the selected song. The computing device receives the musical attribute and determines a paint color associated with the selected song based on the musical attribute. The computing device displays the determined paint color and a name and identification code of the paint color on a display of the computing device. The computing device outputs the selected song to a speaker of the computing device while displaying the determined paint color on the display of the at least one computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Behr Process LLC
    Inventors: Bert Marissen, Bruno Regalo, Mariangela McMurray, Nathaniel Wilkes, Jason Karley, Jeffrey L. O'Keefe, Luz Maria Caceres, Zachary Cross, Zachary Winter, Andrew Lopez, Jodi Allen
  • Patent number: 12288234
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a commerce platform providing proof of application ownership of a network distributable application are described. The method may include receiving a request to approve an application developed by a merchant system, wherein the application includes an application programming interface (API) component, a software development kit (SDK) component, or a combination thereof provided by the commerce platform to the merchant system. The method may also include generating a unique identifier (ID) for the application to be included as metadata within the application. Furthermore, the method may include obtaining, from an application information system, data describing the application, and extracting an ID from metadata in the data obtained by the application information system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Stripe, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Patrick Kirwin
  • Patent number: 12277592
    Abstract: An information providing system includes: a wearing data acquisition part configured to acquire wearing data indicating that a user has worn a fashion item; a wearing history storage part configured to store a wearing history based on the wearing data; an information providing part configured to provide the user with information, based on the wearing history; and a merchandise information storage part configured to store information of a merchandise item that is the fashion item, in which the information providing part suggests the merchandise item, based on the wearing history, a merchandise item having a similar feature to an item of either a large number of wearing times or a high wearing frequency in the wearing history and a merchandise item having a dissimilar feature, and the merchandise item, based on a suggestion ratio between the similar merchandise items and the dissimilar merchandise items set for the every user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: FABRIC TOKYO INC.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Mori
  • Patent number: 12271938
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for fulfilling items at a materials handling facility. In some instances, a predicted items list that identifies items that are likely to be picked by a user are determined and, when the user arrives at the materials handling facility, those predicted items are presented to the user for selection. For example, predicted items may be determined and an inventory holder that holds one or more of those predicted items may be retrieved by a mobile drive unit (such as a Kiva mobile drive unit) and presented to the user at a retrieval area. The user may pick the items they desire from the presented inventory holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ozgur Dogan, Gianna Lise Puerini, Michael Cordell Mountz, Steve Kessel
  • Patent number: 12266015
    Abstract: A system for interfacing with one or more application programing interfaces to generate a graphical representation of an interactive element. The application programing interface(s) include instructions to receive and execute viewing instructions stored on the server for an item for transfer of title to a user on a display. One instruction is to identify, from two or more potential items, a concurrent item associated with the viewed item and a respective interactive element indicative of an executable element and one or more of a total amount, a term, or a term amount. The graphical user interface includes instructions to receive the representation of the interactive element associated with the concurrent item and generate the interactive element from the same. A further instruction of the graphical user interface is to present the interactive element in association with the viewed item and on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TRUIST BANK
    Inventors: Dirk Evan Gould, Dustin Tyler Jennings, Jared Stephen Bunn, Brent William Vaassen
  • Patent number: 12260444
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10): sets a plurality of styles that each indicate a moving-image composition of a moving image which relates to a predetermined item and in which a plurality of pieces of image content corresponding to the predetermined item are used; acquires an attribute of a target user; estimates the most-suitable style for the target user among the plurality of styles based on the plurality of pieces of image content and the attribute of the target user; and provides a moving image that is in accordance with the estimated style to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Bjorn Stenger, Mitsuru Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 12260449
    Abstract: The subject technology requests a set of augmented reality (AR) content generators based on a group ID, generated by an extension application programming interface (API), using a camera API. The subject technology receives the set of AR content generators. The subject technology provides for display representations of the set of AR content generators in an interface. The subject technology receives a selection of a first AR content generator from the set of AR content generators. The subject technology renders the first AR content generator for display, using the camera API. The subject technology requests metadata for a set of products based on the selected first AR content generator using the extension API. The subject technology receives the metadata from the extension API. The subject technology provides for display the set of representations of products based on the received metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Riccardo Boscolo, Erika Michele Kehrwald, Ruoyu Li, Jean Luo, Vincent Sung, Ibram Uppal
  • Patent number: 12254506
    Abstract: A positioning index generating apparatus configured to collect data generated by an action of a customer in each of a plurality of steps into which a product purchase decision step is divided and configured to determine a positioning index of a product based on data generated in at least one step among the plurality of steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: DaeKwan Seo
  • Patent number: 12254504
    Abstract: Product recommendations are selected according to a model. Product recommendations may be annotated with rules of the model used to select the products. A user may modify the model and be provided with a URL and a cookie associated with the modified model. Subsequent requests or the URL and presenting the cookie are processed using the modified model. A context may be associated with the cookie and modified by the user to observe performance of the model for the context. An interface may permit a user to specify rules for the model or otherwise model its behavior. User interactions with a website result in recommendations according to the model. A journey is recorded that records content, recommendations, and parameters of the model corresponding to the recommendations. The journeys of users may be filtered and visually presented to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SITECORE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Jeronimo Vallelunga, Rui H. Ewald, Vivek Gupta, Xiaonan Wang
  • Patent number: 12254505
    Abstract: Systems and method for dynamically managing add-on orders within a delivery service application. For example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data indicative of a primary order request. The method includes selecting, ranking, and displaying menu items for add-on orders associated with a primary order. The method includes obtaining user data provided by a user through a user interface associated with a delivery service application. The method includes determining, in response to obtaining the user data, that the primary order request is eligible for an add-on order. The method includes determining merchants for the add-on order. The selected merchants can be determined from a plurality of candidate merchants based at least in part on analysis of merchant-specific data relative to the user data indicative of the primary order request. The method includes updating the user interface to display data associated with the one or more selected merchants for the add-on order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Louis Cornacchia, Emre Demiralp, Cinar Kilcioglu, Kevin A. Rowe, Zhengyun Sun, Vishnu Sundaresan, Ameya Tayade, Justin Wie
  • Patent number: 12243084
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for uploading, by a verified party, verified-party content to a media platform, receiving requests by a client device for store content, and displaying the uploaded verified-party content along with store content on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Alsina, Arvind S. Shenoy, Matthew J. Laine, Zachary T. Friedland
  • Patent number: 12229814
    Abstract: A mobile device based messaging application that allows users to communicate anonymously and privately. Users can scan a QR (Quick Response) code or read a NFC (Near-Field Communication) chip in a combination QR/NFC tag, or use a computer-generated code to initiate a conversation. The conversations are automatically generated and populated with the appropriate information. Once the user terminates a conversation, the other party cannot communicate with the user. If desired, the user can re-scan the tag or enter the unique code to create a new conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventor: Eli Traitel
  • Patent number: 12217303
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a system providing for currency transfer using augmented reality environments. The system may receive, at a user device associated with a user, a first input indicating a first selection of a first augmented reality item. The system may receive a second input indicating a first movement of the first augmented reality item. The system may determine whether the first augmented reality item is in proximity to a purchasable item. In response to determining that the first augmented reality item is in proximity to the purchasable item, the system may initiate a transfer by receiving image data containing a computer readable code associated with the purchasable item, processing the image data, retrieving store account information and transfer information regarding the purchasable item, retrieving user account information, and transmitting, to an account processor, the user account information, the store account information, and the transfer information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Rapowitz, Kevin Osborn, Mia Rodriguez, Kathryn Tikoian