Patents Examined by Nancy N Prasad
  • Patent number: 11216872
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an automated computer implemented system and method observes a user's actions in real-time and provides error checking and business intelligence. The system comprises a computer processor programmed to: generate, via the rules engine, a rule pack specific to a line of business, the rule pack comprising one or more rules; receive, via the interface, user interaction data in real-time, as a user interacts with the interface; apply, via the rules engine, the rule pack to the user interaction data; automatically identify at least one error in the user interaction data to address errors in credit disputes reporting; and generate a message responsive to the at least one error, the message displayed on the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Michael S. Davis, Allen M. Butler
  • Patent number: 11195132
    Abstract: A maintenance prioritization method, system, and computer program product, include collecting information including image data and status data for a plurality of objects of interest, building a three-dimensional image for each object, and estimating a risk factor of failure for each object by analyzing the information and the three-dimensional image of the object to compare with known characteristics of the object and a reference object description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexe Bojovschi, Laura Irina Rusu, John Michael Wagner
  • Patent number: 11182749
    Abstract: Methods and systems pertaining to generating a set of appointments for a vehicle shop schedule are described. A method can comprise outputting a first vehicle shop schedule for displaying on a display. The first vehicle shop schedule comprises a first set of appointments. The method further comprises receiving a first new appointment that comprises first temporal data and first customer data. Furthermore, the method comprises generating a second set of appointments by aggregating the first new appointment with the first set of appointments and outputting a second vehicle shop schedule for displaying on the display instead of displaying the first vehicle shop schedule. The second vehicle shop schedule comprises the second set of appointments. One or more appointments can include technician data and shop resource data, such as a vehicle bay or scan tool identifier, for providing schedule views based on technicians or shop resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: MITCHELL REPAIR INFORMATION COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Lester B. Johnson, John H. Dwulet
  • Patent number: 11176499
    Abstract: Data is obtained specifying a measure of a data set to be analyzed by human experts and allotted time for analysis completion. Based on same, a schedule is created for a primary meeting of human experts, whose aim is to analyze the data. The meeting is evaluated to create rate estimates for hypothetical meeting partitions; and, if the primary meeting is not adhering to schedule and/or can be speeded up, the meeting partitions are simulated until a partitioning scheme is determined that can restore the meeting to schedule and/or speed it up. In another aspect, a model of focus of attention of each member of a group of individuals engaged in an activity requiring cooperation is dynamically updated, and a cooperation index is determined based on the model of focus of attention, an interaction graph, and at least one physiological parameter of at least one of the members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Brian P. Gaucher, James R. Kozloski, Clifford A. Pickover, Valentina Salapura, Alan M. Webb
  • Patent number: 11164114
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for performing detailed planning functions for businesses, enterprises and other types of organizations. According to an embodiment, the system comprises a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to define calculations based on data associated with an entity that may have scalar attributes for each entity, and/or a time series, and execution of the defined calculation generates time series result. According to another aspect, a calculation definition may be configured to be adjustable allowing a user to adjust parameter value(s) for each entity associated with the calculation definition. According to another aspect, a calculation definition may be configured to be discretionary allowing a user to attach or assign a calculation to each entity individually. According to another aspect, multiple calculations may be created and have the same name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TCG SENIOR FUNDING L.L.C.
    Inventors: Paul Barber, Robert Walker, Geoffrey Ng, Jason Seeley
  • Patent number: 11144859
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for scheduling an appointment between a user and a resource of a financial institution that includes receiving, at a first computing system associated with the financial institution, a plurality of user preferences regarding the appointment from a user. The user preferences may be received while the user is using a second computing system to conduct a network-based session with the first computing system. The method includes, identifying, by a rules engine, at least one representative of the financial institution based on the user preferences received from the user and scheduling the appointment between the user and the representative based on the identification of the representative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Kristin Deegan, Karen Ann Yu, Robert M. Caccia, Katherine Joan McGee
  • Patent number: 11138567
    Abstract: Methods and systems described in this disclosure receive, from a device, information associated with an activity for input into an enterprise integrated calendar, including a start date of the activity, a completion date of the activity, and a resource expected to be impacted by the activity from the start date to the completion date. Based on the start and completions dates and the resource impacted, a change impact score for the activity can be determined. A saturation score (or a series of saturation scores) for the resource can be generated from the start date to the completion date based on the change impact score for the activity and change impact scores of other activities. Such scores can provide information about whether the activity should remain on the enterprise calendar or be moved to a different date where the saturation scores do not exceed certain saturation levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
    Inventors: Amanda Schmoldt, Robin Gandy, Anthony Bishop, Bethany Quinn, Bret Perko, Gay Meyer, Philana Hudspeth
  • Patent number: 11126938
    Abstract: The global proliferation of high speed communication networks has created unprecedented opportunities for geographically distributed resource interaction. A data structure synthesizer provides crowd source project management features, crowd source resource sentiment analysis features, and crowd source resource configuration features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventor: Taurean Dyer
  • Patent number: 11113649
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for recommending agricultural activities is implemented by an agricultural intelligence computer system in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of field definition data, retrieving a plurality of input data from a plurality of data networks, determining a field region based on the field definition data, identifying a subset of the plurality of input data associated with the field region, determining a plurality of field condition data based on the subset of the plurality of input data, identifying a plurality of field activity options, determining a recommendation score for each of the plurality of field activity options based at least in part on the plurality of field condition data, and providing a recommended field activity option from the plurality of field activity options based on the plurality of recommendation scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: THE CLIMATE CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Ethington, Eli J. Pollak, Tristan D'Orgeval, Katherine Krumme, Evin Levey, Samuel Alexander Wimbush, Erik Andrejko, Moorea Lee Brega, Sivan Aldor-Noiman
  • Patent number: 11107058
    Abstract: An embodiment of a system comprises one or more processors; and one or more memories adapted to store machine-readable instructions which when executed by the processor(s) cause the system to: receive tracked user device information from a distributed network of sensors configured for tracking user device information associated with one or more user devices of corresponding users in a proximity of the distributed network of sensors, wherein the user device information is tracked even when the corresponding users have not opted in the one or more user devices to be tracked by the distributed network of sensors; store the tracked user device information in a tracking database, wherein the tracked user device information is stored even for corresponding users that have not been identified and is for later use when such corresponding users are identified; and analyze the tracked user device information to infer interests of the corresponding users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Gordon Taro Hamachi
  • Patent number: 11093874
    Abstract: The global proliferation of high speed communication networks has created unprecedented opportunities for geographically distributed resource interaction. However, while the opportunities exist and continue to grow, the realization of those opportunities has fallen behind. A resource virtualization system solves the enormous technical challenges of finding and evaluating resources to assign to complex projects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Alex Kass, Manish Mehta, Taurean Dyer
  • Patent number: 11080796
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is system, method and architecture to process information received in electronic messages, including identifying events in the lives of users from the information contained in one or more such electronic messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Varun Bhagwan, Kaushal Kurapati
  • Patent number: 11068830
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for managing services of a service vehicle. The system may have a locating device configured to generate a first signal indicative of a location of the service vehicle, and at least one sensor configured to generate a second signal indicative of a waste service being completed by the service vehicle. The system may further have a computing device in communication with the locating device and the at least one sensor. The computing device may be configured to receive a route assignment including waste services to be performed by the service vehicle at a plurality of target locations, and to make a determination that the service vehicle has stopped at a non-target location based on the plurality of target locations and at least one of the first and second signals. The computing device may further be configured to selectively generate an electronic response based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Rubicon Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Philip Rodoni
  • Patent number: 11069005
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining agricultural revenue is provided. The method uses an agricultural intelligence computer system in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of field definition data, retrieving a plurality of input data from a plurality of data networks, determining a field region based on the field definition data, identifying a subset of the plurality of input data associated with the field region, calculating at least one yield projection for the field region based on the field definition data and the subset of the plurality of input data, and providing the at least one yield projection to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: THE CLIMATE CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Ethington, Alex Wimbush
  • Patent number: 11062335
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for spawning and management of online surveys is provided. An administration and redirector subsystem (ARS) is used manage ongoing surveys for a plurality of sites. Surveys can be added to or removed from individual sites using the ARS. The ARS also tracks statistics for individual surveys. Redirector tags invite users to participate in surveys and track user survey participation through cookies. The system can be used to conduct advertisement effectiveness studies. Tracker tags and corresponding cookies are used to track users who have viewed content containing the tag. Each study is issued a unique content tag, but uses the same redirector tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: KANTAR LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Jepson, Jody Francis Powlette, Michael Queenan
  • Patent number: 11037083
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for calculating an entity's cybersecurity risk based on identified relationships between the entity and one or more vendors. Customer/vendor relationships may impact the cybersecurity risk for each of the parties involved because a security compromise of a downstream or upstream provider can lead to a compromise of multiple other companies. For example, if organization A uses B (e.g., a cloud service provider) to store files, and B is compromised, this may lead to organization A being compromised (e.g., the files organization A stored using B may have been compromised by the breach of B's cybersecurity). Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a technique for calculating a cybersecurity risk score for an organization based on identified customer/vendor relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SecurityScorecard, Inc.
    Inventor: Nikon Rasumov
  • Patent number: 10970728
    Abstract: A web-page or customer interface, that enables a business to increase their customer satisfaction levels, etc. based on the business' improved capability to predict the wants and needs of their customers as a result of it using such an interface to assess the personalities of their customers, includes: (a) personality traits (b) images, including animated, to which are assigned ranked personality traits based on the psychological content of the respective images, (c) an image viewer adapted to present to a customer these images so as to identify with which of these images the customer elects to be associated, (d) personality types into which a customer is categorized, and wherein each of these personality types is differentiated by the specific set of personality traits associated with it, and (e) an algorithm adapted to categorize one into a personality types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Woofound, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Spears, Daniel Sines, Carson Wright, Noreen Honeycutt
  • Patent number: 10956850
    Abstract: Causal performance analysis for store merchandising may be provided. A clustering technique may be performed based on target store location data and existing store data. Based on the clustering technique, a peer selection group is determined comprising a group of stores determined to have similar attributes to the target store location. Sales distortions for a plurality of divisions associated with the group of stores in the peer selection group may be determined. A distortion matrix may be generated comprising a ranked list of the plurality of divisions. A merchandise mix recommendation for the target store location may be presented via a user interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ajay A. Deshpande, Hongliang Fei, Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Xuan Liu
  • Patent number: 10956969
    Abstract: An improved system for optimally matching an individual seeking something and one of a plurality of suppliers includes: (a) a plurality of personality traits that are predictive of how one that possesses a combination of these traits is likely to make a selection decision when selecting from among the suppliers, (b) a plurality of images for consideration by the individual, each of the images configured such that an individual who would chose to be associated with the image can from a psychological perspective be assessed to possess one or more of these traits, (c) a first algorithm for ascribing traits to each of the images according to whether one who possess a specific trait would be predicted to associate oneself with a considered image, and (d) a viewer for presenting to the individual each of the images and allowing the individual to identify with which of the images the individual elects to be associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Woofound, Inc.
    Inventors: Carson Wright, Joshua Spears, Daniel Sines, Colin Murray, Jason Truluck, Noreen Honeycutt, Randie V. Ursal
  • Patent number: 10817888
    Abstract: A web-page or customer interface, that enables a business to increase their customer satisfaction levels, etc. based on the business' improved capability to predict the wants and needs of their customers as a result of it using such an interface to assess the personalities of their customers, includes: (a) dichotomous, personality traits, (b) photographic images to which are assigned ranked dichotomous personality traits based on the psychological content of the respective photographic images, (c) an image viewer adapted to present to a customer these images so as to identify with which of these images the customer elects to be associated, (d) personality types into which a customer is categorized, and wherein each of these personality types is differentiated by the specific set of dichotomous, personality traits associated with it, and (e) an algorithm adapted to categorize one into a personality types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Woofound, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Spears, Daniel Sines, Carson Wright, Noreen Honeycutt