Patents Examined by Naresh Vig
  • Patent number: 10896444
    Abstract: A computer program product for computer generation of digital content, said computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processing resource to cause the processing resource to determine demographic designators associated with users of user devices that render interactive digital contents; group together similar input questions input into the interactive digital contents of the user devices; for each group of similar questions, create an answer to each group of similar questions; create a script from each answer; record each script and the corresponding group of similar input questions in a data repository; and insert a script from the data repository into a digital content template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Carmine M. DiMascio, Benjamin L. Johnson, Florian Pinel
  • Patent number: 10896421
    Abstract: A real-time fraud prevention system enables merchants and commercial organizations on-line to assess and protect themselves from high-risk users. A centralized database is configured to build and store dossiers of user devices and behaviors collected from subscriber websites in real-time. Real, low-risk users have webpage click navigation behaviors that are assumed to be very different than those of fraudsters. Individual user devices are distinguished from others by hundreds of points of user-device configuration data each independently maintains. A client agent provokes user devices to volunteer configuration data when a user visits respective webpages at independent websites. A collection of comprehensive dossiers of user devices is organized by their identifying information, and used calculating a fraud score in real-time. Each corresponding website is thereby assisted in deciding whether to allow a proposed transaction to be concluded with the particular user and their device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Brighterion, Inc.
    Inventor: Akli Adjaoute
  • Patent number: 10896454
    Abstract: A method for reward-based surrogate shopping may include receiving remote orders from remote shoppers, each including order parameters defining items for purchase and a desired date or time of day of fulfillment of the remote order, receiving assignment requests from surrogate shoppers, each including request parameters identifying a brick-and-mortar store and a desired date or time of day for fulfilling by the surrogate shopper of one or more remote orders, comparing the received remote orders with the received assignment requests and pairing together ones in which at least one order parameter matches at least one request parameter, and for each matched pair, receiving a completion indicator identifying fulfillment by the surrogate shopper of the remote order paired therewith, and providing a reward to the surrogate shopper for completion of surrogate shopping at the identified store for the paired remote order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Meijer, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Francis Sebastian, Justin Kyle Sessink, Peter Michael Strong, Christopher Mark Brush
  • Patent number: 10878462
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for the dynamic placement, management and monitoring of Internet advertising. A provider of Internet content distributes the Internet content by embedding an advertisement placeholder in the Internet content; and provides the Internet content to an aggregator web site. The aggregator web site presents the Internet content to at least one end user with at least one advertisement in the advertisement placeholder. The advertisement placeholder is processed by a third party agent to automatically share revenue from the at least one advertisement with the provider of the Internet content and a provider of the aggregator web site. The advertisement placeholder can optionally be embedded in the Internet content using one or more templates. The third party agent also evaluates the content and at least one policy of multiple parties to identify at least one advertisement to present in the advertisement placeholder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shang Qing Guo, Jeffrey Owen Kephart, Jonathan Lenchner
  • Patent number: 10853839
    Abstract: Supplemental content is selected or generated based at least in part upon colors of primary content with which the supplemental content is to be displayed. Color data is determined for primary content and that color data is used to select supplemental content that includes complementary or similar colors. Past performance data can be analyzed in order to determine which colors are most effective for a type of opportunity. When an opportunity arises to provide supplemental content, the effective colors can be recommended or, in some cases, automatically applied such that the supplemental content will include colors that improve the overall likelihood of performance of the supplemental content. If a designer is generating supplemental content, a tool can use such performance data to recommend colors based on the type of supplemental content or other such targeting criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Adrian Galep, Paul Anthony Kotas
  • Patent number: 10853835
    Abstract: Retail merchants, third-party manufacturers, and/or distributors of retail goods market and distribute promotions to consumers based on the consumers' transaction histories (i.e., users that do not typically purchase a particular brand of soda) and/or award promotions to consumers targeted to a specific item, class or category of item, or characteristic of an item. The promotion redeems and is applied automatically to reduce the purchase amount when the consumer presents a payment method for a transaction for the purchase of a targeted item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SCVNGR, INC.
    Inventor: Seth Priebatsch
  • Patent number: 10846748
    Abstract: One or more client devices, systems, and/or methods for onboarding feature cues for a product are provided. A feature cue and an existing feature cue, comprising eligible feature cues (e.g., feature cues that a user has not viewed, are relevant to the user, etc.), are provided to a dispatching component (e.g., configured to provide feature cues to users). A presentation hierarchy, of the feature cue and the existing feature cue, is determined based upon feature cue rules and user parameters. The feature cue, having a first hierarchical position in the presentation hierarchy, is presented to the user, through a client device hosting the product, at a first time. The existing feature cue, having a second hierarchical position in the presentation hierarchy, is presented to the user, through the client device, at a second time, where the first time and the second time are determined by the feature cue rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Shrivastava, Mark Nachazel, Murali Krishna Bachhu, Christopher Scot Royer, Keren Kochava Baruch, Friedhold Alexander Seyfert
  • Patent number: 10846733
    Abstract: Methods and systems for incentivizing verification of a digital identity are provided. The method includes generating a first digital identity through at least a first certified device, the first digital identity including a first secure digital artifact uploaded to an auditable chain of a public ledger to establish a first physical identity of a first user. The method also includes associating the first digital identity with a new digital identity, the new digital identity including a new secure digital artifact uploaded to the auditable chain of the public ledger to establish a second physical identity of a second user, the first digital identity providing verification for the new digital identity. The method also includes providing rewards to the first user for associating the first digital identity with the new digital identity, the rewards including social and/or monetary incentives for associating the first digital identity with the new digital identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: block.one
    Inventors: Daniel J. Larimer, Richard B. Whitner, Thomas C. Hallgren, Todd B. Fleming
  • Patent number: 10839426
    Abstract: Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile and/or static nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things, autonomous vehicle networks, etc.). For example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems and methods for managing digital advertising campaigns in a network of moving things (e.g., including manually operated and/or autonomous vehicles, etc.). As a non-limiting example, vehicle mobility and/or context may be utilized to effectively distribute and control distribution of ad campaigns. Additionally, various aspects of this disclosure provide systems and methods by which such ad campaigns may be specified (or defined) by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: VENIAM, INC.
    Inventor: Rui Miguel Correia e Costa
  • Patent number: 10832276
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a computer server system implementing a method to obtain a plurality of online articles for display on a webpage; obtain a candidate promoted content for each of the plurality of online articles; for each of the plurality of online article and the corresponding candidate promoted content pairs: determine a virality score of the online article indicating popularity of the online article among online users; determine a similarity score indicating similarity between the online article and the candidate promoted content; determine a qualification score based on the virality score and the similarity score; select a pair of target article and target promoted content from the plurality of article and candidate promoted content pairs based on the corresponding qualification scores; and display the target promoted content on the webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Flippo Menczer, Karen Church
  • Patent number: 10832277
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method, system and computer program for assessing enhanced dynamic keyword-based advertising campaigns, such that a site-level keyword search request of a web page is tracked, where the site-level keyword search request includes at least one search term. The frequency of usage of the search term of the site-level keyword search request is monitored, and the frequency of usage of the search term is compared with a predetermined value. At least one popular term is identified in response to comparing the frequency of usage of the search term with the predetermined value. The popular term is compared with a plurality of existing keyword-based advertising campaigns. It is determined whether the popular term is to be included in the advertising campaign included in the existing keyword-based advertising campaigns, whereby an effectiveness of the advertising campaign may be evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Bordash, Lisa Seacat DeLuca
  • Patent number: 10817894
    Abstract: A method for forming and disbanding dynamic temporary groups includes receiving a plurality of contacts at the facility, wherein each contact is associated with a respective user and a respective set of attributes; identifying a first subset of contacts which share a first common attribute; and dynamically forming a temporary group of contacts by determining a second common attribute shared by a second subset of the contacts, wherein the second subset of contacts is a smaller subset of the first subset of contacts. The method also includes identifying a related goods or service, based on the second common attribute, and presenting an offer for the related goods or services to the second subset of contacts and not to member contacts of the first subset that are not member contacts of the second subset of contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Avaya, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Smyth, John McGreevy, Siobhan Dervan, Adeel Gilani
  • Patent number: 10817909
    Abstract: A method of operating a health tracking system includes utilizing user profile data for a user and health parameter data received from a health tracking device associated with the user to derive parameters relating to the user. The parameters are compared to tags associated with content pages or objects to determine a relevancy or match. Particular ones of a plurality of content pages or objects are selected for delivery to the user based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Under Armour, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Zedell, Murtaza Ali, Ralph Marczynski, Mary Lawyer, Ken Valencik, Sid Jatia, Barbra Sainsurin
  • Patent number: 10803491
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving input questions through interactive digital content and determining demographic designators associated the questions. The method further includes grouping together similar input questions and, for each group of similar questions, creating an answer. Scripts are created from each answer and each script and the corresponding group of similar input questions is recorded into a data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Carmine M. DiMascio, Benjamin L. Johnson, Florian Pinel
  • Patent number: 10789622
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating augmented reality representations of recommended products based on style compatibility with real-world surroundings. For example, the disclosed systems can identify a real-world object within a camera feed and can utilize a 2D-3D alignment algorithm to identify a three-dimensional model that matches the real-world object. In addition, the disclosed systems can utilize a style compatibility algorithm to generate recommended products based on style compatibility in relation to the identified three-dimensional model. The disclosed systems can further utilize a color compatibility algorithm to determine product textures which are color compatible with the real-world surroundings and generate augmented reality representations of recommended products to provide as an overlay of the real-world environment of the camera feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Kumar Ayush, Gaurush Hiranandani
  • Patent number: 10783552
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving advertisements from a remote advertising content provider and pre-loading the advertisements at a communication device. An advertisement is selected for presentation at a presentation device, based on a user's advertising viewing history, the duration of the advertisement, the device location, the device environment, the user's demographic profile, or the user's activities. The presentation device presents the advertisement responsive to the trigger message. The effectiveness of the advertisement is determined, and the advertisement viewing history is updated; the advertisement is selected based in part on the effectiveness of a past presentation of the advertisement. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC, AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: James G. Beattie, Jr., Jeffrey A. Krinsky
  • Patent number: 10776811
    Abstract: A rewards management system is configured to facilitate the redemption of loyalty benefits at a financial institution and apply credits, payments, debits, and/or the like associated with the loyalty benefit to transactions that are characterized by a set of predetermined rules (e.g. an item purchased during a particular transaction, the merchant from whom the transaction originated, the vendor who manufactured the item). The system provides real-time management of the loyalty account so that the loyalty benefit can be used to offset the liability associated with a particular eligible transaction. The system may also be configured to allow a user to satisfy various obligations to the financial institution (e.g. a minimum payment associated with a statement from a transactions account). As such, the system allows the loyalty account provider or the financial institution to provide a customizable rewards program that allows loyalty benefits to be used for any type of transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Claudia Asgeirsson, Yuval Efrati, Lee H. Gowen, Trey Neemann, Mary O'Connell, Paven K. Pemmaraju
  • Patent number: 10769679
    Abstract: Systems and methods according to present principles provide a virtual environment, particularly but not exclusively for virtual and augmented reality, with the ability to offer compelling interactive advertisements that users can choose (or not) to interact with, without being forced to watch the same. In so doing, the systems and methods provide for addressable units, termed “vessels”, which are interactive and which provide the viewer with the ability to control their experience via an active selection, e.g., of advertisements. Such interactivity is provided along with the ability to enjoy a “main” item of content, in some implementations. In addition, the interactivity may be provided as part of an entertainment “hub” in which VR experiences may be launched and/or in which main content may be displayed. Thus, the system provides a new, addressable unit, such as for advertisements, for virtual content-viewing environments, hubs for the same, or other virtual environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CRACKLE, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Goldstein, Christine Coner, Ihor Yaskiw
  • Patent number: 10762531
    Abstract: A computer-implemented cuing system for displaying advertisement through an interactive computer based application includes providing an interactive computer based application on a first computer based device and providing a cuing software operably associated which provides a predetermined use countdown of the interactive computer based application where upon reaching an end point of the predetermined use countdown initiates a realtime streaming for a predetermined time of a first video advertisement for presentation on the first computer based device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventors: Barbara Feldman, Todd Gorton
  • Patent number: 10755303
    Abstract: An online advertising system receives an advertisement from an advertiser. The system analyzes the advertisement, extracts its features and provides to the advertiser a quality rating for the advertisement which depends on a user engagement factor such as the predicted dwell time for the ad, given its features. The system further provides to the advertiser suggestions for improvements to the advertisement, such as a list of actionable guidelines that can improve the expected dwell time of the ad, and likely its conversion rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Michele Trevisiol, Gabriele Tolomei, Nicola Barbieri, Mounia Lalmas, Puneet Mohan Sangal, Fabrizio Silvestri