Patents Examined by Norman Donald Sutch, Jr.
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Patent number: 11514508Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for facilitating display of virtual content are presented. A session that displays two-dimensional (2D) content of one or more items available for sale is presented on a first device of a user. A second device of the user is detected, the second device being able to display three-dimensional (3D) content of the one or more items available for sale. 3D content of the one or more items available for sale is retrieved. Display of the 3D content on the second device is caused, the 3D content selectable by the user to perform interactions with the 3D content. An indication of the user performed interactions is received and processed. A result that depicts the user performed interactions as being processed is displayed on the first device of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: John Tapley, Skot Leach, David Beach
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Patent number: 11501362Abstract: An online store offering a product that is currently unavailable can still fulfill an order for the product by querying a multi-store inventory database to see if the product is available from brick-and-mortar stores near the customer. Proximity of local stores is based on a customer location in the customer's profile. Local store selection can be based on product matching policies such as a threshold price difference for the product compared to the online store price. If the customer approves local store pickup, the service generates a voucher to purchase the product directly from the local stores, and presents it to the customer via the online presence. The customer can then redeem the voucher at any of the indicated local stores and pick up the product. When the system receives confirmation of redemption of the voucher, a credit is issued from the online store to the local store.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Hamid Majdabadi, Ravithej Chikkala, Zachary A. Silverstein, Su Liu
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Patent number: 11481721Abstract: A garment life cycle tracking system utilizes a Radio Frequency Identification, RFID, device to retrieve life cycle data about the garment. The RFID device may be scanned by an interactive device, such as a mobile phone, and the RFID identifier may be used to retrieve data from a database, such as through a website interface. A mobile phone or other computing device may have an application software that interfaces with the database or website. Life cycle data may include date of manufacture, former locations of purchase, date of purchase, cost of garment, date of return of garment, type of garment and the like. A customer may track a garment after returning a garment to see when and where the garment is subsequently purchased. This system may promote recycling of garments and reduce the environmental impact of garment production.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Inventor: WiNima Pauline
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Patent number: 11443356Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling sales permissions pertaining to sales activities by users of an online game are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store information on electronic storage related to the users of the online game; execute an instance of the online game and implement the instance of the online game; receive supervisory input from a supervisory user; receive user input to request or initiate a sale; determine whether the request is in accordance with the one or more sales permissions; effectuate a performance of the sale of one or more particular virtual items, responsive to a determination that the request is permitted; and effectuate presentation of a notification to the user that conveys the user lacks permission, responsive to a determination that the request is not permitted under the one or more sales permissions.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Mythical, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Stoddard, Jamie Jackson, Stephan Cunningham
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Patent number: 11430047Abstract: On the basis of a detected change in the display state of the product and of a person included in the captured image or a person whose in-store flow line has been detected, a rearrangement detection means 820 detects that a product has been returned to a different location than the location from which the product was taken. A shopping list generation means 830 uses shelving information on a product shelf to specify a product for which there has been detected a change in the display state that is a result of the person having picked up the product, performs a registration process for registering the specified product on a shopping list that corresponds to the person, and performs a deletion process for deleting the product, which has been returned to the different location than the location from which the product was taken, from the shopping list.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kyota Higa, Emi Kitagawa
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Patent number: 11423460Abstract: An information providing method of an electronic apparatus is disclosed. The information providing method may include acquiring a search term from a user, identifying a product list corresponding to the search term, identifying one or more categories corresponding to the search term to filter the product list, and displaying the product list in a first area and displaying the one or more categories in a second area distinguished from the first area.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Coupang Corp.Inventors: Jin Hee Kim, Hyun Ah Oh, Nae Jin Hyeon, Ah Reum Hoang, Lei Wang
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Patent number: 11410216Abstract: A customer service assistance apparatus 10 is provided with a video image acquisition unit 11 that acquires a video image of the inside of a store, a specifying unit 12 that specifies a product that a customer in the store is interested in and attributes of the customer based on the acquired video image, an information acquisition unit 13 that searches a specific database using the specified product and attributes as queries, and acquires content corresponding to the product and attributes that serve as queries, and the transmission unit 14 that transmits the acquired content to a terminal apparatus that is used by a store salesperson of the store.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Junko Watanabe, Hiromi Yamaguchi, Shinji Nakadai
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Patent number: 11379908Abstract: A publishing user identifies a product offered by the user to an online system by providing multiple images of a product viewed at different angles to the online system. The online system applies an identification model to content items obtained from other users to identify the product. From images of the product from the publishing user and content items from other users having at least a threshold confidence of including the product, the online system generates a three-dimensional reconstruction of the product. The online system may subsequently use the three-dimensional reconstruction of the product to display the product to users or to allow other users to identify the product from the online system.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Steve Morin, Anuj Madan
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Patent number: 11328336Abstract: Systems and methods for providing recommendations of healthcare service providers are provided. A method includes receiving search criteria from a computing device of a search user. The method also includes determining at least one group of users associated with the search user. The method additionally includes determining recommendations that satisfy the search criteria and that are associated with at least one user in the at least one group of users. The method further includes transmitting the determined recommendations to the computing device of the search user. The determining the at least one group of users and the determining the recommendations are performed by a recommendation tool running on a computing device.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: ADP, Inc.Inventors: Leandro da Silva Bianchini, Mauricio Filipe Rossetto Chaves, Fernando Luis Muller Morassutti, Diego Tremper
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Patent number: 11321757Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for facilitating shopping and purchasing. The systems and methods for facilitating shopping and purchasing use an identity tag as an item tracker and/or a transaction enabler.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: David Gabriele, Michael Pankratz, Callie Kooiker, Justin Smith, Matthew Mitchell, Matthew Dabney, Justin Wishne, Drew Jacobs
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Patent number: 11315166Abstract: Systems and methods for providing recommendations of healthcare service providers are provided. A method includes receiving search criteria from a computing device of a search user. The method also includes determining at least one group of users associated with the search user. The method additionally includes determining recommendations that satisfy the search criteria and that are associated with at least one user in the at least one group of users. The method further includes transmitting the determined recommendations to the computing device of the search user. The determining the at least one group of users and the determining the recommendations are performed by a recommendation tool running on a computing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: ADP, INC.Inventors: Leandro Da Silva Bianchini, Mauricio Filipe Rossetto Chaves, Fernando Luis Muller Morassutti, Diego Tremper
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Patent number: 11288722Abstract: A retail service data center provides client facing web pages to allow users to remotely shop for items to be delivered from local retailers without either the users or the local retailer knowing the identity of each other. A retail service is used by shoppers that searches for items in nearby retail stores' inventory. The retail service allows the retail stores to match, or beat, an advertised price at which a given item is being offered by an online retailer. If the user decides to buy an item, the retail service conducts a first transaction with the retail service, which then uses the funds to buy the item from the local retailer. In addition, the retail service arranges for pick-up and delivery of the item by a local driving service. The identities of the buyer and the retailer are not made known to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Inventor: Sean Patrick Dana
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Patent number: 11250495Abstract: A product purchase system may include a product retrieval robot at a physical store and sensors within the physical store and configured to obtain product identifying data for a given product for purchase in the physical store by a given user. The given product for purchase may be placed by the given user into a physical shopping cart. The system may also include a product purchase server configured to identify the given product for purchase based upon the product identifying data, and determine an add-on product associated with the given product for purchase and located in the physical store. The product retrieval robot may be configured to cooperate with the product purchase server to retrieve the add-on product from the physical store and deliver the add-on product to the physical shopping cart.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.Inventors: Jacob Bowman, Melissa Bube, Joel Corra, Jason Eudy
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Patent number: 11250498Abstract: The invention relates to a system 10 for conducting a sales mechanism over the internet in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. The system 10 comprises a sales platform 18 for vendors of items such as a real estate property, sales facilitators 16 to administer the sales mechanism, and buyers (also referred to as bidders 14) to interact for selling and buying the items offered for sale. The description to follow will refer to a particular application of the sales mechanism for offering for sale a real estate property; however, the sales mechanism may be utilised for offering for sale any tangible or intangible items that is able to be sold.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: OPENN TECH PTY LTDInventors: Peter Edward Clements, Peter John Gibbons, Bradley Robert Glover
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Patent number: 11244376Abstract: A special programs computer, which executes the program on a non-transitory computer readable medium, stores one or more programs and the graphical user interface on a computing device with a touch screen display, a memory, at least one camera configured to input information about an item and one or more processors to execute one or more programs stored in the memory. The touch screen device is operatively connected to one or more database servers via a wired or wireless network. Unlike traditional registries, the special programs computer systems herein allow for sharing individual selected items (at the item level) off a list with one or more selected individuals and also prevents the gift receiver from being notified that the gifted item has been purchased for them until after a later date while simultaneously preventing display of the item to other users after its purchase.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Giftzapz, LLCInventor: Todd A. Van Thomme
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Patent number: 11232511Abstract: Various embodiments provide techniques for generating a virtual wardrobe in which wearing of items can be tracked through computer vision. In various embodiments, computer vision techniques can be used to identify individual clothing items from an image or video of a closet containing a collection of clothes, in which some of the items may be partially obscured, such as positioned behind other items, folded, at an odd viewing angle, shadowed, or the like. Through the present techniques, the clothing items may be automatically cataloged, and utilization of individual items can be tracked automatically based on additional image data of instances in which an item is worn. Various recommendations can then be made based on the attributes of the items in the virtual wardrobe or utilization of the items.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: A9.COM, INC.Inventors: Andrea Zehr, Caroline Gehrig, Mark Scott Waldo, Stefan Vant
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Patent number: 11200615Abstract: Order information for an order representing an electronic transaction in the distributed order system for a product or a service is received by one or more processors over a network. A unique order ID and order content based on the received order information are generated. An order vector for the order is created based on the order content. The order is added to an order cluster based on a similarity between the created order vector and a representative order vector corresponding to a representative order in the order cluster. The representative order vector corresponding to the representative order in the order cluster is analyzed to determine if the representative order is malicious. A determination is made as to whether the representative order is malicious. If the representative order is malicious, then malicious order processing is performed on the orders in the order cluster.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jiuxi Li
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Patent number: 11195222Abstract: In an online concierge system, a customer adds items to an online shopping cart. The online concierge system determines key ingredients from the items in the online shopping cart by mapping the items to generic items and removing non-ingredient items and staple items. The online concierge system retrieves recipes including at least one of the key ingredients. The online concierge system determines complementary ingredients based on the other ingredients in the recipes and calculates co-occurrence scores for the complementary ingredients. Using the co-occurrence scores, the online concierge system ranks the complementary ingredients and sends for display a subset of the complementary ingredients as recommended items.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Maplebear Inc.Inventors: Shrikar Archak, Sharath Rao
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Patent number: 11164243Abstract: A leads generating service provider where both buyer and seller get their desired price. The seller lists their sale price and the buyer submits their purchase price, the system determines if a deal is possible based on market demand for the product. This solution is not limited to automobiles. YourPriceAutos improves on the TrueCar.com [and others] concept by creating a unique win/win situation where the seller wins and the buyer wins. The sale price is not negotiated, nor is the purchased price suggested, market demand drive the actual sale/purchase price. We allow the seller to choose his/her sale price and we allow the buyer to submit his/her purchase price, then, our system software determines when the market demand is ideal to enable both the seller and the buyer to get their desired price.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Inventor: Robin R. Buckham
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Patent number: 11157994Abstract: In a system and method for providing augmented content, embodiments disclose a communication module that receives a product identifier for a product and content including an object. The embodiments also disclose an overlay creation module that creates a user interface with a first actuatable element, the first actuatable element being configured to send product purchase instructions to a merchant server when actuated. The embodiments also disclose a product matching module that matches the object to the product identifier and an augmentation module that, in response to the product matching module matching the object to the product identifier, creates an augmented content which includes the content and a second actuatable element, the second actuatable element being configured to display the user interface as an overlay over the content on a user device when actuated. The embodiments also disclose a displaying module that instructs a user device to display the augmented content.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Badrinath Venglathur Srinath, Prabhakar Ramadass, Saji Padmaraagam