Patents Examined by Norman Donald Sutch, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10373244
    Abstract: A system and method for virtual clothes fitting based on video augmented reality in a mobile wireless device is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for virtual cloth-fitting with video augmentation in a mobile wireless device includes receiving a video stream of an upper body of a user; detecting a face in the video stream; detecting a shoulder contour; determining keypoints of the shoulder and neck portions of the video stream of the upper body of the user according to the detected face and the detected shoulder contour; mapping an image of clothes to the video stream of the upper body of the user according to the keypoints; and displaying an augmented video stream of the upper body of the user with the image of the clothes overlaid over a portion of the video stream of the upper body of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jingsong Xu, Ying Cui, Qiang Wu, Jian Zhang, Chen-Xiong Zhang, Haibo Liu, Kui Fang
  • Patent number: 10354303
    Abstract: A method for presenting a verified rental payment history of a rental user. The method includes selecting verified rental payment history factors related to a rental user's rental history and verified accounts of the rental user. The method further includes receiving authentication credentials for the verified accounts and receiving payment history records from the verified accounts using the authentication credentials. The method further includes generating renter analytics using the verified rental payment history factors and the payment history records. The method further includes generating the verified rental payment history using renter analytics and delivering the verified rental payment history to a landlord user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Ran, Christopher Lesner
  • Patent number: 10332194
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically generating user interface elements and associated values are presented. An item listing and profile data are accessed. A set of user interface elements are dynamically generated based on the item listing and the profile data, with each user interface element configured to perform an action on the item listing. A set of values are dynamically determined, with each value being associated with a user interface element of the set of user interface elements. The set of user interface elements are then caused to be presented within the item listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Huai-ter Chong, Yun Liu
  • Patent number: 10325304
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing alternative recommendations using search context. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include receiving a user search query and receiving a request to view an item included in a set of search results retrieved in response to the search query. The method may further include determining an alternative item recommendation using the search query and attributes of the item, and causing presentation of the item and the alternative item recommendation in response to receiving the request to view the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Tolga Konik, Rajyashree Mukherjee, Jayasimha Katukuri
  • Patent number: 10296960
    Abstract: Techniques described herein include a system and method for identifying color complements from an electronic marketplace catalog. In particular, the disclosure is directed to extracting color palette information from a variety of item images in the electronic catalog and creating clusters into which separate items are placed based on their similarity in colors. Multi-colored items may belong to more than one cluster (they may belong to a cluster for each color associated with the item). The clusters that share multi-colored items may be analyzed to determine the strength of a relationship between the two clusters. Clusters that share a significant number of items may be associated with complementary colors. In this disclosure, a service provider may receive a request related to an item, and may subsequently identify and recommend a complementary item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Karl Anders Gyllstrom
  • Patent number: 10269051
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for facilitating commerce between accounts of individual client computing devices with preexisting relationship and more particularly, a system and a method that provides a host computing platform to enable related client accounts of client computing devices to transact products, with an embodiment of the present invention associating the host computing platform with a network-based social-media platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FullGlass, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Salameh, Devin Linsenbach
  • Patent number: 10235714
    Abstract: A device may receive identification information associated with a user. The device may determine user information based on the identification information associated with the user. The device may select a particular virtual reality user environment for providing content. The virtual reality user environment may be associated with a virtual store. The virtual reality user environment may include an interactive component. The device may generate a customized virtual reality user environment based on the particular virtual reality user environment and the user information. The customized virtual reality user environment may include access to content selected based on the user information. The device may provide access to the customized virtual reality user environment for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Vijayanand K. Paulrajan, Farook Kaleem, Amit Mahajan
  • Patent number: 10223721
    Abstract: Techniques for offering an item may be provided. For example, an item may be available for ordering from a network-based resource based on available offers. A request for an unavailable offer may be received. The request may be matched with a new offer that may have been generated after the request may have been received. Based on the matching, the item may be ordered from the network-based resource according to the new offer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Sandeep Bhatia
  • Patent number: 10223727
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is item recommender that uses a model trained using a combination of at least visual item similarity training data and social activity training data. The model may be used, for example, to identify a set of recommended products having similar visual features as a given product. The set of recommended products may be presented to the user along with the given product. The model may be continuously updated using feedback from users to identify the features considered to be important to the users relative to other features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Jen-Hao Hsiao, Nan Liu, Jia Li
  • Patent number: 10217147
    Abstract: Techniques for mapping item listings from a first taxonomy to a second taxonomy are described. In an example embodiment, item listings from a first database storing a first taxonomy and item listings from a second database storing a second taxonomy are obtained. Then, for each of the obtained item listings, a plurality of features is extracted, including at least one feature related to an image associated with the item listing and at least one feature related to text associated with the item listing. Then a mapping between item listings in the first taxonomy and item listings in the second taxonomy is created based on the plurality of features extracted by the feature extraction component, wherein the mapping identifies which item listings in the first taxonomy correlate to a same product as which item listings in the second taxonomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Gurudatta Horantur Shivaswamy, Hancheng Ge, Lili Yuan
  • Patent number: 10176501
    Abstract: Systems and methods for guaranteed redemption of sale items. The systems and methods can include a payment system for issuing a payment instrument to a customer when the sale item is not available in a retail location. The systems and methods can further include a redemption system for redeeming the payment instrument for the sale item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Arjun Ramaratnam, Ashish Chaphekar, SriKrishna Chitturi
  • Patent number: 10134082
    Abstract: There is provided systems and method for a virtual display device for an interactive merchant sales environment. A device, such as a communication device, may allow a user to view virtual images of items in a user environment so that a user may view what their potential purchase may look like when placed into the user environment. The user environment may include a residential room, an office, a car interior, or other location where a user may place purchased items. The user may submit a request to view an item in the user environment to the device, which may communicate the request to a merchant or a service provider. The virtual image may correspond to digital image(s) of an item used to present a three dimensional virtual image of the item in the user environment. The device may receive the virtual image(s) and display them to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Rohan Benkar, Jaya Kumar Murari, Leo Hsieh, Yu Jiang
  • Patent number: 10102565
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Badrinath Venglathur Srinath, Prabhakar Ramadass, Saji Padmaraagam
  • Patent number: 10089674
    Abstract: Techniques for ordering data associated with an item may be provided. For example, a first set of the data may be ordered based on predefined values of a first attribute. Based on receiving a request to further order the first set based on a second attribute, a second set of the data may be selected based on the first set and on a sizing window. The sizing window may be configured to define a size of the second set. Values corresponding to the data in the second set may be computed. These computed values may be used to order the second set of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandeep Bhatia, Lynn Mendenhall, Damian Poznanski
  • Patent number: 9965793
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining dimensional criteria of a physical space and identifying a set of items that satisfy the dimensional criteria. For example, the dimensional criteria may be determined based on an image depicting the physical space or search terms provided by a user. Composite keys may be generated based on the dimensional criteria and one or more search terms provided by the user, and the generated composite keys may be used to search one or more databases storing sorted item keys and corresponding item identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shiblee Imtiaz Hasan, Manjeet Chayel Mohinder Singh, Joseph Edwin Johnson, Nathan Eugene Masters, Saurangshu Pandey, Benjamin Schwartz
  • Patent number: 9928531
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory processor readable media of the various embodiments enable in store voice picking systems. In various embodiments, an end-to-end voice ordering and fulfillment system for a retail store may enable a customer to place an order over the phone, a personal shopper to be directed to fill the order via voice commands, and the order to be made available for pickup at the retail store by the customer or delivered to the customer from the retail store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intelligrated Headquarters LLC
    Inventor: Michael Donovan McCarthy
  • Patent number: 9916616
    Abstract: An inventory management method for storage devices may comprise obtaining an order for an aggregate storage capacity from a customer; and determining a usable capacity of each of a plurality of storage devices. From the plurality of storage devices, a first set of storage devices may be selected, at least some of which have different usable storage capacities from one another, such that the first set of storage devices comprises a first predetermined number of storage devices and has a first aggregate storage capacity that is at least equal to an integer fraction of the aggregate capacity ordered by the customer. The first set of storage devices may then be packed into a first container configured to accommodate the first predetermined number of storage devices. A second set of storage devices may be similarly be selected from remaining ones of the plurality of storage devices and packaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Suwanchai Chaiyawantakee, Pajaree Srimongkol, Permsin Bunsiri, Kiattiphong Lanak, Patrick B. Wilkison