Patents Examined by Patrick Kim
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Patent number: 12639729Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus, a display terminal, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes presenting service information in a graphical interface of an application client running on a terminal. The method further includes listening to an operation event that is a record of operation of the terminal by a user for the service information. The method further includes determining based on the operation event obtained by listening, that an operation performed by the user on the service information corresponds to an operation scene. The method further includes presenting in the graphical interface of the terminal, promotion information by using a presentation parameter matching the operation scene.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2024Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Bin Zhou
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Patent number: 12633197Abstract: A networked computer system for providing promotional awards to casino property patrons is described herein. The networked computer system includes a promotions management computer server including a processor programmed to execute an algorithm to receive an activity signal from at least one player tracking server indicating corresponding patron activity. The processor is programmed to determine whether the patron activity data indicates a qualifying promotional event, and responsively select a promotional award, generate an escrowed award record associated with the corresponding patron activity, and modify the award escrow data file to include the generated escrowed award record.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2024Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: Station Casinos LLCInventors: William Chad Little, Jon Von Tobel
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Patent number: 12626271Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for encouraging engagement with a rewards system are described herein. A customer associated with a customer device holds a rewards account with a provider associated with a provider computing system. The provider computing system receives rewards and payment card activity of the customer, analyzes the rewards and payment card activity, and generates a rewards engagement rating, which the provider uses to generate and transmit tailored rewards engagement messages to the customer device. The messages provide rewards earn and burn opportunities in which the customer can select to participate.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2024Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Laura Chang, Megan A. DesPlanques, Richard Eiel, Cem Isin, Kim Lohrer, Sarah W. Phelps, Adeline Rassas
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Patent number: 12572954Abstract: This application relates to employing trained machine learning processes to predict demands of items during future temporal periods, and to determining a recommended price for the items. For example, a computing device may obtain sales data for an item, and may generate features based on the obtained sales data. The computing device may input the generated features to a trained machine learning process to generate output data characterizing a predicted demand of the item during a future temporal interval. Further, the computing device may determine a recommended price for the item based on the predicted demand and a budget allocation that corresponds to the item. The computing device may store the predicted demand of the item and the recommended price for the item in a data repository.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 10, 2026Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Harshada Haribabu Vuyyuri, Ketki Aniruddha Gupte, Xiaolin Pang
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Patent number: 12567085Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes providing, to a client device of a user, an interactive UI element on a webpage of a merchant and receiving an identification that the user has interacted with the UI element. The method further includes, in response to the identification that the user has interacted with the UI element, then determining, based on a profile of the user, whether the user qualifies for one or more merchant-specific campaigns associated with the merchant; in response to a determination that the user qualifies for one or more merchant-specific campaigns, then dynamically generating (1) a campaign-specific offer code and (2) an associated expiration duration for the campaign-specific offer code; and updating an offer-code database of the merchant with (1) the dynamically generated campaign-specific offer code and (2) the expiration duration for the campaign-specific offer code.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2024Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignee: Checkmate Savings Inc.Inventors: Cody George, Rory Garton-Smith, Josh Bode, Harry Dixon, Fletcher Ehlers, Elliot Rampono, Broderick Rampono
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Patent number: 12505465Abstract: Disclosed is a system and several associated methods providing a decentralized fair data marketplace wherein said system keeps time-sensitive (real-time) and location-based data. The system includes a decentralized blockchain for recording participants' registrations, storing transactions such as data production, and sell/buy activities, and ensuring authenticity and privacy of transferred data. Data is gathered through crowdsourcing (data pooling) and data generators are rewarded for willingly contributing datapoints using a dynamic pricing engine designed specifically for time-sensitive location-based datapoints. The set of novelties put together in this invention aims at stimulating a fair and participative data economy where individual contributions, valuation and reward sharing processes are conducted transparently, securely and in a tamperproof manner through use of blockchain, leading to an incentivized and quality data curation.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 23, 2025Assignee: UNL Network B.V.Inventors: Jake Doran, Xander Van Der Heijden, Bulent Ozel, Emre Turan
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Patent number: 12499390Abstract: The invention provides seamless journey experience for passenger in multimodal mobility travel using a single ticket for different trip sections and when multimodal operators provide passenger proof-of-transit, smart contracts enable automated fare disambiguation among them. The single truth of passenger travel journey on single ticket in multimodal mobility helps to also develop incentivizations/rewards for passengers, and incentivize modal operator's based on service level agreements in a consortium.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 16, 2025Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Prasun Singh, Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy, Rahul Vishwakarma, Ramyar Saeedi, Ravigopal Vennelakanti
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Patent number: 12481932Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include instant and optimized matching of transportation requesters with transportation providers by precomputing and caching evaluations of matching schemes between existing requests and available providers, where each of the matching schemes excludes one of the available providers. The possibility of matching any new request to a given provider may then be evaluated according to the cached results of the matching scheme that excluded that provider along with an evaluation of matching the new request to the provider, which may be a computationally easy problem. Thus, the new request may be matched to a provider instantly without waiting for the next iteration of solving the global matching problem. Matching requestors and providers in this way may also improve the accuracy of estimated time of arrival information provided to requestors. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: November 25, 2025Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Ido Avigdor Bright, Harrison Chen-Hau Chu, Mayank Gulati, Charles Parker Spielman
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Patent number: 12462215Abstract: A shipping management system comprises a memory configured with a set of carrier-specific mapping rules for a plurality of carriers.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2024Date of Patent: November 4, 2025Assignee: CONVEY, LLCInventors: Jennifer Lynn Bebout, Carson Bennett Krieg, Matthew Howitt, Clinton Frederick Miller, Olivier Jean Marie Modica, Sebastian Kuruvilla Karivelithara, Christopher Richter
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Patent number: 12423625Abstract: Distributed computer system with an application server and an auxiliary server for processing a group transaction with entities in the group. The group transaction, requiring a target value to be received, includes first and second transactions. The application server is configured to receive the first transaction including a first value, interface the auxiliary server to create and access a temporary file to store the first value in which temporary file is associated with the group transaction, receive the second transaction including a second value after the first transaction in which the second value to reach a target value when combined with the first value, and receive identification information associated with the group transaction for each group entity independently from the first and second transactions. In response to receiving the first and second values as well as the identification information for each group, designated files are issued for each entity.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 23, 2025Assignee: Amadeus S.A.S.Inventors: Pierre Marcourt, Antoine Chenet, David Jelley, Ferran Pons Minguell, Cecilia Genoveva Vargas Perez
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Patent number: 12373864Abstract: A method of setting a listing price for an item is disclosed. One or attributes of the item are determined based on data entered into fields of a listing user interface. One or more additional items are identified based on a comparison of one or more attributes of the one or more additional items with the one or more attributes of the item. Sales information associated with the one or more additional items is determined. A range of suggested prices and at least some of the sales information is incorporated into a selection user interface region of the listing user interface. Based on a selection of a suggested price from the range of suggested prices, a preview of the listing as it would appear in a search results page with the one or more additional items is presented in the listing user interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: EBAY INC.Inventor: Bindia Saraf
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Patent number: 12321969Abstract: A system and method of transaction of goods, configured by a digital platform (10) including at least one secondary platform (12), the secondary platform(s) (12) being configured to interact with one another, wherein each secondary platform is configured with a specific function that may be related to the transaction of goods so that the system may be configured with a set of functions through each secondary platform, wherein at least one secondary platform is configured as an interactive map (12A), an augmented reality tool (12B), an intermediate tool (12C) or a search tool (12D). Also disclosed are a mobile device (10), a digital platform (11) and a mobile device-readable medium (10) compatible with the system and method of transaction of goods.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Inventors: Fabio Gozzi, Jose Gozzi
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Patent number: 12293383Abstract: Systems and methods for managing the promotional offer industry offer, redemption, and settlement processes address and minimize fraud, better inform the business offering the promotion of the results of the promotional offer program, and facilitate improvements in the settlement process after offer redemption. A method includes steps of receiving an indication of interest in the promotional offer, associating a one-time-use unique bank card number with the promotional offer, and transmitting the bank card number to the consumer computing device as an accepted promotional offer, whereby the consumer is enabled to use the bank card number at a point of sale to redeem the accepted promotional offer. The method also includes steps of receiving, over the communications network, an indication that the bank card number was used at the point of sale to redeem the accepted promotional offer and allocating payment for redemption of the promotional offer.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SkuXchange, LLCInventors: James Sampey, Bobby Tinsley, Robert Zaccardo, Kenneth Douglas, Moshe Joshua, Norberto Maio
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Patent number: 12288226Abstract: Home screen contents may be provided simultaneously while a communication terminal switches to an active mode from an inactive mode. The home screen contents correspond to an application installed in the communication terminal, and a user may set an application which desires the home screen contents to selectively receive the home screen contents.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: FIRSTFACE CO., LTD.Inventors: Jaelark Jung, Jaekyu Lee
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Patent number: 12282935Abstract: A tool for generating and publishing vehicle offers by matching up manufacturer incentive data and vehicle data received from a third party data source with inventory data received from a dealership data source is disclosed. The disclosed tool allows a user to match incentive and vehicle data to specific vehicles currently in a dealership's inventory and to generate custom offers for those specific vehicles that uniquely identify the specific vehicles from dealership's inventory.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Constellation Software Inc.Inventors: Diana S. Lee, Matthew R. Woodruff, Mohammad Nauman Hafiz
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Patent number: 12260450Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: accessing content received from a first client device associated with a first user; processing the content to identify a first image that depicts the first user wearing a first fashion item; determining a first pose of the first user depicted in the first image; searching a plurality of products to identify a first product that corresponds to the first pose of the first user depicted in the first image and that includes one or more attributes associated with the first fashion item; modifying the first image to generate an advertisement that depicts the first user wearing the first product; and during a content browsing session being accessed by the first client device, causing the advertisement that depicts the first user wearing the first product to be displayed automatically on the first client device.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Itamar Berger, Gal Dudovitch, Ma'ayan Mishin Shuvi
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Patent number: 12217286Abstract: In some aspects, the described systems and methods provide for managing content. The method comprises receiving respective representations of a plurality of content elements, at least one of the plurality of content element having metadata information, displaying a representation of the content element in a user interface to a first user, sending the representation of the content element from the first user to a second user, indicating an edit request from the second user to the first user within the user interface, opening content element editing software via a link; performing at least one edit operation within an interface of the content element editing software on the content element based on the edit request; sending a representation of the edited content element from the first user to the second user; and approving the edited content element.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Tenovos CorporationInventors: Matthew Corodimas, Neil Grant
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Patent number: 12205149Abstract: An improved advertisement-exchange platform configured to operate in a dynamic, online environment, and execute instantaneous auctions of different types, e.g. first and second price auctions, to determine and price advertisement impression allocations effectively and automatically in real time on an impression-by-impression basis. In accordance with one embodiment, the advertisement-exchange platform operates separate first and second price auctions and compares the results of both to select the highest bid price and associated impression instantaneously for ad placement. In accordance with yet another embodiment, the improved advertisement-exchange platform operates combined first and second price auctions and if the highest bid is from a second price bid, the winning Demand-Side Platform pays the second highest bid (which may be the first price bid) and if the highest bid is from a first price bid, the winning Demand-Side Platform pays this bid.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: OpenX Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jeddy Chang Chen, Qasim Saifee, Ronald Shin-Yung Taur, Ian Davidson
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Patent number: 12198442Abstract: Systems and methods for providing updatable roadway codes are described. One embodiment of a method includes locating a roadway code along a roadway and determining stored data provided by the roadway code. Some embodiments include providing at least a portion of the stored data to the user and capturing environmental data along the roadway, where the environmental data corresponds with the stored data. Still some embodiments include comparing the stored data with the environmental data to determine whether the stored data is accurate and in response to determining that the stored data is not accurate, providing a communication to update the stored data.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventor: Nikolaos Michalakis
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Patent number: 12131331Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating real-time item-specific application of a gift card balance to a purchase within a collaborative gift card network are described. Such methods permit restriction of gift cards and gift card balances to purchase of specific items. Collaborative systems are used to implement such methods, such as computer systems and networked computer system. Methods for facilitating item-specific application of a gift card balance may be performed using computer systems managed by a single entity as well as in distributed computing environments wherein aspects of the methods are implemented by disparate parties. Unique bank card number are associated with a promotional offer as well as item-specific information relating to authorized uses of the offer. When an offer is attempted to be redeemed, a secondary item-specific authorization check is performed in addition to a check of the validity of the overall promotional offer.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: SkuXchange, Inc.Inventors: James Sampey, Bobby Tinsley, Robert Zaccardo, Kenneth Douglas, Moshe Joshua