Patents Examined by Raquel Alvarez
  • Patent number: 12205133
    Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking and rewarding users of any of a variety of content hosting systems, such as search engines. In one embodiment, a method of rewarding a user of a search engine includes receiving secure identification information identifying a user, retrieving user account information using the secure identification information, receiving a search query associated with the user account information, crediting the user account with a reward that is directly related to providing the search query, and returning search results in response to the received search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Mazen A. Skaf
  • Patent number: 12205132
    Abstract: Decentralized computer systems and methods are disclosed for using a debit network as an intermediary between distributed ledgers. One method includes: receiving, at a first blockchain network from a merchant, transaction information comprising a consumer identification, an issuer identification from a payment vehicle presented for a transaction, and a transaction amount in resources of a first type, wherein the merchant and/or its acquirer are participants of the first blockchain network but the consumer and/or issuer are not participants of the first blockchain network; sending the transaction information to a debit network; identifying, using the debit network, a second blockchain network having the consumer and/or the issuer as participants, using the received consumer identification or issuer identification; and if participants of the second blockchain network accept the transaction, generating a new immutable entry to the second blockchain network indicating a change in the resources of a second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventor: Chandra Olson
  • Patent number: 12198173
    Abstract: A user treatment engine uses user data describing characteristics of a user to evaluate a set of treatments that the user treatment engine may apply to the user. The user treatment engine generates treatment cost predictions for the treatments and generates treatment scores for the set of treatments based on the treatment cost predictions for the treatments and the user data for the user. The user treatment engine selects and applies a treatment from the set of treatments based on the generated treatment scores. The user treatment engine determines a reward to the online concierge system for the application of the treatment to the user and updates treatment selection parameters for the applied treatment based on the determined reward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Konrad Gustav Miziolek, Bryan Daniel Bor
  • Patent number: 12182832
    Abstract: An online system receives financial account information for a user, such as debit card information, from a merchant system with which the user places an order. From the financial account information, the online system selects a virtual credit card providing one or more rewards, such as cashback, to the user. Based on characteristics of the order by the user, the online system identifies one or more offers, such as discounts or rebates, applicable to the order. The online system provides the virtual credit card information to the merchant system and stores the virtual credit card information, as well as information describing one or more identified offers for the order in association with the user and the virtual credit card, in an account maintained for the user. Rewards may be stored in the user's account at the online system for application when using the virtual credit card associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: PAYCERTIFY, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Chase Harmer
  • Patent number: 12159297
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting an advertisement to a first participant of a plurality of participants of a conversation based on interests of other participants of the conversation. The conversation is monitored and a profile of the first participant is accessed. An interest category of a first interest term included in the profile is identified. A second interest term is identified from a portion of the conversation provided by a second participant of the plurality of participants. In response to determining that the second interest term is different from the first interest term and that the second interest term is in the identified interest category, an advertisement matching the second interest term is identified and generated for presentation on user equipment of the first participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.
    Inventors: Padmassri Chandrashekar, Daina Emmanuel, Reda Harb
  • Patent number: 12154132
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for determining the impact of content campaigns using surveys are provided. In some embodiments, approaches for measuring the impact of content campaigns with attitudinal metrics assessed through surveys are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Integral Ad Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Shaw, Ana Calabrese, Kiril Tsemekhman, Mandeep Singh Badwal, Katia Eliseeva, Mattia Fumagalli
  • Patent number: 12141863
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments may provide an online automobile purchasing experience for a customer. The experience may be provided by, or associated with, a financial institution. The automobile buying experience may be accessible to both customers of the financial institution as well as non-customers. Customers of the financial institution may receive added benefits during and after the experience. Non-customers may have the opportunity to become a customer of the financial institution as part of the experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Christine Cox, Eric D. Henley, Jim J. Manelis, Ramanujam Chari, Vinay R. Thykkutathil
  • Patent number: 12131353
    Abstract: A method for creating an advertisement for dynamic insertion into an email newsletter includes loading, by a server, an advertising template, receiving, by the server over a network from an advertiser computing device, advertising data including at least one of text data or image data, inserting, by the server, at least a portion of the received advertising data into the loaded advertising template, rendering, by the server from the loaded advertising template containing the at least a portion of the received advertising data, a display version of the advertisement, acquiring, by the server, an image file depicting the display version of the advertisement, storing, by the server, the image file, and retrieving, by the server for provision over a network to a recipient computing device, the image file in response to a call from the recipient computing device for the image file for display in the email newsletter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PAVED, INC.
    Inventor: John McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 12112351
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method for displaying contextual targeted advertising to healthcare professionals including receiving in a master database a plurality of words that includes titles and keywords associated with plural distinct medical healthcare professional specialties, generating, with a first processor, plural taxonomy and vocabulary based on the received plurality of words of the plural distinct medical healthcare professional specialties, tracking, with a second processor, a context of frequent browsing and reading history of online life sciences content of a healthcare professional user, identifying, with the second processor, a distinct medical healthcare professional specialty associated with the healthcare professional user based on matches in the master database with the context, comparing, with a third processor, contextual targeted advertising with the matches, and converting, with the third processor, advertising queries from advertisers to displayed targeted advertising presented to he
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventor: Harshit Jain
  • Patent number: 12106365
    Abstract: Implementations of various methods and systems to transform socket communication streams combined with vaulted user characteristic data over an advertising trading exchange with price time priority queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: CIRCLESX LLC
    Inventor: Erik Mowery Simpson
  • Patent number: 12086837
    Abstract: A business accesses a campaign server and inputs information relevant to a marketing campaign. The server sends invitations to social media influencers, who then post content to various platforms to influence customers to act in ways beneficial to the business, either by further advancing the marketing campaign or by actually generating revenue for the sponsor. The system tracks the social media reactions of customers (likes, shares, etc.), as well as real-world activity (product purchases, physical attendance at advertised locations, etc.), attributable to each influencer, and points are awarded based on the activity they generate among customers. The points are weighted according to the type of activity generated and/or the social media platforms on which the activity is generated, and the running point totals of the influencers are published to foster competition among them. A total reward is allocated and paid to the influencers according to their relative total accumulated points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SPACO LLC
    Inventors: Brian Neil Fuller, Daniel Barnaby Gross, Paul Zullo, James M. Valentine
  • Patent number: 12079888
    Abstract: The enclosed is a description of a computer-implemented method for aggregation of carbon emission data. A server receives data entries recording user actions from an application of a client device. The server assigns each data entry to one or more communities of the application. The user actions recorded are converted by the server to carbon emission equivalents. The carbon emission equivalents of a community to which a particular user belongs are aggregated for the particular user. The server establishes a data stream with the client device of the particular user and transmits the carbon emission equivalents of the community and a totality of carbon emission equivalents of the application to the client device. The carbon emission equivalents of the community and the totality of carbon emission equivalents, including communities the user is excluded from, are displayed on the client device on a master dashboard of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Jessica Jane Robinson
  • Patent number: 11995691
    Abstract: Among other things, advertisements are received for brands or products of brands. Criteria for placement of the advertisements are received at online retail sites. The online retail sites are controlled independently from one another. Inventory data for the products at the online retail sites is received and stored. Data about propensities of the consumers to favor one or more of the brands or one or more products of the brands, from activities of consumers on the online retail sites, is stored. Activity data about current activities of the consumers on the online retail sites is received. One or more of the advertisements are placed on pages served to the online retail sites based on the placement data, the inventory data, the propensity data, and the activity data. Conversion data is received indicating that consumers engaged in conversion events with respect to products associated with the brands or products of brands being advertised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Jane Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Socrates Munaf Rosenfeld, Abraham Munaf Rosenfeld, Benjamin Aaron Green, Howard Hong, Simon James Roddy, Andrew Michael Livingston, Chunyih Hsu
  • Patent number: 11989751
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for providing instant rebates before a transaction is completed. This involves ingest of customer and rebate data from two or more utilities, where the data is parsed and normalized into a standard format across all of the utilities. The customer data is then stored in an accounts database, while the rebate data is further processed along with utility rebate rules to determine a set of rebate eligibilities for a variety of scenarios. The resulting rebate profiles can be stored in a rebates database and linked to corresponding customer account data in the accounts database. Third-party frontends can then request rebate eligibility based on a customer identifier and retail channel, and various services can work in tandem to query the rebated database and return a set of eligibilities with so little latency that the eligibility check appears instant from a customer's standpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Uplight, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoav Lurie, Justin Segall, Michel Jaroenvanit, John Vajda, Sean McColgan, Jarod Earl Stewart, Nicolae Radu Girleanu, Ilya A. Sukhanov, Michael Konrath
  • Patent number: 11978084
    Abstract: Decentralized computer systems and methods are disclosed for using a debit network as an intermediary between distributed ledgers. One method includes: receiving, at a first blockchain network from a merchant, transaction information comprising a consumer identification, an issuer identification from a payment vehicle presented for a transaction, and a transaction amount in resources of a first type, wherein the merchant and/or its acquirer are participants of the first blockchain network but the consumer and/or issuer are not participants of the first blockchain network; sending the transaction information to a debit network; identifying, using the debit network, a second blockchain network having the consumer and/or the issuer as participants, using the received consumer identification or issuer identification; and if participants of the second blockchain network accept the transaction, generating a new immutable entry to the second blockchain network indicating a change in the resources of a second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventor: Chandra Olson
  • Patent number: 11972443
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a system configured to prepare and use prediction models for socioeconomic data and missing value prediction. Some embodiments may: extract, from received population segment data, a training set of socioeconomic parameter values for each population segment; provide, to a prediction model as input, first parameter values of the respective training set for the prediction of additional parameter values of the training set such that the prediction of the additional parameter values is performed without reliance on the additional parameter values; provide, for each of the training sets, the additional parameter values to the prediction model as reference feedback for the prediction model's prediction of the additional parameter values to train the prediction model; and predict, based on a working set of parameter values for a population segment, additional values for the working set using the prediction model subsequent to its training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Eran Simhon, Reza Sharifi Sedeh, Amir Abdolahi, Cecilia Meijer
  • Patent number: 11961118
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for targeting and retargeting individuals with advertisement spots during television broadcasting. The method and system enable an advertiser for identifying and categorizing a set of viewers or individuals for retargeting advertisement based on parameters such as, but not limited to, interests or preferences of the individuals, past purchases and interactions of the individuals with the advertiser. The method and system further enable the advertiser to segregate the plurality of individuals into subgroups on the basis of information such as, but not limited to, demography, psychographic and behavioral characteristics of the plurality of individuals. The method and system then enable the advertiser to define one or more advertisement spots and corresponding advertisements to be delivered to different sub groups of individuals based on the categorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Adcuratio Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Narasimhan, Raj P. Kiran, Vivek Maheshwari, Adam Kauppi, Dan Coronel, Ranjan Damodar
  • Patent number: 11954706
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an online platform for out of home advertising. The online platform may allow various advertisers to search for advertising panels (e.g., digital billboards), select available time periods for an advertising panel, upload an advertisement (“ad”), and have the ad displayed on the advertising panel. An advertiser can search for advertising panels using one or more search parameters (e.g., geographical location and demography of target audience). The online platform may also allow advertising panel owners to publish their advertising panels, manage availability, and approve or reject ads for display. The online platform may generate reports relating to the advertising panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ADOMNI INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Gudai, Jonathan Fine, Robert Stockham, Christopher Weiss, Eric Medlin
  • Patent number: 11948168
    Abstract: The method, device and computer-readable storage medium of monitoring changes of web advertisements described in the present disclosure belong to a technical field of the Internet. The method of monitoring changes of web advertisements comprises loading a monitored page, storing the monitored page in a form of pictures, wherein the monitored page comprises an advertisement object; comparing the stored picture with a pre-stored picture of the monitored page and determining whether the advertisement on the monitored page is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI HODE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengsheng Huang, Anxin Wu
  • Patent number: 11928709
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for determining data outputs to advertise on a platform such as a website. A computing device receives a website search request and determines a search term keyword. The computing device also determines a plurality of item accounts, such as sponsor campaigns, based on the search term keyword and a corresponding keyword of each item account. Each item account also includes a corresponding data output, such as a digital advertisement. The computing device identifies one of the item accounts based on determining an engagement probability for the digital advertisement of each item account. The engagement probability is determined based on aggregated impression and engagement data for the digital advertisement. The computing device provides the digital advertisement for the identified item account to a server, which may display the digital advertisement on the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventor: Peng Yang