Patents Examined by Resha Desai
  • Method and system of displaying information related to items offered for sale in a network-based marketplace
    Patent number: 9639883
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting information related to items offered for sale at a marketplace location includes reviewing a first video stream to identify items displayed in the first video stream which correspond to the items offered for sale at the marketplace location, and generating a second video stream related to and including images of the items for sale at the marketplace location. The method further includes causing the transmission of the second video stream to a user through a media outlet and receiving a purchase request from the user for at least one item offered for sale at the marketplace location and included in the first or second video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Loui, David Vogt, Jared Kaplan, Tony Lam
  • Best practice analysis, optimized resource use
    Patent number: 9626710
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, providing resource allocation advice, configuration recommendations, and/or migration advice regarding data storage, access, placement, and/or related web services. In some examples, a web service may utilize or otherwise control a client instance to control, access, or otherwise manage resources of a distributed system. Based at least in part on one or more resource usage checks and/or configuration checks, resource usage information and/or configuration information of an account utilizing a web service, and/or user preferences and/or settings, resource allocation advice, system configuration recommendations, and/or migration advice may be provided to a user of an account. Additionally, in some examples, one or more remediation operations may be performed automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahendra M. Chheda, Shawn E. Heidel, Robert B. Jaye, Justin K. Brindley-Koonce, Jesse D. Schoch, Eric Jason Brandwine
  • Product review system and method
    Patent number: 9619828
    Abstract: A customer with a customer device performs a search for reviews of a particular software product of interest to the customer. The customer is then presented with entries from reviewers that have the same device as the customer, or a device on which the product is expect to run or operate in a manner similar to how it runs on the customer's device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Milena Nikolic, Nicolas Fortescue, Tyrone Nicholas, Miles Edward Barr, German W Bauer, Satoe Ishii Haile
  • Embedded web application gallery
    Patent number: 9607332
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a client computing device, a list of web applications from a network device associated with a digital goods marketplace, receiving, at the client computing device, metadata associated with the list of web applications, generating, at the client computing device, a user interface including at least one icon representing a web application available for download from the digital market place, and displaying the user interface in a browser of the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Nazarov, Aleksey Surkov
  • Cataloging items and relationships between items
    Patent number: 9589293
    Abstract: Techniques for cataloging items and relationships between items may be provided. For example, a computing service may be implemented to generate a description of an item and to determine a relationship between the item and another item. In addition to cataloging the description of the item, the computing service may also catalog the relationship. For example, the catalog service may generate a catalog page that may include a number of fields. Some of the fields may be used to capture the description of the item, while other fields may be used to identify the other item and a relationship type. Further, in response to a search for the item, the catalog service may return information about the item and, based on the cataloged relationship, information about the other item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Aravind Yalamanchi
  • Generating and updating recommendations for merchants
    Patent number: 9552600
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for generating and updating recommendations for merchants. A recommendation for a merchant in an electronic marketplace is evaluated to determine whether a corresponding action for the recommendation has been completed in response to a recommendation query for the merchant. A list of recommendations that correspond to actions that have not yet been completed for the merchant is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anton V. Goldberg, Trevor Alexander Popiel, Robert H. Mahfoud
  • Method for populating budgets and/or wish lists using real-time video image analysis
    Patent number: 9524524
    Abstract: System, method, and computer program product are provided for using real-time video analysis, such as augmented reality to provide the user of a mobile device with real-time budgeting and wish lists. Through the use of real-time vision object recognition objects, logos, artwork, products, locations, and other features that can be recognized in the real-time video stream can be matched to data associated with such to provide the user with real-time budget impact and wish list updates based on the products and budget data determined as being the object. In this way, the objects, which may be products and/or budget data in the real-time video stream, may be included into a user's budget and/or wish list, such that the user receives real-time budget and/or wish list updates incorporating product and/or budget data located in a real-time video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew A. Calman, Erik Stephen Ross
  • System for collective network of augmented reality users
    Patent number: 9519923
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for using video analysis, such as augmented reality or the like to assist a group of users to utilize mobile devices for creating a collective network environment of users that identifies objects in which one or more users in a group of users may be interested, and notifies the one or more users of information associated with the object. A collective network comprises a group of users that each have a mobile device that contains or is otherwise operatively coupled to a data capture device. For example, the mobile device may be a mobile phone that is capable of taking video with a camera device. A user in the collective network may capture video on his mobile device, and an application can identify the object in the video and provide interested users in the collective network with information about the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew A. Calman, Erik Stephen Ross, Alfred Hamilton
  • System for populating budgets and/or wish lists using real-time video image analysis
    Patent number: 9519932
    Abstract: System, method, and computer program product are provided for using real-time video analysis, such as augmented reality to provide the user of a mobile device with real-time budgeting and wish lists. Through the use of real-time vision object recognition objects, logos, artwork, products, locations, and other features that can be recognized in the real-time video stream can be matched to data associated with such to provide the user with real-time budget impact and wish list updates based on the products and budget data determined as being the object. In this way, the objects, which may be products and/or budget data in the real-time video stream, may be included into a user's budget and/or wish list, such that the user receives real-time budget and/or wish list updates incorporating product and/or budget data located in a real-time video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew A. Calman, Erik Stephen Ross
  • Method for collective network of augmented reality users
    Patent number: 9519924
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for using video analysis, such as augmented reality or the like to assist a group of users to utilize mobile devices for creating a collective network environment of users that identifies objects in which one or more users in a group of users may be interested, and notifies the one or more users of information associated with the object. A collective network comprises a group of users that each have a mobile device that contains or is otherwise operatively coupled to a data capture device. For example, the mobile device may be a mobile phone that is capable of taking video with a camera device. A user in the collective network may capture video on his mobile device, and an application can identify the object in the video and provide interested users in the collective network with information about the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew A. Calman, Erik Stephen Ross, Alfred Hamilton
  • Method for propagating combination of signals for operating a closed circuit e-commerce
    Patent number: 9514490
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for communicating information and e-shopping signals between servers within a closed circuit e-commerce, and between servers and shopping terminals via main router and interface of a building, propagating the information and e-shopping signals via at least one twisted pair including ASK and FSK modulated data and commands including high speed updating signals for updating the content and programs of said e-commerce stored in the shopping terminals. A delivery station for picking up and deliver the ordered merchandise located within the building or outside the building using delivery devices, and storage devices for verifying the pickup and deliver with no error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ELBEX VIDEO LTD.
    Inventor: David Elberbaum
  • Predictive approach to contract management
    Patent number: 9514499
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for a predictive approach to contract management. In one embodiment, acceptable contract parameters are predicted based, at least in part on historic data and specified thresholds of identified contract parameters. Predicting acceptable contract parameters can help reduce negotiation cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Judy J. Kogut-O'Connell, Sanjeev V. Pradhan, Ajay Sinha, Sunil Sridhar
  • Double tap and done
    Patent number: 9508099
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for using a mobile computing device corresponding to a user to purchase a product being offered for sale by a user includes, when the mobile computing device has selected an item indicating the product, obtaining item information related to the item. Item display data is generated based on the item information and transmitted to the mobile computing device. The item display data prompts the mobile computing device to display the item information and an operational input in a graphical user interface of the mobile computing device. A command is received in response to a prescribed number of actions input by the user to the operational input. The command causes a purchasing server to perform one or more operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: WAL-MART STORES, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Neil Cancro, Douglas James Pedley, Joel Bennett Acker Jr.
  • Screen-based method and system for sizing an oral appliance
    Patent number: 9483792
    Abstract: An oral appliance is sized by obtaining a scaled image of a patient's dental arch. Dimensions of the arch are marked on a screen image, and the processor chooses an oral appliance having a best fit for a particular patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Apnicure, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan L. Podmore, Kenneth Mejia
  • Network software and hardware monitoring and marketplace
    Patent number: 9483791
    Abstract: A method, system, and network for interfacing the work-flow monitoring and reporting of a host computer, a local network of information technology devices, a community of network users, and third party vendors is provided. This includes processes and systems for initiating an inventory, including software, of a plurality of information technology devices associated with a local network of information technology devices from a host computer and determining the operational status of the information technology devices associated with the local network. The operational status of the information technology devices associated with the local network is monitored and presented to a host computer. Needs relating to the local network are identified and determined and a purchasing platform for purchasing product solutions from third party vendors is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Inventors: Eric David Schank, Francis Sullivan, Scott Richard Abel, Brian S. Gugliemetti, Tabrez Syed
  • Method for the supply of encoded geoimage data
    Patent number: 9470542
    Abstract: Uncoded geographical image data for a pre-defined geographical region is stored in a server unit and at least one wireless communication interface is provided between the server unit and at least one navigation receiver module. At least one position information message is transmitted from the navigation receiver module to the server unit and an expectancy range is selected in the server unit according to the transmitted position information from the pre-defined geographical region. Uncoded geoimage data reproducing the expectancy range is determined and the first uncoded geoimage data is encoded in the server unit. The encoded geoimage data is then transferred to the navigation receiver module from the server unit via the wireless communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Klaus Lukas
  • Methods and systems for the nonintrusive identification and ordering of component parts
    Patent number: 9378522
    Abstract: A noninstrusive system and method of scanning an object having component parts includes a vendor based data repository of component parts and a matching processor to receive a scanned image representative of the assembled object and to provide suggested and/or matched component parts for purchase from the vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
    Inventor: Erwin Munoz Cruz
  • System and method for virtual display
    Patent number: 9367869
    Abstract: A system, computer-readable product, and method for a display device are provided. An intelligent personal assistant is displayed to provide information to a user, for example, in a public space. Movement of the image shown as the intelligent personal assistant may be suppressed or restricted at various parts of the person's body, such as below a chin or above the eyebrow. In addition, the database may be provided that stores queries and replies to the queries so as to respond to the user's questions. The system could also notify personnel or staff if additional assistance is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventor: Dean Stark
  • Approval system for buyer-initiated requisition modifications
    Patent number: 9330414
    Abstract: A method of modifying a requisition within approval and budgetary constraints by a procurement organization may include receiving the requisition from a requesting organization, where the requisition may comprise one or more lines, each having been approved by the requesting organization. The method may also include receiving a change to be applied to a first line associated with a first budget allocation, where the change may be received from a buyer in the procurement organization, and the change may be associated with a second budget allocation. The method may additionally include determining that the change violates a threshold, sending the change to the requesting organization for a second approval, receiving, from the requesting organization, an indication as to whether the second approval is granted, and creating a purchase order based on the indication as to whether the second approval is granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mayukh Bhaowal, Suman Guha, Shibhu Nambiar, Lee-Hian Quek, Angela Xian
  • Universal user interaction module for web transactions with user controlled conditions
    Patent number: 9299101
    Abstract: A universal user interaction module for web transactions with user controlled conditions. A request is received from a user to begin an order. User information is collected from one or more data repositories. The user information is consolidated and a determination is made as to what additional data is required to complete the order. The additional data is requested from the user and is received from the user. The additional data includes one or more user conditions for placing the order. The order is then stored. The order for the product includes the one or more user conditions, and the order is placed only after all of the one or more user conditions have been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Jin Li, Jimmy Lo, Joanna W. Ng