Patents Examined by Robert M Pond
  • Patent number: 11961152
    Abstract: Provided are a server connected to a first terminal operated by an orderer, a second terminal operated by a recipient that accepts an order, and a third terminal operated by a third party. The server includes: a first receiver configured to receive, from the first terminal, an order content indicating a content of the order; a first creating unit configured to create a work order, based on the order content; a first viewing controller configured to display the work order on the second terminal; a second receiver configured to receive, from the second terminal, acknowledgement information indicating acceptance of the order; a second creating unit configured to create a written acknowledgement for the accepted order, based on the acknowledgement information; and a second viewing controller configured to display the written acknowledgement on the third terminal in such a manner that a part of the order content is invisible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HORIKEN CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Mineya Hori
  • Patent number: 11948184
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, software, apps, and visualizations for floorspace management. In particular, some embodiments leverage mobile shopping and other technologies to identify when and where a customer selects items within a retail space and completes the purchase. This data is then stored and visualizations are generated from this data for areas and periods. Such embodiments enable identification of well-performing and under-performing areas of retail space based on criteria pertinent to the particular user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventors: Kip Oliver Morgan, James Emery Fugedy, II
  • Patent number: 11935110
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system may include receiving, at an e-commerce order processor, an order comprising at least one product, wherein the order is received in conjunction with an order completion event; receiving an order completion criterion; receiving an order change; and processing an order completion based on the order completion criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Shopify Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Sadhankar, Nicholas McDonald
  • Patent number: 11928727
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for managing products at a physical marketplace is described. A method includes receiving an image and a category of a product for sale by a merchant at a physical marketplace, including the image in a list of images for the category, providing the list of images to customers of the physical marketplace, retrieving additional information regarding the product in response to a request by one of the customers, and generating a listing for the product using the image, the category, and the additional information received from the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: eBay Inc.v
    Inventor: Dirk Weber
  • Patent number: 11922477
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing device including: a storage unit that is configured to store an object ID of an object, a user ID of a user owning the object, a first price of the object, a second price of the object, and an exchange condition of the object in association with one another; a price setting terminal that is configured to determine the first price; an appropriate exchange object selecting unit that is configured to select an appropriate exchange object in accordance with the exchange condition; a price comparing unit that is configured to compare the second price of an object of an exchange destination selected by the appropriate exchange object selecting unit with the first price of an object of an exchange source; a payment amount calculating unit that is configured to determine a payment amount of a user owning the object of the exchange source; a first transmission unit that is configured to notify a user terminal of the user owning the object of the exchange source
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PHOTONON INC.
    Inventor: Takeshi Yogi
  • Patent number: 11922480
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for cross-selling passenger-oriented travel products from a sponsor company and other travel product providers to users, by normalizing the products and dynamically filtering the products in real-time according to rules defined by the travel product sponsor company. In one of the embodiments, ancillary products from any combination of an airline sponsor company, affiliated airline companies and other travel product providers may be presented to customers in accordance with the sponsor company's preferred product bundling nor package scheme and in coordination with affiliated airlines and other travel product providers as they may be available for a combined product. Other embodiments cross-sell travel products for rail, sea and other ground transportation, accommodation services and providers as well as passenger-oriented ancillary travel product providers such as Wi-Fi and duty-free shopping services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Air Black Box Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Timothy O'Neil-Dunne, Paul Addy
  • Patent number: 11915288
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and machine readable media for facilitating online purchasing. In general, techniques are disclosed to facilitate online and mobile purchasing. The disclosure includes technology that allows an agnostic shopping experience, i.e., the shopping may occur on a vendor neutral platform. According to one or more embodiments, facilitating online purchasing may allow a person to purchase correctly sized products or products suited to the need, more conveniently, more consistently, more cheaply and more easily. The more accurate or correct shopping of products saves the wasting of resources required in return shipments and replacement shipments and packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Jo Anne Kauffman Clark
  • Patent number: 11915304
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs, for satisfying a request for locally-sourced products. In one aspect, the method can include obtaining a request for a locally-sourced product that includes (i) data describing a product and (ii) a location of the user of the user device, identifying a first set of locally-sourced product records from a locally-sourced product database that are responsive to the request for the locally-sourced product, determining a subset of the first set of locally-sourced product records based on (i) a second location of a provider of the product and (ii) one or more other product attributes including a product quantity available to the provider, and fulfilling, using a locally-sourced product fulfillment engine, the request for locally-sourced product from multiple different locally-sourced providers based on the determined subset of the first set of locally-sourced product records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Rosemary Ostfeld
  • Patent number: 11880878
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of servers that are configured to execute a distributed matching system for the trading of one or more items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventor: Jacob Loveless
  • Patent number: 11869053
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving image data from a mobile device; identifying, based on the image data, an item and a product characteristic of the item; generating listing data of the item based on the product characteristic; determining that the item is associated with a product category; identifying a set of listings associated with the product category; applying a decay formula to the set of listings to generate a discounted number of sales and a discounted number of impressions at least one listing of the set of listings; determining a ratio of the discounted number of sales to the discounted number of impressions; determining a ranking of the set of listings based on the ratio; generating a price estimate of the item based on the ranking of the set of listings based on the ratio of the discounted number of sales to the discounted number of impressions; and causing display of a user interface including a request to list the item, the user interface including the listing data and the price e
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventor: Seng Tien Jonathan Teo
  • Patent number: 11869068
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods of an event-based automatic transaction on behalf of a user include and not limited to, determining, based on a plurality of information sources including a plurality of news information sources independent of a particular physical location, a probability of an event occurring, the probability being based on a predetermined percentage of news information sources indicating that the event is going to occur or is occurring, in response to the probability of the event occurring satisfying a predetermined threshold corresponding to the predetermined percentage, determining a location impacted by the event, in response to determining that the location of the user is proximate to the location impacted by the event, initiating a transaction with a mobile banking client application linked to an authorized financial account on behalf of the user, the authorized financial account being associated with the user and provided by the financial institution computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Himanshu Baral, David J. Hiltgen, Christine Rein, Laura B. Smith
  • Patent number: 11861686
    Abstract: A system and method for a website building system (WBS) hosting multiple websites, and a message system to generate at least one actionable widget card (AWC), where the AWC has elements comprising at least content, fields and attributes and implements at least e-commerce related operations for a product, the message system includes a card creator to create at least one AWC according to a trigger from a website associated with the product, stored pre-defined rules concerning card definitions or pre-defined widget card parameters and a card transformer to transform at least one of: content, fields and attributes of the at least one AWC according to transformation rules to create at least one new AWC, where a transformation is according to at least one of: a user request, related elements and product similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wix.com Ltd.
    Inventors: Reuven J. Sherwin, Tal Kol, Adi Zellner, Yonatan Biri, Shachar Burg, Ethan Sharabi, Liat Karpel Gurwicz, Roni Ben-Aharon
  • Patent number: 11861668
    Abstract: A method for generating an order includes acquiring by one or more processors, an initial image and a first detection result of a target container before being subjected to a pick-up operation, where the first detection result includes a first detection image with a number of first commodity frames obtained by processing the initial image, and first identification information corresponding to a commodity in each of the first commodity frames, acquiring by one or more processors, a result image of the target container after performing the pick-up operation, generating by one or more processors, an RGB difference image between before-shopping and after-shopping, based on the result image and the initial image, where the RGB difference image is obtained by calculating an absolute value of differences of individual pixels of the initial image and the result image before and after shopping in three RGB channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AInnovation (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Faen Zhang, Ju Wang, Zhengyuan Ke, Hui Xu
  • Patent number: 11861678
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for utilizing sensor data to automatically determine the results of events within a system. Upon receiving sensor data indicative of an event, the techniques may analyze the sensor data to determine a result of the event, such as that a particular user associated with a user identifier selected a particular item associated with an item identifier. Contents of a virtual shopping cart of the user may be maintained based on this automated analysis of sensor data. In some instances, when a confidence level associated with a result is less than a threshold, the sensor data may be sent to a client computing device for analysis by a human user. Further, when the result of an event changes from a first result to a second result, other events already processed may be reprocessed to ensure accuracy of the results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Travis Michael Grigsby, Kevin Alexander Lee, Pranoti Pimpalkhute, Harshal Pandya
  • Patent number: 11854070
    Abstract: Techniques are described for generating virtual makeup products. Virtual makeup products, in this context, may include a predefined effect and a configuration for the effect, wherein the predefined effect includes one or more layered visual filters. In an embodiment, a system in accordance with the present disclosure may acquire makeup product definition data based on characteristics of a real-world makeup product from an entity associated with the real-world product such as a designer, manufacturer, or vendor. Using the makeup product definition data, the system may generate a virtual makeup product includes a configuration of a predefined effect based on the acquired product definition data. The generated virtual makeup product is then passed through a process of internal calibration, internal review, and external review to improve the accuracy of the simulation of the real-world makeup product. In some embodiments, external review is performed by an external reviewing entity (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GlamST LLC
    Inventors: Agustina Sartori Odizzio, Carolina Maria Bañales Gaione, Javier Andrés Camacho Garcia, Juan Francisco Cardelino De Martini
  • Patent number: 11853951
    Abstract: An interactive digital logistics system is disclosed that receives real-time, on-demand data with immediate and same-day availability information from businesses, then displays the information for consumers to view, select, connect, and reserve the available services or products within a specified radius of their current geographical location. Businesses can accept or decline each consumer request and the interactive digital logistics system tracks the consumer's progress to the business's location. The interactive digital logistics system also tracks the progress of each request until completion and prompts both the consumer and business to rate their experience with the other party. The interactive digital logistics system then calculates an average rating for each party which is displayed in their respective profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Michael James Kelley, Tamara Lynn Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11836765
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing improved recommendations are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may be used for vehicle recommendations. The system may include a server system configured to receive user historical vehicle preferences, user vehicle preferences, generate weighted feature data sets, and apply a similarity model to the generated weighted feature data set in order to determine a vehicle recommendation data set. A visual representation of the vehicle recommendation data set may then be provided to an interface associated with a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Anderson, Mithra Kosur Venuraju, Shilpa Mittal, Ben Hoang, Amit Deshpande, Jie Shen
  • Patent number: 11837351
    Abstract: A system for ordered food preferences accompanying symptomatic inputs, the system including a computing device, the computing device designed and configured to retrieve a food profile pertaining to a user; select a first food element as a function of the food profile; select a second food element as a function of the first food element; create a food preference menu wherein the food preference menu contains the first food element and the second food element; and modify the food preference menu as a function of an entry contained within a symptomatic database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KPN INNOVATIONS, LLC.
    Inventor: Kenneth Neumann
  • Patent number: 11836777
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a relevant candidate product in an electronic marketplace. Embodiments perform a visual similarity comparison between candidate product image visual content and input query image visual content, process formal and informal natural language user inputs, and coordinate aggregated past user interactions with the marketplace stored in a knowledge graph. Visually similar items and their corresponding product categories, aspects, and aspect values can determine suggested candidate products without discernible delay during a multi-turn user dialog. The user can then refine the search for the most relevant items available for purchase by providing responses to machine-generated prompts that are based on the initial search results from visual, voice, and/or text inputs. An intelligent online personal assistant can thus guide a user to the most relevant candidate product more efficiently than existing search tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale, Fan Yang, Qiaosong Wang, Mohammadhadi Kiapour, Robinson Piramuthu
  • Patent number: 11816648
    Abstract: A system and method of performing a payment transaction in an augmented user experience displayed to a user of an augmented reality device. The system includes receiving a request for user authentication from a user, authenticating the user for performing payment transactions via a merchant application executed on the augmented reality device, receiving a request for payment to a merchant for an item offered for sale to the user in an augmented environment presented by the merchant application, processing payment in the payment amount between a payment account of the user and a merchant account, wherein the request for payment is performed without the user exiting the merchant application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Mudit Sinha, Pradeepkumar Sampathkumar