Patents Examined by Robert M Pond
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Patent number: 10600109Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for a tag for order fulfillment are described herein. One or more embodiments include a number of tags each associated with a corresponding inventory bin of a warehouse, each tag configured to broadcast unique identification information, and a mobile device configured to receive, from a database, order information including identification information of one of the number of tags and a type and a quantity of an item of an inventory bin of the warehouse corresponding to the tag, and scan for identification information of the tag.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Steve Huseth, Erik Todeschini
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Patent number: 10586256Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for facilitating live communication between a potential customer and an enterprise in relation to a product. The method includes causing to display, by a computing device on a webpage over a communications network, an interactive banner located on the webpage that includes advertisement content related to the product. The advertisement content includes an offer to the potential customer to communicate live with the enterprise about the product. The method includes adding to the context information, by the computing device, information related to an interaction over the communications network between the potential customer and the interactive banner. The method further includes adjusting, by the computing device over the communications network, the advertisement content in the interactive banner on the webpage if the potential customer accepts the offer.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: FMR LLCInventors: Harmeet Singh, Carsten Miller
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Patent number: 10586233Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for authenticating a customer in an online transaction. In one embodiment, a method includes initiating, in conjunction with an online transaction, an authentication query via a communication device associated with a customer in the online transaction, receiving customer authentication data from the communication device, sending the customer authentication data to a third-party authentication server to authenticate the customer using the customer authentication data, receiving a determination from the third-party authentication server whether the customer is authenticated, and allowing the online transaction to proceed in response to receiving the determination that the customer is authenticated.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Larry Trent Larson, Chad Lynn Brockman, April Lynn Peek, Eric A. Grun, Kenneth A. Marr
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Patent number: 10558957Abstract: According to the invention, transferring money using a computer network is disclosed. In one step, information is saved on credit received for a first user (110) in a stored value account on a server computer system (170). At the server computer system (170), a request from the first user (110) to send money to a second user (130) based on the stored value account is received. An electronic notification is sent from the server computer (170) to the second user (130) to notify the second user (130) of the request. A debit in the stored value account of the first user (110) is created. The requested money is sent to the second user (130) upon a receipt of a request at the server computer (170) from the second user (130).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Aamer Ali Baig, James E. Cowell, Peter M. Karas, Cheryl L. Neofytides, Matthew F. Golub, James R. Yoder, Susan M. Milberger, Jeff D. Sherrard, Amy M. Dunker, Jackie M. Macfarlane, Eric L. Platte, Susan F. Abrahams
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Patent number: 10559020Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: AIR BLACK BOX TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Timothy O'Neil-Dunne, Paul Addy
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Patent number: 10549969Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for modular compliance monitoring are provided. A system for monitoring modular compliance in a shopping space includes an image capture device, a baseline condition database, and a control circuit coupled to the image capture device and the baseline condition database. The control circuit being configured to obtain, from the image capture device, one or more images of a display module in the shopping space, retrieve, from the baseline condition database, a baseline condition model for a display space corresponding to the display module, and compare the one or more images of the display module in the shopping space and the baseline condition model to determine a modular compliance status for the display module.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Donald R. High, Michael D. Atchley, David C. Winkle
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Patent number: 10546333Abstract: A web-based service capable of generating a portable contract document is described. The web-based service generates a user interface comprising an interactive electronic document. The interactive electronic document displays, on at least one screen, a first visual control for collecting sale item information, a second visual control for collecting seller information, a third visual control for collecting buyer information, and a fourth visual control for collecting sale price information. The information obtained via the interactive electronic document is used by the web-based service for generating a contract document for a sale of the sale item. The generated contract document is communicated to a client device via a network communication.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventor: Brian Alan Grove
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Patent number: 10547586Abstract: Systems and methods involve managing exhaustible electronic resources, such as IPv4 addresses. A determination to allocate an internet protocol (IP) address can be made based at least in part on an amount of traffic that the IP address receives when not allocated to a customer and another amount of traffic received from a prospective customer. Information directed to the allocated IP address can be received and routed to a network associated with the customer via a connection configured to share information using the IP address.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joel C. Hegg, Peter C. Beckman, Jeremy T. Hall
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Patent number: 10540709Abstract: A computer-implemented method of digital information presentation may include receiving a selection of an item reference from among digital data via a digital user interface. The method may further include receiving a request to search for information relating to the item reference. The method may include sending a request to search for the information relating to the item reference in the digital database. The method may also include receiving the information relating to the item reference. The method may further include presenting the information relating to the item reference via the digital user interface, the digital user interface including a purchase information element. The method may include facilitating a purchase of the item via the digital user interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventor: YongZhi Nie
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Patent number: 10540407Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques to facilitate the creation of an affiliate website, where the creating of the affiliate website involves (i) identifying at least one keyword, (ii) conducting a first keyword-based search to generate a set of product codes, (iii) conducting a second keyword-based search of at least one online source to generate content that relates to the identified at least one keyword, (iv) identifying a website template, and (v) creating, without user intervention, the affiliate website using the generated set of product codes, the generated content and the identified website template. At least one of the products codes is a product code to a special offered by a vendor in connection with the identified at least one keyword.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Inventors: David Greaves, Thomas Creaven
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Patent number: 10528955Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for providing an active ticket in a mobile terminal for use by a mobile terminal user, wherein at least one active ticket has a ticket characteristic that dynamically changes based on one or more states in a life cycle of the active ticket. Dynamic changes to the ticket characteristic include multimedia changes or other presentation data, including text, sound (audio), animation, video, still pictures, or some combination thereof. The active ticket can have different states in it's life cycle, such as purchased, validated, invalid for certain events. Also the ticket service provider or issuer can send new control data to change the characteristic and/or contents of the active ticket.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Petteri Saarinen, Mia Lahteenmaki, Zheng Yan
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Patent number: 10497049Abstract: Receiving and processing user orders may include receiving an order for an order quantity of a product from a user computing device, retrieving a threshold inventory quantity of the product, retrieving a last known inventory quantity of the product, comparing the threshold inventory quantity with the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, performing an asynchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is less than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, and performing a synchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is greater than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLCInventors: Hari Ramamurthy, Angie Brown, Thomas Gamble, Stephen Jacobs, Todd Stormes
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Patent number: 10489845Abstract: The present disclosure discloses system and method for generating hyper-personalized recommendations from the enterprise and its partner/(s) product offerings space for the users based on dynamic persona creation, influenced by a dynamic context capture and context-chaining mechanism triggered by the past and current activities of a user or the time of occurrence of an event. The User data may be processed to generate a user persona, which may further vary dynamically based on his current and historic subscription/consumption/association data. The context trigger enables the system to generate recommendations even before the need relevant to the context is realized by the user. Thus, the system is capable of generating real-time dynamic, context-driven, hyper-personalized recommendations, based on the enterprise requirements.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services LimitedInventors: Rajeev Mullakkara Azhuvath, Sankaranarayanan Viswanathan, Narendran Sivakumar, Radhika Kannan, Rajish Radhakrishnan, Vishnu Madhu
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Patent number: 10489839Abstract: This application provides an information presentation method, including: receiving an image presentation request from a presentation client; obtaining an image and text presentation information corresponding to the image from a product promotion platform according to image information, the text presentation information being used to present comment information, posted by different users, of a product in the image; performing superimposition processing on the text presentation information and the image to obtain a presentation image; and sending the presentation image to the presentation client for a presentation operation. This application further provides an information presentation apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Ting Ouyang
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Patent number: 10489849Abstract: A provisioning system for a multi-tenant platform including a presentation component operably coupled to a supervisory component and a registry database and configured to present registry information in accordance with criteria defined in one or more rules and receive requests to access the registry information. The one or more rules define a supply chain including multiple of a plurality of tenants in the multi-tenancy system, the supervisory component configured to automatically implement the supply chain in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULCInventors: Gerrit Smits, Marius Roelof van de Veen
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Patent number: 10489850Abstract: A provisioning system for a multi-tenant platform including a presentation component operably coupled to a supervisory component and a registry database and configured to present registry information in accordance with criteria defined in one or more rules and receive requests to access the registry information. The one or more rules define a supply chain including multiple of a plurality of tenants in the multi-tenancy system, the supervisory component configured to automatically implement the supply chain in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULCInventors: Gerrit Smits, Marius Roelof van de Veen
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Patent number: 10474705Abstract: System and computer-implemented method of analyzing tags associated with a sequence of images presented to a user to present a current interest of the user is disclosed. An image from among a plurality of images is presented on an electronic display. The image is associated with a set of tags. An input is received indicating a user's preference for the image. A plurality of tags is processed based on the preference and the set of tags to determine a next set of tags from the plurality of tags. A next image is determined from the plurality of images based on the next set of tags. The next image represents a physical object, different from a physical object represented by the previous image. A sequence of images is generated by repeating the above process with the next image in place of the previous image for present a user's current interest.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Inventors: Sydney Nicole Epstein, Paul Lawrence Epstein
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Patent number: 10475105Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Jacob Anderson, Mithra Kosur Venuraju, Shilpa Mittal, Ben Hoang, Amit Deshpande, Jie Shen
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Patent number: 10475097Abstract: A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for providing an interactive virtual environment. The system may receive environmental data, and generate virtual environmental data based on the environmental data. The system may then provide the virtual environmental data to at least a first computing device to create a virtual environment. The system may then receive user input, and modify the virtual environment to display enhanced content in response to the user input.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Hannes Jouhikainen, Karen Nickerson, Justin Wishne, Drew Jacobs, Justin Smith, Marco S. Giampaolo
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Patent number: 10467267Abstract: System and computer-implemented method of analyzing tags associated with a sequence of images presented to a user to present a current interest of the user is disclosed. An image from among a plurality of images is presented on an electronic display. The image is associated with a set of tags. An input is received indicating a user's preference for the image. A plurality of tags is processed based on the preference and the set of tags to determine a next set of tags from the plurality of tags. A next image is determined from the plurality of images based on the next set of tags. The next image represents a physical object, different from a physical object represented by the previous image. A sequence of images is generated by repeating the above process with the next image in place of the previous image for present a user's current interest.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Inventors: Sydney Nicole Epstein, Paul Lawrence Epstein