Patents Examined by Scott A Mattia
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Patent number: 8781846Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein can provide consumers with an effective tool for evaluating the negotiability of prices for vehicles in the marketplace. The tool may include a Price Flexibility Score which measures the elasticity of transaction prices by vehicle model. Specifically, a method may dynamically incorporate factors that affect price variance, convert those factors into variables, generate order statistics for each of the variables, apply a weighting factor to the variables to generate a price flexibility score for each make-model, and determine a negotiability index utilizing the price flexibility score. In one embodiment, the process of determining the negotiability index may be fully driven by a price flexibility model that incorporates a plurality of factors.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Truecar, Inc.Inventors: Michael Swinson, Jesse Toprak, Mikhail Semeniuk, Scott Painter
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Patent number: 8738389Abstract: A mobile communications device comprising a gateway is provided. The device enables an automated discovery of a vehicle environment is enabled. Hereby context information relating to the vehicle environment can be automatically communicated to the service backend. Also context information from the service backend can be provided to the vehicle environment all utilizing SIP Presence technologies. The invention can in accordance with one embodiment be implemented in an IMS system. In accordance with one embodiment a communications device comprising gateway can be provided in the form of a mobile communications device, such as a mobile telephone. The gateway can for example be an IMS gateway.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Johan Hjelm, Martin Gerdes, Guido Gehlen
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Patent number: 8738388Abstract: Market based data cleaning for mitigation of idiosyncratic errors in transaction data used for property valuation. The market based data cleaning technique helps to ensure that the most accurate record is retained for a transaction when duplicate records are found, by ensuring that the retained record is the most consistent with other transactions of the same property, the local market trend, and neighborhood market. Algorithms accommodate the adoption of a value as a representative single record for a transaction where multiple records are present for a transaction. Following duplicate removal, market based data cleaning further eliminates erroneous records by eliminating transaction outliers, also preferably based upon the local market trend, along with all of the remaining transactions for each given property.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2005Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Fannie MaeInventors: Mark Y. An, Andre H. Gao
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Patent number: 8700416Abstract: A system for providing vehicle part information includes a build configuration module that provides delta information that indicates a change in build configurations for vehicles. The build configuration indicates vehicle parts that were used at specific manufacturing plants on the vehicles during a time period. A build data module includes vehicle identification information that indicates predetermined build parameters for the vehicles. A display control module includes a database that combines the delta information and the vehicle identification information in a matrix and that stores the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Chrysler Group LLCInventors: Robert M. Thomas, Sheenhui Shiue
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Patent number: 8694328Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that are directed to vehicle pre-acquisition activities, vehicle post-acquisition modification, customization and/or personalization, fleet management, including proactive fleet monitoring fleet services and/or vehicle, vehicle market and related analysis.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2007Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Inventor: Joseph Gormley
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Patent number: 8682803Abstract: A content exchange service facilitates communication between, and production of content by, holders of rights in content titles and producers of content. The content exchange service receives content profiles from various rights holders and surfaces the content profiles to producers for purposes of soliciting auditions to produce the content subject of the content profiles in an alternative form. The rights holder can review the auditions submitted by producers and establish communication with the producer of the audition the rights holder liked via the content exchange service. The content exchange service can then facilitate negotiation of an agreement between the rights holder and the producer for production of the content in an alternative form. Following finalization of the agreement, the producer may submit a complete production of the content in the alternative form to the content exchange service, which in turn presents the complete production to the rights holder for approval.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Audible, Inc.Inventors: Steven Hatch, Donald R. Katz, Guy A. Story, Jr., Jason Ojalvo, Kavin Du, David Reid, Michael M. George
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Patent number: 8650133Abstract: The present invention is embodied in adaptive rating methods and systems. The adaptive rating method includes receiving a first rating for a first product from a user, receiving a second rating for a second product from the user, identifying a conflict with a processor by comparing the first rating and the second rating, soliciting feedback from the user to remedy the conflict, and adjusting at least one of the first or second ratings with the processor responsive to feedback from the user. The steps of the method may be embodied in computer executable instructions stored on a non-transient machine readable medium that cause a processor to perform the method when executed by the processor. The system includes a processor configured to perform the steps of the method.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Vineloop, LLCInventors: Darren Pulito, Lou Vastardis
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Patent number: 8463636Abstract: Systems, computer-readable media, and methods are presented for selecting a service entity that utilize a processor, a memory connected to the processor, and program instructions storable in the memory and executable by the processor. Program instructions can execute to receive information from a first entity regarding a particular set of attributes of a second entity, a set of services to be performed by the second entity, and a predetermined compensation for the services. Program instructions can execute to transmit a communication to a second entity that contains the particular set of attributes, the set of services to be performed, and the predetermined compensation. Program instructions can execute to identify a number of second entities to perform the set of services by matching a number of the particular set of attributes received from the first entity. Additionally, program instructions can execute to receive a selection from the first entity of at least one of the number of second entities.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Field Nation, LLCInventors: Mohammad K. Ahsan, Mynul H. Khan
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Patent number: 7996236Abstract: A communication system with a plurality of access points (AP1, AP2, AP3) and at least one network station (5, 6), the network station (5, 6) being arranged to communicate with one of said the plurality of access points (AP1, AP2, AP3) through a wireless communication protocol, each access point (AP1, AP2, AP3) is able to monitor its access point traffic load and transmit an access point traffic load parameter (ATT) to the network station (5, 6), and the network station (5, 6) is able to monitor its network station traffic load; store a network station traffic load parameter (AUTT); receive access point traffic load parameters (ATT) from the access points (AP1, AP2, AP3); and select a communication connection with one of the access points (AP1, AP2, AP3) using a predetermined cost function taking the access point traffic load parameters (ATT) and the network station traffic load parameters (AUTT) into account.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.Inventors: Geert Arnout Awater, Adriaan Kamerman, Hendrik Moelard