Patents Examined by Thuy N Nguyen
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Patent number: 11948172Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a content recommendation system powering a streaming media publisher channel to enhance an ad creative being shown to the user via awareness or performance campaigns. This method allows the platform to present the most relevant hyper-personalized in-channel content to the publisher platform users in endemic banners that run on the platform which then correspondingly helps drive user reach. An example embodiment operates by implementing personalized content banners that may act as a hook for channel users opening their streaming device, both active and lapsed, to enter back into the channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Roku, Inc.Inventors: Mehul Sanghavi, Rohit Mahto, Kelly Lee, Madhulika Taneja
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Patent number: 11935085Abstract: Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for prediction and computation of electronic shopping carts. In an example embodiment, for each interaction between an e-shopper and an e-commerce application, one or more predicted electronic shopping carts that represent a combination of items the e-shopper is likely to purchase are generated based on current items in the e-shopper's electronic shopping cart and recent interactions with the e-shopper. For some or all of the predicted electronic shopping carts (e.g., those with top predicted confidence levels), corresponding shopping cart computations (e.g., identifying application promotions, determining a price total for the items in the predicted shopping cart) are executed and cached prior to the e-shopping adding the predicted items. As such, a page configured to visualize the predicted electronic shopping cart with a value retrieved from the cached shopping cart computations (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ADOBE INC.Inventors: Michele Saad, Igor Miniailo
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Patent number: 11928696Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a promotional campaign are provided. In one embodiment, a promotional campaign engine communicates in real-time with a participant's mobile computing device, receives an electronic campaign entry from the mobile computing device, and based on a rule set, generates a virtual value item in an established stored value system based on the rule set.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: E2INTERACTIVE, INC.Inventors: David A. Nelsen, Christian Casebeer, Michael J. Fletcher
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Patent number: 11922453Abstract: Systems and methods for generating tokenized reputation scores are described. In one example, a service provider system receives data describing user activity associated with a service provider account and determines that the user activity is eligible for a reputation reward of reputation tokens. The service provider system initiates a calculation of the reputation reward based on the data describing the user activity. Further, the service provider system verifies a transfer of reputation tokens to a blockchain account address associated with the service provider account, where the reputation tokens are based on the reputation reward calculated. The service provider system generates a reputation score based on an amount of reputation tokens associated with the blockchain account address and generates an indication of the reputation score. The indication of the reputation score is displayed in relation to a representation of the service provider account.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Tatjana Vlahovic, Someshekhar Banerjee
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Patent number: 11915834Abstract: Systems and methods may include identifying, by a server computing system, data related to treatment needs of a plurality of patients associated with a plurality of healthcare providers, the data related to the treatment needs of the plurality of patients associated with cancelled health-related appointments because of a shared-health event; determining, by the server computing system, data related to a treatment specialty associated with each of the plurality of patients based on the data related to the treatment needs of each of the plurality of patients; determining, by the server computing system, data related to a treatment specialty associated with each of the plurality of healthcare providers; and matching, by the server computing system, at least one patient from the plurality of patients with at least one healthcare provider from the plurality of the healthcare providers based on data related to the treatment specialty associated with the patient being similar to data related to a treatment specialtyType: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Nadeem Ahmed, Sameer K. Bhatia
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Patent number: 11900405Abstract: A coupon-minter is configured to perform operations including: generating a coupon comprising encrypted discount information, wherein the encrypted discount information is encrypted with a discount key; generating, for the coupon, a hashlock from a preimage; introducing the coupon to a blockchain in association with the hashlock, wherein the blockchain is configured to permit claiming of the generated coupon only upon receiving access to the preimage used to generate the hashlock. A store-manager configured to perform operations including: claiming, using the preimage, the coupon in the blockchain; encrypting the discount key with a clearing-house public key; updating the coupon with the encrypted discount key. A clearing-house-manager configured to perform operations comprising: detecting the store-manager's claiming of the coupon; decrypting the encrypted discount key with a clearing-house private key to re-generate the discount key; and decrypting the encrypted discount information with the preimage.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Valassis Communications, Inc.Inventors: Jay Webster, Alexander J. Olson, Tobias Speckbacher, Andreas Binnewies
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Patent number: 11887147Abstract: In some examples, a graphical user interface (GUI) presented via a mobile application includes a first user interface element representative of a payment instrument of a user, and one or more second user interface elements. Each second user interface element is representative of a respective reward offer associated with a respective merchant, and the respective reward offer is selectable via interaction with the corresponding second user interface element. The second user interface elements are presented in a scrollable carousel that is presented separately from, and proximate to, the first user interface element. Based at least on receiving, via the GUI, a selection of one of the second user interface elements, a corresponding respective reward offer from a respective merchant is associated with the payment instrument of the user, and the corresponding respective reward offer is redeemable in association with a transaction involving the payment instrument and the respective merchant.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: BLOCK, INC.Inventors: Brandon Jacoby, Owen Jennings, Ali Hussain
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Patent number: 11880850Abstract: A cross-entity and cross-retailer platform is provided that captures transaction data (and/or browser history data associated with online browser-based transactions), indexes, and stores the data in a cloud-accessible data store. A cloud service is provided that custom processes retailer and entity-defined workflows based on purchase transactions using the data store. The service discovers and updates trends and patterns associated with item sales for a given retailer or for a given entity across channels associated with in-store and online item sales. The trends and patterns are dynamically reported to the corresponding entity or the corresponding retailer. The entities may comprise manufacturers of an item, a supplier of the item, a distributor of the item, and a Consumer Packaging Goods (CPG) company of the item.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: NCR Voyix CorporationInventors: Itamar David Laserson, Matthew Robert Burris, Christopher John Costello, Norman Leonard Trujillo
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Patent number: 11880864Abstract: A system and method of performing in-context of automated delivery of benefit-conveying (BC) code of an e-commerce website is provided. The system comprises means for identifying a BC code input field in a BC context of the e-commerce website, means for storing a plurality of BC code collections for supported e-commerce websites, and means for acquiring information about relevance-checked BC codes of the e-commerce web site. The system comprises means for displaying an UI panel in an vicinity of the identified BC code input field, with the UI panel configured to list information about the acquired relevance-checked BC codes in such a manner that an individual BC code from among the acquired BC codes can be selected through selecting a UI entry listing information about the individual BC code. The system comprises means for inputting the selected individual BC code into the identified BC code input field.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: NextGen Shopping LLCInventor: Marc A. Mezzacca
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Patent number: 11869032Abstract: A computer system and method for offering coupons to a user is provided herein. The computer system includes a coupon offering server. The coupon offering server includes a shopping container image processor configured to detect a pre-purchase item in shopping container image data. The shopping container image processor includes an object detector module and a barcode detector module. The object detector module is configured to generate first detected item data, wherein the first detected item data includes an item detected in the shopping container image data using an object detection technique. The barcode detector module is configured to generate second detected item data, wherein the second detected item data includes an item detected in the shopping container image using a barcode detection technique. The computer system also includes a coupon matcher engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: MEDIXIN INC.Inventors: Balarajan Balasubramaniam, Mohammadrasool Raeesi Nafchi
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Patent number: 11854017Abstract: A computer implemented method, comprising: selecting a plurality of dynamic models for evaluating a scoring request, wherein the dynamic models are stored on a scoring database; deploying each of the dynamic models to one of a plurality of evaluators; synchronizing the dynamic models, the synchronizing including at least determining a same version of the dynamic models is deployed and available to all evaluators; receiving, at a scoring node, a scoring request for a score of a lead from at least one requester; separating the scoring request into a plurality of scoring requests, wherein each of the scoring requests is assigned to one of the selected dynamic models wherein the request is separated by model and aggregate model results and sent to an evaluator queue; combining results from each of the dynamic models; evaluating the combined results wherein each of the evaluators sends a model evaluation response to the response queue; and providing a response to the scoring request based on the evaluation of theType: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Zeta Global Corp.Inventors: Bharat Goyal, Pavan Korada
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Patent number: 11847679Abstract: A system can determine a first persona for a user identity. The system can generate a web page based on the first persona, wherein respective reinforcement learning agents determine respective content of respective content modules of the website, wherein the reinforcement agents operate on an environment that comprises a group of states, a group of actions, and a group of rewards that are based on the group of states, and respective actions of the group of actions, and wherein a reward of the respective reinforcement learning agents that is increased via reinforcement learning is based on a sum of respective rewards of the respective reinforcement learning agents in transitioning the user identity to a second persona with respect to the website. The system can, in response to receiving first action data indicative of user identity interaction with the web page, transition the user identity to the second persona.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, L.P.Inventor: Priya Shanmugasundaram
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Patent number: 11816692Abstract: A component supply processing server may obtain component purchase data for different components from different component suppliers, and obtain purchase settlement data between retailers and manufacturers, each manufacturer selling a product to the retailers, and each product including at least one of the different components. A learning algorithm may determine a predicted shortage of a given component by associating the manufacturers with a given component based upon the corresponding product, and accepting the component purchase data to determine component purchase patterns for each of the different components. The algorithm may determine the predicted shortage by the purchase settlement data to determine product purchase patterns for the products, and correlate the component and product purchase patterns to determine the predicted shortage.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.Inventor: Alise Raak
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Patent number: 11797988Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, a computer readable storage medium and a computer program product for transaction processing on a blockchain. In the method, the blockchain node for processing a transaction receives a transaction request including a plurality of fields, the plurality of fields including a transaction task field including a plurality of clauses and each clause of the plurality of clauses indicating one of a plurality of tasks of the transaction. The blockchain node processes the plurality of tasks and determines that the transaction is successfully processed only in response to successfully processing all the plurality of tasks. The transaction processing as provided in the present disclosure enables multiple tasks to be processed through a single transaction procedure on the blockchain in an efficient way.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: VeChain Foundation LimitedInventors: Jianliang Gu, Bin Qian, Ziheng Zhou
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Patent number: 11776017Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for inserting contextual advertisements into a virtual environment. While presenting a virtual environment, a media device receives speech input. The media device selects an advertisement from an advertisement database based on the speech. The media device then determines the current environment of the virtual environment and generates a virtual object that is related to the current environment. The media device overlays the selected advertisement over the generated virtual object and displays the generated virtual object in the virtual environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: Alejandro Sanchez Pulido, Carla Mack
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Patent number: 11763346Abstract: Methods and systems of managing advertising content are shown and disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes outputting first multimedia content from a first channel, and outputting TAD content from a TAD channel instead of the first multimedia content during a TAD window of the first multimedia content. The method additionally includes receiving a first user input requesting multimedia content of a content channel different from the TAD channel during the TAD window, and outputting the multimedia content of the content channel instead of the TAD content in response to the first user input.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventor: Krishna Prasad Panje
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Patent number: 11750603Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in an authentication system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods enable users to access web-based resources on a first device by authenticating themselves on a second device. A user can provide identifying information to a web-based resource on a first device, and as a result, the user receives a message at his/her already registered second device. The user then authenticates himself/herself on the second device by reusing the means of authentication that exist on the user's second device, which results in the user being granted entry to the web-based resource on the first device.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Christian Holz
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Patent number: 11741446Abstract: A system comprises a server configured for performing steps of receiving, from an acquirer financial institution for a merchant, details of a transaction and a common virtual payment token. The transaction details include details of the merchant. Identification details of a set of consumer payment instruments associated with the common virtual payment token are retrieved from a consumer database. The consumer payment instrument for the merchant is selected from the set of consumer payment instruments, based on the merchant details. Payment details of the selected consumer payment instrument are retrieved from the consumer database. The transaction is processed with the selected consumer payment instrument by communicating to an issuer financial institution for the selected consumer payment instrument, the transaction details and the payment details of the selected consumer payment instrument.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Mastercard International IncorporatedInventors: Navneet Jain, Ganesh Shinde
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Patent number: 11734707Abstract: Disclosed is a rewards manager admin module to create, update and delete a campaign; a server-side application module responding to requests from the rewards manager admin module and to provide rewards; a server-side server containing data for the server-side application module to provide the rewards; and a bank core containing raw data of a consumer. The consumer is able to view the amount and type of rewards by viewing their account.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Kleeberg BankInventors: Cagri Ozen, John Bradley Alan Womack, Christopher Michael Medrano, Dominic Jonah Fischer
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Patent number: 11727414Abstract: A method for seamlessly and automatically granting tailored permission for use and transference of internet data between databases with comprehensive consent is described. The method employs a graph language such as JSON-LD to integrate and employ cryptographically signed Information Sharing Agreements (ISA) between parties. Data is serialized to be easily transferred between databases when appropriate permission is obtained. Granular data exchange under usage control contacts can be automated among any number of parties on the internet. As such, the method provides a means by which users may control not only what may be done with their data, but to what entity or entities the data may be transferred. Advertisements may then be served to the user according to his or her preferences as defined within a web or desktop app, which is then applied to all related ad publishers publishing to the domains visited by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Portable Data CorporationInventors: James Fournier, Victor Grey