Patents Examined by Timothy Padot
  • Patent number: 12369809
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for determining intensity of a biological response to a presentation are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory and processor circuitry to execute instructions to identify trough-to-peak instances in first galvanic skin response (GSR) data for a first subject, the first GSR data collected from the first subject during exposure of the first subject to media content during a period of time; assign trough-to-peak scores to corresponding ones of the trough-to-peak instances; associate the respective ones of the trough-to-peak scores with a time corresponding to the trough of each trough-to-peak instances; assign window scores to corresponding ones of windows in the period of time based on the highest trough-to-peak score occurring within the corresponding windows to generate a first GSR intensity profile; and identify an element of the media content for modification based on the first GSR intensity profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Carl Marci, Dereck Padden, Randall Rule, Joonho Moon, Brendan Murray
  • Patent number: 12260360
    Abstract: Data associated a plurality of user interface elements may be retrieved from at least one database associated with a service business, such as a casino. At a first time, a first indication to turn on a first subset of the plurality of user interface elements may be received. The user interface elements may include content management, task management, property management, action management, player profiling, comp management, player development, asset tagging and flagging, profitability and comparative analysis, player insights, floor mapping, campaign management, etc. Each of the first subset of user interface elements may be populated with the respective data associated that user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: OPTX SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Roy Hartwig, Ashley Brooke Fiumara, Thomas Rafferty
  • Patent number: 12217298
    Abstract: Integration of an external calendar application with a task facilitation service includes mechanisms for creating tasks within the task facilitation service based on calendar data of the calendar application received by the task facilitation service and processed using various dynamic models and algorithms. Further examples of integration include the task facilitation service generating recommendations for new calendar items and modifications to existing calendar items by leveraging the data and models available to the task facilitation service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Yohana LLC
    Inventors: Yoky Matsuoka, Nitin Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 12210984
    Abstract: A transaction-enabling system is disclosed. The system may include a controller to interpret a behavioral data source and a resource utilization requirement for a task system having at least one of a compute task, a network task, or a core task. The controller may then operate a machine to forecast a forward market value for a resource in response to the resource utilization requirement and the behavioral data source. The controller then adjusts an operation of the task system or executes a transaction in response to the forecast of the forward market value for the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella
  • Patent number: 12174896
    Abstract: Techniques and architectures for managing one or more data structures and/or distributing real-time data associated with the one or more data structures are discussed herein. For example, the techniques and architectures may implement data structures to manage data associated with one or more data-streaming events. The techniques and architectures may provide visualizations to view aspects of the data structures, the one or more data-streaming events, and/or other data associated with the data structures. The techniques and architectures may also facilitate control access to the data structures and/or data associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Viralocity Software, LLC
    Inventors: Linda A. Frank, Mark F. Moussa
  • Patent number: 12169818
    Abstract: An electronic price label system and a method for an electronic price label system include a product database in which products are listed. A new price of a product is sent to an electronic price label linked to the product. The received new price of a product is stored by the electronic price label. The electronic price label changes the displayed price to the received new price in response to receiving a price activation signal from the electronic price label system, e.g. from base station of the electronic price label system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MARIELLA LABELS OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Patent number: 12154409
    Abstract: Data associated a plurality of user interface elements may be retrieved from at least one database associated with a service business, such as a casino. At a first time, a first indication to turn on a first subset of the plurality of user interface elements may be received. The user interface elements may include content management, task management, property management, action management, player profiling, comp management, player development, asset tagging and flagging, profitability and comparative analysis, player insights, floor mapping, campaign management, etc. Each of the first subset of user interface elements may be populated with the respective data associated that user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: OPTX SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Roy Hartwig, Ashley Brooke Fiumara, Thomas Rafferty
  • Patent number: 12154047
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, at a server device, a request from a third-party website over an application programming interface (API), the request including a user identification and an item identification; retrieving, at the server device, a set of goal data structures generated for a user profile of a user matching the user identification; matching, at the server device, the item identification to an identification within a goal data structure of the set of goal data structures, the goal data structure including a plurality of steps associated with the goal data structure; generating, at the server device, a response data structure including a status of each step of the plurality of steps associated with the goal data structure; and transmitting the response data structure to the third-party website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Rajeswaran Govindan, Margaret Seter Honeycutt, Wyman Yu, Jason V. Biala, Ryan Lee Hammond, Dennis E. Montenegro, Christopher Sipanya, Sergey Yamandiy, Miriam Felecia Clark, Jason Huang
  • Patent number: 12154138
    Abstract: Data associated a plurality of user interface elements may be retrieved from at least one database associated with a service business, such as a casino. At a first time, a first indication to turn on a first subset of the plurality of user interface elements may be received. The user interface elements may include content management, task management, property management, action management, player profiling, comp management, player development, asset tagging and flagging, profitability and comparative analysis, player insights, floor mapping, campaign management, etc. Each of the first subset of user interface elements may be populated with the respective data associated that user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: OPTX SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Roy Hartwig, Ashley Brooke Fiumara, Thomas Rafferty
  • Patent number: 12141728
    Abstract: A target quantity of a target product is needed. However, the target quantity of the target product is not available from a set of sources. A fulfillment plan is generated. The fulfillment plan includes obtaining quantities of more than one product in order to fulfill the need for the target quantity of the target product. The fulfillment plan is executed. Executing the fulfillment plan includes distributing tasks, orders, notifications to various entities to fulfill the target quantity of the target product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer Darmour, Loretta Marie Grande, Ronald Paul Lapurga Viernes, Jingyi Han, Nicole Santina Giovanetti, Jason Wong, Min Hye Kim
  • Patent number: 12106264
    Abstract: Aspects described herein may allow for the application of machine learning techniques to the classification of transactions and/or the prediction of shipping means for such transactions. This may have the effect of generating better insights into user shopping behavior and providing users with better predictions as to how they may expect to receive their purchases. A browser application may be monitored to determine that a user is shopping. A machine learning model may be used to predict shipping data associated with a product and/or merchant associated with the shopping of the user. Predicted shipping data may be displayed to the user, and user feedback may be requested and received to confirm model predictions and review purchases and shipping experiences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Abdelkader M'hamed Benkreira, Joshua Edwards, Michael Mossoba
  • Patent number: 12099949
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem. Embodiments include receiving a matrix formulation of at least a portion of the LP problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network, generating an image based on the matrix formulation to identify connected components, partitioning the matrix formulation based, at least in part, on the connected components constraint into at least two partitions, formulating an LP subproblem from each of the at least two partitions, and solving the LP subproblems to generate a global solution to the supply chain planning problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Devanand R, Narayan Nandeda, Tushar Shekhar
  • Patent number: 12093875
    Abstract: System, methods, and devices for measuring the performance of a component of a communications network recently installed by a technician using proactive network maintenance parameters, and further assessing the installation performed by the technician.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Harvey Howard, Thomas Martin Davidson, Dean Alan Stoneback, Steven Richard Harris, Pamela Ann Nobles, Christopher Dale Bastian
  • Patent number: 12062061
    Abstract: An example includes one or more devices may include one or more memories and one or more processors, communicatively coupled with at least one of the one or more memories, to identify a service that is provided within a region; identify a model that is associated with the service, the model having been trained based on consumer profile data, service provider data, and historical information; determine a current demand associated with the service in the region; predict, using the model and based on the current demand associated with the service, a future demand for the service during a time period; determine a current capacity to provide the service based on real-time service provider information associated with service providers that are providing the service in the region; and perform an action associated with the service based on the future demand for the service and the current capacity to provide the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Phillips, Zhe Liu, Jeremy Rephlo, Daniel Filler
  • Patent number: 12026730
    Abstract: A transaction information aggregation system includes raw transaction and enriched transaction databases. The raw transaction database comprises transaction information for a plurality of transactions, including for each transaction an account holder identifier and at least one transaction parameter. The enriched transaction database comprises an indexed transaction record for each of the plurality of transactions, each record including a plurality of search terms associated with each of the at least one transaction parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Koon Heng Ivan Teo, Yazdan Shirvany, Joses Nthiga, Mohammad Shami, Francisco Perezleon, Fernando San Martin Jorquera
  • Patent number: 11995585
    Abstract: A method for identifying machine modifications to improve machine productivity can include receiving telematics data from a plurality of sensors on a machine performing an activity. An activity type can be determined based on the telematics data. The method can also include calculating a current estimated machine productivity for the activity type and calculating a predicted machine productivity for the activity type for each of a plurality of machine modifications. The predicted machine productivity for each of the plurality of machine modifications can be compared with the current estimated productivity. The method can include calculating an investment metric for each of the machine modifications having a predicted machine productivity greater than the current estimated productivity. Each investment metric and its corresponding machine modification can be output for review by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Villero, Kyle J. Cline
  • Patent number: 11978072
    Abstract: A method of generating a visualization of location-dependent values is provided where a plurality of bids and a plurality of supply locations are received from at least one datastore. Each of the plurality of bids has an associated location. A first geographic location is selected from the plurality of supply locations. A ball tree is generated, the ball tree comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the ball tree comprising a pivot geographic location and a radius, each node corresponding to at least one local value having a location within the radius of the pivot. The ball tree is traversed to generate sorted collection of location dependent values. Each of the location dependent values is determined from one of the plurality of bids. A map of the collection of location dependent values is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INDIGO AG, INC.
    Inventors: Fernando Tubilla, Nicholas Malizia
  • Patent number: 11928699
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for auto-discovery of reasoning knowledge graphs in supply chains are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a spatiotemporal query related to a demand of at least one product in a supply chain; analyzing the spatiotemporal query to identify one or more parameters affecting the demand of the at least one product, wherein the one or more parameters comprise at least one of one or more climate parameters and one or more disruptive event parameters; generating a knowledge graph comprising information indicating an impact on the demand of the at least one product for at least a portion of the one or more parameters; and outputting, to a user interface, an explanation of a predicted demand forecast for the at least one product based at least in part on the knowledge graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya, Ranjini Bangalore Guruprasad, Shantanu R. Godbole, Kedar Kulkarni, Jitendra Singh, Geeth Ranmal de Mel, Richard J. Tomsett, Komminist Weldemariam
  • Patent number: 11915166
    Abstract: There is provided a method for providing pricing information about a potential migration of a network computing task. The method includes the step of providing a provider availability set, identifying a price qualified set for each cloud service provider, and displaying the information about each cloud service provider and its pricing via a user interface. The price qualified set includes each cloud service provider: (a) whose price for performing the task complies with a price acceptability criteria or (b) that has a respective price proposal associated therewith reflecting a price for engaging the cloud service provider to perform the task in lieu of the task being performed by the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: RISC Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Lynn Littlejohn, Gregory Evan Watts
  • Patent number: 11900321
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving process information that specifies one or more process requirements and one or more potential causes of failures associated with processes for manufacturing a design, ii) control information that specifies one or more parameters and one or more values associated with the one or more parameters that facilitate determining whether the one or more process requirements specified in the process information that are associated with the processes are being met, and iii) sensor data associated with the one or more parameters from one or more sensors of a product development environment. Responsive to determining that sensor data associated with a particular parameter of the control information is outside of an associated range of values, a process requirement and a process associated with the parameter is determined based on the process information and the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Brittany A. Friedland, John R. Palmer, Lucas Aviles, Anthony T. O'Hare, Leanne Jensen, Raluca M. Dumitrache