Patents Examined by William J. Allen
  • Patent number: 11461833
    Abstract: In an automated product delivery method a request for delivery of a product is received from a user device. One or more product delivery options are determined and transmitted to the user device and a selected product delivery option is received from the user device. The product is provided to the selected delivery location in advance of the selected delivery time window. A delivery processing server receives user device location information and determines an estimated arrival time of the user at the delivery location. At the estimated arrival time, the product is securely staged for pickup by the user. The delivery processing server receives user validation information, and responsive to validation of the user information, transmits to the delivery location processing device, an instruction to allow access to the product by the user, and access to the product by the user is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Phillips, Andrew Grossman, Ari Horowitz
  • Patent number: 11439255
    Abstract: A retail shower door display assembly is provided with a point-of-sale display unit sized to be received within a retail store aisle. An array of various shower door frames is oriented within the display unit. An array of various shower door glass panes is oriented within the display unit. A method for displaying shower door assemblies for retail is provided by displaying various shower door frames for purchaser selection. Various shower door glass panes are provided for purchaser selection independent of the shower door frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG CORP.
    Inventors: James Allen Austin, III, Patrick William Boehnen, Matthew James Klein, Richard L. Roetken, Marcus Bosch, Geraint Krumpe, Natalie A. Schraufnagel
  • Patent number: 11420863
    Abstract: Smart fuel dispensing techniques utilize telematics data to initiate fueling sessions. Techniques can receive telematics data including identification data for a vehicle, determine a fuel type based on the vehicle identification data, determine a scope of fueling permissions associated with the vehicle identification data, and initiate a fueling session based on the scope of fueling permissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Bharat Prasad, Charles L. Oakes, III
  • Patent number: 11417104
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to automatically determining location of an object. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for automatically determining location of an object inside a retail store via one or more cameras including: a plurality of locations inside a retail store; a first camera capturing a first image of a first location; a portable electronic device configured to transmit a signal used to determine an absolute location of a test object; one or more first receiver circuits configured to receive transmitted first signals from the portable electronic device; and a control circuit configured to: associate a first set of store coordinates of a first coordinate system associated with an entire area inside the retail store with a first set of frame coordinates of a second coordinate system associated with the plurality of cameras; and cause a database to store the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Yanbin Ye, Zhichun Xiao
  • Patent number: 11409431
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a computer-executed method, a computer system and computer-program product for facilitating a transaction. The method includes transmitting computer-executable instructions to cause a representation of an item to be displayed on a consumer interface rendered on a visual display of a computing device. The method also includes receiving, from the computing device, an indication of a compound consumer input associated with a consumer and performed using the consumer interface. The method further includes, based on a determination that the compound consumer input corresponds to a purchase command, retrieving information previously stored for the consumer, generating an order to purchase the item for the consumer, and transmitting an order confirmation configured to be displayed by the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Sri Viswanath, Eric Hyche, Mihir Shah, Peter Bergstrom, Michael Burton, Dor Levi, Fabio Sisinni, Don Albert Chennavasin, Marius G. Ciocirlan, Ben Kim, Riaz Rahim
  • Patent number: 11392964
    Abstract: An automated predictive analytics system disclosed herein provides for generating sales leads with lead engagement recommendations. In one implementation, the system determines similarities between fitness, engagement, and intent characteristics of a plurality of target clients and fitness, engagement, and intent characteristics of an entity's existing clients. Subsequently, the system generates recommendations for engagement with the plurality of target clients, wherein components of the recommendations for engagement are based on determined similarities between the fitness, engagement, and intent characteristics of the plurality of target clients and the fitness, engagement, and intent characteristics of the entity's existing clients. The system presents the plurality of leads with the recommendations of engagement to using a graphical user interface (GUI) at the application layer of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ZOOMINFO APOLLO LLC
    Inventors: Hua Gao, Vincent Yang, Yi Jin, Amit Rai
  • Patent number: 11393019
    Abstract: Purchase from sellers of selection is enabled to be made through simple operations. Furthermore, prospective purchase events are distributed to sellers as needed. Demands of purchase candidates are retrieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PEACE AND PASSION INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hirano, Nuttapong Attrapadung, Senlin Guan
  • Patent number: 11361364
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shopping recommendation method, a client, and a server. The method includes: acquiring voice information of a user, and performing voice recognition and keyword extraction on the voice information, to obtain shopping keyword information; transmitting the shopping keyword information to a server, so that the server performs interest prediction according to the shopping keyword information and shopping related information of the user, to generate recommendation information; and receiving the recommendation information, and generating shopping recommendation content according to the recommendation information to be displayed by a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangyang Liu, Chune Lan, Tong Liu, Zhiguo Zhang, Hui Rao
  • Patent number: 11348164
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing electronic recommendation engines and displays of an apparel subscription application may comprise determining a status of the user as being a valid user of electronic closet recommendation engines and displays of an apparel subscription application; determining, if the user is a valid user, a presence of apparel data in an assistant section of an electronic record corresponding to the user in a database of the electronic closet recommendation engines and displays; and launching the assistant section of a user interface of the apparel subscription application, if the apparel data is present in the assistant section of the electronic record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: CaaStle, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnab Bhattacharya, Georgiy Goldenberg, Aurelien Labonne
  • Patent number: 11334937
    Abstract: Online products and priorities of the online products are obtained, where the online products are waiting to be displayed on a product shelf. The product shelf includes at least two display slots, where each display slot of the at least two display slots displays one online product. An attention ranking of each display slot is determined based on a distance between each display slot and a visual center of the product shelf. An online product is displayed with a higher obtained priority in a particular display slot with a greater determined attention ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jie Li
  • Patent number: 11328246
    Abstract: A delivery device includes an image capture device for generating delivery image data of a delivery at a service address. A processor executes a delivery application to bidirectionally communicate delivery data with the delivery data server via the network interface, wherein the delivery data includes a delivery tracking number and the delivery image data. The delivery data server processes the delivery data to provide a delivery confirmation to a customer at the service address, wherein the delivery confirmation includes the delivery tracking number and the delivery image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventors: Bruce E. Stuckman, Judith Lynn Stuckman, Katherine C. Stuckman
  • Patent number: 11301919
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving the efficiency of order fulfillment are disclosed. When fulfilling an order in which substitutions are required, due to unavailability of particular products, the process of contacting the customer and receiving a selection from the customer can be separated from the picking process. The picker can continue to fulfill the order, while an automated system offers alternatives and receives selections from the customer. If appropriate, the substitution can be appended to the picker's list. If the picker has completed the remainder of the order, on the other hand, a new order with the substitution can be created, which can later be aggregated with the original order. A variety of methods can be used to efficiently present substitutions to the customer and receive choices from the customer, including use of imagery of substitute items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wesley Scott Lauka, Julia Hannah Blum, Taylor Wayne Andrus, Trevor Joseph Allred
  • Patent number: 11295373
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a multi-dimensional commerce platform that may be utilized for the communication of data. Aspects of the multi-dimensional commerce platform may include various functional components to facilitate a system to receive inventory data at a first server associated with the multi-dimensional commerce platform, provide a second server associated with a third-party (e.g., a third party seller/distributor) access to the inventory data, alter or modify the inventory data based on attributes of the second server, and cause display of a presentation of the modified inventory data at a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Gail Anna Rahn Frederick, Tatjana Vlahovic, Sanjeev Katariya
  • Patent number: 11295322
    Abstract: An online order management service is configured to interface between merchants and order/delivery services so that a merchant can provide a catalog to multiple order/delivery services without having to communicate directly with the order/delivery services. A recommendation service is also provided to provide recommendations to merchants regarding which of multiple order/delivery services to use. The recommendation service bases its recommendations on historical order data that has been archived by the online order management service, as well as on known or derived merchant properties. The recommendation service may also recommend product items to be included in a catalog in order to improve sales results achieved when listing the catalog with any particular order/delivery service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Yien, Logan Johnson
  • Patent number: 11270367
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing product information. The appearance of a first product and a second product is detected within a field of view of one or more image sensors. Movement of the first product or the second product relative to one another is then detected. If the movement of the first product or the second product relative to one another causes the first product to come within a threshold distance of the second product, then comparison information is displayed at a location at least partially between the first product and the second product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Golnaz Abdollahian, Earl M. Olson
  • Patent number: 11227253
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for providing a product delivery service in an electronic transaction using a smartphone in which delivery product discharging devices are suitably disposed in specific places of main areas such as a subway station or a bus stop and a purchaser may conveniently pick up an ordered delivery product from a delivery product discharging device previously designated by the purchaser using a smartphone of the purchaser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Phil Jae Kim
  • Patent number: 11222381
    Abstract: A mechanism for providing electronic commerce data onto publisher's site. The mechanism also provides ability for a consumer to interact with that data to complete a purchase from within the publisher's website or application. A method includes retrieving merchandise data from a plurality of merchants and storing at least one group of merchandise data formed based on the merchandise data and content on a publisher site. The method also includes embedding the group of merchandise data on the content of the publisher's website and generating a merchandise frame in view of the embedment. The method further includes rendering the merchandise frame directly onto the publisher site. The method further includes rendering a universal check out frame on the publisher's site, which provides the user the ability to check out from multiple retailers within a single universal check out on a publisher's site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: 72Lux, Inc.
    Inventor: Heather Marie Udo
  • Patent number: 11222374
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for providing a continued item purchase experience for users wishing to repeat purchases of items when previously purchased items have been discontinued or are no longer available. A replacement item is identified for an item that is determined to be discontinued. The interaction history of the discontinued item is associated with the replacement item. A user interface is generated to include a listing of previously purchased items, including the replacement items that are arranged in a particular order. The replacement item is arranged in the user interface according to the interaction history of the discontinued item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Adrian Bell, Andre Wyatt
  • Patent number: 11216262
    Abstract: A facility for provisioning a device is described. The facility discerns an identifier that identifies the device, and transmits the identifier to a server computer system. The facility receives from the server computer system provisioning measures specified for the device. In response to receiving the specified provisioning measures, the facility performs the specified provisioning measures on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Tyler Czarnecki, Vladimir Holostov
  • Patent number: 11195218
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for processing meat. An example system comprises a database that includes estimates of meat weight associated with characteristics of an animal. The system also includes a server that, after receiving first characteristics of a first animal, generates a first meat weight of the first animal using the estimates in the database. Additionally, in some examples, the system includes an application that is downloadable onto a mobile device. The application (i) receives, via a first presented interface, a selection of the first animal, (ii) receives, via a series of second presented interfaces, the first characteristics of the first animal, (iii) sends the first characteristics to the server and receives the first meat weight, (iv) receives, via a series of third presented interfaces, an allocation of the first meat weight to goods offered by a processor, and (v) composes an order based on the allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Field To Freezer, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew McCoy