Patents by Inventor Anthony Welcome

Anthony Welcome has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260236730
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to fine-tuning machine learning (ML) chatbots for an enterprise. The systems and methods may use ML chatbots and/or generative ML to generate social media content for a user associated with an enterprise. The systems and methods may fine-tune a base ML model, and use the fine-tuned ML model for the ML chatbot. A user profile may indicate user attributes, and a fine-tuned ML model may be loaded for the ML chatbot based upon an identified user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2026
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Inventors: Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Lauren Mitchell, Ross Wheeler, Steve Amancha, Anthony Welcome
  • Patent number: 12694869
    Abstract: A computer system is provided and is programmed to: (1) receive an audible caller statement originating from a caller being routed to the representative; (2) parse the audible caller statement; (3) identify one or more key words from the parsed audible caller statement; (4) search an information database for one or more items of information based upon the one or more key words; (5) identify at least one of the one or more items of information to present to the representative; and (6) transmit the at least one identified items of information to be presented to the representative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Anthony Welcome, Kimberly C. Kloeppel
  • Patent number: 12664599
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for career development are provided. The method comprises: (1) receiving, by one or more processors from a user device, an information element associated with a user; (2) generating, by the one or more processors via a chatbot, career development suggestions based upon the information element associated with the user; and/or (3) presenting, by the one or more processors to the user via the user device, the career development suggestions. The chatbot may implement a trained model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Ross Wheeler, Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Lauren Mitchell, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha
  • Publication number: 20260141467
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed for improving quality of a property improvement recommendation generated by a chatbot. The method comprises: (1) receiving, from a user, a first prompt associated with a property; (2) analyzing the first prompt to generate a second prompt, wherein generating the second prompt includes: (i) retrieving one or more datasets based upon a distance between a feature vector of the first prompt and feature vectors of the one or more datasets, wherein the one or more datasets include data associated with the property; and (ii) generating the second prompt based upon the first prompt and the one or more datasets; (3) transmitting, to the chatbot, the second prompt to generate a response, the response comprising the property improvement recommendation; and (4) presenting the response to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Inventors: Ross Wheeler, Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha, Lauren Elise Mitchell, Anish Agarwal
  • Publication number: 20260111977
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for marking virtual objects. An exemplary system includes one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions thereon. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: (1) receive a transaction listing from a first entity, the transaction listing including (i) a digital asset that is associated with a virtual object in a virtual environment and (ii) a status of the digital asset indicating an active association with the first entity, (2) generate a transaction based upon the transaction listing, the transaction including an indication of the virtual object, (3) record the transaction in a distributed ledger, and (4) responsive to recording the transaction in the distributed ledger, cause the status of the digital asset to be displayed when the virtual object is viewed in the virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2025
    Publication date: April 23, 2026
    Inventors: Brian Fields, EllaKate LeFebre, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha, Jose Ivan Gutierrez
  • Patent number: 12608689
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to fine-tuning machine learning (ML) chatbots for an enterprise. The systems and methods may use ML chatbots and/or generative ML to generate social media content for a user associated with an enterprise. The systems and methods may fine-tune a base ML model, and use the fine-tuned ML model for the ML chatbot. A user profile may indicate user attributes, and a fine-tuned ML model may be loaded for the ML chatbot based upon an identified user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Lauren Mitchell, Ross Wheeler, Steve Amancha, Anthony Welcome
  • Patent number: 12499496
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for marking virtual objects. An exemplary system includes one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions thereon. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: (1) receive a transaction listing from a first entity, the transaction listing including (i) a digital asset that is associated with a virtual object in a virtual environment and (ii) a status of the digital asset indicating an active association with the first entity, (2) generate a transaction based upon the transaction listing, the transaction including an indication of the virtual object, (3) record the transaction in a distributed ledger, and (4) responsive to recording the transaction in the distributed ledger, cause the status of the digital asset to be displayed when the virtual object is viewed in the virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian Fields, Ellakate LeFebre, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha, Jose Ivan Gutierrez
  • Publication number: 20250029192
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed for providing property improvement recommendations. The method comprises: (1) receiving, by one or more processors from a user, a first prompt associated with a property; (2) generating, by the one or more processors, a second prompt based upon the first prompt, data associated with the property and one or more property metrics associated with the property; (3) transmitting, by the one or more processors to a chatbot, the second prompt to generate a response, the response comprising a recommended action associated with the property; and/or (4) presenting, by the one or more processors, the response to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Ross Wheeler, Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha, Lauren Elise Mitchell, Anish Agarwal
  • Publication number: 20250022071
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to fine-tuning machine learning (ML) chatbots for an enterprise. The systems and methods may use ML chatbots and/or generative ML to generate social media content for a user associated with an enterprise. The systems and methods may fine-tune a base ML model, and use the fine-tuned ML model for the ML chatbot. A user profile may indicate user attributes, and a fine-tuned ML model may be loaded for the ML chatbot based upon an identified user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Lauren Michell, Ross Wheeler, Steve Amancha, Anthony Welcome
  • Publication number: 20240428259
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed for providing customer-specific information. The method comprises: (1) receiving, by one or more processors from a user device, a first prompt associated with a customer; (2) creating, by the one or more processors, a vector associated with the first prompt; (3) comparing, by the one or more processors, the vector associated with the first prompt with vectors associated with a plurality of documents associated with the customer to identify one or more candidate documents from the plurality of documents; (4) creating, by the one or more processors, a second prompt based upon the first prompt and the one or more candidate documents; (5) inputting, by the one or more processors, the second prompt into a chatbot to obtain a response to the second prompt; and/or (6) presenting, by the one or more processors, the response via the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Ross Wheeler, Lauren Mitchell, Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha
  • Publication number: 20240412313
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for career development are provided. The method comprises: (1) receiving, by one or more processors from a user device, an information element associated with a user; (2) generating, by the one or more processors via a chatbot, career development suggestions based upon the information element associated with the user; and/or (3) presenting, by the one or more processors to the user via the user device, the career development suggestions. The chatbot may implement a trained model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Ross Wheeler, Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Lauren Mitchell, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha
  • Publication number: 20240412145
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for training employees are provided. The method comprises: (1) receiving, by one or more processors from a user device associated with an employee, an answer associated with a question; (2) generating, by the one or more processors via a chatbot, values associated with one or more metrics of the answer; and/or (3) performing, by the one or more processors, at least one of the following: (i) determining a skill level of the employee based upon the values associated with the one or more metrics of the answer; (ii) presenting, to the employee via the user device, a second question based upon the values associated with the one or more metrics of the answer; and/or (iii) presenting, to the employee via the user device, an explanation based upon the values associated with the one or more metrics of the answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Ross Wheeler, Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Lauren Mitchell, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha
  • Publication number: 20240394503
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to fine-tuning machine learning (ML) chatbots for an enterprise. The systems and methods may use ML chatbots and/or generative ML to provide information to a user in a manner emulating the traits of a person. The systems and methods may fine-tune a base ML model, and use the fine-tuned ML model for the ML chatbot. The user may indicate a person associated with the fine-tuned ML model, and the fine-tuned ML model associated with the person may be loaded for the ML chatbot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Lauren Mitchell, Ross Wheeler, Steve Amancha, Anthony Welcome, Olivia Nauman
  • Publication number: 20240394593
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to fine-tuning machine learning (ML) chatbots for an enterprise. The systems and methods may use ML chatbots and/or generative ML to provide information to a user based upon the user's interaction at a portal of an enterprise. The systems and methods may fine-tune a base ML model, and use the fine-tuned ML model for the ML chatbot. The user's interactions may be classified as a type of user activity. A fine-tuned ML model may be loaded as the ML chatbot based upon the type of user activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Lauren Mitchell, Ross Wheeler, Steve Amancha, Anthony Welcome
  • Publication number: 20240378678
    Abstract: A user analytics computing device for processing mobile device telematics data and generating user offerings responsive to the mobile device telematics data is provided. The user analytics computing device comprises at least one processor programmed to generate an operator model for a user based upon historical telematics data, an output of the operator model to determine whether the user is operating a vehicle. The user analytics computing device is further programmed to input telematics data into the operator model, and in response to determining the user is operating the vehicle, generate a driver profile based upon the telematics data and the device mode data, generate, based upon the driver profile, a user offering, and transmit, to the mobile device of the user, the user offering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kimberly C. Kloeppel, Anthony Welcome
  • Publication number: 20240312453
    Abstract: A computer system is provided and is programmed to: (1) receive an audible caller statement originating from a caller being routed to the representative; (2) parse the audible caller statement; (3) identify one or more key words from the parsed audible caller statement; (4) search an information database for one or more items of information based upon the one or more key words; (5) identify at least one of the one or more items of information to present to the representative; and (6) transmit the at least one identified items of information to be presented to the representative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Anthony Welcome, Kimberly C. Kloeppel
  • Publication number: 20240273525
    Abstract: Blockchain-based systems and methods for managing digital currency associated with a company or organization are disclosed. The digital currency may be used to reward or incentivize behaviors of employees, clients, and/or prospective clients or customers of a company, organization, or other entity. A blockchain computing device in accordance with the present disclosure may include at least one memory and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory. The processor may be programmed to, in response to a predetermined criterion being met, automatically generate a reward token transaction, broadcast the reward token transaction to a blockchain network, validate the reward token transaction, and generate and store a new block on the blockchain network with the reward token transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Veena Vivek, Jose I. Gutierrez, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha, EllaKate LeFebre, Kimberly C. Kloeppel
  • Publication number: 20240152906
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for minting digital assets associated with user achievements in a distributed network. An exemplary system includes one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions thereon. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: (1) receive an update from a platform application on a user computing device, the update including (i) an association indication between a first entity of the user computing device and a second entity and (ii) an achievement of the first entity; (2) generate a transaction based upon the update, the transaction including a digital asset associated with the update; (3) record the transaction in a distributed ledger; and (4) responsive to recording the transaction in the distributed ledger, transmit a notification to the user computing device indicating the digital asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Fields, Ellakate LeFebre, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha, Jose Ivan Gutierrez
  • Publication number: 20240153022
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for marking virtual objects. An exemplary system includes one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions thereon. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: (1) receive a transaction listing from a first entity, the transaction listing including (i) a digital asset that is associated with a virtual object in a virtual environment and (ii) a status of the digital asset indicating an active association with the first entity, (2) generate a transaction based upon the transaction listing, the transaction including an indication of the virtual object, (3) record the transaction in a distributed ledger, and (4) responsive to recording the transaction in the distributed ledger, cause the status of the digital asset to be displayed when the virtual object is viewed in the virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Fields, EllaKate LeFebre, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha, Jose Ivan Gutierrez
  • Publication number: 20240144294
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for managing transactions associated with vehicles using a distributed ledger maintained by a plurality of participants. An exemplary system includes one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions thereon. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: (1) receive a transaction listing from a first entity, the transaction listing including (i) entity data corresponding to the first entity, (ii) a non-fungible token (NFT) corresponding to a vehicle, and (iii) an updated state of the vehicle; (2) generate a transaction including a description of the transaction listing; and (3) record the transaction in a distributed ledger. A vehicle identification number (VIN) of the vehicle may be linked to the NFT in the distributed ledger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Fields, Ellakate LeFebre, Anthony Welcome, Steve Amancha, Jose Ivan Gutierrez