Patents by Inventor Benjamin Weiß

Benjamin Weiß 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).

  • Patent number: 11232386
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed to detect whether an interaction has occurred between a customer and one or more store employees. By analyzing a how long a communication device used by the customer was within a threshold range of one or more devices worn by store employees, an interaction between the customer and one or more store employees may be identified. Employees whom the customer interacted with may be identified by processing transmission parameters broadcasted by the devices worn by the store employees. Thus, all employees in which a customer interacted with while visiting a store may be identified. The customer may be asked for feedback via the communication device upon detection that a customer has completed a transaction and/or left the store. Using the solicited feedback provided by the customer, various types of reports may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Benjamin Weiss, Timothy P. McCauley, Nicholas L. Eby
  • Publication number: 20220012430
    Abstract: A pharmacy order facilitation method includes receiving a message; training a machine learning model; generating an intent; generating a response message; and transmitting the response message. A computing system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to: receive a message; train a machine learning model; generate an intent; generate a response message; and transmit the response message. A computing system includes a mobile device; a server device configured to: train a machine learning model; analyze the inbound message; identify a customer intent; perform an action based on the customer intent; and transmit an outbound message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Lindsey Kanefsky, Kartik Subramanian, Andrew David Schweinfurth, Benjamin Weiss
  • Patent number: 11106869
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a message of a pharmacy customer wherein the message includes a text string, and generating a set of one or more intents corresponding to the pharmacy customer by analyzing the text string using a trained machine learning model, wherein each of the one or more intents correspond to a respective desired action pertaining to the pharmacy order. The machine learning model may be a classification model. The method further includes generating at least one response message based on the set of intents corresponding to the pharmacy customer and transmitting the at least one response message to a mobile device associated with the pharmacy customer. The set of one or more intents may be chosen from a list of commonplace pharmacy customer intents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Lindsey Kanefsky, Kartik Subramanian, Andrew Schweinfurth, Benjamin Weiss
  • Patent number: 10965822
    Abstract: Methods and systems for preventing the cropping of faces depicted by digital photographs are provided. To this end, the methods and systems may automatically detect the presence of faces depicted by the digital photographs and generate a facial boundary for the faces. The methods and system may also generate a crop boundary at which the photograph is cropped. In some scenarios, the systems and methods attempt to locate the crop boundary on the digital photograph to prevent omitting a portion of the facial boundary. Additionally or alternatively, users are provided an interface to manually set a location for the crop boundary. The user is warned if the crop boundary omits a portion of the facial boundary. The digital photographs and crop boundaries are sent to a printer to generate a physical print of the digital photographs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Joseph Zizzo, Benjamin Weiss
  • Patent number: 10917741
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for location-based notification display includes receiving an indication that a user launched an application at the mobile device. Launching the application changes the application from a background state to a launched state. While the application is in the launched state: requesting a location of the mobile device, based on the location of the mobile device, determining one or more entity locations, and causing the mobile device to register the one or more entity locations. While the application is in the background state: causing the mobile device to register one or more location-triggered notifications, wherein each location-triggered notification is associated with a corresponding entity location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventor: Benjamin Weiss
  • Patent number: 10859191
    Abstract: A coupling arrangement for a screw coupling for liquid conduits of a high-pressure cleaning apparatus is provided. The coupling arrangement includes a plug part which is pluggably connectable to a complementarily configured plug part of a second coupling arrangement of the screw coupling for establishing a liquid-tight and releasable connection therewith with a sealing ring interposed therebetween, and a connecting part having a thread that is screwably connectable to a complementarily configured thread of the second coupling arrangement. The thread can be of multiple-threaded configuration and the connecting part can include a clamping element which is aligned in an in-line relationship with the thread relative to the thread longitudinal axis and is releasably clampable against a complementarily configured clamping element of the second coupling arrangement by axially inserting one into the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Langer, Benjamin Weiss, Ralph Seitter
  • Patent number: 10817828
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed to determine customer's pick-up information and their position while waiting at a brick-and-mortar store. The brick-and-mortar store may have one or more transmitters installed at predetermined locations. By utilizing an application installed on each customer's mobile computing device, each mobile computing device may transmit customer information and ranging data when within range of one or more of the transmitters. The ranging data may include an indication of a range between each of the customer's mobile computing device and one or more proximate transmitters. By correlating the customer information to pick-up information, each customer's pick-up order may be retrieved. Furthermore, by analyzing the ranging data, the position of each customer at the brick-and-mortar store may be determined. A brick-and-mortar store computing device is disclosed that may display each customer's position at the brick-and-mortar store along with their pick-up order information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Benjamin Weiss, Nicholas L. Eby
  • Patent number: 10817827
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed to determine customer's prescription information and their position while waiting in a drive-thru lane. The drive-thru lane may have one or more transmitters installed at predetermined locations. By utilizing an application installed on each customer's mobile computing device, each mobile computing device may transmit customer information and ranging data when within range of one or more of the transmitters. The ranging data may include an indication of a range between each of the customer's mobile computing device and one or more proximate transmitters. By correlating the customer information to prescription information from recently filled and/or called in prescriptions, each customer's prescription order may be retrieved. Furthermore, by analyzing the ranging data, the position of each customer in the drive-thru lane may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Benjamin Weiss, Nicholas L. Eby
  • Patent number: 10817841
    Abstract: A method and system may provide a new prescription order interface which allows a customer to order one or more new prescription medications in a quick and easy manner from a remote location using a computer or mobile device. The customer provides a new paper prescription image that includes the prescription data for a pharmacy to fill the new prescription order. The new paper prescription image is received by a server and a default pickup store and a default pickup time are determined. The server also determines whether there is a high risk that the new prescription order is fraudulent by comparing a signature in the new paper prescription image to stored signatures associated with the prescriber, and comparing distances between the locations of the customer's web-enabled device, the pharmacy, and the prescriber. The system may be accessed through a series of web pages and/or via an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Benjamin Weiss, Jon Turkington, Adam Crouch, Richard S. Majka, Atul Singh
  • Patent number: 10776252
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes downloading respective instances of an enterprise mobile application to a plurality of mobile devices. The instances of the enterprise mobile applications, while executing on respective mobile devices, capture, for each session, a session log that includes indications of ordered user actions occurring during the session, and optionally time intervals between user actions and/or user attributes. Captured session logs stored at and are mined by one or more servers to discover a particular pattern or sequence of user actions that occurred across multiple, different user sessions. If the number and/or rate of occurrences of the particular pattern is greater than a threshold, a new test case corresponding to the pattern is automatically generated and added to a suite of test cases for the UI functionality of the enterprise mobile application. The updated test suite may be automatically executed on a test version of the enterprise mobile application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventor: Benjamin Weiss
  • Patent number: 10715954
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing and facilitating geofencing features associated with electronic devices are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an entity may own or manage a set of retail stores. A server associated with the entity may receive an estimated location of an electronic device, and may determine that the estimated location is in proximity to one of the set of retail stores. The server may further calculate a geofencing boundary for the retail store based on certain location-based data, and may determine whether the estimated location of the electronic device is within the geofencing boundary. The server may additionally facilitate certain geofencing features based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventor: Benjamin Weiss
  • Patent number: 10621536
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed to detect whether an interaction has occurred between a customer and one or more store employees. By analyzing a how long a communication device used by the customer was within a threshold range of one or more devices worn by store employees, an interaction between the customer and one or more store employees may be identified. Employees whom the customer interacted with may be identified by processing transmission parameters broadcasted by the devices worn by the store employees. Thus, all employees in which a customer interacted with while visiting a store may be identified. The customer may be asked for feedback via the communication device upon detection that a customer has completed a transaction and/or left the store. Using the solicited feedback provided by the customer, various types of reports may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Benjamin Weiss, Timothy P. McCauley, Nicholas L. Eby
  • Patent number: 10567915
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for enhancing an in-store retail experience for a customer by providing information relevant to objects and services using hyper-local location techniques to facilitate identification of objects and services available for sale in a premise. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may determine a location of the electronic device and generate object capture information based on detecting the object or service at the physical premise by a viewfinder of the electronic device. The electronic device may display, on an interface, notification information particular to the object or service corresponding to the location and object capture information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Kartik Subramanian, Benjamin Weiss, Shivakumar Chandramouli, Viral Brahmbhatt
  • Patent number: 10547978
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed to enable customers and store personnel to communication while the customers are in an access area of a brick-and-mortar store. The access area may have one or more transmitters installed at predetermined locations. By utilizing an application installed on each customer's mobile computing device, each mobile computing device may transmit ranging data and information indicative of the customer when within range of one or more of the transmitters. The ranging data may include an indication of a range between each of the customer's mobile computing device and one or more proximate transmitters. By correlating the information indicative of the customer to a customer's account information, information relevant to the customer may be determined. A customer may be sent a notification including a portion of the relevant information. The notification may enable the customer to contact the personnel of the brick-and-mortar store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventor: Benjamin Weiss
  • Publication number: 20190373412
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for enhancing an in-store retail experience for a customer by providing information relevant to objects and services using hyper-local location techniques to facilitate identification of objects and services available for sale in a premise. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may determine a location of the electronic device and generate object capture information based on detecting the object or service at the physical premise by a viewfinder of the electronic device. The electronic device may display, on an interface, notification information particular to the object or service corresponding to the location and object capture information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kartik Subramanian, Benjamin Weiss, Shivakumar Chandramouli, Viral Brahmbhatt
  • Patent number: 10474400
    Abstract: Systems and methods for uploading image files to a print server are provided. Parallel processing techniques may be utilized to improve the upload speed. As one example, the systems and methods may resize image files having a resolution exceeding a maximum useful resolution prior to transmission. The maximum useful resolution is determined based on a printer resolution and a print size. As another example, the image files may be transmitted to the print server as a multithreaded stream of image files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Benjamin Weiss, Abraham Jeyaraj
  • Patent number: 10467573
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed to detect whether an interaction has occurred between a customer and one or more store employees. By analyzing a how long a communication device used by the customer was within a threshold range of one or more devices worn by store employees, an interaction between the customer and one or more store employees may be identified. Employees whom the customer interacted with may be identified by processing transmission parameters broadcasted by the devices worn by the store employees. Thus, all employees in which a customer interacted with while visiting a store may be identified. The customer may be asked for feedback via the communication device upon detection that a customer has completed a transaction and/or left the store. Using the solicited feedback provided by the customer, various types of reports may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Benjamin Weiss, Timothy P. McCauley, Nicholas L. Eby
  • Publication number: 20190320287
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing and facilitating geofencing features associated with electronic devices are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an entity may own or manage a set of retail stores. A server associated with the entity may receive an estimated location of an electronic device, and may determine that the estimated location is in proximity to one of the set of retail stores. The server may further calculate a geofencing boundary for the retail store based on certain location-based data, and may determine whether the estimated location of the electronic device is within the geofencing boundary. The server may additionally facilitate certain geofencing features based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventor: Benjamin Weiss
  • Patent number: 10440509
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing and facilitating geofencing features associated with electronic devices are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an entity may own or manage a set of retail stores. A server associated with the entity may receive an estimated location of an electronic device, and may determine that the estimated location is in proximity to one of the set of retail stores. The server may further calculate a geofencing boundary for the retail store based on certain location-based data, and may determine whether the estimated location of the electronic device is within the geofencing boundary. The server may additionally facilitate certain geofencing features based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventor: Benjamin Weiss
  • Patent number: 10205835
    Abstract: Methods and systems for preventing the cropping of faces depicted by digital photographs are provided. To this end, the methods and systems may automatically detect the presence of faces depicted by the digital photographs and generate a facial boundary for the faces. The methods and system may also generate a crop boundary at which the photograph is cropped. In some scenarios, the systems and methods attempt to locate the crop boundary on the digital photograph to prevent omitting a portion of the facial boundary. Additionally or alternatively, users are provided an interface to manually set a location for the crop boundary. The user is warned if the crop boundary omits a portion of the facial boundary. The digital photographs and crop boundaries are sent to a printer to generate a physical print of the digital photographs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Joseph Zizzo, Benjamin Weiss