Patents by Inventor Dave T. Sanguinetti

Dave T. Sanguinetti 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: 20150073944
    Abstract: A method and system classifies a venue by analyzing venue data from a venue website. The method includes receiving preliminary venue related data. The method includes scanning the venue website to retrieve venue data, wherein scanning the venue website includes retrieving the venue data from HTML pages, text documents, PDF documents, and images. The method includes retrieving verifiable venue data from the venue data. The verifiable venue data is a subset of the venue data. The method includes analyzing the verifiable venue data by comparing the verifiable venue data to the preliminary venue-related data and determining a probability level for the venue URL from the comparison. If the probability level for the venue URL is equal or greater than a first probability level, the venue website data is further analyzed to extract attributes and attribute counts in a robust and context-sensitive way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sanguinetti, Dave T. Sanguinetti, Jeffrey S. Ploetner
  • Patent number: 8918369
    Abstract: A method and system classifies a venue by analyzing venue data from a venue website. The method includes receiving preliminary venue-related data. The method includes scanning the venue website to retrieve venue data, wherein scanning the venue website includes retrieving the venue data from HTML pages, text documents, PDF documents, and images. The method includes retrieving verifiable venue data from the venue data. The verifiable venue data is a subset of the venue data. The method includes analyzing the verifiable venue data by comparing the verifiable venue data to the preliminary venue-related data and determining a probability level for the venue URL from the comparison. If the probability level for the venue URL is equal or greater than a first probability level, the venue website data is further analyzed to extract attributes and attribute counts in a robust and context-sensitive way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Craze, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sanguinetti, Dave T. Sanguinetti, Jeffrey S. Ploetner
  • Patent number: 8392263
    Abstract: A method and system selects and conveys relevant and personalized gifts using an online personal gift profile having personal preference data. The method includes providing, by a conveying user, the identity of a receiving user. The method includes selecting, by the conveying user, a gift-class. The method includes identifying the personal gift profile of the receiving user from the identity of the receiving user and retrieving the personal preference data of the receiving user from the personal gift profile. The method includes sending the selected gift item to the receiving user's physical address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: What Now, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sanguinetti, Dave T. Sanguinetti, Jeffrey S. Ploetner, Christine M. Dye
  • Publication number: 20130024325
    Abstract: A method and system selects and conveys relevant and personalized gifts using an online personal gift profile having personal preference data. The method includes providing, by a conveying user, the identity of a receiving user. The method includes selecting, by the conveying user, a gift-class. The method includes identifying the personal gift profile of the receiving user from the identity of the receiving user and retrieving the personal preference data of the receiving user from the personal gift profile. The method includes sending the selected gift item to the receiving user's physical address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sanguinetti, Dave T. Sanguinetti, Jeffrey S. Ploetner, Christine M. Dye
  • Publication number: 20100057532
    Abstract: A method and system delivers relevant information about a business to a customer and tracks customer visits to the business premise responsive to the delivery of relevant information. The method includes receiving by a computer-implemented system one or more queries from the customer for the relevant information about one or more businesses. The method further includes presenting through the communication network a total set of businesses to the customer, the total set being a list of identified businesses to the customer. The customer views online a view set of the businesses, the view set being at least a subset of the identified businesses on the list. The method further includes tracking customer visit to the premises of the one or more identified businesses based on location data transmitted by a customer mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sanguinetti, Jeffrey S. Ploetner, Dave T. Sanguinetti
  • Publication number: 20090307238
    Abstract: A method and system classifies a venue by analyzing venue data from a venue website. The method includes receiving preliminary venue-related data. The method includes scanning the venue website to retrieve venue data, wherein scanning the venue website includes retrieving the venue data from HTML pages, text documents, PDF documents, and images. The method includes retrieving verifiable venue data from the venue data. The verifiable venue data is a subset of the venue data. The method includes analyzing the verifiable venue data by comparing the verifiable venue data to the preliminary venue-related data and determining a probability level for the venue URL from the comparison. If the probability level for the venue URL is equal or greater than a first probability level, the venue website data is further analyzed to extract attributes and attribute counts in a robust and context-sensitive way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sanguinetti, Dave T. Sanguinetti, Jeffrey S. Ploetner
  • Publication number: 20090254453
    Abstract: A method and system enables a conveying user to select one or more gift items and to deliver the selected gift items to a receiving user at the receiving user's location at a selected date and time. The method includes creating a database having identifying information and a conveyance permission profile for the receiving user. The method includes selecting, by the conveying user, one or more gift items from an online gift catalog, the selected gift items being qualified by the conveyance permission profile. The method includes selecting, by the conveying user, a delivery date and time of the selected gift items and purchasing the selected gift items. The method includes notifying a fulfillment system of the selection of the gift items and commencing delivery of the selected gift items in response to the notification, the selected gift items being delivered to the receiving user's location at the selected date and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Dave T. Sanguinetti, Thomas V. Sanguinetti, Jeffrey S. Ploetner
  • Publication number: 20090216653
    Abstract: A method and system selects and conveys relevant and personalized gifts using an online personal gift profile having personal preference data. The method includes providing, by a conveying user, the identity of a receiving user. The method includes selecting, by the conveying user, a gift-class. The method includes identifying the personal gift profile of the receiving user from the identity of the receiving user and retrieving the personal preference data of the receiving user from the personal gift profile. The method includes sending the selected gift item to the receiving user's physical address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas V Sanguinetti, Dave T. Sanguinetti, Jeffrey S. Ploetner, Christine M. Dye
  • Publication number: 20090164454
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for searching for a venue based on a similarity value is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving one or more selected attributes. The method further includes receiving one or more attribute-specific optional factor values and one or more venue-specific optional factor values. The method further includes searching a database containing a plurality of venue records each having one or more attributes and identifying the venue records having one or more attribute matches, the attribute matches being the selected attributes. The method further includes generating an attribute-specific similarity value and a venue-specific similarity value, and a total similarity value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sanguinetti, Dave T. Sanguinetti, David T. Martin
  • Publication number: 20090132641
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for an online transferring system where a conveying user may transfer a virtual object, representative of a real object, and a virtual note to a receiving user using an electronic ID of the receiving user and have a real object delivered to a shipping address of the receiving user without knowledge of the shipping address by the conveying user. The virtual note is associated with the virtual object. The virtual note may remain hidden from the receiving user until the real-world object is delivered or the virtual note may be viewed prior to the delivery of the real-world object. The virtual object and the associated virtual note is stored in the system, thus allowing the receiving user to retrieve the virtual object and the associated virtual note.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sanguinetti, Dave T. Sanguinetti