Patents by Inventor Joseph John Pfeiffer, III

Joseph John Pfeiffer, III 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: 11687962
    Abstract: An online incentive network is optimized. Online incentive network data is accessed including data regarding sharing between users of the network from at least one database. Inputted parameters and network data are applied to one or more models for incentivized deal sharing to determine profitability of an incentivized sharing deal to offer to plurality of users via an online network for one or more products or services provided by a merchant. The incentivized sharing deal comprises a deal in which a user purchases a particular deal, and then when the user shares the particular deal with a threshold number of other users who also purchase the deal, the user receives an incentive. The parameters include a price of the deal; a proportion of the deal kept by the merchant or the online incentive network, and the number of incentivized users. An interface offers the incentivized sharing deal to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.
    Inventors: Elena Zheleva, Joseph John Pfeiffer, III
  • Publication number: 20220398451
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for training and using a deep neural network with adaptively trained off-ramps for an early exit at an intermediate representation layer. The training includes, for respective intermediate representation layers of a sequence of intermediate representation layers, predicting a label based on the training data and comparing against a correct label. The training further includes generating a confidence value associated with the predicted label. The confidence value is based on optimizing an objective function that includes a weighted entropy of a probability distribution of the likelihood, weighted based on whether previous intermediate representation layer has accurately predicted the label. Use of the weighted entropy provides the training with a focus on predicting labels that the previous intermediate representation layers has performed poorly and not labels that have existed before the intermediate representation layer being trained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Siva Kalyana Pavan Kumar Mallapragada Naga SURYA, Joseph John PFEIFFER, III, Davis Leland GILTON
  • Publication number: 20220067772
    Abstract: An online incentive network is optimized. Online incentive network data is accessed including data regarding sharing between users of the network from at least one database. Inputted parameters and network data are applied to one or more models for incentivized deal sharing to determine profitability of an incentivized sharing deal to offer to plurality of users via an online network for one or more products or services provided by a merchant. The incentivized sharing deal comprises a deal in which a user purchases a particular deal, and then when the user shares the particular deal with a threshold number of other users who also purchase the deal, the user receives an incentive. The parameters include a price of the deal; a proportion of the deal kept by the merchant or the online incentive network, and the number of incentivized users. An interface offers the incentivized sharing deal to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Elena ZHELEVA, Joseph John PFEIFFER, III
  • Patent number: 11157932
    Abstract: An online incentive network is optimized. Online incentive network data is accessed including data regarding sharing between users of the network from at least one database. Inputted parameters and network data are applied to one or more models for incentivized deal sharing to determine profitability of an incentivized sharing deal to offer to plurality of users via an online network for one or more products or services provided by a merchant. The incentivized sharing deal comprises a deal in which a user purchases a particular deal, and then when the user shares the particular deal with a threshold number of other users who also purchase the deal, the user receives an incentive. The parameters include a price of the deal; a proportion of the deal kept by the merchant or the online incentive network, and the number of incentivized users. An interface offers the incentivized sharing deal to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.
    Inventors: Elena Zheleva, Joseph John Pfeiffer, III
  • Publication number: 20200234322
    Abstract: An online incentive network is optimized. Online incentive network data is accessed including data regarding sharing between users of the network from at least one database. Inputted parameters and network data are applied to one or more models for incentivized deal sharing to determine profitability of an incentivized sharing deal to offer to plurality of users via an online network for one or more products or services provided by a merchant. The incentivized sharing deal comprises a deal in which a user purchases a particular deal, and then when the user shares the particular deal with a threshold number of other users who also purchase the deal, the user receives an incentive. The parameters include a price of the deal; a proportion of the deal kept by the merchant or the online incentive network, and the number of incentivized users. An interface offers the incentivized sharing deal to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Elena ZHELEVA, Joseph John PFEIFFER, III
  • Patent number: 10482487
    Abstract: An online incentive network is optimized. Online incentive network data is accessed including data regarding sharing between users of the network from at least one database. Inputted parameters and network data are applied to one or more models for incentivized deal sharing to determine profitability of an incentivized sharing deal to offer to plurality of users via an online network for one or more products or services provided by a merchant. The incentivized sharing deal comprises a deal in which a user purchases a particular deal, and then when the user shares the particular deal with a threshold number of other users who also purchase the deal, the user receives an incentive. The parameters include a price of the deal; a proportion of the deal kept by the merchant or the online incentive network, and the number of incentivized users. An interface offers the incentivized sharing deal to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.
    Inventors: Elena Zheleva, Joseph John Pfeiffer, III