Patents by Inventor Josh W. Banta

Josh W. Banta 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: 20190114693
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for facilitating group retail purchases via electronic user interfaces. A method comprises providing, with a control circuit, a group shopping interface to a plurality of user interface devices, receiving a purchase request from a member of a shopping group, the purchase request comprises a request to purchase one or more products, retrieving product characteristics associated with the one or more products from a product database, retrieving at least one purchase rule from a rules database storing purchase rules for a plurality of shopping groups, wherein the rules database comprises system populated purchase rules generated through a machine learning algorithm based on a group history of the shopping group, and automatically rejecting or automatically approving the purchase request based on the at least one purchase rule and the product characteristics associated with the one or more products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Jinzhi Zhang, Akhileshwar Guli, Ankita Kashyap, Josh W. Banta, Charles H. Lobo, Ravindar Milkuri, Gnana Bharath C. Nedurumalli