Patents by Inventor Joshua Logan MARTI

Joshua Logan MARTI 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: 10430864
    Abstract: A transaction based location assignment system creates a complete and more accurate location assignment database for all products available in a store. Transaction data from checkout stands (point of sale terminals) spread around a department store, and the location of each of those checkout stands during POS transactions, is used to create a most probable location of items available in the store. Memory matrixes are built comprising product purchase or transaction information from the checkout stands, and the location of each of the checkout stands, and weighting based on other factors, provide for a best fit match to determine the most probable location within the store of all items within the store. The transaction based location system has the capability to work both for items having a single location in the store, as well as for items available from multiple physical locations in the store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Inventors: Renat Bekbolatov, Hua Zheng, Michael Moricz, Joshua Logan Marti, Jonathan Alan Croy, Keane Watterson
  • Patent number: 10417694
    Abstract: A computer system and set of routines with access to venue maps, merchandizing plans, and store catalogs for a merchant attempts to assign locations to items in the store catalog based on the merchandizing plan and map; when a location cannot be assigned to an item in a venue, a proxy location is determined based on categories associated with the item, a number of merchandising plans across the venues in which the item occurs, and/or clusters of items. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Alan Croy, Joshua Logan Marti, Michael Moricz, Mohandas Kannan
  • Patent number: 10387947
    Abstract: A location assignment system and method assigns and stores a location to each item in a retail system product line, across one or more store venues, that otherwise do not include location information, e.g., is not included in planogram data. Specific rules and algorithms assign a location for each product by inferring a location of each product lacking location information from other items that do have a location, and assigning the location of a most popularly sold item in a weighted grouping of given attributes of the item. Thus, given a complete catalog of every product sold in a given retail store system (which often runs in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual products—up to 40% of more of which have no location information within a planogram), the location assignment system assigns a location to every product sold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Point Inside, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Alan Croy, Joshua Logan Marti, Michael Moricz, Mohandas Kannan
  • Publication number: 20180365755
    Abstract: A transaction based location assignment system creates a complete and more accurate location assignment database for all products available in a store. Transaction data from checkout stands (point of sale terminals) spread around a department store, and the location of each of those checkout stands during POS transactions, is used to create a most probable location of items available in the store. Memory matrixes are built comprising product purchase or transaction information from the checkout stands, and the location of each of the checkout stands, and weighting based on other factors, provide for a best fit match to determine the most probable location within the store of all items within the store. The transaction based location system has the capability to work both for items having a single location in the store, as well as for items available from multiple physical locations in the store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: POINT INSIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Renat Bekbolatov, Hua Zheng, Michael Moricz, Joshua Logan Marti, Jonathan Alan Croy, Keane Watterson
  • Publication number: 20180075520
    Abstract: A computer system and set of routines with access to venue maps, merchandizing plans, and store catalogs for a merchant attempts to assign locations to items in the store catalog based on the merchandizing plan and map; when a location cannot be assigned to an item in a venue, a proxy location is determined based on categories associated with the item, a number of merchandising plans across the venues in which the item occurs, and/or clusters of items. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: POINT INSIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Alan CROY, Joshua Logan MARTI, Michael MORICZ, Mohandas KANNAN
  • Publication number: 20180005309
    Abstract: A location assignment system and method assigns and stores a location to each item in a retail system product line, across one or more store venues, that otherwise do not include location information, e.g., is not included in planogram data. Specific rules and algorithms assign a location for each product by inferring a location of each product lacking location information from other items that do have a location, and assigning the location of a most popularly sold item in a weighted grouping of given attributes of the item. Thus, given a complete catalog of every product sold in a given retail store system (which often runs in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual products—up to 40% of more of which have no location information within a planogram), the location assignment system assigns a location to every product sold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: POINT INSIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Alan CROY, Joshua Logan MARTI, Michael MORICZ, Mohandas KANNAN
  • Patent number: 9858615
    Abstract: A computer system and set of routines with access to venue maps, merchandizing plans, and store catalogs for a merchant attempts to assign locations to items in the store catalog based on the merchandizing plan and map; when a location cannot be assigned to an item in a venue, a proxy location is determined based on categories associated with the item, a number of merchandising plans across the venues in which the item occurs, and/or clusters of items. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Point Inside, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Alan Croy, Joshua Logan Marti, Michael Moricz, Mohandas Kannan
  • Patent number: 9824388
    Abstract: A computer system and set of routines with access to a map, a merchandizing plan, and a store catalog performs spatial matching of items to assign locations to the items; when spatial matching cannot be performed, group matching is attempted based on categories associated with the items. If group matching cannot be performed, the location of a department or of a store is assigned to the corresponding item. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Point Inside, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Alan Croy, Joshua Logan Marti, Michael Moricz, Mohandas Kannan
  • Publication number: 20160012516
    Abstract: A computer system and set of routines with access to venue maps, merchandizing plans, and store catalogs for a merchant attempts to assign locations to items in the store catalog based on the merchandizing plan and map; when a location cannot be assigned to an item in a venue, a proxy location is determined based on categories associated with the item, a number of merchandising plans across the venues in which the item occurs, and/or clusters of items. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Point Inside, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Alan Croy, Joshua Logan Marti, Michael Moricz, Mohandas Kannan
  • Publication number: 20150294397
    Abstract: A computer system and set of routines with access to a map, a merchandizing plan, and a store catalog performs spatial matching of items to assign locations to the items; when spatial matching cannot be performed, group matching is attempted based on categories associated with the items. If group matching cannot be performed, the location of a department or of a store is assigned to the corresponding item. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: POINT INSIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Alan CROY, Joshua Logan MARTI, Michael MORICZ, Mohandas KANNAN