Patents by Inventor Kevin Hofmann

Kevin Hofmann 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: 20210248662
    Abstract: This disclosure includes systems and methods for providing purchase recommendations to a user that may include items frequently purchased with a product selected by the user. The determination of which items are frequently purchased with which other items may account for both online and in-store transactions and may further account for both pairwise and multi-wise relationships. The recommendations may be provided on an electronic user interface, such as a website, in response to the user's selection of the product through the electronic user interface. The recommendations may be tailored to the user's selected product so that the recommended items are available in the same delivery channel as the user-selected product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Shubham Agarwal, Huiming Qu, Shawn Coombs, Estelle Afshar, Rini Devnath, Ramesh Gundeti, Prat Vemana, Kevin Hofmann
  • Patent number: 10991026
    Abstract: This disclosure includes systems and methods for providing purchase recommendations to a user that may include items frequently purchased with a product selected by the user. The determination of which items are frequently purchased with which other items may account for both online and in-store transactions and may further account for both pairwise and multi-wise relationships. The recommendations may be provided on an electronic user interface, such as a website, in response to the user's selection of the product through the electronic user interface. The recommendations may be tailored to the user's selected product so that the recommended items are available in the same delivery channel as the user-selected product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
    Inventors: Shubham Agarwal, Huiming Qu, Shawn Coombs, Estelle Afshar, Rini Devnath, Ramesh Gundeti, Prat Vemana, Kevin Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20180047083
    Abstract: This disclosure includes systems and methods for providing purchase recommendations to a user that may include items frequently purchased with a product selected by the user. The determination of which items are frequently purchased with which other items may account for both online and in-store transactions and may further account for both pairwise and multi-wise relationships. The recommendations may be provided on an electronic user interface, such as a website, in response to the user's selection of the product through the electronic user interface. The recommendations may be tailored to the user's selected product so that the recommended items are available in the same delivery channel as the user-selected product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Shubham Agarwal, Huiming Qu, Shawn Coombs, Estelle Afshar, Rini Devnath, Ramesh Gundeti, Prat Vemana, Kevin Hofmann
  • Patent number: 6691159
    Abstract: The system provides an integrated approach to providing users of the computer system with education, information and computer assisted help on a specific subject, problem or a project. The system further offers flexibility in providing direct human interaction by linking a group of experts through a web site. For a specific subject, the system provides two distinct paths to the user, an Education Path and an Expert Assistance Path. The system further provides the user an opportunity to contact an expert through direct e-mail link, or to chat on-line with an expert and to obtain phone call assistance at the user's request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sukhminder S. Grewal, Kevin Hofmann