Patents by Inventor Kevin Yien

Kevin Yien 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: 20240320650
    Abstract: A system to enable entities to utilize reservations services provided by a service provider is described. In examples, a computing device receives a first reservation on a display at a first merchant location of a merchant using a first reservation application. The display computing device receives a second reservation on the display at a second merchant location of the merchant using a second reservation application. A reservation proposal is received, including a seating chart for the first reservation and the second reservation. The seating chart is generated by a service computing device interfaced with the computing device through one or more application program interfaces (APIs). The seating chart is modified based on real-time inputs from the merchant indicating changes in the seating chart. API calls are initiated to the service computing device, causing re-allocation of seats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Kevin Yien, Karl Westman
  • Patent number: 11995666
    Abstract: An online order management service is configured to interface between merchants and order/delivery services so that a merchant can provide a catalog to multiple order/delivery services without having to communicate directly with the order/delivery services. A recommendation service is also provided to provide recommendations to merchants regarding which of multiple order/delivery services to use. The recommendation service bases its recommendations on historical order data that has been archived by the online order management service, as well as on known or derived merchant properties. The recommendation service may also recommend product items to be included in a catalog in order to improve sales results achieved when listing the catalog with any particular order/delivery service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Yien, Logan Johnson
  • Publication number: 20230306398
    Abstract: This disclosure describes an enhanced user interface. For instance, a system may present a user interface indicating a first layout of a physical establishment and receive a first input indicating an object is located at a first geographic location within the physical establishment. The system may receive a recommended location corresponding to a second geographic location within the physical establishment and present the indication of the recommended location for the object on the user interface indicating the first layout. The system may receive image data associated with the physical establishment and determine based at least in part on analyzing the image data that the object is located at the second geographic location within the physical establishment. The system may further display a second layout of the physical establishment, where the second layout includes an indication of the object at the second geographic location within the physical establishment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Brian Partridge, Ghassan Abu-Ghaida, Amar Dhingra, Alfred Bautista, Kevin Yien
  • Patent number: 11741528
    Abstract: An e-commerce service is configured to interface between merchants and vendors so that a merchant can purchase from vendors without having to communicate directly with the vendors. A recommendation service is also provided to provide recommendations to merchants regarding which of multiple available vendors to use for any given product. The recommendation service bases its recommendations on historical order data that has been archived by the e-commerce service, as well as on known or derived merchant properties. The recommendation service may also recommend rates at which an item should be ordered, based on ordering rates of other merchants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Niels Gjertson, Kevin Yien, Bruce Bell
  • Patent number: 11663570
    Abstract: This disclosure describes an enhanced user interface. For instance, a system may present a user interface indicating a first layout of a physical establishment and receive a first input indicating an object is located at a first geographic location within the physical establishment. The system may receive a recommended location corresponding to a second geographic location within the physical establishment and present the indication of the recommended location for the object on the user interface indicating the first layout. The system may receive image data associated with the physical establishment and determine based at least in part on analyzing the image data that the object is located at the second geographic location within the physical establishment. The system may further display a second layout of the physical establishment, where the second layout includes an indication of the object at the second geographic location within the physical establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Brian Partridge, Ghassan Abu-Ghaida, Amar Dhingra, Alfred Bautista, Kevin Yien
  • Publication number: 20220398608
    Abstract: An online order management service is configured to interface between merchants and order/delivery services so that a merchant can provide a catalog to multiple order/delivery services without having to communicate directly with the order/delivery services. A recommendation service is also provided to provide recommendations to merchants regarding which of multiple order/delivery services to use. The recommendation service bases its recommendations on historical order data that has been archived by the online order management service, as well as on known or derived merchant properties. The recommendation service may also recommend product items to be included in a catalog in order to improve sales results achieved when listing the catalog with any particular order/delivery service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin Yien, Logan Johnson
  • Patent number: 11295322
    Abstract: An online order management service is configured to interface between merchants and order/delivery services so that a merchant can provide a catalog to multiple order/delivery services without having to communicate directly with the order/delivery services. A recommendation service is also provided to provide recommendations to merchants regarding which of multiple order/delivery services to use. The recommendation service bases its recommendations on historical order data that has been archived by the online order management service, as well as on known or derived merchant properties. The recommendation service may also recommend product items to be included in a catalog in order to improve sales results achieved when listing the catalog with any particular order/delivery service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Yien, Logan Johnson
  • Patent number: 11164172
    Abstract: A system and environment to enable entities to utilize delivery services provided by a service provider are described herein. In some examples, the service provider exposes the delivery services to a computing device associated with a merchant, buyer, and/or others using one or more Applicant Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by the service provider. The one or more APIs may enable merchants and/or others to automatically integrate the delivery services into technologies used by the merchants and/or others in order to facilitate delivery of items that are offered for acquisition by the merchants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Kevin Yien, Karl Westman
  • Publication number: 20210312413
    Abstract: A system and environment to enable entities to utilize delivery services provided by a service provider are described herein. In some examples, the service provider exposes the delivery services to a computing device associated with a merchant, buyer, and/or others using one or more Applicant Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by the service provider. The one or more APIs may enable merchants and/or others to automatically integrate the delivery services into technologies used by the merchants and/or others in order to facilitate delivery of items that are offered for acquisition by the merchants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Kevin Yien, Karl Westman
  • Patent number: 11010739
    Abstract: A system and environment to enable entities to utilize delivery services provided by a service provider are described herein. In some examples, the service provider exposes the delivery services to a computing device associated with a merchant, buyer, and/or others using one or more Applicant Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by the service provider. The one or more APIs may enable merchants and/or others to automatically integrate the delivery services into technologies used by the merchants and/or others in order to facilitate updating content of menus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Kevin Yien, Karl Westman
  • Patent number: 10867291
    Abstract: Systems and processes for remote provisioning of manager approval are described. A point-of-sale application on a worker mobile device can send a request for manager approval to perform a transaction-related action for which a worker lacks sufficient permissions. A manager application on a remote manager device can display a notification of the request and can also present additional information regarding the request (and historical requests), including a queue of pending requests that can be generated and updated according to priority rules and transaction conditions. The manager application receives an indication of the manager's approval to the worker mobile device. In response, the worker mobile device can automatically perform the action. In some configurations, an intermediate device (e.g., a local or remote server device) can execute the manager application and can add data and capabilities to the system and processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Yien, Amar Dhingra, David Arvelo, Matthew T. Kursmark
  • Publication number: 20200210981
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for analyzing sensor data to identify a bottleneck location within a physical establishment, and then providing a recommendation based on the bottleneck location. For instance, a payment service may analyze a layout of a physical establishment using sensor data representing movements of users within the physical establishment. Based on the analysis, the payment service can identify a location within the physical establishment in which movements of the users correspond to one another. For instance, the payment service can identify that the users are located at a similar location within the physical establishment at a given time period. The payment service can then generate and provide a message that indicates a location for moving an object such that users can utilize new routes through the physical establishment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Brian Partridge, Ghassan Abu-Ghaida, Amar Dhingra, Alfred Bautista, Kevin Yien
  • Patent number: 10521784
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for analyzing sensor data to identify a bottleneck location within a physical establishment, and then providing a recommendation based on the bottleneck location. For instance, a payment service may analyze a layout of a physical establishment using sensor data representing movements of users within the physical establishment. Based on the analysis, the payment service can identify a location within the physical establishment in which movements of the users correspond to one another. For instance, the payment service can identify that the users are located at a similar location within the physical establishment at a given time period. The payment service can then generate and provide a message that indicates a location for moving an object such that users can utilize new routes through the physical establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Brian Partridge, Ghassan Abu-Ghaida, Amar Dhingra, Alfred Bautista, Kevin Yien
  • Publication number: 20190205856
    Abstract: A system and environment to enable entities to utilize delivery services provided by a service provider are described herein. In some examples, the service provider exposes the delivery services to a computing device associated with a merchant, buyer, and/or others using one or more Applicant Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by the service provider. The one or more APIs may enable merchants and/or others to automatically integrate the delivery services into technologies used by the merchants and/or others in order to facilitate delivery of items that are offered for acquisition by the merchants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Kevin Yien, Karl Westman
  • Publication number: 20190205857
    Abstract: A system and environment to enable entities to utilize delivery services provided by a service provider are described herein. In some examples, the service provider exposes the delivery services to a computing device associated with a merchant, buyer, and/or others using one or more Applicant Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by the service provider. The one or more APIs may enable merchants and/or others to automatically integrate the delivery services into technologies used by the merchants and/or others in order to facilitate delivery of items that are offered for acquisition by the merchants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Kevin Yien, Karl Westman
  • Publication number: 20190205834
    Abstract: A system and environment to enable entities to utilize delivery services provided by a service provider are described herein. In some examples, the service provider exposes the delivery services to a computing device associated with a merchant, buyer, and/or others using one or more Applicant Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by the service provider. The one or more APIs may enable merchants and/or others to automatically integrate the delivery services into technologies used by the merchants and/or others in order to facilitate delivery of items that are offered for acquisition by the merchants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Kevin Yien, Karl Westman
  • Publication number: 20180308186
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, an enhanced user interface that presents indications based on sensor data. For instance, a merchant device may present a user interface to a merchant, where the user interface includes at least a layout of a floor plan of a physical establishment and a graphical element corresponding to an object located within the physical establishment. The merchant device may then present a first indication associated with the object based on determining that a user has been outside of a predetermined distance of the object for a threshold period of time, and present a second indication associated with the object based on determining that the user is within the predetermined distance. In some instances, the merchant device makes the determinations using data received from at least one of an electronic device associated with the table, an electronic device associated with the user, or an image capturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Brian Partridge, Ghassan Abu-Ghaida, Amar Dhingra, Alfred Bautista, Kevin Yien
  • Publication number: 20180308082
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for analyzing sensor data to identify a bottleneck location within a physical establishment, and then providing a recommendation based on the bottleneck location. For instance, a payment service may analyze a layout of a physical establishment using sensor data representing movements of users within the physical establishment. Based on the analysis, the payment service can identify a location within the physical establishment in which movements of the users correspond to one another. For instance, the payment service can identify that the users are located at a similar location within the physical establishment at a given time period. The payment service can then generate and provide a message that indicates a location for moving an object such that users can utilize new routes through the physical establishment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Brian Partridge, Ghassan Abu-Ghaida, Amar Dhingra, Alfred Bautista, Kevin Yien
  • Patent number: 9881288
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for utilizing an enhanced user interface to create interactive layouts. For instance, a merchant device may present a user interface to a merchant, where the merchant can use the user interface to create a layout of a physical establishment. The merchant device can then receive inputs indicating respective locations of designated sections and objects within the physical establishment, and update the layout to include graphical elements corresponding to the designated sections and the objects at the respective locations. After creating the layout, the merchant device can send data corresponding to the layout to a payment service. The payment service can analyze the layout to determine locations within the physical establishment for placing designated sections and objects. Additionally, the payment service can send the merchant device messages that indicate the locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Brian Partridge, Ghassan Abu-Ghaida, Alfred Bautista, Amar Dhingra, Kevin Yien