Patents by Inventor Lin O'Driscoll

Lin O'Driscoll 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: 10262344
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. In certain embodiments, one or more models may be applied over a set of historical transaction data associated with a vehicle configuration to determine pricing data. Some models may leverage incremental data in various conditions, including cases where fewer than a desired number of historical transactions are present in the bin of a specified vehicle, where fewer than, equal to, or more than a certain number of list prices for the specified vehicle available, and where no historical transaction data for new models is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: TrueCar, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Swinson, Lin O'Driscoll, Scott Painter
  • Publication number: 20180082316
    Abstract: Embodiments of vehicle data systems for use in distributed computer network are disclosed. Particular embodiments may determine and enhance vehicle data from various data sources distributed across the computer network, and utilize the enhanced vehicle data in the determination of normalization metrics that account for geography and population density or spatial behavioral patterns. Embodiments may utilize these normalization metrics to assign zone labels to geographic areas and present representations of the geographic areas based on the normalization metrics across the distributed computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Michael D. Swinson, Lin O'Driscoll, Daniel Salazar, Ludovica Rizzo, Jacob LaCivita
  • Patent number: 9767491
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. In certain embodiments, one or more models may be applied over a set of historical transaction data associated with a vehicle configuration to determine pricing data. Some models may leverage incremental data in various conditions, including cases where fewer than a desired number of historical transactions are present in the bin of a specified vehicle, where fewer than, equal to, or more than a certain number of list prices for the specified vehicle available, and where no historical transaction data for new models is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: TrueCar, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Swinson, Lin O'Driscoll, Scott Painter
  • Publication number: 20160364783
    Abstract: A vehicle data system may receive, via a website, a user query about a vehicle or features of a vehicle that may not actually exist. The vehicle data system can transform vehicle features representing a user-configured vehicle, compare the user-configured vehicle with inventory vehicles, determine how similar the user-configured vehicle is to each inventory vehicle, how likely each inventory vehicle may be purchased given the user-configured vehicle and consumer behavior modeled based on actual historical transaction data collected via the website. The vehicle features may be weighted. Feature weights can be automatically determined and continuously fine-tuned utilizing machine learning. Each inventory vehicle is scored utilizing a similarity vector that compares it with the user-configured vehicle. Top-ranked inventory vehicle(s) can then be recommended to the user via the website in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Meghashyam Grama Ramanuja, Pan Wu, Lin O'Driscoll, Michael D. Swinson, Ludovica Rizzo
  • Publication number: 20150363865
    Abstract: A vehicle data system may receive, via a website, a user query about a vehicle or features of a vehicle that may not actually exist. The vehicle data system can transform a set of features representing a query vehicle associated with the user query into a query vehicle feature vector, compare the query vehicle feature vector with one or more inventory vehicle feature vectors representative of one or more dealer inventory vehicles, determine a similarity score between the query vehicle and the one or more dealer inventory vehicles, and generate at least one recommendation based on the similarity score, for instance, a great match and/or a good match to the vehicle that the user has inquired about. The at least one recommendation can be presented via the website in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: MEGHASHYAM GRAMA RAMANUJA, Pan Wu, Lin O'Driscoll, Michael D. Swinson
  • Publication number: 20150363838
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods disclosed herein provide solutions for predicting vehicle invoice pricing, trim, and options by starting from scratch (raw data), transforming the raw data into actionable data, and comprehensively exploring all possible option combinations that can match a vehicle's Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). Embodiments implement algorithms that determine the trim of a vehicle and intelligently analyze all possible option combinations that would result in a target MSRP while avoid searching unnecessary vehicle configurations. The algorithms can be used to predict the trim, invoice, and options of a vehicle based on the vehicle's VIN and MSRP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Pan Wu, Meghashyam Grama Ramanuja, Lin O'Driscoll, Michael D. Swinson
  • Publication number: 20150363855
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods disclosed herein provide solutions for determining popular configurations in an automated and balanced manner, useful in facilitating consumers in making their purchase decisions on high value items such as vehicles. In particular, in certain embodiments, a user may utilize a vehicle data system to obtain pricing data corresponding to automatically generated vehicle configurations. When the user is presented with the pricing data associated with the automatically generated vehicle configuration the user may additionally be presented with an upfront price offered by a dealer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Pan Wu, Meghashyam Grama Ramanuja, Lin O'Driscoll, Michael D. Swinson, Jonrobert D. Lang
  • Publication number: 20140058957
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. In certain embodiments, one or more models may be applied over a set of historical transaction data associated with a vehicle configuration to determine pricing data. Some models may leverage incremental data in various conditions, including cases where fewer than a desired number of historical transactions are present in the bin of a specified vehicle, where fewer than, equal to, or more than a certain number of list prices for the specified vehicle available, and where no historical transaction data for new models is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: TrueCar, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Swinson, Lin O'Driscoll, Scott Painter
  • Patent number: 8612314
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. In certain embodiments, one or more models may be applied over a set of historical transaction data associated with a vehicle configuration to determine pricing data. Some models may leverage incremental data in various conditions, including cases where fewer than a desired number of historical transactions are present in the bin of a specified vehicle, where fewer than, equal to, or more than a certain number of list prices for the specified vehicle available, and where no historical transaction data for new models is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Truecar, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Swinson, Lin O'Driscoll, Scott Painter
  • Publication number: 20110022525
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. In certain embodiments, one or more models may be applied over a set of historical transaction data associated with a vehicle configuration to determine pricing data. Some models may leverage incremental data in various conditions, including cases where fewer than a desired number of historical transactions are present in the bin of a specified vehicle, where fewer than, equal to, or more than a certain number of list prices for the specified vehicle available, and where no historical transaction data for new models is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Swinson, Lin O'Driscoll, Scott Painter