Patents by Inventor Marc Torrens
Marc Torrens 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).
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Publication number: 20230156079Abstract: In an online fashion community system (100) users provide personal image content, such as digital user fashion images (104, 700) that include users themselves modeling multiple fashion items as an ensemble, as the basis of community interaction. Users also provide information about the multiple fashion items, including information linking (108) to a provider of each fashion item and fashion data (106) such as brand, color, style, etc. User interface system (116) allows users to search among, access, and interact about the user fashion ensembles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Gabriel Aldamiz ECHEVARRIA, David Bolufer, Marc Torrens, Sergio Nieto
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Patent number: 11509712Abstract: In an online fashion community system (100) users provide personal image content, such as digital user fashion images (104, 700) that include users themselves modeling multiple fashion items as an ensemble, as the basis of community interaction. Users also provide information about the multiple fashion items, including information linking (108) to a provider of each fashion item and fashion data (106) such as brand, color, style, etc. User interface system (116) allows users to search among, access, and interact about the user fashion ensembles.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: BLOOMPAPERS SLInventors: Gabriel Aldamiz Echevarria, David Bolufer, Marc Torrens, Sergio Nieto
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Publication number: 20200358847Abstract: In an online fashion community system (100) users provide personal image content, such as digital user fashion images (104, 700) that include users themselves modeling multiple fashion items as an ensemble, as the basis of community interaction. Users also provide information about the multiple fashion items, including information linking (108) to a provider of each fashion item and fashion data (106) such as brand, color, style, etc. User interface system (116) allows users to search among, access, and interact about the user fashion ensembles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: BLOOMPAPERS SLInventors: Gabriel Aldamiz Echevarria, David Bolufer, Marc Torrens, Sergio Nieto
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Patent number: 10771544Abstract: In an online fashion community system (100) users provide personal image content, such as digital user fashion images (104, 700) that include users themselves modeling multiple fashion items as an ensemble, as the basis of community interaction. Users also provide information about the multiple fashion items, including information linking (108) to a provider of each fashion item and fashion data (106) such as brand, color, style, etc. User interface system (116) allows users to search among, access, and interact about the user fashion ensembles.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: BLOOMPAPERS SLInventors: Gabriel Aldamiz Echevarria, David Bolufer, Marc Torrens, Sergio Nieto
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Patent number: 9576056Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a new set of media items in response to an input set (or “query set”) of media items and knowledge base metrics. The system uses a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Various metrics among media items are considered by analyzing how the media items are grouped to form the mediasets in the knowledge base. Such association or “similarity” metrics are preferably stored in a matrix form that allows the system to efficiently identify a new set of media items that complements the input set of media items.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francisco J. Martin, Jim Shur, Marc Torrens
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Publication number: 20170019464Abstract: In an online fashion community system (100) users provide personal image content, such as digital user fashion images (104, 700) that include users themselves modeling multiple fashion items as an ensemble, as the basis of community interaction. Users also provide information about the multiple fashion items, including information linking (108) to a provider of each fashion item and fashion data (106) such as brand, color, style, etc. User interface system (116) allows users to search among, access, and interact about the user fashion ensembles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: Chicisimo S.L.Inventors: Gabriel Aldamiz Echevarria, David Bolufer, Marc Torrens, Sergio Nieto
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Patent number: 9479577Abstract: In an online fashion community system (100) users provide personal image content, such as digital user fashion images (104, 700) that include users themselves modeling multiple fashion items as an ensemble, as the basis of community interaction. Users also provide information about the multiple fashion items, including information linking (108) to a provider of each fashion item and fashion data (106) such as brand, color, style, etc. User interface system (116) allows users to search among, access, and interact about the user fashion ensembles.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Chicisimo S.L.Inventors: Gabriel Aldamiz Echevarria, David Bolufer, Marc Torrens, Sergio Nieto
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Patent number: 9317185Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods for generating composite mediasets from mediasets, each comprising media items, associated with a plurality of users. In some embodiments, individual and/or group recommendations are provided for creating a group playlist by aggregating user taste data for a plurality of users in a group. In other embodiments, systems and methods are provided which allow for sharing and playing of a group playlist by users in a group, each of which has a media playback device. In still other embodiments, systems and methods are provided for dynamically building a composite playlist that may be updated as users enter and/or leave the group. One example of an interactive entertainment application also is described for use at a venue to entertain live guests with music selections that are dynamically influenced by the guests' individual tastes.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francisco J. Martin, Jim Shur, Marc Torrens, Rick Hangartner, Guillermo Caudevilla-Laliena, David del Ser Bartolome, Craig Rowley
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Patent number: 9262534Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a new set of media items in response to an input set (or “query set”) of media items and knowledge base metrics. The system uses a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Various metrics among media items are considered by analyzing how the media items are grouped to form the mediasets in the knowledge base. Such association or “similarity” metrics are preferably stored in a matrix form that allows the system to efficiently identify a new set of media items that complements the input set of media items.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francisco J. Martin, Jim Shur, Marc Torrens
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Patent number: 8996540Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for recommending relevant users to other users in a user community. In one implementation of such a method, two different sets of data are considered: a) music (or other items) that users have been listening to (or otherwise engaging), and b) music (or other items) recommendations that users have been given. In some embodiments, pre-computation methods allow the system to efficiently compare item sets and recommended item sets among the users in the community. Such comparisons may also comprise metrics that the system can use to figure out which users should be recommended for a given target user.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marc Torrens, Pere Ferrera
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Publication number: 20140365314Abstract: Computer-implemented methods leverage internal data accumulated by a banking institution including merchant sales data and customer purchasing data, in order to best implement merchant offer campaigns by computing a set of “good campaigns” for a given user in real time, while maximizing the success of all active campaigns. (FIG. 1) Multiple factors (208, 210, 212, 214, 216) may be statistically evaluated and combined (218, 220) to determine the best campaigns for a given user. Other considerations preferably relate directly to a level of accomplishment of the active campaigns and their time remaining. Machine learning may be applied to assess a predicted level of interest of each user for the active campaigns (FIG. 3). In some embodiments, the respective weights of various factors can be changed in order to adapt the algorithm to specific business goals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: MARC TORRENS, IVAN TARRADELLAS, JIM SHUR
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Publication number: 20140237361Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods for generating composite mediasets from mediasets, each comprising media items, associated with a plurality of users. In some embodiments, individual and/or group recommendations are provided for creating a group playlist by aggregating user taste data for a plurality of users in a group. In other embodiments, systems and methods are provided which allow for sharing and playing of a group playlist by users in a group, each of which has a media playback device. In still other embodiments, systems and methods are provided for dynamically building a composite playlist that may be updated as users enter and/or leave the group. One example of an interactive entertainment application also is described for use at a venue to entertain live guests with music selections that are dynamically influenced by the guests' individual tastes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francisco J. Martin, Jim Shur, Marc Torrens, Rick Hangartner, Guillermo Caudevilla-Laliena, David del Ser Bartolome, Craig Rowley
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Publication number: 20140122310Abstract: The present describes systems and methods to support financial management by determining the impact of a proposed purchase on a financial situation. For example, a device is configured to determine the impact of a proposed purchase on a user's financial situation based on a purchase amount associated with the proposed purchase.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: Strands, Inc.Inventors: Marc TORRENS, Jim SHUR, Felix GARCIA, Edward CHANG
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Publication number: 20140052784Abstract: In an online fashion community system (100) users provide personal image content, such as digital user fashion images (104, 700) that include users themselves modeling multiple fashion items as an ensemble, as the basis of community interaction. Users also provide information about the multiple fashion items, including information linking (108) to a provider of each fashion item and fashion data (106) such as brand, color, style, etc. User interface system (116) allows users to search among, access, and interact about the user fashion ensembles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Chicisimo S.L.Inventors: Gabriel Aldamiz Echevarria, David Bolufer, Marc Torrens, Sergio Nieto
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Patent number: 8583671Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods for generating composite mediasets from mediasets, each comprising media items, associated with a plurality of users. In some embodiments, individual and/or group recommendations are provided for creating a group playlist by aggregating user taste data for a plurality of users in a group. In other embodiments, systems and methods are provided which allow for sharing and playing of a group playlist by users in a group, each of which has a media playback device. Each media item, such as a song, is played from one of the individual user devices for the benefit of all users in the vicinity at the time. Music thus can be “shared” without transferring files potentially in violation of copyrights.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francisco Martin, Marc Torrens, Rick Hangartner, Guillermo Caudevilla-Laliena, David del ser Bartolome, Craig Rowley
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Patent number: 8543575Abstract: A system and method to navigate through a media item catalog and generate recommendations using behavioral metrics such as correlation metrics (FIGS. 1,2) from a knowledge base (400) of mediasets (FIG. 4, 1-7). One implementation uses a knowledge base comprising a collection of mediasets such as groupings of selected video items. Various metrics (Metric 1-Metric m) among media items (m1 . . . ) are considered by analyzing how the media items are grouped to form the sets in the knowledge base (400). Such metrics preferably are stored in a matrix (100) that allows the system to dynamically build appropriate navigation lists (FIG. 3) from media items that a user selects (FIG. 5).Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francisco J. Martin, Jim Shur, Marc Torrens
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Publication number: 20130067367Abstract: Visualizing and exploring a music library using metadata, such as genre, sub-genre, artist, and year, is provided. Geometric shapes, such as disks or rectangles, may be divided into sectors representing genre and each sector may be further divided into sub-sectors representing artists associated with each genre. The sector's relative size generally reflects the importance of the corresponding genre within the library. Likewise, the sub-sector's relative size generally reflects the importance of the corresponding artist within the genre which may be determined by the number of media items of the artist. Marks representing each media item may be arranged and displayed within the geometric shape to reflect the mark's corresponding genre, artist, and year. In addition, each mark may reflect an attribute, such as playcount, of the media item and each sector may reflect the mean value of an attribute of all media items within the sector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marc Torrens, Patrick Hertzog, Josep-Lluis Arcos
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Patent number: 8356038Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for recommending relevant users to other users in a user community. In one implementation of such a method, two different sets of data are considered: a) music (or other items) that users have been listening to (or otherwise engaging), and b) music (or other items) recommendations that users have been given. In some embodiments, pre-computation methods allow the system to efficiently compare item sets and recommended item sets among the users in the community. Such comparisons may also comprise metrics that the system can use to figure out which users should be recommended for a given target user.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2011Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marc Torrens, Pere Ferrera
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Patent number: 8312017Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a new set of media items in response to an input set (or “query set”) of media items and knowledge base metrics. The system uses a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Various metrics among media items are considered by analyzing how the media items are grouped to form the mediasets in the knowledge base. Such association or “similarity” metrics are preferably stored in a matrix form that allows the system to efficiently identify a new set of media items that complements the input set of media items.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francisco J. Martin, Jim Shur, Marc Torrens
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Patent number: 8276076Abstract: Visualizing and exploring a music library using metadata, such as genre, sub-genre, artist, and year, is provided. Geometric shapes, such as disks or rectangles, may be divided into sectors representing genre and each sector may be further divided into sub-sectors representing artists associated with each genre. The sector's relative size generally reflects the importance of the corresponding genre within the library. Likewise, the sub-sector's relative size generally reflects the importance of the corresponding artist within the genre which may be determined by the number of media items of the artist. Marks representing each media item may be arranged and displayed within the geometric shape to reflect the mark's corresponding genre, artist, and year. In addition, each mark may reflect an attribute, such as playcount, of the media item and each sector may reflect the mean value of an attribute of all media items within the sector.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marc Torrens, Patrick Hertzog, Josep-Lluis Arcos