Patents by Inventor Mark Anthony MCCLUNG

Mark Anthony MCCLUNG 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).

  • Combining image recognition with data analytics to generate shopping suggestions for a driver
    Patent number: 10853844
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate purchase suggestions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: present purchase suggestions, by a user interface to the vehicle occupant; generate output signals conveying a location of the vehicle; receive and determine output signals of external resources conveying interest information of the vehicle occupant; determine, based on the output signals, location of the vehicle; determine, based on the location and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, business information of one or more businesses nearby; build one or more business profiles; build one or more purchase profiles; store the one or more business profiles and/or purchase profiles in electronic storage; determine, based on the one or more business profiles, the driver's purchase profile, and/or the location information, purchase suggestions for the driver; and present, through the user interface, the purchase suggestions for the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Anthony McClung, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
  • COMBINING IMAGE RECOGNITION WITH DATA ANALYTICS TO GENERATE SHOPPING SUGGESTIONS FOR A DRIVER
    Publication number: 20200167824
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate purchase suggestions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: present purchase suggestions, by a user interface to the vehicle occupant; generate output signals conveying a location of the vehicle; receive and determine output signals of external resources conveying interest information of the vehicle occupant; determine, based on the output signals, location of the vehicle; determine, based on the location and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, business information of one or more businesses nearby; build one or more business profiles; build one or more purchase profiles; store the one or more business profiles and/or purchase profiles in electronic storage; determine, based on the one or more business profiles, the driver's purchase profile, and/or the location information, purchase suggestions for the driver; and present, through the user interface, the purchase suggestions for the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Anthony MCCLUNG, Wilson-Boon Siang KHOO