Patents by Inventor Ryan Applegate

Ryan Applegate 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: 10796337
    Abstract: The disclosure relates in some cases to a technology for selecting one or more promotions to be presented to online customers using Bayesian bandits and affinity-based dynamic user clustering In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method determines a set of offers is determined, and computes affinity scores measuring affinities of users to items included in the offers. The method builds an affinity score distribution for the offers and identifies clusters of affinity scores for the offers using the corresponding affinity score distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: STAPLES, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Wee, Karthik Kumara, Ryan Applegate, Majid Hosseini
  • Patent number: 10713560
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system are described for learning a vector representation for unique identification codes. An example method may include generating a unique identification code list using one or more virtual interaction contexts, the unique identification code list being a list of unique identification codes, selecting a target unique identification code in the unique identification code list, and determining, from the unique identification code list, an input set of unique identification codes using the target unique identification code, the input set including the target unique identification code and one or more context unique identification codes. Some implementations may further include inputting the input set of unique identification codes into a semantic neural network model, the semantic neural network model including one or more weight matrices, and modifying the one or more weight matrices using the input set of unique identification codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Applegate, Majid Hosseini, Karthik Kumara, Timothy Wee
  • Publication number: 20170185585
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system are described for learning a vector representation for unique identification codes. An example method may include generating a unique identification code list using one or more virtual interaction contexts, the unique identification code list being a list of unique identification codes, selecting a target unique identification code in the unique identification code list, and determining, from the unique identification code list, an input set of unique identification codes using the target unique identification code, the input set including the target unique identification code and one or more context unique identification codes. Some implementations may further include inputting the input set of unique identification codes into a semantic neural network model, the semantic neural network model including one or more weight matrices, and modifying the one or more weight matrices using the input set of unique identification codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan Applegate, Majid Hosseini, Karthik Kumara, Timothy Wee
  • Publication number: 20170061481
    Abstract: The disclosure relates in some cases to a technology for selecting one or more promotions to be presented to online customers using Bayesian bandits and affinity-based dynamic user clustering In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method determines a set of offers is determined, and computes affinity scores measuring affinities of users to items included in the offers. The method builds an affinity score distribution for the offers and identifies clusters of affinity scores for the offers using the corresponding affinity score distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Timothy Wee, Karthik Kumara, Ryan Applegate, Majid Hosseini