Patents by Inventor Stephen Brent Ivie

Stephen Brent Ivie 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: 11941680
    Abstract: Social network postings, including text, images or other media, may provide valuable information regarding a user of the social network with which the postings may be associated. With the authorization of the user, and upon authentication by the social network, an online marketplace may access the social network postings and extract data therefrom, and market one or more recommended items to the user based on the extracted data, which may include color pallets or texture pallets derived from photographs included in the postings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Brent Ivie, Ashutosh Vishwas Kulkarni, Saurabh Nangia, Adam Landry Bordelon, Aaron James Dykstra, David Michael Hurley, Adam James Finkelstein, Scott James McKee
  • Patent number: 10410273
    Abstract: A recommendation system uses artificial intelligence to identify, based on negative sentiment cues from users, item attributes, such as keywords, that users may find offensive or undesirable. The negative sentiment cues may be explicit (e.g., a user selects an option not to view a particular recommendation again), implicit (e.g., a user does not interact with recommendations relating to an attribute), or both. The system may use a computer model generated based on these identified attributes to filter or modify recommendations to a user or group of users. For instance, if a particular keyword is identified as highly offensive to a group of users, items associated with the keyword may be filtered from item recommendations presented to the group of users. If an attribute is identified as moderately offensive to a user, items associated with the attribute may be down-weighted in item recommendations presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam James Finkelstein, David Akira Gingrich, David Michael Hurley, Stephen Brent Ivie, Siu Nam Wong, Siqi Zhao
  • Patent number: 10410125
    Abstract: A recommendation system uses artificial intelligence to identify, based on negative sentiment cues from users, item attributes, such as keywords, that users may find offensive or undesirable. The negative sentiment cues may be explicit (e.g., a user selects an option not to view a particular recommendation again), implicit (e.g., a user does not interact with recommendations relating to an attribute), or both. The system may use a computer model generated based on these identified attributes to filter or modify recommendations to a user or group of users. For instance, if a particular keyword is identified as highly offensive to a group of users, items associated with the keyword may be filtered from item recommendations presented to the group of users. If an attribute is identified as moderately offensive to a user, items associated with the attribute may be down-weighted in item recommendations presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam James Finkelstein, David Akira Gingrich, David Michael Hurley, Stephen Brent Ivie, Siu Nam Wong, Siqi Zhao
  • Patent number: 10395297
    Abstract: Social network postings, including text, images or other media, may provide valuable information regarding a user of the social network with which the postings may be associated. With the authorization of the user, and upon authentication by the social network, an online marketplace may access the social network postings and extract data therefrom, and market one or more recommended items to the user based on the extracted data, which may include color pallets or texture pallets derived from photographs included in the postings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Brent Ivie, Ashutosh Vishwas Kulkarni, Saurabh Nangia, Adam Landry Bordelon, Aaron James Dykstra, David Michael Hurley, Adam James Finkelstein, Scott James McKee