Patents by Inventor Waigen Zhang

Waigen Zhang 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).

  • Publication number: 20220092620
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for classifying merchants. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising determining, based on a first value, a first prediction value that indicates a programmatically expected number of consumers that will request termination of an accepted first promotion; and determining, based on the first prediction value, a classification for the first entity, the classification specifying a likelihood that the transmittal of the first promotion to consumers will result in a number of terminations less than a pre-specified threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Addhyan Pandey, Waigen Zhang, Zahra Ferdowsi, Angela Han
  • Patent number: 11182810
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for classifying merchants. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising determining, based on a first value, a first prediction value that indicates a programmatically expected number of consumers that will request termination of an accepted first promotion; and determining, based on the first prediction value, a classification for the first entity, the classification specifying a likelihood that the transmittal of the first promotion to consumers will result in a number of terminations less than a pre-specified threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Addhyan Pandey, Waigen Zhang, Zahra Ferdowsi, Angela Han