Patents by Inventor Zachary Taylor Lasater
Zachary Taylor Lasater 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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Patent number: 11756108Abstract: A customer logs into a desired retailer through a Virtual Reality (VR)/Augmented Reality (AR) cross-retailer application (app). Preferences and/or a profile are obtained from the retailer via an Application Programming Interface (API). A customized VR/AR setting is rendered within the app based on the preferences and/or profile and a VR/AR session is initiated with the app. Consumable items and ingredients of each item are rendered as VR/AR selectable objects during the session for interaction by the customer and a custom item is made with selected ingredients. The customer purchases the item within the session and an order is placed with the retailer through the API. In an embodiment, an avatar of the customer and avatars of other customer placing orders with the retailer are rendered on a virtual floor or superimposed on an actual floor of the customer's physical environment within the app for social interaction and social network features.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Zachary Taylor Lasater, May Hu, Kelli Lee, Kip Oliver Morgan
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Patent number: 11740740Abstract: A touch field is created around a touchscreen display, the field is in front of a touch surface of the display and the field maps to locations on the display. An operator of a terminal during a transaction is presented with transaction interface screens that are visually rendered on the display. The operator makes interface options selections, performs screen navigation, and provides date entry field inputs by placing the operator's hand within the field without touching the touch surface of the display and making hand poses, hand movements, and/or hand gestures. The poses, movements, and/or gestures are translated into touch actions and touch inputs recognized by the transaction interface and processed as operator-provided input during the transaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Zachary Taylor Lasater, Gina Torcivia Bennett, Kip Oliver Morgan, Meenakshi Sreeraman
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Publication number: 20230169426Abstract: Historical transaction loads for transactions of a store are determined. Constraints are obtained for staff of the store over a given period of time in the future. The historical loads are forecasted into projected transaction loads for the given period of time. The constraints are processed to generate a dispatch demand schedule for the staff over the given period of time. The dispatch demand schedule is translated into a staff/worker schedule and provided to a scheduling system of the store.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Kip Oliver Morgan, Jerry Steven Massey, Zachary Taylor Lasater
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Publication number: 20230136401Abstract: A customer order is received and associated with a list of items being ordered from an in-store counter of a store. An estimated time of preparing the order by attendants of the in-store counter is calculated. The customer selects a time to pickup the order after presented with the estimated required time to fulfill and prepare the order. The order is placed on behalf of the customer with the store. Status updates for the order are sent to the customer on a customer-operated device. Once the status of the order indicates the order is completed, the customer travels to the in-store counter within the store and picks up the order.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Zachary Taylor Lasater, Zachary Christopher DeBardlebon
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Publication number: 20230031816Abstract: When a new order is received and is to be inserted into an unprepared order queue for order preparation. The new order's items and items' ingredients are obtained along with expected preparation/cook time for each ingredient. Items and ingredients for the orders that are already in the queue are also inspected along with the times that each order was placed in the queue. A machine-learning model is processed with the data associated with the orders and the new order. The model returns an optimized rearrangement of the queue with the new order inserted into the queue that levels out the expected order wait times, reduces variations in order wait times, and minimizes order preparation times based on the rearranged/modified queue. The optimized queue is presented on a display associated with staff responsible for preparing the orders of the queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Zachary Christopher DeBardlebon, Zachary Taylor Lasater, Kip Oliver Morgan
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Publication number: 20230029770Abstract: A mobile device establishes an indirect network connection to a User Interface (UI) agent of a terminal. The indirect connection managed as a mobile navigational control session maintained through a server or through the server and a proxy. A keyboard widget/object and a navigation-selection widget/object are rendered within a mobile screen on a display of the mobile device. During the session, a user interacts with the keyboard and/or navigation-selection widgets and corresponding UI key events are forwarded to the UI agent. The UI agent provides the UI key events as Human Interface Device (HID) key events to the terminal causing a transaction interface to update transaction screens being rendered on a transaction display of the terminal during a transaction. The user conducts the transaction at the terminal without touching the transaction display and controls the transaction screens for the transaction via the keyboard and navigational widgets from the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Kip Morgan, Ankit Madhusudan Amin, Meenakshi Sreeraman, Gina Torcivia Bennett, Aleah Jean Kadry, Zachary Taylor Lasater, Jacob Alexander Poston
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Publication number: 20220383399Abstract: A customer logs into a desired retailer through a Virtual Reality (VR)/Augmented Reality (AR) cross-retailer application (app). Preferences and/or a profile are obtained from the retailer via an Application Programming Interface (API). A customized VR/AR setting is rendered within the app based on the preferences and/or profile and a VR/AR session is initiated with the app. Consumable items and ingredients of each item are rendered as VR/AR selectable objects during the session for interaction by the customer and a custom item is made with selected ingredients. The customer purchases the item within the session and an order is placed with the retailer through the API. In an embodiment, an avatar of the customer and avatars of other customer placing orders with the retailer are rendered on a virtual floor or superimposed on an actual floor of the customer's physical environment within the app for social interaction and social network features.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Zachary Taylor Lasater, May Hu, Kelli Lee, Kip Oliver Morgan
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Publication number: 20220197431Abstract: A touch field is created around a touchscreen display, the field is in front of a touch surface of the display and the field maps to locations on the display. An operator of a terminal during a transaction is presented with transaction interface screens that are visually rendered on the display. The operator makes interface options selections, performs screen navigation, and provides date entry field inputs by placing the operator's hand within the field without touching the touch surface of the display and making hand poses, hand movements, and/or hand gestures. The poses, movements, and/or gestures are translated into touch actions and touch inputs recognized by the transaction interface and processed as operator-provided input during the transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Zachary Taylor Lasater, Gina Torcivia Bennett, Kip Oliver Morgan, Meenakshi Sreeraman
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Patent number: 11301090Abstract: A touch field is created around a touchscreen display, the field is in front of a touch surface of the display and the field maps to locations on the display. An operator of a terminal during a transaction is presented with transaction interface screens that are visually rendered on the display. The operator makes interface options selections, performs screen navigation, and provides date entry field inputs by placing the operator's hand within the field without touching the touch surface of the display and making hand poses, hand movements, and/or hand gestures. The poses, movements, and/or gestures are translated into touch actions and touch inputs recognized by the transaction interface and processed as operator-provided input during the transaction.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Zachary Taylor Lasater, Gina Torcivia Bennett, Kip Oliver Morgan, Meenakshi Sreeraman
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Publication number: 20220101305Abstract: A mobile device establishes an indirect network connection to a User Interface (UI) agent of a terminal. The indirect connection managed as a mobile navigational control session maintained through a server or through the server and a proxy. A keyboard widget/object and a navigation-selection widget/object are rendered within a mobile screen on a display of the mobile device. During the session, a user interacts with the keyboard and/or navigation-selection widgets and corresponding UI key events are forwarded to the UI agent. The UI agent provides the UI key events as Human Interface Device (HID) key events to the terminal causing a transaction interface to update transaction screens being rendered on a transaction display of the terminal during a transaction. The user conducts the transaction at the terminal without touching the transaction display and controls the transaction screens for the transaction via the keyboard and navigational widgets from the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Kip Morgan, Ankit Madhusudan Amin, Meenakshi Sreeraman, Gina Torcivia Bennett, Aleah Jean Kadry, Zachary Taylor Lasater, Jacob Alexander Poston
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Publication number: 20220035479Abstract: A touch field is created around a touchscreen display, the field is in front of a touch surface of the display and the field maps to locations on the display. An operator of a terminal during a transaction is presented with transaction interface screens that are visually rendered on the display. The operator makes interface options selections, performs screen navigation, and provides date entry field inputs by placing the operator's hand within the field without touching the touch surface of the display and making hand poses, hand movements, and/or hand gestures. The poses, movements, and/or gestures are translated into touch actions and touch inputs recognized by the transaction interface and processed as operator-provided input during the transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Zachary Taylor Lasater, Gina Torcivia Bennett, Kip Oliver Morgan, Meenakshi Sreeraman
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Publication number: 20210065112Abstract: Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, and software of order logistics calculators. Such calculators are implemented to determine feasible logistic solutions for product order deliveries. One method embodiment includes receiving, via a network from a computing device of a customer, order data including data identifying products for purchase and delivery to the customer and then determining at least one possible delivery option. A delivery option may be determined by identifying a possible delivery location based on customer calendar schedule data and determining an estimated delivery time from a shipping location to the possible delivery location. The method of this embodiment may then output, via the network to the computing device of the customer, data identifying at least one possible delivery location and a respective delivery time and further request customer acceptance input with regard to a possible delivery location and respective delivery time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Zachary Taylor Lasater, Ankit Madhusudan Amin, Gina Torcivia Bennett, Kip Oliver Morgan