Patents Issued in March 20, 2018
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Patent number: 9922315Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer programs for performing calculations of cost of entities are described. According to one embodiment, a method is described wherein one or more data sources are identified; information is gathered from those data sources, which is then used to calculate an adjusted cost of the entities. According to another embodiment, the information gathered from the data sources relates to dollar costs and other information pertaining to the entities, which is used to statistically model cost-related figures pertaining to the entities.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Outseeker Corp.Inventor: Jonathan Feldschuh
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Patent number: 9922316Abstract: An apparatus and method are proposed for providing a beacon-based payment service in a beacon service system including a point of sales (POS) device for payment and a user device using a beacon service application. The apparatus may include a beacon module configured to emit a beacon signal, and an input module configured to receive a user input for triggering the beacon-based payment service. The apparatus may further include a POS control unit configured to identify predetermined strength of a beacon signal when an event for triggering the beacon-based payment service occurs, to control emission of the beacon signal with the identified strength through the beacon module, to detect whether a user device accesses content regarding the emitted beacon signal, and to control retransmission of the beacon signal through the beacon module by increasing the strength of the beacon signal by a predetermined value if there is no access to the content.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.Inventor: SeungHoon Moon
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Patent number: 9922317Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, which facilitates a terminal to be used in further consideration of user's convenience. According to at least one of embodiments of the present invention, a strict authentication procedure for expense payment can be performed via a simple and convenient user interface between a mobile terminal and a terminal user. In particular, since at least one of a selection and authentication of a payment means of the mobile terminal can be performed via at least one of an aligned direction, a moving direction and a moving track of the mobile terminal, the user interface between the mobile terminal and the terminal user for the expense payment can be further simplified.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sure Bak, Eunji Lee
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Patent number: 9922318Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing payment token transactions by a mobile device. The mobile device may be operable to obtain a payment token, where the payment token is associated with one or more payment token parameters and the mobile device may be configured to communicate with a financial service provider system over a first network when connectivity to the first network is available to the mobile device. The mobile device may provide the payment token to a contactless payment terminal (CPT) associated with a merchant, during a purchase transaction involving a product provided by the merchant, where the mobile device may communicate the payment token to the CPT over a local network that is different from the first network such that connectivity between the mobile device and the first network is not required.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Lawrence Douglas, Luke A. Hammock
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Patent number: 9922319Abstract: A seller's workload of managing credit card information can be reduced without changing convenience for an orderer and the seller in a transaction using a credit card. A virtual mall server (3) and a credit card server (5) share conversion information for obtaining, from actual data of the credit card, corresponding dummy data of the credit card. The virtual mall server (3) obtains, based on the conversion information, the corresponding dummy data from the actual data of the credit card to be used for a settlement of the order information, and sends the obtained dummy data to a shop terminal as data of the credit card to be used for the settlement of the order information.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: RAKUTEN, INC.Inventor: Yoshinori Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9922320Abstract: A method for facilitating biometric security in a smartcard-reader transaction system is provided. The method includes determining if a transaction violates an established rule, such as a preset spending limit. The method also includes notifying a user to proffer a biometric sample in order to verify the identity of said user, and detecting a proffered biometric at a sensor to obtain a proffered biometric sample. The method additionally comprises verifying the proffered biometric sample and authorizing a transaction to continue upon verification of the proffered biometric sample.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: III Holdings 1, LLCInventors: David S. Bonalle, Glen Salow
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Patent number: 9922321Abstract: Various embodiments are related to apparatuses and methods for paying for a financial transaction using a proxy object. The proxy object can be associated with multiple payment accounts, for example accounts associated with credit cards and debit cards. A consumer can present the object to a payee to make a payment, and the payee can use a device to obtain information from the object. For example, when the proxy object is a proxy card similar to a credit card, the payee can use a card reader to read information from the magnetic stripe of the proxy card. The information can be transmitted to a financial system, and the financial system can communicate with a computer system that can select a payment account associated with the proxy card to use for the payment. The financial system can process the payment using the selected payment account.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: Paul Aaron, William Henderson
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Patent number: 9922322Abstract: Techniques for enhancing the security of a communication device when conducting a transaction using the communication device may include using a limited-use key (LUK) to generate a transaction cryptogram, and transmitting a token instead of a real account identifier and the transaction cryptogram to an access device to conduct the transaction. The token and the transaction cryptogram can be transmitted to a magnetic stripe reader by generating an emulated magnetic signal. The LUK may be associated with a set of one or more limited-use thresholds that limits usage of the LUK, and the transaction can be authorized based on at least whether usage of the LUK has exceeded the set of one or more limited-use thresholds.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Christian Flurscheim, Christian Aabye
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Patent number: 9922323Abstract: A system and method for automatically comparing obtained wireless device location information from a wireless network and comparing that location with another independent source geographic location is provided. Location information is derived from two or more sources in a multiplicity of ways and a comparison is made within a Location Comparison Engine. The Location Comparison Engine makes use of databases that assist in resolving obtained raw positioning information and converting that positioning information into one or more formats for adequate location comparison. Results of location comparison are deduced to determine if the wireless device is in some proximity to some other activity source location. Other location information used for comparison may be obtained from a multiplicity of sources, such as another network based on some activity of wireless device user, another wireless device via a wireless network, or any system capable of providing location information to the Location Comparison Engine.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Michael F. Buhrmann, Charles Dennis, Mary Reeder, Jeffrey Brennan
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Patent number: 9922324Abstract: Disclosed are system and methods for purchasing items on a website or a mobile application using a single verification action. The disclosed technique allows a user to initiate a purchase transaction with a merchant via a mobile application on a mobile device and select a mobile payment application associated with a payment service system as a payment method. The mobile application then passes at least a transaction amount and a merchant identifier to the mobile payment application to handover processing of the purchase transaction to the mobile payment application. The mobile payment application, based on preference settings, if any, and otherwise default settings, determines whether to request a confirmation from the user to proceed with the purchase transaction. Once a decision to proceed with the purchase transaction is made, the mobile payment application sends a request to the payment service system to complete the purchase transaction by paying the merchant.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: Jesse Wilson, Brian Grassadonia, Matthew Rhodes
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Patent number: 9922325Abstract: A user may request receipts near a current location of the user or a desired location specified by the user. Once a location or address is determined or obtained, a service provider can access a database or other storage to search for receipts for the user within a certain distance from the current user location or desired location. This distance can vary based on results found or density of merchants in the area. The distance can be predetermined by the system or the user. All valid receipts within this distance can then be presented to the user on the user device, such as indications on a map, associated with merchant names and transaction details or summaries, and/or other formats and information.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventor: Christopher Boncimino
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Patent number: 9922326Abstract: Method for processing a transaction, the method comprising automatically requesting a transfer from a source account to a destination account via a communication link, receiving the transfer, adjusting destination account data associated with the destination account by increasing a balance of the destination account by an amount of the transfer, receiving transaction data from a merchant indicating an attempted transaction, the transaction data including a transaction amount and data identifying the destination account, and processing the attempted transaction.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Robert Minter Alexander, IV, Charles Aaron Rosenblatt, Daniel R O'Malley, Scott David Grimes
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Patent number: 9922327Abstract: A system, method, and computer program are provided for providing a multi-merchant electronic shopping cart within a web browser. The shopping cart can be used at a plurality of unrelated merchant shopping sites and remains within the browser regardless of the displayed website. When a user selects the shopping cart, a user interface is displayed with information about a product on the website without navigating to a new webpage. If the product has options, the user is able to select for the options via the user interface. The user is also able to save products from a plurality of shopping sites to the shopping cart or purchase products from the shopping cart at one time. For each product to be purchased, a purchase transaction is conducted, on behalf of the user, with the merchant associated with the website from which the user added the product to the shopping cart.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Ebates Inc.Inventors: Kevin H. Johnson, Tanuj Chatterjee
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Acceleration of system documentation conformance to differentiated regulations of multiple countries
Patent number: 9922328Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for acceleration of system documentation conformance to differentiated regulations of multiple countries are provided. A database may be prepopulated with documentation specifications specifying documentation attributes corresponding to transaction types and countries. Information indicative of an enterprise structure may be processed. Countries that correspond to the enterprise structure may be identified. Country-specific rules may be determined, the rules defining requirements pertaining to documentation of transactions. A first subset of documentation attributes may be selected based on the rules, the first subset specifying documentation options pertaining to a first transaction type. A second subset of documentation attributes may be selected based on the rules, the second subset specifying documentation options pertaining to a second transaction type. A set of objects to facilitate setup of an accounting program may be generated.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Ashish Kumar, Carolyn Luk, David Haimes, Rama Raja Sekhar Allamsette -
Patent number: 9922329Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for inhibiting entry of unauthorized products in a supply chain. The methods and systems feature unique identifiers placed on products in the supply chain and Digitally Secured Electronic Titles (DSETs) for products. The DSETs are exchanged upon transfer of the products in the supply chain and tracked in an electronic registry.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: TRACELINK, INC.Inventors: Shabbir M. Dahod, Peter J. Spellman
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Patent number: 9922330Abstract: A system for advertising on a Peer-to-Peer network detects a search request of a node in a Peer-to-Peer network. After detecting a search request, the system prepares an unsolicited response (e.g., advertisement) to the search request of the node. Once the unsolicited response is prepared, the system sends the unsolicited response to the node. For example, a Peer-to-Peer network node issues a search request and a system prepares an advertisement (e.g., an unsolicited response). After preparing the advertisement, the system sends the advertisement to the Peer-to-Peer network node that issued the search request. The process of sending advertisements can be made to each node issuing a search request without discrimination. In one example, the system detects a search request of a node in a Peer-to-Peer network; prepares an advertisement in response to the search request of the node based on a predetermined search criteria; and sends the advertisement to the node for advertising on the Peer-to-Peer network.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Kroll Information Assurance, LLCInventor: Samuel P. Hopkins
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Patent number: 9922331Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and storage medium for determining that a client device is enabled for persistent identification, and that may operate as a filter for user information based on whether the client is enabled for persistent identification. A first communication is received regarding a request by the client for a web page. At least one application level data structure is then provided for storage by the client, that persistently identifies at least one characteristic of the client. A second communication is then received that includes a representation of the application level data structures provided, and a comparison is made between the data structures provided and the representation received to determine whether the client is enabled for persistent identification. If persistent identification is enabled, the client may then be provided with advertisements or other content related to the client interests or characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2009Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Blue Kai, Inc.Inventors: Michael Bigby, John Patrick Connelly
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Patent number: 9922332Abstract: A integrated electronic networked notary system includes sub-systems of computers to execute biometric analysis, target object information input and analysis, marking and time stamping with an trusted third-party provider to enable an electronic notary process. The system provides for authentication of both the signatories as well as the target objects. The user has the option to either unilaterally self-notarize or to collaborate with others for the purpose of electronically notarizing the target object. For high-value target objects, a selectable display menu can be changed into the semi-automatic mode, whereby, a legal notary person may be present to interface and/or assist the user(s) in their notarization and time stamping process.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Inventor: Robert Sant'Anselmo
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Patent number: 9922333Abstract: An advertising system identifies behaviors from user activity and associates the behaviors with a user profile. Advertisers provide the advertising system with information on conversion rates of users associated with user profiles. A behavioral model of user responses is built to identify the relative frequency of behaviors for increasing the response rate of ads. Incoming advertising requests are matched to modeled behaviors to determine an advertiser's interest in bidding on the ad placement.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: EXPONENTIAL INTERACTIVE, INC.Inventor: Alexander Saldanha
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Patent number: 9922334Abstract: Methods and systems for providing an advertisement based on a minimum number of exposures may include receiving selection criteria to specify a device identifier that meets the selection criteria, receiving a minimum number of exposures to the advertisement and an interval of time for the minimum number of exposures to occur, and a maximum aggregate bid value for each device identifier that is exposed to the advertisement for the minimum number of exposures, determining a probability that the device identifier reaches the number of exposures within the interval of time and within the maximum aggregate bid value, selecting a bid for each exposure for the device identifier based on the determined probability and the maximum aggregate bid value; and based on the selection of the bid, providing display data indicative of the advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Aaron Nathaniel Rothman
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Patent number: 9922335Abstract: A social networking system dynamically adjusts a number of advertisements presented to a user along with organic content items by modifying a ranking including organic content items and advertisements. Partial engagement scores are generated for organic content items based on an expected amount of user interaction with each organic content item, and scores are generated for advertisements based on expected user interaction and bid amounts associated with each organic content item. An engagement score measuring the user's estimated interaction with a content feed including organic content items without advertisements and an additional engagement score measuring the user's estimated interaction with a content feed including organic content items and advertisements are determined from the partial engagement scores and the scores.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Ke Pan, Sourav Chatterji
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Patent number: 9922336Abstract: A method and a system for easily managing an itinerary are provided. The method includes generating, by an electronic device, a trip route, selecting a trip item for recommendation information searching, searching for recommendation information of the selected trip item based on the generated trip route, displaying the searched recommendation information at a corresponding location on the generated trip route, modifying the generated trip route based on selected recommendation information from the displayed recommendation information, and storing the modified trip route.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yungeun Jang, Hyunsoo Kim
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Patent number: 9922337Abstract: A system and method for assigning a value to an electronic communications action by a user based on the social media profile of the user in the initiation of transactions based on some electronic communications action by a user, such as updating their social status with their mobile device. The value of the reward or distribution is variable as it is determined in real time from a calculation using the user's social media influence. The components of Applicant's invention include a system monitor, a validation module, and a redemption module, which work in concert to provide a user with a tangible and immediately usable reward of some value, or credit towards the same, in response to the user publishing or sending certain social status updates, messages, or posts with their mobile device, with the value awarded determined in real time.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Inventor: Brett Circe
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Patent number: 9922338Abstract: To automate the redemption of offer benefits, data associating offers and payment accounts is stored in the data warehouse of a first transaction handler. If a payment account to which an offer is associated is in the payment processing network of a second transaction handler separate from the first transaction handler, the system uses a payment processor that is in both the payment processing network of the first transaction handler and the payment processing network of the second transaction handler to communicate with the first transaction handler to detect the authorization request in the payment account that satisfies the benefit redemption requirements of the respective offer and apply the offer benefit to the transaction when the authorization request is detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Joseph Bjorn Ovick, Mark Carlson, Ryan Hagey, Margaret Reid, Patrick Stan, Patrick Wright, Krishna Prasad Koganti, Glenn Powell, Phillip Lyle Kumnick
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Patent number: 9922339Abstract: A transaction parameter date set comprising input variables characterizing the transaction conditions are collected when an electronic payment is initiated on an electronic payment system. The collected transaction input variables are used to calculate an expected future transaction value using a decision function. The expected future transaction value identifies high utility transaction based on a comparison of the expected future transaction value to a threshold value established while training the decision function on a training data set of known outcome. A high utility transaction can include behavior that if rewarded is likely to retain current users or grow the electronic payment system network by adding new users. If the expected future transaction value exceeds the threshold value the sender of the electronic payment is rewarded by the system.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Travis Harrison Kroll Green, Brian Richard Schneirow
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Patent number: 9922340Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media are provided for evaluating an attribution model, based on simulated activity streams. Parameters are specified that describe how users behave in the absence and presence of advertising, and parameters that regulate advertising in a simulation. A first set of simulated activity streams is generated with advertising turned on, observational metrics associated with the first set of streams are determined, and an attribution model is applied to determine a first fraction of incremental conversions associated with one or more advertising channels. Further sets of simulated activity streams are generated, each with a single advertising channel turned off, observational metrics associated with the further sets of streams are determined, and a second fraction of incremental conversions is determined for each advertising channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jon Vaver, Stefan F. Schnabl
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Patent number: 9922341Abstract: The television program scheduling system receives from one or more published data sources, historical audience data for previous telecasts of the shows on one or more television networks, and calibrates a model for audience rating estimation based on the historical audience data. The calibrated model for audience rating estimation may be utilized to generate estimates or projections of audience in the future. The television program scheduling system may generate an optimal schedule assignment of the shows to time periods that maximizes total resulting estimated audience based on the calibrated model for audience rating estimation. The generation utilizes a time expanded network in which each node represents an assignment of a show to a specific time period, with a specific stacking, and preceded by a lead-in show, and a feasible transition between two nodes represents a valid transition between two shows.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC.Inventors: Wassim Samir Chaar, José Antonio Carbajal Orozco, Peter Alexander Williams
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Patent number: 9922342Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, are described for providing content. A method includes: receiving a request for an advertisement to be displayed in a slot associated with a third-party content site; identifying a relevant advertisement to be provided in the slot; determining information to be included in an annotation associated with the advertisement, the annotation including customized information related to a user or a group associated with the user that is to be presented along with the advertisement; providing the advertisement responsive to the request including providing the annotation along with a control for re-publishing the advertisement along with the relevant advertisement; receiving user input selecting the control and designating the advertisement for re-publishing; and targeting additional content to the user or a group associated with the user based on the received user input.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Davi Reis, Christian Oestlien, Eider Silva de Oliveira, Marcus A. Leal, Igor P. Soares
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Patent number: 9922343Abstract: An online system receives a content item from content providers and a target audience criterion and for targeting the received content item. The online system determines recommendations of modifications of the target audience criteria such that users of the modified target audience criteria have a higher likelihood of interacting with the content item compared to the received target audience criteria. The online system stores measures of interest of subsets of users for different topics. The online system determines topics associated with the content item and determines measures of interest of subsets of users in the content item based on topics associated with the content item. The online system provides recommendations for modifying the target audience criteria based on the determined measures of interests of users.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Jacob Andrew Brill, Gianluca Iannaccone
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Patent number: 9922344Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for serving advertisements based on partial queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for advertisements that specifies a set of query suggestions. The query suggestions are ranked based, at least in part on a probability of each query suggestion being selected by a user that input the partial query. A proper subset of the query suggestions is selected and includes a highest ranked query suggestion based on the ranking and one or more query suggestions of the set of query suggestions that is at least one of a revision of the highest ranked query suggestion or refers to a same topic as the highest ranked query suggestion. One or more advertisements are identified for each query suggestion of the proper subset. Data specifying the identified advertisements are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Emmanuel Christophe, Japinder Singh, Vivek Raghunathan, Arash Baratloo
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Patent number: 9922345Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for a first business entity to provide a network-based supply chain framework for collaborative order management between at least a second and a third independent business entity, such as a service provider, vendor, reseller, manufacturer and the like. A request for an order is received over a network with an automated system, from at least a second business entity. The order is transmitted over a network, with an automated system, to at least the third business entity. Information is received from the third business entity relating to a status of completion of the order by the third business entity using a network. The progress in completing the order is tracked based on the information received from the third business entity. Progress reports from the tracking are generated periodically; and transmitted to the second business entity using the network.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventor: Michael G. Mikurak
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Patent number: 9922346Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a system includes a map store, a map server, and a content server. The map server identifies a set of content items in which each content item is associated with a geographic location that is presented in a portion of a map, determines, for a given content item, an adjusted value of a given content item based at least in part on a base value for the content given item and a set of adjustment factors for one or more other content items in the set of content items, selects content items from the set of content items based on the adjusted values, and provides data that present the selected content items on the portion of the map presented at the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Sergei Vassilvtskii, Mohammad Mahdian
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Patent number: 9922347Abstract: A method of displaying an ad on a swipe screen of a mobile device comprises: receiving, at the mobile device, a plurality of ads, storing the plurality of ads in an ad cache in a memory of the mobile device, select an ad from the plurality of ads stored in the ad cache, receiving an input on the mobile device when the mobile device is in a sleep mode, presenting a swipe screen on the mobile device based on the input, and displaying, by the swipe screen application, the ad on the swipe screen on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Robert H. Burcham, Jason R Delker, Geoffrey A. Holmes, M. Jeffrey Stone
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Patent number: 9922348Abstract: A method comprises providing an interface permitting a first user to control activation of a mobile information channel through which the first user can share access to content with a plurality of additional users, activating the mobile information channel responsive to input received from the first user via the interface, inserting content provided by the first user into the mobile information channel, receiving additional content relating to the mobile information channel from one or more of said additional users via one or more respective mobile devices associated with at least one wireless network, inserting at least a portion of the additional content into the mobile information channel, and integrating into the mobile information channel information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of said at least one wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Engagelogic CorporationInventors: David Walker Harper, Jason James Sabella, William Henry Munch
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Patent number: 9922349Abstract: A digital brand asset system is provided enabling a brand owner to create, distribute, maintain, manage, merchandise and analyze smart brand assets. The system enables distribution and sharing of smart brand assets across the websites. The websites can host webpages containing codes representing the smart brand assets. When a user device retrieves a webpage from one of the websites and renders the webpage, it executes the codes and requests the content of the smart brand assets from a brand asset server. Through the brand asset server, a brand owner can control the content and the presentation of the smart brand asset hosted by the websites, based on various factors such as previous click through rates, aggregated shopper behaviors, geographical locations of the websites or website visitors, categorized types of websites, blacklist of websites.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Synqy CorporationInventors: Nikolaus Chanda, Michael Weissman, David Mosby, John Hoye
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Patent number: 9922350Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to a dynamically adaptable real-time customer experience manager and/or associated method. Electronic messages are received from different source systems. Each message has an associated message type. Metadata is dynamically and programmatically developed for each received message based on an extensible set of scoring scenarios. The metadata includes at least one metric that is comparable across messages of different types for assessing relative priorities. A determination is made as to where in a queue of pending messages each received message is to be inserted, based on the metadata. A complex event processing query is executed on the queue to dynamically identify a pending message therein that is to be delivered. The identified pending message is subjected to pre-programmed distribution scenarios to identify which possible communication channel(s) that identified pending message is to be sent.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: SOFTWARE AGInventor: Gareth Smith
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Patent number: 9922351Abstract: Location-based adaptation of financial management system. Crowdsourced feedback regarding financial management system content is tagged with location data such as an IP address and/or geographic location data. Location-specific counters track feedback received from different locations and may involve different languages, dialects, phrases or other manners of expression associated with different countries, states or regions thereof. When pre-determined criteria is satisfied, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: INTUIT INC.Inventors: Taylor M. Candee, Charles H. Taira, Thomas J. Rohlf, Megan E. Caywood
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Patent number: 9922352Abstract: A multidimensional synopsis of a stream of textual data pertaining to a particular subject can be generated. To produce the multidimensional synopsis, multiple dimensions that each includes concepts can be identified. The stream of textual data can then be analyzed to identify the occurrence of the concepts within elements of the stream. The multidimensional synopsis can then be produced by generating a score for each intersecting set of concepts from the multiple dimensions. Therefore, each score can generally represent a prevalence of the corresponding intersecting set of concepts within the stream of textual data.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Quest Software Inc.Inventors: Abel Tegegne, Vineetha Abraham, Mitch Brisebois
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Patent number: 9922354Abstract: The present technology provides a purchasing interface within an application that allows users to purchase a product from another source without leaving the application. The application offers a product for purchase, and a user, desiring to purchase the product can provide an input effective to cause a purchasing interface to be displayed. While the purchasing interface, or information presented therein, comes from the product source, which is different than the application source, it is presented in such a fashion that gives the impression to the user that they are purchasing the product directly from the application.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James Alexander Howard, William Bedford Turner, Christopher Blumenberg, Richard Williamson
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Patent number: 9922355Abstract: There is provided, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a system, platform and method to provide shared order management based on a shared order platform used by buyers and suppliers. In some embodiments the order management platform includes an order server in a communications cloud, coupled to an order database; a shared order platform adapted to facilitate usage by one or more authorized buyers and/or suppliers, wherein the shared order platform includes a shared structured document with order related data layers; and a tokenized link with an address linking to the shared order platform, where the tokenized link is adapted to allow entry into the shared order platform via entering a page defined within the tokenized link.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: SIMPLE ORDER LTD.Inventors: Arik Mezan, Amir Zelig, Guy Even Ezra, Elliott Hool
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Patent number: 9922356Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable online transactions related to buying/selling an item, such as a vehicle. In an embodiment, one or more installment agreements relating to a user and one or more items may be generated in response to one or more received inputs. In an embodiment, a deal table comprising the one or more installment agreements may be generated, and the deal table may be transmitted to a user device for presentation via the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: CARVANA, LLCInventors: Ernest C. Garcia, III, Nicole Behrens, Adam Swofford, William Adams
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Patent number: 9922357Abstract: Interactive notifications, from merchants or others soliciting a user response, are provided to the users' mobile devices for facilitating user engagement and receiving customer feedback. The interactive notifications include multiple single- or limited-action user-response options, such as buttons for purchasing the product or indicating that the user is not interested, enabling a user to immediately respond to the notification. The notification may be pushed to the mobile devices and presented on the locked screen of the mobile device or may interrupt other applications, thereby further minimizing the level of user interaction or attention necessary for responding. Analytical data may be collected from the interactive notification and may be used to tailor future notifications.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Jay Proulx
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Patent number: 9922358Abstract: A portable device which assists shoppers. The device identifies items of merchandise, and retrieves information about the items from a remote location. The items can be identified based on their labels, by image recognition, by their location, by the shopper, or by other approaches. This additional or enhanced information about the items can then be overlaid on the real-time display of the portable device, such that the shopper has access to said information and can associate it easily to the relevant items.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: NCR CorporationInventor: Nathaniel Christopher Herwig
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Patent number: 9922359Abstract: A user communication device retrieves shape information from active labels and performs an image based search on the shape files to find locally available acceptable replacement parts. The user communication device may use only the shape files from the active label, or the user communication device may use a combination of images from both the active label and images generated by a user to search for an acceptable replacement part for a faulty system. Using the active label system, the user communication device directly pings replacement parts at local retailers independently of the computer networks operated by the retailers. The user communication device receives back data from replacement parts and provides the user with a list of locally available parts.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Imaginestics, LLCInventor: Jamie Tan
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Patent number: 9922360Abstract: A recommendation system communicates with end user devices over a computer communications network and includes a recommendations engine that communicates with the network from behind a firewall that inhibits unauthorized communications from the network, a data file system that receives disposition update data in response to purchase actions initiated by an end user device and receives ingested user activity data in response to activity at a network storefront initiated by an end user device, and a database system that updates a recommendation model for the end user device in response to receiving the disposition update data and ingested user activity data. The recommendations engine generates a recommendation for the end user device in response to the update of the recommendation model.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Daniel Hendrick, Damon Lanphear, Robert Mahfoud, Rodrick Megraw
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Patent number: 9922361Abstract: Users may create and/or interact with content that may reference various businesses. For example, a user may submit a search query “Akron Hardware Store” to a search interface that may provide relevant search results for the search query. As provided herein, content suggestions may be provided to the user based upon an occurrence of a business reference of a business. For example, search keywords that resulted in user engagement with the business may be evaluated to identify a set of search keywords (e.g., search queries that led users to an Akron Hardware Store website). A set of content suggestions (e.g., coupons, maps, search queries, website links, images, descriptions, etc.) may be generated based upon the set of search keywords, and may be provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLCInventors: Eric Bax, Arun Autuchirayll, John Peng, Roxana Iuliana Marcu Forbes
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Patent number: 9922362Abstract: Electronic multimedia content is recommended based on personal preferences. Consumption information may be collected to generate recommended multimedia content. Electronic storefronts may also be selected based on the consumption information. Different portals and access points may be used based on IPTV assets, mobile assets, and mobile assets.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: James T. Sofos, Lee M. Chow, David J. Piepenbrink
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Patent number: 9922363Abstract: An enhanced shopping system for facilitating grocery shopping and in-store advertising is disclosed. The system utilizes uniquely changes (1) the way grocery retail industry captures and retains customers, (2) how customers organize their shopping efforts in grocery stores, (3) the approach to advertising and reaching customers, and (4) the information available to retailers and merchandisers related to customer (a) shopping patterns, (b) responses to merchandising and advertising, and (c) specific impact of discounting/coupons.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: ASHDAN LLCInventors: Danielle Lynn Borom, Michael Preston Borom
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Patent number: 9922364Abstract: Methods are described herein related to enabling users to purchase a product or service by providing a voice request and/or an image. An example method may involve: (a) receiving, by a hybrid response system (“HRS”), a first speech-segment message that comprises a speech segment and is associated with a user-account, (b) the HRS determining that the speech segment indicates a purchase request, (c) the HRS determining a target product/service based on at least the purchase request, (d) the HRS determining a confidence level associated with a purchase of the target product/service, (e) if the confidence level is greater than or equal to a threshold level, then the HRS sending a purchase order, via the associated user-account, for the target product or service, otherwise, the HRS sending the purchase request and the target product/service to at least one guide computing system to facilitate a response to the purchase request.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Charles Chen, Rakesh Yadav
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Patent number: 9922365Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system that includes a profile subsystem that stores inmate profiles, and an order processing subsystem that receives data regarding an order of the inmate, retrieves an inmate profile for the inmate from the profile subsystem, applies restrictions to the order of the inmate based on the inmate profile, generates an order number for the order of the inmate, assigns an RFID tag to the order number by encoding data into the RFID tag, and generates one or more labels comprising the RFID tag to be affixed to a package so as to conceal an identity of the inmate, in which the package with the order is packaged and shipped to the correctional facility with the one or more labels comprising the RFID tag. The system also includes a delivery processing subsystem that receives data regarding the package based on scanning the RFID tag of the package.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Global Tel*Link CorporationInventor: Stephen L. Hodge