Patents Issued in August 14, 2018
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Patent number: 10049309Abstract: A character recognition device comprising: a storage means storing a plurality of dictionary databases corresponding to each of a plurality of degradation levels, said databases being generated from images wherein an original character image has been degraded using a plurality of different degradation levels; an image input means that receives input of images; an extraction means that extracts character images from said images; a usage order determination means that determines an usage order for dictionary databases on the basis of degradation degrees for extracted character images; and a character recognition means that uses dictionary databases in accordance with said usage order, recognizes characters included in the extracted character image and, if recognition results for the character recognition fulfill prescribed conditions, outputs the recognition results without performing recognition using the dictionary database next in said usage order.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Hideto Hamabashiri, Tomoyoshi Aizawa, Tadashi Hyuga
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Patent number: 10049310Abstract: Provided are techniques for image text analysis for identifying hidden text. An Optical Character Reader (OCR) is utilized to extract a text string from an image. Context within the image is analyzed. It is determined that the extracted text string is a partial text string based on the context. For a first radius level of a plurality of radius levels, a segmented sub-image is identified around the partial text string within the first radius level, an image search on the segmented sub-image is performed to identify a candidate text string, and, in response to determining that the candidate text string is a complete text string, the complete text string is provided for performing an action.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alaa Abou Mahmoud, Paul R. Bastide, Fang Lu
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Patent number: 10049311Abstract: A card reader may include a card insertion port; a card conveying passage; and a card lock mechanism structured to prevent drawing of the card from the card insertion port. The card lock mechanism may include a motor; a lock member comprising a prevention pawl structured to move between a contact position and a retreated position; and a power transmission mechanism structured to transmit power of the motor to the lock member. The power transmission mechanism may include a final gear which is disposed on a most lock member side in a transmitting direction of power from the motor to the lock member. The lock member may include a sector gear which is engaged with the final gear.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Kuwaki, Hiroshige Takeda, Shinya Miyazawa
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Patent number: 10049313Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a feeder, a printing head, a printer RFID tag comprising a tag antenna and an IC circuit part, a communication antenna, and a control device. The control device being configured to execute an information acquisition process for acquiring access point information via a wired communication connecting part from the printer RFID tag, the access point information being acquired by the printer RFID tag by tag communication, a transmission and reception attempting process for attempting information transmission and reception with an access point, by means of the mutually recognized wireless communication, a data acquisition process for acquiring desired print data acquired by the mutually recognized wireless communication when information transmission and reception by the transmission and reception attempting process succeed, and a printing control process for controlling the feeder and the printing head so that printing is performed on a print-receiving medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Zhipeng Yu
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Patent number: 10049314Abstract: A barcoded indicator operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedance of at least one threshold by at least one product quality affecting parameter, the barcoded indicator including a first barcode including a first plurality of barcode bars and at least a first colorable area, at least a second barcode including a second plurality of barcode bars and at least a second colorable area, and at least one interposed line extending between the first barcode and the second barcode, the interposed line being capable of preventing a barcode reader from reading parts of the first barcode and of the second barcode as part of a single barcode.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Varcode Ltd.Inventors: Yaron Nemet, Rotem Eshedkaner, Ephraim Brand
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Patent number: 10049315Abstract: A payment card may include a read sensor configured to detect a reading of the payment card by a card reader. In particular, the payment card may include a controller or a processor configured to count a number of times the payment card is read by other card readers. The payment card may implement card security measures based on the number of reads detected by the read sensor. The payment card may further include a magnetic stripe emulator configured to emulate signal patterns of a magnetic stripe when the magnetic stripe is read by a card reader. The controller may disable the magnetic stripe emulator when the number of reads detected by the read sensor exceeds a predetermined number.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Geoffrey W. Chatterton, Anupam Pahuja
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Patent number: 10049316Abstract: The invention is aimed at optimizing the life of the power supply of mobile equipment with a radiofrequency communication interface by switching off the power to it when it reaches a given state. A mobile device (102) has a battery (206), a radiofrequency circuit (201) allowing the mobile device (102) to exchange information with a host device (101). The mobile device (102) comprises an electronic switch (202) connected between the battery (206) and at least the radiofrequency circuit (201), where the switch makes it possible to supply power or not to the radiofrequency circuit. A power control circuit (203) is capable of controlling the electronic switch (202) so that it ceases to power the radiofrequency circuit as soon a break in communication is detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: GEMALTO SAInventors: Michel Thill, Pierre Gravez, Matthieu Antoine
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Patent number: 10049317Abstract: RFID tags capable of transitioning between a private state and one or more public states are provided. In the private state, tags may participate in an inventory round without restriction. In a public state, tags may be prevented from participating in an inventory round, allowed to participate without providing actual identifying information, or allowed to participate providing an alternate identifier. Whether and how the tag responds in public state may depend on certain conditions including if one or more of the tag's flags are asserted or deasserted. Readers may select a public tag for inventorying by providing sufficient information to the tag to verify the reader's authenticity, and the tag then asserting or deasserting one or more of its flags accordingly. The asserted or deasserted flag(s) may be used to determine whether and how a tag in public state participates in an inventory round.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Impinj, Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Diorio, Joel Peshkin
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Patent number: 10049318Abstract: A method for balancing a rotatable component is disclosed This method comprises and then plating the component to deposit a metal layer onto the component until the component is balanced. In addition, and alternative method for balancing a rotatable component is disclosed. This method comprises attaching a balancing weight to the rotatable component and rotating the component. This is followed by plating the component and the balancing weight to deposit a metal layer onto the balancing weight and the component until the component is balanced.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Colin J. Kling, Joseph Parkos, Gary M. Lomasney, William Bogue
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Patent number: 10049319Abstract: A method of assembling products selects first and second planar substrates, each having a plurality of articles respectively positioned on each substrate, which articles are to be assembled together. While one of the substrates moves at a generally linear speed, the other substrate moves in a spiral fashion through an assembly location such as a nip roller to thereby match their respective speeds, resulting alignment of respective articles for assembling of the two different types of articles together from two substrates having differing pitch placement of their respective articles thereon. The non-spiraling substrate is a plurality of flights of articles in an array, and the other substrate has a block of the other articles. Typically, the number of flights corresponds to the number of articles in the block.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: AVERY DENNISON RETAIL INFORMATION SERVICES, LLCInventor: Ian James Forster
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Patent number: 10049320Abstract: Card processing mechanisms and methods whereby after a card has been processed on one surface thereof at a card processing station such as, but not limited to, a card printing mechanism, the card can be recirculated back upstream of the card processing station along a return card travel path that is separate from the primary card travel path through the card processing station where the card can then be reintroduced back into the primary card travel path and transported through the card processing station a second time. As the card is being returned along the return card travel path, the card can be flipped over so that when the card is transported back through the card processing station, the opposite surface of the card can be processed.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: ENTRUST DATACARD CORPORATIONInventors: Brian Beech, Thomas J. Wagener, Timothy J. Flitsch
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Patent number: 10049321Abstract: A thermodynamic RAM circuit composed of a group of AHaH (Anti-Hebbian and Hebbian) computing circuits that form one or more kT-RAM circuits. The AHaH computing circuits can be configured as an AHaH computing stack. The kTRAM circuit(s) can include one or core kT-Cores, each partitioned into AHaH nodes of any size via time multiplexing. The kT-Core couples readout electrodes together to form a larger combined kT-Core. AHaH Computing is the theoretical space encompassing the capabilities of AHaH nodes. At this level of development, solutions have been found for problems as diverse as classification, prediction, anomaly detection, clustering, feature learning, actuation, combinatorial optimization, and universal logic.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: KNOWMTECH, LLCInventor: Alex Nugent
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Patent number: 10049322Abstract: A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network, the circuit comprising: a systolic array comprising a plurality of cells; a weight fetcher unit configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: send, for the neural network layer, a plurality of weight inputs to cells along a first dimension of the systolic array; and a plurality of weight sequencer units, each weight sequencer unit coupled to a distinct cell along the first dimension of the systolic array, the plurality of weight sequencer units configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: shift, for the neural network layer, the plurality of weight inputs to cells along the second dimension of the systolic array over a plurality of clock cycles and where each cell is configured to compute a product of an activation input and a respective weight input using multiplication circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Jonathan Ross
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Patent number: 10049323Abstract: A method of learning parameters of a CNN is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) allowing an input value to be delivered to individual multiple element bias layers; (b) allowing the scale layer connected to a specific element bias layer to multiply a predetermined scale value by an output value of the specific element bias layer; (c) (i) allowing a specific element activation layer connected to the scale layer to apply activation function, and (ii) allowing the other individual element activation layers to apply activation functions to output values of the individual element bias layers; (d) allowing a concatenation layer to concatenate an output value of the specific element activation layer and output values of the other element activation layers; (e) allowing the convolutional layer to apply the convolution operation to the concatenated output; and (f) allowing a loss layer to acquire a loss during a backpropagation process.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: StradVision, Inc.Inventors: Yongjoong Kim, Woonhyun Nam, Sukhoon Boo, Myungchul Sung, Donghun Yeo, Wooju Ryu, Taewoong Jang, Kyungjoong Jeong, Hongmo Je, Hojin Cho
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Patent number: 10049324Abstract: A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generates deportment and comportment cohorts. Digital sensor data, which is derived by analyzing multimodal sensor data, comprises event metadata which describes a set of events associated with an individual. Descriptive data about the individual is retrieved by data mining a combination of online sources and off-line sources. A set of conduct analysis models is selected based on event metadata and available description data. The event metadata and the description data are analyzed in the set of conduct analysis models to form a deportment and comportment cohort, where the deportment and comportment cohort comprises attributes identifying a demeanor and manner of the individual.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L. Angell, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer
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Patent number: 10049325Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a learning part performing learning of a model of an environment in which an agent performs action, using an observed value observed in the agent when the agent capable of action performs action, an action determining part determining action to be performed by the agent, based on the model, and a user instruction output part outputting instruction information representing an instruction from a user according to the instruction from the user, wherein the action determining part determines the action performed by the agent according to the instruction information when there is an instruction from the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideki Shimomura, Kenta Kawamoto, Kohtaro Sabe
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Patent number: 10049326Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program that can learn a linear or non-linear transfer function are disclosed. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method may include creating a plurality of combinations for at least one input, and calculating an output for the plurality of combinations. The method may also include calculating an error based on the calculated output.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Admin of National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: Michael J Krasowski, Norman F Prokop
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Patent number: 10049327Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, and non-transitory process-readable storage media for a computing device to use machine learning to dynamically configure an application and/or complex algorithms associated with the application. An aspect method performed by a processor of the computing device may include operations for performing an application that calls a library function associated with a complex algorithm, obtaining signals indicating user responses to performance of the application, determining whether a user tolerates the performance of the application based on the obtained signals indicating the user responses, adjusting a configuration of the application to improve a subsequent performance of the application in response to determining the user does not tolerate the performance of the application, and storing data indicating the user responses to the performance of the application and other external variables for use in subsequent evaluations of user inputs.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Faraz Mohammad Mirzaei, Vinay Sridhara, Nayeem Islam
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Patent number: 10049328Abstract: A social driving style learning framework or system for autonomous vehicles is utilized, which can dynamically learn the social driving styles from surrounding vehicles and adopt the driving style as needed. Each of the autonomous vehicles within a particular driving area is equipped with the driving style learning system to perceive the driving behaviors of the surrounding vehicles to derive a set of driving style elements. Each autonomous vehicle transmits the driving style elements to a centralized remote server. The server aggregates the driving style elements collected from the autonomous vehicles to determine a driving style corresponding to that particular driving area. The server transmits the driving style back to each of the autonomous vehicles. The autonomous vehicles can then decide whether to adopt the driving style, for example, to follow the traffic flow with the rest of the vehicles nearby.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventors: Yifei Jiang, Dong Li, Jiaming Tao, Jiangtao Hu, Liyun Li, Guang Yang, Jingao Wang
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Patent number: 10049329Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for exchanging content with a content management system comprising an extended record data structure. A plurality of records are maintained at the travel management system in an extended record data structure that includes first data containers containing standard data elements and second data containers containing non-standard data elements. Each non-standard data element is associated with a respective structure description file defining a structure of the attributes of the non-standard data element. A first data exchange message is generated at the travel management system and includes the structure description file of one of the non-standard data elements and a set of values corresponding to values of the attributes of the one of the non-standard data elements. The first data exchange message is transmitted according to a first data exchange format from the travel management system to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: AMADEUS S.A.S.Inventors: Vanessa Fontebride, Christel Charrat, Ludovic Le Sinq, Marion Francois, Pierre Gadeyne, Christian Ceelen
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Patent number: 10049330Abstract: The present invention describes an on demand service provisioning system to interface with suppliers and customers. One embodiment of the present invention includes a database to store information on customers, suppliers and transactions; a module to interface customers; a module to interface suppliers; a module to interface the database; a stateful section including the module to interface with the database; and a stateless section including the module to interface with the customers and the suppliers.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Deem, Inc.Inventors: Satnam Alag, Pramod Mahadev, Anson Mah, Vilas Athavale
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Patent number: 10049331Abstract: An enterprise resource planning tool that accesses primary sales data tracked by an enterprise resource planning system operated by a company and describing primary sales of products offered by the company. The enterprise resource planning tool also accesses inventory level data that describes inventory levels for the products at one or more recipients of the primary sales of the products offered by the company. The enterprise resource planning tool further derives secondary sales data that describes secondary sales of the products offered by the company based on the accessed primary sales data and the accessed inventory level data. In addition, the enterprise resource planning tool stores the derived secondary sales data and uses the stored secondary sales data to perform operations related to enterprise resource planning.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: Sanjay Kukreja, Aditya Bajaj, Rajan Sachdeva
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Patent number: 10049332Abstract: Information related to tasks and resources is leveraged in a computer system to assign one or more new tasks to one or more resources. The approach relies upon historical and predictive data associated with the tasks and resources of a system to assign tasks to resources in a manner which seeks to optimize one or more qualities of task handling. Tasks can then be distributed to their respective resources according to a task assignment so that they may be handled.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: David C. Jones, Sergio A. Salas, John Fults, Michael J. Flanagan
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Patent number: 10049333Abstract: Provided is a sales clerk operation management apparatus including: an operation contents setter which sets operation contents of each operation executed by the sales clerk; an operation schedule setter which sets the operation schedule relating to each operation set by the operation contents setter; an operation detector which detects that the sales clerk has performed each operation with the set operation contents, based on the image; an execution information generator which generates information relating to the execution situations for each operation condition set in the operation schedule, based on the detected result of the operation detector; and a display information generator which generates and outputs display information showing the information relating to the execution situations for each operation condition generated by the execution information generator to be compared with the operation schedule.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko Iwai
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Patent number: 10049334Abstract: A method to provide an insight to a decision maker to assist them in deciding how to perform a task includes: determining a time constraint in which the task needs to be performed; adjusting an accuracy of a computer program designed to calculate the insight to ensure that the insight is generated within the time constraint; scheduling execution of the computer program; and providing an insight output by the executed computer program to the decision maker.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yaniv Shmuel Bernstein, Rahil Garnavi, Juerg Von Kaenel, Kent Charles Barton Steer, Xingzhi Sun
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Patent number: 10049335Abstract: A method includes displaying to a user, via a display element, a user interface that allows a user to characterize business demand of an organization; receiving, from a user, via one or more input devices, input characterizing business demand; automatically comparing, utilizing one or more processors and one or more memory elements of a computer system, qualities of business demand to attributes of ensembles comprising implementations of reusable patterns, the qualities of business demand being based at least in part on the received input characterizing business demand; determining, based on the comparing step, a recommended ensemble; and displaying to a user, via a display element, the recommended ensemble and other possible ensembles as well as a visualization comparing the recommended ensemble and the other possible ensembles to business demand.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: EMC Ip Holding Company LLCInventors: Sheppard David Narkier, Anthony Bennett Bishop, Paul Edward Renaud, Alexis Salvatore Pecoraro, Paul John Wanish
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Patent number: 10049336Abstract: A method and system for capturing and analyzing human behavior data is disclosed. The present disclosure describes a method and system for a plurality of people, wherein each person wears a badge. The badge transmits data collected from a plurality of sensors from the badge to a base station. The data is sent from the base station to a server, which aggregates the data from a plurality of base stations, and then analyzes and processes the data to create raw human behavior data. From the raw human behavior data and plurality of metrics is calculated, which can be displayed on a computer screen according to whichever metrics a user wishes to view.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Sociometric Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Olguin Olguin, Tuomas Jaanu, Derek Heyman, Benjamin Waber
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Patent number: 10049337Abstract: An architecture for realizing a customer system on a cloud computing platform is defined in terms of a plurality of architecture types, each type (AT) defined by plural architecture type units (ATUs), each ATU comprising a set of ATU Details. The ATU Details are ordered into a series of discrete stages. Maturity of the architecture is determined as a single architecture pulse (AP) numeric value for each architecture type. The pulse reflects the extent to which the ATUs of the architecture type have reached a requisite level of quality, and an extent to which the ATUs are created in a sequence consistent with the series of discrete stages. The AP pulse values may be combined to form a single success platform pulse (SPP) for tracking overall condition of the platform architecture with a single numerical value.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.Inventors: Gerhard Friedrich Mack, Stefan Pühl
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Patent number: 10049338Abstract: In an embodiment, a transport management application is executing in the application layer. User may place orders by specifying order data in a user interface of the transport management application, and initiate calculate charges to calculate transportation charges for the orders. Based on the initiation, the charge calculation function is invoked in the application layer. Charge calculation function reads the order data specified in the user interface, and invokes charge computation engine in an in-memory database. Orders are split and grouped based on number of dimensions in a rate table. Charge computation engine looks up master data and computes transportation charges for the grouped orders in parallel. After the charge computation engine determines the transportation charges for the orders, sum of the transportation charges is returned to the application layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Krishnanunni Sudhakaran Pillai, Saurabh Chaturvedi
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Patent number: 10049339Abstract: Aspects and embodiments are directed to systems for determining counting accuracy of products, including retail products. The system for determining counting accuracy can interface with other inventory systems to access or receive information on inventory of the retail products. The inventory information can include, for example, numbers of units in inventory, shelf space accorded to respective products, package size (i.e., number of units available per package), retail value, margin value, among other options. The system can manage physical counts made on respective products. In some examples, the system can determine a value associated with physically counting inventory of respective product(s), for example, as a function of a number of units on-hand, time since the product has been counted, and a presentation value. Responsive to determining the value associated with physically counting the respective product, the system triggers a physical count or can prohibit a physical count of a product.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Matthew A. Jones, Robert Taylor, Roger L. Snelgrove
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Patent number: 10049340Abstract: A system, computer program product and method for a global transaction manager in a federated value chain network. The federated value chain network includes a plurality of local networks having shared access to two or more shared databases on a service provider computer over a network via a database router module. The computer program product includes receiving a request for an order for goods or services from a first company in one of the plurality of local networks in the federated value chain network, searching for one or more second companies having matching goods or services over one or more of the plurality of local networks, sourcing the matched one or more second companies, creating a transaction over one or more segments to effect the movement of the good or services, involving one or more third companies, from a source location to a destination location, and managing the handoffs between the relevant first, second and third companies in order to ship the goods or services.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: One Network Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Ranjit Notani, Greg Brady
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Patent number: 10049341Abstract: In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein useful to provide an indication of a stock level of a product support member. Compressed air is directed through a plurality of bores extending through the product support member. A sensor reading of the compressed air can be utilized to determine whether there are products stocked on the product support member due to the products blocking one or more of the bores.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Nicholaus A. Jones, Robert J. Taylor, Aaron J. Vasgaard, Matthew A. Jones
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Patent number: 10049342Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus is configured to facilitate sharing a particular content item (such as, for example, a particular digital photograph, a video, a presentation, and so forth) with the participants of a scheduled calendar event (such as a face-to-face meeting, a distance meeting, an appointment, and so forth). By one approach the user is presented with an opportunity to assert a non-specific share command that triggers the aforementioned display of one or more recommended sharing actions.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Cody Stephen Bryant, Orlin Vesselinov Stoev
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Patent number: 10049343Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for generating, at a computing device, a collaboration container associated with a project. One or more requirements associated with the project is received using the collaboration container. The one or more requirements is mapped into changes for a web content management artifact. The web content management artifact is generated from the collaboration container. Collaboration for the web content management artifact is received. A status of the web content management artifact is promoted to the collaboration container, wherein promoting includes publically publishing at least a portion of the web content management artifact, closing at least the portion of the collaboration container, and archiving at least the portion of the collaboration container.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nicholas A. Baldwin, Eric de Morentin Martinez, Mark C. Hampton, Stefan A. Hepper
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Patent number: 10049344Abstract: Techniques for automatically suggesting one or more employment positions are provided. A method may include receiving, by a computing device, candidate data relating to an employment position candidate. The computing device may then match the employment position candidate with one or more employment positions based on the received candidate data. Once the employment position candidate is matched with the one or more employment positions, the computing device may generate one or more suggested employment positions for the employment position candidate, wherein the one or more suggested employment positions are automatically generated based on the matching of the employment position candidate with the one or more employment positions.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Deepak Rammohan
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Patent number: 10049345Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards seeding a user's contacts for their online social network. The invention is arranged to automatically recommend to the user a set of seed contacts that the user may employ to invite to join their social network. The set of seed contacts may be harvested from the user's existing portal activities, as well as other sources. In one embodiment, the invention analyzes portal activity, such as email exchanges with the user, and the like, to determine a frequency of contact with the user. Other sources may include but not be limited to emails, names within an address book of the user, names within an address book of another person, a buddy list, an instant messaging list, an activity, a mailing list, an online discussion group, a membership in a category, chat group, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLCInventors: Mark E. Hull, F. Randall Farmer, Ellen S. Perelman
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Patent number: 10049346Abstract: A system for maintaining medical devices includes: a computing device including memory and a processor that, when executing instructions stored on the memory, creates a user interface including: a health module providing a summary of a maintenance status of the medical devices; a location module providing a summary of a location of the medical devices; and a maintenance alert module providing a list of the medical devices needing maintenance, the list including a type of maintenance needed for each of the medical devices in the list.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: WELCH ALLYN, INC.Inventors: Eric P. Jensen, Jason Paul DiFraia, Michael Allan Ehrhart
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Patent number: 10049347Abstract: An electronic receipt system may include a point-of-sale (POS) terminal having a near field communication (NFC) device for communicating with a mobile wireless communications device during a transaction for purchasing at least one item, and a server. The server may be for receiving a user identifier transmitted from the mobile communication device via the NFC device, verifying an enrollment status of the user identifier, based upon results of the verifying, generating an electronic receipt associated with the transaction, and generating a social media network link feature in the electronic receipt and associated with the item, the social media network link feature for sharing the purchase of the item on a corresponding social media network.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: FLEXRECEIPTS INC.Inventors: Jay Patel, Tomas Diaz, Kiran Kshatriya
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Patent number: 10049348Abstract: A computer implemented method of performing a transaction using a payment account, typically handled by a payment account manager (PAM), comprises the steps of: receiving a first message from a top up terminal indicating that funds have been transferred to the payment account; setting or adjusting a funds limit of the payment account based on information in the first message; receiving an authorization or pre-authorization request from a first terminal and commencing a funds aggregation; receiving a second message indicating a pre-defined amount of funds which may be used in the transaction; blocking an amount of the funds limit of the payment account equivalent to the pre-defined amount; and sending an authorization response to the first terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: James Noe, Michael J. Cowen, Jason Field, Sagitha George, David A. Roberts
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Patent number: 10049349Abstract: In some examples, methods and systems may process one or more payment transactions between a merchant and a customer by establishing a short-range communication channel between a first computing device associated with a first user a second computing device associated with a second user. The method includes receiving, while the first computing device is offline with respect to a payment processing system, a fund transfer request from the second computing device, where the fund transfer request includes a payment proxy of the second user, the payment proxy having the syntax of a monetary currency indicator preceding an alphanumeric character. The method includes sending the fund transfer request from the first computing device to payment processing system after the first computing device establishes network connectivity with the payment processing system using a long range communication network protocol. The payment processing system processes the request unless the request has been previously authorized.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: Brian Grassadonia, Jesse Wilson
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Patent number: 10049350Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer program products that provide for element level presentation of elements of a payment instrument for exceptions processing. More specifically, the invention involves identifying an exception element from an image of a financial document, determining the location of the exception element based on its coordinates within the image of the financial document, and providing a zoomed-in view of the exception element to the user along with information and resources to allow a user to conveniently conduct accurate analysis of the exception element. The system then receives a correct element from the user to replace the exception element, and then processes the financial document using the replaced correct element instead of the exception element.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Michael Gerald Smith, Eric Dryer, Joshua Allen Beaudry, James F. Barrett, II, Shawn Cart Gunsolley, Michael Matthew Wisser, Andrew Patrick Bastnagel, Marshall Bright Thompson
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Patent number: 10049351Abstract: A robotic retail wall is presented allowing for the dispensing of merchandise within a retail location. The robotic wall includes commodity products and robotics that pick and deliver products to consumers in response to input at a kiosk. The robotics and products are separated from a retail space by a transparent barrier, allowing consumers in the retail space to view the actions of the robotics in retrieving a product. Behind the robotic wall is a product stocking area, where commodity products can be added to the robotic wall with assistance from the robotics.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: BBY SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventor: Chad Stiernagle
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Patent number: 10049352Abstract: In a transaction between a merchant and a customer, a mobile payment token is provided which includes a mobile payment indicator that indicates payment is to be facilitated by interaction with a customer mobile device, and a mobile device identifier that uniquely identifies the customer mobile device. The mobile payment token is provided in a transaction message to a transaction processing component in place of, and consistent with a format of, a primary account number (PAN). The transaction processing component, upon determining the transaction message contains a mobile payment indicator, sends the mobile device identifier to a mobile payment server which uses the mobile device identifier to interact with the customer mobile device to facilitate the payment transaction. Based on a reply from the customer mobile device, the mobile payment server provides information to the transaction processing component to complete the transaction.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Apriva, LLCInventors: Michael S. Klingen, Edward F. Staiano
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Patent number: 10049353Abstract: Techniques for enhancing the security of a communication device may include providing an application agent and a transaction application that executes on a communication device. The application agent may receive, from the application, a cryptogram key generated by a remote computer, and store the cryptogram key on the communication device. When the application agent receives a request to conduct a transaction from the application, the application agent may generate a transaction cryptogram using the cryptogram key, and provides the transaction cryptogram to an access device.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventor: Eduardo Lopez
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Patent number: 10049354Abstract: Systems and methods that receive one or more images and based at least in part on the received images, identify information associated with a payment instrument. The information associated with the payment instrument may be stored in a payment instrument repository, such as an electronic wallet (eWallet), associated with a user. The eWallet may be accessed by the user to add, delete, or modify payment instruments and associated information in the eWallet. The eWallet may further be used by the use to initiate a financial transaction using one or more of the payment instruments associated with the eWallet.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: FISERV, INC.Inventors: Leah Phillips Kenyon, Todd Christopher Barlok, Timothy Patrick Sheehan
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Patent number: 10049355Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method that includes receiving, by a messaging hub computer system, from a point of sale (POS) device of a merchant, a request to process a refund for a transaction that occurred between the merchant and a mobile device of a payor, the request comprising a previously used code that was exchanged between the POS device and the mobile device. The method includes determining, by the messaging hub computer system, a first financial institution based at least partially on a portion of the code, and receiving, from a computer system of the first financial institution, payment credential information of an account held by the payor to process the refund using the payment credential information. The method may further include transferring, by the messaging hub computer system, the refund from an account held by the merchant to the account held by the payor.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Michael J. Kennedy, Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Melissa Lowry, Uma Meyyappan, Bipin Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Patent number: 10049356Abstract: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a card-not-present transaction. According to one embodiment, processing a card-not-present transaction can comprise receiving a request for a card-not-present transaction involving an enrolled consumer. The request can include information identifying the enrolled consumer. A record of information related to the enrolled consumer can be read and the enrolled consumer can be authenticated based at least in part on the information of the request and the record of information related to the enrolled consumer. In response to authenticating the enrolled consumer, a set of single-use payment information can be generated which can include a one-time password and a dynamic Primary Account Number (PAN) which is valid for a single transaction. The single-use payment information can be provided to the enrolled consumer or the merchant to complete the transaction in place of the true PAN.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: First Data CorporationInventor: Vijay K. Royyuru
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Patent number: 10049357Abstract: A system and method for using a Personal Identification Number (“PIN”) to authenticate payment transactions via a mobile device coupled to a reader device is described. The reader device may be modified to not only read and encrypt first identification information from a payment medium such as a magnetic strip of a payment card, but also receive a PIN from the mobile device and encrypt the PIN. The mobile device may be configured to prompt for and receive the PIN. The PIN may be communicated to the reader device for encryption. The mobile device may receive the encrypted first identification information and encrypted PIN and communicate the encrypted data to an adaptive payment server that decrypts the encrypted data for processing the payment transaction. The system may be used to securely process PIN-based payment transactions using a mobile device that is communicably coupled to a reader device.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: MTS Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Shashi Kapur, Ralph A. Bianco
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Patent number: 10049358Abstract: Secure passcode entry using a mobile device having augmented reality capability. The mobile device is registered with an authorization server to register an agreed input display algorithm with an initialization seed, and a user passcode is registered with the authorization server. A superset of options is obtained from an input interface device at which a user passcode is to be entered. The superset of options is processed using the input display algorithm and initialization seed to result in an arrangement of characters including the characters of a registered user passcode. The arrangement of characters is overlaid using the augmented reality capability of the mobile device in relation to an input interface of the input interface device.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Simon A. S. Briggs, James K. Hook, Hamish C. Hunt, Nicholas K. Lincoln
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Patent number: 10049359Abstract: An identity risk score may be determined for subscribers of a service to indicate a level of confidence or certainty associated with a subscriber's identity. The identity risk score may be modified upward or downward in order to reflect changing levels of certainty. The changes may be based on transactions performed on behalf of and/or information submitted by the subscriber. Functionality provided to the subscriber may also be dependent upon whether the subscriber's identity risk score meets a threshold. In one or more arrangements, an identity risk score may be determined based on whether information entered by the subscriber can be confirmed and a level of confidence with which the information is confirmed.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: CheckFree CorporationInventors: Paul J. Lyda, Brett V. Borger, James Patrick McCabe, Roy Alan Southard, Hans D. Dreyer