Patents Issued in March 7, 2023
  • Patent number: 11599891
    Abstract: A system providing self-service access to locked merchandise comprising: (a) providing a fixture that restricts access to the locked merchandise, wherein the fixture can automatically lock or unlock, allowing or restricting access to the locked merchandise; (b) providing a means of uniquely identifying an individual attempting to access the merchandise; (c) measuring a set of behaviors of the individual during any time the fixture is an open mode; (d) assessing whether the set of behaviors of the individual are suspicious or not relative to a set of suspicious event thresholds; (e) storing the individual and their set of behaviors as accessible records in at least one database; and (f) providing an algorithm which determines future access privileges of the individual to the enclosure based on a set of variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Indyme Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Budano, Steven Deal
  • Patent number: 11599892
    Abstract: A variety of signal extraction algorithms are employed to construct indicators or synthetic data proxy variables or factors from one or multiple data sources with specialized data handling options to resolve problems associated with economic and financial data: revisions, missing observations, publication lags, spontaneous arrival. A forecast evaluation module aids in the selection of the signal extraction procedure that has produced the most accurate factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Economic Alchemy Inc.
    Inventors: Giselle Claudette Guzman, Lawrence Klein
  • Patent number: 11599893
    Abstract: A computerized enhanced discreet coupon (EDC) processing system processes shopper EDC(s) using a scanner and a processor. The scanner scans purchased items. The processor generates tickets corresponding to the purchased items, syntactically validates shopper EDC(s), semantically checks the EDC(s), and authenticates the EDC(s). If an EDC is authentic, then the processor compares the EDC against the ticket to determine if the EDC qualifies, and if so, then the EDC is redeemable. Authentication can be accomplished by, for example, comparing EDC rule(s) and/or rule identifier(s) against genuine rule/identifier sets. Genuine rule set includes a qualifying rule and a redemption rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventor: Travis L. Priest
  • Patent number: 11599894
    Abstract: A method and system for generating Customer Decision Tree (CDT) for an entity in accordance with an attribute value (AV) based demand transfer estimation for a product category using machine learning, is disclosed. The method includes aggregating very high volume of data associated with a plurality of AVs of a product category at a plurality of aggregation levels. Further, generating a data matrix, which represents data is a structured format for machine learning, at a predefined aggregation level for the product category and generating a prediction model with the data matrix to determine predicted AV sales for each AV at the predefined aggregation level. Further, optimizing the trained prediction model. Thereafter, generate the CDT utilizing the optimized prediction model, a Demand Transfer (DT) estimator, a scenario generator and a hierarchy generator. Machine learning based DT is more accurate, effectively generating more accurate CDT tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventor: Jeisobers Thirunavukkarasu
  • Patent number: 11599895
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided to proactively forecast gross margin for a business unit of an organization utilizing machine learning techniques. Embodiments provide a cascading-architecture machine-learning model to predict gross margin for a period (e.g., an upcoming quarter), utilizing metrics both internal and external to the organization. Internal metrics can include list price change, discounting change, cost impact, and the like. External metrics can include customer information such as propensity to purchase and purchase consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Moloy Kumar Sinha, Rajkumar Dan
  • Patent number: 11599896
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for acquisition of an item or service based on a directed content campaign. Embodiments include a computing system that can detect selection of directed content presented at a user device. The directed content identifies a mobile application and an action that results in the item being granted. After installation of the mobile application, the computing system can receive a device identifier of the user device in response to execution of the mobile application. The computing system can then generate data identifying events within the mobile application. The computing system can determine, using the user activity data, that a particular one of those events corresponds to the action, and can then generate a message that identifies the action and the item or service. The message also includes address data for a user interface to obtain the item or service. The computing system can then cause the user device to present the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew David Craig
  • Patent number: 11599897
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method and system for advertising. The method obtains information related to an operational smart attribution evaluation package (SAEP) posted on a platform. The SAEP is related to a conversion associated with an advertisement displayed by a plurality of entities. The method parses the SAEP to obtain a conversion parameter, and generates a claim for the conversion based on the conversion parameter and information related to the advertisement, if the advertisement was previously displayed. Further, the method transmits the generated claim to the SAEP to be evaluated whether a reward is to be allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Yugandhar Reddy Boyapally, Janith Kaiprath Valiyalappil, Sreeram Ramji, Rajesh Lalwani, Tianyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11599898
    Abstract: A shopper valuation system may include a user device associated with a given shopper, and a shopper valuation server. The server may obtain historical purchase data associated with shoppers at a given retailer, apply a machine learning algorithm to determine a corresponding shopper value for each of the shoppers, and obtain historical purchase data associated with the given shopper at the given retailer. The server may apply the algorithm to determine a shopper value for the given shopper based upon the historical purchase data for the shoppers and, the corresponding shopper values for the shoppers, and update the machine learning algorithm based upon the shopper value for the given shopper. The server may also communicate a notification to the user device soliciting the given shopper to enroll in a retailer loyalty program for payment to the given shopper of the shopper value for the given shopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
    Inventors: Alise Raak, Sylvain Mansier
  • Patent number: 11599899
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for managing a loyalty program. In some embodiments, a system includes a loyalty program management (LPM) system and a point-of-sale (POS) terminal. The POS terminal is configured to read a membership identifier, identify a plurality of goods, complete a sale of the identified plurality of goods to the member, and transmit, to the loyalty program management system, the read membership identifier and information about the identified plurality of goods. Based on the received information, the LPM system is configured to identify one or more point categories, and update earned loyalty points of the member in each of the identified one or more point categories. The LPM system is further configured to provide the POS terminal with a redemption value to be applied to the sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC
    Inventors: Espen Zachrisen, Vinayak Hegde
  • Patent number: 11599900
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a method for automatically providing customized financial card incentives where the system can identify if a transaction is eligible for additional bonus rewards by determining if the user is a student using a clustering algorithm with user similarity data to generate a probability. Then, if the probability is above a predetermined threshold, a machine learning model with comprehensive user data classifies the user as a student or non-student. Once the user is determined to be a student, the transaction is verified as being an educational purchase using the transaction data or by having the user provide an image of a receipt. Once the transaction is verified, the transaction or items within the transaction qualify for additional rewards that are applied to the user's account. Users who are not identified as students may qualify for a standard amount of rewards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jenny Melendez, Joshua Peters, Zachary Sweeney, Samuel Rapowitz, Steven Black, Bryant Yee, Alexander Lin
  • Patent number: 11599901
    Abstract: A method for auditing an advertisement impression in which a first advertisement was presented in conjunction with first media content is disclosed. The method generally comprises transmitting to a plurality of second computing devices a plurality of randomly generated first cryptographic proofs; receiving, a first message from a second computing device indicating that the first advertisement was presented in conjunction with the first media content; and evaluating the first targeting model for the first advertisement based on the at least one media content classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventors: Aaron Brown, Tom Bollich, Adam Helfgott, Rebecca Lerner, Nelson Hunter Prendergast, Nikolaos Melissaris Papanikolaou
  • Patent number: 11599902
    Abstract: Delivering and presenting content including an interactive advertisement to a user, including: transmitting the content including the interactive advertisement to an entertainment device through an application, wherein the application is registered under a user account with an app store; playing the interactive advertisement including call-to-action icons to request the user to initiate a transaction for purchasing an item of second content; determining whether the user is requesting an immediate or later purchase; charging for the purchased item of second content to the user account and initiating a background download of the purchased item of second content, when it is determined that the user is requesting the immediate purchase; adding the item of content to the user account, when it is determined that the user is requesting the later purchase; and resuming the transmission of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Crackle, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Goldstein, Christine Coner, Ihor Yaskiw
  • Patent number: 11599903
    Abstract: Systems and methods for retrieving, in a first application using one or more processors, a user profile in which the user profile includes a user ID, and the first application includes a first application interface. The systems and methods further include detecting user selection, in the first application interface, of a sync command to a second application, in which the second application includes an executable script associated with the user ID, retrieving the executable script in response to the detecting the user selection of the sync command, integrating the executable script into an HTML interface associated with the user profile, and generating a two-dimensional graphical component in response to the integration of the executable script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Thomas Brooks, Ashish Wahi
  • Patent number: 11599904
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for predicting consumer behavior. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising determining a classification for a first consumer, wherein the classification is based on a measure of frequency of purchases by the first consumer; identifying one or more first attributes for the first consumer based on the determined classification, the one or more attributes being attributes selected for predicting the respective one or more metric associated with the first consumer; and determining, based on values for the one or more first attributes, a first prediction value that indicates a programmatically expected number of purchases by the first consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Riva Ashley Vanderveld, Angela Han, Rajesh Girish Parekh
  • Patent number: 11599905
    Abstract: Embodiments provide computer systems, computer-executable methods and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media for offering one or more promotions to consumers using a promotion and marketing service. User input may be received from a first consumer interface associated with a first consumer, the user input including an interest indication relating to a first promotion. An association between the first consumer and a second consumer for sharing of promotions may be programmatically retrieved or generated. Based on the association, it may be determined whether to offer the first promotion to the second consumer based on one or more characteristics associated with the second consumer. Based on a determination that the first promotion should be offered to the second consumer, an indication may be outputted, the indication configured to cause an impression of the first promotion to be generated on a second consumer interface associated with the second consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan Gray Sandridge, Sebastian Heycke
  • Patent number: 11599906
    Abstract: Transmedia scheduling systems and methods are described in which a user interface is generated via a channel engine that includes first and second channels. The channels are based on one or more channel templates stored in a channel database, and are preferably populated with concurrent transmedia stories. Each of the transmedia stories can be based on at least one transmedia object stored in a transmedia database and may be dynamically generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Elan Lee, Michael Sean Stewart, James Stewartson
  • Patent number: 11599907
    Abstract: A method of displaying media content on a display screen of a communication device including a processor and a memory including program code, an application program, and a user application. The application program includes a plurality of activities associated with a plurality of display windows rendered by the display screen. The method includes receiving, at a monitoring process, status callbacks provided by an operating system of the device wherein the status callbacks relate to memory state. Values of at least one of the status callbacks are inspected wherein the at least one of the status callbacks includes a user interface (UI) state value. Based at least in part upon inspection of the UI state value, it is determined that a first activity is finishing. Media content is then displayed upon the display screen upon further determining that a predetermined condition associated with the communication device exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: IQzone, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Aaron Feadler, James Alex Wolfinger, Sean Robert Wagner
  • Patent number: 11599908
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for collection and testing of a biologic sample in a self-diagnostic test. The system and method comprise collecting by a user of a testing device a biologic sample for use with the testing device, assigning correlative values as test results, and receiving the test results at a server disposed on a network. Some aspects include a mobile application operating on a mobile device with which the user interacts. These aspects allow advertisements and other messages to be presented to the user through the mobile application. Some aspects present different messages to the user based on the type of self-diagnostic test the user is conducting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: RELIANT IMMUNE DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, Henry Joseph Legere, III
  • Patent number: 11599909
    Abstract: A system for integrated consumer interaction via media broadcast, comprising an immediate communication system that communicated with a media provider and a communications system, wherein the consumer submits a request to a content provider for interaction that is then handled by the immediate communication to establish an interaction with a communication system, and a method for providing integrated consumer interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: VIRTUAL HOLD TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Mark J. Williams
  • Patent number: 11599910
    Abstract: A retail ticking system including a processing unit, a web services server for receiving sent messages from a terminal client device and delivering presentation data to the terminal, a credential server for receiving and verifying a processed credential access request, a profile management server for storing and retrieving user information, and a message broker adapted to receive and manage event messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Last Yard Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Christopher Geoffrey Stoyles
  • Patent number: 11599911
    Abstract: A method of mapping an object to a location in a virtual space, the method comprising assigning to locations in the virtual space a prominence value representing the prominence of an object at the location when the virtual space is viewed by a user, the prominence value being assigned according to a distance from each location to a reference location in the virtual space and at least one physiological characteristic of a user, determining a purchase value for the locations in the virtual space representing a payment required to place an object at respective locations in the virtual space, the purchase value being determined at least according to the prominence value assigned to a respective location in the virtual space and in response to receiving the payment for a location in the virtual space, mapping the object to that location in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, SONY EUROPE B.V.
    Inventors: Nigel Stuart Moore, Nicolas Rose
  • Patent number: 11599912
    Abstract: A method for distributing an electronic content item for consumption with advertisements is provided. In one embodiment, a content provider creates a license identifying one or more slots within an electronic content item at which advertisements are to be inserted. The license specifies one or more types of advertisements that are not permitted to be inserted into the slots, and also specifies criteria for dynamically selecting advertisements to insert into the one or more slots. The content provider securely associates the electronic license with the electronic content item and distributes the electronic content item and the electronic license to a third party for consumption or subsequent transfer to an end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intertrust Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David P. Maher, Prasad Khambete, Prasad Sanagavarapu, Laurent Grandhomme
  • Patent number: 11599913
    Abstract: A media management system that handles a plurality of agreement information and a plurality of promotional campaigns for a specified upcoming time-frame, receives input parameters for each of the plurality of agreement information that corresponds to an upfront inventory utilization type and commercial operator break (COB) inventory utilization type of a plurality of inventory utilization types. Reserve inventory units for each of the plurality of promotional campaigns are determined based on historical data of an amount of inventory units utilized previously under the promotion inventory utilization type for the specified upcoming time-frame. An initial allocation of inventory units for the promotion inventory utilization type is done based on the determined reserve inventory units. Inventory units from a defined amount of inventory units are dynamically allocated among each inventory utilization types of the plurality of inventory utilization types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
    Inventors: Wassim Samir Chaar, David James Benoit, José Antonio Carbajal Orozco, Andreea Popescu
  • Patent number: 11599914
    Abstract: Disclosed is delivering and closing out viewership priced spots in zoned cable delivery of linear TV, assembling past measured viewership data within a zone for a TV spot in a program, by aggregating records and augmenting aggregated logs with viewers' demographic data. This includes running an automated auction for advertising, at five minutes or less before airtime, announcing the spot, providing the past viewership data augmented with demographic data, with bids accepted for a rate, accepting and selecting a winning bid, provisioning an ad corresponding to the winning bid rate for an operator to deliver to the zone, after selecting the bid and before the airtime. After airing the ad, included is processing collected delivery logs within ten minutes of receipt, calculating current measured viewership during the spot, calculating an extended price, and reporting to a winning bidder the extended price, within six hours of airing the ad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Beachfront Media LLC
    Inventors: Richard Shea, Daniel Church, Frank Sinton
  • Patent number: 11599915
    Abstract: A system and method for providing digital audio services is described. One embodiment is a method for proving digital audio services, comprising receiving, using a communications interface, an audio stream from a content provider; determining a timestamp for a first audio stream segment; determining a timestamp for a second audio stream segment; updating a playlist with a representation of the audio stream; receiving a query for content information; and sending offer information, in response to receiving the query for content information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Auddia Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Thramann
  • Patent number: 11599916
    Abstract: A system and method for omnichannel text-based routing and customer-to-enterprise communications. The system comprises an interaction control system, an interaction routing system, and a media translation system. The system takes in requests from customers to text, email, or chat with a businessperson and facilitates the interaction by routing, masking, and converting where necessary. The routing is selected from a list of various algorithms and methods to determine the best businessperson to route the customer to. Masking by the system holds anonymity between the customer and businessperson, while conversion happens when the customer and businessperson are using two different communication vehicles such as from text messaging to email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TAPTEXT LLC
    Inventors: Steve Doumar, Paul Levasseur
  • Patent number: 11599917
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for facilitating affiliate link generation. A user enables the system by identifying a webpage on an affiliate web site. The system performs an initial assessment of the page to extract webpage information, which is compared to information stored in a database. If the extracted information matches stored information, a record of the webpage is displayed and an affiliate link is dynamically generated for immediate use. If the extracted information does not match stored information, a new record of the webpage is created. If the webpage contains product-specific data, a product-specific record is stored. If the webpage does not contain product-specific data, a non-product record is stored. An affiliate link is then dynamically created. The new record of the product and dynamically created affiliate link is added to the database for immediate use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: rewardStyle, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Stoliartchouk, Forrest Jordan, Baxter Box
  • Patent number: 11599918
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated generation and presentation of thematic content objects to consumers in a retail environment are provided. A portable device may include a transmitter or transceiver that emits, produces or otherwise transmits a signal that includes information and/or data representative of an identifier that uniquely identifies the portable device. Upon entering an establishment thematic content delivery circuitry detects the presence of the portable device and obtains the identifier included in the signal emitted by the portable device. Using the identifier, the thematic content delivery circuitry determines a theme logically associated with the identifier. The thematic content delivery circuitry generates thematic content output that is logically associated with the theme and communicates the thematic content output to an output device. The thematic content output may include display output, audio output, tactile output, hardcopy output, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Addicam Sanjay, Joe Jensen, Shao-Wen Yang
  • Patent number: 11599919
    Abstract: An information exchange environment may be maintained. The information exchange environment may be configurable to allow users of an application or service to exchange suggestion data with product development. A user interface may be displayed on a device of a first user of the application or service. A request from the first user to submit first suggestion data may be processed. The first suggestion data may be classified. The first suggestion data may be provided to a first product development entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc
    Inventors: Adam McCormick Doti, Carly Berman, Jennifer Sacks, Daniel Everett Jemiolo, Kristen Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 11599920
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining an actual cost of ownership of a purchase product may include determining a baseline value of the purchase product, and receiving usage information representative of usage of a user product from a computing device in communication with the user product. The purchase product and the user product may belong to a same class of products. The method also may include determining a user cost component based on the received usage information, and determining an actual cost of ownership of the purchase product based on at least the baseline value and the user cost component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Hoover, Avid Ghamsari, Qiaochu Tang, Geoffrey Dagley, Micah Price
  • Patent number: 11599921
    Abstract: A system of determining an alimentary preparation provider is disclosed. The system comprises a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive input from a user device at a current geographical location. The input comprises an alimentary request and a plurality of request parameters. The computing device generates a plurality of alimentary preparation providers as a function of the plurality of request parameters. A request parameter classifier is generated by the computing device. The computing device classifies, by the request parameter classifier, the plurality of request parameters and the plurality of alimentary preparation providers. The classification outputs an ordered list of request parameters. The computing device assigns the alimentary request to a first alimentary preparation provider as a function of an ordered list of request parameters. A method for determining an alimentary preparation provider is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: KPN INNOVATIONS, LLC.
    Inventor: Kenneth Neumann
  • Patent number: 11599922
    Abstract: To make customer check promptly and properly in response to a request for purchase of a 3rd app developed by a 3rd party using an application store operated in a foreign country. A management server 100 manages online store sale for making only an application stored in an app DB 250 and registered for online store sale available for purchase. The management server 100 comprises: an ordering processing unit 112 that judges whether the requested application to be purchased from a user is a 3rd app developed by a 3rd party; and a sales approval processing unit 113. If the application requested to be purchased is the 3rd app, the sales approval processing unit 113 notifies the user of a state waiting for approval by the 3rd party, and gains approval of sale of the 3rd app by transmitting a notification to the 3rd party requesting customer check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Terada, Hiroji Nishi
  • Patent number: 11599923
    Abstract: A system and method for an ordering system whereby a first user may remotely purchase goods and services from a second user by live stream video chat whereby the second user may then transmit the order to an establishment or other location, allowing first users to interact and connect with another person in a pleasant manner via video chatting, such as enabling the first user to order from a remote location to the second user who also may be at another location with respect to the establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Jimmy Villaverde Calva
  • Patent number: 11599924
    Abstract: An electronic system for the customization, visualization, integration, purchase, and acquisition of a vehicle from a vehicle manufacturer. The system is implemented on a computer server or equivalent device, where the server, operated by the manufacturer, is accessible over the internet via a suitable end-user operated computing device, the server generating a menu driven visual interface viewable on the computing device. The system allows for all aspects of a customized vehicle purchase to be performed by the user, substantially streamlining the selection and acquisition process. The system can be interfaced with third party parts databases, allowing for incorporation of parts from a variety of manufacturers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Ronald Bienias
  • Patent number: 11599925
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a visual cable builder, and accompanying systems, methods, and computer programs. Specifically, a plurality of selectable characteristics of a cable component are displayed to a user. A user selection is received of various selectable characteristic(s) of a cable component. Respective display element(s) associated with the user selection of the selectable characteristic(s) are retrieved. The display element(s) are displayed to the user as part of a configured communications cable. In some embodiments, a part number may also be displayed, the part number being generated based on the selected characteristic(s) of the configured communications cable. An alias part number may also be inputted by the user, which may then be associated with the configured communications cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Fazahl Ashby
  • Patent number: 11599926
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a product driven approach to technology provisioning, operations, and billing are provided. Some embodiments provide an Information Technology (IT) business architecture built around the product driven methodology. This architecture can be designed to optimize the demand side provisioning of technology products to meet business intent and the execution of supply side assembly and implementation lifecycle. A technology model can be used that recursively decomposes services and products into various components. As a result, the technology model allows for effective and efficient provisioning, pricing, and impact assessment of the organization's technology to thereby drive the efficiency of scale and the automation of the provisioning, the finance, and the operation businesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
    Inventors: Carl J. Reed, Charles Klein
  • Patent number: 11599927
    Abstract: At an artificial intelligence system, a respective feature set is generated from individual text collections pertaining to an item, using a first machine learning model which is trained to perform character-level analysis. Using at least a portion of a second machine learning model, a score associated with a semantic criterion is generated for an item; the training input to the second model is based on the feature sets. A recommendation associated with the item is generated based on the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Valentin Flunkert, Weiwei Cheng
  • Patent number: 11599928
    Abstract: A method for managing products in a refrigerator comprises the steps of: registering user information including a face image, in association with at least one vendor; after a refrigerator door is opened, photographing an external area around the refrigerator and then recognizing a user's face; while the door is closed after the opening of the refrigerator door, photographing the inside of a storage chamber of the refrigerator and processing the captured image to acquire product information of a product taken; storing the acquired product information of the taken product as a product use history, in association with the recognized user's face; and when receiving a user input, displaying a purchase recommendation product list per user with information of an associated vendor on the basis of the product use history. In an embodiment of the present invention, a refrigerator to which an IOT is applied may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinok Kim, Sungmok Hwang
  • Patent number: 11599929
    Abstract: A machine is configured to determine fashion preferences of users and to provide item recommendations based on the fashion preferences. For example, the machine accesses an indication of a fashion style of a user. The fashion style is determined based on automatically captured data pertaining to the user. The machine identifies, based on the fashion style, one or more fashion items from an inventory of fashion items. The machine generates one or more selectable user interface elements for inclusion in a user interface. The one or more user interface elements correspond to the one or more fashion items. The machine causes generation and display of the user interface that includes the one or more selectable user interface elements. A selection of a selectable user interface element results in display of a combination of an image of a particular fashion item and an image of an item worn by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Di, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Robinson Piramuthu, Elizabeth Churchill, Anurag Bhardwaj
  • Patent number: 11599930
    Abstract: In some cases, a delivery service system may include a handheld electronic device for use with a delivery service (e.g., a grocery delivery service). When operating in a voice input mode, the handheld electronic device may record and store audio data in memory. The stored audio data may be communicated from the handheld electronic device (e.g., via a Wi-Fi connection) to the delivery service for speech processing. When operating in a scanner input mode, the handheld electronic device may record and store item identifier information (e.g., barcode data) in memory. The stored data may be communicated to the delivery service for item identification processing. In some cases, a user interface associated with the delivery service may allow the user to review and confirm an order prior to submission of the order for delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Julien George Beguin, Douglas James Herrington, Richard David Young, Toni Raquel Reid Thomelin, David George Butler, Michael James Panzitta, Sean Joseph Henry Oczkowski, Igor Fred Robert von Nyssen
  • Patent number: 11599931
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to facilitate implementation of an interface and one or more sensors, and, more specifically, to one or more sensors that implements specialized logic to facilitate in-situ monitoring of inventories of consumables and automatic reordering of a consumable. In some examples, a method may include receiving sensor data representing usage of a device configured to process a consumable, characterizing the usage to form a characterized value, correlating data representing a unit of the consumable processed via the device to a characterized value of the usage, adjusting an amount representing an inventory of the consumable, detecting an amount of the inventory of the consumable is associated with one or more ranges of threshold values, and generating data representing a request to replenish the inventory of the consumable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: OrderGroove, LLC
    Inventors: Greg E. Alvo, Michael Bifolco, Paul Fredrich, Ofir Shalom, Juan Gutierrez, Marcos Moyano, Bradley Williams Groff
  • Patent number: 11599932
    Abstract: A method and system for assisting in shopping at a physical store (104) is described. The method includes receiving image data of the inside of a shopping cart (108) and processing the image data to detect one or more events. An event is the addition of an item (114) to the shopping cart (108) or the removal of an item (114) from the shopping cart (108). Responsive to detecting an event, the method processes the image data to identify an item associated with the event, and generates cart information based on the identified item. The cart information includes a record of items currently in the shopping cart (108). The method also communicates the cart information with respect to the identified item to a customer device (118).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: IMAGR HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: William Chomley, Peter Szoldan
  • Patent number: 11599933
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed that provide device-based coordination of multi-party delivery processes. One example implementation involves receiving a payer-invite request from a requester device. The payer-invite request requests an invitation be sent to a payer to pay for a delivery order. The delivery order specifying one or more items to be purchased and delivered to a requester location associated with the requester device or inputted by the requester. The system sends the invitation to a payer device associated with the payer and receives a payment from the payer device. The system fulfills the delivery order by identifying a fulfillment center, a driver, and/or a puller and sending communications with order information and instructions to the devices of those parties to coordinate the delivery. For example, the system sends a driving instruction to a driver device instructing the driver to pick up and deliver the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOMMY RUN LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Parks, Jr., Jimmy Jayant Patel
  • Patent number: 11599934
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request to process an order of a value storage token; sending, to a messaging address associated with a recipient entity, a first message including a unique link for accessing a token provider selection interface; detecting activation of the unique link by the recipient entity; in response to detecting activation of the unique link by the recipient entity, providing, on a computing device associated with the recipient entity, the token provider selection interface, wherein providing the token provider selection interface includes presenting only the one or more supported token providers as selectable options via the token provider selection interface; receiving, via the token provider selection interface, a selection of a token provider; in response to receiving the selection of the token provider: sending the digital representation of the value storage token to the messaging address associated with the recipient entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Michael Pronski, Darius Braziunas
  • Patent number: 11599935
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: ascertaining a user state of a user based on user state data for a cognitive menu selection service from an eatery by use of an electronic menu system. Selection criteria to request one or more items from menus of the eatery is determined based on the user state. A request including the selection criteria is sent and the one or more items corresponding to the selection criteria is obtained and presented to the user by use of a customized virtual reality interface on a personal device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Kyndryl, Inc.
    Inventors: Diwesh Pandey, Aaron K. Baughman, Todd R. Whitman, John P. Perrino
  • Patent number: 11599936
    Abstract: A mixed reality system for displaying virtual holograms using a head mounted display and a tracking device. The HMD has one or more cameras mounted on its exterior connected to a portable computing device. The cameras record what a user's eyes would see in the environment and project the images onto the screen panel display. The cameras also transmit tracking device data to a software application installed on a portable computing device. Light emitting diodes serve as tracking points for the detection algorithm. The tracking device can be configured to transmit data to the portable computing device via optical modulation. Less private radio frequency technologies can be employed such as Bluetooth or WiFi to enable one-way or two-way communication. In some embodiments, multiplexing can be implemented to enable identifying and differentiating multiple tracking devices in a single frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: David Rashkin
  • Patent number: 11599937
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a digital wardrobe are presented herein. A transceiver can be configured to receive a request having a garment identifier and a user identifier. Additionally, an access module can be configured to access a first garment model, access a body model of the user corresponding to the user identifier, and access a second garment model corresponding to the user identifier. Furthermore, a processor can be configured by a garment simulation module to position the body model inside the first garment model and the second garment model, and calculate simulated forces based on the positioning. Moreover, a rendering module can be configured to generate an image of the garment models draped on the body model based on the calculated simulated forces. Subsequently, a display module can be configured to cause presentation of the generated image on a display of a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Su, Jatin Chhugani, Mihir Naware, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 11599938
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus and an information processing method, which allow a user to recall content of an event more easily along with an amount of spent money. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that performs control to display deposit and withdrawal information regarding a deposit and a withdrawal at an event and related information relating to the deposit and the withdrawal in chronological order for each event on the basis of savings and settlement information regarding savings or settlement of a user and behavior history information in accordance with behavior of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikako Tateishi, Kazuki Nakamura, Morio Omata, Motoki Higashide
  • Patent number: 11599939
    Abstract: A system and method for processing loans includes loan approval decision module that receives input from a loan applicant and collects external data including credit bureau data, bank transaction data, and social media data. The system also includes a machine learning module having a pre-processing subsystem, an automated feature engineering subsystem and a feature statistical assessment subsystem. A business objective determination module and an adverse notice notification module is also provided. The business objective determination module includes a weight optimization company valuation maximization model. A set of models is developed using the machine learning module to predict performance of the borrower based on the business objective determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: HSIP Corporate Nevada Trust
    Inventors: Joseph Plapprumbil James, Sandeep Prabhakara
  • Patent number: 11599940
    Abstract: A system and method of automated debt management with machine learning is disclosed. An example system may include a data collection circuit to collect information about entities involved in debt transactions, a training data set of outcomes related to the entities, and a training set of debt management activities. The system may also include a condition classifying circuit to classify a condition of at least one of the entities and an automated debt management circuit to manage an action related to a debt. The condition classifying circuit may include a model trained using the training data set of outcomes related to the entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella