Patents Issued in March 28, 2023
  • Patent number: 11615452
    Abstract: An example embodiment includes a system server configured for social network-based inventory management. The system server includes processors and non-transitory computer-readable storage media communicatively coupled to the processors. The media store instructions that, in response to execution by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations. The operations include receiving category specifications and access category definitions for access categories. The access category definitions include relationship criteria for the access categories. The operations include identifying a relationship between a second user and a first user, comparing an identified relationship with the relationship criteria, and determining which of the access categories the second user is included based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Dane Glasgow, Justin VanWinkle
  • Patent number: 11615453
    Abstract: Some aspects of the present disclosure are directed to computerized methods for extracting attributes from product titles. The method may include: retrieving a title associated with a product listing and historical product title data; refining the title; determining at least one tag associated with an attribute; generating, based on the at least one extracted tag and the historical title data, a first combination of one or more attributes; determining whether the title includes at least one plurality of product options, and if so: determining, for each product option hi the plurality of product options, a second combination of one or more attributes by removing attributes associated with alternative product options from the first combination; and generating a product identifier based on the second combination; and if the title does not include at least one plurality of product options, generating, the product identifier based on the first combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Coupang Corp.
    Inventors: Joon Shik Hong, Seong Jin Lee, Han Byul Bang
  • Patent number: 11615454
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments described herein relate to systems and/or methods for presenting user-interactive, dynamically-generated contextual content for individual articles of clothing. A QR or other code is provided to the article of clothing. The QR or other code is scannable by an electronic device, causing the electronic device to access a webpage or the like. The webpage (or similar information display) includes information typically found on a tag or label, together with additional dynamically-generated and organized content relevant to the article and/or person for whom the article was made. The techniques described herein are usable in connection with mass-produced, small batch/boutique items, as well as custom articles of clothing. Thus, it becomes possible to quickly and easily convey a broad scope of information about an article of clothing directly from that article of clothing, without having to include large and potentially irritating tags or labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: KNOT STANDARD LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Mueller
  • Patent number: 11615455
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating recommendations are disclosed. In some examples, from a set of positive reviews associated with a merchant offering, at least one attribute is identified and associated with the set of positive reviews, based on reviewer profiles associated with each respective positive review. The attribute is associated with the merchant offering. A match is determined between a customer attribute in a first customer profile and the at least one attribute. A set of recommendations is generated to be presented, via a customer electronic device, to a customer associated with the first customer profile, the set of recommendations including the merchant offering associated with at least one attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHOPIFY INC.
    Inventors: Siavash Ghorbani, Carl Johan Gustavsson
  • Patent number: 11615456
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predictive gift subscriptions are provided. A gift subscription service may store a gift subscription and a profile associated with a gift recipient. The gift subscription service may then identify a time to send a gift to the gift recipient and associate a computational model with the gift recipient and the profile. When the gift subscription service determines a change in the profile, the gift subscription service may then update the computational model associated with the gift recipient in real-time by applying a machine learning algorithm to the change in the profile and use the updated computation model to formulate a prediction for the gift recipient that may then be used to identify a set of gifts to present to the gift recipient. The gift subscription service may then present the set of gifts to the gift recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Loop Commerce, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Saunkeah, Paul Simpson
  • Patent number: 11615457
    Abstract: A system may include a platform for an application to support processing flows for a service provider, such as ordering, sales, support, service delivery, and related process flows. The system may provide a limited set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that map to an application's user-experience page flows. The APIs may always appear to the application that the interaction process completed successfully—even if human intervention is required—to allow the application to complete the transaction. The system may have the ability to recognize the same user, and leverage that user's behavior across interactions with multiple sales channels. The system may thus provide, in one aspect, an enhanced user experience for ordering and maintaining complex service and equipment offerings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Catherine Avgiris, Amy Stipandic, Kevin Rhatigan, Kevin O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11615458
    Abstract: An electronic marketplace provides a communication platform between consumer and sellers. Consumers create product wish lists and the wish lists are used as the basis for product advertising from the sellers. In addition, a consumer may invite friends to view the wish list and purchase particular products that are added to the wish list. Because wish lists are used as the basis for advertising, consumers can manage the types of product advertising that they see. Consumers have the ability to turn off individual product advertisements by removing that product from the wish list. Sellers utilize reverse bidding to compete for advertising space with each consumer and friend. One particularly advantageous feature of the embodiment is that wish lists serve as nameless and untraceable proxies for each member by keeping personal information removed from the sellers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SIMPLELIST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Klein, Wesley Long, Tracy Feldman
  • Patent number: 11615459
    Abstract: Systems and related methods providing for online ordering of menu items from a merchant are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured to generate an online menu based on menu information stored in a menu database. The menu information may be also configured to facilitate point-of-sale functionality at the merchant, such as by a point-of-sale device. The online menu may be provided to a consumer device. An online order may be received from the consumer device. The circuitry may be configured to process the online order, such as by facilitating a reservation, order preparation, and payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel B. Scholl, Jason Crawford, Joshua Puckett
  • Patent number: 11615460
    Abstract: Described is a system and method for developing and dynamically updating user paths through a materials handling facility. A user path through a materials handling facility may be developed that will route a user past one or more items (e.g., pick list items, recommended items, wish list items, promotional items) planned for the user. If the user does not follow the user path, the user path may be dynamically updated to account for the current location of the user and/or to consider other actions performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Michael McNamara, Kirk Arlo Petersen, Nathan Lee Wesling, Jack Bradley Jones, Sridhar Boyapati
  • Patent number: 11615461
    Abstract: A shop interface is presented to users in conjunction with presentation of views of an online game, wherein the shop interface is configured to facilitate presentations to users of offers to sell virtual items usable within the game in exchange for consideration. In response to detecting that the online game is systematically unavailable to users, an alternative virtual shop interface is presented to users that is accessed over the Internet separately from the online game, and offers to sell the virtual times usable within the game are presented to users in exchange for less consideration than the offers to sell the virtual items through the shop interface presented in conjunction with the online game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Kabam, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Schultz, Michael C. Caldarone
  • Patent number: 11615462
    Abstract: A system for sharing at least one selected wearable with at least one selected user on a network, the system including a server configured to receive requests to share selected wearables from one of a plurality of client devices and communicate to the at least one selected user, the server comprising: a first database configured to store a plurality of avatars; and at least one database configured to store a plurality of wearable models; a plurality of client devices communicatively coupled to the server, each of the client devices having a processor configured to: receive an avatar and the model of the wearable for an associated user; morph the clothing to fit the personalized data for each of the at least one target user in response to the sharing request; and render the image of the clothed body for each of the at least one target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ohzone, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin P Acken, Warangkana Tepmongkol, Juncheng Han, Pete George Markiewicz, Danielle Ussery, Ashleigh Paynter
  • Patent number: 11615463
    Abstract: A leasing AI platform receives a message pertaining to leasing a real estate unit, generates a token matrix representing at least a portion of the message, and provide the token matrix as an input to a trained machine learning model. An output of the trained machine learning model comprises an indication of a first category associated with the at least the portion of the message. The leasing AI platform identifies one or more actions associated with the first category, the actions pertaining to leasing the real estate unit, and automatically executes the one or more actions without human involvement in response to receiving the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AppFolio, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliott Burris, Daniel Posch, Kyle Triplett, David Ma, Robert Ryan, John Rothfels
  • Patent number: 11615464
    Abstract: A facility for conveying accrual amounts through an intermediary service is described. The facility permits vendors to each upload unbilled amounts for one or more matters for a client according to vendor-specific matter identifiers. The facility maps the vendor-specific identifiers for the uploaded unbilled amounts to client-specific identifiers. When the facility receives a request from the client to be you unbilled amounts for one or more matters, the facility displays to a client user the unbilled amounts for the requested matters according to the client-specific identifiers associated with the requested matters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas G. Melling, Ronald G. Wencel, Steven A. Jatnieks, Gregory P. Shriber, Richard D. Boone
  • Patent number: 11615465
    Abstract: Systems and methods for management of an account switch are disclosed. An account switch management system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive a list of transaction entries to be switched from a first account to a second account and account information associated with the first account and the second account. The one or more processors may also determine a recommendation relating to a customer action based on the transaction entries and the account information. The one or more processors may provide the list of transaction entries and account information and the recommendation to the client device. The one or more processors may also receive a request from the client device to complete an action and transmit a notification to a processing device to complete the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Gagan Kanjlia, Vishal Puri, Michael B. Kiernan, Evan S. Klein
  • Patent number: 11615466
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums that provide users of a network-based financial account management system with a contextual user interface element, which when activated presents dynamic graphical user interfaces that provide financial account information as well as suggested financial performance improvement actions. Whether or not the contextual user interface is displayed may be based upon one or more of: a context of the user, financial account information of the user, and account rules. Additionally, the suggested financial performance improvement actions may also be determined based upon one or more of: a context of the user, financial account information of the user, and account rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Jennifer K. Lovett, Christopher J. Terhar, Mary E. Gassel, Lynn S. Douglas
  • Patent number: 11615467
    Abstract: A method for presenting pre-approved and pre-underwritten offers to a customer may include: receiving targeting criteria based on at least one of current accounts with the financial institution, assets, creditworthiness, and credit risk for an offer for a financial product; identifying a target population of customers for the offer by applying the targeting criteria to a population of customers; reviewing each customer in the target population for underwriting for the financial product based on inferred income for each customer and accounts that each customer has with the financial institution, wherein the underwriting is performed before the financial product is offered; determining a channel to present the offer to one of the customers that passed underwriting; communicating the offer to the customer over the selected channel; and providing an accepted offer to a fulfilment engine, wherein the fulfilment engine initiates an account opening for the financial product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: W. David Thomas, Claimonte Nelson, Dennis Bowers, Michael S. Hartman, Steven Noel Roth, Jagan Devisetty, Nagesh Chalasani, Jason J. Kim, Marianna Dulkina, Suzanne Dimant, Vakul Garg, Ajit Nalla, Daniel A. Haas, James Hennessey, Keith Reichenbach, Richard S. Bunke, Seth Goldkrantz, Stephani L. Breault, Steven Aller, Vidyasankar Narayanan, Wade A. Stratton, Margaret F. Evans, Kapil Bansal
  • Patent number: 11615468
    Abstract: A graphical interface and method are provided for displaying market information corresponding to a tradeable object. One graphical interface includes a chart region for displaying historical market data in relation to a first value axis, and a market grid region in alignment with the chart region. The market grid region comprises a plurality of areas for receiving commands from a user input device to send trade orders, and the areas are displayed in relation to a second value axis. A plurality of values displayed along the second value axis is a subset of values displayed in relation to the first value axis, and can be modified to a new plurality of values that corresponds to a new subset of values on the first value axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott F. Singer, Michael J. Burns, Stephen P. Decker
  • Patent number: 11615469
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing hardware and software for analyzing and processing data associated with delisted stock trading. A computing platform may receive, from a client computing device, a request to provide recommended parameters for the sale of a first delisted stock, which may include a recommended time to sell and a sale price, and may identify, using a delisting recommendation engine, the recommended parameters. The computing platform may send, to the client computing device, the recommended parameters. The computing platform may receive a request to sell the first delisted stock under conditions of the recommended parameters and may cause execution of smart contract ledgering between a buyer and a seller to identify final sale parameters. Thereafter, the computing platform may cause execution of a transfer of the first delisted stock from the seller to the buyer and a transfer of funds from the buyer to the seller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Saurabh Uprit, Amar Tayade
  • Patent number: 11615470
    Abstract: The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of stock trading using social network sentiment. The system and method can receive a trading order entry for a stock asset having at least one condition to execute, wherein the at least one condition to execute is based on a social network sentiment. The system and method monitors the stock asset for conditions to execute and monitors a tracking social network sentiment of the stock asset. The system and method can determine if the conditions to execute satisfied. The system and method can execute a stock trade according to the trading order entry based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 11615471
    Abstract: An unpriced order auction and related market center and process are disclosed which allow posting market centers (e.g., exchanges) to schedule an auction that includes unpriced (Market) orders only. Such unpriced order auction executes at the midpoint of the NBBO, ensuring that the cross reflects the best prices in the entire marketplace, while discouraging the manipulation of the auction price on the posting market center. The disclosed auction also executes concurrently, but separately from the regular continuous matching process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NYSE Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Adcock, Michael A. Cormack, Thomas F. Haller, Robert A. Hill
  • Patent number: 11615472
    Abstract: A tracking liquidity order and related market center and process are disclosed which allow posting market centers (e.g. exchanges) to fill routable, smaller orders that would have otherwise routed off the posting market center. Such tracking liquidity orders increase the liquidity of that posting market center and allow it to execute more orders internally, without having to route them to an away market center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NYSE Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Adcock, Michael A. Cormack, Thomas F. Haller, Robert A. Hill
  • Patent number: 11615473
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a resilience measurement system. For example, the resilience measurement system may receive data from multiple sources, and may measure resiliency based on this data, such as the ability of a population or geographic area (e.g., a country) to withstand emerging threats, including but not limited to, posed by climate and environment, health, globalization, and human development. The resilience measurement system may calculate one or more scores indicating risk, need for program adjustment, or need for policy change and investment, depending on the client the project. To perform such operations, the resilience measurement system may process index scores for different categories of threats to average the index scores for different categories of threats with different weights. The final scores may be used by the resilience measurement system for additional analysis, to perform actions, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventor: Noor Shakfeh
  • Patent number: 11615474
    Abstract: Methods and system are described for optimizing data processing in cloud-based, machine learning environments. For example, through the use of a machine learning model utilizing a self organizing map and/or the use of specific processing nodes in a computer system to perform specific tasks the methods and system may more efficiently distribute tasks through a cloud computing environment and increase overall processing speeds despite increasing amounts of data. The methods and system described herein are particularly related to collateral allocation computer systems that automate the management of numerous collateral assets. For example, as the amount of collateral assets and the complexity of given transactions grow, typical allocation systems face frequent processing delays related to collateral allocations (e.g., allocations of collateral associated with Tri-Party Repos).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
    Inventors: Brian Blank, Song He, Madhusudan Rana, Pavithran Rajendran, Bryan Chan
  • Patent number: 11615476
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, that facilitate comparisons between insurances. The information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires an output from one sensor or outputs from a plurality of sensors different from each other as behavior-monitoring data items of a user, and a diagnosis-result prediction unit that predicts a diagnosis result about one insurance or diagnosis results about a plurality of insurances for the user on the basis of a prediction model calculated in advance by learning for the one insurance or each of the plurality of insurances and on the basis of the behavior-monitoring data items. The present technology is applicable to comparison systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Takamatsu, Naoki Ide, Akira Fukui, Yasufumi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11615477
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods for providing insurance brokerage services for both a property owner and potential insurers. The methods provide for virtual websites and related mobile applications for estimating the value of a property based on current reconstruction costs. The methods also provide for aiding a property owner in procuring an insurer by compiling property valuation information in a format that is submitted to potential insurers to bid upon. The methods further provide for helping property owners manage changes to property value and updating insurance policy based on valuation changes to reconstruction costs as well as compiling information for reconstruction costs when damage does occur. Finally, disclosure provides for methods of maintaining important records for insurer, maintaining communications between insured and insurer, and providing emergency services related to the insured property in the time of emergencies related to the insured property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Rogers
  • Patent number: 11615478
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses include activating a telematics system to collect telematics data associated with operation of a vehicle during a first window of time, receiving, by a computing device associated with the vehicle, telematics data from the telematics system during the first window of time, identifying one or more parameters associated with operation of the vehicle based on analyzing the telematics data, determining whether the one or more parameters meets a safe driving threshold, and upon determining that the one or more parameters meets the safe driving threshold, transmitting the telematics data to a third party server or device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Sunil Chintakindi, Howard Hayes
  • Patent number: 11615479
    Abstract: A system allows for a user to notify an insurance provider or other third-party with a button press. The button can notify of an emergency situation. An event determiner may analyze information of events surrounding the button click. This information may include the time of day, location, identifying information for the insured, recent locations of the button, information from similar button presses and information from previous insurance claims. Based on this information, the event determiner may provide a high percentage estimate of an abnormal condition: home break-in, car accident, flat tire, etc. The system may automatically take action, depending on the event, such as contacting the police, sending a tow truck, or starting an insurance claim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Alinawaz Ismaili, Joel T. Dewall, Randolph Kwan, Dennis M. Griffin
  • Patent number: 11615480
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to conducting electronic transactions via a computer network. A server receives data packets carrying data identifying a merchant category, an electronic account maintained and configured on the server, and a first monetary amount of a first electronic transaction. A first device generates the data packets at the merchant to conduct the electronic transaction. A policy engine selects a first purse of a plurality of purses allocated to the electronic account based on a policy applied to the data. The first purse may be configured as a benefits purse. The server obtains the first monetary amount of the electronic transaction from the first purse. The policy engine applies a second policy to the data to determine a reimbursement amount based on the first monetary amount of the transaction, and electronically provides the reimbursement amount to a different second purse of the electronic account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Alegeus Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Bull, Chris Rodkey
  • Patent number: 11615481
    Abstract: A method for encouraging saving towards a financial goal for an individual includes receiving on an electronic computing device one or more personal media elements from the individual. A receipt from a purchase by the individual is received. The receipt includes information relating to the purchase made by the individual. Information from the receipt relative to the financial goal is analyzed. At least one of the one or more personal media elements is selected for presentation with the receipt. The at least one of the one or more personal media elements selected is related to an effect of the purchase on achieving the financial goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Marria Wairnola Rhodriquez
  • Patent number: 11615482
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced organizational transparency using a linked activity chain in a ledger are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include (1) a back end for an organization comprising at least one computer processor receiving a first communication from a first entity comprising a first customer interaction with the first entity; (2) the back end writing the first communication to a ledger for the organization as a first block in a linked activity chain; (3) the back end receiving a second communication from a second entity comprising a second customer second activity with the second entity; (4) the back end writing the second communication to the ledger for the organization as a second block in the linked activity chain; (5) the back end calculating a summary score for the customer based on the blocks in the linked activity chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Joe Vieira, Kam Sat Lee, Murali Pingali, Michael Cornell, Suresh Shetty, Samer Falah, Ankur Sambhar
  • Patent number: 11615483
    Abstract: Systems and methods to facilitate automated validation of anti-money laundering alerts are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain alert information indicating monetary transaction flow patterns suspected as money laundering; identify pattern types of the monetary transaction flow patterns; obtain source lists indicating sources of extra-transactional information related to the entities involved in the monetary transactions and significance of the sources; access the sources and obtain the extra-transactional information; evaluate the extra-transactional information included in the sources in accordance with indicated significance of the sources to validate or disprove the suspicions of the monetary transaction flow patterns; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Jumio Corporation
    Inventor: Benjamin Tyson Duranske
  • Patent number: 11615484
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input comprising a natural-language utterance by an assistant xbot from a client system associated with a user, determining a semantic representation of the user input based on a structural ontology defining a labeling syntax for parsing the natural-language utterance to semantic units comprising actions, objects, and attributes, wherein the semantic representation embeds at least one object within at least one action and declares at least one attribute of the embedded object to be acted upon, sending a request based on the semantic representation to an agent for executing a task corresponding to the user input, receiving results of the executed task mapped to a structure determined by the structural ontology from the agent, and sending from the assistant xbot to the client system instructions for presenting a response based on the results of the executed task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Armen Aghajanyan, Sonal Gupta, Brian Moran, Theodore Frank Levin, Crystal Annette Naomi Su Hua Nakatsu, Daniel Difranco, Jonathan David Christensen, Kirk LaBuda, Anuj Kumar
  • Patent number: 11615485
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a computer program product, a computer system, and a computer-implemented method for generating a data model that machine learns from social media postings to determine whether social media postings will gain traction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Strategic Communication Advisors, LLC.
    Inventor: David Kenneth Albert
  • Patent number: 11615486
    Abstract: A farming machine is configured to identify and treat plants in a field. The farming machine includes one or more light sensors for measuring a characteristic of light. The one or more light sensors are coupled to the farming machine and are directed a substantially upwards orientation away from the plants. A control system adjusts settings of an image acquisition system based on a characteristic of light measured by the one or more light sensors. The image acquisition system captures an image of a plant using one or more image sensors coupled to the farming machine, the one or more image sensors directed in a substantially downwards orientation towards the plants. The control system identifies a plant in the image and actuates a treatment mechanism to treat the identified plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BLUE RIVER TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Stephen Colgan, Charles McCauley Ross
  • Patent number: 11615487
    Abstract: An energy evaluation system includes an energy system modeling framework and an Application Program Interface (API) as part of the energy system evaluation framework. The energy evaluation system can be configured to query a simulation application program interface (API) with PV system configuration parameters as arguments, generate a shade loss time series based on the system configuration parameters, simulate energy output for the PV system based on the shade loss time series, and output energy aggregations based on the simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SUNPOWER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chetan Chaudhari, Tamir Lance, Amir Asgharzadeh Shishavan
  • Patent number: 11615488
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for power demand management are described herein. More specifically, embodiments comprise systems and methods for powering, controlling, and/or operating various types of controllable load for integration with power fluctuations from intermittent power generation plants, such as photovoltaic arrays and wind turbine farms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Michael Sean Day, Matthew M. Corulli, Stephen A. Kujak, Ronald Maurice Cosby, II
  • Patent number: 11615489
    Abstract: Provided is a system for providing removals simulation using VR and AR and brokering real estate therethrough, and the system includes: a background providing unit which extracts background information inside a real estate object provided by a real estate provider and presents the background information to the real estate customer; and an AR providing unit which overlaps props information of a real estate customer on the background information of the real estate object so as to be arbitrarily arranged by the real estate customer, wherein the real estate customer can simulate by overlapping props information on the background information, when the simulation is determined, the determined information is transmitted to a number of moving service servers, and thus provides an advantage in that a number of moving centers can propose moving costs to the real estate customer in a reverse auction manner based on the props information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventor: Gyou Young Jung
  • Patent number: 11615490
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for identifying issues in a building. In one aspect, a method includes receiving information describing an issue with a building, accessing data that identifies (i) a plurality of components that are included in the building and (ii) features of the plurality of components, identifying one or more candidate components that have at least a threshold likelihood of being a cause of the issue, and performing some action in response to remedy the issue. For example, the method can include selecting a candidate service provider from among a plurality of service providers based on a comparison of (i) the one or more candidate components and (ii) information identifying technical qualifications for the plurality of service providers, transmitting a service request for the issue to the candidate service provider, receiving a response from the candidate service provider, and scheduling, based on the response, a service appointment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: LGHORIZON, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Lerick, Ronak Desai, Michael Kramer, Joseph Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11615491
    Abstract: A system for storing data related to a transaction and for facilitating the transaction, the system comprising: an application server coupled with a database and configured to store information associated with a plurality of transactions, the information including account information related to a user account maintained by a first financial institution, a recipient identifier, and account information related to a recipient account maintained with a second financial institution, the application server further configured to: receive transaction data associated with a payment of the transaction, the transaction data comprising an identifier and user account information; identify the recipient account information based on a comparison of the received identifier against the stored recipient identifier; generate transfer instructions data based on the transaction data and recipient account information; and forward the transfer instructions data to the first financial institution based on the user account informatio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ZOCCAM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Ashley Cook
  • Patent number: 11615492
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for analyzing citationally related content and identifying, based on the analysis, a risk of impliedly overruled content. Embodiments provide for receiving case law data from a document source, for extracting a case triple that includes a first case overruling or abrogating a second case, and a third case citationally related to the second case. Features may be generated from case triple, such as natural processing language features comparing the language in the various cases of the triple, and feeding the generated features to a main classifier. In embodiments, the main classifier classifies the case triple into a class indicating the risk probability that the second case is impliedly overruled by the first case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
    Inventors: Julian Brooke, Kanika Madan, Hector Martinez Alonso, Afsaneh Fazly, Tonya Custis, Isabelle Moulinier, Gayle McElvain, Diane Erickson, Khaled Ammar
  • Patent number: 11615493
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate contextual comparison of semantics in conditions of different policies are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a comparison component that contextually compares semantics of conditions in policy data of different policies based on a feature of at least one entity. The computer executable components further comprise a contextualization component that employs a model to provide a contextual explanation of how a first condition in first policy data of a first policy is semantically different from a second condition in second policy data of a second policy based on the feature of the at least one entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natalia Mulligan, Joao H Bettencourt-Silva, Marco Luca Sbodio, Vanessa Lopez Garcia
  • Patent number: 11615494
    Abstract: An intellectual property (IP) recommending method and an IP recommending system are provided. In the method, a plurality of IP portfolios respectively designated for a plurality of product designs are retrieved and usage data of a plurality of IPs included in each of the plurality of IP portfolios are extracted. A machine learning (ML) model is trained by using a portion of the retrieved IP portfolios and the extracted usage data. In response to receiving at least one criterion for a desired product design from a user, a plurality of IPs adapted for the desired product design are predicted based on the ML model and recommended for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ker-Min Chen, Hsiao-Han Hu, Tai-Chuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11615495
    Abstract: A method and system for representing usage of an electronic learning system. The method and system involve receiving an input indicative of a selection of a property of the electronic learning system to be represented, the property including a course content provided by the electronic learning system and an activity available for that course content; receiving representation parameters that define a scope of the usage to be represented; determining an event count for the property during the period of interest; and generating a usage indicator for the property based at least on the event count. The usage indicator is generally reflective of at least a usage amount of the property during the period of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: D2L Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastian Mihai, Dariusz Grabka
  • Patent number: 11615496
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for providing security and customer service using video analytics and location tracking are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to identify, using video analytics, security incidents occurring in a facility and customer service opportunities occurring in the facility, determine, upon identifying a security incident occurring in the facility, a workflow sequence for responding to the security incident, determine, upon identifying a customer service opportunity occurring in the facility, a workflow sequence for responding to the customer service opportunity, display the workflow sequence for responding to the security incident on a first user interface, and display the workflow sequence for responding to the customer service opportunity on a second user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Graeme Laycock, Alyanna Agda, Kendall Paix, Andrew Arlen, Samir Dudani
  • Patent number: 11615497
    Abstract: A method, system and/or computer usable program product for managing optimization of a transportation network system including identifying a set of items for transportation between a set of origins and a set of destinations during a set of time periods, prioritizing each of the set of items, utilizing a set of network constraints and costs, utilizing a set of loading constraints for a set of transportation units, the loading constraints limiting the quantity and placement of items for each transportation unit, optimizing a quantity of the set of transportation units for transporting the set of items between the set of origins and the set of destinations during the set of time periods based on the prioritization of each of the set of items, the network constraints and costs, and the loading constraints for each transportation unit, and adjusting the optimized quantity of transportation units to a discrete quantity based on the prioritization of each of the set of items and the network constraints and costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ProvisionAI, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Moore, Jeffrey H. Schutt, Robert F. Schneider, Keith D. Moore
  • Patent number: 11615498
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for image analysis of supply chain planning problems modeled as a linear programming (LP) problems. Embodiments include receiving an LP matrix representing constraints and variables of at least a portion of a supply chain planning problem, generating a sorted variable index for the variables of the LP matrix, generating a sorted constraint index for the constraints of the LP matrix, identifying functions of the variables and the constraints, selecting one or more colors of pixels of a supply chain problem image based, at least in part, on the identified functions of the variables and constraints, selecting locations of the pixels, and displaying a visualization of the supply chain problem image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Devanand R, Narayan Nandeda, Tushar Shekhar
  • Patent number: 11615499
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request from a requesting device to initiate a transport to perform a transport event at a target location, identifying the transport to perform the transport event, identifying a target device associated with the transport event is located at the target location, receiving location updates of the transport and the target device at a server, determining the transport has initiated the transport event based on the location updates of the transport, determining the target device and the transport are proximate to one another based on the location updates, and monitoring the location updates to identify whether the transport has deviated from a target travel path area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Emily S. Lerner, Nutonya L. Parker, Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal
  • Patent number: 11615500
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a terminal of a first user, a storage unit configured to store an end-of-use position and an expected end-of-use time at which a second user of a vehicle ends use of the vehicle for each of a plurality of vehicles subjected to autonomous driving control and occupied by the second user, and a vehicle selection unit configured to acquire a boarding position and a boarding time at which the first user wants to get on a vehicle from the terminal via the communication unit and select at least one vehicle, of which the end-of-use position and the expected end-of-use time are in a predetermined relationship with the boarding position and the boarding time, from among the plurality of vehicles while referring to the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihide Tachibana, Katsuhiro Sakai, Makoto Kawaharada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 11615501
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for systems and methods for generating potential flight plans to be used by a ride sharing network, including dynamic and/or automated changes to flight plans that have been engaged with passengers based on real-time information. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can operate to generate a fleet-level set of potential flight plans which comply with one or more constraints for a fleet of aircraft. The potential flight plans can be exposed into and used by a ride sharing network to provide transportation to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JOBY AERO, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Richard Mueller, Bogu Wei, Igor Dolgov, Raphael Max Lurie, Adam Warmoth, Kellen Christopher Mollahan, Karl Weston Schulz
  • Patent number: 11615502
    Abstract: Methods, systems, processes and others are provided for digital administration of gaming units including, for example, receiving a real-time request for gaming units; determining that the gaming unit administration application executing on the mobile device is located at the particular gaming location of the gaming establishment; determining that the real-time request for gaming units does not exceed the gaming unit limit of the account pre-approved by the gaming establishment; identifying a gamer distribution module associated with the particular gaming location for the current gaming activity associated with the request; and providing an authorization to distribute to the gamer associated with the request one or more requested gaming units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: CHIP-UP, LLC
    Inventors: Marcellino Manilla, John Victor Heutsche