Systems Controlled By Data Bearing Records Patents (Class 235/375)
  • Patent number: 11526685
    Abstract: Systems and methods configured to determine a machine-readable optical code based on screen-captured video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: monitor, in an ongoing manner, a directory to determine whether a screen-captured image is added; effectuate, responsive to the determination that the screen-captured image is included in the directory, an image decoding machine configured to parse and decode images and/or the video frames for information embedded into the images and/or the video frames to: parse the screen-captured image for a machine-readable optical code; extract embedded information from the machine-readable optical code; and decode the embedded information for metadata; and effectuate, via the user interface, presentation of information derived from the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Outlayr, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Michael Cartagena, Mark Jered Verrico, Jonathen Christopher Wong
  • Patent number: 11526871
    Abstract: A cart robot analyzing a hand motion of a user is disclosed. The cart robot comprises a code input interface obtaining a product identification code, a sensor detecting a hand motion of a user, a weight measuring device measuring a weight of one or more products contained in a product loading space, and a controller. When there is no change in weight of the loaded products, the cart robot updates a shopping list with respect to the products loaded in the product loading space in real time by analyzing the hand motion of the user. Therefore, the convenience of the user is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongwoo Ju, Jungsik Kim
  • Patent number: 11519740
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for managing waste services. The system may have a locating device configured to generate a signal indicative of a location of a service vehicle on a roadway, a communication device, and a controller in communication with the locating and communication devices. The controller may be configured to determine a side of the roadway at which a first target location is currently being serviced by the service vehicle, and to determine based on the signal from the locating device a proximity of the service vehicle to a second target location at which the waste services are to be performed. The second target location may be on the same side of the roadway as the first target location. The controller may also be configured to automatically provide via the communicating device an estimated time of arrival to a customer corresponding to the second target location, based on the proximity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Rubicon Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Philip Rodoni, Samantha Podgorny, Ryan Alexander
  • Patent number: 11518572
    Abstract: A measuring system associable with a group of products wrappable with a plastic film to form a palletized load. The system includes a supporting frame provided with a supporting plane for the group, first and second detecting modules housed inside the supporting frame and provided with first and second sensor units to detect and measure first and second physical quantities acting on the palletized load when it is moved and/or transported, a processing module having first and second computing units and first and second memory units positioned on the supporting plane, inserted among the products and having dimensions and weight comparable to that of one of the products. The first and second computing units, first and second memory units and first and second detecting modules form first and second measurement chains of the first and second physical quantities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: AETNA GROUP S.P.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Ceré, Massimiliano Vaccari
  • Patent number: 11521156
    Abstract: Trustable delivery of a product uses a package with a printed label having a unique product ID, an RFID marker applied to the product that contains the ID, and a smart chip inside the product that contains the ID and a digital key. The ID from the RFID marker is compared to the label for initial validation of the package. The smart chip is further interrogated to generate an encoded value of the ID, such as a hash value, using the digital key. The hash value is then used to authenticate the ID, thereby verifying that the product as delivered is the original, untampered product. The product ID and the hash value are recorded in a blockchain ledger associated with the product. In this manner, the packaged product can be validated by any party in the delivery chain, e.g., manufacturer, seller, distributor, delivery service, and final recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Pacheco, Vijender Koorella, Ching-Yun Chao, Richard Daniel Gunjal
  • Patent number: 11516155
    Abstract: A method for ranking messages of conversation graphs in a messaging platform includes classifying messages of a conversation graph into a plurality of sections based on content quality of the messages, where the plurality of sections include a first section and a second section. The first section has messages from the conversation graph determined as higher quality than messages of the second section. The method includes determining a plurality of predictive outcomes for each of a plurality of messages of the conversation graph using predictive models, ranking the messages of the first section based on the predictive outcomes for the messages of the first section, and transmitting at least a subset of the messages of the first section to be rendered on a client application according to the rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Jain, Arvind Thiagarajan
  • Patent number: 11514418
    Abstract: Within EMV payment specification, use of an unattended terminal to accept a payment is allowed. Creating a device that has both EMV level 1 (L1) and level 2 (L2) payment components combined with a virtual merchant creates a “card present” transaction for an on-line or e-commerce merchant. This device can be called a personal Point of Sale (pPOS). This specification discloses pPOS devices and methods that can provide for card present e-commerce transactions with a payment kernel that is local and/or remote to a pPOS device. In some embodiments, a pPOS device can include only a secure microcontroller function (MCF) and a secure element, wherein a payment kernel configured to process payment is local, remote, or split between local and remote to the device. In some embodiments, a pPOS device can further include a reader, a sensor switch, and/or a user interface function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Todd Raymond Nuzum, Melissa Hunter, Derek Alan Snell, Patrick Ryan Comiskey, Suresh Palliparambil, Michael Dow
  • Patent number: 11514665
    Abstract: Images of optical codes are mapped to an overview image to localize optical codes within a space. By localizing optical codes, information about locations of various products can be ascertained. One or more techniques can be used to map the images of optical codes to the overview image. The overview image can be a composite image formed by stitching together several images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SCANDIT AG
    Inventors: Fabian Nater, Kimmo Roimela, Bernd Schoner, Matthias Bloch, Christian Floerkemeier
  • Patent number: 11516304
    Abstract: Aspects discussed herein relate to providing alerts to a community of devices located in or near a geographic are such as a building or property. The alerts override any alert-inhibiting state of the mobile device to deliver audio, visual, and/or haptic alerts in emergency situations. The communication and emergency alert system may be used to communicate with many different communities of people. Moreover, certain individuals may be members of more than one community at the same time, and the communities themselves may change over time based both on the user's preferences and on their physical locations. A variety of application programming interfaces can be provided to allow third-party applications to generate, transmit, and display alerts that override any alert-inhibiting state of a mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Allan C. Sutherland
  • Patent number: 11507941
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention provides for making electronic payments by scanning a merchant 2D code located near the point of sale with the customer's cell phone and transmitting the code or data embodied by the code to a payment center where the merchant's account can be credited and the customer's account debited without transmitting account information over the airwaves. In another embodiment of the invention, both parties transmit the same randomly generated 2D code or data embodied by the code to the payment center where they are matched to each other and to the buyer and seller to process the transaction. In a further embodiment of the invention, an inked tattoo or barcode marking is employed as a password to authorize access to smartphone applications for example, to make an electronic payment over a threshold amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Thomas W Heeter
  • Patent number: 11507958
    Abstract: A point-of-sale (POS) application is installed on a computing device of a merchant to process purchase transactions in conjunction with a network-accessible payment processing system. Software is also installed on the computing device to evaluate trustworthiness of the device and to prevent the device from performing sensitive operations such as purchase transactions when the device is deemed to be untrustworthy. The software obtains a security policy from the payment processing system and locally stores the security policy. The security policy specifies trust criteria and enforcement instructions, which can be updated from time to time when the payment processing system is accessible. The software evaluates device trustworthiness by gathering information regarding device conditions and comparing the information to the trust criteria. If the trust criteria are not satisfied, sensitive operations are disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Rohlf
  • Patent number: 11509855
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and software are provided for using an optically-readable code such as a quick-response (QR) code. The optically-readable code may represent a uniform resource identifier (URI) including parameters that represent a query, such as a query for content and/or other data. The query results may be used to command a content consumption device to record or otherwise obtain an item of content. The optically-readable code may additionally or alternatively be determined based upon a status of the device, such as what content, or portion thereof, is currently being displayed, and/or what error condition is being experienced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Shaun Gehring, Jason Smith, Michael J. Cook, Bruce Bradley, Daniel T. Grady, Charlie Herrin, Robert Philibert
  • Patent number: 11507791
    Abstract: A transaction card may power on the transaction card using electric current induced from an interaction of the transaction card with an electromagnetic field. The transaction card may establish a communication with a device. The communication may indicate that the transaction card has powered. The transaction card may receive, from the device, a set of instructions to configure a set of applets on the transaction card after notifying the device that the transaction card has powered on. The set of applets to be configured may be related to completing one or more different transactions. The set of applets to be configured may be different than another set of applets already configured on the transaction card. The transaction card may configure the set of applets on the transaction card according to the set of instructions after receiving the set of instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Koeppel, James Zarakas, Molly Johnson, Tyler Locke
  • Patent number: 11493904
    Abstract: A system includes an electrical enclosure, an industrial automation component disposed within the electrical enclosure, in which the industrial automation component is configured to receive external power from an external power source to perform an operation, a display configured to maintain presentation of image data in absence of the external power being received by the industrial automation component from the external power source, and a control system communicatively coupled to the industrial automation component and to the display. The control system is configured to perform operations that include receiving an indication that the external power is within a range of a threshold, in which the threshold is associated with an insufficient amount of power for the industrial automation component to operate, identifying an error associated with the industrial automation component in response to receiving the indication, and causing the display to render image data indicative of the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry M. Watkins, Kristopher J. Holley, Joseph A. Johnson, Darrell Filtz, Andrew E. Carlson, James P. Miller, Walied Khan
  • Patent number: 11493901
    Abstract: An approach alerting users based on a detected defect during manufacturing quality inspection based on graphical images is disclosed. The approach initiates a device inspection, wherein a model controller collects metadata about a product to be inspected and select a first model with a highest score to identify defects in the device. The approach utilizes an API to obtain results from the inspection and after determining that another model is available, initiating the second model run via an edge device performing the inspection of the device. And the algorithm awaits a response in detecting a defect during either the first model run or the second model run, providing an alert detailing the defect detected in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Qiqing Christine Ouyang, Igor Khapov
  • Patent number: 11494517
    Abstract: A network system is provided that enables a user to record media in connection with a user operating a service application to participate in a transport service. In examples, the network system includes a user computing device on which media is recorded and stored in an unrenderable state. The user can elect to make a media recording submission for a particular service activity (e.g., trip provided or received by user). In response to the media recording submission, the user computing device identifies one or more media files that contain media data which depict the service activity. The identified media files are transmitted to a service computing system where the media files can be rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shobhit Gupta, Misha Bosin, Neil Chopra, Garrick Buckley, Emmanuelle Soni, Dhaval Shah
  • Patent number: 11495007
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is for identifying the presence of an image trigger in a digitally captured scene. The method includes, at a component installed on a client device and upon commencement of an image trigger matching operation: a) obtaining, from a multiplicity of image triggers, a subset of image triggers; b) subdividing the subset of image triggers into a plurality of image trigger sub-subsets; and c) for each sub-subset of image triggers in turn, and at predefined time intervals, submitting the sub-subset of image triggers to an Augmented Reality (AR) core Application Programming Interface (API), to cause the client device to cache the received sub-subsets of image triggers, search the digitally captured scene for the presence of one or more of the cached image triggers, and identify a positive match of an image trigger to said component using said AR core API.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: RHIZOMENET PTY. LTD.
    Inventor: Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11494790
    Abstract: A method for sharing consumer data with a merchant includes: storing, in an account database at least one account profile, wherein each account profile includes data related to a transaction account including at least an account identifier and a plurality of sharing data values; receiving, from a point of sale device, an authorization request for a payment transaction, wherein the authorization request includes at least a specific account identifier and a sharing request; identifying, in the account database, a specific account profile where the included account identifier corresponds to the specific account identifier; identifying, in the specific account profile, one or more sharing data values of the plurality of sharing data values for sharing to the point of sale device; and transmitting, by a transmitting device, the identified one or more sharing data values to the point of sale device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Erica Joann Robeen
  • Patent number: 11494730
    Abstract: A food inventory device having a bar code scanner and camera to add and remove inventory items to and from the inventory. The scanner may be mounted on an inventory storage container to facilitate inventory control from one or more storage devices, including refrigerators, freezers, and pantries. The inventory system may display a table listing the inventory items along with variable details. Based on the food inventory list, the inventory system may suggest recipes, display the ingredients in stock for suggested recipes, and create a shopping list of the ingredients not in stock for a desired recipe. The device may have an ordering system allowing users to order items in the storage device that have been exhausted or otherwise need to be replenished through audio or touch input. The ordering system may be connected to third-party external sites and may be based on one or more user profile settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventors: Sun Kyong Lee, Jane Y. Lee
  • Patent number: 11494832
    Abstract: A method for securely enabling a user to create a listing for equipment on an equipment online marketplace platform is disclosed. The method may include: receiving a request from a user to create a listing for the equipment on the equipment online marketplace platform; prompting the user to upload one or more images or documents of the equipment; receiving the one or more images or documents of the equipment from the user, the one or more images or documents containing information of the equipment; determining whether an identity of the equipment is verified based on the information of the equipment in the one or more images or documents; and if the identity of the equipment is verified, enabling the user to create a listing for the equipment on the equipment online marketplace platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Satyanarayan Kar, Lisa Estipona Butters, Sujay Rao, Keerthi Jayarajan, Sravan Kommuri, Sathish Muthukrishnan
  • Patent number: 11495140
    Abstract: Systems and methods for learning management systems with shared weld training results are described. In some examples, weld training results may be shared with a learning management system and/or associated with a particular learning activity of the learning management system. In some examples, the weld training results (and/or a networked location where the weld training results are accessible) may be encoded in a machine readable graphic (e.g., a one dimensional, two dimensional, and/or matrix barcode). In some examples, the machine readable graphic may be read and/or decoded by a user device to obtain the weld training results. In some examples, a particular learning activity may also be encoded in the machine readable graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: William Joshua Becker, Amanda Rose Roe
  • Patent number: 11494753
    Abstract: Systems for contactless event processing are provided. In some examples, functionality of a self-service kiosk may be requested. In response, a user may be authenticated and a first interactive user interface may be generated and displayed by the self-service kiosk. A user may capture an image of the generated first interactive user interface displayed by the self-service kiosk using, for instance, an image capture device of a user computing device. The captured image may be displayed by a display of the user computing device and the user may provide user input to the user computing device selecting a displayed option. The user input may be processed and mapped to functionality associated with the self-service kiosk. Based on the mapping, one or more instructions or commands may be generated and transmitted to the self-service kiosk. The self-service kiosk may execute the instructions or commands to execute the requested functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Udaya Kumar Raju Ratnakaram, Sandeep Kumar Chauhan
  • Patent number: 11488131
    Abstract: A system and method comprising a server that automatically configures and sets up a restaurant's or business' information technology (IT) infrastructure, more specifically relating to point-of-sale devices (POS) and other networked devices such as scanners, tracking displays, and any other device that any business may use. Communication between the networked devices and the server is facilitated by a preconfigured router, wherein after initial communication with the server, the server may update firmware, operating parameters, and software packages of the preconfigured router and other networked devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ROCKSPOON, INC.
    Inventor: Nagib Georges Mimassi
  • Patent number: 11488453
    Abstract: An intrusion detection system and method includes an intrusion detection system processor communicatively coupled to multiple environmental change event sensors disposed within an enclosure housing a CPU of an ATM and independent of the CPU of the ATM. In response to receiving an environmental change event notification from one or more of the environmental change event sensors, the intrusion detection system processor commences a predetermined time-out period for entry of valid authentication credentials and deactivates a power supply of the automated teller machine upon expiry of the time-out period without receiving entry of valid authentication credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CITIBANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Jeffrey W. Dant
  • Patent number: 11488273
    Abstract: A method for pushing a data within a template in an educational setting comprising: scanning, via a first user device, a first tag, said first user device having first a unique ID and said first tag being a master tag and comprising a first tag ID; scanning, via a second user device, a second tag, said second user device having a second unique ID and said second tag having a second tag ID and being controlled by said master tag; defining a template being loaded onto said second user device upon the scanning of the second tag; and wherein the template comprises data corresponding to said second tag ID, said second unique ID, and a time corresponding to the scanning of said second tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Digital Seat Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Fowler, Matthew Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11489817
    Abstract: A computing system may include a server, client computing devices, a gateway device in communication between the server and the client computing devices, and a local device to be coupled to a given client computing device and to be operable in a given virtual desktop instance associated with the given client computing device, thereby generating client initialization packets. The gateway device may be configured to when the local device is coupled to the given client computing device, determine whether a client packet from a plurality of client initialization packets is within a client mapping table, replace the client packet with a client mapping ID number to define compressed client initialization packets, and send the compressed client initialization packets to the server. The server may be configured to replace the client mapping ID number with the client packet in the compressed client initialization packets based upon a server mapping table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Shashidhar Ramareddy, Georgy Momchilov, Ankur Mittal
  • Patent number: 11487981
    Abstract: A package in an aspect of the present invention includes: a package body having a receiving cavity for receiving a cavity item; a sheet for sealing the receiving cavity; a conducting wire formed on the sheet so as to pass above the sealed opening portion of the receiving cavity; and a wireless communication device formed on the sheet so as to be connected to the conducting wire. The wireless communication device transmits a signal including information which differs between before and after the conducting wire together with the sheet is cut as a result of opening the receiving cavity. The information transmitted from the wireless communication device is read by a reader. The package and the reader are used for a cavity item management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Junji Wakita, Seiichiro Murase
  • Patent number: 11478591
    Abstract: Described herein are an interactive apparatus and methods for sensing and measuring real-time characteristic patterns of a subject's use of a dry powder inhalation system. The inhaler device can be used in a wireless communication mode to communicate with a display to assess the subject's usage of the inhalation system concurrently as the inhalation is performed and thus the subject's inhalation can be evaluated as well as the performance of the inhalation system. The system can also detect the identity of the medicament, its dosage, lot, expiration, etc. and the characteristics profile of a dry powder formulation emitted from the inhalation system in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MannKind Corporation
    Inventors: John J. Pocreva, III, Benoit Adamo, Brendan Laurenzi, Chad C. Smutney, Spencer P. Kinsey
  • Patent number: 11481699
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for assessing a lifecycle of a component. In an embodiment, the method includes: obtaining, using a simulation device, model description information that corresponds to component models of some or all components in the production line; obtaining at least one piece of data information that is needed by at least one component model that corresponds to the model description information; performing event marking based on the event information on the obtained data information; obtaining component status information of a corresponding component of each model based on the marked data information; and generating a corresponding analysis report based on the component status information from. An advantage of an embodiment is that, a failure mode, a key module, and a measurement rule no longer rely on manual operations and experience of an expert. Instead corresponding information may be precisely provided by using a PLM system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Yong Yuan, Xiao Feng Wang, Wen Jing Zhou
  • Patent number: 11475778
    Abstract: A method for controlling secure delivery of a medication package includes receiving a medication delivery request to deliver a medication package to a first delivery location. The method also includes identifying one or more authenticated delivery locations corresponding to a recipient and determining whether the one or more authenticated delivery locations includes the first delivery location and, in response to a determination that the one or more authenticated delivery locations includes the first delivery location, instructing an unmanned aerial vehicle to transport the medication package from a starting location to the first delivery location. The method also includes, in response to the unmanned aerial vehicle communicating authentication data, determining whether the authentication data corresponds to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Kaneria, Timothy B. Clise
  • Patent number: 11475446
    Abstract: The disclosure comprises systems, methods and computer program products for identity authentication in connection with payment account information submitted for the purpose of network based electronic payment transaction(s). The disclosure comprises (i) receiving from a merchant server, (a) a name associated with a purchaser, and (b) a payment card number, (ii) retrieving a data record comprising a payment card holder name associated with the received payment card number, (iii) comparing the payment card holder name extracted from the retrieved data record with the name associated with the purchaser that has been received at the merchant server, and (d) responsive to a match between the payment card holder name extracted from the retrieved data record with the name associated with the purchaser that has been received at the merchant server, generating a positive identity authentication decision and transmit said identity authentication decision to the merchant server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Arunmurthy Gurunathan, Ravi Pareek
  • Patent number: 11475747
    Abstract: A system determines an electronic product code (EPC) and a checksum read from a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. The system calculates a new checksum based on the EPC and a retailer-specific number associated with a retailer that owns one or more RFID tags. The system compares the new checksum with the checksum read from the RFID tag, and determines whether the RFID tag is owned by the retailer based on whether the new checksum matches the checksum read from the RFID tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventor: Brian M. Wicks
  • Patent number: 11475477
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for programmatically generating and/or revising promotions for a provider as well as generating and providing analytics data regarding currently offered promotions in real-time. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, monitor and analyze various promotions, including current promotions and analytics data about promotion-related purchases, that enable the system to determine the relative successfulness of a promotion for a provider and/or category of provider. Upon determining what has been more successful or is expected to be a more successful promotion for a provider, the system can present the promotion to the provider for approval and/or make the promotion to consumers programmatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben Kim, Joshua Puckett, Andrey Zaytsev, Richard Park
  • Patent number: 11475432
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to systems, devices, logic, methods, and processes for managing distributed ledgers. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include identifying, by a processor, one or more desired user attributes. The method may also include searching, by the processor, a database. The database may include a plurality of users and a plurality of stored attributes for each user. The method may also include selecting, by the processor from the database, one or more candidate users. Each candidate user may be a user having one or more stored attributes that match the one or more desired user attributes. The method may also include processing, by the processor, a distribution of one or more distributed ledger data to one or more of the candidate users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: Simon Kai-Tse Cheong
  • Patent number: 11464514
    Abstract: A surgical stapling system for treating tissue of a patient is disclosed. The surgical stapling system comprises an end effector, a firing member, a motor, a RF transceiver configured to transmit RF signals, and a sensing array. The end effector comprises an elongate channel, an anvil rotatable relative to the elongate channel from an open position toward a closed position, and a staple cartridge removably positioned in the elongate channel. The staple cartridge comprises a plurality of staples removably stored therein. The firing member is movable between an unfired position and a fired position. The staples are deployed from the staple cartridge based on the firing member being moved toward the fired position. The motor is configured to drive the firing member toward the fired position. The sensing array is configured to sense compression of the tissue, properties of the tissue, and a presence of metallic elements within the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, James R. Giordano
  • Patent number: 11468495
    Abstract: Price searching and intelligent shopping lists on a mobile device is provided. A system for providing a shopping list comprises at least one subsystem that receives input data containing product identification information, at least one subsystem that determines location information of a product identified by the product identification information, and at least one subsystem that determines a proposed route from a particular location to a location of the product identified by the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Charles Lee Oakes, III
  • Patent number: 11470116
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a system and method for detecting fraudulent computer activity. A computing system generates a plurality of synthetic identities. Each of the plurality of synthetic identities mimics information associated with a verified identity. The computing system receives, from a user, an input attempt. The input attempt includes a synthetic identity of the plurality of synthetic identities. The computing system compares input information in the input attempt to the plurality of synthetic identities. The computing system determines that the input information in the input attempt includes information from the plurality of synthetic identities, if it does, the computing system rejects the input attempt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Timur Sherif, Hannes Jouhikainen, Steve Blanchet
  • Patent number: 11461745
    Abstract: A payment method by a processing server to process payment that is independently performed between a user equipment and a payment channel server is provided. The method includes: generating, by the processing server, a payment order bound to a merchant order generated by a merchant device by determining a corresponding item ID, of a service and/or a product for purchase, that is registered with the payment channel server, the merchant order corresponding to the service and/or the product provided by the merchant device; obtaining, by the processing server, a payment voucher corresponding to the payment order; matching, by the processing server, based on the payment voucher, the merchant order bound to the payment order; and transmitting, by the processing server to the merchant device, based on the matched merchant order, a service/product providing notification for providing the service and/or the product to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD
    Inventors: Dong Po Bao, Song Jian Wang, Jian Wei Deng, Rui Zhou Wu, Dan Zeng, Qiang Fei, Ning Guo Chen
  • Patent number: 11463604
    Abstract: A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakagami, Naoto Sakurai, Koji Sasaki, Daiya Miyasaka, Tomoko Nishizawa, Yasuhiko Tsugawa, Yohei Ono
  • Patent number: 11461796
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for aggregating merchant offers include a network interface structured to facilitate data communication via a network, an accounts database structured to store account information associated with accounts held by the provider, including a payment account associated with a customer, and a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory. The processing circuit is structured to receive a pre-filtered offer from an offer vendor, aggregate the pre-filtered offer with other received pre-filtered offers from multiple offer vendors to create an aggregated offer list, filter the aggregated offer list based on the account information for the customer to create a filtered offer list, generate a prioritized offer list based on the account information for the customer, and transmit the prioritized offer list to a customer device of the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Krista L. Donels, Jennifer Miller, David Patron, Matthew S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 11455854
    Abstract: Systems and methods herein provide for cloud-controlled access to an access point. A database maintains a plurality of user datasets and accounts for a plurality of access point management systems. Each account of the access point management systems includes identifies one or more access points associated with a property. Each user dataset includes user identifying information and user access information to one or more access points. A processor processes a request for access to the first access point. A rules engine accesses the database to identify a first user based on the request and a user equipment (UE) of the first user via the user identifying information, identifies a first of the access points based on a beacon transmitted by the first access point, retrieves the user access information, identifies access permission of the first user to the first access point, and grants access to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: CHIRP SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Hager, Chuong Le, Evan Corl, Jamie Hsu
  • Patent number: 11455381
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a client computing device to access an electronic GUI associated with a particular QR code scanned by the client computing device. The particular QR code is associated with at least a default GUI and a secure GUI corresponding to the particular QR code. The method includes determining whether a user associated with the requesting client computing device is authenticated to access the secure GUI corresponding to the particular QR code. When that user is authenticated to access the secure GUI, then the method includes selecting the secure GUI for presentation by the requesting client computing device. When the user associated with the requesting client computing device is not authenticated to access the secure GUI corresponding to the particular QR code, then the method includes selecting the default GUI for presentation by the requesting client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: CIELO Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Ricardo Cabrera
  • Patent number: 11455628
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating network transactions based on user authentication. One exemplary method includes, for a network transaction, receiving, at a card device, an authentication command from an issuer of a payment account associated with the card device. A user of the card device is instructed, at an indicator of the card device, to provide a biometric for use in authenticating the user. Biometric data from the user is captured at biometric sensor of the card device, when the user provides the biometric, and the captured biometric data is compared with reference biometric data stored in a memory of the card device. The card device then returns a command reply to the issuer, where the command reply includes an authentication result based on the comparison, thereby permitting the issuer to employ the authentication result of the user in connection with the network transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Rajat Maheshwari, Prashant Sharma
  • Patent number: 11455606
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to enhancing a card payment experience by a single tap of a contactless card to a user computing device. In examples, the single tap of the card may be preconfigured to cause automatic payment of a predefined amount toward a card balance. If the single tap is not preconfigured to mean automatic card payment, the user may be presented with a notification and various payment amount options, which the user can select to pay toward the card balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Rule, Clayton Johnson
  • Patent number: 11451545
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices, and in particular, methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices that are communicating with and may be monitored and/or controlled by a remote (e.g., cloud) server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Ubiquiti Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew A. Hardy, Randall W. Frei, Jonathan P. Bauer, Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya
  • Patent number: 11451539
    Abstract: Identity identification preprocessing methods and systems, and identity identification methods and systems are disclosed. After any user carries a mobile device to a predetermined nearby area of a biometric feature collection device, the mobile device of the user receives a wireless signal broadcast by the biometric feature collection device. The wireless signal triggers the mobile device to upload an auxiliary identification factor other than a biometric feature of the owner and an identity of the owner to an identification server. The identification server establishes a mapping relationship between the received identity and the received auxiliary identification factor. After subsequently obtaining a collected biometric feature uploaded by the biometric feature collection device, the identification server can perform two-factor-based user identity identification based on the previously established mapping relationship and the collected biometric feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yitao Song, Mian Huang
  • Patent number: 11450947
    Abstract: Provided is an antenna module for increasing a recognition area by using a metal deco or a deco panel of a portable terminal as an auxiliary radiator of a radiation pattern for near field communication. The provided antenna module includes: a metal deco disposed on a rear side of a portable terminal; and a radiation pattern connected to the metal deco, in which the metal deco is spaced at both ends by means of a slit, and one end is configured to be directly connected with one end of a radiation pattern so as to act as an auxiliary radiator of the radiation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Won Noh
  • Patent number: 11449833
    Abstract: A system and method scan a document printed by a first document processing device (using a second document processing device separate from the first document processing device). The document has printed thereon machine readable markings that comprise information of a patient, information of at least one lab test to be performed, and formatting information for the return of the lab test results. The second document processing device identifies the lab test to be performed on the patient based on the machine readable markings. After the lab tests have been performed on the patient, the second document processing device prepares the lab test results by formatting them. These formatted lab test results are then output from the second document processing device to the first document processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Nathaniel G. Martin, Steven J. Harrington
  • Patent number: 11449821
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for distributing parcels to users by way of unmanned devices. One computer-implemented method includes actuating a locking mechanism of a compartment of the unmanned device to secure a parcel within the compartment and receiving, from a parcel provider associated with delivering the parcel to a user, a delivery location and a hashed key for the parcel. The method then also includes, at the delivery location of the parcel: capturing an image of a computer-readable indicia representative of a hashed key from the user; determining that the hashed key from the user and the hashed key received from the parcel provider match; and when the hashed keys match, actuating the locking mechanism associated with the compartment of the unmanned device to enable the user to access the compartment and retrieve the parcel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sandeep Malhotra, Rajat Maheshwari, Prashant Sharma
  • Patent number: 11443126
    Abstract: A baggage handling verification device (10) is disclosed for use with baggage (46) having an RFID tag (48) attached. The device includes a user interface to emit signals, an attachment element (22, 28) to attach the device to a user, an RFID antenna (32), and RFID reader (34) to read data received by the antenna from the tag. Data memory (42) stores data pertaining to a passenger journey. A CPU (38) can compare data from the tag with data in the memory. The device can emit different signals depending on whether the compared data matches or not to assist the user to decide how to handle the baggage. The invention extends to a method of determining whether an intended action relating baggage matches a predetermined desired action for that baggage, and to a baggage handling checking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: RAMP HOLDINGS PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Kevin Cohen, Mark Beacroft, Patrick Moulds