Advertisement Patents (Class 705/14.4)
  • Patent number: 11907196
    Abstract: Incoming data requests from the perspective of the data lake, are gathered and analyzed to determine the usage of the data. Using the perspective of the data lake avoids the technical challenge of analyzing data usage by different computation points, which are at different locations, perform hard-to-track different operations, and are often reachable only through complicated access protocols. Another technical challenge of mapping between an object path and a table path is solved by generating object path datasets and table path datasets at different levels of abstractions. A comparison is performed, iteratively, from a lower level of granularity and the granularity is increased in the progressive steps. Matches from iterations are unionized to generate a final matching data. Observability metrics are generated using final matching data and are used to perform downstream operations such as controlling data table access, moving data tables to cold storage, decommissioning unused pipelines, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Saikiran Sri Thunuguntla, Keshav Bhashyam, Sreenivasulu Nallapati, Vijaykumar Hiremath
  • Patent number: 11895115
    Abstract: One issue with many dating applications is that the number of matches can become overwhelming, making it difficult for a user to continue to communicate meaningfully with those individuals with whom they have been matched. According to various techniques described herein, a limit can be placed on the number of active matches (or conversations) for each user, and the user's profile may be temporarily hidden from view of other individuals when this limit has been reached. Such a condition is referred to as “saturation.” Once the user unmatches one or more individuals, so that they are no longer at the maximum, their profile may again be made available and therefore visible to other individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Sidekick Dating, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Robert De Lazzari
  • Patent number: 11880864
    Abstract: A system and method of performing in-context of automated delivery of benefit-conveying (BC) code of an e-commerce website is provided. The system comprises means for identifying a BC code input field in a BC context of the e-commerce website, means for storing a plurality of BC code collections for supported e-commerce websites, and means for acquiring information about relevance-checked BC codes of the e-commerce web site. The system comprises means for displaying an UI panel in an vicinity of the identified BC code input field, with the UI panel configured to list information about the acquired relevance-checked BC codes in such a manner that an individual BC code from among the acquired BC codes can be selected through selecting a UI entry listing information about the individual BC code. The system comprises means for inputting the selected individual BC code into the identified BC code input field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NextGen Shopping LLC
    Inventor: Marc A. Mezzacca
  • Patent number: 11768859
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to implement an outlier detection system for text records. In embodiments, the detection system generates a fingerprint for each incoming record so that similar records map to similar fingerprints. Each record is assigned to a closest cluster in a set of clusters based computed distances between on the record's fingerprint and respective cluster fingerprints of the clusters. The cluster fingerprint is dynamically updated to maintain respective a representative fingerprint of its member records. When a new record is received that is not sufficiently close to any cluster, a new cluster is added to the set for the new record. In embodiments, the creation of the new cluster triggers an alert that the new record is a potential outlier. Advantageously, the disclosed detection system can be used to detect outliers in records in near real time, without the need to pre-specify outlier characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Rapid7, Inc.
    Inventors: Viliam Holub, Eoin Shanley, Trevor Parsons
  • Patent number: 11727381
    Abstract: An implementation of the present specification discloses a method for processing payment in an offline scenario. A collection terminal, when in an offline state, scans an offline code generated by a user terminal in an offline state to obtain offline code information, obtains a payment amount, and saves the offline code information and the payment amount, and if in an online state, uploads the offline code information and the payment amount to a server, so that after receiving the offline code and the payment amount, the server pays a deduction amount from a corresponding payment account based on the offline code information and the payment amount, and thus puts the deduction amount into a payment account corresponding to the collection terminal. As such, the payment function can still be achieved when the user terminal and the collection terminal are in an offline state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaili Rao
  • Patent number: 11693534
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for allowing a user to dynamically manage rich media content in an efficient and effective manner. Tiles including media content, personalized video selections, content pack upgrades, and promotions for featured content are presented to a user. Each tile may include calls to view, purchase, discuss, rate, review, or read about associated content. Tiles may be presented as still images, logos, text, or live video. Multiple tiles may be manipulated using keyboard, mouse, touchpad, and/or touchscreen movements, motions, and gestures. In particular examples, an overlay provided on top of a tile mechanism provides a user with additional navigation and management options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TiVo Corporation
    Inventors: Kirsten Hunter, Christopher Chan, Vasanth Shenoy, James Collette, Do H. Chung, Allen Billings
  • Patent number: 11693898
    Abstract: A system for query processing of a frequency of utility indicators comprises a processor operable to receive a transmission from a first wearable device comprising entity file information associated with a first entity. The processor is operable to generate a file vector comprising one or more files of a digital folder based on an association with one or more utility indicators and determine that one of the files corresponds to a greater number of the one or more utility indicators than the remaining files based, at least in part, on the entity file information. The processor is operable to assign the determined one of the one or more files as a first file within the file vector and send a transmission to the first wearable device comprising the file vector and an indication to utilize the first file in an interaction between the first user and the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle A. Mayers, George Anthony Albero, Jinna Zevulun Kim, Maharaj Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11684304
    Abstract: A non-invasive system and method are provided. Brain activity of a user is detected using a non-invasive brain interface when the user is exposed to an external stimulus. The user is determined to be negatively primed by the external stimulus based on the detected brain activity. An alert that the user is being negatively primed by the external stimulus is automatically provided. A tagged training session may be automatically provided to the user in response determining that the user has a negative mental state, thereby promoting a positive mental state of the user. A training session list containing the tagged training session may be automatically modified based on the determined mental state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HI LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Johnson, Husam Katnani
  • Patent number: 11682049
    Abstract: A request for a page is received. The page is provided at least in part by determining dynamically a content element for the page. An auction to determine a winning bid is conducted prior to providing the page in response to the request and the content element determined based at least in part on the auction winner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Nativo, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Yoo Choi, Oded Cohen, Marcelo Muniz
  • Patent number: 11641333
    Abstract: A system and method for multivariate testing of messages to a subgroup in a one-to-many messaging platform. A client text message is generated for transmission to a number of users via one or more messaging services. A subset of users is defined according to one or more attributes of the text message or the users, and the client text message is transmitted only to users in the subgroup. The transmission is analyzed for performance metrics, such as actions or reactions by users in the subgroup, and based on the performance metrics, the message is optimized for transmission to the larger group of users. Optimization happens rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Community.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Peltier, Joshua Rosenheck, Noah Heller, Lars Perkins, Barry Steinglass, Tomas Koci, Alec Rubin
  • Patent number: 11631115
    Abstract: As a viewer views and scrolls down a web content page in a browser window of a web browser, ad content appears in predetermined ad placement areas of the web content page. If particular ad content has not been within a viewport of the browser window for a predetermined desired time, the ad content may be detached from the web content page and positioned in a location of the viewport for a desired necessary period of time before the ad content is reattached to the content page at its respective predetermined ad placement area even if that predetermined ad placement area has been scrolled out of the viewport. In such cases, the ad content effectively “lingers” in in the viewport until reattached to the web content page at its respective predetermined ad placement area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: RICH MEDIA CLUB, LLC
    Inventors: Igor Tchibirev, Brad Krassner
  • Patent number: 11625740
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing campaign driven offer distribution include receiving, from a service provider device associated with a service provider, first campaign information for a first campaign. A first offer that has been configured to be irredeemable by the first customer and that includes a first offer condition associated with the first campaign information that must be satisfied to reconfigure the first offer to be redeemable by the first customer is provided for display on a first customer device. A notification indicating the first offer condition has been satisfied is received. In response to receiving the notification indicating the first offer condition has been satisfied, the first offer is reconfigured to be redeemable by the first customer. A notification indicating a status change with the first offer that causes the first offer to be displayed on the first customer device is communicated to the first customer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Berger, Manas Garg
  • Patent number: 11605145
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera, a memory configured to store a model learned to determine whether a user performing authentication for a financial service is in a threat situation, and a processor configured to perform authentication for the financial service based on biometrics information of the user performing authentication for the financial service. The processor may acquire an image by photographing the user performing authentication through the camera, acquire information on whether the user performing authentication is in a threat situation from the learned model, with information acquired from the image as input of the learned model, and perform authentication for the financial service according to the acquired information. At least a part of the learned model is an artificial intelligent algorithm, which may be performed according to at least one of machine learning, neural network, or deep learning algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungsun Cho, Jinsu Kim, Junbum Shin
  • Patent number: 11595325
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide a conversational website or native application. The conversational website or native application includes an interface that enables a network device to exchange one or more messages with a bot or a terminal device (operated by a live agent) during a communication session. The interface may include a communication area (e.g., a portion of the screen) and a dynamic content area (e.g., another portion of the screen). The content of a message received from the network device may be used to select dynamic content to display in the dynamic content area. Dynamic updating of content displayed in the dynamic content area occurs continuously as messages are exchanged during the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: LIVEPERSON, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Lester, Jon Borgese, Augusto Garcia
  • Patent number: 11592310
    Abstract: A method of generating a personalised recommendation of points of interest (POIs) for a user involves generating a route between an origin and a destination. A search area of a predetermined size is defined for each of a plurality of waypoints along the route. Personalisation data for the user is obtained from one or more social media websites. The POIs present within each search area are identified and descriptive data relating to attributes of each of the identified POIs is obtained. The POIs in each search area are then ranked based on at least a comparison of the personalisation data and the descriptive data relating to the respective POIs. A subset of the identified POIs is next selected for inclusion in the POI recommendation for each search area based on the determined ranking. A POI recommendation including the selected POIs is then displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: TomTom Navigation B.V.
    Inventors: Alessandro Bortolussi, Caspar Van Der Heiden, Vojin Radosavljevic, Wouter Van Heeswijk, Rinder Hortulanus, James Janisse
  • Patent number: 11595339
    Abstract: While texting, a user is able access, share, and control rich media without leaving the texting application. The rich media are provided directly within the executing texting application. The texting application includes an embedded widget for controlling the rich media. Rich media includes, among other things, video clips, streaming audio, a map application, a movie-time application, a social movie-site application, a dynamically controllable image, or promotional media. Different mobile devices executing the texting applications communicate through a server that allows additional functionality, such as syncing the play of video clips and hosting and pushing the promotional media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Iddo Tal, Lior Gonnen
  • Patent number: 11595338
    Abstract: While texting, a user is able access, share, and control rich media without leaving the texting application. The rich media are provided directly within the executing texting application. The texting application includes an embedded widget for controlling the rich media. Rich media includes, among other things, video clips, streaming audio, a map application, a movie-time application, a social movie-site application, a dynamically controllable image, or promotional media. Different mobile devices executing the texting applications communicate through a server that allows additional functionality, such as syncing the play of video clips and hosting and pushing the promotional media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Iddo Tal, Lior Gonnen
  • Patent number: 11574375
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera, a memory configured to store a model learned to determine whether a user performing authentication for a financial service is in a threat situation, and a processor configured to perform authentication for the financial service based on biometrics information of the user performing authentication for the financial service. The processor may acquire an image by photographing the user performing authentication through the camera, acquire information on whether the user performing authentication is in a threat situation from the learned model, with information acquired from the image as input of the learned model, and perform authentication for the financial service according to the acquired information. At least a part of the learned model is an artificial intelligent algorithm, which may be performed according to at least one of machine learning, neural network, or deep learning algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungsun Cho, Jinsu Kim, Junbum Shin
  • Patent number: 11567623
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first application. The electronic device detects a first operation. The electronic device displays, in a landscape orientation state, a first interface of the first application in a first area of a display screen of the electronic device in response to the first operation. The electronic device detects a second operation on the first interface, where the second operation enables the electronic device to open a second interface of the first application. The electronic device displays the second interface in a second area in response to the second operation. The display screen includes at least two areas, the at least two areas include the first area and the second area, and different areas of the display screen do not overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiuping Jiang, Jie Fang, Bo Wang
  • Patent number: 11556921
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for automating digital asset transfers based on historical transactions. In one implementation, a notification corresponding to a first transaction or operation associated with a first entity is received. Based on the notification, a second transaction or operation is initiated with respect to one or more digital tokens. One or more digital tokens are received in response to the second transaction. At least one of the one or more digital tokens, as secured via one or more cryptographic keys, is stored in a wallet associated with the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lolli, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Senter, Jarrad Giles, Alex Adelman
  • Patent number: 11538103
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processors configured to receive income-related data, receive an input comprising an image that corresponds to a desired acquisition, access at least one database to identify a cost of the desired acquisition, generate a first purchase plan for the desired acquisition based on the income-related data and the cost, graphically augment the image to generate a graphically-augmented version of the image comprising at least a portion of the image and the purchase plan, and display the graphically-augmented version of the image on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Shawn D. Low, Thirumurugan Thyagarajan, Samuel Steven Wolf
  • Patent number: 11514063
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus of recommending information based on a fused relationship network. The method includes: determining association relationships between an any node and other nodes in the fused relationship network based on at least one of a weight, interaction information and data source information of the interaction information of an edge; and recommending information to a user represented by the any node based on the association relationships. The present disclosure further provides an apparatus of recommending information based on a fused relationship network, and an electronic device and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingyang Dai, Yixuan Shi, Zixiang Liu, Shengwen Yang
  • Patent number: 11510259
    Abstract: A cellular telephone or similar wireless device possesses a directionally oriented wireless telecommunications facility to initiate and operate a second type of wireless connection. Optionally, the devices share mobile identification numbers (MINs), IP addresses, or MAC addresses. Also optionally, the devices create contacts in their contact databases reflecting the identity of the connection. By this means, a subsequent telephony-based or LAN-based connection may be instituted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Encarnacion Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11481824
    Abstract: A method for processing a chargeback request associated with at least one online transaction associated with a user includes: receiving a chargeback message associated with the at least one online transaction; based at least partially on the unfamiliar merchant name in the chargeback message, determining at least one potential familiar merchant name associated with the at least one unfamiliar merchant name; scanning a browser history of the user including browser data; determining whether the user visited a website associated with the at least one potential familiar merchant name; and generating and communicating a recommendation message including the at least one potential familiar merchant name. A system for processing a chargeback request associated with at least one online transaction associated with a user is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Rohit Sukhija, Aditya Ashok Kale
  • Patent number: 11481803
    Abstract: A system and method of performing in-context of automated delivery of benefit-conveying (BC) code of an e-commerce website is provided. The system comprises means for identifying a BC code input field in a BC context of the e-commerce website, means for storing a plurality of BC code collections for supported e-commerce websites, and means for acquiring information about relevance-checked BC codes of the e-commerce web site. The system comprises means for displaying an UI panel in an vicinity of the identified BC code input field, with the UI panel configured to list information about the acquired relevance-checked BC codes in such a manner that an individual BC code from among the acquired BC codes can be selected through selecting a UI entry listing information about the individual BC code. The system comprises means for inputting the selected individual BC code into the identified BC code input field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NextGen Shopping LLC
    Inventor: Marc Mezzacca
  • Patent number: 11475468
    Abstract: An abstraction system for generating a standard customer profile in a data processing system has a processing device and a memory. The abstraction system may receive customer data from a computing device over a network, the customer data including information for a plurality of customers and perform unsupervised learning on the customer data to produce a plurality of clusters of customers with a plurality of features in common, determine that a cluster represents a standard customer and store a plurality of standard customer profiles based on the determined standard customers. The abstraction system may also provide the standard customer profiles to a cognitive system for generating synthetic transaction data based on the standard customer, generate a detection model for detecting activity based on the synthetic transaction data, and distribute the detection model to each of the computing devices over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11461802
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, from a first client device, a recommendation pertaining to an advertisement, storing a sender identification in association with an identification of the advertisement, wherein the sender identification includes an identification of the first client device, an identification of a first user of the first client device, or a combination thereof, determining that a score associated with the recommendation exceeds a threshold at least in terms of a likelihood of relevance of the advertisement to a second user of a second client device, based on the determining, transmitting the advertisement to the second client device based on the identification of the advertisement, and based on the determining, transmitting the sender identification to the second client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Interwise Ltd.
    Inventors: Yehuda Volk, Erez A. Korn, Hans Fischmann, Rinat Zilberstein
  • Patent number: 11424845
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an interface circuitry; a display; a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to: receive a broadcast signal of any one of a plurality of channels through the interface circuitry, control the display to display an image of a content based on the received broadcast signal, identify timing when the content switches from a first content to a second content having a different type than the first content based on a change in a video characteristic defined corresponding to the type of the content, and perform a first operation related to the second content based on the identified timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeol Park, Daewon Yoon, Gohwoon Jeong, Sangshin Park, Changkun Park
  • Patent number: 11409803
    Abstract: A system for ranking a plurality of items comprising an online platform capable of displaying a list showing ranking of the items, a voting link generating module for generating a voting link that is assigned to a specific item to allow a vote to be cast thereon following a specific action performed on the voting link, a ranking engine for determining ranking of the items through updating and/or repositioning the items on the list upon receiving the vote, and one or more servers having a processor for managing processes executed by the system, wherein the voting link is configured to be inserted and displayed on a third-party platform managed by a third-party server to readily interact and receive the specific action for the vote to be cast on the item from users browsing the third-party platform without having the user to visit the online platform of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventor: Wesley Seng Chew Chuah
  • Patent number: 11373156
    Abstract: An e-commerce system and method for facilitating transactions between a customer and a vendor is disclosed. The e-commerce system includes a receiver configured to receive a request for at least one token, the request including the details of at least one transaction for the purchase of at least one product, a processor configured to generate at least one token, a transmitter configured to transmit the at least one token to a customer browser, the customer browser being used to validate the token using at least one iframe, the receiver configured to receive submission in the iframe, the processor configured to decode the token, the processor configured to perform one or more validations, and the processor configured to process the transaction, on a condition that the validations are approved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: James Kassemi, John P. Killoran, Jr., Chad Person
  • Patent number: 11373106
    Abstract: System and method of detecting friction in a website comprising a plurality of webpages and links includes a database sever, an application executed by a processor, and a management dashboard. The application extracts text data and web usage data from the website, segments the website into three funnel stages, identifies an anomaly in the web usage data, quantifies the impacts of the webpages and links, identifies the friction and the underlying root cause, and displays the friction in the management dashboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Fractal Analytics Private Limited
    Inventors: Onil Chavan, Arpan Dasgupta, Karan Gusani, Nishant Sinha
  • Patent number: 11375356
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method which utilizes the benefits of both advertising and bidirectional connections to allow a client/receiving device to receive data, e.g. sensor measurements, from the source/transmitting device during device discovery and connection, thereby minimizing the amount of time during which data, e.g. measurements, are unavailable. The disclosed embodiments may further allow for reduced power consumption by a source device by minimizing data transmission during advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Bitstrata Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Robert Meier, Michael David Lockerbie
  • Patent number: 11361291
    Abstract: The methods and systems described herein attempt to resolve the deficiencies of the conventional systems by using pre-loaded templates and extracting comprehensively populated payment files in an industry standard format for processing. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for generating a payment file comprises receiving, by a computer, a request for a payment to a beneficiary; receiving, by a computer, a selection of the beneficiary for payment; receiving, by a computer, a request to pay the beneficiary using a template; retrieving, by a computer, the template from a database, wherein the template has a plurality of business rules for completing a plurality of data fields; extracting, by a computer, information from a database to complete the data fields of the template; and generating, by a computer, a payment file by completing the data fields of the template according to the plurality of business rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CITIBANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Manish Jain
  • Patent number: 11354380
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a set of candidate values for a field in a page. The set of candidate values can be evaluated for accuracy based at least in part on a machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model outputs a respective score for each candidate value that measures an accuracy of the candidate value for the field in the page. A best scoring candidate value can be determined from the set of candidate values. The field in the page can be associated with the best scoring candidate value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Clayton Allen Andrews, Ankur Gupta, Aliasgar Mumtaz Husain, Rakesh Ravuru, Shubham Bansal
  • Patent number: 11348135
    Abstract: Methods and systems for using reinforcement learning to optimizing promotions. A promotion for a product and/or service is offered to a customer using a reinforcement learning model. The customer's reaction is observed. A reward or a penalty is collected based on the customer's reaction. The reinforcement learning model is adapted based on the reward or penalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Arun Karthik Ravindran, Vincent Francois Faber, Victor Kostyuk
  • Patent number: 11349798
    Abstract: A system and method for multivariate testing of messages to a subgroup in a one-to-many messaging platform. A client text message is generated for transmission to a number of users via one or more messaging services. A subset of users is defined according to one or more attributes of the text message or the users, and the client text message is transmitted only to users in the subgroup. The transmission is analyzed for performance metrics, such as actions or reactions by users in the subgroup, and based on the performance metrics, the message is optimized for transmission to the larger group of users. Optimization happens rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Community.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Peltier, Joshua Rosenheck, Noah Heller, Lars Perkins, Barry Steinglass, Tomas Koci, Alec Rubin
  • Patent number: 11343667
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for discovering a Bluetooth device. One example method includes receiving, by a second Bluetooth device, a first broadcast frame from a first Bluetooth device, determining, by the second Bluetooth device, whether the first broadcast frame includes first indication information, and if the first broadcast frame includes the first indication information, sending, by the second Bluetooth device, at least one second broadcast frame within a preset time period after receiving the first broadcast frame The second broadcast frame includes second indication information, and the second indication information is used to instruct a Bluetooth device receiving the second broadcast frame to exchange information with the second Bluetooth device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiaxin Li, Zhiwei Zhang, Ji Ding, Ya Zhang, Jian Chen, Zhiqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11321743
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for generating rich media ad units. The apparatus may be configured to receive an inventory feed and a feature feed. The inventory feed may include a plurality of product identifiers. The feature feed may include a plurality of features, each of the plurality of features being associated with at least one of the plurality of product identifiers. The apparatus may select, based on consumer metrics, a product identifier from the plurality of product identifiers. The apparatus may generate, based on the consumer metrics, a feature subset including a subset of the plurality of features associated with the product identifier. The apparatus may generate, based on the feature subset, a rich media ad unit. Related methods and apparatuses are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AUGMENTED REALITY CONCEPTS, INC.
    Inventors: Devin Daly, Arthur Dessein, Andrew Lumsden, Steven Saporta
  • Patent number: 11317171
    Abstract: Examples of the present invention provide a method of delivering media, such as a video sequence, to a client device from a server, taking into account the relative importance of different portions of the video sequence. The sequence is divided into temporal segments, with each segment encoded at a plurality of bitrates (and hence qualities). A viewer importance parameter is assigned to each segment, indicating the relative importance of that segment, with the information stored in a manifest file or similar. The client receives this segment and viewer importance data in a manifest file. As soon as the client is aware of a future segment marked as having higher viewer importance than the next segment for download, the client initiates the download of this further segment by making a request (e.g. HTTP request), while making a concurrent request for the delivery of the next segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventor: Michael Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11307742
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing an interface configured to provide a consumer with a number of promotions. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, monitor and detect a consumer's selection of a preferred promotion. Upon determining the selection of a preferred promotion, a interactive feedback overlay may be configured to provide an indication acknowledging the consumer's selection of the preferred promotion. In some embodiments, the system may be configured to receive an indication corresponding to a user's desire to remove a particular promotion from a promotional interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Arash Shiva, Marius Gabriel Ciocirlan, Fabio Sisinni
  • Patent number: 11310541
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for monitoring locally inserted media are disclosed. A disclosed method includes detecting, at a media device at a media presentation location, a cue in media received at the media device; in response to the detection of the cue, receiving separately form the media an advertisement associated with a user of the media device; presenting, by the media device, the media at a first time and the advertisement at a second time indicated by the detected cue; responsive to presenting the advertisement at the second time, recording a log including first identifying information for the media and second identifying information for the advertisement; and transmitting the log to a data collection facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Arun Ramaswamy, Paul C. Kemper
  • Patent number: 11301113
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takahashi, Kenji Ozawa, Maki Yamamoto, Pieter Coenen
  • Patent number: 11294553
    Abstract: Searching for documents includes retrieving objects from a physical media image using a camera from a smartphone, a user selecting a subset of the objects, forming a search query based on the subset of objects, and applying the search query to a search engine to search for the documents. Retrieving objects from a media image may include waiting for a view of the camera to stabilize. Waiting for the view of the camera to stabilize may include detecting changing content of a video flow provided to the camera and/or using motion sensors of the camera to detect movement. Retrieving objects may include the smartphone identifying possible subsets of objects in the media image. The user selecting a subset of the objects may include the smartphone presenting at least some of the possible subsets to the user and the user selecting one of the possible subsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Evernote Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Pashintsev, Eugene Livshitz, Vitaly Glazkov, P. J. Tanzillo
  • Patent number: 11297262
    Abstract: A system and method for generating an infinite number of isolated image sequences using a single camera, wherein an X-, Y-coordinate system is generated for the area and an image sequence within the field of view of a camera within the area is captured. By tracking the movements and positions of at least two assets in the field of view of the camera relative to the X-, Y-grid, at least one individual image sequence for each of the at least two assets using the image sequence captured by the camera, wherein each individual image sequence has one asset from the at least two assets as a focal point of the individual image sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SKYCAM, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Wharton
  • Patent number: 11282101
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to allow sellers of products to establish individual products in a multilevel marketing (MLM) commission system, where the product is offered and sold to a first purchaser—who then actively by requesting a code, or passively, through the purchase of the product, becomes a user of the commission system. This user is provided a code such that the code may be passed onto followers of the registered user. The registered user will be allowed to advertise the product to a second purchaser and the second purchaser will be allowed to purchase the product and provide advertisements to other purchasers. Commissions paid to respective downline purchasers for a single product may be limited by a preset number of defined levels. After a product is purchased, commissions are paid out to each respective purchaser according to the commission plan assigned to the user. Users may be assigned or may be able to select their own commission plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KwikClick, LLC
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Patent number: 11281889
    Abstract: For displaying a subject composition, a method determines a subject number, a subject age category, and a subject size for one or more subjects of an image. The method further calculates a subject distribution that indicates a position for a face of each subject. In addition, the method determines a subject pose for each subject that indicates a body position for the subject. The method further displays the subject composition comprising the subject distribution and the subject poses overlaying a display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventors: Rolf Herd, Josh Quinton
  • Patent number: 11270335
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and a method for automatic electronic order creation are disclosed. The system and method may be configured to: receive a digitized document comprising embedded metadata related to contents of the digitized document; analyze the embedded metadata to extract a boundary parameter; generate a unique reference identifier associated with the digitized document and the boundary parameter; receive a first input data setting one or more target measurements for one or more predefined periods of time, wherein a sum of the one or more target measurements is less than or equal to the boundary parameter; receive a second input data setting configuration data for achieving the one or more target measurements; and generate an electronic order based on the configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: COUPANG CORP.
    Inventors: Jun Young Mun, Ankit Arora, Young Jin Kim, Ji Hoon Kim, Byoung In Lim, Jin Su Lee, Seon Ah Kim, Jae Ho Jeong, Jung Min Song, Suk Min Ahn
  • Patent number: 11263688
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of optimising an electronic shopping list is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at a user equipment, a user list of products; receiving, at a user equipment, a store list of available products, each available product characterised by at least one variable; compiling a revised list from the user list and the store list, comprising associating each product from the user list with one or more available products and arranging an order of the revised list depending upon the at least one variable; and presenting the revised list using the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: UBAMARKET LTD
    Inventor: William Broome
  • Patent number: 11257098
    Abstract: Blockchain-based systems and methods are used to control access to property. One system includes a mobile device, a key fob, and a server. The mobile device generates an encrypted code and transmits it to the key fob. The key fob transmits the encrypted code to the property and the server updates a log of the key fob in a hyper ledger. The property includes a computing device that validates the encrypted code and grants a key fob user access to the property. Another system includes a server that validates an access key and a first station that transmits an access key to a second station via the server and a satellite. The second station transmits data to the first station via the server and the satellite. The server saves a transmission log in a hyper ledger and transmits the access key in response to a request by the first station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Konstantinos Bakalis, Alexandros Bakalis
  • Patent number: 11250418
    Abstract: A system for updating a digital wallet installation is disclosed. Event information is received. The received event information is evaluated against a set of rules. A digital wallet asset logical instance to be updated is identified based at least in part on the evaluation. The identified instance is updated. An installation of a digital wallet asset associated with the identified instance is identified. An update instruction is provided to a device associated with the installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Airship Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Belleville, Joe Beninato, Echeyde Cubillo, Erik A. Onnen