Based On User History Patents (Class 705/14.53)
  • Patent number: 11494824
    Abstract: Systems and methods for user personalization and recommendation schemes that are matched to a user profile and provide a highly personalized, interactive experience for the user on an entertainment platform are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, the highly personalized and interactive experience is facilitated through information from the user profile comprised of user-inputted information, historical data, and outputs from machine learning engines. In another aspect of the invention, the system is capable of outputting the highly-personalized and interactive recommendations onto a viewing screen while media content is continuously streaming on the same viewing screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NBTV CHANNELS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Leon Buzzell, Nicholas Theodore Buzzell
  • Patent number: 11489894
    Abstract: A rating interface system and method are provided that allow human users to continuously rate the impact they or other human users and/or their avatars are having on themselves or others during interpersonal interactions, such as conversations or group discussions. The system and method provide time stamping of users' ratings data and audio and video data of an interaction, and correlate the ratings data with the audio and video data at selected time intervals for subsequent analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MURSION, INC.
    Inventors: Arjun Nagendran, Scott Compton, William C. Follette
  • Patent number: 11481817
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of a multi-platform integration system. A multi-platform integration system includes a computing system. The computing system hosts an application. The computing system configured to receive a first request from a user device to execute an instance of the application and transmit a graphical user interface (GUI) to the user device to be rendered on a display of the user device, receive a second request, via the GUI, from the user device to deploy a digital advertisement. The computing system is further configured to interface with each one of the platforms in the set of platforms and integrate the digital advertisement directly with each one of selected platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Zeta Global Corp.
    Inventors: Jaisimha Muthegere, Ashley Herzog Kirchgessner, Raji Gopalakrishnan, David Pearsall, Bradley McCall
  • Patent number: 11477696
    Abstract: A method of sharing of network resources between at least two access gateways, each of the at least two access gateways providing network connectivity to user equipment, includes assessing whether a first access gateway can to share a portion of available network resources, assessing whether a second access gateway requires additional network resources to provide network connectivity to user equipment, and establishing a wireless connection between the first access gateway and the second access gateway. The first access gateway provides the portion of available network resource as additional network resources for the second access gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Danilo Dolfini
  • Patent number: 11468470
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for attributing online advertising campaigns to in-store purchases. In particular embodiments, the system is configured for: 1) receiving and optimizing advertising campaign information; 2) uploading the optimized advertising campaign information to an advertising platform; 3) capturing customer data based on pixel and cookie interaction, including data regarding the advertising campaign; 4) receiving customer identifying information; 5) matching the customer identifying information to the captured customer data; and 6) matching the customer identifying information to in-store purchases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Force Events and Direct Marketing, LLC
    Inventors: John Fitzpatrick, Randy Sieger, Alex Appolloni
  • Patent number: 11468496
    Abstract: In an approach, a processor receives a notification of entry into a store from smart contact lenses. The approach customer identification data at store entry to a program in the store server and receiving from smart contact lenses, a set of gaze data associated a customer looking at a locked product on a store shelf. The approach sending a request to unlock the product and the gaze data associated with the customer looking at the locked product to the program in the store server and receiving an indication that the locked product is unlocked. The approach includes receiving a customer identification upon the customer's store exit from smart contact lenses. The approach receiving from the program in the store server, a bill for the unlocked product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11443582
    Abstract: A system facilitating payment for fuel dispensing includes a fuel dispenser associated with a current-loop-to-ethernet converter for receiving serial data from a fuel dispenser controller and converting said serial data to an ethernet signal and a network appliance coupled the current-loop-to-ethernet converter by an ethernet port. A virtual payment facilitator is connected to the network appliance over a VPN and to a payment authorization entity, also over a VPN. A process performed by the system includes receiving a fueling request at the virtual payment facilitator from the payment authorization entity and converting that request into a command issued to the fuel dispenser to dispense fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Avalan Wireless Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Derby
  • Patent number: 11443350
    Abstract: A method of generating digital data content customized for a user of one or more digital data platforms includes determining, through artificial intelligence, interests of a first user of the one or more digital data platforms, as well as those of a plurality of other users. The method further includes generating a product recommendation for the first user by mapping and filtering, e.g., using ontological filtering, natural language processing and/or semantics, the interests determined for the plurality of other users to the interests determined for the first user, and transferring the product recommendation, along with inventory availability, to a client digital data device for presentation to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: George Pizza, Michael J. Torra
  • Patent number: 11436556
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques for assigning deliveries to drivers and for routing those deliveries that that ensure delivery and encourage drivers to submit offers. For example, in an embodiment, a method for delivery routing may comprise receiving information relating to delivery drivers' offers to deliver a plurality of items to be delivered, generating hierarchical clusters of pickup locations of the plurality of items to be delivered, for each generated hierarchical cluster, generating a delivery route of a vehicle to deliver the items to be delivered for that cluster, generating new delivery routes from the generated delivery routes by breaking the generated delivery routes based on the delivery drivers' offers to deliver a plurality of items, and matching delivery drivers with deliveries of items to be delivered based on a plurality of criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Roadie, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Ryan, Daniel Zink
  • Patent number: 11418614
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for processing subscription related data, wherein a subscription document of an existing subscription is received by a server via a user device. The subscription document is processed to extract pre-determined parameters; and primary parameters are obtained from service provider servers and secondary parameters are obtained from third party servers. The pre-determined parameters are correlated with the primary parameters and the secondary parameters and a customized output is generated. The customized output may be a comparative analysis of particulars of the existing subscription and new subscriptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: LARSEN AND TOUBRO INFOTECH LIMITED
    Inventors: Brijesh Prabhakar, Devanathan Desikan, Sagar Wamanrao Pise
  • Patent number: 11418854
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A manifest associated with a first video may be generated. The manifest may include a first web address associated with accessing the first video, one or more first milestone markers of the first video, and/or one or more first beacon web addresses associated with the one or more first milestone markers. The manifest may be transmitted to a first client device. An indication addressed to a first beacon web address of the one or more first beacon web addresses may be received from the first client device. It may be determined, based upon the indication addressed to the first beacon web address, that the first client device displayed a first portion of the first video corresponding to a first milestone marker, of the one or more first milestone markers, associated with the first beacon web address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Trevor Deren Hunsaker, Ofer Shem Tov
  • Patent number: 11397966
    Abstract: A control system determines whether a browser is retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network using a tracking indicator. Based on determining that browser is retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network, the control system modifies responses to opportunities to provide supplemental content to the browser. The control system may modify responses by declining to bid, responding with a lower bid amount, or responding with alternate supplemental content. Based on determining that browser is no longer retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network, the control system modifies responses to opportunities to provide supplemental content to the browser by responding with a higher bid amount or responding with the original supplemental content. Thus, the control system maximizes the use of control system and campaign manager resources by responding to opportunities according to the likelihood that they will result in an impression or a conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Quantcast Corporation
    Inventor: Gurel Erceis
  • Patent number: 11392814
    Abstract: Logic may detect a malfunctioning payment interface on a customer's payment instrument. Logic may receive transaction data about at least one transaction performed via a payment instrument associated with a customer. The transaction data may indicate a payment interface of the payment instrument through which the customer conducted the at least one transaction and the payment instrument may comprise one or more payment interfaces. Logic may determine, by a model, based on the transaction data, a probability of a malfunction by at least one interface of the one or more payment interfaces. The model may be trained based on a pattern of transactions associated with malfunctioning payment instruments. Logic may compare the probability of the transaction against a threshold. And logic may determine whether to contact a customer associated with the payment instrument, based comparison of the probability of the transaction against the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Mallory Murphy, Mark Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11388179
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for centralized threat intelligence are described herein. A connection may be established to a plurality of threat data sources. An anonymized set of threat data may be obtained by application of a set of privacy rules to the threat data from the plurality of threat data. A threat database may be populated with the anonymized set of threat data. A registration request may be received for a user of a device. A unique user identifier may be assigned for the user and a unique device identifier may be assigned for the device. A threat model may be generated based on a set of the characteristics from the threat database. A set of data access attributes may be received for a data access request. The data access request may be blocked based on an evaluation of the data access attributes using the threat model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Chad E. Adams, Daniel Robert Caricato, Kahlidah B. Covington, Ashley Brook Godfrey, Christopher Wayne Howser, Nicola A. Maiorana, Nirali J. Patel, Richard Joseph Schroeder, Roger Daryll White
  • Patent number: 11386129
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for searching for entities based on trust score and geography. The trust score may be calculated between entities including, but not limited to, human users, groups of users, organizations, or businesses/corporations and may take into account a variety of factors, including verification data, network connectivity, publicly available information, ratings data, group/demographic information, location data, and transactions to be performed, among others. A user may search for entities within a certain geographic location that meet a desired trust score. The results of the search may be generated for display on a user device, for example, by generating a map that shows the current location of the user device and the identified entities. The search may be filtered by entering an anticipated activity or transaction to be performed or desired by the user, and thereby returning entities that are associated with the activity or transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: www.TrustScience.com Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Chrapko, Christopher Trudel, Leo M. Chan, Zhaochen Guo, Ashif Mawji
  • Patent number: 11386050
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods allow a distributed database to be maintained to store records of activities that may promote purchasing a product and determine whether such promotions should be rewarded. Using anonymous identifiers and a permission-based system, identities of users, products, content, content distribution systems, and marketplaces can be made available only to parties with rights to know such identities. Furthermore, systems can be put in place so that activities with a certain product, content item, etc. can be monitored without ever disclosing the identity of the product, content item, etc. In some embodiments, the database can be an immutable, append-only, distributed database such as a blockchain ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: A9.COM, INC.
    Inventor: Satayan Mahajan
  • Patent number: 11381872
    Abstract: Examples of the systems and methods described herein relate to reducing latency issues associated with playing online digital video on client devices. An example method includes: determining that a client device of a user is displaying a web page; determining a likelihood that the user will select content on the web page associated with a digital video; and determining that the likelihood exceeds a threshold and, based thereon, performing at least one of the following steps before the user selects the content: initiating a mediation process to identify the digital video associated with the content; unwrapping a video tag associated with the digital video; storing at least a portion of the digital video on the client device; stitching the digital video together with a second digital video; and/or initializing a video player for displaying the digital video on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Xandr Inc.
    Inventors: Arel I. Lidow, Eric M. Hoffert, Alexander Krassel, Vikki Pitts, Jeffrey Weiss, Andrew Sweeney, Matt Kendall, Heran Yang, Jose Antonio Cabal-Ugaz
  • Patent number: 11369880
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems presented herein may perform automatic granular difficulty adjustment. In some embodiments, the difficulty adjustment is undetectable by a user. Further, embodiments of systems disclosed herein can review historical user activity data with respect to one or more video games to generate a game retention prediction model that predicts an indication of an expected duration of game play. The game retention prediction model may be applied to a user's activity data to determine an indication of the user's expected duration of game play. Based on the determined expected duration of game play, the difficulty level of the video game may be automatically adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventors: Navid Aghdaie, John Kolen, Mohamed Marwan Mattar, Mohsen Sardari, Su Xue, Kazi Atif-Uz Zaman, Kenneth Alan Moss
  • Patent number: 11361363
    Abstract: A recommendation appliance, system and method are provided for generating and deploying additional web page content or functionality (e.g., retail recommendations) to an existing web page server system. For example, the present invention may be embodied as a reverse proxy server that is inserted as an intermediate network node between a web server and the end users accessing the web server. In this position, the recommendation appliance can introduce recommendation messages to web pages generated by the web server without requiring any modification to the code or architecture of the web server. In addition, the appliance may separately track the transaction activities of end users who receive recommendation messages and the transaction activities of end users who do not receive recommendation messages, so that a comparison of the effectiveness of the recommendations may efficiently be demonstrated without requiring any modification to the code or architecture of the web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Versata Development Group, Inc.
    Inventors: James Singh, Neil C. Thier, Chris Hyams, Thomas W. Wilbur
  • Patent number: 11354584
    Abstract: Methods and systems for trend aware self-correcting entity relationship extraction are disclosed. For example, a method can include receiving a selected entity, determining a plurality of entities related to the selected entity, determining a plurality of most probable entities, calculating relevance scores, and displaying a subset of the plurality of most probable entities. The selected entity can be received on a network-based transaction system. The plurality of entities related to the selected entity can be determined based on a relationship score. The relationship score can represent navigation transitions, aggregated over time, between the selected entity and each of the plurality of entities. The plurality of most probable entities can be determined based on probabilities. Relevance scores can be calculated for each of the plurality of most probable entities. Finally, the subset of the plurality of most probable entities to be displayed can be determined according to the relevance scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Ayon Sinha
  • Patent number: 11349731
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for collecting data for evaluating the quality of experience of a service provided to a user over a communications network. The method comprises: providing an agent on a user device; by the agent, collecting rough measurement data indicative of parameters related to an operation of the device during an instance of service fruition, providing derived measurement data from the rough data and sending them to a server; at the server, determining an ending of the instance and checking, based on the derived data, forwarding conditions indicating at least one condition to be satisfied in order for the server to send a questionnaire to the user device, comprising questions related to the instance of service fruition; after the ending of the instance, in case the conditions are satisfied, sending the questionnaire from the server to the device; and collecting by the agent a user feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Silvia Bonaventura, Indro Moreno Francalanci, Alessandro Verdolini
  • Patent number: 11350240
    Abstract: A user's experience is enhanced with respect to location-based services (LBS) applications that can be employed by a user via a mobile device using techniques described herein. In an aspect, a device is provided that includes a memory to store instructions and a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform various operations. The operations can include determining a context of the device comprising determining a current location of the device, identifying an application of the device that enables a function related to the current location of the device, determining that the application is relevant to a user identity associated with the device based on the context of the device, adapting a set of graphical images for display by the device to comprise a graphical image associated with the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventor: Arthur Richard Brisebois
  • Patent number: 11350330
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for allowing seamless switchover from one radio access provider to another while traveling. A carrier component, such as a widget, can be embedded in the website operated by a travel agency, and when a traveler makes a travel reservation, the carrier component can send travel information to servers operated by the radio access provider. The radio access provider may retrieve a customer profile associated with the traveler and configure the wireless communication device or the account services associated with the traveler to maintain uninterrupted voice and/or data coverage for the wireless device while traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Advait Sathe, Gregory L. Golden, Megan Filer
  • Patent number: 11343465
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device receives, from one or more cameras, a video stream comprising multiple frames, where the video stream is received at a first quality. The computing device analyzes, using a machine-learning model, images in the frames, where the machine-learning model has been trained to detect one or more objects-of-interest in the images. The computing device identifies a sequence-of-interest including consecutive frames of the video stream, where at least one object-of-interest was detected in at least one of the consecutive frames. The computing device generates a video package including the sequence-of-interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Zatloukal
  • Patent number: 11334935
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include a computer-implemented method for generating product recommendations used a hypergraph. The computer-implemented method includes generating a product embedding vector for a product unpurchased by a consumer based on a hypergraph. Generating a consumer embedding vector for the consumer based on the hypergraph. An affinity between the consumer and a product unpurchased by the consumer is scored based on the product embedding vector and the consumer embedding vector. A digital description of the unpurchased product is retrieved based on the scoring. The digital description is presented to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chao Chen, Dong Sheng Li, Stephen My Chu, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11334909
    Abstract: [Problem to be solved] An object of the present invention is to provide a method for improving an advertising effect, particularly in a television commercial. [Solution] According to an embodiment of the present invention, the disclosed method is a method for providing an advertisement for a television program, which determines an advertisement-related product related to a product to be advertised, refers supply prediction information of the advertisement-related product, and determines the time for placing the TV program advertisement based on the supply prediction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: DENTSU INC.
    Inventor: Wataru Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11336960
    Abstract: A digital television including an interface to receive control signals from a remote controller; a screen; and a controller to execute an application related to a first icon within a menu when the controller receives a signal selecting the first icon within the menu from the remote controller, display a content of the executed application related to the first icon on the screen, enter into an edit mode of a second icon within the menu and display a first indicator for deleting the second icon as well as a second indicator for moving the second icon with displaying the content of the executed application related to the first icon in response to selecting an Up-key included in the remote controller, display a message verifying whether or not to delete the second icon from the menu in response to selecting an OK-key included in the remote controller after selecting the first indicator, delete the second icon from the menu and align other icons in a respective order in response to receiving a signal requesting fo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Daegu Kim, Alan Thomas Shen, David Kempe, Itai Vonshak, Molly Davis, Liron Damir, Danielle Zimmerman, Herbert Han-pu Wang, Brian Behnke
  • Patent number: 11317168
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the location of advertisements in multimedia assets are disclosed. A method includes obtaining an audio signature corresponding to a time period of a multimedia asset, identifying a match between the obtained audio signature and one or more stored audio signatures, comparing programming data of the multimedia assets of the obtained audio signature and the matching audio signatures, and determining whether the time period of the multimedia asset contains an advertisement based on the comparison of the programming data of the multimedia assets of the obtained audio signature and the one or more matching audio signatures. Another method includes identifying matches between a plurality of obtained audio signatures and a plurality of stored audio signatures, and determining whether consecutive time periods of the multimedia asset contain an advertisement based on a number of consecutive matching audio signatures of the plurality of stored audio signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Benedito J. Fonseca, Jr., Faisal Ishtiaq, Anthony J. Braskich, Venugopal Vasudevan, Isselmou Ould Dellahy
  • Patent number: 11308276
    Abstract: Messages are processed to generate effectiveness predictions and/or other insights associated with the messages. Candidate messages are processed through a natural language processing (NLP) component to parse the candidate message into message elements for further processing. The message elements are converted to a vector or set of vectors, which are provided as input to a machine learning model to make predictions of message effectiveness. A contribution score can be made for each message element of the candidate message, which may be indicative of the importance or relevance for the individual message element to the overall predicted message effectiveness. Other message elements not originally within the message can be provided as candidates to replace message elements already located within the message. In this way, a message that is likely to be effective, such being likely to have a high conversion rate, can be published or otherwise distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Pin Zhang, Chhaya Niyati Himanshu, Hiroyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11308993
    Abstract: Provided are a short video synthesis method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a video frame set corresponding to a to-be-processed video, where each video frame in the video frame set carries a timestamp; respectively inputting all video frames in the video frame set into an interest frame identification model to obtain a plurality of to-be-synthesized video frames, where the interest frame identification model is used for identifying a video frame meeting an interest degree condition in the input video frames; and splicing, according to the timestamp carried by the each to-be-synthesized video frame, the plurality of to-be-synthesized video frames to form a short video corresponding to the to-be-processed video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU HUYA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zihao Xu, Xiaodong Wu
  • Patent number: 11290978
    Abstract: A device receives, from a transaction device, transaction data associated with a transaction performed by a user, and receives first location data indicating a location of a mobile user device. The device receives, from a stationary user device, browser data associated with online activity of the user, and determines, based on the browser data, second location data indicating a location of the stationary user device. The device determines, based on the transaction data, third location data indicating a location of the transaction device, and assigns weights and time stamps to the first, second, and third location data. The device aggregates the first, second, and third location data, based on the weights and the time stamps, to generate aggregated location data. The device processes the aggregated location data, with a model, to predict a particular location of the user, and performs actions based on the particular location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Abdelkadar M'Hamed Benkreira, Adam Vukich
  • Patent number: 11282110
    Abstract: A system for processing a digital promotion may include a cloud server. The cloud server may be configured to operate a messenger bot associated with a digital advertisement for a given product on a mobile wireless communications device associated with a given user, collect information from the messenger bot, and determine whether a potential redemption location is within a given area associated with the mobile wireless communications device. When the potential redemption location is within the given area, the cloud server may communicate a first digital promotion for the given product through the messenger bot to the mobile wireless communications device based upon the collected information. When the potential redemption location is outside the given area, the cloud server may communicate a second digital promotion through the messenger bot to the mobile wireless communications device based upon the collected information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
    Inventors: Jess D. Walker, Jeffery Hayes, Ryan Halper
  • Patent number: 11282093
    Abstract: Existing approaches for item matching that are used for retail strategies are based on similarity matching, however, do not consider user mindset, magnitude present across quantitative AVs and segment specific customer interest on certain qualitative AVs. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for Machine Learning (ML) based item matching by considering user mindset, magnitude present across quantitative AVs and segment specific customer interest on certain qualitative AV. The item matching approach disclosed, performs data analytics at the AV level to identify possible close matching items from the list of available partially matching as well as non-matching items. The method disclosed primarily performs Attribute (AT) enrichment by quantizing all the qualitative AVs to be analyzed. Weights are assigned to all the quantized AVs based on a Demand Transfer (DT) value provided by a Customer Decision Tree (CDT), wherein the CDT captures the user mindset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventor: Jeisobers Thirunavukkarasu
  • Patent number: 11276076
    Abstract: A method and a system for generating a digital content recommendation. The method comprises receiving a request for the digital content recommendation. Based on the request, a first content item and a second content item responsive to the request are selected, and a relevancy parameter and a completion parameter for each of the first content item and the second content item are determined. Based on the relevancy parameter and the completion parameter, the first content item and the second content item are ranked, and a digital content recommendation is generated based on the ranking of the first content item and the second content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Yevgeny Andreevich Sokolov, Viktor Grigorievich Lamburt, Boris Dmitrievich Sharchilev, Nikita Leonidovich Senderovich
  • Patent number: 11270508
    Abstract: A system generating virtual reality spatial representation of functional spaces and a method for using the same is disclosed. The system comprises of a remote server executing a plurality of instructions to generate a three dimensional spatial representation of functional spaces upon receiving an input such as a floor plan from the user of the system. The spatial representation thus created is rendered in virtual or mixed reality and allows the user to interact with the representation. In addition, the system of the present disclosure allows the user to collaborate with one or more other users to add a plurality of virtual objects into the spatial representation and use the annotated representation for designing functional spaces. Other methods are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SUPERBOLT TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
    Inventor: B. S Arvind Prakash Singh
  • Patent number: 11256453
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to retargeting online advertisement campaign recommendations for advertisements with multiple items or services. Bids may be based on a combined advertisement creative comprising two or more items or services. Dynamically selecting multiple items at bid time using a retargeting model to determine a potential revenue generation amount associated with an event may increase the probability of a conversion event based on the creative that includes the selected items. In some embodiments, a machine-learned retargeting model may be used to select multiple items to be displayed in an advertisement. The retargeting model may be applied to items that were previously viewed by the consumer and may determine a value for each of the items using factors. A bid may be calculated for each of the selected items using the values determined by the retargeting model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Bradley, Andrew Craig Brind, Anthony Richard McBryan, Sebastiano Merlino, Sean Daniel Murphy, Alistair Francis Smith, David Neil Turner
  • Patent number: 11257019
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to managing computing resources. In one example, a search query is received from a user. A plurality of performance scores associated with a plurality of providers is obtained from a provider score database. One of the plurality of providers is selected based on the plurality of performance scores. The search query is transmitted to be performed by the selected one of the plurality of providers. One or more search results are received in response to the search query from the selected one of the plurality of providers. The one or more search results are presented to the user to be displayed on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Jin Xu, Priscilla Amirtharaj
  • Patent number: 11252784
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cholseo Park, Raegyoung Noh, Kyungtak Hur
  • Patent number: 11249704
    Abstract: The present invention is a display control device including a storage unit that stores content and a playlist, and a controller that displays the content on a display device based on the playlist. When additional content is stored in a prescribed storage area, the additional content is acquired, and the additional content is displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masafumi Okigami
  • Patent number: 11250066
    Abstract: Proposed are a method and an apparatus for processing information, an electronic device and a storage medium. The specific implementation is: receiving a request for browsing information from a terminal, the request comprising a terminal identifier; determining a terminal type based on the terminal identifier; obtaining a vertical category corresponding to the terminal type; obtaining key field information and an attribute tag value of browsing record content corresponding to the vertical category from a preset database based on the terminal identifier; in response to obtaining resource content corresponding to the vertical category, filtering the resource content based on the key field information and the attribute tag value to obtain target resource content; and sending the target resource content to the terminal for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shiqian Miao
  • Patent number: 11244359
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining location-based bid modifier suggestions include determining a content placement cost based in part on a likelihood of a user that has entered a physical establishment completing a transaction, an average transaction amount for the establishment, and an expected return on investment (ROI). A location-based bid modifier may be determined using the computed cost and a base bid amount. In some implementations, the location-based bid modifier may also be based on a probability model that models the probability of the user visiting the establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Zhou Yu, Dheeraj Ashok Motwani
  • Patent number: 11238835
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, presenting a first virtual object in accordance with a first context associated with a first user engaged in a communication session via a first application, presenting a second virtual object in accordance with a second context associated with a second user engaged in the communication session via a second application, identifying a conflict between the presenting of the first virtual object and the presenting of the second virtual object, a presenting of a physical object, or a combination thereof, and responsive to the identifying of the conflict, modifying the first virtual object, the second virtual object, or a combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tan Xu, Bo Han, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11238126
    Abstract: Dynamic link preview generation techniques are described that overcome the challenges of conventional techniques by supporting link preview generation by a content provider system that proves the digital content via a respective network address. In one example, a content provider system, based on a request received from a service provider system, identifies a communication platform of the service provider system that is to be used to communicate the shared link. Upon identifying the communication platform, the content provider system locates customization data that describes how the link preview is to be generated for the communication platform. In response, the content provider system renders digital content available via the network address to generate the link preview.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Rolan Corley, Winfred James Jebasingh, Damodaran Chingleput Sathyakumar, Shobith Srinivas Alva, Jack Charles Maize
  • Patent number: 11232662
    Abstract: A system and method for locating fitness centers within a user's geographic area and gaining access and redeeming time-based memberships to fitness centers through an integrated mobile computer application via a mobile electronic device (e.g., smartphone, electronic tablet). The integrated mobile computer application allows an individual user to purchase a time-based membership (e.g., one day, two day, three day, one week, one month, etc.) from participating fitness centers using the integrated mobile computer application, redeem and activate the time-based membership upon check-in at a selected fitness center, and then continue to subsequently check-in at the selected fitness center throughout the term of the purchased time-based membership. In a preferred embodiment, initial check-in, activation and subsequent check-in at the selected fitness center is achieved through an electronic validation process using the user's mobile electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: GOGYM APP, INC.
    Inventors: Elliot Slavic, Schaeffer Slavic
  • Patent number: 11227324
    Abstract: A method of accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by a user on different website domains includes providing a first embedded code on a first website domain and a second embedded code on a second website domain in which the first website domain is different from said second website domain. Each of the embedded codes allows a specified third party server to communicate interactively with the user. The method further includes automatically accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by the user in a database on the specified third party server, wherein the personalized list includes at least a first product and a second product, wherein the first product is on the first website domain and the second product is on the second website domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Dealer Dot Com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jai Paul Macker, Chris Scott, Robert Anthony George, Joseph James Pistell
  • Patent number: 11227306
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the optimized allocation of content on a content distribution system according to a content distribution plan are described. In some embodiments, a management system may be configured to generate an optimized schedule for content distribution, such as an advertising campaign. For a television distribution schedule, an impressions forecast may be generated based on the available inventory and historical audience measurement information, such as television ratings for a television advertising campaign. An optimized schedule may be generated based on the impressions forecast and content may be distributed according to the optimized schedule. Measurement information relating to the distribution according to the optimized schedule may be analyzed and used to generate a re-optimized schedule, for example, that may be used to schedule the advertising campaign on a subsequent day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: FreeWheel Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Haberman, Robert Bress, Claudio Marcus, James Southern
  • Patent number: 11227343
    Abstract: One variation of a method for selectively advertising items in an image includes: loading an image to a social feed; receiving a first tag and a second tag including identification of a first item and a second item visible in the image, respectively; based on the first tag and the second tag, correlating the first item with a first product and the second item with the second product; based on the first product and the second product, sourcing a first link to a first electronic storefront and a second link to a second electronic storefront that facilitate purchase of the first product and the second product, respectively; and selectively displaying a first visual cue of the first link and a second visual cue of the second link to a first user and to a second user, respectively, according to demographics of the first user and the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Systrom, Amy Cole
  • Patent number: 11210722
    Abstract: A server includes a memory configured to store a vehicle feature usage pattern and data associated with a trip; and processor, programmed to responsive to receiving a vehicle selection request for a user, predict a driving condition of the vehicle used by the user during the trip; calculate a usage score for each of a plurality of predefined vehicle safety features based on the vehicle feature usage pattern of the user and the driving condition as predicted; and select, from a plurality of vehicles, one or more vehicles as candidate vehicles based on the usage score as calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Aed Dudar
  • Patent number: 11206238
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether to send a message to a user take into account a pressure score for the user that is indicative of how receptive the user is to receiving messages. The user's pressure score can vary depending on user behavior. Multiple pressure scores relating to different respective topics or subjects may be maintained for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Braze, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Hyman, William Magnuson, Kevin Wang
  • Patent number: 11206263
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine content to present based on interaction information of a given user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store, in electronic storage, psychological profiles; obtain, in an ongoing manner, interaction information of users from the online platforms; determine psychological profiles of the users based on the interaction information for the individual users; update, in an ongoing manner, the determined psychological profiles as the interaction information is ongoingly obtained such that the first psychological profile is ongoingly updated as the first interaction information is ongoingly obtained; and provide, based on the psychological profiles, the individual users with content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: 12traits, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Jack Schaeppi, Lynn Danielle Francoise Bergmann, Lloyd William West, Jonna Maarit Koivisto