Restaurant Or Bar Patents (Class 705/15)
  • Patent number: 12145833
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for beverage dispensing. In one aspect, a client device requests activation of a beverage system at the given location. An authorization request is transmitted to a control terminal of a given location that includes a client identifier and requests confirmation that a user of the client device meets minimum age requirements for dispensing beverages provided by the beverage system. The confirmation is received that the user of the client device is approved to use the beverage system, and the beverage system is activated for use by the user of the client device, and a command is transmitted that is required to open a valve of the beverage system located between a beverage source and a beverage dispenser that controls beverage flow when the valve is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Table Tap, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Isaac Libby
  • Patent number: 12147991
    Abstract: Systems and methods for customizing business applications based upon user intent scores is described. A machine learning model trained to specifically predict when a user is likely to engage in a specific activity while interacting with the business application may be trained using data regarding prior interactions between a business application and a plurality of users. The machine learning model may thereafter provide a probability score for a particular user, the probability score indicating the likelihood that the user will engage in the specific activity for which the model has been trained to predict. The probability may be combined with a business value factor to produce a user intent score indicating the relative value of the user engaging in the specific activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Koon Heng Ivan Teo, Volodymyr Orlov, Yazdan Shirvany, Fernando San Martin Jorquera, Francisco Perez Leon, Yoonseong Kim, Mohammad Shami
  • Patent number: 12147935
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to systems, methods, and apparatuses for operating applications that allow users to indicate their willingness to provide items and/or services to other users and/or a third party. When an item is indicated as available for requesting, and an item is thereafter requested by a requesting user, a server device can cause instances of an item transferring application to provide a corresponding indication to item transferring users within a certain context. Values can be submitted by item transferring users, based on their current context, in furtherance of providing services that facilitate transfer of an item from an item creating user to an item requesting user. Other values can be submitted by the item transferring users in furtherance of characterizing a task of transferring items from a third party entity, who may not be accessing an associated application, to an item requesting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventors: Syed Kamran Hasni, Mary Perkins
  • Patent number: 12131395
    Abstract: In some examples, a system receives, from a courier device, an indicated geographic location of the courier device determined at least in part from a satellite positioning system receiver associated with the courier device. The system may determine an amount of an item possessed by the courier and may further determine a plurality of past delivery locations within a threshold courier travel time of the indicated geographic location of the courier device. In addition, the system may determine a plurality of buyer devices associated with the plurality of past delivery locations, and may send, to the plurality of buyer devices, respective electronic communications indicting that the item is available for delivery from the courier located within the threshold courier travel time of a respective buyer location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: DOORDASH, INC.
    Inventor: Avlok Kohli
  • Patent number: 12112302
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technology for sending near real time transaction notifications to user devices of users of a payment service. Data associated with one or more financial accounts of a user and one or more user devices of the user is stored in a database associated with the payment service. The payment service receives transaction information and determines it is associated with a transaction involving a financial account of the user. The payment service generates a notification associated with the transaction, including at least a payment amount. The payment service causes presentation of the notification, in near real time, via at least one user device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Aaron, Zachary Brock
  • Patent number: 12093991
    Abstract: Systems and methods for ordering items from an electronic menu and servicing thereof, in a networked computing environment that communicably connects via at least one network at least a plurality of first handheld electronic devices (e.g., wait staff operated devices in a restaurant), a plurality of second handheld electronic devices (e.g., patron operated devices in a restaurant) configured to display the electronic menu, and a venue computer are described. Corresponding apparatuses are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOUCHTUNES MUSIC COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Yu Fang, Robert R. Dykes, Heidi Gibson
  • Patent number: 12090399
    Abstract: A plan processing program for planning a task executed by a character based on a hierarchical task network causes a server to implement a plan generation function of generating a plan configured with a plurality of tasks from a domain based on goal information, in which in the plan generation function, a function of generating the plan in which a subsequent task to be employed is configured to change in accordance with a state or a condition is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youichiro Miyake, Kousuke Namiki, Tomohiro Mori
  • Patent number: 12071306
    Abstract: An automated order fulfillment system is disclosed having different temperature zones and robots and containers capable of and/or configured to work in these different temperature zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: William J. Fosnight, Christopher Hofmeister, John G. Lert, Jr., Stephanie Waite, Julian Warhurst
  • Patent number: 12061003
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided and include a variable frequency drive configured to drive a fan motor of an HVAC system to ventilate an indoor space, the HVAC system having a cooling assembly that includes at least one of an economizer and a compressor. A controller is configured to communicate with the variable frequency drive, receive at least one signal from an occupancy sensing device, determine whether the indoor space is less than fully occupied based on the at least one signal, and control the variable frequency drive to reduce a speed of the fan motor in response to determining that the indoor space is less than fully occupied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Inventors: Danny Miller, Justin Sipe
  • Patent number: 12049193
    Abstract: A system provides a personalized and secure user experience to access a secured asset, such as a vehicle. A first communication is transmitted, and a second communication is received in response to the first communication. An approach vector is determined based on the first communication and the second communication. The approach vector is compared with a known approach vector, a request for authentication is transmitted based on the comparison. A response to the request for authentication is received, and access to an asset is granted based on the approach vector and the response to the request for authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventors: James H. Foster, Duncan Kerr
  • Patent number: 12030505
    Abstract: A wellbeing system configured for assessing a mental wellbeing of a driver while driving the vehicle and deploying a countermeasure in response to a mindfulness level of the driver being beyond a desired range. The countermeasure may be configured to mitigate a probability of a mental wellbeing of the driver undesirably impacting operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Noah Stone, Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres, Russell A Patenaude, Eric T. Hosey, Kurt Chamberlin, Vanessa A. Stieneker
  • Patent number: 12002027
    Abstract: A merchant uses a merchant point of sale (POS) device to identify items or services for purchase by a customer, and costs for each. One or more payment amounts are sent from the merchant POS device to a checkout server using an application programming interface (API), which the checkout server sends on to an authorized payment terminal device that then reads payment information from a payment object and sends the payment information back to the checkout server. The checkout server processes the transaction and confirms transaction completion to the merchant POS device and payment terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Gonzales, Christian De Angelis, Marc Perry, Eric Zundel Ayers, Vibhor Chhabra, Adam Edwards, Christopher Heisel, Morgan Engel, Stephen Brewer, Ryder Moody
  • Patent number: 11989789
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for use in locating one or more merchant terminals. One example method generally includes accessing, by a computing device, interaction data for at least one interaction between a merchant and a user at a merchant terminal, where the interaction data includes a temporal indicator. In addition, the method includes receiving, by the computing device, location data associated with the at least one interaction and matching the interaction to the location data, based on the temporal indicator in the interaction data. The method then includes, in response to matching the interaction data to the location data, identifying, by the computing device, a location indicated by the location data as an actual location of the merchant terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jason Jay Lacoss-Arnold, Vincent A. Haulotte
  • Patent number: 11974217
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems/methods are disclosed wherein a transmitter is configured to wirelessly communicate with a destination device by transmitting to the destination device a first plurality of subcarriers using a first set of frequencies and, responsive to a size of data that is to be transmitted to the destination device, transmitting to the destination device a second plurality of subcarriers using a second set of frequencies. According to some embodiments, the first set of frequencies and/or the second set frequencies comprise frequencies that are used for cellular communications and at least some frequencies of the second set of frequencies are mutually exclusive with the first set of frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Peter D. Karabinis
  • Patent number: 11928972
    Abstract: A method may include detecting, during a flight of an aircraft system, a conflict with a planned route of the aircraft system, determining one or more alternate routes for the aircraft system to avoid the conflict, wherein each of the one or more alternate routes avoid secondary conflicts with active flight operations, transmitting first data to cause first visual information indicating the conflict and second visual information indicating the one or more alternate routes to be displayed to a user, receiving second data indicating one of the one or more alternate routes being selected by the user, and updating the planned route of the aircraft system to include the alternate route selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Szabolcs A. Borgyos
  • Patent number: 11917489
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for mufti-point destination arrival time analysis. In one aspect, the system may include a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to. The processor performs operations including receiving a request for an order, receiving an acceptance of an order associated with the first external system, determining, upon receiving the acceptance, a first arrival estimate, determining, upon assigning a delivery worker to fulfill the order, a second arrival estimate, and determining, upon receiving confirmation that the delivery worker has retrieved the order from the merchant, a third arrival estimate. Additionally, the operations may include and forwarding, upon their determination, the first, second, and third arrival estimates to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: COUPANG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tae Kyung Kim, Chee Hyung Yoon
  • Patent number: 11915190
    Abstract: A system includes a processor coupled with a data store and configured to transmit an availability message to a user device and receive a pickup message from the user device. The processor is also configured to calculate an arrival time based on the initiation time, the initiation location, and a distribution center location for the distribution center and update the arrival time at continuous intervals based on real-time information. The processor is also configured to transmit a preparation message to a distribution center device, receive an arrival message from a distribution center image sensor, and transmit a delivery message to the distribution center device. The processor is also configured to transmit an order receipt message to the distribution center image sensor and receive a departure message from the distribution center image sensor including an image identifying the vehicle associated with the item order based on the corresponding vehicle identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Arun Prasad Nagarathinam, Sahana Vijaykumar, Madhavan Kandhadai Vasantham
  • Patent number: 11900702
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, methods, systems, computer-readable storage medium. A method can include receiving, by a processing device, image data including one or more image frames indicative of a current state of a drive-thru area. The processing device determines a vehicle disposed within the drive-thru area based on the image data. The processing device receives order data with a pending meal order. The processing device determines a first association between the vehicle and the pending meal order based on the image data. The processing devices determine a meal delivery procedure associated with the based on the association between the vehicle and the pending meal order. The processing device performs may perform the meal delivery procedure. The processing device may provide the meal delivery procedure for display on a graphical user interface (GUI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Agot Co.
    Inventors: Evan DeSantola, Alex Litzenberger, Rassoul Mesbah, Prashasti Sar
  • Patent number: 11900288
    Abstract: A method of dynamically controlling an inventory comprises receiving, by a server, use quantity information for a first item of a plurality of items, updating an inventory store based on the use quantity information, comparing, by the server, the quantity information with a threshold amount for the first item of the plurality of items, generating, by the server, an order message for the first item based on the comparing, and receiving an additional quantity of the first item in response to the generating of the order message. The use quantity information comprises an amount of the first item used at an establishment, and the inventory store comprises quantity information for the plurality of items available at an establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Gavon Augustus Renfroe
  • Patent number: 11894142
    Abstract: Methods and devices include database management and graphical user interfaces for measurements collected by analyzing blood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Welldoc, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin McRaith, Hari Kesani, Anand Iyer, Gabriel Susai, Mansur Shomali, Prasad Matti Rao
  • Patent number: 11875410
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method to automatically identify property-related risks through the use of computer vision, sensors, and/or building information models (BIMs). The ability to automatically identify a variety of hazards helps mitigate the associated risks, and thus reduces the number of accidents or fatalities that would otherwise occur. In some embodiments, a “risk map” can be generated by mapping the identified risks for a given property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Siddhartha Dalal, Devasis Bassu, Promiti Dutta, Ashwath Aithal, Liangkai Zhang, Alvin Chou, Michael P. Castelli
  • Patent number: 11861744
    Abstract: Systems and restaurant locations for use with a coordinated mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Blue Baker, LLC
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11861743
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for communication of orders and payments in a drive through using wireless beacons. A merchant location may include a drive through with a wireless beacon established in the drive through. The beacon may provide communication services with a device for the user. The merchant may detect that the user is in a vehicle in the drive through using either the connection between the device of the user and the beacon or a camera, sensor, or other detector located near the beacon in the drive through. Based on check-in information generated on the connection, an order for the user may be accessed. The user may pay for the order using the device and through the connection to the beacon. Further, if other devices for additional users in the vehicle connect to the beacon, the additional users may split the payment for the order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Dwain Glenn Theobald
  • Patent number: 11854026
    Abstract: A method and system are described for generating a quantified perception profile of a predetermined stimulus. The method may be used in colorimetry or flavor quantization. Flavor descriptors are selected from database for the particular product and presented pairwise in all possible pair combinations to each of a plurality of tasters via user-devices. For each flavor descriptor pair, users select one of the descriptors which is perceived to be more intense than the other. The results of the selections are captured at host and mapped by normalizing means as intensity values into a flavor descriptor space in database to create a quantized flavor profile. Normalizing means performs a weighting on each descriptor selection result. Filtering means detects anomalous or inconsistent selection responses and issues adaptive control instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Smart Sensory Analytics LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Protz
  • Patent number: 11823123
    Abstract: Methods and systems and computer-readable media are provided for dual optimization of pick walk and tote fill rates in order picking. Embodiments provide improved order picking speed and quality by optimizing pick routing with consideration of both proximity constraints and tote value constraints. Tote value constraints can include constraints on carrying capacity, volume, size in a particular dimension, or weight capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Pratosh D. Rajkhowa, Ameya Ajay Shendre, Shekhar Gupta, Pavan Kumar
  • Patent number: 11803922
    Abstract: Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Blue Baker, LLC
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11803829
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for enabling merchant devices to interoperate with one another in a more robust manner, such that overall operation and efficiency within a merchant establishment is improved. For instance, the techniques described herein may enable the intelligent routing of requests between devices within the merchant establishment based on real-time locations of the devices, which devices are associated with which orders, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Arjun Mahanti, Matthew T. Kursmark, Brian Stegall
  • Patent number: 11798051
    Abstract: The disclosed technologies can compute predictive reorder scores and measures of the quality of food products and food providers using objectively verifiable data, including reorder data, and use these predictive quality measures to create new functionality in an information search and retrieval system and/or a product ordering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GRUBHUB HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Geopher Stephy Justin, Patrick Gomes, Arthi Murugesan, Maria Belousova, Robert Trevelyan Waite
  • Patent number: 11798106
    Abstract: Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Blue Baker, LLC
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11776074
    Abstract: This patent application is intended to protect an electronic tabletop device that communicates messages/requests via text to a smartwatch that is worn by a server/bartender in order to satisfy a patron's request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Aleksandar Videnovic
  • Patent number: 11776075
    Abstract: Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11776076
    Abstract: Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Blue Baker, LLC
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11776001
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for incentivizing logistically convenient delivery orders is disclosed. The method includes monitoring, by a computing device, delivery orders of users which include a pick-up location, a drop-off location, an estimated time of pick-up, and an estimated time of drop-off. The method further includes determining, based on the monitoring of delivery orders, a trending drop-off location and a trending drop-off time. The method further includes determining, based on the trending drop-off location, the trending drop-off time, and a current location of the users, a subset of users. The method further includes sending to the subset of users an incentive to place a delivery order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Blue Baker, LLC
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11769139
    Abstract: Techniques for mobile payments integrated with a booking system are described. In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving a request from a computing device of a user to pay a ticket open at a merchant point-of-sale computer, obtaining a current total ticket amount for the ticket from the merchant point-of-sale computer, determining an estimated total ticket amount based at least in part on the current total ticket amount, authorizing but not capturing payment of the estimated total ticket amount with a payment network gateway computer, after the ticket is closed at the merchant point-of-sale computer, obtaining a final total ticket amount for the ticket from the merchant point-of-sale computer, and capturing payment of the final total ticket amount with the payment network gateway computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: OpenTable, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohan Angrish, Rishi Deshpande, Kashyap Deorah, Tapan Pandita, Ulhas Mandrawadkar, Keshav Krity, Sanjay Dalsania, Abhay Kumar, Dave Arthurs
  • Patent number: 11760359
    Abstract: A state determination device to determine that a driver driving a vehicle is in a driving difficult state detects an abnormality in a state of the driver, and detects at least one of an abnormality in a driving operation input by the driver or an abnormality in a traveling state of the vehicle. In response to detecting the abnormality in the state of the driver alone, the state determination device does not determine that the driver is in the driving difficult state but determines that the driver is in the driving difficult state in response to detecting the abnormality in the state of the driver and additionally detecting the at least one of the abnormality in the driving operation input by the driver or the abnormality in the traveling state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiyasu Yoshimura, Hiroshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11756080
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for providing prescient and adaptive point-of-sale services via electronic networks are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system with one or more servers. The one or more servers may be configured to generate digital consumer tokens and provide the digital consumer tokens to consumer devices for sharing with merchant devices. When a merchant device receives the digital consumer token, the merchant device may forward the digital consumer token to the one or more servers in exchange for consumer data to facilitate consumer service. In some embodiments, the one or more servers may be configured to provide point-of-sale interfaces that adapt to different consumer preferences or consumer device signals. Some embodiments may provide for consumer interfaces that allow consumers to manage their electronic identity at various (e.g., merchant) locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Sri Viswanath, David Gomez-Rosado, Andrey Zaytsev, Josh Krall, Seth Harris, David Scott Parker, Travis Chow, Qi Li, Samuel Thorpe, Clive Richard Beavis, Tihomir Tsankov Georgiev, Gabe Nydick, Robert James Skillington
  • Patent number: 11756103
    Abstract: Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders or dine-in practices by customers than with traditional ordering, pick up windows, and dine-in practices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11741558
    Abstract: Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Blue Baker, LLC
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11740768
    Abstract: A system for providing alimentary elements includes a computing device configured to receive a primary input relating to a first user for a compatible alimentary element based on biological extraction, receive secondary input from the second user for an alimentary element not associated with biological extraction, generate an extensible alimentary element display for the second user, wherein generating the extensible alimentary element display includes locating at least an alimentary element originator as a function of the secondary input and the compatible alimentary elements, generating a queue of alimentary elements from the located alimentary element originator, wherein the queue includes alimentary elements for the second user as a function of the secondary input and compatible alimentary elements for the first user, and provide a representation, via a graphical user interface, of a compatible alimentary element for the first user and an alimentary element for the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: KPN INNOVATIONS, LLC.
    Inventor: Kenneth Neumann
  • Patent number: 11733048
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of trays on which a plurality of service items are provided; a plurality of sensors respectively disposed above the plurality of trays; a memory configured to store map information of a specific space; and a processor configured to: identify a respective service item provided on each of the plurality of trays, based on sensing data received from the plurality of sensors, based on a result of the identifying and the map information stored in the memory, identify a travel path to sequentially deliver each of the plurality of service items that are identified to a plurality of locations corresponding to the specific space, and control travel of the electronic apparatus, based on the travel path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Euihyun Song, Sejin Kwak
  • Patent number: 11733661
    Abstract: A manufacturing process for physical components can be optimized using some techniques described herein. For example, a system can receive, via a graphical user interface, a user selection of a particular type of production location. The system can determine a cumulative consumption of a component at the particular type of production location over a particular time window. The system can analyze a group of candidate types of production equipment to identify a particular type of production equipment that can accommodate the cumulative consumption of the component during the particular time window. And the system can execute one or more computing operations configured to facilitate deployment of the particular type of production equipment at the particular type of production location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Starbucks Corporation
    Inventors: John Lawrence Brockman, Susan P. Behroozi
  • Patent number: 11727465
    Abstract: A method for providing information in an information management system that manages taste information regarding a user including an order record at a first restaurant and that associates the taste information with identification information for identifying the user. The method includes obtaining, from a terminal apparatus, the identification information and a store identifier indicating a second restaurant in a chain different from a chain to which the first restaurant belongs, arranging, on a basis of the taste information associated with the identification information and menu information regarding the second restaurant indicated by the store identifier, menu items included in the menu information in order according to the taste information, and transmitting menu information regarding the menu items arranged in the order to the terminal apparatus to display the menu information regarding the menu items arranged in the order on a display screen of the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yahata
  • Patent number: 11727472
    Abstract: Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11720984
    Abstract: A method of providing information includes acquiring allergy information related to a user from a first server, the allergy information including information indicating a level of an allergic reaction of the user to each ingredient, generating, based on the menu information and the allergy information, a personalized menu arranged for the user according to the allergy information, the menu information including information indicating one or more ingredients contained in each dish and an amount of each ingredient, and transmitting the personalized menu to the information terminal. In the generating of the personalized menu, when the level of the allergic reaction of an ingredient in the menu information is equal to or lager that a criterion value, the ingredient is determined as an allergy ingredient that causes allergy. The personalized menu includes one or more dishes, in each of which the allergy ingredient that causes allergy is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11710200
    Abstract: A restaurant service system for assessing the accuracy of estimated delivery time provided by a restaurant includes an order server, a restaurant server, a service server, and an assessment server. Each of the servers includes a server software application. The order server software application collects a set of orders from a set of diner devices. The restaurant server software application retrieves an estimated delivery time for each order in the set. The service server software application determines an order actual delivery time for at least one order in the set. The assessment server software application determines an accuracy measure of estimated delivery time for the restaurant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GRUBHUB HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Jason Sendelbach, Michael Evans, Peter Aarested, Olga Dimitrijevic, Lee Baker, Rhiannon Zivin, Kurt Peterson, Josh Evnin, Jonathan Treble, Lam Doan, Lillie C. de Merode, Matthew Maloney
  • Patent number: 11704721
    Abstract: An information processing device obtains order identification information capable of identifying an order placed by an order-placing person, transmits, as payment information, the order identification information, causes a printing process of a print medium to be executed, the print medium being capable of identifying the order identification information and gives, to another information processing device when an additional order placed by the order-placing person is received, an invalidation command which invalidates the order identification information in such a way that a payment with respect to the order identification information on an order not paid yet and placed by the same order-placing person is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Nakamura, Takeshi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11694285
    Abstract: Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: BLUE BAKER, LLC
    Inventor: David C. Fox
  • Patent number: 11696097
    Abstract: A system and method for providing location information on a social network, including: sending, to a social mapping system, a request for one or more social media posts, wherein the request includes screen attribute information about a display of a client device, geographic location information, and an identification of a requesting account of the social network; receiving, in response to the request, a suggested group for display by the client device; and displaying, by the client device, the suggested group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11688025
    Abstract: A method acquires, on a basis of a restaurant ID, menu information indicating one or more foods provided by a restaurant over a network from a second server associated with the restaurant corresponding to the restaurant ID, extracts one or more first foods compatible with religion information on a basis of the menu information and the religion information, displays the one or more first foods through a second operation screen, corresponding to the second server, for accepting an order of a food to be provided by the restaurant and displayed on a display of the information terminal of a user, and transmits food order information indicating a food selected from among the one or more first foods and a seat ID to the second server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11663683
    Abstract: A system and method for image-based personalized food item search, design, and culinary fulfillment. The system is a cloud-based network comprising a food image engine, a prediction engine, a food item design engine, and portals for restaurants and patrons to enter their information. The system may receive as an input a food item image, perform image recognition on the food item image to identify a target food item, use the identified target food item to predict an ingredient list for the target food item, and generate personalized target food item recommendations for patrons based on a multitude of variables associated with the business enterprises, patrons historic culinary transactions, dietary needs and preferences both explicit and inferred. The system may be accessed through web browsers or purpose-built computer and mobile phone applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ROCKSPOON, INC.
    Inventor: Nagib Georges Mimassi