List (e.g., Purchase Order, Etc.) Compilation Or Processing Patents (Class 705/26.8)
-
Patent number: 11494074Abstract: A first interface, such as a set of search results, is presented that includes first data in a first region and second data in a second region. Presented data may include images, text, or other information associated with items available for purchase. User input indicating a portion of the first data is received. In response to the user input, third data that is related to the indicated portion of the first data is determined. The third data is presented in the first region of the interface in place of the first data. Further input to the first region may return the first data to view. As a result, a user may view the third data within the first interface without navigating to a separate interface. Selection of a navigational link associated with the third data may navigate to a portion of a subsequent interface where the third data is presented.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Alvaro Mattos Velasco
-
Patent number: 11488233Abstract: An order for a product or service can be processed over a global network using emoji characters. A system server establishes a platform for a user to place a request order for the product or service, and the user is enabled to place the request order for delivery of the product or service by depositing an emoji character. The system server maps the emoji character to the product or service. The system server generates a fill order for the product or service and communicates the fill order to a provider, whereupon the system server directs the provider to fulfill the fill order.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Fooji, Inc.Inventors: Gregg Alan Morton, Erik Michael Zamudio
-
Patent number: 11488222Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for purchasing items using an e-commerce shopping assistant. In one embodiment, the system includes a processor to perform operations for receiving an electronic message comprising a web address from a user's mobile device via SMS, accessing a web page using the web address, identifying an item for purchase based on the content of the web page, retrieving the user's account information based on an identifier of the mobile device, wherein the account information comprises user preferences and user profile information, identifying merchants from which to purchase the identified item, selecting a merchant from the identified merchants based on the user preferences, configuring the purchase transaction based on the user preferences and the user profile information, and completing the purchase transaction at a merchant system of the selected merchant.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Abdelkader Benkreira, Joshua Edwards, Michael Mossoba
-
Patent number: 11488230Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems for facilitating a customer's online purchase of school supplies listed on one or more generic teacher school supply lists using an online store's website. The computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems provide a user access to select one or more teacher's generic school supply lists from a plethora of generic school supply lists. Online retailer's products are indexed against items on the teacher's generic school supply list so that after user selection of a particular teacher's generic school list, the user is provided with one or more graphical user interfaces identifying all matching items of the retailer for a given teacher's school supply list. The customer is presented with one or more graphical user interfaces that allow the user to purchase the matching items. UPC codes can be used to index a retailer's product to a corresponding item on a teacher's generic school supply list.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.Inventors: Scott Hayne, George Tuan
-
Patent number: 11481833Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a user interface to a user includes receiving wearable article data describing wearable articles for physical shipment to users via electronic interactions; generating a user interface for an electronic transactions platform based at least on the received wearable article data; causing display of the user interface depicting one or more of the wearable articles; receiving a selection of a wearable article of the displayed one or more wearable articles via the user interface; determining a condition of the selected wearable article at least based on the received wearable article data in response to the selection; reserving the selected wearable article for a predetermined period of time in response to the selection; updating and causing display of the user interface depicting the selected wearable article and the determined condition; and determining whether the selected wearable article is purchased or borrowed during the predetermined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: CaaStle, Inc.Inventors: Arnab Bhattacharya, Georgiy Goldenberg, Christine M. Hunsicker, David Sabel, Tyler Young, Lei Yu
-
Patent number: 11481813Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing information to a customer terminal of a user registered as a member, the method comprising: an authentication step of receiving information of the customer terminal through an authentication unit to check whether a customer has joined as a member; a first transmission step of transmitting an information list through a storage unit connected to the customer terminal; a guidance step of guiding through the information list by voice through an operation terminal connected to the customer terminal; a second transmission step of transmitting, to the customer terminal, information selected through the customer terminal from the information list through a guide unit connected to the customer terminal; and a third transmission step of transmitting a DM corresponding to the selected information through a DM processing unit connected to the customer terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Inventor: Byoung Soo Kim
-
Patent number: 11475091Abstract: Methods and systems for subscription to retail browsing sessions. While two users are independently browsing the same merchant's store in parallel, the system may enable sharing or cross-sharing of commerce event data from a first user's browsing session to be injected into the other user's browsing session, so that the other user may follow along with the first user's browsing activity. The sharing may be dependent upon the first user enabling a live browse event and the other user subscribing to it. The sharing may be dependent upon subscribers having an active browsing session in the same merchant store as the first user's browsing session. To the extent that a subscribing user navigates to a different merchant or store, the sharing of commerce event data may be stopped or reduced to reflect the fact that the two users are no longer browsing the same merchant location in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Shopify Inc.Inventors: Niklas Itänen, Cameron Morgan
-
Patent number: 11477522Abstract: A method and system for rendering a HTTP Live Streaming video stream on a display includes a player receiving a master manifest from a network device in response to selecting a video channel. The player also receives a plurality of variant manifests referenced by the master manifest from the network device, where each of the variant manifests references video files each of which having a different bit rate for the same video stream. The player simultaneously maintains the variant manifests in the player. The player determines an effective start time of the video stream based upon the selecting video channel where the effective start time is a time later than an earliest time referenced in the plurality of variant manifests. The player enables reverse of the video stream based upon one of the variant manifests to as early as the effective start time and not enabling reverse of the video stream based upon one of the variant manifests to a time earlier than the effective start time.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Kaliraj Kalaichelvan, Bill Franks
-
Patent number: 11461833Abstract: In an automated product delivery method a request for delivery of a product is received from a user device. One or more product delivery options are determined and transmitted to the user device and a selected product delivery option is received from the user device. The product is provided to the selected delivery location in advance of the selected delivery time window. A delivery processing server receives user device location information and determines an estimated arrival time of the user at the delivery location. At the estimated arrival time, the product is securely staged for pickup by the user. The delivery processing server receives user validation information, and responsive to validation of the user information, transmits to the delivery location processing device, an instruction to allow access to the product by the user, and access to the product by the user is allowed.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Jeremy Phillips, Andrew Grossman, Ari Horowitz
-
Patent number: 11455677Abstract: A system receives item data corresponding to an item list from a user. The item list may include one or more items. The system communicates the item list to a community group associated with the user and the system then receives member data from one or more members of the community group, wherein the member data is associated with the one or more items on the item list.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventor: Neelakantan Sundaresan
-
Patent number: 11449944Abstract: An art investment estimation system is provided that is updated to include a first sale price and date, and a second sale price and date of a plurality of repeat sale pairs of a plurality of works of art associated with an artist. The system determines one or more investment value variables derived from the first sale price and associated first sale date and the second sale price and associated second sale date for the plurality of repeat sale pairs of the plurality of works of art. The system receives, at a graphical user interface (GUI), input from a user designating weights for the investment value variables for an artist. The system determines, from the designated weights and the investment value variables, an artist investment potential value for the artist and, at the GUI, displays to the user the artist investment potential value.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: ART MARKET CONSULTANCY LLCInventors: Jianping Mei, Michael Moses
-
Patent number: 11449906Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for dynamically augmenting relevance rankings using data from external ratings sources.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Groupon, Inc.Inventors: Guokai Zeng, Amber Roy Chowdhury, Ming-Chi Tsai, Abhaya Parthy, Ming-Jun Chen
-
Patent number: 11443855Abstract: The present disclosure provides blockchain computing systems and methods of using same.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: PatientMD, Inc.Inventors: Christ Pavlatos, Anirban Majumdar
-
Patent number: 11436809Abstract: A method for providing a treasure hunt in augmented reality includes presenting an indication of a starting point of a path through an environment that, when followed, allows a virtual gift card to be obtained. Then, as a mobile computer system travels through the environment from a location proximate the starting point, navigation indications to allow the path to be followed are presented. Presenting the navigation indications may include capturing images of portions of the environment, detecting locations corresponding to the path, modifying a captured image based on a detected location by compositing it with a navigation indication corresponding to a direction of the path; and displaying the modified captured image. That the mobile computer system has been moved to a location proximate an ending point of the path can be detected and may trigger an update to an account to associate the virtual gift card therewith.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion BankInventors: Buturab Rizvi, Mohammad Fahad Khan, John Ivan Bacic, Miguel Navarro, Alexandra Tsourkis
-
Patent number: 11436665Abstract: Techniques are described for enhancing a user's experience with a retail software application. In one technique, a first trigger event within a first widget of a first page of an application is detected. The first widget indicates a set of items associated with a user interacting with the application. A non-modal window is presented on the first page of the application in response to the detection of the first trigger event. The non-modal window includes information associated with items indicated by the first widget. A second trigger event associated with one of the items within the non-modal window is detected on the first page of the application. A selection state of the item is determined and stored in response to the second trigger event. The non-modal window is collapsed in response to detection of a third trigger event outside of the non-modal window.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Feroz Abdul Kadar
-
Patent number: 11436668Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for account authentication. A method includes receiving a user request to include financial data describing a financial account in an interface, the financial account being associated with a financial institution. The method further includes redirecting the user to a first webpage associated with the financial institution, where the user inputs into the first webpage login credentials for accessing the financial account. The method further includes, in response to the user inputting into the first webpage login credentials for accessing the financial account, receiving, from the financial institution, an access token other than the login credentials for accessing the financial account. The method further includes storing the access token for use in accessing and aggregating financial data describing the financial account.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Yodlee, Inc.Inventors: Shubha Pant, Nikhil Nadkarni, Vinay Nagaraj, Jordan Reed, Peter Hazlehurst
-
Patent number: 11423456Abstract: In embodiments, methods and systems for order management and processing based on a distributed commerce platform are provided. A distributed commerce platform supports end-to-end integrated product publication, order-management and payment services. In particular, the distributed commerce platform supports components based on Application Programming Interfaces (API) that standardize the implementation of a distributed commerce solution or configuration of off-site buying experiences. Using the distributed commerce platform, merchants can concurrently offer, sell, and process orders for products through a plurality of different affiliate channels. The distributed commerce platform can also be implemented as a federated portal from which a merchant can identify affiliate channels to publish product objects, access the plurality of affiliate channels and define configurations for processing objects of the merchant's distributed commerce solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: STRIPE, INC.Inventors: Siddarth Chandrasekaran, John Brochan Collison, Cristina Joelle Cordova, James William Danz, Stanislas Vincent Francois Polu, Devesh Senapati
-
Patent number: 11416909Abstract: A shared “universal” virtual shopping cart (“the cart”) may be provided by a host to enable information sharing between multiple disparate electronic marketplaces provided by various merchants. The host may obtain user information via the cart to improve interactions with a user. The host may recommend an item to the user that is offered at a lower price and related to an item retained in the user's cart. The host may also recommend items based on a user's purchase history, such as complementary items (e.g., up-sell items) and items other users may recommend. In some aspects, the host may compile best selling lists based on data from multiple electronic marketplaces. The host may also perform user specific operations such as indicate an item in a cart is a duplicate of a previous purchase and monitor a price and/or available quantities of an item in the cart.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Amit Bhosle, Ashish Agrawal
-
Patent number: 11410211Abstract: An electronic invoicing system performs a method of processing electronic invoices. A portal is provided by the system. The portal has respective views for a supplier submitting electronic invoices and an administrator of an enterprise submitting and/or reviewing electronic invoices. An administrator of the enterprise can create and maintain supplier groups in the portal, assign security permissions to the supplier groups in the portal; and assign users to the supplier groups in said portal. The users thereby receive security permission assigned to the supplier group to which they are assigned. The processing of electronic invoices by users is controlled in accordance with the assignments of security permissions to the supplier groups.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Versata, Inc.Inventors: Erick W. Schutz, Joseph E. Fallon, Aleksandr Shmulker, Vita Meltser
-
Patent number: 11411929Abstract: A universal and portable virtual resource event container that is provided by an identity-protection entity on behalf of a cloaked user. The resource event container is configured to log into or otherwise access networked sites and make calls to network entity APIs as directed by the user as they navigate the site and select objects for inclusion in the virtual resource event container instead of the resource event container provided by the network site. Subsequently, the resource event is completed between the network entity and the identity-protection entity. The network entity is unaware of the identity, or any other personal information associated with the user. In addition, objects in the resource event are delivered in an anonymous fashion, such that, the final delivery destination is unknown to the network entity and one or more hops along the delivery route. Thus, the present invention affords a user complete anonymity throughout the entire resource event.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventor: Ricki A. Beye
-
Patent number: 11403621Abstract: A method for coordinating data with a mobile wallet application on a mobile device is provided. The method may include receiving an instruction to add a digital card to a digital wallet, where the instruction includes an identifier of a transaction between a sending entity and a receiving entity facilitated by an intermediate entity. The method may also include receiving from the intermediate entity, status information associated with the digital card, which includes information associated with the transaction. The method may further include providing at least a portion of the status information to a secondary application. The method may additionally include receiving a selection of the digital card. The method may moreover include causing a tertiary application to execute based at least in part on the selection. The method may furthermore include sending to the tertiary application the identifier or at least some portion of the status information.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventor: Abhinav Gupta
-
Patent number: 11386098Abstract: A system and method provides information to a user about other users who have shown an interest in the user or in whom the user shows an interest, or other users in whom the user has shown disinterest or other users who have shown disinterest in the user, as indicated by actions performed with respect to a website or other Internet-accessible repository of data.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.Inventors: Anton Chakhmatov, Shayan G. Zadeh, Eric R. Barnett, Alexander F. Mehr
-
Patent number: 11380091Abstract: An apparatus includes a display and a processor. The processor displays a virtual shopping cart. The processor also receives information indicating that an algorithm determined that a physical item was selected by a person during a shopping session in a physical store, based on a set of inputs received from sensors located within the store. In response, the processor displays a virtual item, which includes a graphical representation of the physical item. The processor additionally displays a rack video captured during the shopping session by a rack camera located in the store. The rack camera is directed at a physical rack located in the store, which includes the physical item. In response to displaying the rack video, the processor receives information identifying the virtual item, where the rack video depicts that the person selected the physical item. The processor then stores the virtual item in the virtual shopping cart.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Matthew Raymond Magee, Shahmeer Ali Mirza
-
Patent number: 11373118Abstract: Described in detail herein are systems and methods for network environment for a dynamic learning system for object matching and substitution using hand-held electronic devices. In exemplary embodiments, a hand-held electronic device may receive a request for physical objects of which a first physical object may be unavailable. The hand-held electronic device may transmit an identifier of the first physical object to a central computing system. The central computing system may query the database to retrieve data associated with the first physical object. The centrally computing system may attempt to match the first physical object to an available physical object based on dynamically learned matching behavior using the retrieved data.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Donald High, Anton Valkov, ChandraShekar Natarajan, Mario Alberto Cornejo Barriere
-
Patent number: 11354378Abstract: A web experience augmentation system predicts, during a web browsing session of a user, augmentation data that the user is likely to want to view during the web browsing session. This prediction is based on both local content preferences for the user and global content preferences. The local content preferences for the user refer to an indication of the webpages accessed during the current web browsing session of the user. The global content preferences refer to analytics for webpages on a website obtained over an extended period of time that extends prior to the web browsing session of the user. The web experience augmentation system also modifies a webpage to which the user navigates to include the predicted augmentation data.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Kushal Chawla, Soumya Vadlamannati, Niyati Himanshu Chhaya, Aman Deep Singh, Aarushi Agrawal
-
Patent number: 11347833Abstract: A method for secure access to a mobile edge-computing system device based on a subscriber location fingerprint may comprise receiving a request to access the mobile edge-computing system, a first personal authorization credential record, and an encrypted token from a requesting client, associating the first personal authorization credential record with a block chain location fingerprint for the subscribing client, including a plurality of time-stamped records of a plurality of estimated or measured location state variables of the subscribing client and an associated confidence interval representing an accuracy of those variables, decrypting the location fingerprint, receiving a requesting client location measurement, predicting a current location for the subscribing client and an associated current confidence interval based on recent location state variables in the location fingerprint, and allowing the requesting client access to the mobile edge-computing system when the received requesting client location mType: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
-
Patent number: 11348128Abstract: For a measurement period, signal strengths, device identifiers and access point identifiers are received from a plurality of access points. A record for the measurement period is stored in random access memory with the record being associated with a single device identifier and containing access point identifiers associated with signal strengths received for the measurement period. The location of a device is determined for the measurement period by retrieving spatial coordinates of a corresponding access point for each access point identifier in the record for the measurement period and setting the location of the device for the measurement period to the average of the retrieved spatial coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Mark Brakob
-
Patent number: 11341200Abstract: In certain embodiments, a presentation of a user interface may be dynamically modified for a user based on data related to the user's email address or other user identifier. As an example, the user interface may be caused to reflect the look and feel of an interface of an entity trusted by the user, incorporate data items related to the user's identifier, or effectuate other modifications. In some embodiments, a user identifier of a user may be received via a user interface associated with the third party, and a query for data related to one or more user accounts associated with the user identifier may be generated. Based on the query, multiple datasets associated with different user accounts may be received, and a first dataset associated with a first account of the user may be selected over other datasets associated with the user's other accounts effectuate the presentation modification.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Lawrence Douglas, Jeffrey Rule, Kaitlin Newman
-
Patent number: 11332161Abstract: A controller of an autonomous traveling vehicle as an information processing apparatus of the disclosure executes acquiring first information relating to a predetermined item and the first information relating to predetermined processing in a processing apparatus mounted on the autonomous traveling vehicle, acquiring second information relating to shipping of the predetermined item, controlling running of the autonomous traveling vehicle based on the second information, and controlling the operation of the processing apparatus based on the first information when the autonomous traveling vehicle is in a running state based on the second information.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
-
Patent number: 11328559Abstract: Individual sports event activities are recorded along with metric results of individual or collective results of the activities. The data from these recordings and metrics are provided to a central gaming server. Individual players offer wagers of value to be used in competition against other individual or groups of players. The central gaming server compares the metrics of at least two individual players that have offered wagers of values and determines a winning individual player based on the comparison of metrics.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Inventors: William Choung, Daniel Sahl
-
Patent number: 11330389Abstract: A method plays sound clips in binaural sound to users during an electronic communication between two or more users. A processor convolves the sound clips with HRTFs so the sound externally localize away from a head of the user listening to the sound clip. The sound clips play to users during the electronic communication without transmitting the sound clips to electronic devices of the users.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Inventor: Philip Scott Lyren
-
Patent number: 11328270Abstract: Implementations of the present specification provide a service processing method. The method is performed by a service platform, the service platform including multiple area sites corresponding to multiple service areas, and each area site including a corresponding buyer service site and seller service site.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Alipay Labs (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventor: Jia Lei
-
Patent number: 11315168Abstract: A method for managing an electronic commerce (e-commerce) shopping cart may include, in a computing device comprising a touch screen, memory, and at least one processor, receiving a selection of one of a plurality of web pages associated with an e-commerce web site. The selected one of the plurality of web pages and an indication of the e-commerce shopping cart may be displayed on the touch screen. The indication of the e-commerce shopping cart may be integrated for display into each of the plurality of web pages. While displaying the selected one of the plurality of web pages and the indication of the e-commerce shopping cart, at least one gesture event associated with the e-commerce shopping cart may be detected. Access to the e-commerce shopping cart may be enabled upon detecting the at least one gesture event.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Transform SR Brands LLCInventors: Andrea Sutton, Robert Hudson
-
Patent number: 11317007Abstract: An image output system includes a section that stores registration information in which feature information of a registered user and a target file registered by the registered user are associated with each other, a section that acquires feature information of a current user requesting an output of an image of the target file, a section that obtains an authentication result indicating whether or not two pieces of feature information satisfy a predetermined coincidence condition, by comparing the feature information of the current user to the feature information of the registered user, and a section that controls the output of the image of the target file in accordance with the authentication result.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Yoshitomo Minami
-
Patent number: 11308535Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for an on-line shopping assistant for in-store shopping. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for managing an on-line shopping assistant for in-store shopping is provided. The method includes locating an in-store shopper in a portion of a store by locating a mobile device registered in a database in association with the in-store shopper. The method also includes receiving a request for data through the mobile device pertaining to at least one item in the store and filtering the requested data based upon the location of the in-store shopper in the portion of the store. Finally, the method includes presenting the filtered data in a display of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Darrell O. Bleakley, Louis M. Demmler, Aditya A. Desai, Michael P. Etgen, Stephen Kenna
-
Patent number: 11308546Abstract: Systems and methods described herein may process information to perform a checkout of a product, the product comprising an experience, a physical product, and/or a digital product. The product may be fulfilled and a charge associated with the product may be processed after the product has been fulfilled.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Traina Interactive Corp.Inventors: Trevor Dow Traina, Joseph Peter Vierra, Jennifer Chih-Ting Chen, Mitchell Paul Galbraith
-
Patent number: 11308438Abstract: A system and method allowing greatly improved flexibility to provide items for purchase to a traveler for a travel event while at the same time minimizing the estimations of items to be stocked by the carrier for the travel event. The system and method allow for adjustments of the items ordered and may prompt the user to select alternative items if an ordered item becomes unavailable prior to the travel event.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Inventors: Rafael Ramos, Steve Ramos
-
Patent number: 11301684Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and techniques for detecting certain activity in image data, such as frames of video data. For example, the systems and techniques may create and utilize an activity classifier for detecting and classifying certain human activity in video data of a facility. In some instances, the classifier may be trained to identify, from the video data, certain predefined activity such as a user picking an item from a shelf, a user returning an item to a shelf, a first user passing an item to a second user, or the like. In some instances, the techniques enable activity detection using only video data, rather than in addition to data acquired by other sensors.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dilip Kumar, Liefeng Bo, Keunhong Park, Gerard Guy Medioni, Nikhil Chacko, Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai
-
Patent number: 11301806Abstract: A first safety stock quantity calculation unit 81 calculates a safety stock quantity of a commodity at a first elapse time that is a time when a unit delivery time period has elapsed from one delivery time, the unit delivery time period being a unit of a delivery interval. A second safety stock quantity calculation unit 82 calculates a safety stock quantity of the commodity at a second elapse time that is a time when a coverage time period has elapsed from the delivery time, the coverage time period being a period combining a plurality of unit delivery time periods and determined depending on the commodity, the plurality of unit delivery time periods each being the unit delivery time period. A recommended order quantity calculation unit 83 calculates a recommended order quantity of the commodity, based on the safety stock quantity of the commodity at the second elapse time.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuki Kubota, Takayuki Nakano
-
Patent number: 11301805Abstract: A recommended order quantity determining device 80 includes a recommended order quantity determination unit 81. The recommended order quantity determination unit 81 determines a recommended order quantity of each commodity from a required quantity of the commodity expressed by a decimal, depending on an order unit of the commodity. The recommended order quantity determination unit 81 determines the recommended order quantity of each commodity, depending on a total required quantity of a commodity category including the commodity.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuki Kubota, Takayuki Nakano
-
Patent number: 11295374Abstract: Selecting a first silhouette image of an item at a client machine displays a plurality of silhouette images representing aspects of the item such as style, length type and sleeve type. Selecting any of those aspects allows a server to search a database for listings of similar items that have those aspects. Concurrently selecting one or more of the images representing those aspects and one or more sizes, allows a server to search a database for listings of similar items that have those aspects and those sizes.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventor: Rini Kundu
-
Patent number: 11295338Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for affiliate marketing. A method of the disclosure includes receiving affiliate product data from a merchant account. The method includes determining intelligence sources for generating an affiliate product for a promoter account and determining rules for generating the affiliate product for the promoter account. The method includes determining the affiliate product for the promoter account based on the intelligence sources, the rules, and the affiliate product data from the merchant account. The method includes tracking consumer click-throughs on the affiliate product provided to the promoter account.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Inventor: Mark Stringham
-
Patent number: 11297386Abstract: A system that handles delivery of a service through a client device or a secondary device paired with the client device, includes an interactive service provider and the client device. The interactive service provider inserts at least one of digital watermarks, fingerprints, and trigger identifiers at event opportunities in media content. The client device detects at least one of the inserted digital watermarks, the digital fingerprints, and the inserted trigger identifiers in the media content. The client device further renders overlay graphics on the media content and activates at least one of input devices in vicinity of the client device or the rendered overlay graphics. The client device receives trigger responses over an activated overlay graphic, via the activated input devices. The client device further displays an interactive view on the client device, to enable delivery of services in response to the received trigger responses.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.Inventors: Donald Jude Loheide, Matthew Paul Giles, Gregory Mcclain Stigall, Nishith Kumar Sinha, Cindy Loren Campbell, James J Arnzen, Nicolas Paul Webb
-
Patent number: 11290601Abstract: A server computing device can execute the steps of (1) managing a plurality of album artwork templates, wherein each album artwork template of the plurality of album artwork templates includes a plurality of entries, and each entry of the plurality of entries defines a respective manner by which a respective album artwork image is to be generated, (2) receiving, from a client device, a request for an album artwork image, wherein the request includes: a first identifier that corresponds to a particular image of an artist, a second identifier that corresponds to a particular album artwork template of the plurality of album artwork templates, and locale information that corresponds to a particular entry of the particular album artwork template, and (3) generating the album artwork image according to the respective manner defined by the particular entry, wherein the album artwork image is based at least in part on the particular image of the artist.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew H. Thorn, Sean M. Harold, Alan Lee, Nathaniel P. Marrin, Jose J. Aroche Martinez, Leticia M. Alarcon, Juliana Diaz Delgado, Adhamh C. Findlay, Mark K. Su, Ómar K. Yasin, Kenneth F. Rogers
-
Patent number: 11287963Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for creating custom user interface (“UI”) controls. A networked computing service may determine that an action performed by a user of the service is likely to be repeated, based on previous actions performed by the user and/or other users, parameters of the action including characteristics of an item associated with the action, and other criteria. The networked computing service may generate, or recommend generation of, a custom UI control that automates performance of the action. The networked computing service may automatically determine parameters of the action, and may determine alternative parameters and/or alternative actions if the action cannot be performed using the determined parameters. Custom UI controls may be associated with various computing devices and/or other electronic devices, and categories of custom UI controls may be determined and displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stephan Josef Andrizzi, Kara Cavallaro, Jai Prakash Chabria, Nicole Dare, Kenneth DeLand, Nirav Praful Desai, Anindya Guha, Marc Hensley, Douglas James Herrington, Samuel Stevens Heyworth, Apoorva Iyer, Nitish Kumar, Hannah McClellan Richards, Jae Park, Amir Pelleg, Jessica Protasio, Daniel Benjamin Rausch, Laura Allison Ridlehoover, Jeffrey Rosenberg, John Shaw, Paul Warren Smart, Amirali Virani
-
Patent number: 11282344Abstract: Some embodiments include a fantasy sports games or other type of gaming options. A gaming entity may establish a fund of money that is to be exposed to a gaming market in an attempt to win money from risking the fund of money. A gaming operator may use the pool or fund to create liquidity in a gaming market. Various gamers may enter into games with the gaming entity by by matching with various portions of the pool or fund.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: CFPH, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, Jacob Loveless, Quinton Singleton, Paul Williams
-
Patent number: 11282047Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for processing a transaction. In one embodiment, a system is introduced that enables a communication between applications. The communication occurs through the use of one or more gestures that enable the request for information, funds, items for purchase and the like. In another embodiment, a system if introduced that enables a unified multi-marketplace communication. The communication includes the use of gestures for the transfer of information, funds, items for purchase, discounts, etc., using a unifying entity. The unifying entity can be a financial institution, payment provider, or the like that may be used to carry a transaction between applications allowing for a single checkout.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventor: Rahul Nair
-
Patent number: 11276018Abstract: A management server includes a printing-device management unit that receives consumables information indicating respective usage statuses of a plurality of consumables being used by a printing device from one or more printing devices, an order-timing estimating unit that calculates an estimated order timing at which each of the consumables is to be ordered based on a temporal variation in the usage statuses of each of the consumables, and a consumables-order planning unit that, when there are a plurality of estimated order timings within a predetermined period for one printing device, or when there are a plurality of estimated order timings within a predetermined period for a plurality of printing devices included in a certain neighboring area, changes and outputs a price of consumables associated with the estimated order timings corresponding to delivery statuses of the consumables.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventor: Yukihiro Oi
-
Patent number: 11257130Abstract: A method for immutability of review verifications includes: storing a blockchain; receiving a review submission from a reviewer about an entity comprising feedback; identifying a review identifier unique to the review submission; generating a new review block for the blockchain including the review submission including the review identifier; receiving verification submissions from other reviewers about the review submission indicating positive or negative verification of the review submission; generating verification blocks for the blockchain that include the verification submissions; adding a trustworthiness block to the blockchain for the review once enough positive verifications are received; and adding a trustworthiness block to the blockchain for the reviewer once they have enough trustworthy reviews.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Shuvam Sengupta, Ankur Arora, Navneet Kumar
-
Patent number: 11257139Abstract: An apparatus includes a database, memory, and processor. The database stores a purchase history, assigned to a user, that includes records of products and a ticket for travel to a second location on a first date. The memory stores categories, each of which is assigned to weather conditions and includes products for which a positive correlation exists between consumer demand and a presence of one or more weather conditions. The processor determines that the user will be in the second location on a third date and obtains a predicted weather condition at the second location on the third date. The weather condition is assigned to a category including a product. The processor determines that a probability the user has a need for the product is greater than a threshold and sends a product recommendation to the user. The processor receives a purchase request from the user and completes a purchase.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventor: Joseph B. Castinado