Graphical Representation Of Item Or Shopper Patents (Class 705/27.2)
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Patent number: 10657562Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a merchant-customer engagement system include a physical merchant location in which a customer may be tracked to determine products within the physical merchant location that the customer is interested in. A merchant may use a wearable merchant device that is configured to identify the customer via a camera that captures an image of the customer, and that image may be used to retrieve customer account information for that customer. Using the customer account information and the products that the customer is showing interest in, the wearable merchant device may be used to display merchant-customer engagement information next to a view of the customer to allow the merchant to help the customer while utilizing a variety of displayed information about the customer including, for example, past purchases, products browsed in-store and previously browsed online, time spent in an area of the physical merchant location, etc.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventor: Scott Ellison
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Patent number: 10614498Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable storage media, having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, for organizing and describing product information is provided. The system includes a memory device, an IDML module, and a display module. The memory device is configured to store product data in a plurality of product records. Each product record is associated with an associated one of a plurality of products and has an associated product type. The product records provide may be used to the efficient storage, processing and exchange of product information. The IDML module is configured to receive a product request and receive, from the memory device, results data associated with the product request. The results data includes a plurality of product records. The display module receives the results data and responsively displays the results data associated with the product request.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Abhishek Shrivastava, Nikesh Garera, Digvijay Lamba, Gurmeet Singh, Tabassum Parveen
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Patent number: 10580234Abstract: A distributed vehicle documentation system uses multiple sensor systems to capture vehicle information and generate vehicle documentation. A sensor system may be a micro server in communication with a sensor and a control device. In response to requests from the control device, the sensor system may analyze images input in order to identify an object in the images, and modifying the images based on the identified object. For example, in response to identifying a wheel in an image, the image may be cropped in order to be centered around the identified wheel. In the event that the sensor system cannot identify the object (e.g., cannot identify the wheel in the image), another image may be obtained with a different field of view based on a determined size of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: ADESA, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Dillow
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Patent number: 10579962Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a product recognition unit (2020), a shelf label recognition unit (2040), and a determination unit (2060). The product recognition unit (2020) recognizes the number of types of products or positions of each type of products from a target image. The shelf label recognition unit (2040) recognizes the number or positions of shelf labels indicating information of the products from the target image. The determination unit (2060) determines whether or not there is an error in a relationship between the recognized number of types of products and the recognized number of shelf labels or in a relationship between the recognized positions of each type of products and the recognized positions of the shelf labels.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Itou, Kanako Taga, Takenobu Kitahara
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Patent number: 10553217Abstract: Approaches presented herein enable visualization of audio announcements using augmented reality (AR). Specifically, an audio system captures a set of broadcast audio announcements or messages at an originating location associated with a user as a set of audio files, which a speech-to-text transcriber transcribes to text. A natural language processing tool analyzes the transcribed text to determine, for each announcement, whether the announcement is relevant to the user. Relevant announcements are forwarded to a mobile device of the user. The user may access, in an AR environment, the set of announcements via a set of icons to display text of an announcement or to play audio of an announcement.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Martin G. Keen, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 10482510Abstract: A vehicle sales matching system may include a vehicle sales lead data database, a vehicle sales information database, and a sales matching system embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium and communicatively connected to the vehicle sales lead data database and the vehicle sales information database. The vehicle sales lead data may include validated customer data and third party customer data. The vehicle sales information may include sales data from vehicle dealers, data extract services, and sales data sources. The sales matching system may be configured for applying one or more matching rules for matching a vehicle sales lead from the vehicle sales lead database to a vehicle sale from the vehicle sales information database.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: TrueCar, Inc.Inventors: James Francis Berger, Jacob Michael LaCivita, James Thai Nguyen, Meghashyam Grama Ramanuja, Michael D. Swinson, Thomas Taira
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Patent number: 10460357Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving a content request, generating and transmitting an advertisement request, receiving an advertisement, determining a product or service associated with the advertisement, and generating an e-commerce functionality associated with the product or service. The e-commerce functionality and advertisement may be transmitted to a user device and rendered to a user via the user device.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David Michael Bevacqua, David James Roy Erdmann
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Communicating in chat sessions using chat bots to provide real-time recommendations for negotiations
Patent number: 10445845Abstract: The method can determine that chat texts provided in a chat session by first and second chat application instances are directed to negotiation of a sale of an item. A recommended sale price for the item is generated based on the chat texts and item's current price. In response to determining to provide the recommended sale price to the first chat application instance, a third chat text can be transmitted, via the chat bot, to the chat session to cause a first UI of a user device hosting the first chat application instance to present the recommended sale price, and to cause the first UI to present a request for selection, from the first chat application instance, whether to transmit a fourth chat text to cause, in a second UI of a user device hosting the second chat application instance, a presentation of the recommended sale price.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventor: Jennifer Delaney -
Patent number: 10417696Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for comparing a realogram and a planogram to determine differences and generate suggestions, for example, a corrective action, and present the corrective action to a user. An application receives a realogram, the realogram including information about product recognitions, and a planogram corresponding to the realogram. The application aligns the realogram with the planogram using the information about product recognitions. The application retrieves a rule, detects an issue in the realogram based on applying the rule to the realogram aligned with the planogram, generates a corrective action corresponding to the issue in the realogram, and provides the corrective action for display as an overlay on the realogram.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jamey Graham, Michael Griffin, Tiffany Romain
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Patent number: 10410191Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to scan a check or other payment instrument into an image file and apply a credit to one or more invoices associated with the entity, such as invoices issued by a business partner of the entity originating the check. Where there are multiple invoices outstanding invoices, embodiments of the present disclosure can selectively apply credits to such invoices based on input from the entity and/or based on rules defining how such credit are to be applied to the invoices.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Bill.com, LLCInventors: Henrique Pedreira de Freitas Ceribelli, Eric Chan, Mark Orttung, Darren Linscott
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Patent number: 10394495Abstract: A form document submission system processes a form document with one or more fields to be filled out, and includes a server device to register the form document, a form document identifier associated with the form document, and a form data rule applicable to the form document, so as to be associated with a user; a user accessible device to receive the form document and the form document identifier from the server device, fill out each field with a corresponding input, and send the filled out form, from the user accessible device to the server device; wherein the server device validates the filled out form document for each field, based upon the form data rule, and if an error is found in any of the fields, highlights the field with the error, and sends the highlighted form to the user accessible device, for changes to the corresponding input to comply with the form data rule, and if no error is found in any of the fields, sending the highlighted form to the user accessible device, as confirmation that no erroType: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Debashis Panda
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Patent number: 10346901Abstract: Accessing images associated with users for generating composite images and/or making product recommendations based at least partly on the images to enhance online shopping experiences is described. A service provider can access images associated with a user and identify a product of interest to the user. The service provider can determine a fitness score for an image of the images, the fitness score indicating an appropriateness of the image for presenting the product of interest via a device associated with the user, and select the image as a representative image based at least in part on the fitness score. The service provider can generate, from the representative image, a composite image that visually depicts a graphical representation of the product of interest and cause the composite image to be presented to the user via the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Costin Serbanescu
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Patent number: 10319017Abstract: Embodiments of the present provide a method, system and computer program product for collaborative co-shopping in e-commerce. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for collaborative co-shopping in e-commerce includes registering different shoppers in a database for collaborative co-shopping and selecting an item for sale in an e-commerce Web site on behalf of an online shopper. The method also includes determining from the database a location of the item in a brick and mortar store and detecting one of the registered different shoppers in proximity to the item in the brick and mortar store. The method yet further includes establishing a collaborative communicative session through the Web site over a network between the online shopper and the detected one of the registered different shoppers. Finally, the method includes transmitting messages regarding the item between the online shopper and the detected one of the registered different shoppers over the session.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Darrell O. Bleakley, Louis M. Demmler, Aditya A. Desai, Michael P. Etgen, Stephen Kenna
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Patent number: 10282769Abstract: Embodiments of the present provide a method, system and computer program product for collaborative co-shopping in e-commerce. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for collaborative co-shopping in e-commerce includes registering different shoppers in a database for collaborative co-shopping and selecting an item for sale in an e-commerce Web site on behalf of an online shopper. The method also includes determining from the database a location of the item in a brick and mortar store and detecting one of the registered different shoppers in proximity to the item in the brick and mortar store. The method yet further includes establishing a collaborative communicative session through the Web site over a network between the online shopper and the detected one of the registered different shoppers. Finally, the method includes transmitting messages regarding the item between the online shopper and the detected one of the registered different shoppers over the session.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Darrell O. Bleakley, Louis M. Demmler, Aditya A. Desai, Michael P. Etgen, Stephen Kenna
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Patent number: 10269055Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for matching user provided images that include representations of items with sellers of those items. A management service, as described herein, may provide a web site where users can post images, view images, share images, correspond with other users, etc. The management service may identify items represented in the images and determine one or more sellers that offer those items for sale. When another user requests to view the user provided image, the image, seller information identifying the seller determined to sell the item represented in the image, and/or a purchase control that may be selected by a user to initiate a purchase with the seller is presented.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.Inventors: Michael Yamartino, Chao Wang, Sridatta Kaustubh Thatipamala, Yuan Wei
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Patent number: 10262432Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein that allow users to take photographs of objects from any angle and perspective and a rectification algorithm will rectify the angled photos to create scaled top-views of the objects. Rectified objects in the photographs will appear as if they were taken from directly above the object at an exact distance away from the object. Rectified and scaled photos of objects may be further segmented and/or overlaid on top of each other to enable quick visual sizing comparisons between two or more objects and/or accurate dimensional measurements between two or more objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Inventor: Gabriel Keilholz
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Patent number: 10255380Abstract: Some examples include displaying a user interface that includes attributes and entities that are determined to be related to an input entity identified by a user. Further, some implementations include displaying a structured data table that identifies attribute values associated with the input entity and selected related entities.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jun Yan, Ning Liu, Lei Ji, Zheng Chen
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Patent number: 10254234Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for product control of a product (20, 21), during or after a production process, at a transport arrangement (10, 11) which is arranged to transport the product (20, 21) to be controlled. The arrangement comprises a first camera arrangement (31) which is arranged to take at least one image of at least a part of the product (20, 21) when the product is in or at the transport arrangement (10, 11). The arrangement also comprises a first illumination arrangement (30; 60) which is arranged to emit light for detection by the first camera arrangement (31). The arrangement also comprises a computation unit which is arranged to receive said at least one image from the first camera arrangement (31) and to determine at least one geometrical property of the product (20, 21) based on said at least one image. The invention also relates to a method, a computer program and a computer program product for controlling a product which is transported during or after the production process.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Optonova Sweden ABInventor: Hans Ahlen
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Patent number: 10235388Abstract: In an example embodiment, a selection of an image in a user interface is received. Then information about the image is received. Then a look is identified for the image, wherein the look is a category for the image based at least in part on one or more visual attributes of the image as shown in the image The identified look is then compared with one or more item listings stored in a database to identify one or more matching item listings, the one or more matching item listings containing associated images that correspond to the look. Finally, the one or more matching item listings are displayed in the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Emily Zhang, Roy Leon Camp, Chenhao Alex Ma
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Patent number: 10226148Abstract: A method for operating a beverage preparation machine, by which at least one coffee unit for dispensing coffee and an additive unit for dispensing a beverage additive is provided. A plurality of beverage variants are displayed by an at least partly graphical display in a selection mode, and the beverage preparation machine is controlled by a selection of a beverage variant, said selection being carried out by a user, such that the selected beverage variant is automatically prepared and dispensed from an outlet. The invention is characterized in that at least one selection region and a preview region are displayed in an at least partly graphical manner in the selection mode. A plurality of selectable beverage variants are displayed in an at least partly graphical manner in the selection region, and a current selection carried out by the user in the selection region is displayed in an at least partly graphical manner in the preview region.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Franke Kaffeemaschinen AGInventors: Sascha Roth, Robin Franke
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Patent number: 10223354Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a vocabulary that includes text data that is provided as at least a portion of raw data, the raw data being provided in a computer-readable file, providing word embeddings based on the vocabulary, the word embeddings including word vectors for words included in the vocabulary, clustering word embeddings to provide a plurality of clusters, each cluster representing an aspect inferred from the vocabulary, determining a respective association score between each word in the vocabulary and a respective aspect, and providing a word ranking for each aspect based on the respective association scores.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Ruidan He, Daniel Dahlmeier
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Patent number: 10196144Abstract: A fact checking system utilizes social networking information and analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The social networking fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information and/or provides a status of the information, including automatically modifying a web page to include the fact check results. The fact checking system is able to be implemented utilizing a drone device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventor: Lucas J. Myslinski
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Patent number: 10157416Abstract: Methods for generating and sharing a virtual body model of a person, created with a small number of measurements and a single photograph, combined with one or more images of garments. The virtual body model represents a realistic representation of the users body and is used for visualizing photo-realistic fit visualizations of garments, hairstyles, make-up, and/or other accessories. The virtual garments are created from layers based on photographs of real garment from multiple angles. Furthermore the virtual body model is used in multiple embodiments of manual and automatic garment, make-up, and, hairstyle recommendations, such as, from channels, friends, and fashion entities. The virtual body model is sharable for, as example, visualization and comments on looks. Furthermore it is also used for enabling users to buy garments that fit other users, suitable for gifts or similar.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: METAIL LIMITEDInventors: Tom Adeyoola, Nick Brown, Nikki Trott, Edward Herbert, Duncan Robertson, Jim Downing, Nick Day, Robert Boland, Tom Boucher, Joe Townsend, Edward Clay, Tom Warren, Anoop Unadkat, Yu Chen
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Patent number: 10147079Abstract: A payment handling system may operate to handle payments for the cost of a transaction in which one or more devices operate in an offline mode. The payment handling system may allow for merchant devices to make modifications to local versions of an open ticket while in an off-line mode. When a merchant device subsequently enters an online mode, the systems and techniques may operate to reconcile differences between the local versions of the open ticket.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Philip Renke, Michael Wells White, Eric Dickeson Muller, Mathew Wilson
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Patent number: 10147135Abstract: A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method. The system may provide a virtual fitting system. The system may store sizing data including a 3-dimensional model of a target. The system may then receive user input data indicating the selection of a test object. In response to this identification, the system may receive a 3-dimensional model of the test object. The system can then apply the test object model to the target model to create a virtual fit model, and provide the virtual fit model to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Justin Wishne, Justin Smith, Karen Nickerson, Hannes Jouhikainen, Drew Jacobs, Marco S. Giampaolo
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Patent number: 10134075Abstract: Comparative decision systems and methods are disclosed for gathering and mining data representative of purchase decisions. One disclosed comparative decision system detects when a user is comparing items and provides the user with the ability to create a research note storing comparative information for the alternative items. The system displays information about items according to a variety of factors. The user can customize the factors and enter information for each alternative item according to the various factors. Some information may be pre-populated by the system. The research note may be made visible to other users, and may be suggested to another user based on the note's expected helpfulness and relevance to that user. One disclosed method for mining data stored within research notes identifies which factors are given higher relative priorities by users considering a purchase. Another mining method analyzes the effects of price changes on item popularity.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sameer R. Rajyaguru, Terrence R. Nightingale, Marvin M. Theimer
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Patent number: 10127606Abstract: In a system and method for searching, browsing, and visualizing items, a first image containing an item is received to be stored in an account associated with a user. The first image is processed using a processor to extract an image of the item from the first image. The image of the item is layered over a stream of video frames received from the client device to form a superimposed image. The superimposed image is caused to be displayed on the client device.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: John Tapley, David Beach
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Patent number: 10109001Abstract: The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for determining and displaying market relative positions and/or attributes of unique items. A visualization system for generating electronic visualizations of market-relative attributes of unique items comprises an item selection receiver, a visualization compilation engine, and a rendering engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: VAST.COM, INC.Inventors: Joshua Howard Levy, Thomas Wyatt Wilbur, Lauri Moore, Ron Maire Kurti, Benjamin David Cohen, Gary Joseph Marcotte
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Patent number: 10101585Abstract: According to one of aspects, a display device includes: a display unit configured to three-dimensionally display an object by displaying images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn; a detection unit configured to detect a real body that operates the object; and a control unit configured to change the object according to movement of the real body, and perform order processing for ordering a product corresponding to the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Ueno, Shigeki Tanabe
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Patent number: 10021082Abstract: A system includes at least one forms service computing device, the forms service computing device executing code to produce a user interface allowing access to the forms service, a user computing device in communication with the forms service computing device, the user computing device capable of displaying the user interface from the forms service computing device, and at least one file service computing device, wherein the file service computing device is in communication with the forms service computing device, the forms service computing device providing access to the file service computer device through the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: SURVERYMONKEY INC.Inventors: Johan Vu Lieu, Larry Le Kuang, Adam Harris Lichtenstein, Krishna Om Yoga Vemuri
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Patent number: 9965801Abstract: A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method. The system may provide a virtual fitting system. The system may store sizing data including a 3-dimensional model of a target. The system may then receive user input data indicating the selection of a test object. In response to this identification, the system may receive a 3-dimensional model of the test object. The system can then apply the test object model to the target model to create a virtual fit model, and provide the virtual fit model to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Justin Wishne, Justin Smith, Karen Nickerson, Hannes Jouhikainen, Drew Jacobs, Marco S. Giampaolo
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Patent number: 9898444Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for comparing images of network pages using computer vision to identify changes that have occurred between two versions of a network page. A first plurality of segments in a first image representing a first version of a network page are identified and a second plurality of segments in a second image representing a second version of the network page are identified. It is then determined whether each segment in the first plurality of segments matches a respective segment in the second plurality of segments or vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Oleg Rybakov, Andre Young Moeller, Ram Prasad Venkatesan
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Patent number: 9870582Abstract: A mobile device such as a tablet computer accesses a server to search a product catalog. The catalog is displayed as a broad classifications of products, which when selected result in the display of sub-classifications within the classification. Levels of searching are provided to the product level, and movement within each level is possible.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: McMaster-Carr Supply CompanyInventors: Ben Callanta, Hui Kang, Charleston Noble, Eric Olson, Tom Sherman, Alison Tisza
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Patent number: 9836747Abstract: A shopper-tailored virtual model of a physical storefront where items are located in a configuration specific to customer preferences, and a single virtual model corresponds to a different shopper, with said product arrangement continuously improving with the shopper's history of purchases, is achieved through an intuitive user interface of a mobile computing devise. The user experience is designed to invite shoppers to browse through the storefront planograms with a fast paced passing motion, intuitive picking and throwing of products within the basket, buy full recipes and added search features, it allows for speedy yet large purchases. The system's social capabilities enables shoppers to create, suggest and share recipes with specific ingredients available in the retailer stores, with the added value of having said recipes delivered to the shopper's desired location.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Inventor: Simon Borrero
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Patent number: 9830635Abstract: The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for determining and displaying market relative positions and/or attributes of unique items. A visualization system for generating electronic visualizations of market-relative attributes of unique items comprises an item selection receiver, a visualization compilation engine, and a rendering engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Howard Levy, Thomas Wyatt Wilbur, Lauri Janet Moore, Ron Maire Kurti, Benjamin David Cohen, Gary Joseph Marcotte
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Patent number: 9824379Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an avatar engine having a controller to retrieve a user profile of a user, present the user an avatar having characteristics that correlate to the user profile, detect one or more responses of the user during a communication exchange between the avatar and the user, identify from the one or more responses a need to engage in an e-commerce transaction, engage in a commercial exchange with a merchant system according to the e-commerce transaction, identify a commercial status of the e-commerce transaction from the commercial exchange with the merchant system, and present the user by way of the avatar the commercial status of the e-commerce transaction. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Madhur Khandelwal, E-Lee Chang, Horst Juergen Schroeter, Linda Roberts, Darnell Clayton
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Patent number: 9824391Abstract: A solution is provided for a method for a user to shop online in a three dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) setting by receiving a request at a shopping server to view a shopping location, having at least one store, and displaying the shopping location to the user's computer in a 3D interactive simulation view via a web browser to emulate a real-life shopping experience for the user. The server then obtains a request to enter into one of the stores and displays the store website to the user in the same web browser. The store website has one or more enhanced VR features. The server then receives a request to view at least one product and the product is presented in a 3D interactive simulation view to emulate a real-life viewing of the product.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: III Holdings 1, LLCInventors: Elliott Glazer, Carol Lee Hobson, Elizabeth S. Deming, Coby Royer, Jeff S. Fehlhaber
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Patent number: 9805503Abstract: A model generation machine may form all or part of a network-based system. The model generation machine may generate an item model (e.g., a 3D model of the item) based on a set of images of an item and based on a product model (e.g., a 3D model of a product of which the item is a specimen). The item may be available for purchase from a seller. The model generation machine may access the set of images, as well as a descriptor of the item. Based on the descriptor, the model generation machine may identify the product model. Accordingly, the model generation machine may generate the item model from the identified product model and the accessed set of images.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: EBAY INC.Inventor: Sajeev Pillai
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Patent number: 9760906Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, may be used for sharing revenue associated with a multimedia object. A content item on a web page that includes one or more advertisements may be identified along with an owner identification and a sharing level associated with the content item. The owner identification is associated with an owner account. A web page revenue amount generated from the one or more advertisements on the web page is calculated along with a share revenue amount based on the web page revenue amount and the sharing level, and the share revenue amount is applied to the owner account.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Shannon P. Bauman, Leslie Chiang
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Patent number: 9744466Abstract: An upsell engine that provides a purchaser of a first item the opportunity to purchase a second item that is related to said first item. The first item may be a virtual item and the second item may be a real world item related to or a representation of the virtual item. The upsell engine preferably tracks the preferences or personal information of the user in order to upsell real world representations of the virtual item.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Mattel, Inc.Inventor: Robb Fujioka
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Patent number: 9734218Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for rendering images of items in a ranked listing as a spiral on a network page. In one embodiment, a page builder ranks a listing of items according to a criterion provided by the user and generates a network page that depicts a spiral comprising a plurality of images, where each image is associated with one of the items in the ranked listing. The page builder arranges the images such that the image associated with the highest ranked item is located at the center of the spiral and the remaining images are arranged along a path of the spiral in decreasing order according to the ranking of the items associated with each of the respective remaining images. In addition, the page builder embeds a client side application that renders a shifting of the images when an image is selected by the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Minsoo Oh, Mario Vargas Adoc, Jr.
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Patent number: 9727834Abstract: A portable measurement system is described herein that provides accurate real-time data for a subject object at a job site. The acquired data may include photos, laser mapping, thermal images, sonar imaging, electronic measurements, or other types of measurement data. The system leverages commonly available remote control helicopters or other flying vehicles mounted with a camera or other equipment to acquire images or other measurement data that would be difficult to obtain without climbing onto a target structure or placing personnel in other dangerous situations. A portable platform is described herein that can include helicopters as well as other types of portable measurement devices that can fly or otherwise maneuver to capture measurement data at a job site. In many cases, these connected devices can provide near instant availability of captured data to a processing center or other remote location, reducing delays that are typical today.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Inventor: Jerome Reyes
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Patent number: 9646340Abstract: A method to help a user visualize how a wearable article will look on the user's body. Enacted on a computing system, the method includes receiving an image of the user's body from an image-capture component. Based on the image, a posable, three-dimensional, virtual avatar is constructed to substantially resemble the user. In this example method, data is obtained that identifies the wearable article as being selected for the user. This data includes a plurality of metrics that at least partly define the wearable article. Then, a virtualized form of the wearable article is attached to the avatar, which is provided to a display component for the user to review.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Jay Kapur, Sheridan Jones, Kudo Tsunoda
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Patent number: 9552587Abstract: System and methods are provided to create representations of geographic areas. Such representations enable users to search for items and services of interest and to quickly locate and utilize such items and services. Representations are created using user preferences thus reducing the amount of information presented to a user, i.e., user preferences control the contents of a representation. Control APIs contained within a representation may be used to control devices represented in a representation or to manufacture them using 3-D printing technologies. Methods to learn user preferences via his movements and other actions and impose a user's preferences upon an environment are shown. Some details of the invention are described by applying the invention to problems in retail marketing and figures depicting an implementation illustrate certain aspects of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Sensoriant, Inc.Inventor: Shamim A. Naqvi
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Patent number: 9489400Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating one or more user interfaces that enable filtering of the contents of a collection of items based on user interaction with item images. For example, an initial configuration can be generated including image thumbnails corresponding to each of a number of items. One or more of the thumbnails may be selected by a user to indicate a desired filter range. When a user interacts with the thumbnails, for example, by selecting a thumbnail or range of thumbnails, the initial configuration and/or an associated collection of items for presentation may be updated to present images of items in the selected filter range.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Robert Yuji Haitani
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Patent number: 9418706Abstract: A method of displaying a plurality of items is described. The items are arranged in a plurality of hierarchical levels, each of the hierarchical levels comprises a plurality of sets of items, each set comprising at least one of the plurality of items and each item has associated therewith at least one other item in another hierarchical level. An item within a first hierarchical level is selected (step 206), at least two sets of items of at least one second hierarchical level (the second hierarchical level being a level lower than the first hierarchical level) are arranged in an order determined by the selected one of the items (step 208) and the ordered sets of items are displayed (step 210).Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventor: Ronaldus Hermanus Theodorus Oosterholt
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Patent number: 9400835Abstract: The semantics of a relational database may be modeled using an entity-relationship (ER) diagram that represents entities and the relations between the entities. Systems and methods are provided for automatically composing meaningful thumbnails/composited images or visuals from ER diagrams and their associated databases by using the semantics of the underlying data model. First, the most meaningful relations in which a given data element participates are extracted. Second, composited images are composed depicting these relations using a domain-specific visual language and rendering techniques based on the relative weighting of the relations.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Vidya Setlur
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Patent number: 9373025Abstract: Information from a position and/or gesture detection system can be embedded in a Web page, or other such presentation of content, and used to select or otherwise interact with content on the page. In some embodiments, video is captured and displayed showing a current view of the user. Position data corresponding to the video is provided and used to determine directions and extents of motion without having to do significant amounts of image processing. The position data is used to determine locations on the page where the user is attempting to provide input, such as to select an item of content. The content can be modified and/or rendered to appear to be associated with the user in the rendered view. Information from multiple gesture systems can be combined on a single page, and information from one or more gesture systems can be shared among multiple pages and devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: A9.com, Inc.Inventors: Matthew W. Amacker, Joel D. Tesler
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Patent number: 9338018Abstract: A system and method that include receiving a communication pricing query; mapping the communication pricing query to a billable item; resolving a price of a billable item within a set of hierarchically defined pricing models with sparse overrides, wherein each pricing model is defined for a set of billable items; and returning the price of the billable item in a response to the communication pricing query.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Twilio, Inc.Inventors: Robert Hageman, Adam Ballai, Timothy S. Milliron
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Patent number: 9245499Abstract: Processing a set of images is disclosed, including: receiving a set of images; and searching for a representation of a user's face associated with the set of images and a plurality of sets of extrinsic information corresponding to respective ones of at least a subset of the set of images. Rendering a glasses frame is disclosed, including: receiving a selection associated with the glasses frame; rendering the glasses frame using at least a representation of a user's face and a set of extrinsic information corresponding to an image in a recorded set of images; and overlaying the rendered glasses frame on the image.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Ditto Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sergey Surkov, Dmitry Kornilov