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  • ALERT MODIFICATION BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY
    Publication number: 20190173826
    Abstract: An alert system and method may include receiving a notification message, identifying a content of the notification message, in response to receiving the notification message, analyzing a social media activity of the user to determine that the content of the notification message is relevant to the social media activity of the user, and alerting, by the processor, the user of the notification message in accordance with a modified alert preference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jeremy Greenberger, Zachary Greenberger
  • ALERT MODIFICATION BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY
    Publication number: 20190260704
    Abstract: An alert system and method may include receiving a notification message, identifying a content of the notification message, in response to receiving the notification message, analyzing a social media activity of the user to determine that the content of the notification message is relevant to the social media activity of the user, and alerting, by the processor, the user of the notification message in accordance with a modified alert preference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jeremy Greenberger, Zachary Greenberger
  • Alert modification based on social media activity
    Patent number: 10326726
    Abstract: An alert system and method may include receiving a notification message, identifying a content of the notification message, in response to receiving the notification message, analyzing a social media activity of the user to determine that the content of the notification message is relevant to the social media activity of the user, and alerting, by the processor, the user of the notification message in accordance with a modified alert preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jeremy Greenberger, Zachary Greenberger
  • EXECUTING DIGITAL ACTIONS IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20190362406
    Abstract: A topic based conversation retrieval system and method may include receiving information related to a location or orientation of a user in a retail environment, determining the location or orientation of the user, determining a product of interest for the user based at least in part on the location or orientation of the user, where the determining occurs during a first visit by the user to the retail environment, and adding the product of interest to the list of products of interest to the user based on the received request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Greenberger, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Zachary Greenberger
  • Alert modification based on social media activity
    Patent number: 10931619
    Abstract: An alert system and method may include receiving a notification message, identifying a content of the notification message, in response to receiving the notification message, analyzing a social media activity of the user to determine that the content of the notification message is relevant to the social media activity of the user, and alerting, by the processor, the user of the notification message in accordance with a modified alert preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jeremy Greenberger, Zachary Greenberger
  • REFERRAL COMPENSATION USING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
    Publication number: 20190228427
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining, by machine logic, interactions data specifying attributes of interactions with posted social media promotional content promoting a product, wherein the product is subject to an initiated purchase transaction, and wherein the interactions include interactions by a plurality of users; attributing, by machine logic, referral credit for the purchase transaction to users of the plurality of users based on the examining; and providing one or more output based on the attributing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DELUCA, Jeremy A. GREENBERGER, Zachary GREENBERGER
  • PREDICTING GEOFENCE PERFORMANCE FOR OPTIMIZED LOCATION BASED SERVICES
    Publication number: 20190164081
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: predicting a performance of one or more candidate geofence and presenting an indicator of a result of the predicting; obtaining administrator user defined selection data of a selected candidate geofence; based on the obtaining the selection data deploying a selected candidate geofence, the selected candidate geofence defining a deployed geofence on deployment thereof; and providing one or more output based on an occurrence of a geofence event of the deployed geofence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DELUCA, Jeremy A. Greenberger, Zachary GREENBERGER
  • Referral compensation using social interactions
    Patent number: 10937045
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining, by machine logic, interactions data specifying attributes of interactions with posted social media promotional content promoting a product, wherein the product is subject to an initiated purchase transaction, and wherein the interactions include interactions by a plurality of users; attributing, by machine logic, referral credit for the purchase transaction to users of the plurality of users based on the examining; and providing one or more output based on the attributing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat Deluca, Jeremy A. Greenberger, Zachary Greenberger
  • Predicting geofence performance for optimized location based services
    Patent number: 11281992
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: predicting a performance of one or more candidate geofence and presenting an indicator of a result of the predicting; obtaining administrator user defined selection data of a selected candidate geofence; based on the obtaining the selection data deploying a selected candidate geofence, the selected candidate geofence defining a deployed geofence on deployment thereof; and providing one or more output based on an occurrence of a geofence event of the deployed geofence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Jeremy A. Greenberger, Zachary Greenberger
  • PHYSICAL PRODUCT INTERACTION BASED SESSION
    Publication number: 20190220871
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining product interaction data, the product interaction data being in dependence on a user's interaction with an item within a venue; examining, by machine logic, data of the product interaction data, wherein the examining includes examining of data of the product interaction data to determine that the user has interacted with the item; configuring, by machine logic, a webpage that specifies product information, wherein the configuring is based on the examining data of the product interaction data, and wherein the configuring is performed in response to a communication received from the user; and sending the configured webpage to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Jeremy A. GREENBERGER, Zachary GREENBERGER
  • TARGETED CONTENT WITH IMAGE CAPTURE
    Publication number: 20190227306
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and visual display apparatus include a processor(s) obtaining, via a camera device, a unique identifier, wherein the unique identifier was captured by the image capture functionality of the camera device during a given temporal period. Based on the unique identifier, the processor(s) determines an application, where a graphical user interface of the application, when rendered through a client during the given temporal period, displayed the unique identifier (and was captured by the camera device). The processor(s) obtain, from the camera device, identifying data relevant to a user associated with the camera device. Based on the unique identifier and the identifying data, the processor(s) provides content targeted to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Greenberger, Jana H. Jenkins, Zachary Greenberger, Lisa Seacat Deluca
  • Amelioration of traffic gridlock conditions
    Patent number: 10140859
    Abstract: A risk of at least one vehicle blocking an intersection is determined. One or more ameliorative actions are determined based on the risk. At least one of the one or more ameliorative actions are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Greenberger, Zachary M. Greenberger, Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam
  • LOCATION-SPECIFIC NOTIFICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
    Publication number: 20190213639
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a processing circuit and logic integrated with the processing circuit, executable by the processing circuit, or integrated with and executable by the processing circuit. The logic is configured to cause the processing circuit to determine, using a location feature of a mobile device of a user, whether the user is located at a first personalized location of a plurality of personalized locations specific to the user, each of the plurality of personalized locations being a physical location previously visited by the user. The logic is also configured to cause the processing circuit to output at least one notification specific to the first personalized location on the mobile device in response to a determination that the user is located at the first personalized location. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are presented in accordance with more embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Greenberger, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Zachary Greenberger
  • AUGMENTING MESSAGES BASED ON SENDER LOCATION
    Publication number: 20190356769
    Abstract: A system and method for augmenting a graphical user interface by filtering options within a text message displayed within the graphical user interface includes determining that a content of the text message includes a plurality of options, receiving a location information of the sending device, the location information of the sending device being used to determine a venue corresponding to a physical location of the sending device, determining that the venue corresponding to the physical location of the sending device is relevant to the plurality of options, retrieving a contextual information from the venue about the plurality of choices, and augmenting the graphical user interface of the sending device by appending the contextual information to the plurality of options of the text message, such that the graphical user interface of the sending device simultaneously displays both the contextual information and the plurality of options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Thembani Togwe, Zachary Greenberger, Jeremy A. Greenberger
  • AUGMENTING MESSAGES BASED ON SENDER LOCATION
    Publication number: 20200092412
    Abstract: A system and method for augmenting a graphical user interface by filtering options within a text message displayed within the graphical user interface includes determining that a content of the text message includes a plurality of options, receiving a location information of the sending device, the location information of the sending device being used to determine a venue corresponding to a physical location of the sending device, determining that the venue corresponding to the physical location of the sending device is relevant to the plurality of options, retrieving a contextual information from the venue about the plurality of choices, and augmenting the graphical user interface of the sending device by appending the contextual information to the plurality of options of the text message, such that the graphical user interface of the sending device simultaneously displays both the contextual information and the plurality of options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Thembani Togwe, Zachary Greenberger, Jeremy A. Greenberger
  • Targeted content with image capture
    Patent number: 10761322
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and visual display apparatus include a processor(s) obtaining, via a camera device, a unique identifier, wherein the unique identifier was captured by the image capture functionality of the camera device during a given temporal period. Based on the unique identifier, the processor(s) determines an application, where a graphical user interface of the application, when rendered through a client during the given temporal period, displayed the unique identifier (and was captured by the camera device). The processor(s) obtain, from the camera device, identifying data relevant to a user associated with the camera device. Based on the unique identifier and the identifying data, the processor(s) provides content targeted to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Greenberger, Jana H. Jenkins, Zachary Greenberger, Lisa Seacat Deluca
  • Hashtag Segmentation
    Publication number: 20180189394
    Abstract: Segmenting hashtags is provided. A selection of a sub-hashtag contained within a hashtag is received from a client device via a network. A set of content linked only to the selected sub-hashtag within the hashtag is retrieved. The set of content linked only to the selected sub-hashtag is sent to the client device via the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Robert H. Grant, Jeremy A. Greenberger, Zachary M. Greenberger, Trudy L. Hewitt
  • MAPPING MOBILE DEVICE INTERACTIONS AND LOCATION ZONES IN A VENUE FOR USE IN SENDING NOTIFICATIONS
    Publication number: 20200005356
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: receiving, by one or more processor, floor area data, zone data, trigger interaction data, and notification data associated with the products offered for sale in the different zones. The method can include receiving, by the one or more processor, triggering event data regarding a product or products in response to user interaction with a mobile device in the venue and location data of the mobile device in the venue at the time of the triggering event data, automatically determining whether the received triggering event data and the received location data match an associated zone data and trigger interaction data, and automatically sending an associated notification to the mobile device regarding purchase of a product or products in the venue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jeremy A. GREENBERGER, Zachary GREENBERGER, Matthew J. MARGOLIS, Ciaran HANNIGAN
  • Augmenting messages based on sender location
    Patent number: 11057512
    Abstract: A system and method for augmenting a graphical user interface by filtering options within a text message displayed within the graphical user interface includes determining that a content of the text message includes a plurality of options, receiving a location information of the sending device, the location information of the sending device being used to determine a venue corresponding to a physical location of the sending device, determining that the venue corresponding to the physical location of the sending device is relevant to the plurality of options, retrieving a contextual information from the venue about the plurality of choices, and augmenting the graphical user interface of the sending device by appending the contextual information to the plurality of options of the text message, such that the graphical user interface of the sending device simultaneously displays both the contextual information and the plurality of options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thembani Togwe, Zachary Greenberger, Jeremy A. Greenberger
  • Augmenting messages based on sender location
    Patent number: 10547734
    Abstract: A system and method for augmenting a graphical user interface by filtering options within a text message displayed within the graphical user interface includes determining that a content of the text message includes a plurality of options, receiving a location information of the sending device, the location information of the sending device being used to determine a venue corresponding to a physical location of the sending device, determining that the venue corresponding to the physical location of the sending device is relevant to the plurality of options, retrieving a contextual information from the venue about the plurality of choices, and augmenting the graphical user interface of the sending device by appending the contextual information to the plurality of options of the text message, such that the graphical user interface of the sending device simultaneously displays both the contextual information and the plurality of options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thembani Togwe, Zachary Greenberger, Jeremy A. Greenberger
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