Patents Examined by William Allen
  • Patent number: 10019752
    Abstract: A display (1203) displays product information acquired from a server in a scrollable manner. An estimator (1204) estimates whether or not a user has read warning information included in the product information. If it is estimated that the warning information has been read, and an order object included in the product information is operated by the user, a notifier (1205) notifies an electronic shopping mall server (10) of a purchase order by the user for the product related to the product information. The display (1203) displays a first object superimposed onto the product information while it is estimated that the warning information has not been read, and if the first object is operated by the user, the display (1203) scrolls the product information so that the warning information is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Rei Kashima
  • Patent number: 9959559
    Abstract: In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method for prioritizing search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The system comprises a communications module to receive a search query from a searching party located in a geographic region and a search engine to conduct a search and generate search results. A query engine identifies the geographic region of the searching party and identifies a language associated with the identified geographic region of the searching party based on the identified geographic region of the searching party. The search results are prioritized based on the identified language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Frederic Billou
  • Patent number: 9911152
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing a platform to provide virtual storefronts to consumers. Environmental elements are associated with specific consumer services on computer server. A user in the environment takes audio or visual recordings of an environmental element and uploads the recordings to the server. The server determines the appropriate consumer service associated with the recorded environmental element and provides the user with a reference to the service. Accordingly, any space, such as a bus stop, subway or train terminal, movie theater, or airport, may be turned into a virtual store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Jessica Graham, Tuomo Korpinen
  • Patent number: 9865015
    Abstract: A method for making purchases with a mobile device at a physical location is described. A service provider receives information about an item available for purchase, and this information is projected on a surface. A user in the vicinity of the surface views the projected information and provides input through the user's mobile device. The projected information changes based on the input. The user selects an item for purchase and pays for the selected item through the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Ali Minaei Moghadam, John Lunn
  • Patent number: 9852435
    Abstract: A population activity mapping method may include detecting a plurality of wireless mobile devices within a geographic region. Individual wireless mobile devices may include a processor, a user interface, a transmitter and a receiver. The detecting operation may be performed by use of a wireless access point, a GPS satellite, and/or a base station, and may be performed at least two different points in time. Input data may be provided based upon the detecting operation. A distance and speed at which the mobile devices travel within the geographic region may be discerned dependent upon the input data. The discerning operation is performed by at least one processor of a computer network. A time and/or location at which salable output is to be made available and/or an amount of salable output to be made available may be determined dependent upon the discerning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Wolfe
  • Patent number: 9846901
    Abstract: Techniques for product recommendation involve receiving, from a user, a request for recommendation of a product matching one or more characteristics specified in the request. In response to the request, a product may be identified for recommendation, at least in part by searching an ontology in which the identified product is represented as matching at least one of the characteristics specified in the request. The ontology may further include at least one link to at least one natural language product review providing supporting evidence that the identified product matches the at least one characteristic. At least a portion of the at least one natural language product review may be retrieved using the at least one link in the ontology, and presented to the user in support of a recommendation of the identified product, in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Marisa Ferrara Boston, Richard Stamford Crouch, Ali Erdem Ozcan, Peter Stubley, Francis Pieraut, Sylvain Goulet
  • Patent number: 9846894
    Abstract: The present disclosure identifies and/or delivers tailored content based upon a service dialog. For example, the systems may receive a request for tailored content, facilitate a service dialog to obtain information related to the request, and communicate a plurality of tailored content based upon the information related to the request. Further, the systems may identify tailored content based upon a consumer profile, communicate the tailored content to a web client, and/or receive a selection of the tailored content. Further still, the systems may modify a magazine (e.g., content that is presented electronically) based upon tailored content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Troy P. Williams
  • Patent number: 9842357
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products personalize haptic emulations of merchandise. A query regarding an article of merchandise having an associated digital image is made and the digital image is modified based on a personal anatomical image and anthropometrical data associated with a user by personalizing a portion of the digital image to the user, such that a haptic emulation of the article of merchandise is modified in accordance with the anthropometrical data and provided with the modified digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Srilal Weerasinghe
  • Patent number: 9830328
    Abstract: The MULTI-SOURCE, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, CROSS-ENTITY, MULTIMEDIA MERCHANT ANALYTICS DATABASE PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“MDB”) transform data aggregated from various computer resources using MDB components into updated entity profiles and/or social graphs. In one implementation, the MDB aggregates data records including search results, purchase transaction data, service usage data, service enrollment data, and social data. The MDB identifies data field types within the data records and their associated data values. From the data field types and their associated data values, the MDB identifies an entity. The MDB generates correlations of the entity to other entities identifiable from the data field types and their associated data values. The MDB also associates attributes to the entity by drawing inferences related to the entity from the data field types and their associated data values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Patrick Faith, Theodore David Harris
  • Patent number: 9830635
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Vast.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Howard Levy, Thomas Wyatt Wilbur, Lauri Janet Moore, Ron Maire Kurti, Benjamin David Cohen, Gary Joseph Marcotte
  • Patent number: 9824380
    Abstract: A method for coordinating a business transaction between a selling vendor and a shipping vendor including the steps of: presenting the shipping vendors selected by a transaction coordination hub to the selling vendor; approving at least one of the shipping vendors based on input of selling vendor; accepting an offer of the transaction based on the input of the shipping vendor; collecting payment, including commission from the selling vendor using a payment managing module; paying the shipping vendor using the payment management module; paying a shipping company and scheduling a time for product retrieval by the shipping company, using the payment management module and a shipping managing module; and tracking the product until delivery to a consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Formula Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Manish Chowdhary, Andrei Rosca
  • Patent number: 9824382
    Abstract: Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring user information associated with one or more users for use in generating one or more customized food items that are customized specifically for the one or more users, the user information to be acquired including at least one or more user preferences related to integrity of one or more food ingredients to be included in the one or more customized food items; and directing generation of the one or more customized food items for the one or more users, the one or more customized food items having been customized to show one or more visual indicators that provide customized information that has been customized in accordance, at least in part, with the acquired user information. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Elwha, LLC
    Inventors: Pablos Holman, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, Max R. Levchin, Royce A. Levien, Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Robert C. Petroski, Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Victoria Y. H. Wood
  • Patent number: 9799066
    Abstract: An electronic commerce system configured to implement a product ordering method for receiving a product search inquiry from an input device, displaying a plurality of products in a product listing available from purchase based on the product search inquiry on an output device, receiving a selection of a product, and displaying a first product information page including at least a product name, a product price, general product information, a first product ordering link for accessing a product ordering interface and a product information detail link. The system further includes a secondary product information display system configured to display a product datasheet including the product name, the general product information, product technical information and a commercial function display including at least one of a second product ordering link for accessing the product ordering interface and an inventory reporting display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Bluesky Datasheets, LLC
    Inventors: Jamil Nizam, Amir Nizam
  • Patent number: 9792644
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting aircraft acquisition and brokerage services for aircraft of different models, and aircraft manufactured by a plurality of different manufacturers. The system and method maintains extensive database regarding a wide-range of aircraft information and market information, and uses one or more computer servers adapted serving organized information to the user, who may be using a user terminal, for providing support to the user for determining appropriate aircraft for purchase by customers for meeting the particular needs of the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Jet Advisors, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin O'Leary
  • Patent number: 9785992
    Abstract: A personalized stored value card and teaser presentation creation system includes a server included with instructions to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) on a second computing device, receive user-supplied content including at least one of user-supplied textual, audio, image, or video content, receive stored value card information associated with a merchant of a stored value card and a monetary amount to be associated with the stored value card, and transmit the received user-supplied content to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Gift Card Impressions, LLC
    Inventors: Brett R. Glass, Nicole E. Glass
  • Patent number: 9785997
    Abstract: A method for multi-selection gifting, including identifying a mufti-selection gift, the mufti-selection gift comprising (i) a gift recipient, (ii) a plurality of gift choices, each gift choice being either an individual item of merchandise or a group of items of merchandise, and (iii) a designated maximum cost of gift choices that may be selected, and interactively guiding the gift recipient in selecting one or more of the plurality of gift choices without exceeding the designated maximum cost, including un-grouping a group of items in a gift choice into a plurality of individual items, and re-grouping a plurality of items into a group, if the plurality of items were originally part of the same group in the mufti-selection gift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Shop MA, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael George Smith
  • Patent number: 9779447
    Abstract: A rendering constraint is detected for a maximum time between capture of each a plurality of frames of a captured video stream of a consumer and a rendering of each corresponding frame of a consumer representation comprising a rendered three dimensional model rendered to depict a consumer appearance and a movement wearing a particular merchandise item. Processor elements accessible to the at least one computing system are selected that are able to generate the rendered three dimensional model within the time period specified in the rendering constraint. At least one processing task is directed to the selected processor elements to build the consumer representation comprising the three dimensional model and generate a rendering of the three dimensional model wearing the particular merchandise item as the captured video stream is received in real time at the at least one computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael A. Paolini
  • Patent number: 9773274
    Abstract: A system and method for virtually fitting an article of clothing on an accurate representation of a user's body obtained by 3D scanning of the user in minimal clothing and in standard garments of known properties. A graphical user interface allows the user to access a database of garments and accessories available for selection for the virtual fitting simulation for which each garment's physical and material properties are known. A finite element analysis is applied to determine the shape of the combined user body and garment and a an accurate visual representation of the selected garment or accessory on the proportional model of the user's body based on the analysis is generated. Means are also provided for the user to solicit custom garments or accessories from a participating designer or retailer, purchase selected garments or accessories from the participating designer or retailer, and communicate his or her preferences with participating designers, retailers, or other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Inventors: Scott William Curry, Luis Antonio Sosa
  • Patent number: 9767504
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for related search suggestions for products. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query for searching documents wherein the query specifies a first product. A number of occurrences of the first product in a plurality of prior queries of the documents submitted by users is determined. A product category for the first product is determined based on one or more attributes associated with the first product, the category having a predetermined plurality of category attributes. A suggested product is selected wherein the suggested product is associated with attributes that satisfy the category attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Rajat Mukherjee, Abhinandan S. Das, Jennifer Liu Low, Dan Moisa
  • Patent number: 9760941
    Abstract: Processing items is provided. Multiple modes of fulfillment are identified for the items. The items are processed with the multiple modes of fulfillment in a single transaction for a customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Ram Sangireddy