Discount Or Incentive (e.g., Coupon, Rebate, Offer, Upsale, Etc.) Patents (Class 705/14.1)
  • Patent number: 12294623
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and application for digital media that allows users to share a media playlist and synchronize playing for all connected users. The user browses their device for media files to create a playlist, and then hosts the playlist over an existing local area network or creates a Wi-Fi hotspot. The playlist may be encrypted to provide a form of digital rights management. Other users are then prompted to download the playlist and send the host a calculated playback delay. Once all users have completed downloading the playlist the hosting user is prompted to press play, pushing timing information that takes into account the largest delay to all connected users via the active local area network, resulting in all devices playing the media in synchronicity for the duration of the playlist. Additional users may opt in during playback and use the timing information to synchronize their devices' playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Barrett Adams
  • Patent number: 12293325
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating delivery of one or more products is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from a purchaser to purchase one or more products from a desired store and receiving a mode of delivery of the one or more products from the purchaser. The method further includes determining the personal shopper for delivering the one or more products from the desired store to the purchaser based on the received request, received mode of delivery and predefined information by using a product delivery based AI model and obtaining an approval from the personal shopper for the received request of the purchaser. The method includes generating an order schedule and a dynamic navigation map for the personal shopper. Further, the method includes outputting the order schedule and the dynamic navigation map on a graphical user interface of one or more purchaser devices and personal shopper device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Srirajasekhar Koritala
  • Patent number: 12293380
    Abstract: A physical coupon redemption system may include a mobile device associated with a retailer, and a coupon redemption server. The server may obtain a first physical coupon image from the mobile device for a corresponding first physical coupon, and generate a first validation code based upon the first physical coupon image and the retailer. The server may also communicate the first validation code to the mobile device for the given retailer to add the first validation code to the first physical coupon, and obtain a second physical coupon image from the mobile wireless communications device for a corresponding second physical coupon and having a second validation code therein. The server may also determine whether the first and second validation codes match and determine whether the first and second physical coupon images indicate a match between the corresponding first and second physical coupons, and when so redeem the first physical coupon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
    Inventor: Lisa Smitherman
  • Patent number: 12292745
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for imposing physical actions, by endpoints, based on activities by users. One such method includes storing multiple rules in a data structure, where each of the multiple rules indicates a physical action to be performed in response to an activity, and then receiving, by a computing device, an activity message including data indicative of an activity of a user. The method also includes retrieving, by the computing device, one of the multiple rules from the data structure based on the data indicative of the activity and identifying, by the computing device, the physical action included in the one of the multiple rules. The method then includes transmitting, by the computing device, an order for the identified physical action to an endpoint, whereby the endpoint commands a drone to perform the identified physical action as a response to the activity of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Simon O'Regan, Femi Odunuga, Thomas Veraart
  • Patent number: 12293316
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for identifying supply chain segmentations from an initially non-segmented supply chain is disclosed. Embodiments of identifying supply chain segmentations includes receiving a current state of items in a supply chain network, wherein an inventory of the one or more supply chain entities is used to store one or more items, organizing one or more supply chain entities into one or more customer clusters, associating supply chain models for customer clusters, and transporting items among one or more supply chain entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexis Rotenberg
  • Patent number: 12288246
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides various methods and embodiments for alerting a customer when requested food items are not available. When a customer places a grocery request, the system determines whether the requested items are available. If the system determines the requested items are not available, an alert is sent to the customer before a scheduled pick up time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: eyaL E-Commerce LLC
    Inventors: Alexica T. Laye, Jade O. Laye
  • Patent number: 12282936
    Abstract: An omni-channel coupon system may link electronic coupons across several couponing channels by storing the electronic coupons in association with a user profile or loyalty account. A user may clip electronic coupons from several couponing channels, such as a mobile application, retail web page, social networking web page, email, short message service (SMS) message, a physical coupon, a manufacturer/third-party web page or other affiliated web page, a manufacturer/third-party application, etc. Each clipped electronic coupon may be stored with a user profile for the user. When the user purchases products or items at an online or retail store, the electronic coupons may be retrieved from the user profile and redeemed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Jason Fei, Rosie Bu
  • Patent number: 12277578
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for dynamically managing advertiser affiliate links for online marketing. A global redirect server accepts a visitor's web browser request for a product or non-product webpage associated with an affiliate network advertiser URL, and returns a corresponding product or non-product webpage to the visitor that is corrected for the visitor's geographic region if such a webpage exists, or returns the originally requested webpage if it does not. The server determines the visitor's geographic region based upon request metadata, and can generate a corrected webpage that affords analytic and commission tracking even if no corresponding affiliate network exists in the determined geographic region. The server includes a database for locating products within the determined geographic region that are comparable to the product of the product webpage request, in the event that the exact product is not available in the geographic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: rewardStyle, Inc.
    Inventors: Forrest Jordan, Baxter Box
  • Patent number: 12277859
    Abstract: A processor may receive a route request from a user. The processor may receive data associated with predicted routes of one or more nearby vehicles. The processor may select a recipient vehicle from the one or more nearby vehicles, where the recipient vehicle is selected based on recipient selection criteria. The processor may determine one or more driving change requests for the recipient vehicle. The processor may send the one or more driving change requests and a proposed token to the recipient vehicle. The processor may provide a token to the recipient vehicle in response to the recipient vehicle implementing the driving change requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gandhi Sivakumar, Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya, Vijay Ekambaram, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri, Ashok Pon Kumar Sree Prakash
  • Patent number: 12273465
    Abstract: A method including transmitting, by an infrastructure device to a distributor device, an invitation link to enable the distributor device to distribute to a user device network services provided by the infrastructure device; transmitting, by the infrastructure device to the distributor device based on the distributor device activating the invitation link, seed information to be utilized by the distributor device to determine a distributor key pair including a distributor public key and a distributor private key; receiving, by the infrastructure device from the distributor device, an action request related to an action to be performed regarding the network services, a portion of the action request being signed based on utilizing the distributor private key; and enabling, by the infrastructure device, performance of the action regarding the network services based on validating the action request by utilizing the distributor public key is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: UAB 360 IT
    Inventors: Dovydas Bespalovas, Mindaugas Valkaitis
  • Patent number: 12265974
    Abstract: Certain of the disclosed embodiments present a system and method for providing in-home targeted advertisements to individual consumers. For instance, the disclosed embodiments include an in-home advertising device that enables a user to interact with the in-home advertising device and purchase items with the push of a button. Additionally, in some embodiments, the in-home advertising device may include a built in printer for enabling a user to print an advertised and/or coupon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Oohdoo, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Engel, Darren W. Collins
  • Patent number: 12260693
    Abstract: A system and method for locating fitness centers within a user's geographic area and gaining access and redeeming time-based memberships to fitness centers through an integrated mobile computer application via a mobile electronic device (e.g., smartphone, electronic tablet). The integrated mobile computer application allows an individual user to purchase a time-based membership (e.g., one day, two day, three day, one week, one month, etc.) from participating fitness centers using the integrated mobile computer application, redeem and activate the time-based membership upon check-in at a selected fitness center, and then continue to subsequently check-in at the selected fitness center throughout the term of the purchased time-based membership. In a preferred embodiment, initial check-in, activation and subsequent check-in at the selected fitness center is achieved through an electronic validation process using the user's mobile electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: GOGYM APP, INC.
    Inventors: Elliot Slavic, Schaeffer Slavic
  • Patent number: 12254470
    Abstract: A method includes generating a media object; associating the media object with a trigger action; monitoring user activity of a user to detect an occurrence of the trigger action by the user; in response to detection of the occurrence of the trigger action by the user, modifying the media object to generate a modified media object; minting the modified media object as a non-fungible token (NFT) on a blockchain network; associating a dynamic value with the NFT, the dynamic value configured to change as a function of at least time according to an algorithm; providing the NFT to the user; in response to the user initiating redemption of the NFT in connection with an electronic payment transaction having a transaction amount, determining the dynamic value of the NFT based on the algorithm; and processing the electronic payment transaction by applying the dynamic value to the transaction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: BingQuan Zhang, Gabriel Teo Yu Xiang
  • Patent number: 12243104
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system that may facilitate communications so that parents or other superiors may monitor driving behavior of a vehicle carrying children or other subordinates. The system may allow communications to be sent from a parent computing device to a particular child computing device to set conditions for notifying the parent or superior of the driving behavior of a vehicle. Child computing devices may collect drive data (e.g., vehicle telematics data) for the system to evaluate and determine whether conditions are met (e.g., whether parental restrictions, like a geo-fence, are violated). Further, the system may send notifications to child computing devices and parent computing devices indicating whether the drive data meets the conditions of an agreement between a parent and teen. The system may also provide a web portal for use in forming the agreement between parents and their teens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ARITY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Imran Iqbal, Srinath Gopalan, Yuval Saban
  • Patent number: 12244745
    Abstract: A method for improving communication security implemented by a sending device. The method includes the sending device generating a first hash token based on a K generation hash (HK) value of a seed known only to the sending device, where K is an integer value greater than one, and sending a first message that includes the first hash token. The method further includes the sending device performing a reversible combination of a K?1 generation hash (HK?1) value of the seed and a hash of the first message to generate a second hash token, and sending the second message that includes the second hash token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Donald E. Eastlake, III
  • Patent number: 12243070
    Abstract: A computer system can automatically populate graphical elements on a user interface. The system can receive sets of information from a plurality of third-party server operators. The system can create, for each set of information, a graphical element for the user interface. The system can collect, via the user interface, a first set of data from a plurality of users. The system can train a machine-learning model to determine at least one pattern in activities using the first set of data. The system can collect, via the user interface, a second set of data from a specific user. The system can apply the machine-learning model to the second set of data to predict a pattern in activities associated with the specific user. The system can automatically populate at least one graphical element for the user interface based on the pattern in activities associated with the specific user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Truist Bank
    Inventors: Alex Heath Misiaszek, Sarah Katherine Nash
  • Patent number: 12235893
    Abstract: Provided are an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting information of interest to many users to a product provider related to the information from an image group of a plurality of users. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a plurality of users, and an image analysis unit detects an imaging location of each image and an object appearing in each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-type images which are captured at the same imaging location and in which the same object appears, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-type images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kei Yamaji
  • Patent number: 12236432
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for automated and adaptive cloud security management. Embodiments provide for, at an electronic device configured to interface with a cloud computing environment, initiating one or more transactions in the cloud computing environment using a first identifier to cause a first service of the cloud computing environment to generate a first set of data including the first identifier and a second identifier, and a second service of the cloud computing environment to generate a second set of data including a third identifier and a fourth identifier. Embodiments also provide for automatically determining whether the first identifier corresponds to the third identifier, and, in accordance with a determination that the first identifier corresponds to the third identifier, associating the second identifier and the fourth identifier to generate a linkage between the first and second services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SecureSky, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Hrabik
  • Patent number: 12223524
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining virtual product placement opportunities in a media content and determining product candidates for virtual insertion into the media content. The product placement system may determine shot segments from the media content and for each shot segment may determine candidate product placement locations. The product placement system may determine contextual information from the shot segments and from the contextual information determine candidate products suitable for the product placement locations. The product placement system may determine total screen time for each product placement opportunity as well as quality of each opportunity. For each product and product placement opportunity, the product placement system may determine an expected revenue and a projected insertion cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mauricio Alejandro Flores Rios, Han-Kai Hsu, Yujia Chen, Linda Liu, Yash Chaturvedi
  • Patent number: 12216632
    Abstract: Example embodiments involve a system and methods for identifying valuable view item pages for search engine optimization. The system and methods provide an improvement over existing systems, which do nothing to identify or select valuable view item pages for use in driving traffic from display sites. The system and methods described herein improve the earlier system by predicting the probability of future traffic for a given product based on a number of product level factors as input variables, and identifying a selection of view item pages corresponding to the products with the probability of the highest future traffic in order to maximize the driving natural search traffic to a linked site of the corresponding view item page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Satya Voleti, Ganesh Talele, Atiq ul Islam, Ritu Goel
  • Patent number: 12214259
    Abstract: Systems and methods are for production, management, syndication and distribution of digital assets through a network such as the Internet or wireless network. Digital media assets are distributed to consumers through a syndicated network of Outlets under control of a central platform. Distribution is format agnostic. There is a single platform between the B2B2C, wherein a platform allows, through a single access for each stakeholder, the ability to each have control over availability dates and pricing specifications to a plurality of merchants and/or subscription outlets or channels. Subscription channels can support micro-subscriptions with diversely curated and priced offerings, including acceptance of crypto-currency. The delivered media assets may include content associated with an exercise apparatus, including content for an exercise session including computer generated content and computer augmented content created in response to exercise session data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Peloton Interactive, Inc
    Inventor: Shachar Oren
  • Patent number: 12210997
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving a cash level indicator from a third-party server. The cash level indicator indicates an amount of cash in each of a plurality of cash storage devices, where the plurality of cash storage devices receive cash from a plurality of delivery agents. Each of the cash storage devices is arranged within or on a vehicle operated by one of the plurality of delivery agents. The method further comprises receiving a cash request from a user device. The method also includes selecting one of the plurality of cash storage devices based on the cash level indicator and location data of delivery agent devices of the delivery agents. The method also comprises sending a message comprising location data of the user device, the selected delivery agent device being one of the delivery agent devices, wherein the selected cash storage device is associated with the selected delivery agent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Darren M. Goetz, Julio Jiron, JoAnn Mar, Dennis E. Montenegro, Joseph Ng, Damodar Raval, Lisa Schur
  • Patent number: 12211351
    Abstract: Systems and methods which utilize zero, one or more random determinations in association with a determination of an award of a placed sporting event wager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Vincent S. Lai
  • Patent number: 12212818
    Abstract: In a method for delivering targeted television advertisements based on online behavior, IP addresses indicating online access devices and IP addresses indicating television set-top boxes are electronically associated for a multitude of users. Using user profile information derived from online activity from one of the online access IP addresses, a television advertisement is selected, such as by using behavioral targeting or demographic information, and automatically directed to the set-top box indicated by the set-top IP address associated with that online access IP address. Preferably neither the user profile information nor the electronic association of online access and set-top box IP addresses includes personally identifiable information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Intent IQ, LLC
    Inventor: Roy Shkedi
  • Patent number: 12205693
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for tailoring information regarding a pharmaceutical article to user types. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and a processor coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a request to synthesize a plurality of pharmaceutical content items for respective user types. In some implementations, the plurality of pharmaceutical content items provides information regarding a pharmaceutical article. In some implementations, the method includes determining, for the respective user types, corresponding expected engagement values indicative of expected engagement with the subject. In some implementations, the method includes determining, based on the corresponding expected engagement values, respective content templates for the plurality of pharmaceutical content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ACTO Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Karthik Erramilli, Parth Khanna, Kapil Kalra
  • Patent number: 12205137
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to group advertisements by advertisement campaign are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to determine pixel color values from a reference advertisement of an advertisement campaign; remove bits from the pixel color values associated with the reference advertisement; determine a first color proportion corresponding the reference advertisement based on the pixel color values; associate the first color proportion with the advertisement campaign; and identify a second advertisement as associated with the advertisement campaign based on a second color proportion of the second advertisement relative to the first color proportion, the second advertisement different than the reference advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Ronan Heffernan, Chad A. Hage, Ayaz Hemani
  • Patent number: 12204297
    Abstract: The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for determining preferred battery capacities. In an example method, a first set of data associated with scooter usage in a geographic area may be received. A first number of battery packs and a second number of battery packs for servicing the geographic area may be determined based at least on the first set of data, where the first number of battery packs has a first power capacity and the second number of battery packs has a second power capacity. A first cost associated with the first number of battery packs and a second cost associated with the second number of battery packs may be determined via a simulation model. The first cost may be determined to be lower than the second cost, and the first number of battery packs having the first power capacity may be selected to service the geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raj Sohmshetty, Vikas Rajendra, Sam Hoff, James Berg, Alan Beltran
  • Patent number: 12200300
    Abstract: Systems and methods for organizing and controlling the display of content, then measuring the effectiveness of that content in modifying behavior, within a particular temporal and spatial dimension, so as to minimize or eliminate confounding effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Frederick J. Arsenault, Brian E. Brooks
  • Patent number: 12198168
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining an actual cost of ownership of a purchase product may include determining a baseline value of the purchase product, and receiving usage information representative of usage of a user product from a computing device in communication with the user product. The purchase product and the user product may belong to a same class of products. The method also may include determining a user cost component based on the received usage information, and determining an actual cost of ownership of the purchase product based on at least the baseline value and the user cost component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Hoover, Avid Ghamsari, Qiaochu Tang, Geoffrey Dagley, Micah Price
  • Patent number: 12192187
    Abstract: A system, process, and computer-readable medium for securely transferring user personal identification information (PII) across platforms, based on specific permissions, are described. One or more aspects provide greater control, to a user, of when that user's PII may be released from a secure storage in a first platform and securely provided to a second platform. The timing of those releases of the PII may be controlled by specific authorizations from the user via one or more processes. Also, in addition to improving the security associated with the PII transferred between platforms, one or more aspects improve users' experiences by permitting controlled reuse of users' PII to simplify how users provide their PII to separate processes being performed on separate platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Brad Norcross, Sandeep K. Vanka, Mitchell Mays, Roshni Rao, Susan Hannagan, Tahressa Moore, Bryan Parker, Camille Gaelle Gupta, Arielle Mcmahon, Rebecca Hummel, Jiaxin Guo, Mia Frederick, Alexis Pritchard, Srikanth Vadlapati
  • Patent number: 12190309
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides enhanced financial statements such as credit statements that provide customized payment options to a customer that takes into account the total amount owed by the customer, and past payments made by the customer. The customized payment options are determined with the goal of providing more payment options that encourage financial health, while not overwhelming the customer with too many options or irrelevant options. The customized payment options can be displayed in an interactive user interface for paying a credit statement that can visually inform a user of the benefit of the respective payment options with respect to the impact of the respective payment option on the customer's financial health—at least as it pertains to a credit account for which the statement was issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Melim, Christine A. Franco, Glen W. Steele, Mischa K. McLachlan, Michael Artemiw, Ashish C. Nagre, David T. Haggerty, Fadi S. Obeid, Katie M. McIndoe, Richard W. Heard, Rima Kakarla, Akila Suresh, Jarad M. Fisher
  • Patent number: 12183164
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of arousing play motivation for a game and betting motivation on a result of a competition. An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a value providing unit that provides first value to a user who has performed betting on a result of a competition; and a benefit providing unit that provides a benefit usable in a game to the user by consuming the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MIXI, INC.
    Inventors: Jin Fujisawa, Takayuki Magata
  • Patent number: 12183446
    Abstract: A method of facilitating management of wellness of a user. The method includes receiving a wellness goal associated with the user and an image representing the user, generating avatar data associated with the user based on the image and transmitting the avatar data to a display device associated with the user, receiving user activity data from a user device associated with the user, and generating avatar update data based on the user activity data and transmitting the avatar update data to the display device. Furthermore, two pictures of the user and their body measurements can be acquired by the display device and artificial intelligence used to generate and provide an avatar for the user. Furthermore, a step bank feature may be used to accumulate the user's steps as they exercise over time and allows them to redeem the steps earned at businesses on a network offering user financial incentive challenges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventors: Wilman Vergara, Jr., Nezar Dahdal
  • Patent number: 12174868
    Abstract: A system for displaying refreshment outlooks the system comprising a computing device, the computing device designed and configured to retrieve a user profile from a profile database; determine a refreshment position using the user profile; select current refreshment possibilities contained within the refreshment position; output a refreshment target, using the user profile; compare current refreshment possibilities and the refreshment target; and generate a refreshment outlook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: KPN INNOVATIONS, LLC.
    Inventor: Kenneth Neumann
  • Patent number: 12177753
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for auto-configuring a newly purchased user equipment (UE) device with content consumption material that is associated with a user. These methods and systems are provided by way of receiving, in response to the user having purchased the UE device, purchase information (e.g., a credit card number) and a UE device identifier (e.g., a serial number of a purchased UE device). After receipt of this information, a database is searched to identify a user account that is associated with the purchase information. The user account identifies content consumption material that has been processed by other UE devices to enable the user to consume content. A communication is then transmitted to the UE device that causes the UE device to be configured with the identified content consumption material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory James Lundell
  • Patent number: 12165160
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for providing a loyalty engine for automated cause marketing. The method includes a loyalty program system administrator linking merchants and charities to the loyalty system. Members register with the loyalty engine through loyalty system which is accessible via the Internet. Once the merchants and the charities are linked and the members are registered, by operation of the loyalty engine, the merchants can create a customized loyalty program defined by a plurality of merchant defined rules for administering their loyalty program. The merchant defined rules instruct the loyalty engine as to which charities should receive in-kind donations in connection with one or more transactions by a member that is associated to the loyalty program. Once a loyalty system defined time period or donation threshold has been achieved, the loyalty system releases the donation in-kind to the specific charity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: EDATANETWORKS INC
    Inventors: Terrance Patrick Tietzen, Timothy Makoto Yamamoto, Ronald James Mackay
  • Patent number: 12159708
    Abstract: A machine learning system and method utilizing artificial intelligence that improves the provisioning of healthcare and reduces the total cost of healthcare and lost productivity. The approach creates a quantifiable assessment of quality and a ranking number measuring a provider's quality of healthcare services. The machine learning system makes a determination of quality based on a clinical evaluation database, an employee related time and attendance database, and a costing database. The system analyzes how quickly a provider returns an employee to work at or near pre-absence productivity and at what cost. The system creates a ranking number that provides employees with a comparison of providers. Employees may then be incentivized to seek high value providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Integer Health Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jack McCallum, Scott Roloff, William McCallum, Ken Grifno
  • Patent number: 12159318
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for facilitating transfer of promotions. A promotion and marketing service may allow for assignment of one or more promotions to a first provider or consumer. A method for transferring promotions may include assigning a promotion to a first user account. The promotion may be redeemable by a first user account to obtain a good, service, or experience. The method may also include receiving a request to transfer the promotion to at least one second user account, receiving a promotion reassignment trigger, and in response to receiving the promotion reassignment trigger, assigning the promotion to the second user account using a processor, wherein assignment of the promotion to the second user account enables the second user account to redeem the promotion to obtain the good, service, or experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Bytedance Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Gray Sandridge, Curtis Lee
  • Patent number: 12154301
    Abstract: In some examples, a computerized system for analyzing images comprises at least one programmable processor and a machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the at least one programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to execute operations comprising training an autoencoder using a plurality of image model training samples, the autoencoder comprising a plurality of interconnected layers and combined instances of neural networks, passing input data into a trained autoencoder model, the input data including at least one pixel image, encoding the input data into a compressed version of the input data, and decoding the compressed version of the input data to generate to create an output, the output including a sparse reconstruction of the input data, the output including a predicted pixel image label or score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Zeta Global Corp.
    Inventor: Danny Portman
  • Patent number: 12147578
    Abstract: A consent receipt management system is configured to: (1) automatically cause a prior, validly received consent to expire (e.g., in response to a triggering event); and (2) in response to causing the previously received consent to expire, automatically trigger a recapture of consent. In particular embodiments, the system may, for example, be configured to cause a prior, validly received consent to expire in response to one or more triggering events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: OneTrust, LLC
    Inventors: Kabir A. Barday, Jonathan Blake Brannon, Richard A. Beaumont, John Mannix
  • Patent number: 12141719
    Abstract: A display management device includes an acquisitioner and a data processor. The acquisitioner acquires occupancy request information from a first terminal. The occupancy request information indicates that a request is made to display content on a plurality of displays positioned in a first region. When the acquisitioner acquires the occupancy request information, the data processor generates a available time display data using a display information storage and transmits same to the first terminal. The display information storage stores information relating to available time of the plurality of displays positioned in the first region. The available time display data is data for displaying a screen which shows availability information including the number of displays which can be reserved and/or the occupancy rate thereof for each time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eifu Nezu
  • Patent number: 12143536
    Abstract: Embodiments for intelligently matching a user to an agent for a communication session are disclosed. In one example, a system that comprises a computing device that is configured to initiate a first communication session with a first agent client device and generate interaction data associated with the user from the first communication session. A user segment classification is determined for a user account. A user request is received to initiate a second communication. The computing device identifies an agent account of a second agent to participate in the second data communication session. T second communication session is initiated between a client device and a second agent client device associated with the agent account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICE COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Stuart Rolinson, Sibish Basheer, Mariswaran Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 12131346
    Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for tracking user activity and managing quests. By way of example, a method may include receiving, from a website server, first identity data representing an identity of a user and data identifying a quest activated by the user, the quest comprising one or more activities to be performed at a physical location, and receiving, from at least one reporting device, second identity data representing the identity of the user at the physical location, and activity tracking data in response to the user performing an activity associated with the quest at the physical location. The method may also include identifying the user and the quest activated by the user based on the first identity data and data identifying the quest, further identifying the user and activity data related to the quest based on the second identity data and activity tracking data, and monitoring a progress of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: POARCH BAND OF CREEK INDIANS
    Inventors: James F. Dorris, Jr., Kenneth William Rohman, III, Brian Franklin Bell, Peter Anderson, Ronald E. Nesbitt, Peter A. Connelly
  • Patent number: 12131359
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing a promotion to a consumer group are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system including circuitry configured to create a group promotion by associating the promotion with a plurality of consumer account records of consumers. For example, the group promotion may be defined by a consumer device. The circuitry may be further configured to determine a group sale threshold for the group promotion, a group sale count indicating a number of the consumers that has purchased and/or agreed to purchase the group promotion, and whether the group sale count satisfies the group sale threshold. In response to determining that the group sale count satisfies the group sale threshold, the circuitry may be configured to associate a group discount value for the group promotion with each of the plurality of consumer accounts records, thereby facilitating network-based consumer device event planning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Bytedance Inc.
    Inventors: Alka Rani Tandon, Rebecca Abigail Resnick Kossnick, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12132694
    Abstract: A method for presenting personalized content to a user includes receiving user data corresponding to a user having a user profile, the user data including at least one or more messages in a user mailbox and a user web browser history within a network, extracting one or more data tags from the received user data, associated at least one data tag with a message, finding information in the network that corresponds to the associated data tag, generating a notification for the user, the notification including the found information in the network, and outputting the generated notification to a user interface of a device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Mohit Goenka, Kelly Xu, Muni Xu, Shiv Shankar
  • Patent number: 12125367
    Abstract: Among other things, systems and methods include a first sensor configured to detect operation of the sink; a second sensor configured to detect personal characteristics of a person operating the sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: BioVigil Hygiene Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Wittrup
  • Patent number: 12106268
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an electronic feed inventory file; creating a feed message including a batch of inventory messages based on the feed inventory file; placing the feed message in a message queue; performing validation of each of the inventory messages; generating a response to each invalid inventory messages; generating a first batch of response message including the responses to the invalid inventory messages; publishing the first batch of response message to the message queue; updating a first database based on validated inventory messages; generating responses to each of the validated inventory messages; generating a second batch of response message including the responses to the validated inventory messages, the first and second batch of response message having the batch identification; publishing the second batch of response message to the message queue; and updating a second database based on the first and second batch of response messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Prakash Kamani, Mohammad Tariq, Kavita Sadar, Daljeet Singh, Dinesh Singla, Shantanu Preetam, Alekhya Ganan
  • Patent number: 12099533
    Abstract: In several aspects for querying a data source represented by data object embeddings in a vector space, a processor inputs, to a trained embedding generation model, a received query and at least one token for receiving from the trained embedding generation model a set of embeddings of the vector space. The set of embeddings comprises an embedding of the received query and at least one embedding of the at least one token respectively, wherein the embedding of each token is a prediction of an embedding of a supplement of the query. The data object embeddings may be searched for data object embeddings that match the set of embeddings. This may result in search result embeddings of the set of embeddings. Data objects that are represented by the search result embeddings may be determined. At least part of the determined data objects may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Obinna Osuala, Dominik Moritz Stein, Andrea Giovannini
  • Patent number: 12093775
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a media capture user interface that includes a media capture preview of objects in a field of view of the camera. While displaying the media capture user interface, the electronic device scans the field of view of the camera for data encoded in an optical machine-readable format. In accordance with a determination that the field of view of the camera includes data encoded in the optical machine-readable format that meets respective notification criteria, the electronic device displays a notification that indicates that the camera application has detected data encoded in the optical machine-readable format. In accordance with a determination that the field of view of the camera does not include data encoded in the optical machine-readable format that meets the respective notification criteria, the electronic device maintains display of the media capture user interface of the camera application without displaying the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Behkish Johnnie Manzari, Ada Chan, Yongjun Zhang, Patrick Lee Coffman, Charles Ying, Steven Jon Falkenburg
  • Patent number: 12088637
    Abstract: A system and a method to facilitate sharing media resources of a computing device with a data device integrated with the system are described for enabling a network based communication with a remote device. The system receives a device information pertaining to available computing devices through a discovery manager. The system selects the computing device from the available computing devices. The system enables to initiate a communication between the data device and the remote device. Upon initiation of the communication, the system receives communication data from the computing device, wherein the communication data are obtained using the shared resources of the computing device. The system transmits the received communication data to the remote device for facilitating the network based communication with the remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: JIO PLATFORMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Pramod Belekare Nagaraja Sathya, Bharathkumar Reddy Mallepalli, Anurag Somani, Venkata Subrahmanyam Gajavalli, Keshav Kumar Halli Mysore Kishor Kumar