Douglas Gordon Irvine

US Patent:

7418405, Aug 26, 2008

Filed:

May 23, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/445398

Inventors:

Brian Utter - Seattle WA, US
Douglas Welzel - Sammamish WA, US
Douglas Irvine - Seattle WA, US
Dwayne Benefield - Issaquah WA, US
David Liu - Seattle WA, US
Jason Shaw - Livingston NJ, US

Assignee:

Amazon.com, Inc. - Seattle WA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00
G06F 17/30
G07F 7/00

US Classification:

705 26, 705 27

Abstract:

An interactive merchandising program includes two or more program segments that are organized in a series. Each program segment in the series includes at least one time-limited offer for sequential presentation to the customer. The customer is required to undertake some action with respect to each program segment without knowing the identity of offers in program segments yet to be presented. If an offer is accepted within the time limit of the offer, the merchandising program terminates and the customer's acceptance of the offer is processed. If the customer declines a presented offer, the offer is withdrawn. The merchandising program proceeds to the next program segment in which the customer is presented the next time-limited offer. In this manner, the customer is provided an interactive experience that invites considered decision-making on the part of the customer.

US Patent:

20200011671, Jan 9, 2020

Filed:

Jul 6, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/029091

Inventors:

- KIRKLAND WA, US
Linjun ZHOU - Issaquah WA, US
William M. HSU - Redmond WA, US
Dominic Jason JORDAN - Manchester, GB
Patchrawat UTHAISOMBUT - Sammamish WA, US
Douglas IRVINE - Seattle WA, US

International Classification:

G01C 21/20
G08G 1/14
G05D 1/02
G01C 21/36
G01C 21/34
B60W 30/06

Abstract:

Contemporary navigation systems are often tasked with routing a vehicle to a destination, but are poorly equipped to assist with finding a vacancy of a parking opportunity in which the vehicle may be parked. Static information, such as enumeration of parking garages and curbside parking meters, may be frustrating if such parking opportunities have no vacancies. The determination of vacancies with certainty may be difficult to achieve due to the characteristic volatility of parking, in which vacancies may be taken in seconds. Presented herein are navigation device configurations involving probabilistic evaluation of parking routes in a vicinity of a destination that may be generated and compared, optionally weighted by various factors, to identify a parking route with parking opportunities that collectively present a high probability of vacancy as compared with other parking routes, which may be presented to the user and/or appended to a current route of an autonomous vehicle.