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Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2023
Applicant:

Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);

Inventor:

Ramya Babu, Millbrae, CA (US);

Assignee:

Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);

Attorney:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2023.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06311 (2013.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06314 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods that, in an example, include receiving, by servers of a service provider, interaction data indicative of interactions between merchants and the service provider via a network; accessing, from a data store associated with the system, inventory data of a merchant; determining, based at least in part on the interaction data and the inventory data, that the merchant is a candidate for conversion between different types of appointments, wherein the different types of appointments comprise in-person and virtual; identifying one or more appointments associated with the merchant; determining that an appointment of the one or more appointments is a first type of appointment, wherein the first type is one of in-person or virtual; and converting the appointment to a second type of appointment, wherein the second type is a different one of in-person or virtual than the first type.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Babu, Ramya. (2026). Intelligent virtualization of merchants (U.S. Patent No. 12608662). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12608662

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