Patents by Inventor Adam Robert Bell

Adam Robert Bell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10628843
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for offering loyalty rewards for transactions. One exemplary method includes associating, by a computing device, a merchant with a group of reward offerors, and associating, by the computing device, a consumer payment account with a group of reward offerees. The method also includes receiving, by the computing device, and advertising to the reward offerees, a reward offer from the merchant; receiving a transaction associated with the merchant and with the consumer payment account, and identifying, in a data structure, the merchant as a member of the group of reward offerors and the consumer payment account as associated with the group of reward offerees. The method then further includes, based on the advertised reward offer and on the identified merchant, updating, by the computing device, a loyalty reward account associated with the consumer payment account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Adam Robert Bell, Benjamin M. Berger, Edward R. Tempesta, Nikhil Anand Malgatti, Pavel Umanski, Pranit Flora
  • Publication number: 20180315071
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for offering loyalty rewards for transactions. One exemplary method includes associating, by a computing device, a merchant with a group of reward offerors, and associating, by the computing device, a consumer payment account with a group of reward offerees. The method also includes receiving, by the computing device, and advertising to the reward offerees, a reward offer from the merchant; receiving a transaction associated with the merchant and with the consumer payment account, and identifying, in a data structure, the merchant as a member of the group of reward offerors and the consumer payment account as associated with the group of reward offerees. The method then further includes, based on the advertised reward offer and on the identified merchant, updating, by the computing device, a loyalty reward account associated with the consumer payment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Adam Robert Bell, Benjamin M. Berger, Edward R. Tempesta, Nikhil Anand Malgatti, Pavel Umanski, Pranit Flora
  • Publication number: 20130282533
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are described for providing an online shopping experience to a consumer who is shopping at a merchant's physical retail location. In an embodiment, a method includes a providing a consumer shopping experience website to obtain at least one of consumer registration data, consumer mobile device data, a consumer shopping list, merchant registration data, and merchant inventory data. In an implementation, a mobile shopping application is provided on a consumer's mobile device operable to provide information such as merchant store locations, merchant inventory, in-store product location data, product review information, and shopping cart information. The method includes receiving a request for shopping information, generating the requested shopping information, and transmitting the shopping information to the consumer mobile device in real time, while the consumer is in a merchant's store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Elizabeth Foran-Owens, Ken Rose, Adam Robert Bell, Lauren Grendon, Stephen Toner, Matthew Richard Stocke