Patents by Inventor Dan S. Grimm

Dan S. Grimm 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).

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING AN OFFER TO PURCHASE A FOLLOWED ITEM
    Publication number: 20200380488
    Abstract: A system receives from a customer having an associated rewards points account a price offer for an item. The system determines if the price offer for the item is below an established threshold price, e.g., a price a retailer would accept for the item. When the price offer for the item is below the established threshold price, the system determines an amount of rewards points to be redeemed by the customer to thereby allow the customer to purchase the item at the price offer for the item as received from the customer. The system then allows the item to be purchased by the customer at the price offer for the item as received from the customer in the event that the customer indicates a willingness to redeem the determined amount of rewards points from their associated rewards points account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Dana L. Schueller, Marisa Lynne Brillhart, Dan S. Grimm, John Johnson, Shubham Agarwal, Theodore Alexander Rudman
  • System and method for handling an offer to purchase a followed item
    Patent number: 10679198
    Abstract: A system receives from a customer having an associated rewards points account a price offer for an item. The system determines if the price offer for the item is below an established threshold price, e.g., a price a retailer would accept for the item. When the price offer for the item is below the established threshold price, the system determines an amount of rewards points to be redeemed by the customer to thereby allow the customer to purchase the item at the price offer for the item as received from the customer. The system then allows the item to be purchased by the customer at the price offer for the item as received from the customer in the event that the customer indicates a willingness to redeem the determined amount of rewards points from their associated rewards points account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC
    Inventors: Dana L. Schueller, Marisa Lynne Brillhart, Dan S. Grimm, John Johnson, Shubham Agarwal, Theodore Alexander Rudman
  • System and method for using a mobile device to follow a price for an item
    Patent number: 8789750
    Abstract: A mobile device, such as a cellular telephone, is used to obtain information that is indicative of an item, such as a photograph of the item or a scan of an information carrying indicia associated with the item. The information obtained is then used to present on the mobile device a page by which a user can establish parameters for following the price of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sears Brands, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dana L. Schueller, Marisa Lynne Brillhart, Dan S. Grimm
  • System and method for using a mobile device to locate a followed item in a retail store
    Patent number: 8590786
    Abstract: A computing device receives information that is representative of a location of a mobile device and uses the information representative of the location of the mobile device to select one or more maps corresponding to a retail establishment. The computing device also receives information that is representative of a customer and uses the information representative of the customer to place on the one or more selected maps indicia indicative of one or more locations within the retail establishment at which one or more items determined to be of interest to the customer are located. The one or more selected maps with the indicia are then provided to the mobile device for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Inventors: Dana L. Schueller, Marisa Lynne Brillhart, Dan S. Grimm, John Johnson, Shubham Agarwal
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING AN OFFER TO PURCHASE A FOLLOWED ITEM
    Publication number: 20110196732
    Abstract: A system receives from a customer having an associated rewards points account a price offer for an item. The system determines if the price offer for the item is below an established threshold price, e.g., a price a retailer would accept for the item. When the price offer for the item is below the established threshold price, the system determines an amount of rewards points to be redeemed by the customer to thereby allow the customer to purchase the item at the price offer for the item as received from the customer. The system then allows the item to be purchased by the customer at the price offer for the item as received from the customer in the event that the customer indicates a willingness to redeem the determined amount of rewards points from their associated rewards points account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: SEARS BRANDS, LLC
    Inventors: Dana L. Schueller, Marisa Lynne Brillhart, Dan S. Grimm, John Johnson, Shubham Agarwal, Theodore Alexander Rudman
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A MOBILE DEVICE TO LOCATE A FOLLOWED ITEM IN A RETAIL STORE
    Publication number: 20110191207
    Abstract: A computing device receives information that is representative of a location of a mobile device and uses the information representative of the location of the mobile device to select one or more maps corresponding to a retail establishment. The computing device also receives information that is representative of a customer and uses the information representative of the customer to place on the one or more selected maps indicia indicative of one or more locations within the retail establishment at which one or more items determined to be of interest to the customer are located. The one or more selected maps with the indicia are then provided to the mobile device for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: SEARS BRANDS, LLC
    Inventors: Dana L. Schueller, Marisa Lynne Brillhart, Dan S. Grimm, John Johnson, Shubham Agarwal
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A MOBILE DEVICE TO FOLLOW A PRICE FOR AN ITEM
    Publication number: 20110006114
    Abstract: A mobile device, such as a cellular telephone, is used to obtain information that is indicative of an item, such as a photograph of the item or a scan of an information carrying indicia associated with the item. The information obtained is then used to present on the mobile device a page by which a user can establish parameters for following the price of the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: SEARS BRANDS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dana L. Schueller, Marisa Lynne Brillhart, Dan S. Grimm