Patents by Inventor Eric Charles Boyd

Eric Charles Boyd 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).

  • Publication number: 20150154625
    Abstract: A computer system enables a financial institution to award a fixed reward that may include one or more fixed components based on at least one payment criterion when a customer remits a payment in a timely basis. The payment criteria, for example, may include paying a minimum amount for each consecutive billing period in a timely manner over a predetermined calendar interval. When the customer is awarded the fixed reward, the reward may be directed to an account that is designated by the customer. The fixed reward may also include a basic fixed amount for satisfying the at least one payment criterion a well as an additional fixed amount if the customer has a specified relationship (such as a checking and/or a savings account) with the financial institution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Elizabeth L. Basnight, John Livaditis, Faith Hepler, Phyllis Thesing, Erica Geers, Colleen Novielli, Eric Charles Boyd
  • Publication number: 20140207548
    Abstract: A computer system enables a financial institution to award a fixed reward that may include one or more fixed components based on at least one payment criterion when a customer remits a payment in a timely basis. The payment criteria, for example, may include paying a minimum amount for each consecutive billing period in a timely manner over a predetermined calendar interval. When the customer is awarded the fixed reward, the reward may be directed to an account that is designated by the customer. The fixed reward may also include a basic fixed amount for satisfying the at least one payment criterion a well as an additional fixed amount if the customer has a specified relationship (such as a checking and/or a savings account) with the financial institution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth L. Basnight, John Livaditis, Faith Hepler, Phyllis Thesing, Erica Geers, Colleen Novielli, Eric Charles Boyd
  • Publication number: 20120239465
    Abstract: A method for allocating rewards across a plurality of rewards programs, each associated with one or more accounts owned by a customer, the method includes receiving customer input indicating that one or more rewards associated with a first rewards program should be associated with a second rewards program, determining a conversion factor configured for assisting conversion of the one or more rewards from the first rewards program to the second rewards program, applying, using a processing device, the conversion factor to the one or more rewards, thereby resulting in one or more converted rewards; and associating the one or more converted rewards with the second rewards program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Mark McInnes, Eric Charles Boyd, Emilie Astrid Cordell, Gary R. Holland, II, Dimitrij A. Lang, Gregory Joseph LIoyd, Daniel C. Maddox, Andrea Robinette, Robert L. Rowe, Burton William Schaen, JR., Stephen Mark Schneeweis
  • Publication number: 20120239482
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a customer-centric rewards interface configured to communicate to a customer information related to one or more rewards programs associated with one or more customer accounts includes authenticating an identity of the customer, receiving customer input requesting presentation of the rewards interface, and initiating presentation, using a processing device, to the customer of the rewards interface comprising information related to one or more rewards programs associated with the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Mark McInnes, Eric Charles Boyd, Emilie Astrid Cordell, Gary R. Holland, II, Dimitrij A. Lang, Gregory Joseph LIoyd, Daniel C. Maddox, Andrea Robinette, Robert L. Rowe, Burton William Schaen, JR., Stephen Mark Schneeweis
  • Publication number: 20120239473
    Abstract: A method for providing a customer-centric rewards platform configured to communicate to a customer information related to one or more rewards programs associated with one or more customer accounts includes initiating presentation, using a processing device, to the customer of the rewards platform comprising information related to one or more rewards programs associated with the customer, wherein each of the rewards programs is associated with at least one customer account, determining a non-account transaction event indicating one or more rewards should be applied to one or more rewards accounts has occurred, each of the one or more rewards accounts associated with one or more customer accounts, and crediting one or more rewards accounts with one or more rewards based at least in part on the occurrence of the non-account transaction event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Mark McInnes, Eric Charles Boyd, Emilie Astrid Cordell, Gary R. Holland, II, Dimitrij A. Lang, Gregory Joseph Lloyd, Daniel C. Maddox, Andrea Robinette, Robert L. Rowe, Burton William Schaen, JR., Stephen Mark Schneeweis