Patents by Inventor Matthew Hennessy

Matthew Hennessy 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: 20230126143
    Abstract: An example server includes: a memory storing an account database for a centralized reward hub; a processor interconnected with the memory, the processor configured to: receive purchase data for a purchase by a customer, the purchase data including a customer identifier; determine whether account database includes an existing entry corresponding to the customer identifier; when the account database does not include an existing entry corresponding to the customer identifier, create a new entry for the customer identifier; send the customer a login link for the centralized reward hub based on the new entry or the existing entry corresponding to the customer identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ashton Leigh Rankin, Andrew James Pye, Rafael Goulart do Rosario, Lucas de Oliveira Silva Arantes, Zhenyi Zhang, Jose Bento, Dan Winer, Matthew Hennessy, Buraa Al Burghli, Sivakumar Kailasam, Edgar Alexander Willemsma, Timothy Schmitke, Ely Joaquin Alvarado Meza, Nathaniel Lutz
  • Publication number: 20230127222
    Abstract: An example server includes: a memory storing an account database for a centralized reward hub; a processor interconnected with the memory, the processor configured to: provide a centralized reward hub interface for display at a client device associated with a client account, the centralized reward hub providing multiple merchants for selection; receive a selection of a merchant from the client device; redirect the client device to a merchant site for the selected merchant; provide, to a discount module integrated with the merchant site, a point balance for a client account; receive, from the discount module, an updated point balance for the client account after application of a portion of the point balance to apply a discount at the merchant site; and update the point balance for the client account in the account database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ashton Leigh Rankin, Andrew James Pye, Rafael Goulart do Rosario, Lucas de Oliveira Silva Arantes, Zhenyi Zhang, Jose Bento, Dan Winer, Matthew Hennessy, Buraa Al Burghli, Sivakumar Kailasam, Edgar Alexander Willemsma, Timothy Schmitke, Ely Joaquin Alvarado Meza, Nathaniel Lutz
  • Publication number: 20230127997
    Abstract: An example server includes: a memory storing an account database for a centralized reward hub; a processor interconnected with the memory, the processor configured to: receive a new hub account request for a new hub account at the centralized reward hub; obtain user parameters associated with the new hub account request; filter a list of merchants based on the user parameters; provide the filtered list of merchants for presentation at a client device; receive a selection of a merchant from the filtered list; send a new merchant account request to create a merchant account for the merchant; and create the new hub account in the account database for the centralized reward hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ashton Leigh Rankin, Andrew James Pye, Rafael Goulart do Rosario, Lucas de Oliveira Silva Arantes, Zhenyi Zhang, Jose Bento, Dan Winer, Buraa Al Burghli, Sivakumar Kailasam, Matthew Hennessy
  • Publication number: 20230005008
    Abstract: An example system includes: an e-commerce platform to support e-commerce for a plurality of merchants; a loyalty rewards system to track, for each merchant, customer accounts and associated loyalty rewards points for each respective customer account; a hub system to: track, for a hub account, a set of associated customer accounts, each associated customer account corresponding to one of the merchants; retrieve the associated loyalty rewards points for each respective customer account in the set of associated customer accounts; receive a transfer request from a client device associated with the hub account, the transfer request to transfer a transfer amount of the associated loyalty rewards points for a first customer account in the set to a second customer account in the set; and update the loyalty rewards system to deduct the transfer amount from the first customer account and add the transfer amount to the second customer account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Hennessy, Dan Winer
  • Publication number: 20230005011
    Abstract: An example system includes an e-commerce platform to support e-commerce for a plurality of merchants; a loyalty rewards system to: track, for each merchant, customer accounts and associated loyalty rewards points for each respective customer account; a hub system to: track, for a hub account, a set of associated customer accounts, each associated customer account corresponding to one of the merchants; retrieve the associated loyalty rewards points for each respective customer account in the set of associated customer accounts; select a common basis; convert, for each respective customer account in the set, the associated loyalty rewards points to a nominal value in the common basis for each respective customer account; aggregate the nominal values of the respective customer accounts in the set; and output the aggregated nominal values to a client device associated with the hub account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Hennessy, Dan Winer
  • Publication number: 20230005010
    Abstract: An example system includes: an e-commerce platform to support e-commerce activities of a plurality of merchants; a loyalty rewards system to: track, for each merchant operating on the e-commerce platform, customer accounts and associated loyalty rewards points for each respective customer account; a hub system in communication with the loyalty rewards system, the hub module to: track, for a hub account, a set of associated customer accounts, each associated customer account corresponding to one of the merchants; retrieve, from the loyalty rewards system, the associated loyalty rewards points for each respective customer account in the set of associated customer accounts; and aggregate the associated loyalty rewards points for the hub account; and output the aggregated associated loyalty rewards points to a client device associated with the hub account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Edgar Willemsma, Lawrence Galante, Katrina Cinelli, Panayotis Esquivel Procopiou, Darren Denomme, Andrew Pye, Michael Rossi, Robert Chi-Tai Liang, Matthew Hennessy, Dan Winer
  • Publication number: 20220148026
    Abstract: An example e-commerce system includes an e-commerce platform to: receive a purchase order from a guest user, the purchase order including a guest user identifier representing a means of communication for the guest user; match the guest user identifier to a customer identifier; send a confirmation of the purchase order to the guest user via the means of communication for the guest user; and a loyalty rewards system to communicate with the e-commerce platform, the loyalty rewards system to: associate the customer identifier with a guest user account of the loyalty rewards system; and track reward points from the purchase order in association with the guest user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: William Curtis, Eryn Alexa Dickison, Jose Bento, Dustin Duffy, Clayton Passmore, Matthew Hennessy, Buraa Al Burghli, Sivakumar Kailasam, Edgar Alexander Willemsma, Timothy Schmitke, Ely Joaquin Alvarado Meza, Nathaniel Lutz