Patents by Inventor Maya Kathryn Wilton

Maya Kathryn Wilton 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).

  • Generating and distributing a financial quiz using a personal financial management application and a social network service
    Patent number: 8234195
    Abstract: A method for distributing a quiz on a social network service, including: extracting, from a personal financial management application (PFMA), a spending history of a user of the PFMA, where the spending history includes a plurality of categories defined in the PFMA and a plurality of transactions performed by the user; selecting a category of the plurality of categories; selecting a question from a plurality of questions based on the category; generating an answer to the question based on the plurality of transactions within the category; adding, to the quiz describing a financial behavior of the user, the question and a plurality of response choices including the answer to the question; and distributing the quiz to a plurality of contacts of the user in the social network service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Elias Berhanu, Ashli Louise Pfeiffer, Ellen Chen Shen, Maya Kathryn Wilton