Patents by Inventor Rhen Zabel
Rhen Zabel 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).
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Patent number: 11810171Abstract: A multi-platform e-commerce system with a virtual cart is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors and a memory device storing a set of instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to: create an internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system; in response to the creation of the internal virtual cart, create an external virtual cart associated with one or more single e-commerce platforms; in response to every action taken in the internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system, enable performance of an immediate corresponding action on the external virtual cart associated with the one or more single e-commerce platforms.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Violet.io, Inc.Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel
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Publication number: 20210326954Abstract: A multi-platform e-commerce system with a virtual cart is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors and a memory device storing a set of instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to: create an internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system; in response to the creation of the internal virtual cart, create an external virtual cart associated with one or more single e-commerce platforms; in response to every action taken in the internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system, enable performance of an immediate corresponding action on the external virtual cart associated with the one or more single e-commerce platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel
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Publication number: 20210326953Abstract: A multi-platform e-commerce distribution system includes a bi-directional data translation system, a product distribution platform, and a commerce graph API. The bi-directional data translation system extracts product data and translates product data. The product distribution platform includes a product repository of the purchasable products containing information that has been converted into a unified product schema. The bi-directional data translation system translates product information between formats of one or more different merchants and the unified product schema of the product distribution platform. The bi-directional data translation system also translates the product information between the unified product schema of the product distribution platform and one or more formats expected by one or more individual e-commerce platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel
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Patent number: 11055757Abstract: A multi-platform e-commerce system with an asynchronous virtual cart is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors and a memory device storing a set of instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to: create an internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system; in response to the creation of the internal virtual cart, create an external asynchronous virtual cart associated with one or more single e-commerce platforms; in response to every action taken in the internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system, enable performance of an immediate corresponding action on the external asynchronous virtual cart associated with the one or more single e-commerce platforms.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Violet.io, Inc.Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel
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Patent number: 11049160Abstract: A multi-platform e-commerce distribution system includes a bi-directional data translation system, a product distribution platform, and a commerce graph API. The bi-directional data translation system extracts product data and translates product data. The product distribution platform includes a product repository of the purchasable products containing information that has been converted into a unified product schema. The bi-directional data translation system translates product information between formats of one or more different merchants and the unified product schema of the product distribution platform. The bi-directional data translation system also translates the product information between the unified product schema of the product distribution platform and one or more formats expected by one or more individual e-commerce platforms.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Violet.io, Inc.Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel
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Publication number: 20190318413Abstract: A commerce graph API system for a multi-platform e-commerce distribution system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel
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Publication number: 20190318402Abstract: A bi-directional data translation system for a multi-platform e-commerce distribution system is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors and a memory device storing a set of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to: for incoming product data from merchants, ingest product information in formats from multiple different merchants and convert the product information into a unified product schema; for outgoing product data to e-commerce platforms, convert the product information in the unified product schema into one or more formats expected by one or more individual e-commerce platforms; for incoming product data from e-commerce platforms, convert the product information from the platform-specific format of the e-commerce platform into the unified product schema; and for outgoing product data to merchants, translate the product information in the unified product schema into formats expected by the multiple different merchants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel
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Publication number: 20190318403Abstract: A multi-platform e-commerce system with an asynchronous virtual cart is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors and a memory device storing a set of instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to: create an internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system; in response to the creation of the internal virtual cart, create an external asynchronous virtual cart associated with one or more single e-commerce platforms; in response to every action taken in the internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system, enable performance of an immediate corresponding action on the external asynchronous virtual cart associated with the one or more single e-commerce platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel
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Publication number: 20190318401Abstract: A multi-platform e-commerce distribution system includes a bi-directional data translation system, a product distribution platform, and a commerce graph API. The bi-directional data translation system extracts product data and translates product data. The product distribution platform includes a product repository of the purchasable products containing information that has been converted into a unified product schema. The bi-directional data translation system translates product information between formats of one or more different merchants and the unified product schema of the product distribution platform. The bi-directional data translation system also translates the product information between the unified product schema of the product distribution platform and one or more formats expected by one or more individual e-commerce platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCURRENT MULTI-MERCHANT ON-LINE SHOPPING WITH A SINGLE CHECK-OUT TRANSACTION
Publication number: 20190318337Abstract: A system for concurrent multi-merchant on-line shopping with a single check-out transaction in a multi-platform e-commerce system having an internal virtual cart is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Brandon Schulz, Rhen Zabel -
Patent number: 10062103Abstract: Native e-commerce transactables for social and other familiar and/or suitable user environments are enabled. A user of a network site may interact with a transactable to conduct a transaction with a 3rd party without leaving a user environment of the network site. The transactable may be configured to adopt the “look and feel” of the network site into which it is incorporated. While conducting the transaction with the transactable, the user may perceive that they remain at the network site, even though transaction information may be exchanged with a 3rd party network site. The transaction mediation service may obtain social activity data from a plurality of social network sites, as well as merchant activity data (e.g., transaction activity) from a plurality of merchant network sites. The data of each suitable network site may be translated, transformed and/or normalized into a unified and uniform format maintained by the transaction mediation service.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Inventors: John T. Wantz, II, Rhen Zabel, Greg Vandenberg, Tim Piatenko
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Publication number: 20150278931Abstract: Native e-commerce transactables for social and other familiar and/or suitable user environments are enabled. A user of a network site may interact with a transactable to conduct a transaction with a 3rd party without leaving a user environment of the network site. The transactable may be configured to adopt the “look and feel” of the network site into which it is incorporated. While conducting the transaction with the transactable, the user may perceive that they remain at the network site, even though transaction information may be exchanged with a 3rd party network site. The transaction mediation service may obtain social activity data from a plurality of social network sites, as well as merchant activity data (e.g., transaction activity) from a plurality of merchant network sites. The data of each suitable network site may be translated, transformed and/or normalized into a unified and uniform format maintained by the transaction mediation service.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: John T. Wantz, II, Rhen Zabel, Greg Vandenberg, Tim Piatenko
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Publication number: 20150278783Abstract: Native e-commerce transactables for social and other familiar and/or suitable user environments are enabled. A user of a network site may interact with a transactable to conduct a transaction with a 3rd party without leaving a user environment of the network site. The transactable may be configured to adopt the “look and feel” of the network site into which it is incorporated. While conducting the transaction with the transactable, the user may perceive that they remain at the network site, even though transaction information may be exchanged with a 3rd party network site. The transaction mediation service may obtain social activity data from a plurality of social network sites, as well as merchant activity data (e.g., transaction activity) from a plurality of merchant network sites. The data of each suitable network site may be translated, transformed and/or normalized into a unified and uniform format maintained by the transaction mediation service.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Comr.se Corp.Inventors: John T. Wantz II, Rhen Zabel, Greg Vandenberg, Tim Piatenko