Patents by Inventor Stephen M. Oberholtzer

Stephen M. Oberholtzer 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).

  • Patent number: 11049085
    Abstract: A point of sale client integration platform is provided. The point of sale client integration platform includes a point of sale client application and a commerce client module that, in combination, provide a device agnostic payment transaction operation. The commerce client module includes communication interfaces, each of which corresponds to a particular communication protocol. The commerce client module receives a payment request from the point of sale client application and directly communicates, via one of the communication protocols, an authorization and capture request with respect to the payment request to a payment gateway. Through the same communication protocol, the commerce client module receives an authorization and capture response from the payment gateway. The commerce client module also drives a POS device to execute the device agnostic payment transaction operation in accordance with the payment request and the authorization and capture response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FREEDOMPAY, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Oberholtzer, David O. Knowlton, Christopher R. Kronenthal, John T. Styslinger
  • Publication number: 20200250644
    Abstract: A point of sale client integration platform is provided. The point of sale client integration platform includes a point of sale client application and a commerce client module that, in combination, provide a device agnostic payment transaction operation. The commerce client module includes communication interfaces, each of which corresponds to a particular communication protocol. The commerce client module receives a payment request from the point of sale client application and directly communicates, via one of the communication protocols, an authorization and capture request with respect to the payment request to a payment gateway. Through the same communication protocol, the commerce client module receives an authorization and capture response from the payment gateway. The commerce client module also drives a POS device to execute the device agnostic payment transaction operation in accordance with the payment request and the authorization and capture response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen M. Oberholtzer, David O. Knowlton, Christopher R. Kronenthal, John T. Styslinger
  • Patent number: 8494997
    Abstract: A system and a method for validation of transaction data are disclosed. A rules engine in the system and the method is used to quickly and accurately deduce whether or not a transaction is a candidate for flagging with additional identification data, and a loyalty engine is used to quickly and accurately track and manage an entity relating to a transaction. In the system and the method, through compression and optimization, separate logical rules originally built are combined into an aggregate of compressed rules shared across a plurality of validations, such that the aggregate of compressed rules in the rules engine and the loyalty engine operates in memories of computing machines hosting servers. The system creates modularity and nimbleness with an internal instancing system and a dynamic routing node to multiple active instances. The multiple active instances of the rules engine and the loyalty engine support real-time updates and thus facilitate higher uptime capacities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Inventors: Samuel W. Bellamy, III, Christopher R. Kronenthal, Stephen M. Oberholtzer
  • Patent number: 8495243
    Abstract: A dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system and its method are disclosed. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system is designed to handle financial, medical, and other types of transactional information. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system provides intelligence for processing transactions in all phases of the system. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system is empowered by introducing the protocol of Level 4 Data which are supplementary data used by the decision-making engine in the system. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system has a capability of generating and processing tokenized data which includes tokens for predetermined numbers of transactions, tokens for predetermined periods of time, tokens for unlimited time, and chain-bound tokens shared across locations. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system provides a novel approach: recursive transaction processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Inventors: Samuel W. Bellamy, III, Christopher R. Kronenthal, Stephen M. Oberholtzer
  • Publication number: 20110276531
    Abstract: A system and a method for validation of transaction data are disclosed. A rules engine in the system and the method is used to quickly and accurately deduce whether or not a transaction is a candidate for flagging with additional identification data, and a loyalty engine is used to quickly and accurately track and manage an entity relating to a transaction. In the system and the method, through compression and optimization, separate logical rules originally built are combined into an aggregate of compressed rules shared across a plurality of validations, such that the aggregate of compressed rules in the rules engine and the loyalty engine operates in memories of computing machines hosting servers. The system creates modularity and nimbleness with an internal instancing system and a dynamic routing node to multiple active instances. The multiple active instances of the rules engine and the loyalty engine support real-time updates and thus facilitate higher uptime capacities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: FreedomPay Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel W. Bellamy, III, Christopher R. Kronenthal, Stephen M. Oberholtzer
  • Publication number: 20110276717
    Abstract: A dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system and its method are disclosed. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system is designed to handle financial, medical, and other types of transactional information. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system provides intelligence for processing transactions in all phases of the system. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system is empowered by introducing the protocol of Level 4 Data which are supplementary data used by the decision-making engine in the system. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system has a capability of generating and processing tokenized data which includes tokens for predetermined numbers of transactions, tokens for predetermined periods of time, tokens for unlimited time, and chain-bound tokens shared across locations. The dynamic and recursive transaction gateway system provides a novel approach: recursive transaction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: FREEDOMPAY INC.
    Inventors: Samuel W. Bellamy, III, Christopher R. Kronenthal, Stephen M. Oberholtzer