Patents by Inventor Todd Schobel

Todd Schobel 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: 20170103488
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reporting incident(s) of illegal, unethical, harmful or other inappropriate conduct are provided. One method includes creating, by a server, a record to identify a user of an application for reporting at least one incident of illegal, unethical, harmful or other inappropriate conduct. The creating of the record further comprises assigning at least one of: a unique code used to anonymously identify a user that is submitting a report of the at least one incident, and/or a unique messenger ID for use by the user to anonymously send and receive real-time messages via a secure, anonymous, and two-way communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Todd SCHOBEL
  • Publication number: 20160314552
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reporting incident(s) of illegal, unethical, harmful or other inappropriate conduct are provided. One method includes receiving, by at least one server, a user report of at least one incident of illegal, unethical, harmful or inappropriate conduct, and creating, by the at least one server, an incident report based on the received user report. The user report may include metadata comprising a unique code used to anonymously identify a user that the user report is received from.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventor: Todd SCHOBEL
  • Publication number: 20140310191
    Abstract: A method of rapid response to a cyber-bullying incident is provided by means of a “smartphone,” such as an iPhone™ or Android™, running anti-bullying application software. The application software, which is constantly running or available for launch on the smartphone of the minor user, enables the user to instantly initiate response and reporting of a cyber-bullying incident from a touchscreen menu. The application provides a user interface, which provides a menu of multiple alternate response and reporting actions and one or more input modules for associating a contact list with each of the menu actions. A version of the application for schools enables documentation of responsive actions to cyber-bullying incidents involving their students.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventor: Todd Schobel