Patents by Inventor Yong-chul C. Kim

Yong-chul C. Kim 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: 10467647
    Abstract: A system includes an offer datastores including one or more offers from one or more merchants, a registered card module to register one or more payment cards to be used for a purchase transaction, a transaction matching module to identify the one or more merchants from a collection of purchase transaction data and to match the purchase transaction of the identified one or more merchants with one or more offers in the offer datastore from the identified one or more merchants, and a rewards module to determine an incentive to be applied to the one or more payment cards based on any offer associated with the matched merchant and generate a qualified transaction data to be transmitted to an issuer of the one or more payment cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Next Jump, Inc.
    Inventors: Yong-chul C. Kim, Isabella Chung, Thomas Fuller, Nettana Samroengraja, John Duncan
  • Patent number: 10467646
    Abstract: A communication system with client devices in communication with at least one communication network. User data stores are also in communication with the communications network and store user data of users using respective ones of the client devices. Offer data stores also in communication with the communications network store offers from merchants. A narrowcasting engine includes an active data gathering module to collect the user data, and an active learning module to generate a user profile based on the user data. The communication engine selects dynamically offers from the offer data store based on the profile, and communicates the selected offers in the offer data store to the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Next Jump, Inc.
    Inventors: Yong-Chul C. Kim, Thomas Fuller, Isabella Chung, Nettana Samroengraja
  • Publication number: 20170293929
    Abstract: A system includes an offer datastores including one or more offers from one or more merchants, a registered card module to register one or more payment cards to be used for a purchase transaction, a transaction matching module to identify the one or more merchants from a collection of purchase transaction data and to match the purchase transaction of the identified one or more merchants with one or more offers in the offer datastore from the identified one or more merchants, and a rewards module to determine an incentive to be applied to the one or more payment cards based on any offer associated with the matched merchant and generate a qualified transaction data to be transmitted to an issuer of the one or more payment cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Yong-chul C. Kim, Isabella Chung, Thomas Fuller, Nettana Samroengraja, John Duncan
  • Publication number: 20140156406
    Abstract: A communication system with client devices in communication with at least one communication network. User data stores are also in communication with the communications network and store user data of users using respective ones of the client devices. Offer data stores also in communication with the communications network store offers from merchants. A narrowcasting engine includes an active data gathering module to collect the user data, and an active learning module to generate a user profile based on the user data. The communication engine selects dynamically offers from the offer data store based on the profile, and communicates the selected offers in the offer data store to the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Yong-Chul C. KIM, lsabella CHUNG, Thomas FULLER, Nettana SAMROENGRAJA
  • Publication number: 20110276377
    Abstract: A communication system with client devices in communication with at least one communication network. User data stores are also in communication with the communications network and store user data of users using respective ones of the client devices. Offer data stores also in communication with the communications network store offers from merchants. A narrowcasting engine includes an active data gathering module to collect the user data, and an active learning module to generate a user profile based on the user data. The communication engine selects dynamically offers from the offer data store based on the profile, and communicates the selected offers in the offer data store to the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: NEXT JUMP, Inc.
    Inventors: Yong-Chul C. Kim, Isabella Chung, Thomas Fuller, Nettana Samroengraja
  • Publication number: 20080262925
    Abstract: A system includes an offer datastores including one or more offers from one or more merchants, a registered card module to register one or more payment cards to be used for a purchase transaction, a transaction matching module to identify the one or more merchants from a collection of purchase transaction data and to match the purchase transaction of the identified one or more merchants with one or more offers in the offer datastore from the identified one or more merchants, and a rewards module to determine an incentive to be applied to the one or more payment cards based on any offer associated with the matched merchant and generate a qualified transaction data to be transmitted to an issuer of the one or more payment cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Yong-chul C. Kim, Isabella Chung, Thomas Fuller, Nettana Samroengraja, John Duncan