Patents Assigned to Motherlode Network
  • Patent number: 8805719
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs for using Performance-Driven criteria to award Production Points for determining a Referring Customer's position in a Performance-Driven Floating Matrix compensation and matching bonus plan in a retail marketing organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Motherlode Network
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Patent number: 8571928
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs for using Performance-Driven criteria to award Production Points for determining a Referring Customer's position in a Performance-Driven Floating Matrix compensation and matching bonus plan in a retail marketing organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Motherlode Network
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P. Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Patent number: 8571927
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to retail customer referral compensation programs for using performance driven criteria to award production points for determining a referring customer's position in a performance driven floating compensation structure and matching bonus plan in a retail marketing organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Motherlode Network
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P. Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Patent number: 8515807
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs for using Performance-Driven criteria to award Production Points for creating a Position Changing Point Driven matrix and determining a Referring Customer's position and compensation within that matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Motherlode Network
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P. Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard