Patents Assigned to PayForward, LLC
  • Patent number: 11468466
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to a social-financial platform. In certain embodiments, sponsor-members, consumer-members, and beneficiary members are part of a social-financial platform in which purchases made by consumer-members at merchant sponsor-members result in automatic rebates being paid to and allocated between the consumer member and one or more beneficiary-members. Also disclosed is a monolithic financial structure for carrying out rebate allocation automatically and instantaneously, and for transferring funds between users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: PayForward, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Marks, Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos
  • Patent number: 11010732
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to processing payments using an event-triggered distributed rules-based system (“DRBS”). In one embodiment, a system comprises a DRBS comprising a DRBS virtual holding account associated with the DRBS, a merchant virtual account associated with a merchant, the merchant being a member of the DRBS, and/or a consumer virtual account associated with a consumer. The system also comprises a database configured to manage virtual balance information for the plurality of virtual accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: PayForward LLC
    Inventors: Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos
  • Publication number: 20210027330
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to a social-financial platform. In certain embodiments, sponsor-members, consumer-members, and beneficiary members are part of a social-financial platform in which purchases made by consumer-members at merchant sponsor-members result in automatic rebates being paid to and allocated between the consumer member and one or more beneficiary-members. Also disclosed is a monolithic financial structure for carrying out rebate allocation automatically and instantaneously, and for transferring funds between users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: PayForward, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Marks, Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos
  • Patent number: 10679237
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to a social-financial platform. In certain embodiments, sponsor-members, consumer-members, and beneficiary members are part of a social-financial platform in which purchases made by consumer-members at merchant sponsor-members result in automatic rebates being paid to and allocated between the consumer member and one or more beneficiary-members. Also disclosed is a monolithic financial structure for carrying out rebate allocation automatically and instantaneously, and for transferring funds between users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: PayForward, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Marks, Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos
  • Publication number: 20180018645
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to processing payments using an event-triggered distributed rules-based system (“DRBS”). In one embodiment, a system comprises a DRBS comprising a DRBS virtual holding account associated with the DRBS, a merchant virtual account associated with a merchant, the merchant being a member of the DRBS, and/or a consumer virtual account associated with a consumer. The system also comprises a database configured to manage virtual balance information for the plurality of virtual accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: PayForward LLC
    Inventors: Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos
  • Publication number: 20150332306
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to a social-financial platform. In certain embodiments, sponsor-members, consumer-members, and beneficiary members are part of a social-financial platform in which purchases made by consumer-members at merchant sponsor-members result in automatic rebates being paid to and allocated between the consumer member and one or more beneficiary-members. Also disclosed is a monolithic financial structure for carrying out rebate allocation automatically and instantaneously, and for transferring funds between users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: PayForward, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Marks, Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos