Patents by Inventor Alan Tien

Alan Tien 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: 20120016776
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are disclosed to provide dynamic content to users of online payment service providers without requiring users to log in or otherwise actively engage the payment service providers. In one example, a method of providing dynamic content includes providing a client device with access to an online marketplace over a network. The method also includes facilitating transmission of a user identifier stored by the client device to a payment service provider. The method further includes receiving dynamic content from the payment service provider in response to the user identifier. In addition, the method includes serving the dynamic content to the client device over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Hugo Olliphant, Ray Tanaka, Alan Tien, Roy Vella
  • Patent number: 8028041
    Abstract: Various methods and systems provide dynamic content to users of online payment service providers without requiring users to log in or otherwise actively engage the payment service providers. In one example, a method includes providing a client device with access to an online marketplace over a network. The method also includes facilitating transmission of a user identifier stored by the client device to a payment service provider. The method further includes receiving dynamic content from the payment service provider in response to the user identifier. In addition, the method includes serving the dynamic content to the client device over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Hugo Olliphant, Ray Tanaka, Alan Tien, Roy Vella
  • Publication number: 20070245022
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are disclosed to provide dynamic content to users of online payment service providers without requiring users to log in or otherwise actively engage the payment service providers. In one example, a method of providing dynamic content includes providing a client device with access to an online marketplace over a network. The method also includes facilitating transmission of a user identifier stored by the client device to a payment service provider. The method further includes receiving dynamic content from the payment service provider in response to the user identifier. In addition, the method includes serving the dynamic content to the client device over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Hugo Olliphant, Ray Tanaka, Alan Tien, Roy Vella
  • Publication number: 20070162366
    Abstract: A system and method for electronic message verification are described. One embodiment adds a unique code to electronic messages which a user can provide to a financial services company website. The code can be verified and a verification notice is provided to the user if the message was authentic. Authentication can be based upon both the code and the user's identification relative to the financial services company.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Ray Tanaka, Alan Tien, Roy Vella
  • Publication number: 20070073618
    Abstract: A method and system to transfer payment to a seller of a network-based commerce transaction are described herein. The method includes generating a risk model based on seller-specific criteria, and releasing funds from a holding account to the seller based on the risk model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Kevin Yu, Joseph Chong, Alan Tien
  • Publication number: 20050256806
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, to facilitate processing a payment for an online transaction, includes, responsive to receiving secure transaction data from a merchant server, using a payment processor to generate a transaction data identifier to identify the transaction data. The payment processor communicates the transaction data identifier to the merchant server. In response to receiving a request to process a payment, including the transaction data identifier, the payment processor requests user credentials from a user. Upon receiving user credentials from the user, the payment processor verifies the user credentials. The payment processor processes the payment and generates a payment identifier to identify payment data associated with the payment. The payment processor communicates the payment identifier to the merchant server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Alan Tien, Peter Chu, Ray Tanaka, Steve Chen
  • Publication number: 20050171842
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus to incentivize a first party to refer a payment service to a second party. The method includes establishing an account for the second party, wherein the account is associated with one of a plurality of bonus programs and wherein the account is further associated with the first party; receiving a payment for the second party in the account; and automatically awarding a payout to the first party based on the payment to the account and the bonus program that is associated with the account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Alan Tien, Dave McClure