Patents by Inventor Alexander F. Mehr

Alexander F. Mehr 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).

  • System and method for selling and customizing products and services via a network of at least three computer systems
    Patent number: 10176504
    Abstract: A system and method allows one or more users to purchase an offering of goods or services using at least three computer systems, by one user making a proposal for the two to jointly consume the offering, and the other user accepting the proposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh, Doug H. Wehmeier, Charles E. Gotlieb
  • System and Method for Validating Users Using Social Network Information
    Publication number: 20180351965
    Abstract: A system and method uses any or all of information of a user and/or user's activity at a second web site, information of the user's friends or other connections at the second web site, or registration information of the user, to determine whether to allow the user to communicate with other users of a first web site, prevent the user from communicating with other users of the first web site, or monitor the user's communications and allow or prevent the user from further communication based on the monitored communications at the first web site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh, Charles E. Gotlieb
  • System and method for validating users using social network information
    Patent number: 10044731
    Abstract: A system and method uses any or all of information of a user and/or user's activity at a second web site, information of the user's friends or other connections at the second web site, or registration information of the user, to determine whether to allow the user to communicate with other users of a first web site, prevent the user from communicating with other users of the first web site, or monitor the user's communications and allow or prevent the user from further communication based on the monitored communications at the first web site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh
  • System and Method for Validating Users Using Social Network Information
    Publication number: 20180091522
    Abstract: A system and method uses any or all of information of a user and/or user's activity at a second web site, information of the user's friends or other connections at the second web site, or registration information of the user, to determine whether to allow the user to communicate with other users of a first web site, prevent the user from communicating with other users of the first web site, or monitor the user's communications and allow or prevent the user from further communication based on the monitored communications at the first web site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh
  • System and method for validating users using social network information
    Patent number: 9838400
    Abstract: A system and method uses any or all of information of a user and/or user's activity at a second web site, information of the user's friends or other connections at the second web site, or registration information of the user, to determine whether to allow the user to communicate with other users of a first web site, prevent the user from communicating with other users of the first web site, or monitor the user's communications and allow or prevent the user from further communication based on the monitored communications at the first web site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh
  • System and Method for Verifying User Supplied Items Asserted About the User For Searching
    Publication number: 20170324723
    Abstract: A system and method validates user supplied photographs and/or characteristics using a video, audio or series of images of the user responding to instructions, and uses such validation in searching and/or matching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander F. MEHR, Shayan G. ZADEH, Jared R. CRANE, Joshua D. ROYSE
  • System and Method for Validating Users Using Social Network Information
    Publication number: 20170237746
    Abstract: A system and method uses any or all of information of a user and/or user's activity at a second web site, information of the user's friends or other connections at the second web site, or registration information of the user, to determine whether to allow the user to communicate with other users of a first web site, prevent the user from communicating with other users of the first web site, or monitor the user's communications and allow or prevent the user from further communication based on the monitored communications at the first web site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander F. MEHR, Shayan G. ZADEH
  • System and method for advertising applications to users without requiring the applications to be installed
    Patent number: 9734513
    Abstract: A system and method allows a user to view a movie demonstrating an application via a user device and then have operation of the application simulated on a server, with application input and output forwarded between the server and the user's device. Operation of the application begins from a point relevant to the time of the movie the user was viewing. Operation of the application can also be started from one such point via a link available in a robots.txt-type file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Inventor: Alexander F. Mehr
  • System and method for verifying user supplied items asserted about the user for searching and/or matching
    Patent number: 9716705
    Abstract: A system and method validates user supplied photographs and/or characteristics using a video, audio or series of images of the user responding to instructions, and uses such validation in searching and/or matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh, Jared R. Crane, Joshua D. Royse
  • System and method for validating users using social network or other information from a web site
    Patent number: 9639695
    Abstract: A system and method uses any or all of information of a user and/or user's activity at a second web site, information of the user's friends or other connections at the second web site, or registration information of the user, to determine whether to allow the user to communicate with other users of a first web site, prevent the user from communicating with other users of the first web site, or monitor the user's communications and allow or prevent the user from further communication based on the monitored communications at the first web site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh
  • System and Method for Locating Desired Traits in Resources Using a Network
    Publication number: 20170048162
    Abstract: A system and method updates a consumer's preference information not only as a result of explicit preference information received from the consumer, but also resulting from actions of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. ZADEH
  • System and Method for Verifying User Supplied Items Asserted About the User For Searching and/or Matching
    Publication number: 20170012957
    Abstract: A system and method validates user supplied photographs and/or characteristics using a video, audio or series of images of the user responding to instructions, and uses such validation in searching and/or matching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander F. MEHR, Shayan G. ZADEH, Jared R. CRANE, Joshua D. ROYSE
  • System and method for locating desired traits in resources using a network
    Patent number: 9466064
    Abstract: A system and method updates a consumer's preference information not only as a result of explicit preference information received from the consumer, but also resulting from actions of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander F Mehr, Shayan G Zadeh
  • System and method for verifying user supplied items asserted about the user
    Patent number: 9391974
    Abstract: A system and method validates user supplied photographs and/or characteristics using a video, audio or series of images of the user responding to instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh, Jared R. Crane, Joshua D. Royse
  • System and method for registering users for communicating information on a web site
    Patent number: 9230103
    Abstract: A system and method blocks or removes user accounts or complex information of user accounts that has or have a correspondence with complex information of other accounts or complex information on a blacklist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Doug H Wehmeier, Alexander F Mehr, Shayan G Zadeh
  • System and Method for Displaying Message or User Lists
    Publication number: 20150312195
    Abstract: A system and method displays lists of users or messages in segments, with some segments showing messages or users believed to be more relevant to the user than others on the list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. ZADEH, Jared R. CRANE, Janet RYU, Eric R. BARNETT, Charles E. GOTLlEB
  • System and Method for Verifying User Supplied Items Asserted About the User
    Publication number: 20150281201
    Abstract: A system and method validates user supplied photographs and/or characteristics using a video, audio or series of images of the user responding to instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Alexander F. MEHR, Shayan G. ZADEH, Jared R. CRANE, Joshua D. ROYSE
  • System and Method for Selling and Customizing Products and Services via a Network of at Least Three Computer Systems
    Publication number: 20150161700
    Abstract: A system and method allows one or more users to purchase an offering of goods or services using at least three computer systems, by one user making a proposal for the two to jointly consume the offering, and the other user accepting the proposal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh, Dough H. Wehmeier, Charles E. Gotlieb
  • System and method for selling products and services via a network of at least three computer systems
    Patent number: 8606646
    Abstract: A system and method allows one or more users to purchase an offering of goods or services using at least three computer systems, by one user making a proposal for the two to jointly consume the offering, and the other user accepting the proposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Zoosk, Inc.
    Inventors: Doug H Wehmeier, Alexander F Mehr, Shayan G Zadeh
  • System and Method for Displaying Information About Pairs of Matched Users
    Publication number: 20130262584
    Abstract: A system and method allows two users to utilize a shared profile of information about the two users and their relationship with one another. Information from the couples profile and its operation may be used to search or match users of a coupled profile with other users after the relationship between the two users of the couples profile has been indicated to have ended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Shayan G. Zadeh, Alexander F. Mehr, Eric R. Barnett, Charles E. Gotlieb