Patents by Inventor Andrew M. Pole

Andrew M. Pole 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: 8650085
    Abstract: In selected embodiments a repository system correlates user browsing behavior with in-store transactions involving a number of products or product categories. For example, an online portal may receive online transactional data and in-store transactional data and associate particular user identities with such data. The user identities may be correlated by matching online transactional data with in-store transactional data. This correlation identifies a user known to frequent both online and in-store venues of the same retailer. The online portal may maintain browser repository records based on an association of online and in-store identities. In some implementations, the portal measures in-store transactions of a user known to frequent both online and in-store venues. The measurements may be performed for a predetermined time period. Such measurements may be used to extrapolate web influenced in-store transactional data from at least one browser repository record to estimate a transaction for an unknown user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Corrine Wilder, Rachel Gregg, James Nelson, Andrew M. Pole, Wendy Yungner
  • Patent number: 8332271
    Abstract: In selected embodiments a repository system correlates user browsing behavior with in-store transactions involving a number of products or product categories. For example, an online portal may receive online transactional data and in-store transactional data and associate particular user identities with such data. The user identities may be correlated by matching online transactional data with in-store transactional data. This correlation identifies a user known to frequent both online and in-store venues of the same retailer. The online portal may maintain browser repository records based on an association of online and in-store identities. In some implementations, the portal measures in-store transactions of a user known to frequent both online and in-store venues. The measurements may be performed for a predetermined time period. Such measurements may be used to extrapolate web influenced in-store transactional data from at least one browser repository record to estimate a transaction for an unknown user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Corrine Wilder, Rachel Gregg, James Nelson, Wendy Yungner, Andrew M. Pole
  • Publication number: 20020161623
    Abstract: A method of providing information with respect to a market displays, for each of a plurality of market participants, information with respect to the total number and value of units sold during a period in each of a plurality of channels of the market. The method displays graphical controls by which a user may select a style of displaying the information with respect to number and value of units sold. The method may also display graphical controls for enabling the user to display additional information with respect to each of the market participants in each of the channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Patrick D. Butler, Andrew M. Pole, Gene R. Givan