Patents by Inventor Antony Brydon

Antony Brydon 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: 20230222465
    Abstract: Systems and methods of using NFTs to make competitors and their competitions fungible are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson, Brian Wiltin
  • Publication number: 20200342462
    Abstract: A customer communication system is configured to automatically communicate with human customers in a conversation including an ordered sequence of messages. Messages from the system to the customers are selected based on a knowledge graph. The knowledge graph including multiple levels of clusters of customer messages, each of the clusters being associated with a responsive supporting message. The customer communication system is optionally configured to identify inadequacies in the knowledge graph and obtain corrections from a human expert. The system may be adapted to communicate with parties other than customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Jason Todd, Sinan Ozdemir, Eduardo González Ponferrada, Shayaan Ahmad Abudullah, Jeff Patterson, Scott Golubock, Antony Brydon
  • Patent number: 9654640
    Abstract: In a crowd sourcing approach, responses to customer service inquiries are provided by providing the inquiries to an independent group of experts. These experts are typically able to resolve the inquiry before the inquiries are routed to a traditional contact center. The customer service inquiries are routed to specific experts based on matches between identified subject matter of the inquiries and expertise of the experts. In some embodiments, more than one expert can contribute to the resolution of an inquiry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Directly, Inc.
    Inventors: Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson, Jean Tessier, Scott Golubock, Vlad Georgescu, Ruben Kislaki
  • Patent number: 9325849
    Abstract: In a crowd sourcing approach, responses to customer service inquiries are provided by providing the inquiries to an independent group of experts. These experts are typically able to resolve the inquiry before the inquiries are routed to a traditional contact center. The customer service inquiries are routed to specific experts based on matches between identified subject matter of the inquiries and expertise of the experts. In some embodiments, more than one expert can contribute to the resolution of an inquiry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: DIRECTLY, INC.
    Inventors: Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson, Jean Tessier, Scott Golubock, Vlad Georgescu, Ruben Kislaki
  • Patent number: 8554794
    Abstract: The present application describes systems and methods for Relationship Capital Management (“RCM”). An RCM system mines relationship capital, which it correlates to eliminate redundancies, that is made available for searching. An initial result set of the search may be narrowed to a single individual, e.g., the target. Weighted paths are identified that connect the user to the target, which may comprise one or more intermediaries between the two. Weighted paths are presented as maps, which may be embedded in other applications to improve business processes such as selling, marketing, hiring, etc. Selection of a path to the target initiates processing of requests for access to relationship capital and responses between the user and the one or more intermediaries. The processing of requests ultimately leads to the approval, conditional approval or denial of access to the relationship capital to which the user wishes to obtain access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Hoover's Inc.
    Inventors: Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson
  • Patent number: 7877266
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating business processes in an enterprise application. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises obtaining information regarding one or more entities and analyzing the information regarding the one or more entities to determine one or more paths between the one or more entities and one or more members of an enterprise. Information regarding the one or more entities is distributed to the one or more members of the enterprise where one or more paths exist between the one or more members of the enterprise and the one or more entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
    Inventors: Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson
  • Publication number: 20060136419
    Abstract: The present application describes systems and methods for Relationship Capital Management (“RCM”). An RCM system mines relationship capital, which it correlates to eliminate redundancies, that is made available for searching. An initial result set of the search may be narrowed to a single individual, e.g., the target. Weighted paths are identified that connect the user to the target, which may comprise one or more intermediaries between the two. Weighted paths are presented as maps, which may be embedded in other applications to improve business processes such as selling, marketing, hiring, etc. Selection of a path to the target initiates processing of requests for access to relationship capital and responses between the user and the one or more intermediaries. The processing of requests ultimately leads to the approval, conditional approval or denial of access to the relationship capital to which the user wishes to obtain access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson
  • Publication number: 20060036641
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating the distribution of a communication, for example, using one or more enterprise applications. According to one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining information regarding one or more entities. Using a software application, hardware device or combination thereof, a given entity is selected from the one or more entities. A given member of the enterprise is selected based on a path between the given member of the enterprise and a given entity, the path identified by the information regarding the given entity. A communication is addressed from the given member of the enterprise to the given entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson
  • Publication number: 20060026033
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating business processes in an enterprise application. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises obtaining information regarding one or more entities and analyzing the information regarding the one or more entities to determine one or more paths between the one or more entities and one or more members of an enterprise. Information regarding the one or more entities is distributed to the one or more members of the enterprise where one or more paths exist between the one or more members of the enterprise and the one or more entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson