Patents by Inventor Balwinder S. Samra

Balwinder S. Samra 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: 7305364
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for generating customer leads for use by dealers attempting to sell a product, for example a loan product. The method is implemented on a system and includes providing a database of customer information, predicting a propensity for one or more customers within the database to respond to an offer, predicting when the customers will respond to the offer, generating a potential customer list, and providing the potential customer list to one or more dealers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Capital Corporation
    Inventors: Oumar Nabe, David J. Fogarty, Ian R. Bell, Balwinder S. Samra
  • Patent number: 7010495
    Abstract: Method and systems using models for evaluating marketing campaign data in the form of database scores, stored procedures, and OLAP multidimensional structures. Models are used to target segments for marketing. The models are mathematical algorithms that map customer and/or account attributes such as, a customer's propensity to attrite, default on payments, and expected profitability. The method includes the steps of evaluating models using OLAP structures based on campaign drivers, that can segment gains charts to discover where a model is under performing and evaluating models performance over time to discover user defined trends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Capital Corporation
    Inventors: Balwinder S. Samra, Oumar Nabe
  • Patent number: 7006979
    Abstract: Methods and systems for increasing efficiency of a marketing campaign are disclosed. The method uses a system including a database containing customer demographic data and includes the steps of building models of predicted customer profiles and generating scores for prospective customers in the database based on predicted customer profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Capital Corporation
    Inventors: Balwinder S. Samra, Oumar Nabe
  • Patent number: 7003476
    Abstract: Methods and systems for increasing the efficiency of marketing campaigns are disclosed. A targeting engine is used for analyzing data input and generating data output. The method includes the steps of using historical data to determine a target group based upon a plurality of embedded models and directing the marketing campaign towards the target groups flagged by the models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Capital Corporation
    Inventors: Balwinder S. Samra, Oumar Nabe
  • Patent number: 6970830
    Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing the success of a marketing campaign by using campaign results and an original campaign database are disclosed. The method includes the steps of profiling results of the marketing campaign against a list of user defined dimensions (analytic models may be used to derive dimensions) and assigning a score to the results of the marketing campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Capital Corporation
    Inventors: Balwinder S. Samra, Oumar Nabe
  • Publication number: 20020194050
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for generating customer leads for use by dealers attempting to sell a product, for example a loan product. The method is implemented on a system and includes providing a database of customer information, predicting a propensity for one or more customers within the database to respond to an offer, predicting when the customers will respond to the offer, generating a potential customer list, and providing the potential customer list to one or more dealers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Oumar Nabe, David J. Fogarty, Ian R. Bell, Balwinder S. Samra
  • Publication number: 20020194117
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing customer relationships are disclosed where the method includes the steps of providing a database of customer information and customer spending data, predicting future customer behavior based on the customer information and customer spending data, and constructing customer campaigns with personalized offers for targeted customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Oumar Nabe, David J. Fogarty, Balwinder S. Samra