Patents by Inventor Benjamin Hartard

Benjamin Hartard 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: 11017369
    Abstract: Introduced is a technology for processing transactions on behalf of a merchant employing a legacy system, where the processing includes managing inventory data and bundle pricing data associated with transactions occurring at various point-of-sale (POS) devices that include both legacy and non-legacy POS devices. Briefly described, the technology involves a payment processing system (PPS) working in coordination with a legacy merchant system. The PPS includes a payment processing database system, a adapter module installed at the merchant system, and a payment processing engine installed at a cloud-based server system. The payment processing engine, via the adapter module, can receive the most up-to-date inventory data and bundle pricing rules from the legacy merchant system. Based on the bundle pricing rules, the payment processing engine can compute one or more minimum-price carts that apply pricing discounts to eligible items for transactions occurring at the POS device(s) associated with the PPS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Brock, Grace Huey Chen, Benjamin Hartard, Mark Jen, Kathryne Hollie Hawthorne
  • Publication number: 20200327548
    Abstract: Techniques for classifying a merchant based on content derived from crawling a website associated with the merchant are described. As an example, a payment processing service may receive an indication to crawl a website associated with a merchant. The website may be accessible by a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The payment processing service may access the website via the URL and may analyze, via a web crawler, a structure of the website to derive content of the website. Based at least in part on a previously trained data model and the content of the website, the payment processing service may determine a classification of the merchant. The classification may identify the merchant as a fraudulent merchant or may identify the merchant as a candidate for a particular service offered by the payment processing service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Benjamin Hartard
  • Patent number: 10755275
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for intelligent payment capture in mixed fulfillment transactions. For example, the techniques described herein may include generating a purchase ticket associated with multiple items in a mixed fulfillment transaction. The purchase ticket may facilitate conducting a mixed fulfillment transaction in which a payment instrument is authorized for the cost of the multiple items in the mixed fulfillment transaction, with partial payment captures being made as items are fulfilled without requiring additional authorizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Jen, Gillian May Lian Wee, Taylor Caswell Cascino, Grace Huey Chen, Benjamin Hartard
  • Patent number: 9721251
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for intelligent payment capture in mixed fulfillment transactions. For example, the techniques described herein may include generating a purchase ticket associated with multiple items in a mixed fulfillment transaction. The purchase ticket may facilitate conducting a mixed fulfillment transaction in which a payment instrument is authorized for the cost of the multiple items in the mixed fulfillment transaction, with partial payment captures being made as items are fulfilled without requiring additional authorizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Jen, Benjamin Hartard, Gillian May Lian Wee, Taylor Caswell Cascino, Grace Huey Chen