Patents by Inventor Benjamin Mills

Benjamin Mills 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: 20240127308
    Abstract: A retail sales system and method for using same are provided. The system may include a mobile in-store terminal having a processor configured to execute a software application configured to receive product search information relating to a requested product, a database configured to store product detail information for a plurality of products, and a server configured to receive the product search information from the mobile in-store terminal, identify one or more products corresponding to the product search information, obtain and provide product detail information related to each of the one or more identified products to the mobile in-store terminal. The mobile in-store terminal may receive product search information that includes a product image of the requested product, a unique visual code corresponding to the requested product, a text code corresponding to the requested product, and a text description corresponding to the requested product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Hibbett Retail, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Longo, Charles Mills, William Timothy Boggess, Benjamin A. Knighten, Michael Bonamy, Kevin Young, Ryan Besterwitch
  • Patent number: 11301219
    Abstract: Systems and methods providing, by a third party, input form fields for sensitive data on a web page provided by an organization. A user may request a web page from an organization, such as a merchant's checkout web page, that requires entry of sensitive data. The merchant's checkout web page may include reference to a script file that provides hosted sensitive data form fields. In response to rendering the merchant web page in a web browser of the user, a request to provide sensitive data form fields on the merchant web page may be received. The request may include a call to a function in a scripting file provided by the third party, and the provided file may cause one or more inline frames to be rendered in the web browser, each inline frame including a sensitive data form field. Data entered by the user in the sensitive data form fields may be received by a third party payment processor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle DeTella, Evan Hahn, Eric Mrak, George Carpenter, V, Thomas Klun, John Downey, Rohit Turumella, Mickey Reiss, Benjamin Mills
  • Publication number: 20210279696
    Abstract: Techniques for providing access to scope-delimited sensitive data are disclosed. A user provides sensitive data to a first party associated with a payment service provider. The first party stores the sensitive data with the payment service provider, and the payment service provider provides the first party merchant with an encoding of the payment data. The first party provides a purchasing opportunity to the user for goods offered by a third party also associated with the payment service provider. The first party transmits a sensitive data grant request to the payment service provider. In response, the payment service provides a scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data. The first party provides the scope-delimited encoding of the payment data to the third party. The third party merchant creates a transaction using the scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data. At some time later, access to the scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data is revoked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Joshua Knox, Benjamin Mills, Rohit Turumella, Chris Sanger, Michael Nussbaum
  • Patent number: 11010730
    Abstract: Techniques for providing access to scope-delimited sensitive data are disclosed. A user provides sensitive data to a first party associated with a payment service provider. The first party stores the sensitive data with the payment service provider, and the payment service provider provides the first party merchant with an encoding of the payment data. The first party provides a purchasing opportunity to the user for goods offered by a third party also associated with the payment service provider. The first party transmits a sensitive data grant request to the payment service provider. In response, the payment service provides a scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data. The first party provides the scope-delimited encoding of the payment data to the third party. The third party merchant creates a transaction using the scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data. At some time later, access to the scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data is revoked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua Knox, Benjamin Mills, Rohit Turumella, Chris Sanger, Michael Nussbaum
  • Patent number: 10970377
    Abstract: A system and/or method may be provided to silently authenticate a user. An example method of silently authenticating a user includes receiving a set of device characteristics from a user device and identifying, based on the set of device characteristics, the user device. The method also includes determining whether to trust the user device and determining whether the user device is associated with a user that was previously authenticated. The method further includes in response to determining to trust the user device and that the user device is associated with the user that was previously authenticated, authenticating the user based on the previous authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijeet Arvind Ranadive, Michael Mettler, Thomas Whipple, Benjamin Mills
  • Patent number: 10565596
    Abstract: Systems and methods providing, by a third party, input form fields for sensitive data on a web page provided by an organization. A user may request a web page from an organization, such as a merchant's checkout web page, that requires entry of sensitive data. The merchant's checkout web page may include reference to a script file that provides hosted sensitive data form fields. In response to rendering the merchant web page in a web browser of the user, a request to provide sensitive data form fields on the merchant web page may be received. The request may include a call to a function in a scripting file provided by the third party, and the provided file may cause one or more inline frames to be rendered in the web browser, each inline frame including a sensitive data form field. Data entered by the user in the sensitive data form fields may be received by a third party payment processor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kyle DeTella, Evan Hahn, Eric Mrak, George Carpenter, V, Thomas Klun, John Downey, Rohit Turumella, Mickey Reiss, Benjamin Mills
  • Publication number: 20190354664
    Abstract: A system and/or method may be provided to silently authenticate a user. An example method of silently authenticating a user includes receiving a set of device characteristics from a user device and identifying, based on the set of device characteristics, the user device. The method also includes determining whether to trust the user device and determining whether the user device is associated with a user that was previously authenticated. The method further includes in response to determining to trust the user device and that the user device is associated with the user that was previously authenticated, authenticating the user based on the previous authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Abhijeet Arvind Ranadive, Michael Mettler, Thomas Whipple, Benjamin Mills
  • Patent number: 10311222
    Abstract: A system and/or method may be provided to silently authenticate a user. An example method of silently authenticating a user includes receiving a set of device characteristics from a user device and identifying, based on the set of device characteristics, the user device. The method also includes determining whether to trust the user device and determining whether the user device is associated with a user that was previously authenticated. The method further includes in response to determining to trust the user device and that the user device is associated with the user that was previously authenticated, authenticating the user based on the previous authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Abhijeet Arvind Ranadive, Michael Mettler, Thomas Whipple, Benjamin Mills
  • Publication number: 20180225442
    Abstract: A system and/or method may be provided to silently authenticate a user. An example method of silently authenticating a user includes receiving a set of device characteristics from a user device and identifying, based on the set of device characteristics, the user device. The method also includes determining whether to trust the user device and determining whether the user device is associated with a user that was previously authenticated. The method further includes in response to determining to trust the user device and that the user device is associated with the user that was previously authenticated, authenticating the user based on the previous authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Abhijeet Arvind Ranadive, Michael Mettler, Thomas Whipple, Benjamin Mills
  • Publication number: 20180075418
    Abstract: Techniques for providing access to scope-delimited sensitive data are disclosed. A user provides sensitive data to a first party associated with a payment service provider. The first party stores the sensitive data with the payment service provider, and the payment service provider provides the first party merchant with an encoding of the payment data. The first party provides a purchasing opportunity to the user for goods offered by a third party also associated with the payment service provider. The first party transmits a sensitive data grant request to the payment service provider. In response, the payment service provides a scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data. The first party provides the scope-delimited encoding of the payment data to the third party. The third party merchant creates a transaction using the scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data. At some time later, access to the scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data is revoked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Joshua Knox, Benjamin Mills, Rohit Turumella, Chris Sanger, Michael Nussbaum
  • Patent number: 9858405
    Abstract: A system and/or method may be provided to silently authenticate a user. An example method of silently authenticating a user includes receiving a set of device characteristics from a user device and identifying, based on the set of device characteristics, the user device. The method also includes determining whether to trust the user device and determining whether the user device is associated with a user that was previously authenticated. The method further includes in response to determining to trust the user device and that the user device is associated with the user that was previously authenticated, authenticating the user based on the previous authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Abhijeet Arvind Ranadive, Michael Mettler, Thomas Whipple, Benjamin Mills
  • Publication number: 20170255943
    Abstract: Systems and methods providing, by a third party, input form fields for sensitive data on a web page provided by an organization. A user may request a web page from an organization, such as a merchant's checkout web page, that requires entry of sensitive data. The merchant's checkout web page may include reference to a script file that provides hosted sensitive data form fields. In response to rendering the merchant web page in a web browser of the user, a request to provide sensitive data form fields on the merchant web page may be received. The request may include a call to a function in a scripting file provided by the third party, and the provided file may cause one or more inline frames to be rendered in the web browser, each inline frame including a sensitive data form field. Data entered by the user in the sensitive data form fields may be received by a third party payment processor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Kyle DeTella, Evan Hahn, Eric Mrak, George Carpenter, V, Thomas Klun, John Downey, Rohit Turumella, Mickey Reiss, Benjamin Mills
  • Publication number: 20160342997
    Abstract: Systems and methods providing, by a third party, input form fields for sensitive data on a web page provided by an organization. A user may request a web page from an organization, such as a merchant's checkout web page, that requires entry of sensitive data. The merchant's checkout web page may include reference to a script file that provides hosted sensitive data form fields. In response to rendering the merchant web page in a web browser of the user, a request to provide sensitive data form fields on the merchant web page may be received. The request may include a call to a function in a scripting file provided by the third party, and the provided file may cause one or more inline frames to be rendered in the web browser, each inline frame including a sensitive data form field. Data entered by the user in the sensitive data form fields may be received by a third party payment processor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Kyle De Tella, Evan Hahn, Eric Mrak, George Carpenter, V, Thomas Klun, John Downey, Rohit Turumella, Mickey Reiss, Benjamin Mills
  • Publication number: 20150363581
    Abstract: A system and/or method may be provided to silently authenticate a user. An example method of silently authenticating a user includes receiving a set of device characteristics from a user device and identifying, based on the set of device characteristics, the user device. The method also includes determining whether to trust the user device and determining whether the user device is associated with a user that was previously authenticated. The method further includes in response to determining to trust the user device and that the user device is associated with the user that was previously authenticated, authenticating the user based on the previous authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Abhijeet Arvind Ranadive, Michael Mettler, Thomas Whipple, Benjamin Mills