Patents by Inventor Benjamin VandenBos

Benjamin VandenBos 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: 20230110226
    Abstract: Techniques for allocating investment deposits are described. A user can request that investment deposits to an existing account be allocated between investment accounts associated with the user's investment portfolio. The investment accounts can be of different asset classes (e.g., cryptocurrency, securities, commercial paper, fiat currency, non-fiat currency, etc.). The particular allocation amounts and/or percentages can be based on a machine-trained model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Tomkins, Benjamin VandenBos, Jeremy Mawson
  • Publication number: 20220318775
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating a payment processing platform (PPP) and a payment making platform (PMP) for differentiated payment allocations using cryptocurrency is described. The PPP can receive a request to receive funds in cryptocurrency, wherein the funds are associated with transaction(s) conducted via point-of-sale (POS) software provided by the PPP. Based on the request, a cryptocurrency wallet account for the merchant can be accessed via the PMP. The PPP can associate a merchant account of the merchant with the cryptocurrency wallet account. The PPP can receive, via the POS software associated with the merchant, payment authorization request(s) associated with the transaction(s) and cause (i) a first portion of the funds to be deposited as cryptocurrency into the cryptocurrency wallet account and (ii) a second portion of the funds to be deposited as fiat currency into the merchant account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Tomkins, Benjamin VandenBos, Jeremy Mawson
  • Patent number: 11276054
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating a payment processing platform (PPP) and a payment making platform (PMP) for differentiated payment allocations using cryptocurrency is described. In response to an indication to allocate a first portion of funds generated from payment received for transaction(s) processed by the PPP to a cryptocurrency wallet account for a user, the PMP can receive a request for first account information associated with the cryptocurrency wallet account. The PMP can send the first account information to the PPP, wherein the first account information is associated with second account information of a merchant account of the user. The PMP can receive, from the PPP, a request to deposit a first portion of the funds into the cryptocurrency wallet account, wherein a second portion of funds is retained by the PPP for deposit into the merchant account as fiat currency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Tomkins, Benjamin VandenBos, Jeremy Mawson
  • Patent number: 11176531
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating a payment processing platform (PPP) and a payment making platform (PMP) for differentiated payment allocations using cryptocurrency is described. The PPP can receive a request to receive funds in cryptocurrency, wherein the funds are associated with transaction(s) conducted via point-of-sale (POS) software provided by the PPP. Based on the request, a cryptocurrency wallet account for the merchant can be accessed via the PMP. The PPP can associate a merchant account of the merchant with the cryptocurrency wallet account. The PPP can receive, via the POS software associated with the merchant, payment authorization request(s) associated with the transaction(s) and cause (i) a first portion of the funds to be deposited as cryptocurrency into the cryptocurrency wallet account and (ii) a second portion of the funds to be deposited as fiat currency into the merchant account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Tomkins, Benjamin VandenBos, Jeremy Mawson
  • Patent number: 10579240
    Abstract: A user computing device may receive a command from a user to modify an object of a canvas. The received command may be accepted and the user computing device may perform one or more operations on the object of the canvas according to the command, such as modifying a mutable attribute. The canvas state may then be captured by the computing device using one or more patches. The computing device may generate and store one or more snapshots to include a subset of the one or more patches and further provide the one or more snapshots to playback a sequence of at least some of the one or more operations that were performed on the object of the canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: PicMonkey, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Coldham, Benjamin VandenBos, Peter Grant
  • Publication number: 20190250800
    Abstract: A user computing device may receive a command from a user to modify an object of a canvas. The received command may be accepted and the user computing device may perform one or more operations on the object of the canvas according to the command, such as modifying a mutable attribute. The canvas state may then be captured by the computing device using one or more patches. The computing device may generate and store one or more snapshots to include a subset of the one or more patches and further provide the one or more snapshots to playback a sequence of at least some of the one or more operations that were performed on the object of the canvas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew Coldham, Benjamin VandenBos, Peter Grant
  • Patent number: 10063660
    Abstract: A user computing device may receive a command from a user to modify an object of a canvas. The canvas state may be shared between multiple users as part of a collaborative editing session. The received command may be accepted and the user computing device may perform a first operation on the object of the canvas according to the command, such as modifying a mutable attribute. The computing device may perform one or more steps to generate a patch. The computing device may be configured to receive a remote patch and process the remote patch in a manner where some operations of the remote patch are discarded and other operations of the remote patch are applied. A hybrid logical clock may be utilized to coordinate the application of remote patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: PicMonkey, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Coldham, Benjamin VandenBos, Peter Grant