Patents by Inventor Bob Murray

Bob Murray 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).

  • System and method for remotely buying, renting, and/or selling media discs
    Patent number: 8095236
    Abstract: A kiosk or machine for buying media discs includes a dispense/receive system for dispensing the media discs to consumers and receiving media discs from customers, a disc identification system for identifying the media discs, a disc transfer system for moving the media discs within the kiosk, a control system operably connected to dispense/receive system, the disc transfer system, and a user interface system. The user interface includes a buy-back indicator or prompt which can be selectively activated by the customer. In response to activation of the buy-back indicator, the controller activates the dispense/receive system to receive a media disc for buy-back, activates the disc transfer system to move the media disc to the disc identification system, activates the disc identification system to identify the media disc, determines a buy-back price for the media disc, and activates the user interface system to display the buy-back price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Into Great Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan T. Rudy, Bob Murray, Alan Wolf
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY BUYING, RENTING, AND/OR SELLING MEDIA DISCS
    Publication number: 20090326708
    Abstract: A kiosk or machine for buying media discs includes a dispense/receive system for dispensing the media discs to consumers and receiving media discs from customers, a disc identification system for identifying the media discs, a disc transfer system for moving the media discs within the kiosk, a control system operably connected to dispense/receive system, the disc transfer system, and a user interface system. The user interface includes a buy-back indicator or prompt which can be selectively activated by the customer. In response to activation of the buy-back indicator, the controller activates the dispense/receive system to receive a media disc for buy-back, activates the disc transfer system to move the media disc to the disc identification system, activates the disc identification system to identify the media disc, determines a buy-back price for the media disc, and activates the user interface system to display the buy-back price.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Alan T. Rudy, Bob Murray, Alan Wolf
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY DISPENSING MEDIA DISCS WITH A PLURALITY OF USER INTERFACE STATIONS
    Publication number: 20090276087
    Abstract: A system for dispensing media discs includes a kiosk including a storage system for storing a plurality of the media discs and a dispense system for dispensing the media discs to consumers. A plurality of dedicated user interface systems are operably connected to the kiosk so that multiple users can simultaneously interact with the kiosk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Bob Murray, Alan T. Rudy