Patents by Inventor Braden Christopher Ericson
Braden Christopher Ericson 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).
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Patent number: 11915269Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for tokenizing offers. The current disclosure presents a system and method that can present a tokenized offer for saving and retrieving from a digital wallet. The tokenized offer may be presented on a client site for selection by a user interested in taking advantage of the promotion without having to leave the current site. The current disclosure also presents a system that can retrieve the tokenized offer saved for use with a purchase. The tokenized offer may be automatically applied and on display at the merchant site and/or retrieved from the digital wallet.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Braden Christopher Ericson, Harshal Ulhas Deo
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Patent number: 11913799Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for load balancing for map application route selection and output. A user may utilize a device application to map or route between two or more endpoints, such as geo-locations entered or detected by the device. During calculation of a travel route between the endpoints, real-time data, user preferences, and requesting entities may provide criteria data that may cause determination of a particular travel route, where the travel route may be longer than a most efficient route but within a pre-defined variable time or distance allotment and match the criteria data. Use of the route may accrue a form of compensation for the user. The user may view an application interface displaying the route, which may further include one or more executable processes to cause recalculation of the route. Recalculation of the route may require the user to provide credits or compensation.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Gautam Madaan, Timothy Resudek, Braden Christopher Ericson, Cheng Tian, Jiri Medlen
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Patent number: 11887148Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for cross-platform tracking of user generated data for unified data output. A computing device may be utilized to access an online platform and perform one or more processes, including viewing an online marketplace to purchase items in a transaction. The device may be used to browse items and items may be added to a digital shopping cart or other checkout process and interface. However, the device may not finish electronic transaction processing for the items and may abandon the digital cart on a first platform used by the user. When a user uses a second online platform to shop and generate another digital cart, a cross-platform process may retrieve the previously abandoned cart's data, and may generate output for display of the previous cart with the new cart in the second platform's user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Braden Christopher Ericson, Joshua Greenwell
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Patent number: 11831779Abstract: Systems and methods of authenticating voice data using a ledger (blockchain). Examples include a scalable and seamless system that uses blockchain technologies to distribute trust of a conversation, authenticate persons in a conversation, track their characteristics and also to keep records of conversations. In some examples, smart phones, wearables, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices can be used to record and track conversations between individuals. These devices can each be used to create entries for the blockchain or a single device could be used to keep track of the entirety of the conversation. Fuzzy hashing may be used to compare newly created entries with previous entries on the ledger.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Meethil Vijay Yadav, Bradley Wardman, Braden Christopher Ericson
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Patent number: 11775439Abstract: A computer system monitors usage of an application on a computing device to identify one or more pre-fetch situations corresponding to a user of the computing device. The computer system determines whether the computing device is in a situation that corresponds to at least one of the identified one or more pre-fetch situations. In response to determining that the computing device is in the situation that corresponds to the at least one of the identified one or more pre-fetch situations, the computer system causes data corresponding to the application to be pre-fetched.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Cheng Tian, Braden Christopher Ericson, Titus Woo
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Patent number: 11665382Abstract: Embedding of digital tokens within a digital video can occur cryptographically using a public key in some embodiments. The digital video may be altered in a variety of ways so that the video itself contains an integrated token that can represent various quantities. Audiovisual data can be altered to contain both a token and a perceptible user auditory or visual cue as to the presence of the encrypted digital token. A video with an embedded digital token may be sent to users on the Internet. A video recipient may be able to view the video and also take additional action or gain additional functionality from the digital token embedded in the video. Tokens can be embedded by altering video metadata so that the perceptible video content itself is not changed in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Braden Christopher Ericson, Sam Pourcyrous, Fun-Chen Jou, Kaili An
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Publication number: 20230098665Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for monitoring device application usage for completion of checkout data processing. A computing device may be utilized to perform one or more actions while utilizing an application executable by the device, including a browser application or merchant application that allows a user to view an online marketplace and purchase items in a transaction. Prior to checkout and transaction processing, the device may be used to browse items, and items may be added to a shopping cart. However, the device may not finish electronic transaction processing for the items, for example, where the device does not enter transaction processing details and/or navigates away from the items or cart. A service provider may utilize past actions to determine whether the action indicates that the device is abandoning use of the application, including electronic transaction processing. If so, an incentive may be provided to continue use.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventor: Braden Christopher Ericson
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Publication number: 20230009813Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for load balancing for map application route selection and output. A user may utilize a device application to map or route between two or more endpoints, such as geo-locations entered or detected by the device. During calculation of a travel route between the endpoints, real-time data, user preferences, and requesting entities may provide criteria data that may cause determination of a particular travel route, where the travel route may be longer than a most efficient route but within a pre-defined variable time or distance allotment and match the criteria data. Use of the route may accrue a form of compensation for the user. The user may view an application interface displaying the route, which may further include one or more executable processes to cause recalculation of the route. Recalculation of the route may require the user to provide credits or compensation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Gautam Madaan, Timothy Resudek, Braden Christopher Ericson, Cheng Tian, Jiri Medlen
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Patent number: 11551253Abstract: Embedding of digital incentive tokens within a digital image can occur cryptographically using a public key in some embodiments. An encrypted digital incentive token may be embedded within a digital image, including a variety of encrypted information. The digital image with the embedded digital incentive token may be sent to users via delivery mechanisms such as direct webpage embedding, email, text message, and social media sharing. An image recipient may be able to view the image and also take additional action including gaining access to the embedded digital incentive token. Digital incentive tokens can be embedded by altering image metadata so that the image itself is not changed in some embodiments, but data associated with the image is changed to identify the token. Pixel data can be altered to reflect a token for an image. Digital incentive tokens can also be tracked through different platforms to determine usage.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventor: Braden Christopher Ericson
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Publication number: 20230006830Abstract: Systems and methods of authenticating voice data using a ledger (blockchain). Examples include a scalable and seamless system that uses blockchain technologies to distribute trust of a conversation, authenticate persons in a conversation, track their characteristics and also to keep records of conversations. In some examples, smart phones, wearables, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices can be used to record and track conversations between individuals. These devices can each be used to create entries for the blockchain or a single device could be used to keep track of the entirety of the conversation. Fuzzy hashing may be used to compare newly created entries with previous entries on the ledger.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Meethil Vijay Yadav, Bradley Wardman, Braden Christopher Ericson
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Patent number: 11508105Abstract: A method for accessing legacy devices via Augmented Reality (AR) devices. The method includes acquiring, via an AR device, an image of a keyboard of a legacy device. The method includes accessing customer commands for initiating of a transaction using the legacy device. The method includes determining a command sequence based, at least in part, on the customer commands, the command sequence mapping to a keystroke sequence to be entered using the keyboard. The method includes generating an overlay indicating a keystroke sequence corresponding to the command sequence. The method also includes displaying, via the AR device, the overlay by visually projecting the overlay over the keyboard of the legacy device.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Braden Christopher Ericson
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Patent number: 11461798Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for monitoring device application usage for completion of checkout data processing. A computing device may be utilized to perform one or more actions while utilising an application executable by the device, including a browser application or merchant application that allows a user to view an online marketplace and purchase items in a transaction. Prior to checkout and transaction processing, the device may be used to browse items, and items may be added to a shopping cart. However, the device may not finish electronic transaction processing for the items, for example, where the device does not enter transaction processing details and/or navigates away from the items or cart. A service provider may utilize past actions to determine whether the action indicates that the device is abandoning use of the application, including electronic transaction processing. If so, an incentive may be provided to continue use.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventor: Braden Christopher Ericson
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Patent number: 11423366Abstract: A method for using an Augmented Reality (AR) device for processing transactions initiated at another device. The method includes acquiring, via an AR device, an image of a display of a user device. The method includes determining, based on image analysis of the image, that the user device displays an interactive transaction element for a transaction between the user device and a server. The method includes communicating with a server, that provides the interactive transaction element, to move functionality of the interactive transaction element from the user device to the AR device. The method includes generating a new interactive transaction element providing access to the transaction at the server. The method also includes providing access to the new interactive transaction element that is visually projected via the AR device.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventor: Braden Christopher Ericson
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Patent number: 11394554Abstract: Systems and methods of authenticating voice data using a ledger (blockchain). Examples include a scalable and seamless system that uses blockchain technologies to distribute trust of a conversation, authenticate persons in a conversation, track their characteristics and also to keep records of conversations. In some examples, smart phones, wearables, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices can be used to record and track conversations between individuals. These devices can each be used to create entries for the blockchain or a single device could be used to keep track of the entirety of the conversation. Fuzzy hashing may be used to compare newly created entries with previous entries on the ledger.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Meethil Vijay Yadav, Bradley Wardman, Braden Christopher Ericson
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Patent number: 11391585Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for load balancing for map application route selection and output. A user may utilize a device application to map or route between two or more endpoints, such as geo-locations entered or detected by the device. During calculation of a travel route between the endpoints, real-time data, user preferences, and requesting entities may provide criteria data that may cause determination of a particular travel route, where the travel route may be longer than a most efficient route but within a pre-defined variable time or distance allotment and match the criteria data. Use of the route may accrue a form of compensation for the user. The user may view an application interface displaying the route, which may further include one or more executable processes to cause recalculation of the route. Recalculation of the route may require the user to provide credits or compensation.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Gautam Madaan, Timothy Resudek, Braden Christopher Ericson, Cheng Tian, Jiri Medlen
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Publication number: 20220076321Abstract: A method for merchant-side tracking of customer selections includes receiving, via a user list script on a merchant webpage, a user selection of a product representation displayed on a UI of a user device. The method includes updating a user list with the user selection, the user list associated with a generic user representation. The method includes determining, based on a type of identifier associated with a user of the user device, to use a generic user representation with the user list. The method includes selecting, based on the generic user representation, an anonymous user flow type for tracking the user as an anonymous user of the merchant webpage. The anonymous user flow type associates the user device with the user list independently of associating the user with the merchant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Braden Christopher Ericson, Arvind Naidu, Harshal Deo, Prasanna Vinjamuri
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Patent number: 11206258Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for identity confirmation during authentication requests using nearby devices. A device and/or service provider may detect an authentication request, including one for device process or a service provider interaction. In response to the request, the device may scan for nearby devices over short range wireless communications and identify one or more devices that are close to the device. An identity confirmation request may be generated, which may include a picture of a user that should be performing the authentication, such as a user owning the device or account that is being accessed. The request may be transmitted to the nearby devices to require that users of the nearby devices can identify that user and utilizing the device to process the authentication request. This may include using facial recognition to image the user by the other devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventor: Braden Christopher Ericson
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Publication number: 20210350406Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for cross-platform tracking of user generated data for unified data output. A computing device may be utilized to access an online platform and perform one or more processes, including viewing an online marketplace to purchase items in a transaction. The device may be used to browse items and items may be added to a digital shopping cart or other checkout process and interface. However, the device may not finish electronic transaction processing for the items and may abandon the digital cart on a first platform used by the user. When a user uses a second online platform to shop and generate another digital cart, a cross-platform process may retrieve the previously abandoned cart's data, and may generate output for display of the previous cart with the new cart in the second platform's user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Braden Christopher Ericson, Joshua Greenwell
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Publication number: 20210350415Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for tokenizing offers. The current disclosure presents a system and method that can present a tokenized offer for saving and retrieving from a digital wallet. The tokenized offer may be presented on a client site for selection by a user interested in taking advantage of the promotion without having to leave the current site. The current disclosure also presents a system that can retrieve the tokenized offer saved for use with a purchase. The tokenized offer may be automatically applied and on display at the merchant site and/or retrieved from the digital wallet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: BRADEN CHRISTOPHER ERICSON, HARSHAL ULHAS DEO
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Patent number: 11157989Abstract: A method for merchant-side tracking of customer selections includes receiving, via a user list script on a merchant webpage, a user selection of a product representation displayed on a UI of a user device. The method includes updating a user list with the user selection, the user list associated with a generic user representation. The method includes determining, based on a type of identifier associated with a user of the user device, to use a generic user representation with the user list. The method includes selecting, based on the generic user representation, an anonymous user flow type for tracking the user as an anonymous user of the merchant webpage. The anonymous user flow type associates the user device with the user list independently of associating the user with the merchant.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Braden Christopher Ericson, Arvind Naidu, Harshal Deo, Prasanna Vinjamuri