Patents by Inventor Charles Raymond Byce

Charles Raymond Byce 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: 20110302039
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to receive a request for a profile to customize information for presentation to a user identified in the request and, responsive to the request identifying the user, provide the profile that is generated based on transaction data of the user. The profile summarizes the transaction data of the user using a plurality of values representing aggregated spending in various areas. The information includes an advertisement selected, prioritized, adjusted, or generated based on the profile. The advertisement includes at least an offer, such as a discount, incentive, reward, coupon, gift, cash back, benefit, product, or service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: VISA U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Edward W. Fordyce, III, Michelle Eng Winters, Kevin Paul Siegel, Leigh Amaro, Charles Raymond Byce, Nurtekin Savas, James Alan VonDerheide, Diane C. Salmon
  • Publication number: 20110302022
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to facilitate the identification of a transaction resulting from an activity occurring in a substantially separate context or environment, such as an offline transaction in a “brick and mortar” retail store resulting from an online advertisement or an online search. The computing apparatus may match information about the activity and information about the transaction to correlate the online activity and the offline transaction. The matching process may involve the use of an offer for a discount, an incentive, a rebate, a reward, reward points, cash back, a gift, etc. The offer is to be provided in the advertisement associated with an online activity and redeemed in a payment transaction, processed via the transaction handler, to correlate the advertisement and the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: VISA U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Edward W. Fordyce, III, Michelle Eng Winters, Kevin Paul Siegel, Leigh Amaro, Charles Raymond Byce, Nurtekin Savas, Peter Ciurea, James Alan VonDerheide, Diane C. Salmon
  • Publication number: 20110093335
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computing apparatus includes: a transaction handler to process transactions; a portal to receive, from users, consent data that identifies account identifiers of the users; a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions and store purchase details for at least some of the transactions; and a profile generator to generate profiles based on the transaction data and the purchase details stored in the data warehouse. In response to an authorization request received in the transaction handler for a payment transaction identifying a first account identifier, the system is to use the transaction handler to request purchase details associated with the authorization request from the merchant via a response to the authorization request, and receive and store the purchase details associated with the authorization request in the data warehouse, in response to a determination that the first account identifier is associated with consent data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: VISA U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Edward W. Fordyce, III, Michelle Eng Winters, Leigh Amaro, Nurtekin Savas, Kevin Paul Siegel, Charles Raymond Byce
  • Publication number: 20110093327
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions processed at the transaction handler and to store mapping data between first user identifiers and first account identifiers, a profile generator to generate a profile of a user based on the transaction data, and a portal coupled to the transaction handler to receive a query identifying a second user identifier used by the first tracker to track online activities of a user. The system is to identify a second account identifier of the user from the second user identifier based on the mapping data between the first user identifiers and the first account identifiers to facilitate targeted advertising using the profile of the user and/or to provide information about certain transactions of the user related to a previously presented advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: VISA U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Edward W. Fordyce, III, Leigh Amaro, Michelle Eng Winters, Nurtekin Savas, Charles Raymond Byce, Ryan Hagey
  • Publication number: 20110087550
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions processed at the transaction handler, a profile generator to generate a profile of a user based on the transaction data, an advertisement selector to identify an advertisement based on the profile of the user in response to the transaction handler processing a transaction of the user, and a portal coupled to the transaction handler to provide the advertisement for presentation to the user in connection with information about the transaction of the user. In one example, the profile includes a plurality of values representing aggregated spending of the user in various areas to summarize the transactions of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: VISA U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Edward W. Fordyce, III, Michelle Eng Winters, Kevin Paul Siegel, Leigh Amaro, Charles Raymond Byce, Nurtekin Savas
  • Publication number: 20110087519
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to generate audience measurement data regarding presentation of information to a plurality of customers via one or more media channels, identify the plurality of customers to a transaction handler to request information, receive the information generated based on transaction data related to a plurality of transactions processed at the transaction handler, and generate a report based on the audience measurement data and the information generated based on the transaction data. The one or more media channels may include an online media channel, a mobile communication channel, or an offline media channel, such as television broadcast, radio broadcast, newspaper, magazine, direct mail, billboard, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: VISA U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Edward W. Fordyce, III, Michelle Eng Winters, Charles Raymond Byce, Kevin Paul Siegel, Ryan Hagey, Leigh Amaro, Nurtekin Savas
  • Publication number: 20110087547
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computing apparatus includes: a transaction handler to process transactions; a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions processed at the transaction handler; a profile generator to generate, based on the transaction data, a profile including a plurality of values representing aggregated spending in various spending areas to summarize transactions in a geographical area; and a portal to receive advertisement data from an advertiser and to create an advertisement campaign based on the profile to deliver advertisements to users in the geographical area on behalf of the advertiser using one or more media channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: VISA U.S.A.
    Inventors: Leigh Amaro, Joe Cunningham, Jack Yang, Karteek Patel, Edward W. Fordyce, III, Robert Eng, Uzma Makhdumi, Charles Raymond Byce, Michelle Eng Winters
  • Publication number: 20110035280
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to receive a request for a profile to customize information for presentation to a user identified in the request and, responsive to the request identifying the user, provide the profile that is generated based on transaction data of the user. The profile summarizes the transaction data of the user using a plurality of values representing aggregated spending in various areas. The information includes an advertisement selected, prioritized, adjusted, or generated based on the profile. The advertisement includes at least an offer, such as a discount, incentive, reward, coupon, gift, cash back, benefit, product, or service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: VISA U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Edward W. Fordyce, III, Michelle Eng Winters, Kevin Paul Siegel, Leigh Amaro, Charles Raymond Byce, Nurtekin Savas, James Alan VonDerheide, Diane C. Salmon
  • Publication number: 20110035278
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to facilitate the identification of a transaction resulting from an activity occurring in a substantially separate context or environment, such as an offline transaction in a “brick and mortar” retail store resulting from an online advertisement or an online search. The computing apparatus may match information about the activity and information about the transaction to correlate the online activity and the offline transaction. The matching process may involve the use of an offer for a discount, an incentive, a rebate, a reward, reward points, cash back, a gift, etc. The offer is to be provided in the advertisement associated with an online activity and redeemed in a payment transaction, processed via the transaction handler, to correlate the advertisement and the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: VISA U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Edward W. Fordyce, III, Michelle Eng Winters, Kevin Paul Siegel, Leigh Amaro, Charles Raymond Byce, Nurtekin Savas, Peter Ciurea, James Alan VonDerheide, Diane C. Salmon