Patents by Inventor Chris WINDLE

Chris WINDLE 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: 20240428218
    Abstract: A method of conducting a transaction between a merchant Point of Sale system (POS) and a customer device is presented. The method entails activating a web portal in response to activation of a button on the merchant POS, retrieving a list of open tabs created by customer devices that checked in, each of the open tabs being associated with a customer, receiving, from the merchant POS, a ticket ID of a ticket that is currently open on the merchant POS, presenting the list of open tabs on the merchant POS via the web portal, receiving a customer selection from the merchant POS, the selected customer being one from the list of open tabs, and associating the ticket ID with information for the selected customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Winston JAEB, D'Arcy J. LAFORGE, Chris WINDLE
  • Publication number: 20210216986
    Abstract: A method of conducting a transaction between a merchant Point of Sale system (POS) and a customer device is presented. The method entails obtaining a ticket directly from the merchant POS via a plug-in application, the ticket including a merchant identification, a customer identification, ordered items, and prices of the ordered items; activating a web portal to interface the customer device; reporting ordered items and prices to the client device, and receiving payment authorization from the customer device; generating a login token via a payment engine to contact a gateway to a financial transaction site; and in response to receiving authorization from the gateway, contacting the merchant POS to complete the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Winston JAEB, D'Arcy J. LAFORGE, Chris WINDLE
  • Publication number: 20200226580
    Abstract: A method of conducting transactions between a customer device and a merchant device is presented. The method entails receiving login information from the customer device at a merchant venue, assigning a ticket to the customer device, receiving, from a merchant device, a predetermined amount of currency associated with the customer device, associating the predetermined amount of currency with the ticket, receiving, from the customer device, an approval to carry out a financial transaction for at least the predetermined amount of currency using a payment card number, and receiving, from a gateway, a notification that the financial transaction is completed using the payment card number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Winston JAEB, D'Arcy J. LAFORGE, Chris WINDLE