Patents by Inventor Christopher Baird

Christopher Baird 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).

  • Application server and/or method for supporting mobile electronic commerce
    Patent number: 11270361
    Abstract: An electronic platform (10) for facilitating mobile commerce transactions includes: a user interface (20) that is provided to a user (60), the user interface (20) being operable to retrieve from the user (60) a plurality of settings for different parameters that regulate a manner in which the platform (10) operates for a given entity that is being served by the platform (10); a conversation tracking engine (40) that monitors messages exchanged between the platform (10) and mobile device users (72) accessing the platform (10), the conversation tracking engine (40) being operative to recognize which ones of selected monitored messages together form a common conversation and keep track of a current state of that conversation; and, a mobile content rendering engine (30) that is operable to dynamically render mobile content in response to the platform (10) receiving a request from a mobile device (74) for mobile content, the mobile content being rendered in accordance with the parameter settings entered via the us
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CardinalCommerce Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra S. Balasubramanian, Francis M. Sherwin, Christopher Baird
  • Application Server and/or Method for Supporting Mobile Electronic Commerce
    Publication number: 20180349970
    Abstract: An electronic platform (10) for facilitating mobile commerce transactions includes: a user interface (20) that is provided to a user (60), the user interface (20) being operable to retrieve from the user (60) a plurality of settings for different parameters that regulate a manner in which the platform (10) operates for a given entity that is being served by the platform (10); a conversation tracking engine (40) that monitors messages exchanged between the platform (10) and mobile device users (72) accessing the platform (10), the conversation tracking engine (40) being operative to recognize which ones of selected monitored messages together form a common conversation and keep track of a current state of that conversation; and, a mobile content rendering engine (30) that is operable to dynamically render mobile content in response to the platform (10) receiving a request from a mobile device (74) for mobile content, the mobile content being rendered in accordance with the parameter settings entered via the us
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Chandra S. Balasubramanian, Francis S. Sherwin, Christopher Baird
  • Application server and/or method for supporting mobile electronic commerce
    Patent number: 10074117
    Abstract: An electronic platform (10) for facilitating mobile commerce transactions includes: a user interface (20) that is provided to a user (60), the user interface (20) being operable to retrieve from the user (60) a plurality of settings for different parameters that regulate a manner in which the platform (10) operates for a given entity that is being served by the platform (10); a conversation tracking engine (40) that monitors messages exchanged between the platform (10) and mobile device users (72) accessing the platform (10), the conversation tracking engine (40) being operative to recognize which ones of selected monitored messages together form a common conversation and keep track of a current state of that conversation; and, a mobile content rendering engine (30) that is operable to dynamically render mobile content in response to the platform (10) receiving a request from a mobile device (74) for mobile content, the mobile content being rendered in accordance with the parameter settings entered via the us
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: CARDINALCOMMERCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chandra S. Balasubramanian, Francis M. Sherwin, Christopher Baird
  • TEXT-TO-BUY WAP APPLICATION SERVER
    Publication number: 20080281722
    Abstract: An electronic platform (10) for facilitating mobile commerce transactions includes: a user interface (20) that is provided to a user (60), the user interface (20) being operable to retrieve from the user (60) a plurality of settings for different parameters that regulate a manner in which the platform (10) operates for a given entity that is being served by the platform (10); a conversation tracking engine (40) that monitors messages exchanged between the platform (10) and mobile device users (72) accessing the platform (10), the conversation tracking engine (40) being operative to recognize which ones of selected monitored messages together form a common conversation and keep track of a current state of that conversation; and, a mobile content rendering engine (30) that is operable to dynamically render mobile content in response to the platform (10) receiving a request from a mobile device (74) for mobile content, the mobile content being rendered in accordance with the parameter settings entered via the us
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: CARDINALCOMMERCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chandra S. Balasubramanian, Francis M. Sherwin, Christopher Baird