Patents by Inventor Christopher Dwyer Watson

Christopher Dwyer Watson 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).

  • Promotion Redemption And Payment Gateway
    Publication number: 20190012661
    Abstract: Systems and related methods facilitating secure payments are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a system including a payment gateway server, a tokenizer server and a detokenizer server. The payment gateway server may receive payment card data from a merchant device and provide the payment data the tokenizer server. The tokenizer server may be configured to generate one or more tokens based on the payment data and provide the one or more tokens to the payment gateway server. During payment processing, the payment gateway server may be configured to provide the one or more tokens to the detokenizer server configured to determine the payment data based on the one or more tokens to facilitate completion of a financial transaction. In some embodiments, the one or more tokens may be stored for subsequent payments. Furthermore, some embodiments may provide for secure promotion redemptions in addition or alternative to payments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher Dwyer Watson, Benjamin Pierce McKean, Sean Nicholas Harper, Josh Krall, Qi Li
  • Promotion redemption and payment gateway
    Patent number: 9916579
    Abstract: Systems and related methods facilitating secure payments are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a system including a payment gateway server, a tokenizer server and a detokenizer server. The payment gateway server may receive payment card data from a merchant device and provide the payment data the tokenizer server. The tokenizer server may be configured to generate one or more tokens based on the payment data and provide the one or more tokens to the payment gateway server. During payment processing, the payment gateway server may be configured to provide the one or more tokens to the detokenizer server configured to determine the payment data based on the one or more tokens to facilitate completion of a financial transaction. In some embodiments, the one or more tokens may be stored for subsequent payments. Furthermore, some embodiments may provide for secure promotion redemptions in addition or alternative to payments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Dwyer Watson, Benjamin Pierce McKean, Sean Nicholas Harper, Josh Krall, Qi Li