Patents by Inventor Christopher Mark Johnson

Christopher Mark Johnson 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: 20200043045
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that enable multidimensional privacy control for consumers, to more effectively control their privacy, even while accepting some targeted marketing that provides time-savings, monetary savings, and other benefits. Agreements may involve smart contracts implemented on a blockchain, to provide time-limited access to marketing data, such as purchase histories recorded in receipts held by a digital wallet. The access may be specified in differing tiers of visibility, with certain classes of information withheld, and different types of recipients allowed or blocked. This permits consumers to intelligently select a trade-off between sharing information and receiving value resulting from that sharing, with the consumers in control of the specific type of information shared, and the types of entities that my receive particular information. Thus, privacy may be controlled in a multidimensional manner that is advantageous to consumers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Joseph JURICH, JR., Christopher Mark JOHNSON
  • Patent number: 10173140
    Abstract: Provided is an interactive gaming system and method. The system includes a mobile computing device operating a gaming application and an achievement engine communicatively coupled to the mobile computing device, wherein the achievement engine receives and stores data related to use of the gaming application. An electronic offer redeemable in a physical store is generated by the achievement engine and sent to the mobile computing device in response to a user completing a predetermined event in the gaming application operating. The system includes a tracking system located in a store associated with the interactive gaming system. The tracking system identifies the mobile computing device operating in the store and sends event data to the achievement engine in response to determining the user has performed an in-store trigger event. The mobile computing device receives gaming benefits in response to the achievement engine processing the event data received from the tracking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Ryan Van Briggle, Christopher Mark Johnson
  • Publication number: 20170189816
    Abstract: Provided is an interactive gaming system and method The system includes a mobile computing device operating a gaming application and an achievement engine communicatively coupled to the mobile computing device, wherein the achievement engine receives and stores data related to use of the gaming application. An electronic offer redeemable in a physical store is generated by the achievement engine and sent to the mobile computing device in response to a user completing a predetermined event in the gaming application operating. The system includes a tracking system located in a store associated with the interactive gaming system. The tracking system identifies the mobile computing device operating in the store and sends event data to the achievement engine in response to determining the user has performed an in-store trigger event. The mobile computing device receives gaming benefits in response to the achievement engine processing the event data received from the tracking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Ryan Van Briggle, Christopher Mark Johnson