Patents by Inventor Christopher Michael Petersen

Christopher Michael Petersen 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: 20190277519
    Abstract: A media pad apparatus for a portable air cooler includes a frame having a top end and a media pad disposed within the frame. A top tray is provided on the top end of the frame and includes opposed walls, the opposed walls sloping downwardly from upper edges thereof to join at a common lower edge and create a generally V-shaped profile of the top tray. The top tray further includes a plurality of openings in the opposed walls spaced along a length of the top tray, wherein when fluid is provided to the top tray, the openings dispense the fluid through the top tray along the length thereof to wet the media pad in a spatially distributed manner. A portable air cooler with a media pad apparatus removably received therein is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher Michael PETERSEN, Yigal OFFIR, Lori SCOOROS, Herb CONROY
  • Patent number: 10127533
    Abstract: Managing user devices associated with a digital wallet account comprises associating, using one or more computing devices, one or more user computing devices with a digital wallet account of a user, each of the associated one or more user computing devices being activated to conduct financial transactions with a merchant utilizing the digital wallet account; presenting the associated user computing devices in a list of associated user computing devices; receiving a request to deactivate a particular user computing device from the list of associated user computing devices; deactivating the particular user computing device, the deactivation being sufficient to prevent the user computing device from conducting transactions with a merchant utilizing the digital wallet account; and presenting a deactivated status of the particular user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Mark William Andrews, Peter Malcolm Gwinn, Erick John Armbrust, Petra Cross, Christopher Michael Petersen
  • Patent number: 8972298
    Abstract: Transmitting category codes to payment instruments in proxy card transactions comprises receiving a first payment request to authorize a proxy card transaction, the first payment request identifying a proxy account of a user for payment of the transaction and a merchant category code associated with the merchant; selecting a financial account associated with the proxy account to fund the transaction; communicating a second payment request to authorize the transaction to a financial account system associated with the selected financial account, the second payment request comprising the merchant category code associated with the merchant; receiving an authorization for the transaction from the financial account system to fund the transaction using the selected financial account; and communicating an authorization for the transaction to the merchant computing device in response to receiving the authorization for the transaction from the financial account system to fund the transaction using the selected financia
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: William Dennis Kunz, Mark William Andrews, Christopher Michael Petersen
  • Publication number: 20140149292
    Abstract: Transmitting category codes to payment instruments in proxy card transactions comprises receiving a first payment request to authorize a proxy card transaction, the first payment request identifying a proxy account of a user for payment of the transaction and a merchant category code associated with the merchant; selecting a financial account associated with the proxy account to fund the transaction; communicating a second payment request to authorize the transaction to a financial account system associated with the selected financial account, the second payment request comprising the merchant category code associated with the merchant; receiving an authorization for the transaction from the financial account system to fund the transaction using the selected financial account; and communicating an authorization for the transaction to the merchant computing device in response to receiving the authorization for the transaction from the financial account system to fund the transaction using the selected financia
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: William Dennis Kunz, Mark William Andrews, Christopher Michael Petersen
  • Patent number: 8676709
    Abstract: Transmitting category codes to payment instruments in proxy card transactions comprises receiving a first payment request to authorize a proxy card transaction, the first payment request identifying a proxy account of a user for payment of the transaction and a merchant category code associated with the merchant; selecting a financial account associated with the proxy account to fund the transaction; communicating a second payment request to authorize the transaction to a financial account system associated with the selected financial account, the second payment request comprising the merchant category code associated with the merchant; receiving an authorization for the transaction from the financial account system to fund the transaction using the selected financial account; and communicating an authorization for the transaction to the merchant computing device in response to receiving the authorization for the transaction from the financial account system to fund the transaction using the selected financia
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: William Dennis Kunz, Mark William Andrews, Christopher Michael Petersen
  • Publication number: 20140040130
    Abstract: Transmitting category codes to payment instruments in proxy card transactions comprises receiving a first payment request to authorize a proxy card transaction, the first payment request identifying a proxy account of a user for payment of the transaction and a merchant category code associated with the merchant; selecting a financial account associated with the proxy account to fund the transaction; communicating a second payment request to authorize the transaction to a financial account system associated with the selected financial account, the second payment request comprising the merchant category code associated with the merchant; receiving an authorization for the transaction from the financial account system to fund the transaction using the selected financial account; and communicating an authorization for the transaction to the merchant computing device in response to receiving the authorization for the transaction from the financial account system to fund the transaction using the selected financia
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: William Dennis Kunz, Mark William Andrews, Christopher Michael Petersen
  • Publication number: 20140040131
    Abstract: Matching refunds to the appropriate payment instrument employed in a proxy card transaction comprises receiving a first payment authorization request for a transaction between a merchant and a user, the payment authorization request comprising an identification of an account of the user and an identifier for the transaction, the user account having associated therewith a plurality of payment instruments available for conducting payment transactions; determining a particular payment instrument with which to conduct the transaction; associating the transaction identifier with the particular payment instruments utilized in the transaction; receiving a first refund instruction to refund all or a portion of a payment amount of the transaction, the first refund instruction comprising the transaction identifier; determining the particular payment instrument associated with the transaction identifier provided in the first refund instruction; and initiating the refund to the particular payment instrument determined to
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Mark William Andrews, Michael Blandina, Aaron Tay, Christopher Michael Petersen
  • Patent number: D827115
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: FKA Distributing Co., LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Petersen, Yigal Offir, Lori Scooros, Herb Conroy
  • Patent number: D850593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FKA Distributing Co., LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Petersen, Yigal Offir, Lori Scooros, Herb Conroy