Patents by Inventor David Allen Turner
David Allen Turner 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).
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Patent number: 10997613Abstract: Cross-channel and cross-source data are aggregated into an aggregated data store. Custom segmentation is generated from the aggregated data. A campaign is monitored for the custom segmentation with successes and failures provided as dynamic feedback to a machine learning process that dynamically adjusts the segmentation and the campaign for optimal performance. In an embodiment, a final recommendation is provided identifying a final optimal segmentation and campaign.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Ronald Chiwai Leung, Yehoshua Zvi Licht, Pragya Tripathi, David Allen Turner
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Patent number: 10121209Abstract: Techniques for automated employee management are provided. A clock action for an employee is acquired and analyzed based on rules. Next, a decision is made whether to automatically accept the clock action, automatically deny the clock action, or interactively request approval from a supervisor for the clock action. The decision is based on analysis of the rules.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Taylor Drake Morgan, Jeffrey Daniel Hughes, Ethan Michael Edgerton, David Allen Turner
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Patent number: 9996828Abstract: An approach is provided for indirectly connecting a customer's mobile smart device to computers located at a business when the customer is making a purchase at the business. The customer's mobile smart device and the business's computers communicate over the Internet with a customer interaction manager executing on an Internet server. This provides an easy to use interface for the customer and allows the customer to receive information and send requests to the business without having to wait for personnel working at the business to be available.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Taylor Drake Morgan, Azhar Bande-ali, Brett S. Taylor, Michael Cain Finley, Charles Howard Mallory, Curtis Patrick Quinn Evans, James Lee Fortuna, Brian Jerel Ollison, Kevin Andrew Patterson, Sherry Shirah Spreter, David Allen Turner
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Patent number: 9946999Abstract: An approach is provided for indirectly connecting a customer's mobile smart device to a point of sale computer located at a business when the customer is making a purchase at the business. The customer's mobile smart device and the POS computer communicate over the Internet with a customer interaction manager executing on an Internet server. This provides an easy to use interface for the customer and allows the customer to receive information and send requests to the business without having to wait for personnel working at the business to be available.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Taylor Drake Morgan, Azhar Bande-ali, Brett S. Taylor, Charles Howard Mallory, Curtis Patrick Quinn Evans, James Lee Fortuna, David Allen Turner
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Patent number: 9947032Abstract: An approach is provided for indirectly connecting a customer's mobile smart device to computers located at a business when the customer is making a purchase at the business. The customer's mobile smart device and the business's computers communicate over the Internet with a customer interaction manager executing on an Internet server. This provides an easy to use interface for the customer and allows the customer to receive information and send requests to the business without having to wait for personnel working at the business to be available.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Taylor Drake Morgan, Azhar Bande-ali, Brett S. Taylor, Curtis Patrick Quinn Evans, James Lee Fortuna, David Allen Turner
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Publication number: 20170345031Abstract: A current location of a consumer is combined with a context aware mapping of the consumer to a current context that the consumer is in at the current location. A real-time suggestion is provided to the consumer based on a likely suggestion that the consumer is predicted to respond to at that location and within that context. Feedback with respect to the suggestion is record and processed for altering the types of real-time suggestions subsequent made to the consumer when the consumer is again at the current location within the context, thereby providing dynamic real-time location context aware computing with respect to the consumer and the real-time suggestions with learning through the feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Yehoshua Zvi Licht, David Allen Turner, Joseph Arnold White
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Publication number: 20170316435Abstract: Cross-channel and cross-source data are aggregated into an aggregated data store. Custom segmentation is generated from the aggregated data. A campaign is monitored for the custom segmentation with successes and failures provided as dynamic feedback to a machine learning process that dynamically adjusts the segmentation and the campaign for optimal performance. In an embodiment, a final recommendation is provided identifying a final optimal segmentation and campaign.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Ronald Chiwai Leung, Yehoshua Zvi Licht, Pragya Tripathi, David Allen Turner
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Publication number: 20160160494Abstract: A method is disclosed for the application of a coating for protection of a wooden structure. The method includes the steps of grinding used tired into a crumb followed by making a slurry from the crumb containing one or more additives or agents. The slurry is applied in a single coating to the wooden structure and permitted to dry. The coating encloses the wooden structure and is configured to act as a barrier to natural elements to prevent rot and insect damage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventor: David Allen Turner
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Publication number: 20150095171Abstract: Techniques for automated employee management are provided. A clock action for an employee is acquired and analyzed based on rules. Next, a decision is made whether to automatically accept the clock action, automatically deny the clock action, or interactively request approval from a supervisor for the clock action. The decision is based on analysis of the rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: NCR CorporationInventors: Taylor Drake Morgan, Jeffrey Daniel Hughes, Ethan Michael Edgerton, David Allen Turner
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Publication number: 20140156430Abstract: An approach is provided for indirectly connecting a customer's mobile smart device to computers located at a business when the customer is making a purchase at the business. The customer's mobile smart device and the business's computers communicate over the Internet with a customer interaction manager executing on an Internet server. This provides an easy to use interface for the customer and allows the customer to receive information and send requests to the business without having to wait for personnel working at the business to be available.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: NCR CORPORATIONInventors: Taylor Drake Morgan, Azhar Bande-ali, Brett S. Taylor, Curtis Patrick Quinn Evans, James Lee Fortuna, David Allen Turner
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Publication number: 20140156431Abstract: An approach is provided for indirectly connecting a customer's mobile smart device to a point of sale computer located at a business when the customer is making a purchase at the business. The customer's mobile smart device and the POS computer communicate over the Internet with a customer interaction manager executing on an Internet server. This provides an easy to use interface for the customer and allows the customer to receive information and send requests to the business without having to wait for personnel working at the business to be available.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: NCR CORPORATIONInventors: Taylor Drake Morgan, Azhar Bande-ali, Brett S. Taylor, Charles Howard Mallory, Curtis Patrick Quinn Evans, James Lee Fortuna, David Allen Turner
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Publication number: 20140156426Abstract: An approach is provided for indirectly connecting a customer's mobile smart device to computers located at a business when the customer is making a purchase at the business. The customer's mobile smart device and the business's computers communicate over the Internet with a customer interaction manager executing on an Internet server. This provides an easy to use interface for the customer and allows the customer to receive information and send requests to the business without having to wait for personnel working at the business to be available.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: NCR CORPORATIONInventors: Taylor Drake Morgan, Azhar Bande-ali, Brett S. Taylor, Michael Cain Finley, Charles Howard Mallory, Curtis Patrick Quinn Evans, James Lee Fortuna, Brian Jerel Ollison, Kevin Andrew Patterson, Sherry Shirah Spreter, David Allen Turner