Patents by Inventor David Barstad

David Barstad 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).

  • Dynamic return privileges
    Patent number: 10497000
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a point of return device can be configured to gather information related to a return request and a returning customer. Upon providing the information to an authorization server, the server can identify historical transaction data of the returning customer from data stored in a repository. Based on the historical transaction data and on the return request, the authorization server determines a return authorization decision based on an item-level return policy, another decision based on customer-specific return privileges, and optionally, another authorization decision based on registry-related return privileges. Upon processing the return request based on a selected return authorization decision, data representative of the processed return request is optionally stored in the repository to update the previously identified customer transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: TARGET BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: David Barstad, Thomas William Branham, Julie Lynne Wegmiller, Jamie Ann Person, Lara Erpelding, Jayachandran Chandrashekaran, Koteswara R. Silla, Sreeraj Balakrishnan
  • Processing a return request
    Patent number: 9652732
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a point of return device can be configured to gather information related to a return request and a returning customer. Upon providing the information to an authorization server, the server can identify historical transaction data of the returning customer from data stored in a repository. Based on the historical transaction data and on the return request, the authorization server determines a return authorization decision based on an item-level return policy, another decision based on customer-specific return privileges, and optionally, another authorization decision based on registry-related return privileges. Upon processing the return request based on a selected return authorization decision, data representative of the processed return request is optionally stored in the repository to update the previously identified customer transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: David Barstad, Thomas William Branham, Julie Lynne Wegmiller, Jamie Ann Person, Lara Erpelding, Jayachandran Chandrashekaran, Koteswara R. Silla, Sreeraj Balakrishnan