Patents by Inventor Edward R. Tempesta

Edward R. Tempesta 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).

  • Systems and methods for facilitating loyalty reward environments
    Patent number: 10628843
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for offering loyalty rewards for transactions. One exemplary method includes associating, by a computing device, a merchant with a group of reward offerors, and associating, by the computing device, a consumer payment account with a group of reward offerees. The method also includes receiving, by the computing device, and advertising to the reward offerees, a reward offer from the merchant; receiving a transaction associated with the merchant and with the consumer payment account, and identifying, in a data structure, the merchant as a member of the group of reward offerors and the consumer payment account as associated with the group of reward offerees. The method then further includes, based on the advertised reward offer and on the identified merchant, updating, by the computing device, a loyalty reward account associated with the consumer payment account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Adam Robert Bell, Benjamin M. Berger, Edward R. Tempesta, Nikhil Anand Malgatti, Pavel Umanski, Pranit Flora
  • Systems and Methods for Facilitating Loyalty Reward Environments
    Publication number: 20180315071
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for offering loyalty rewards for transactions. One exemplary method includes associating, by a computing device, a merchant with a group of reward offerors, and associating, by the computing device, a consumer payment account with a group of reward offerees. The method also includes receiving, by the computing device, and advertising to the reward offerees, a reward offer from the merchant; receiving a transaction associated with the merchant and with the consumer payment account, and identifying, in a data structure, the merchant as a member of the group of reward offerors and the consumer payment account as associated with the group of reward offerees. The method then further includes, based on the advertised reward offer and on the identified merchant, updating, by the computing device, a loyalty reward account associated with the consumer payment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Adam Robert Bell, Benjamin M. Berger, Edward R. Tempesta, Nikhil Anand Malgatti, Pavel Umanski, Pranit Flora