Patents by Inventor Eric Hiller
Eric Hiller 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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Publication number: 20170147182Abstract: Techniques to remotely configure interface settings for messaging clients are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a user interface configuration object at a first messaging client on the first client device, the first messaging client on the first client device associated with a first user account with a messaging system, the user interface configuration object indicating a user interface setting specified at a second messaging client on a second client device, the second messaging client on the second client device associated with a second user account with the messaging system; and a user interface component operative to store the user interface setting in association with a message thread associated with the first user account and the second user account; and display a message thread interface for the message thread based on the user interface setting. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Peter Henry Martinazzi, Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Jennifer A. Burge, Xiao Ou Wang, Benjamin Eric Hiller
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Publication number: 20160140566Abstract: An online electronic wallet system and method provide secure storage and transmission of payment instrument information for use in completing online purchases initiated from a client device. A payment instrument's verification code is stored in an encrypted form in local storage on a client device and retrieved and re-encrypted along with other payment instrument information stored on the system using a merchant-specific key. An API library is used to integrate the online electronic wallet system with a registered merchant's purchase flow, including the ability to ensure receipt of an electronic receipt prior to communicating payment instrument information to a merchant server.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2012Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: GOOGLE Inc.Inventors: David Preston Baker, Stanley N. Marshall, III, Matthew Eric Hiller, Andrew Robert Mitchell, Mohamed Reza Hussein, Chin Pang Tung
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Publication number: 20160140633Abstract: Activation of a link or control button on a user interface before an underlying application status is known. A user requests access to a merchant system's webpage. The merchant system webpage loads and a link is activated. The merchant system begins to determine the user's account status with the remote system while the web page is loading or at any time thereafter. The user initiates a request by clicking, pressing, or otherwise selecting the link on the merchant system's webpage. The merchant system determines whether the user's account status with the remote system is known. If the account status is not known, the merchant system completes the determination. If the account status is known, the merchant system determines whether the action request is available. If the action is available, the request is processed. If the action is not available, the user is notified and the link is disabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2012Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Matthew Eric Hiller, David Preston Baker, Chin Pang Tung, Stanley N. Marshall, III, Mohamed Reza Hussein
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Patent number: 9165321Abstract: An online electronic wallet system and method provide secure storage and transmission of payment instrument information for use in completing online purchases initiated from a client device. A payment instrument's verification code is stored in an encrypted form in local storage on a client device and retrieved and re-encrypted along with other payment instrument information stored on the system using a merchant-specific key. An API library is used to integrate the online electronic wallet system with a registered merchant's purchase flow, including the ability to ensure receipt of an electronic receipt prior to communicating payment instrument information to a merchant server.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: David Preston Baker, Mohamed Reza Hussein, Stanley N. Marshall, III, Matthew Eric Hiller, Chin Pang Tung, Andrew Robert Mitchell
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Patent number: 8606720Abstract: An online electronic wallet system and method provide secure storage and transmission of payment instrument information for use in completing online purchases initiated from a client device. A payment instrument's verification code is stored in an encrypted form in local storage on a client device and retrieved and re-encrypted along with other payment instrument information stored on the system using a merchant-specific key. An API library is used to integrate the online electronic wallet system with a registered merchant's purchase flow, including the ability to ensure receipt of an electronic receipt prior to communicating payment instrument information to a merchant server.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David Preston Baker, Stanley N. Marshall, III, Mohamed Reza Hussein, Matthew Eric Hiller, Chin Pang Tung, Andrew Robert Mitchell
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Patent number: 7065420Abstract: A system and method for automatically estimating the optimized cost of a part during the course of design of the part on a computer-aided design (CAD) system by a designer. The method includes extracting parametric features of a current design from the CAD system. Manufacturing cost drivers are identified on the basis of the parametric features. The manufacturing cost drivers are translated into costs using process models. The costs are simultaneously optimized with respect to a plurality of operations within specified machine constraints using an algorithm with dynamically linked structures to obtain estimates of optimized costs and cost reasoning. An estimate of optimized costs and cost reasoning is fed back to the designer as an output display on an output device.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2004Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Michael L. Philpott, R. Sebastian Schrader, Gautam Subbarao, Eric A. Hiller
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Publication number: 20050120010Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is disclosed a method for determining costs within an enterprise. The method comprises determining a set of cost-drivers based on characteristics of three-dimensional design data of a manufacturable component; and providing, to a plurality of different enterprise functions, database access to cost data from any combination of: the set of cost-drivers, and a set of costs determined based on the set of cost-drivers. In another embodiment, there is disclosed a computer system for determining costs within an enterprise. The system comprises a database comprising a set of stored cost-drivers determined based on characteristics of three-dimensional design data of a manufacturable component; and a network capable of providing, to a plurality of different enterprise functions, access to cost data from any combination of: the set of cost drivers, and a set of costs determined based on the set of cost-drivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2004Publication date: June 2, 2005Applicant: aPriori Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Philpott, Eric Hiller, R. Schrader, Jeremy Rishel, Andrew Carroll, Frank Azzolino