Patents by Inventor Fred Cooper

Fred Cooper 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: 20230206269
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to allow sellers of products to establish individual products in a multilevel marketing (MLM) commission system, where the product is offered and sold to a first purchaser—who then actively by requesting a code, or passively, through the purchase of the product, becomes a user of the commission system. This user is provided a code such that the code may be passed onto followers of the registered user. The registered user will be allowed to advertise the product to a second purchaser and the second purchaser will be allowed to purchase the product and provide advertisements to other purchasers. Commissions paid to respective downline purchasers for a single product may be limited by a preset number of defined levels. After a product is purchased, commissions are paid out to each respective purchaser according to the defined commission levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Fred Cooper, Ian Chandler
  • Publication number: 20230196449
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to allow sellers of products to establish individual products in a multilevel marketing (MLM) commission system, where the product is offered and sold to a first purchaser - who then actively by requesting a code, or passively, through the purchase of the product, becomes a user of the commission system. This user is provided a code such that the code may be passed onto followers of the registered user, either directly or via a referral hyperlink. The registered user will be allowed to advertise the product to a second purchaser and the second purchaser will be allowed to purchase the product and provide advertisements to other purchasers. Commissions paid to respective downline purchasers for a single product may be limited by a preset number of defined levels. After a product is purchased, commissions are paid out to each respective purchaser according to the defined commission levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20230177529
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method to any existing binary MLM to be merged into a multi-line MLM system. Further the existing MLM members have full access to the multi-line MLM commission structure, for example, a member of a binary MLM will maintain their existing lines and downlines and may now add a third, fourth, fifth, etc. line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20230117484
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method to any two or more MLMs to be merged into a multiline MLM system despite having different commission structures. Each member of the original MLMs is able to maintain their existing downlines without any changes. Further the existing MLM members have full access to the multi-line MLM commission structure, for example, a member of a binary MLM may now add a 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. line if they choose. The multiline commission plan will be different than the commission plans from any of the original MLMs but this change should not affect the income of a large portion of users, and users that are affected by the changeover can be compensated or made whole on an individual level. In addition to this multiline commission plan, the commission structure of the original MLMs has been broken into several separate ‘types’ which together form a MLM system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Patent number: 11593827
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to allow sellers of products to establish individual products. A user is provided a code such that the code may be passed onto followers and allowed to advertise the product to a second purchaser. The second purchaser is allowed to purchase the product and provide advertisements to other purchasers. Commissions paid to respective downline purchasers for a single product may be limited by a preset number of defined levels after a product is purchased and potential product conflicts are detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KwikClick, LLC
    Inventors: Fred Cooper, Ian Chandler
  • Patent number: 11587154
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to allow sellers of products to establish individual products in a multilevel marketing (MLM) commission system, where the product is offered and sold to a first purchaser—who then actively by requesting a code, or passively, through the purchase of the product, becomes a user of the commission system. This user is provided a code such that the code may be passed onto followers of the registered user, either directly or via a referral hyperlink. The registered user will be allowed to advertise the product to a second purchaser and the second purchaser will be allowed to purchase the product and provide advertisements to other purchasers. Commissions paid to respective downline purchasers for a single product may be limited by a preset number of defined levels. After a product is purchased, commissions are paid out to each respective purchaser according to the defined commission levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: KWIKCLICK, LLC
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20230019939
    Abstract: *Disclosed herein is a system and method to any two or more MLMs to be merged into a multiline MLM system despite having different commission structures. Each member of the original MLMs is able to maintain their existing downlines without any changes. Further the existing MLM members have full access to the multi-line MLM commission structure, for example, a member of a binary MLM may now add a 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. line if they choose. The multiline commission plan will be different than the commission plans from any of the original MLMs but this change should not affect the income of a large portion of users, and users that are affected by the changeover can be compensated or made whole on an individual level. In addition to this multiline commission plan, the commission structure of the original MLMs has been broken into several separate ‘types’ which together form a MLM system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220405793
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for a distributed network transaction system with dynamic commission plans. A method of a distributor system includes receiving a transaction associated with an item provided from a third party; identifying a user associated with the transaction; identifying a commission plan for the item from a plurality of commission plans for the item, wherein the commission plan is configured by the third party; and determining a commission associated with the user based on the commission plan associated with the item. In one aspect, the method includes creating alternative commission plans and comparing transactions based on commission plans to identify correlations in commission plans and transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220398622
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method to allow sellers of products to enroll a bank account in a multi-level marketing (MLM) system by providing the MLM system with a seller and a bank account to be issued and provides a first applicant to sign up for that bank account and then allow the purchaser to enroll themselves in the MLM system as well as to allow the bank account holder to easily advertise the bank account to a second applicant. *The second applicant can do the same, by applying for a bank account and, assuming they are approved, advertising to a third person and so on. *Commission is payed to the upline bank account holders based on transactions made by the persons they referred at preset commission levels. *Once the bank account holders are enrolled, they are provided with a code, to refer other users. *The bank account holding users can pass the code via link onto the user's followers, such as family, friends, colleagues, etc. to allow them to become part of the MLM tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220398618
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method to allow sellers of products to enroll an individual product in a multi-level marketing (MLM) system by providing the MLM system with a seller and a product to be sold and provides a first purchaser to purchase that product and then allow the purchaser to enroll themselves in the MLM system as well as to allow the purchaser of a single product to easily advertise the product to a second purchaser. The second purchaser can do the same, by purchasing the product and advertising to a third purchaser and so on. The number of purchasers (downline) from a single product may be limited by a preset amount based upon commission levels. The commissions are paid out to first purchaser and all the downlines, where the commission is reduced as it is paid out down the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220398619
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method to allow sellers of products to enroll a credit card in a multi-level marketing (MLM) system by providing the MLM system with a seller and a credit card to be issued and provides a first applicant to sign up for that credit card and then allow the purchaser to enroll themselves in the MLM system as well as to allow the credit card holder to easily advertise the credit card to a second applicant. The second applicant can do the same, by applying for a credit card and, assuming they are approved, advertising to a third person and so on. Commission is payed to the upline card holders based on transaction made by the persons they referred at preset commission levels. Once the card holders are enrolled, they are provided with a code, to refer other users. The card holding users can pass the code via link onto the user's followers, such as family, friends, colleagues, etc. to allow them to become part of the MLM tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220391936
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to allow sellers of products to establish individual products in a multilevel marketing (MLM) commission system, where the product is offered and sold to a first purchaser—who then actively by requesting a code, or passively, through the purchase of the product, becomes a user of the commission system. This user is provided a code such that the code may be passed onto followers of the registered user. The registered user will be allowed to advertise the product to a second purchaser and the second purchaser will be allowed to purchase the product and provide advertisements to other purchasers. Commissions paid to respective downline purchasers for a single product may be limited by a preset number of defined levels. After a product is purchased, commissions are paid out to each respective purchaser according to the commission plan assigned to the user. Users may be assigned or may be able to select their own commission plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220366469
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method to allow sellers of products to enroll an individual product in a multi-level marketing (MLM) organization by providing an MLM computer with a seller and a product to be sold. Individuals that purchase a product may be allowed to become MLM sellers of the prodcut. A second purchaser can do the same, by purchasing the product and advertising to a third purchaser, and so on. Commissions may be paid out users that are upline of a purchaser. New members may be provided with a code and link to the purchased product to allow the purchasers to pass the code and the link onto others and these others may become part of the MLM tree. Data within the system can be quickly retrieved from outside sources using a smart link directs to an online or offline portal through which data may be viewed and/or manipulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220358467
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method that allows sellers of products to enroll an individual product in a multi-level marketing (MLM) system. Users may be validated to see if they can be allowed to access certain functions that facilitate the sale of products or that are authorized to access certain data controlled based on operation of a computer of an MLM organization. Parties such as a retailer and a manufacture may independently offer commissions for the sale of particular products according to a set of rules set at the MLM organization's computer. Events may be organized to occur at particular times and rules may allow user to earn both standard commissions and bonus commissions based on sales that occur during the time a particular set of rules apply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220327570
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods that may store data securely at a set of linked data-blocks. Information that may be used to track a series of product or service purchases (transactions) may be stored in these sets of linked data-blocks to facilitate the fidelity of data associated with sets of transactions made by related users that belong to a multilevel marketing (MLM) organization. Data stored at these data-blocks may be protected by pairs of keys to mitigate data loss, data corruption, or accesses by nefarious individuals. Each data-block of this chain of data-blocks may be parsed to identify commission data and to identify users that should receive commissions based on the sale of the product or service. These data-blocks may store as a set of blockchain data where pointers point to different respective data-blocks that contain data used to identify specific users that should receive commissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220261848
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method that allows sellers of products to enroll an individual product in a multi-level marketing (MLM) system. A first user may provide criteria that is used to identify sets of advertisement data that match the filter criteria and filtered advertisement data may be sent to a user device such that the user can generate or update marketing materials for selling the product when attempting to increase sales of the product. By providing sets of filter data and evaluating advertisements that have proven successful, a user may generate advertisements that are more effective. Advertisements and codes that are associated with this first user may be sent to other users who may purchase the product at a discount by using the code after which commissions may be provide to the first user based on use of the code. Users that purchase the product may the sell that product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220261835
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to allow sellers of products to add products to a multilevel marketing (MLM) commission system, where the product is offered and sold to a first purchaser—who then actively by requesting a code, or passively, through the purchase of the product, become a user of the commission system. This user may then be provided a code that can be passed onto their followers. This user may be allowed to advertise the product to others who in turn may purchase and advertise the product. After a product is purchased, commissions are paid out to each respective purchaser according to defined commission levels. Franchise owners may provide rules used to sell products. These rules may identify which franchisees can participate, which products are allowed, and may allow owners to set values for parameters, such as commissions, discounts, and commission decay rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220253881
    Abstract: Methods consistent with the present disclosure allow purchasers of a product to become a product distributor as part a multi-level marketing (MLM) organization. Once a person has purchased an item (a product or service) via their user device, they may be allowed to share information associated with the item with other user devices. This process may allow users to select products offered for sale by the MLM organization after which hyperlinks may be generated that are associate a universal resource locator (URL) with item identification and referral information. When a user device accesses the hyperlink, that user device may access a computer that collects data regarding user access. This computer may then redirect the user device to a webpage identified by the URL that sells the item. When a user purchases the product, commissions may be paid out to a set of related distributors that previously purchased the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220253800
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods for returning funds that were paid as commissions to users of a multi-level marketing (MLM) organization that were part of a product tree of related users. These funds may be recovered after a previously purchased product has been returned. This tree of related users may have been created by a first user purchasing a product and then promoting the sale of that product to a second user that purchased the product and that promoted sale of the product to a third user who also purchased the product. Commissions may have been paid to users within the product tree when users that they sponsored or users that their sponsors sponsored purchased the product. In an instance when a user returns a product, commissions paid based on the sale of that returned product will be returned using methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper
  • Publication number: 20220253889
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to allow sellers of products to create and share marketing materials with other individuals. A member of an MLM organization may create a photo or a video of themselves using a product after which that member may associate an image of the product in the photo or video with a link to an offering to purchase the product. This process may include embedding a link within an image that can be selected by a user pointing and clicking on the product or by the user touching the product when the image of the product is displayed on a touch screen display. After a user purchases the product offered for sale, one or more related users may receive commissions based on a relationship that ties the related users to the sale of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Fred Cooper