Patents by Inventor George Bilbrey

George Bilbrey 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: 20090265440
    Abstract: A method for conducting an e-mail campaign is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) sending e-mails to a plurality of intended recipients; (b) determining a number of the e-mails that have been indicated as nondeliverable; (c) determining a number of the e-mails that have been identified as bulk and not delivered to the intended recipients; (d) determining, from the determinations made in steps (b) and (c), a number of the e-mails that have reached the intended recipients; and (e) billing only for the number of e-mails determined in step (d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Matt Blumberg, George Bilbrey, John Sinclair
  • Patent number: 7080122
    Abstract: The present invention provides various embodiments of a system and a process for updating e-mail and other forms of electronic messages via a change of address network. In one embodiment, the system includes a Sponsor Database (containing mailbox/address information utilized by a Sponsor to send information to a recipient) connected to a Network Server which receives updates of mailbox/address changes from recipients and, in certain embodiments, other Sponsors. In other embodiments, a Reconnection Manager facilitates the exchange of information between the Sponsors and the Network Server. Also, one embodiment of the process provides updated mailbox/address information to those Sponsors which a recipient has previously identified to the Network Server as being acceptable for receiving the update information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Return Path, Inc.
    Inventors: George Bilbrey, Kevin O'Connell, Eric Kirby, John Kevin Hartley, Andrew Michael Sautins
  • Publication number: 20020103932
    Abstract: The present invention provides various embodiments of a system and a process for updating e-mail and other forms of electronic messages via a change of address network. In one embodiment, the system includes a Sponsor Database (containing mailbox/address information utilized by a Sponsor to send information to a recipient) connected to a Network Server which receives updates of mailbox/address changes from recipients and, in certain embodiments, other Sponsors. In other embodiments, a Reconnection Manager facilitates the exchange of information between the Sponsors and the Network Server. Also, one embodiment of the process provides updated mailbox/address information to those Sponsors which a recipient has previously identified to the Network Server as being acceptable for receiving the update information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: George Bilbrey, Kevin O'Connell, Eric Kirby, John Kevin Hartley, Andrew Michael Sautins