Patents by Inventor George Tzavelas

George Tzavelas 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).

  • Patent number: 12243026
    Abstract: Systems and methods for progressively providing checkout options during a checkout transaction are provided. During a transaction process, a user interface with an options category having a set of checkout options is provided. Requests associated with the checkout options are transmitted, with at least one of the transmitted queries being transmitted to a remote third-party. One or more of the checkout options are identified as a first set of options and others are identified as a second set of options. The user interface is updated to display the first set of options and a selectable UI element prior to display of the second set of options, where all of the second set of options are hidden from display prior to selection of the selectable UI element. The checkout transaction is completable using one of the options from the first set of options without display of the second set of options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventors: Weiyi Yin, Tejas Mehta, George Tzavelas, Andrey Gargul, Linda Damus
  • Publication number: 20240062142
    Abstract: In e-commerce, web content (such as a checkout page) may include delivery time information associated with a product. To obtain the delivery time information, the computer may send an application programming interface (API) request to the fulfillment network. However, a fulfillment network is often delayed in responding to an API request. Also, there may be data privacy concerns with this approach. Alternatively, precomputed delivery time information may be sent from the fulfillment network, but this may result in a large amount of data that must be stored. In some embodiments, a data structure may be generated that includes a product-to-schedule mapping and a set of delivery schedule tables. Each of the delivery schedule tables may be based on a respective different set of one or more categories to which multiple ones of a plurality of products map. Computer memory resources may be saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Débora Setton Brandão, George Tzavelas, Linda Damus, Lin Zhao, Djoume Salvetti
  • Patent number: 11853981
    Abstract: Systems and methods for progressively providing checkout options during a checkout transaction are provided. During a transaction process, a user interface with an options category having a set of checkout options is provided. Requests associated with the checkout options are transmitted, with at least one of the transmitted queries being transmitted to a remote third-party. One or more of the checkout options are identified as a first set of options and others are identified as a second set of options. The user interface is updated to display the first set of options and a selectable UI element prior to display of the second set of options, where all of the second set of options are hidden from display prior to selection of the selectable UI element. The checkout transaction is completable using one of the options from the first set of options without display of the second set of options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHOPIFY INC.
    Inventors: Weiyi Yin, Tejas Mehta, George Tzavelas, Andrey Gargul, Linda Damus
  • Publication number: 20200311639
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining product fulfillment options for products in an e-commerce system or shopping cart. Delivery profiles from a delivery profile database are used, wherein the delivery profile is specific to the products and contains inventory locations and delivery zones. Priority basis determination of recommended options is utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Maarten van Grootel, Benoit des Ligneris, Daniel D. Leroux, George Tzavelas
  • Publication number: 20100133335
    Abstract: A system and method for mobile payment. The system and method provide for a user of a mobile telephony device (MTD), having an affixed wireless identification tag, to make payments, and other similar financial transactions, by presenting the MTD at a point-of-sale (POS), or equivalent, and by providing a confirmation, including a personal identification number, to complete the financial transaction via a data communication infrastructure (e.g. Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD)) supported by the MTD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Hazem Abdel Maguid, George Tzavelas