Patents by Inventor Graham Melcher

Graham Melcher 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).

  • SHOPPING AT E-COMMERCE SITES WITHIN A BUSINESS PROCUREMENT APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20140297466
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises sending, from a procurement computer to a client computer, a message indicating that a pre-authorization request for one or more requested items from an e-commerce website was approved; causing displaying a particular item as approved for purchase from the e-commerce website; causing launching a web browser and causing downloading a shopping cart webpage of the e-commerce website; sending, from the procurement computer to the shopping cart webpage, item information associated with the particular item, and causing displaying the item information on the shopping cart webpage as one of one or more ordered items; in response to determining that the user requested to proceed to a checkout webpage, causing downloading the checkout webpage and causing displaying the one or more ordered items on the checkout webpage; causing placing a purchase order for the one or more ordered items from the checkout webpage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Rob Bernshteyn, Noah Eisner, Graham Melcher, David Williams
  • Shopping at e-commerce sites within a business procurement application
    Patent number: 8756118
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises sending, from a procurement computer to a client computer, a message indicating that a pre-authorization request for one or more requested items from an e-commerce website was approved; causing displaying a particular item as approved for purchase from the e-commerce website; causing launching a web browser and causing downloading a shopping cart webpage of the e-commerce website; sending, from the procurement computer to the shopping cart webpage, item information associated with the particular item, and causing displaying the item information on the shopping cart webpage as one of one or more ordered items; in response to determining that the user requested to proceed to a checkout webpage, causing downloading the checkout webpage and causing displaying the one or more ordered items on the checkout webpage; causing placing a purchase order for the one or more ordered items from the checkout webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Coupa Incorporated
    Inventors: Rob Bernshteyn, Noah Eisner, Graham Melcher, David Williams