Patents by Inventor Hugh Olliphant

Hugh Olliphant 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: 20130290188
    Abstract: A server system including one or more processors and memory obtains a payment instrument associated with a user. The server system sends, to a client associated with the user, an electronic calendar object corresponding to a respective date, where the electronic calendar object is associated with a fee and receives a user response to the electronic calendar object. In response to receiving the user response to the electronic calendar object, in accordance with a determination that the user response includes an acceptance of the electronic calendar object, the server system stores authorization information indicating that the user has authorized the fee to be paid using the payment instrument. In some implementations, the electronic calendar object includes an invitation to an event, the respective date is an event date on which the event is scheduled to occur, and the fee is an event fee associated with the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventor: Hugh Olliphant
  • Publication number: 20120331409
    Abstract: A server having one or more processors and memory associates one or more link categories with a first user and receives a request from the browser on the client device to display a new webpage in the browser. In response to the request, the server accesses a list of one or more webpages associated with the first user, where the list is generated based on the one or more link categories associated with the first user, and selects a randomly chosen webpage from a set of webpages including the list of one or more webpages. When the randomly chosen webpage is a webpage associated with the respective link category generated by the second user, the server facilitates display, on the client device, of the randomly chosen webpage from the respective link category generated by the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Hugh Olliphant
  • Patent number: 8280981
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of dynamically selecting and presenting a webpage includes: receiving a request, at a server, from a client device to display a webpage; determining, at the server, a homepage defined by a user of the client device; accessing, at the server, a list of one or more webpages associated with the user; selecting a chosen webpage from the homepage and the list of one or more webpages; and facilitating the display of the chosen webpage on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Hugh Olliphant
    Inventor: Hugh Olliphant
  • Publication number: 20120191501
    Abstract: The system and method for automatically scheduling appointments includes obtaining group appointment preference information for an appointment group. The appointment group includes a plurality of users who are members of the appointment group. After obtaining the group appointment preference information scheduling, based on the group appointment preference information, a plurality of concurrent appointments associated with the appointment group including a first appointment and a second appointment and sending invitations to the plurality of appointments to members of the appointment group. Sending the invitations includes: sending, to a first subset of users who are members in the appointment group, invitations to a first appointment at a first appointment time; and sending, to a second subset users who are members in the appointment group, invitations to a second appointment at a second appointment time, where the first appointment time at least partially overlaps the second appointment time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventor: Hugh Olliphant
  • Patent number: 8150718
    Abstract: The system and method for automatically scheduling appointments includes receiving, at the appointment server system, appointment preference information from a client system associated with a user, wherein the appointment preference information includes contact details for one or more contacts of the user. In response to receiving the appointment preference information from the user, the appointment server system automatically, without human intervention, schedules a first proposed appointment based at least in part on the appointment preference information, wherein the first proposed appointment includes a first location, a first plurality of participants including the user and a first contact of the one or more contacts, and a first date that was not selected by any of the first plurality of participants. The appointment server sends an electronic message to the first plurality of participants including an invitation to the first proposed appointment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventor: Hugh Olliphant
  • Publication number: 20120030590
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of dynamically selecting and presenting a webpage includes: receiving a request, at a server, from a client device to display a webpage; determining, at the server, a homepage defined by a user of the client device; accessing, at the server, a list of one or more webpages associated with the user; selecting a chosen webpage from the homepage and the list of one or more webpages; and facilitating the display of the chosen webpage on the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventor: Hugh Olliphant
  • Patent number: 8065391
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of dynamically selecting and presenting a webpage includes: receiving a request, at a server, from a client device to display a webpage; determining, at the server, a homepage defined by a user of the client device; accessing, at the server, a list of one or more webpages associated with the user; selecting a chosen webpage from the homepage and the list of one or more webpages; and facilitating the display of the chosen webpage on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: Hugh Olliphant
  • Publication number: 20100293029
    Abstract: The system and method for automatically scheduling appointments includes receiving, at the appointment server system, appointment preference information from a client system associated with a user, wherein the appointment preference information includes contact details for one or more contacts of the user. In response to receiving the appointment preference information from the user, the appointment server system automatically, without human intervention, schedules a first proposed appointment based at least in part on the appointment preference information, wherein the first proposed appointment includes a first location, a first plurality of participants including the user and a first contact of the one or more contacts, and a first date that was not selected by any of the first plurality of participants. The appointment server sends an electronic message to the first plurality of participants including an invitation to the first proposed appointment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventor: Hugh Olliphant
  • Publication number: 20080263135
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of dynamically selecting and presenting a webpage includes: receiving a request, at a server, from a client device to display a webpage; determining, at the server, a homepage defined by a user of the client device; accessing, at the server, a list of one or more webpages associated with the user; selecting a chosen webpage from the homepage and the list of one or more webpages; and facilitating the display of the chosen webpage on the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventor: Hugh Olliphant