Patents by Inventor Hyder Alkasimi

Hyder Alkasimi 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: 11195159
    Abstract: Systems and methods of retailing a retail item to an airline passenger generally include providing an airplane equipped with: an airplane cabin; a plurality of seats disposed within the airplane cabin and partitioned by an aisle; a service cart movable along the aisle; and a digital reader device; positioning the retail item in the vicinity of the digital reader device; reading an item identifier of the retail item using the digital reader device; storing the item identifier in a reader memory of the digital reader device; positioning a digital payment object in the vicinity of the digital reader device, the digital payment object being carried onto the airplane by the airline passenger; communicating information between the digital payment object and the digital reader device; and processing payment for the retail item. The digital payment object may include a physical passenger identifier, a contactless payment object, or a portable user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
    Inventors: Hyder Alkasimi, Roger Jarboe, Charles Sucur, Susanna Brown, Benjamin Chan, Deviprasad Mulupuri
  • Patent number: 11127072
    Abstract: A system and method according to which goods and services are provided during vehicular travel. In an exemplary embodiment, the vehicle is an airplane operated by a commercial airline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
    Inventor: Hyder Alkasimi
  • Patent number: 10204367
    Abstract: A system and method according to which goods and services are provided during vehicular travel. In an exemplary embodiment, the vehicle is an airplane operated by a commercial airline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
    Inventor: Hyder Alkasimi
  • Patent number: 9595014
    Abstract: A system and method according to which a workflow instance is modified during the execution thereof. In several exemplary embodiments, the workflow instance is an automated business process and the modifier of the workflow instance is a client user, such as a business user or analyst. In several exemplary embodiments, the workflow instance may be directed to assigning airline flights for crew members, routing aircraft, generating airline flight numbers, assigning airline flights for equipment, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
    Inventors: Sandeep Vohra, Hyder Alkasimi, Richard Velasquez
  • Patent number: 9519941
    Abstract: A system and method for exchanging transportation data via wearable devices such as, for example, wearable computerized glasses, a wearable computerized wrist device, or a wearable computerized earpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
    Inventors: Hyder Alkasimi, Jonathan Campos
  • Patent number: 9355396
    Abstract: A system and method according to which goods and services are provided during vehicular travel. In an exemplary embodiment, the vehicle is an airplane operated by a commercial airline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
    Inventor: Hyder Alkasimi
  • Patent number: 8615422
    Abstract: An airline pricing system and method according to which prices, such as airline ticket prices or fares, are automatically set based on selected pricing strategies and patterns detected within airline fare data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: American Airlines, Inc.
    Inventors: Hyder Alkasimi, RoseMary Dimock, Roman Shevchuk
  • Patent number: 8134362
    Abstract: A system and method for recording and monitoring directives for vehicles, such as airplanes, according to which directives for the airplanes are recorded and monitored to thereby provide a situational awareness of, for example, a predetermined area of an airport with respect to the airplanes and the movement thereof into, within and/or out of the predetermined area of the airport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: American Airlines, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Hullender, James T. Diamond, Arunprakash Dhanabal, Hyder Alkasimi, John Molitor