Patents by Inventor Jacob W. Beckley

Jacob W. Beckley 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: 11953704
    Abstract: A hologram display system is disclosed. An example system includes a hologram apparatus including a sheet folded along preformed creases into a frustum structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The frustum structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The system also includes instructions stored in a memory of a consumer device, which when executed, cause a processor of the consumer device to display, on a screen of the consumer device, holographic interactive content that is related to the hologram apparatus, detect interaction with at least one of the holographic interactive content or the hologram apparatus after the hologram apparatus is placed on the screen of the consumer device, and change the display of at least a portion of the holographic interactive content based on the detected interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: VIRTUAL MARKETING, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Stephen Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Patent number: 11093587
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for installing a software product using timestamp validation and system identification validation are disclosed. An example method to lock a software product in a software wrapper includes determining a unique hard drive serial number of a user device to which the software product is to be installed and generating a hash number of the unique hard drive serial number. The example method also includes determining a campaign identifier of the software product from a secure variable within the software product and generating a date-time code based on a current date and time. The method further includes assembling the date-time code and the campaign identifier into an unlock code, encrypting the unlock code using the hash number as a passphrase key to create an encrypted unlock code, and applying the encrypted unlock code to an end of a filename of an installer using a command line parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: VIRTUAL MARKETING, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Publication number: 20210011306
    Abstract: A hologram display system is disclosed. An example system includes a hologram apparatus including a sheet folded along preformed creases into a frustum structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The frustum structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The system also includes instructions stored in a memory of a consumer device, which when executed, cause a processor of the consumer device to display, on a screen of the consumer device, holographic interactive content that is related to the hologram apparatus, detect interaction with at least one of the holographic interactive content or the hologram apparatus after the hologram apparatus is placed on the screen of the consumer device, and change the display of at least a portion of the holographic interactive content based on the detected interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Virtual Marketing Incorporated, d/b/a Fusion 92
    Inventors: Matthew Stephen Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Patent number: 10788682
    Abstract: A mobile hologram apparatus is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sheet folded along preformed creases into a pyramid structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The pyramid structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The pyramid structure in the compressed state has a height that is less than 1/10th the height of the pyramid structure in the uncompressed state. The apparatus also includes an elastic band connected to a perimeter of the base section of the pyramid structure and configured to cause the pyramid structure to self-actuate from the compressed state to the uncompressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: VIRTUAL MARKETING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Patent number: 10691068
    Abstract: A mobile hologram apparatus is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sheet folded along preformed creases into a pyramid structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The pyramid structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The pyramid structure in the compressed state has a height that is less than 1/10th the height of the pyramid structure in the uncompressed state. The apparatus also includes an elastic band connected to a perimeter of the base section of the pyramid structure and configured to cause the pyramid structure to self-actuate from the compressed state to the uncompressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: VIRTUAL MARKETING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Publication number: 20200026824
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for installing a software product using timestamp validation and system identification validation are disclosed. An example method to lock a software product in a software wrapper includes determining a unique hard drive serial number of a user device to which the software product is to be installed and generating a hash number of the unique hard drive serial number. The example method also includes determining a campaign identifier of the software product from a secure variable within the software product and generating a date-time code based on a current date and time. The method further includes assembling the date-time code and the campaign identifier into an unlock code, encrypting the unlock code using the hash number as a passphrase key to create an encrypted unlock code, and applying the encrypted unlock code to an end of a filename of an installer using a command line parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Patent number: 10430564
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for installing a software product using timestamp validation and system identification validation are disclosed. An example method to lock a software product in a software wrapper includes determining a unique hard drive serial number of a user device to which the software product is to be installed and generating a hash number of the unique hard drive serial number. The example method also includes determining a campaign identifier of the software product from a secure variable within the software product and generating a date-time code based on a current date and time. The method further includes assembling the date-time code and the campaign identifier into an unlock code, encrypting the unlock code using the hash number as a passphrase key to create an encrypted unlock code, and applying the encrypted unlock code to an end of a filename of an installer using a command line parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: VIRTUAL MARKETING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Publication number: 20180189463
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for installing a software product using timestamp validation and system identification validation are disclosed. An example method to lock a software product in a software wrapper includes determining a unique hard drive serial number of a user device to which the software product is to be installed and generating a hash number of the unique hard drive serial number. The example method also includes determining a campaign identifier of the software product from a secure variable within the software product and generating a date-time code based on a current date and time. The method further includes assembling the date-time code and the campaign identifier into an unlock code, encrypting the unlock code using the hash number as a passphrase key to create an encrypted unlock code, and applying the encrypted unlock code to an end of a filename of an installer using a command line parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Publication number: 20180120767
    Abstract: A mobile hologram apparatus is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sheet folded along preformed creases into a pyramid structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The pyramid structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The pyramid structure in the compressed state has a height that is less than 1/10th the height of the pyramid structure in the uncompressed state. The apparatus also includes an elastic band connected to a perimeter of the base section of the pyramid structure and configured to cause the pyramid structure to self-actuate from the compressed state to the uncompressed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Patent number: 9946225
    Abstract: A mobile hologram apparatus is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sheet folded along preformed creases into a pyramid structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The pyramid structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The pyramid structure in the compressed state has a height that is less than 1/10th the height of the pyramid structure in the uncompressed state. The apparatus also includes an elastic band connected to a perimeter of the base section of the pyramid structure and configured to cause the pyramid structure to self-actuate from the compressed state to the uncompressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Virtual Marketing Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Patent number: 9940444
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for installing a software product using timestamp validation and system identification validation are disclosed. An example method to lock a software product in a software wrapper includes determining a unique hard drive serial number of a user device to which the software product is to be installed and generating a hash number of the unique hard drive serial number. The example method also includes determining a campaign identifier of the software product from a secure variable within the software product and generating a date-time code based on a current date and time. The method further includes assembling the date-time code and the campaign identifier into an unlock code, encrypting the unlock code using the hash number as a passphrase key to create an encrypted unlock code, and applying the encrypted unlock code to an end of a filename of an installer using a command line parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: VIRTUAL MARKETING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Publication number: 20170371298
    Abstract: A mobile hologram apparatus is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sheet folded along preformed creases into a pyramid structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The pyramid structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The pyramid structure in the compressed state has a height that is less than 1/10th the height of the pyramid structure in the uncompressed state. The apparatus also includes an elastic band connected to a perimeter of the base section of the pyramid structure and configured to cause the pyramid structure to self-actuate from the compressed state to the uncompressed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Publication number: 20170371299
    Abstract: A mobile hologram apparatus is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sheet folded along preformed creases into a pyramid structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The pyramid structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The pyramid structure in the compressed state has a height that is less than 1/10th the height of the pyramid structure in the uncompressed state. The apparatus also includes an elastic band connected to a perimeter of the base section of the pyramid structure and configured to cause the pyramid structure to self-actuate from the compressed state to the uncompressed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Publication number: 20150112776
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for managing promotions are disclosed. An example method includes receiving in a server an indication of a sale of a promotional item from a sales terminal, the promotional item being specified by a promoter for a promotional competition to be carried out by a group of sales associates, the indication including an identifier of a sales associate who sold the promotional item, determining a quantity of the promotional items sold based on the received indication and a previous quantity of the promotional items sold by the sales associate, determining relationships among the group of sales associates based on the quantity of promotional items sold by the sales associates, and sending to a computer system of the promoter information indicative of the quantity of promotional items sold respectively by the sales associates and information indicative of the determined relationship among the group of sales associates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: F Elevent Software, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Patent number: D858614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: VIRTUAL MARKETING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
  • Patent number: D958870
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: VIRTUAL MARKETING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley