Patents by Inventor James Hinds

James Hinds 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: 11010830
    Abstract: A vehicle transfer system provides a transaction interface that is displayed as part of a web page for a vehicle on a vehicle dealer's website. The transaction interface allows a customer to perform a vehicle transfer transaction on the dealer's website. The system can facilitate multiple financing methods for the transaction. If the transaction is financed with a loan, the system can request loan offers for a plurality of different loan terms and down payment amounts, and then provide a loan selection interface, which allows the customer to select a loan term and down payment amount and then displays the loan offers matching the customer's selections. If the transaction is financed with a lease, the system can perform a leasing calculation that solves for a balancing point between the total upfront capital that is available to the customer and the total expenses due at lease signing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: AUTOFI, INC.
    Inventors: Mandar Gokhale, James Hinds, Christopher Trailer, Jared Lera
  • Publication number: 20200410465
    Abstract: Systems, methods and products for one embodiment comprises a method including providing a demand model which generates a payment in response to receiving input identifying a consumer profile and a vehicle type. A cashflow model is provided, and in response to receiving the payment output by the demand model and a desired return on a converted vehicle transaction, the cashflow model generates an acquisition price as an output. A comparison engine is provided which, in response to receiving the acquisition price output by the cashflow model, retrieves vehicle inventory records and compares a corresponding purchase price to the acquisition price to determine whether the corresponding vehicle is qualified. A list of qualified vehicles for a given consumer profile and vehicle type is stored and used to generate real time displays of qualified vehicles (with no unqualified vehicles) in response to a request from a specific consumer having this profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Ruslana Dalinina, Bowen Chen, James Hinds, Joshua S. Schoenfield, Daniel J. Malik
  • Publication number: 20180053249
    Abstract: A vehicle transfer system provides a transaction interface that is displayed as part of a web page for a vehicle on a vehicle dealer's website. The transaction interface allows a customer to perform a vehicle transfer transaction on the dealer's website. The system can facilitate multiple financing methods for the transaction. If the transaction is financed with a loan, the system can request loan offers for a plurality of different loan terms and down payment amounts, and then provide a loan selection interface, which allows the customer to select a loan term and down payment amount and then displays the loan offers matching the customer's selections. If the transaction is financed with a lease, the system can perform a leasing calculation that solves for a balancing point between the total upfront capital that is available to the customer and the total expenses due at lease signing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Mandar Gokhale, James Hinds, Christopher Trailer, Jared Lera
  • Publication number: 20180053253
    Abstract: A vehicle transfer system provides a transaction interface that is displayed as part of a web page for a vehicle on a vehicle dealer's website. The transaction interface allows a customer to perform a vehicle transfer transaction on the dealer's website. The system can facilitate multiple financing methods for the transaction. If the transaction is financed with a loan, the system can request loan offers for a plurality of different loan terms and down payment amounts, and then provide a loan selection interface, which allows the customer to select a loan term and down payment amount and then displays the loan offers matching the customer's selections. If the transaction is financed with a lease, the system can perform a leasing calculation that solves for a balancing point between the total upfront capital that is available to the customer and the total expenses due at lease signing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Mandar Gokhale, James Hinds, Christopher Trailer, Jared Lera