Patents by Inventor James T. Karras

James T. Karras 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: 11451608
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein may relate to systems and methods for managing work flow data collection for users across a wide area network comprising a diverse set of devices and processes and unifying the work process to be device agnostic. Embodiments disclosed herein may allow a single process having multiple steps to be retrieved and continued across multiple channels and devices with apparent continuity to the end-user. The status of each process step is tracked and the inputs are stored, providing the system with the requisite information when users continue processes on a different channel or device from the original channel or device. The system may host and execute processes that may be presented and manipulated across the various channels and devices, but without requiring engineers and developers to write or otherwise tailor software applications and network configurations to facilitate or allow multi-channel interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: James T. Karras, Ryan James Fillinger, Neal Philip Balzer, Randal Lane Schnedler, Douglas A. Hall
  • Patent number: 10681182
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein may relate to systems and methods for managing work flow data collection for users across a wide area network comprising a diverse set of devices and processes and unifying the work process to be device agnostic. Embodiments disclosed herein may allow a single process having multiple steps to be retrieved and continued across multiple channels and devices with apparent continuity to the end-user. The status of each process step is tracked and the inputs are stored, providing the system with the requisite information when users continue processes on a different channel or device from the original channel or device. The system may host and execute processes that may be presented and manipulated across the various channels and devices, but without requiring engineers and developers to write or otherwise tailor software applications and network configurations to facilitate or allow multi-channel interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: UIPCO, LLC
    Inventors: James T. Karras, Ryan James Fillinger, Neal Philip Balzer, Randal Lane Schnedler, Douglas A. Hall
  • Patent number: 8560351
    Abstract: An insurance policy names therein a number of named insureds. In response to a request to delete a particular person as a named insured from the policy, the requestor is interrogated by a computer service based on an accessed predetermined set of rules for deleting the identified named insured and also based on accessed relevant data regarding the policy and the identified named insured. Thereafter, the requestor is supplied with one of an approval and a denial of the request to delete the identified named insured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
    Inventors: Robert John Dizinno, James T. Karras, John P. Piper, Cecilia L. Jenkins, Eric C. Laechelin, Sandra R. Sarkardehi