Patents by Inventor Jason Ruud

Jason Ruud 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: 9898771
    Abstract: A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented instructions of the selected task to select at least one product from an electronic product catalog, the selected at least one product being one or more of a part, such as a recipe ingredient, and a tool, such as an appliance, usable in performing the task, and by presenting to the consumer a second user interface for allowing the consumer to purchase via use of an online retail channel the selected at least one product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SEARS BRANDS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Yu, Jason Ruud, Greg Franczyk, Robert Roy, Brian Jordan, Tony Liu, Kelly Wical
  • Publication number: 20140324634
    Abstract: A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented instructions of the selected task to select at least one product from an electronic product catalog, the selected at least one product being one or more of a part, such as a recipe ingredient, and a tool, such as an appliance, usable in performing the task, and by presenting to the consumer a second user interface for allowing the consumer to purchase via use of an online retail channel the selected at least one product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: James Yu, Jason Ruud, Greg Franczk, Robert Roy, Brian Jordan, Tony Liu, Kelly Wical
  • Patent number: 8818876
    Abstract: A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented instructions of the selected task to select at least one product from an electronic product catalog, the selected at least one product being one or more of a part, such as a recipe ingredient, and a tool, such as an appliance, usable in performing the task, and by presenting to the consumer a second user interface for allowing the consumer to purchase via use of an online retail channel the selected at least one product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Sears Brands, L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Yu, Jason Ruud, Greg Franczyk, Robert Roy, Brian Jordan, Tony Liu, Kelly Wical
  • Patent number: 8676660
    Abstract: Once a purchaser has proceeded through a check out experience with an online retail system, the settings established during that checkout experience will be applied to future checkout experiences by that purchaser. By capturing and thereafter using checkout settings in this manner, a purchaser can proceed from a shopping cart directly to a checkout review page with the checkout review page being pre-populated with such prior established settings. Furthermore, the methodology allows the purchaser to have a virtually unlimited number of goods in their shopping cart and to have multiple different types of order fulfillment options (e.g., shipping, store pickup, delivery to an organization, etc.) automatically established for those goods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sears Brands, L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Yu, Greg Franczyk, Jason Ruud, Brian Jordan, Robert Richard Roy, Eric J. Klondnick, Mahesh Bommireddy
  • Publication number: 20120179582
    Abstract: Once a purchaser has proceeded through a check out experience with an online retail system, the settings established during that checkout experience will be applied to future checkout experiences by that purchaser. By capturing and thereafter using checkout settings in this manner, a purchaser can proceed from a shopping cart directly to a checkout review page with the checkout review page being pre-populated with such prior established settings. Furthermore, the methodology allows the purchaser to have a virtually unlimited number of goods in their shopping cart and to have multiple different types of order fulfillment options (e.g., shipping, store pickup, delivery to an organization, etc.) automatically established for those goods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: SEARS BRANDS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Yu, Greg Franczyk, Jason Ruud, Brian Jordan, Robert Richard Roy, Eric J. Klondnick, Mahesh Bommireddy
  • Publication number: 20120150681
    Abstract: A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented instructions of the selected task to select at least one product from an electronic product catalog, the selected at least one product being one or more of a part, such as a recipe ingredient, and a tool, such as an appliance, usable in performing the task, and by presenting to the consumer a second user interface for allowing the consumer to purchase via use of an online retail channel the selected at least one product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: SEARS BRANDS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Yu, Jason Ruud, Greg Franczyk, Robert Roy, Brian Jordan, Tony Liu, Kelly Wical