Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Alton Gattis

Jeffrey Alton Gattis 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: 7533059
    Abstract: Using a user interface to allow payment for physical or virtual goods to be made through a physical object. A method may be practiced in a computing system including a user interface. The method includes detecting a payment physical object, and payment capabilities associated with the payment physical object. User input is received. The user input includes at least one of physically dragging a physical object to the detected physical object, or graphically dragging the physical or a virtual object to the detected payment physical object by dragging a graphical representation of the physical or the virtual object to the detected payment physical object. Payment for the physical or virtual object is facilitated using the payment capabilities associated with the payment physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alton Gattis, Dana Lu Silverstein
  • Publication number: 20080228636
    Abstract: Using a user interface to allow payment for physical or virtual goods to be made through a physical object. A method may be practiced in a computing system including a user interface. The method includes detecting a payment physical object, and payment capabilities associated with the payment physical object. User input is received. The user input includes at least one of physically dragging a physical object to the detected physical object, or graphically dragging the physical or a virtual object to the detected payment physical object by dragging a graphical representation of the physical or the virtual object to the detected payment physical object. Payment for the physical or virtual object is facilitated using the payment capabilities associated with the payment physical object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alton Gattis, Dana Lu Silverstein