Patents by Inventor Jennifer L. Dobson

Jennifer L. Dobson 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).

  • Method and system for tracking the purchase of a product and services over the internet
    Patent number: 6460072
    Abstract: A method for establishing and maintaining a virtual outlet (“VO”) relationship on the Internet between an entity that controls and manages a Web site constituting a VO and a merchant that controls and manages a different Web site. The VO presents a series of VO Web pages to customers that contain descriptive information about products from one or more merchants. Customers can link through the VO Web pages directly to a merchant Web page provided to the customer computer by the merchant computer for the purpose of obtaining more detailed information about the product and for ordering the product. When the customer has finished ordering a product, the customer computer returns to a VO Web page. To the customer, it appears that the entire ordering process is conducted entirely within the VO Web pages. The merchant then credits the VO for the sale of the product to the customer, charges the purchase to the customer, and sends the ordered product to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: InfoSpace, Inc.
    Inventors: John K. Arnold, John R. Bennett, Peter O. Claar, Kurt D. Dahl, Jennifer L. Dobson, Charles A. Fontaine, Philip H. Johanson, Donald G. McGuire, Mary Swanson, David G. Wagner, Steve Wainright
  • Method and system for tracking the purchase of a product and services over the Internet
    Patent number: 6016504
    Abstract: A method for establishing and maintaining a virtual outlet ("VO") relationship on the Internet between an entity that controls and manages a Web site constituting a VO and a merchant that controls and manages a different Web site. The VO presents a series of VO Web pages to customers that contain descriptive information about products from one or more merchants. Customers can link through the VO Web pages directly to a merchant Web page provided to the customer computer by the merchant computer for the purpose of obtaining more detailed information about the product and for ordering the product. When the customer has finished ordering a product, the customer computer returns to a VO Web page. To the customer, it appears that the entire ordering process is conducted entirely within the VO Web pages. The merchant then credits the VO for the sale of the product to the customer, charges the purchase to the customer, and sends the ordered product to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: InfoSpace.com, Inc.
    Inventors: John K. Arnold, John R. Bennett, Peter O. Claar, Kurt D. Dahl, Jennifer L. Dobson, Charles A. Fontaine, Philip H. Johanson, Donald G. McGuire, Mary Swanson, David G. Wagner, Steve Wainright