Patents by Inventor Joel Lawrence Bush

Joel Lawrence Bush 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, system and apparatus for reinforcing desirable consumer behaviors with surprise rewards
    Patent number: 10891644
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a fulfillment entity receives over an electronic interface from a merchant website associated with a third-party online user community an order from a member of the user community for an item from the merchant website. During order processing, a set of rules for rewarding members of the third-party online user community based on the past behaviors of one or more members of the user community is evaluated. Responsive to a condition fulfilling one of the rules, the member order is modified to provide an incentivizing reward to the member of the online user community.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Copernica, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Douglas Sewell, Joel Lawrence Bush, Omar Besim Hakim
  • Method, System and Apparatus for Reinforcing Desirable Consumer Behaviors with Surprise Rewards
    Publication number: 20160210650
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a fulfillment entity receives over an electronic interface from a merchant website associated with a third-party online user community an order from a member of the user community for an item from the merchant website. During order processing, a set of rules for rewarding members of the third-party online user community based on the past behaviors of one or more members of the user community is evaluated. Responsive to a condition fulfilling one of the rules, the member order is modified to provide an incentivizing reward to the member of the online user community.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Copernica, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Douglas Sewell, Joel Lawrence Bush, Omar Besim Hakim
  • Method, system and apparatus for reinforcing desirable consumer behaviors with surprise rewards
    Patent number: 9324090
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a fulfillment entity receives over an electronic interface from a merchant website associated with a third-party online user community an order from a member of the user community for an item from the merchant website. During order processing, a set of rules for rewarding members of the third-party online user community based on the past behaviors of one or more members of the user community is evaluated. Responsive to a condition fulfilling one of the rules, the member order is modified to provide an incentivizing reward to the member of the online user community.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Copernica, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Douglas Sewell, Joel Lawrence Bush, Omar Besim Hakim
  • Methods and Apparatus for Production Resource Management for Customized Products
    Publication number: 20150213383
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for coordinating production of an item by dynamically assigning production resources. In some embodiments, responsive to receiving from a customer an item request, a method includes deconstructing the item request from the customer into a plurality of order components, constructing a tentative assignment of the order components to a plurality of production resources. In some embodiments, the method includes communicating to the customer an estimate of a set of transaction satisfaction conditions derived from the tentative assignment. In some embodiments, the method includes, responsive to acceptance of the transaction satisfaction conditions, distributing the order components to the plurality of production resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Joel Lawrence Bush, Jeffery Douglas Sewell, Omar Besim Hakim
  • Method, System and Apparatus for Reinforcing Desirable Consumer Behaviors with Surprise Rewards
    Publication number: 20150142547
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a fulfillment entity receives over an electronic interface from a merchant website associated with a third-party online user community an order from a member of the user community for an item from the merchant website. During order processing, a set of rules for rewarding members of the third-party online user community based on the past behaviors of one or more members of the user community is evaluated. Responsive to a condition fulfilling one of the rules, the member order is modified to provide an incentivizing reward to the member of the online user community.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffery Douglas Sewell, Joel Lawrence Bush, Omar Besim Hakim