Patents by Inventor John Metsig

John Metsig 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).

  • System of generating billing statements for published advertising
    Patent number: 7099837
    Abstract: A method of constructing a billing statement for publishing industry advertising or the like starts with digitizing the advertisement and the publication page the advertisement is on and assigning a unique identifier to at least the advertisement in an information header associated with the published image of the advertisement copy. The publication page may also be uniquely identified apart from the advertisement and contain reference to the advertisements thereon in its information header. An invoice is generated which searches at least the publication page database to find both the advertisement and page documents. The advertisement and page documents are associated with the billing statement and linked so that they may be accessed by the client such that manual preparation of invoices with advertisement copy and tear sheets no longer needs to be done.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Electronic Imaging Systems of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Willard J. Weibel, Maria Elena Lopez, John Metsig
  • Method for electronically merging digitized data system of generating billing statements for published advertising
    Patent number: 6505173
    Abstract: A method of constructing a billing statement for publishing advertising or the like starts with digitizing the advertisement and the publication page the advertisement is on and assigning a unique identifier to at least the advertisement in an information header associated with the published image of the advertisement copy. The publication page may also be uniquely identified apart from the advertisement and contain reference to the advertisements thereon in its information header. An invoice is generated which searches at least the publication page database to find both the advertisement and page documents. The advertisement and page documents are copied and stored with the billing statement in a separate file where they are linked or merged into one document so that manual preparation of invoices with advertisement copy and tear sheets no longer need be done.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Electronic Imaging Systems of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Willard J. Weibel, Maria Elena Lopez, John Metsig