Patents by Inventor Joseph David Purcell

Joseph David Purcell 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).

  • Publication number: 20170046723
    Abstract: A server implemented method and system for providing merchants with customer information by receiving customer profile data from a social network onto which a customer has logged-in using a customer's device over a network, storing the customer profile data in a storage device, generating reward data for products or services offered by merchants, the respective reward data identifying the merchants offering the respective reward, transmitting the reward data over the network to a customer's device, receiving a customer's selection of reward data for a product or service from the customer's device, receiving a message related to the product or service associated with the selected reward data from the customer's device and forwarding the message to the social network over the network for posting on the social network, storing data indicating the selection of the reward to be redeemed at the merchant by the customer; and transmitting information on the selected reward data and the stored customer profile data to
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Joseph David Purcell, Stephen Daniel Hughes
  • Patent number: 7636899
    Abstract: A screen sharing function enables a main executable application, which typically uses more than one monitor, to switch to single-monitor usage as necessary to allow a user to directly interact with other applications that the main executable application invokes. A system including multiple display monitors for displaying multiple user interface image windows associated with corresponding multiple executable applications employs an image format determination system. The image format determination system includes an input processor for receiving command data representing a command to initiate execution of a function of a second application and display of an associated second image window in response to user entry of a command via a first image window associated with a first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph David Purcell, Chris O'Donnell, Perumal Sivakumar