Patents by Inventor Ken BENTHAM

Ken BENTHAM 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 and method for generating a user status and authenticating social interactions in a computer network
    Patent number: 11019020
    Abstract: Providing user status in a computer network includes storing associations of interaction indications to different interaction events, storing values for the interaction indications, and maintaining accounts for users performing the different interaction events. Interaction indications are received via the computer network from terminals associated with the accounts. Each interaction indication identifies a target account. Values of a set of interaction indications are combined using a limiting function that accumulates the values of the set into an accumulated value and progressively limits the accumulated value as the interaction indications in the set increase. An indication of the accumulated value is outputted as a status of the particular target account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: IOU CONCEPTS INC.
    Inventors: Colin Duetta, Felix Leung, Michael Salvatori, Ken Bentham
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A USER STATUS AND AUTHENTICATING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK
    Publication number: 20200280532
    Abstract: Providing user status in a computer network includes storing associations of interaction indications to different interaction events, storing values for the interaction indications, and maintaining accounts for users performing the different interaction events. Interaction indications are received via the computer network from terminals associated with the accounts. Each interaction indication identifies a target account. Values of a set of interaction indications are combined using a limiting function that accumulates the values of the set into an accumulated value and progressively limits the accumulated value as the interaction indications in the set increase. An indication of the accumulated value is outputted as a status of the particular target account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Colin DUETTA, Felix Leung, Michael Salvatori, Ken Bentham
  • System and method for generating a user status and authenticating social interactions in a computer network
    Patent number: 10498691
    Abstract: Providing user status in a computer network includes storing associations of interaction indications to different interaction events, storing values for the interaction indications, and maintaining accounts for users performing the different interaction events. Interaction indications are received via the computer network from terminals associated with the accounts. Each interaction indication identifies a target account. Values of a set of interaction indications are combined using a limiting function that accumulates the values of the set into an accumulated value and progressively limits the accumulated value as the interaction indications in the set increase. An indication of the accumulated value is outputted as a status of the particular target account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: IOU CONCEPTS INC.
    Inventors: Colin Duetta, Felix Leung, Michael Salvatori, Ken Bentham
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A USER STATUS AND AUTHENTICATING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK
    Publication number: 20180109483
    Abstract: Providing user status in a computer network includes storing associations of interaction indications to different interaction events, storing values for the interaction indications, and maintaining accounts for users performing the different interaction events. Interaction indications are received via the computer network from terminals associated with the accounts. Each interaction indication identifies a target account. Values of a set of interaction indications are combined using a limiting function that accumulates the values of the set into an accumulated value and progressively limits the accumulated value as the interaction indications in the set increase. An indication of the accumulated value is outputted as a status of the particular target account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Colin DUETTA, Felix LEUNG, Michael SALVATORI, Ken BENTHAM