Patents by Inventor Kurt T. Thams

Kurt T. Thams 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: 20160034888
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for facilitating payment from a branded stored-value account. In the disclosed systems and methods, a communications interface of a service provider system receives a confirmation that a stored-value account, branded for a first merchant, contains a value. The communications interface also receives a request to enable a payment using the value from the first-merchant-branded stored-value account at a second merchant. Then the communications interface transmits a request to the first-merchant-branded stored-value account for an amount from the first-merchant-branded stored-value account and receives the requested amount from the first-merchant-branded stored-value account. The communications interface and a processor of the service provider system then place the amount in a virtual account, and the communications interface initiates a display showing the amount in the virtual account as a branded stored-value account for the second merchant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: PayNearMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Capps, Daniel J. Shader, Kurt T. Thams