Patents by Inventor Mark Alan Withers

Mark Alan Withers 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).

  • Patent number: 11861667
    Abstract: A service engine of a processor-based system determines an estimated amount of taxes due in association with a proposed transaction based on a risk tolerance value specified by a party to the transaction, such as a seller. Multiple classification code queries are generated for classifying an item that is the subject of the proposed transaction, from which a plurality of classification code candidates are determined. Each such classification code candidate is considered in determination of multiple corresponding possible tax-due amounts, and the taxes due for the proposed transaction are determined by the service engine based on a statistical calculation corresponding to the specified risk tolerance value. The service engine provides the estimated tax due amount to one or more parties to the proposed transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Avalara, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Nistor, Craig Evan Reed, Amy E. Morgan, David Kempe, Mark Alan Withers, Jurgis K P Vilis
  • Patent number: 11853302
    Abstract: A particular option selection may be provided by an online service platform (OSP) to a client regarding one or more predefined services that the OSP can be configured to perform. These may include automatic activities option selection(s) that may trigger the OSP to automatically start one or more activities upon one or more thresholds being crossed. The OSP may apply digital rules to the dataset(s) of the client to determine whether or not to automatically start or stop activities, including producing respective resources, upon a threshold being crossed, to determine a requested resource and then push, send, or otherwise cause to be transmitted a notification regarding the produced resource or other activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Nikki Nash, Gregory T. Kavounas, Stefan Kim, Aaron Lee Robles, Robert Erdman, Mark Alan Withers, Tim Diekmann
  • Publication number: 20220020097
    Abstract: A system may learn what parameters are required for an item in order to compute tax for the item based on preliminary data regarding the item and/or the transaction. The system may determine a classification code based on such preliminary data and use that classification code to search or query a database storing information indicative of parameters required to compute tax for items having such a classification code. The system may map the received preliminary data into the learned required parameters and determine whether there are any required parameters for which there has not been any preliminary data mapped into them. The system may prompt the customer (e.g., seller of the item) or other user for data values of such missing required parameters or otherwise obtain data values of such parameters in order to compute the tax for the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Amy E. Morgan, Duncan K. Carey, Kevin James Hess, Aaron David Wilson, Mark Wilhelm, Naveen K. Agrawal, Mark Alan Withers, David Kempe
  • Publication number: 20210158456
    Abstract: A system may learn what parameters are required for an item in order to compute tax for the item based on preliminary data regarding the item and/or the transaction. The system may determine a classification code based on such preliminary data and use that classification code to search or query a database storing information indicative of parameters required to compute tax for items having such a classification code. The system may map the received preliminary data into the learned required parameters and determine whether there are any required parameters for which there has not been any preliminary data mapped into them. The system may prompt the customer (e.g., seller of the item) or other user for data values of such missing required parameters or otherwise obtain data values of such parameters in order to compute the tax for the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Amy E. Morgan, Duncan K. Carey, Kevin James Hess, Aaron David Wilson, Mark Wilhelm, Naveen K. Agrawal, Mark Alan Withers, David Kempe