Patents by Inventor Mark Ford Westling

Mark Ford Westling 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).

  • DETERMINING EXTENSION OF CREDIT TO A USER OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM FOR ADVERTISING SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE ONLINE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180121966
    Abstract: An online system allows online system users to create advertising accounts that are each associated with a user profile of a user and an amount of credit to purchase advertising services provided by the online system. To allocate more advertising accounts and/or credit to users who are unlikely to default on their payments while limiting the same for users who are likely to do so, the online system determines a trusted connection score for a user requesting to create an advertising account and/or to be allocated an amount of credit. The trusted connection score indicates a measure of trustworthiness of the user and is determined based on the user's connectivity to a network of trusted users, in which each user of the trusted network is associated with at least a threshold measure of trustworthiness. Based on the score, the online system may determine whether to grant or deny the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Nathan Gaston Schmidt, Mark Ford Westling, Aparna Nemana
  • ASSIGNING A LEVEL OF TRUST BETWEEN ENTITIES IN AN ONLINE SYSTEM FOR DETERMING WHETHER TO PERMIT AN ACTION REQUESTED BY AN ENTITY
    Publication number: 20180109537
    Abstract: An online system assigns a level of trust between a requesting entity and a target entity based on connections between users of the online system associated with the requesting entity and users of the online system associated with the target entity in response to receiving a request from the requesting entity to perform an action that is directed towards the target entity. If the assigned level of trust exceeds a threshold level of trust, the online system permits the requesting entity to perform the action; otherwise, the online system denies the request. The level of trust between the entities may be used by the online system to determine whether to grant or deny additional types of requests received from the requesting entity (e.g., a request to create an advertising account to purchase advertising services provided by the online system).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Nathan Gaston Schmidt, Mark Ford Westling, Aparna Nemana
  • Method and system to facilitate interaction between and content delivery to users of a wireless communications network
    Patent number: 9623336
    Abstract: A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Simon, Mark Ford Westling, Phillip Wherry
  • Method and System to Facilitate Interaction Between and Content Delivery To Users of a Wireless Communications Network
    Publication number: 20140087884
    Abstract: A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Intel Corporation, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Simon, Mark Ford Westling, Phillip Wherry
  • Method and system to facilitate interaction between and content delivery to users of a wireless communications network
    Patent number: 8606308
    Abstract: A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Simon, Mark Ford Westling, Phillip Wherry
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM TO FACILITATE INTERACTION BETWEEN AND CONTENT DELIVERY TO USERS OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
    Publication number: 20120302357
    Abstract: A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Daniel Simon, Mark Ford Westling, Phillip Wherry
  • Method and system to facilitate interaction between and content delivery to users of a wireless communications network
    Patent number: 8238950
    Abstract: A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Cricket Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Simon, Mark Ford Westling, Phillip Wherry
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM TO FACILITATE INTERACTION BETWEEN AND CONTENT DELIVERY TO USERS OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
    Publication number: 20110059729
    Abstract: A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Daniel Simon, Mark Ford Westling, Phillip Wherry
  • Method and system to facilitate interaction between and content delivery to users of a wireless communications network
    Patent number: 7787894
    Abstract: A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Cricket Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Simon, Mark Ford Westling, Phillip Wherry
  • Method and system to facilitate interaction between and content delivery to users of a wireless communications network
    Patent number: 7035653
    Abstract: A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Leap Wireless International, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Simon, Mark Ford Westling, Phillip Wherry
  • Method and system to facilitate interaction between and content delivery to users of a wireless communications network
    Publication number: 20030087652
    Abstract: A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Daniel Simon, Mark Ford Westling, Phillip Wherry