Patents by Inventor Michael Dahn
Michael Dahn 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).
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Publication number: 20230206244Abstract: Various embodiments are related to apparatuses and methods for enabling a sender to perform monetary transactions for a requestor. A sender can use, for example, a payment application associated with a payment processing system to perform a monetary transaction for a requestor. The payment processing system can send information related to the monetary transaction to, for example, a sender-requestor association component. When the monetary transaction is a deposit, the sender can receive funds for the deposit from the requestor. The platform can debit the requestor’s financial account for the deposit amount and credit the sender’s financial account with the debit account as a physical cash transaction occurs between the sender and the requestor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventor: Michael Dahn
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Patent number: 11568418Abstract: Various embodiments are related to apparatuses and methods for enabling a sender to perform monetary transactions for a requestor. A sender can use, for example, a payment application associated with a payment processing system to perform a monetary transaction for a requestor. The payment processing system can send information related to the monetary transaction to, for example, a sender-requestor association component. When the monetary transaction is a deposit, the sender can receive funds for the deposit from the requestor. The platform can debit the requestor's financial account for the deposit amount and credit the sender's financial account with the debit account as a physical cash transaction occurs between the sender and the requestor.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Block, Inc.Inventor: Michael Dahn
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Patent number: 11526892Abstract: Various embodiments are related to apparatuses and methods for enabling a sender to perform monetary transactions for a requestor. A sender can use, for example, a payment application associated with a payment processing system to perform a monetary transaction for a requestor. The payment processing system can send information related to the monetary transaction to, for example, a sender-requestor association component. When the monetary transaction is a deposit, the sender can receive funds for the deposit from the requestor. The platform can debit the requestor's financial account for the deposit amount and credit the sender's financial account with the debit account as a physical cash transaction occurs between the sender and the requestor.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Block, Inc.Inventor: Michael Dahn
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Publication number: 20200410477Abstract: A payment terminal includes multiple chips that perform different processing functions within the payment terminal. A terminal chip performs general functionality of the payment terminal while a transaction chip communicates with payment devices such as chip cards and NFC payment devices and processes payment information. The transaction chip may operate in a low power during which communications and processing are limited, and a transaction processing mode in which transactions may be processed. The transaction chip may transfer between these modes based on wake-up messages provided by other devices or circuitry of the payment terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: Square, Inc.Inventors: David Terra, Koun Han, Michael Wells White, Michael Dahn
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Patent number: 10817869Abstract: A payment terminal includes multiple chips that perform different processing functions within the payment terminal. A terminal chip performs general functionality of the payment terminal while a transaction chip communicates with payment devices such as chip cards and NFC payment devices and processes payment information. The transaction chip may operate in a low power during which communications and processing are limited, and a transaction processing mode in which transactions may be processed. The transaction chip may transfer between these modes based on wake-up messages provided by other devices or circuitry of the payment terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: David Terra, Koun Han, Michael Wells White, Michael Dahn
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Patent number: 10140360Abstract: The present inventors devised, among other things, an online legal research system with improved user controls. One exemplary system allows users to enter a query in a query input region that automatically expands to accommodate the length of the query field. The exemplary system also responds to the query by automatically directing it to an appropriate database, saving the user from having to choose among the myriad databases within the system. The exemplary system also provides user-specific folders for not only selected documents or excerpts from documents, but also annotating these documents with notes. The system enables the user to determine whether to make the notes private or publicly available.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited CompanyInventor: Michael Dahn
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Publication number: 20180096351Abstract: Various embodiments are related to apparatuses and methods for enabling a sender to perform monetary transactions for a requestor. A sender can use, for example, a payment application associated with a payment processing system to perform a monetary transaction for a requestor. The payment processing system can send information related to the monetary transaction to, for example, a sender-requestor association component. When the monetary transaction is a deposit, the sender can receive funds for the deposit from the requestor. The platform can debit the requestor's financial account for the deposit amount and credit the sender's financial account with the debit account as a physical cash transaction occurs between the sender and the requestor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventor: Michael Dahn
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Publication number: 20180005223Abstract: A payment terminal includes multiple chips that perform different processing functions within the payment terminal. A terminal chip performs general functionality of the payment terminal while a transaction chip communicates with payment devices such as chip cards and NFC payment devices and processes payment information. The transaction chip may operate in a low power during which communications and processing are limited, and a transaction processing mode in which transactions may be processed. The transaction chip may transfer between these modes based on wake-up messages provided by other devices or circuitry of the payment terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Square, Inc.Inventors: David Terra, Koun Han, Michael Wells White, Michael Dahn
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Patent number: 9646082Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and/or related systems, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary legal research system that performs a conventional search to identify a set of starter documents and then leverages the metadata associated with these starter documents to identify another larger set of relevant documents. Documents in this alternate set are then scored using, for example, a learning machine and feature vectors that account for metadata relationships between the starter documents and alternate documents.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2006Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Michael Dahn, Patrick Slaven, Thomas Zielund, Qiang Lu, Charles Elberti
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Patent number: 9367604Abstract: The present invention makes legal research more efficient by selecting clusters in response to the behavior of a user (e.g., a legal professional such as a paralegal, lawyer, or judge). The clusters, which are formed prior to the user accessing a legal document (and thus, providing user behavior to a system), are identified to the based upon a set of metadata associated with the legal document. At least two clusters are identified and a signal associated therewith is transmitted to the user. Each cluster is associated with a unique legal topic. Further, each cluster may comprise primary and/or secondary authority.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Qiang Lu, Jack G. Conrad, Michael Dahn, William M. Keenan
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Patent number: 9317587Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and related IR systems, the present inventors recognized researchers often overlook some types of documents, such as legal encyclopedias and treatises that may be useful to them. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that automatically search for other types of documents not specifically targeted by user queries. One exemplary system automatically submits a user query for legal opinions to first and second databases, with the first storing legal opinions and the second storing non-opinion documents, such as headnotes from the West Key Number System, articles from American Law Reports, and/or articles from American Jurisprudence.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Michael Dahn, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Peter Jackson
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Publication number: 20160042054Abstract: The present invention makes legal research more efficient by selecting clusters in response to the behavior of a user (e.g., a legal professional such as a paralegal, lawyer, or judge). The clusters, which are formed prior to the user accessing a legal document (and thus, providing user behavior to a system), are identified to the based upon a set of metadata associated with the legal document. At least two clusters are identified and a signal associated therewith is transmitted to the user. Each cluster is associated with a unique legal topic. Further, each cluster may comprise primary and/or secondary authority.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Qiang Lu, Jack G. Conrad, Michael Dahn, William M. Keenan
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Patent number: 9177050Abstract: The present invention makes legal research more efficient by selecting clusters in response to the behavior of a user (e.g., a legal professional such as a paralegal, lawyer, or judge). The clusters, which are formed prior to the user accessing a legal document (and thus, providing user behavior to a system), are identified to the based upon a set of metadata associated with the legal document. At least two clusters are identified and a signal associated therewith is transmitted to the user. Each cluster is associated with a unique legal topic. Further, each cluster may comprise primary and/or secondary authority.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Qiang Lu, Jack G. Conrad, Michael Dahn, William M. Keenan
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Publication number: 20120323880Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and/or related systems, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary legal research system that performs a conventional search to identify a set of starter documents and then leverages the metadata associated with these starter documents to identify another larger set of relevant documents. Documents in this alternate set are then scored using, for example, a learning machine and feature vectors that account for metadata relationships between the starter documents and alternate documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2006Publication date: December 20, 2012Inventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Michael Dahn, Patrick Slaven, Thomas Zielund, Qiang Lu, Charles Elberti
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Publication number: 20100332520Abstract: The present invention makes legal research more efficient by selecting clusters in response to the behavior of a user (e.g., a legal professional such as a paralegal, lawyer, or judge). The clusters, which are formed prior to the user accessing a legal document (and thus, providing user behavior to a system), are identified to the based upon a set of metadata associated with the legal document. At least two clusters are identified and a signal associated therewith is transmitted to the user. Each cluster is associated with a unique legal topic. Further, each cluster may comprise primary and/or secondary authority.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Qiang Lu, Jack G. Conrad, Michael Dahn, William M. Keenan
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Publication number: 20100241947Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed that allow a user to enter a query in a query input region of a graphical user interface and respond to the query by automatically directing it to an appropriate database, saving a user from having to choose among the myriad databases within the system. The system provides shareable folders for not only selected documents or excerpts from documents, but also for annotations and markups associated with documents. The system also enables a user to set permissions as to whether to allow documents, as well annotations and markups, private or publicly available to other users. Further, the system allows a user to specify an action that is to occur once a particular event occurs affecting a document, annotation or markup.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Inventors: Michael Dahn, Steven Fischer, Aaron Cooper, Scott Francis, James John Jarvis, Mary B. Larson, Anita Trivedi Pagey, Brian C. Quinn
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Publication number: 20100030749Abstract: The present inventors devised, among other things, an online legal research system with improved user controls. One exemplary system allows users to enter a query in a query input region that automatically expands to accommodate the length of the query field. The exemplary system also responds to the query by automatically directing it to an appropriate database, saving the user from having to choose among the myriad databases within the system. The exemplary system also provides user-specific folders for not only selected documents or excerpts from documents, but also annotating these documents with notes. The system enables the user to determine whether to make the notes private or publicly available.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2008Publication date: February 4, 2010Inventor: Michael Dahn
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Publication number: 20080033929Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and/or related systems, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary legal research system that performs a conventional search to identify a set of starter documents and then leverages the metadata associated with these starter documents to identify another larger set of relevant documents. Documents in this alternate set are then scored using, for example, a learning machine and feature vectors that account for metadata relationships between the starter documents and alternate documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2006Publication date: February 7, 2008Inventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Michael Dahn, Patrick Slaven, Thomas Zielund, Qiang Lu, Charles Elberti
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Publication number: 20050228788Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and related IR systems, the present inventors recognized researchers often overlook some types of documents, such as legal encyclopedias and treatises that may be useful to them. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that automatically search for other types of documents not specifically targeted by user queries. One exemplary system automatically submits a user query for legal opinions to first and second databases, with the first storing legal opinions and the second storing non-opinion documents, such as headnotes from the West Key Number System, articles from American Law Reports, and/or articles from American Jurisprudence.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2005Publication date: October 13, 2005Inventors: Michael Dahn, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Peter Jackson