Patents by Inventor Michael J. KIMBALL

Michael J. KIMBALL 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: 20240078577
    Abstract: Merchants provide incentives for customer transactions on accounts issued to them by issuers. Incentives include a merchant making a donation to entities with whom the merchants and/or the consumers have an affinity such as residence in the community. Each merchant can define the donation to be percentage of the transaction amount. Cryptographically secure chains are provided for uniquely labeling each such transaction and each such donation by way of incorporating role-based digital wallets and multiple synchronized transactional blockchains. Where the donations are used to purchase an Internet-of-Things (IOT) enabled system, real and/or near-real time usage information can be received and transmitted to the logical addresses of the customers and or the merchants so as to confirm efficacy of the donations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Terrance Patrick TIETZEN, Matthew Arnold Macpherson BATES, Michael J. KIMBALL
  • Publication number: 20210056584
    Abstract: Customers receive an incentive with use of an installed cellphone app to image an AR-bearing ad. Matches between data from the customer's accounts for each merchant are compared to the data in association with the customer's logical identifier for their cellphone, and particularly with each incidence of a rendering on their display screen of an AR view of a product advertisement containing the AR-triggering symbol to initiate the corresponding AR enhanced view of the ad. In conjunction with chronological time stamping of occurrences, a likelihood is derived that the customer's viewing of the AR enhanced product advertisement influenced the potential customer's subsequent purchase of the corresponding advertised product as evidenced within the potential customer's rich transactional data from the customer's debit and/or credit accounts. The certainty of each match is determined to further initiate the merchant's incentive to the customer which may be the merchant's donation to a community program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Terrance Patrick TIETZEN, Matthew Arnold Macpherson BATES, Michael J. KIMBALL
  • Publication number: 20190392489
    Abstract: Merchants provide incentives for customer transactions on accounts issued to them by issuers. Incentives include a merchant making a donation to entities with whom the merchants and/or the consumers have an affinity such as residence in the community. Each merchant can define the donation to be percentage of the transaction amount. Cryptographically secure chains are provided for uniquely labeling each such transaction and each such donation by way of incorporating role-based digital wallets and multiple synchronized transactional blockchains. Where the donations are used to purchase an Internet-of-Things (IOT) enabled system, real and/or near-real time usage information can be received and transmitted to the logical addresses of the customers and or the merchants so as to confirm efficacy of the donations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Terrance Patrick TIETZEN, Matthew Arnold Macpherson BATES, Michael J. KIMBALL
  • Publication number: 20160180360
    Abstract: A network communication system for exchanging feedback data between merchant systems and cardholder devices. Cardholder devices receive and process speech signals for feedback requests and generate speech signals for feedback responses. A feedback component has a text to speech processor for generating the speech signals for the feedback requests using feedback request data records, and a speech to text processor for generating feedback response data records by transforming the speech signals for feedback responses. A notification management processor manages transmissions of the speech signals for feedback requests by determining, for each feedback request, a respective delivery notification delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Terrance Patrick TIETZEN, Matthew Arnold Macpherson BATES, Michael J. KIMBALL, Kevin CATHRO