Patents by Inventor Michael L. Speiser

Michael L. Speiser 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).

  • Web and mobile device advertising
    Patent number: 10235688
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for selecting advertisements for dissemination over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, an advertisement service stores information indicative of offers from merchants, including information indicating an amount of revenue that the offering merchant would be willing to share with the advertisement service if a consumer consummates a transaction with the merchant based on the good or service advertised in the offer. The service computes predicted conversion rates for these offers, and uses the predicted conversion rates and the revenue sharing information to select an advertisement for dissemination according to which advertisement is expected to generate the greatest amount of revenue for the advertisement service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: FIRST DATA CORPORATION
    Inventors: John D. Beatty, Leonard R. Speiser, Michael L. Speiser
  • Automated reward management for network-based contests
    Patent number: 8224696
    Abstract: A system for automated reward management for network-based contests includes one or more processors and memory coupled to the processors, where the memory stores program instructions executable by the processors to implement a contest manager. The contest manager is configured to collect an entry fee corresponding to each entry of a plurality of entries submitted for a contest over a network, and provide a prize to a winning entry of the contest based at least in part on a total amount of entry fees collected for the contest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Speiser, Leonard Speiser
  • WEB AND MOBILE DEVICE ADVERTISING
    Publication number: 20120166267
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for selecting advertisements for dissemination over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, an advertisement service stores information indicative of offers from merchants, including information indicating an amount of revenue that the offering merchant would be willing to share with the advertisement service if a consumer consummates a transaction with the merchant based on the good or service advertised in the offer. The service computes predicted conversion rates for these offers, and uses the predicted conversion rates and the revenue sharing information to select an advertisement for dissemination according to which advertisement is expected to generate the greatest amount of revenue for the advertisement service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Clover Network, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Beatty, Leonard R. Speiser, Michael L. Speiser