Patents by Inventor Michelle Ellwanger

Michelle Ellwanger 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: 20060278693
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for determining security features to be included upon a commercial instrument. Security features are dynamically selected for inclusion on a particular commercial instrument based on the characteristics of the customer, as applied to the security criteria related to the particular instrument. The selected security features are printed on the applicable instrument, and this process of dynamic selection and printing may be repeated for each of a number of additional instruments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: First Data Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Stier, Glen Wordekemper, Kelly Liberty, Sandra Haugen, William Hickox, Michelle Ellwanger
  • Publication number: 20060282379
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for strategic communications. In one embodiment, the strategic communications system comprises a rules data store including a decision rule, a recipient data store including recipient data for a plurality of recipients, and decision logic configured to determine for each of the recipients whether to include a decision-based component on the correspondence for the respective recipient based at least on the decision rule and the data associated with the respective recipient. The strategic communications system further includes correspondence manager logic to format the correspondence for each of the recipients and a printer including a selective perforation module to selectively add the perforation to the correspondences including the decision-based component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: First Data Corporation
    Inventors: Glen Wordekemper, Robert Stier, Michelle Ellwanger, Kelly Liberty, Sandra Haugen, William Hickox