Patents by Inventor Nathan Thomas Faust

Nathan Thomas Faust 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).

  • Patent number: 10592925
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of determining a prospective product for a user to add to an cart, identifying a prospective cart merchant group that includes prospective merchants that offer the prospective product, determining a prospectively-unlocked product group that includes a plurality of products offered by the prospective merchants that are discounted if the prospective product is added to the electronic cart, determining a savings score for the prospectively-unlocked product group, and coordinating displaying to the user on the website of the online retailer (1) the prospective product and (2) the savings score of the prospectively-unlocked product group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: JET.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Zachary Dennett, Nathan Thomas Faust, Michael Thomas Hanrahan, Marc Eric Lore
  • Patent number: 10510101
    Abstract: A merchant management system aims to make product sales by multiple merchants more efficient so that the resulting savings can be passed down to consumers. Specifically, the merchant management system evaluates discounts that the consumer may be eligible for (e.g., being within a certain shipping distance, buying multiple units, or waiving the ability to return the item) in order to present the consumer with the lowest price available. Additionally, the merchant management system may price a product in light of other products and pass down any savings that result from purchasing multiple products from the same merchant (e.g., reduced shipping costs for shipping multiple products in the same box).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: JET.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Nathan Thomas Faust, Michael Thomas Hanrahan, Marc Eric Lore
  • Publication number: 20190220883
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a system to encourage user pick-up over home delivery of an item being made available to a user for purchase. The system can comprise one or more processors and/or one or more non-transitory memory storage devices. The one or more memory storage devices can store computer instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of: causing the item to be displayed on a graphical user interface; and when the item is to be received by the user by user pick-up, evaluating whether the item is eligible to be made available for purchase at a user pick-up discounted retail price that is less than a home delivery retail price at which the item is made available for purchase when the item is to be received by the user by home delivery. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Eric Lore, Jatin Pahuja, Stephen Menaquale, Alexander Fu, Hiren Patel, Brandon Strong, Jordan Sweetnam, Yang Tang, Nathan Thomas Faust, Zachary Dennett, Julia Lu
  • Publication number: 20170278132
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of determining a prospective product for a user to add to an cart, identifying a prospective cart merchant group that includes prospective merchants that offer the prospective product, determining a prospectively-unlocked product group that includes a plurality of products offered by the prospective merchants that are discounted if the prospective product is added to the electronic cart, determining a savings score for the prospectively-unlocked product group, and coordinating displaying to the user on the website of the online retailer (1) the prospective product and (2) the savings score of the prospectively-unlocked product group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Jet.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Dennett, Nathan Thomas Faust, Michael Thomas Hanrahan, Marc Eric Lore
  • Publication number: 20170018013
    Abstract: A merchant management system aims to make product sales by multiple merchants more efficient so that the resulting savings can be passed down to consumers. Specifically, the merchant management system evaluates discounts that the consumer may be eligible for (e.g., being within a certain shipping distance, buying multiple units, or waiving the ability to return the item) in order to present the consumer with the lowest price available. Additionally, the merchant management system may price a product in light of other products and pass down any savings that result from purchasing multiple products from the same merchant (e.g., reduced shipping costs for shipping multiple products in the same box).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Nathan Thomas Faust, Michael Thomas Hanrahan, Marc Eric Lore