Patents by Inventor Nathan W. Shahan

Nathan W. Shahan 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: 20240046262
    Abstract: When incentivizing vendors to give greater discounts on items or services offered or advertised to specific customers on a third-party website in exchange for reduced advertisement pricing, a vendor enters offer parameters (e.g., item or service for sale, price or discount amount, terms of the offer, a permitted number of acceptances of the offer, etc.) into a user interface along with target customer criteria (e.g., age, gender, minimum income, etc.). The target criteria is matched to customer profile data, and an advertisement generated using the offer parameter information is presented to customers whose profiles match the target criteria. In return for offering larger discounts, a cost per event (CPE) associated with the advertisement is reduced for the vendor. An invoice is generated and transmitted to the vendor, and upon receipt of payment, the advertisement provider remits a portion of the received payment to the website owner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Patent number: 11790359
    Abstract: When incentivizing vendors to give greater discounts on items or services offered or advertised to specific customers on a third-party website in exchange for reduced advertisement pricing, a vendor enters offer parameters (e.g., item or service for sale, price or discount amount, terms of the offer, a permitted number of acceptances of the offer, etc.) into a user interface along with target customer criteria (e.g., age, gender, minimum income, etc.). The target criteria is matched to customer profile data, and an advertisement generated using the offer parameter information is presented to customers whose profiles match the target criteria. In return for offering larger discounts, a cost per event (CPE) associated with the advertisement is reduced for the vendor. An invoice is generated and transmitted to the vendor, and upon receipt of payment, the advertisement provider remits a portion of the received payment to the website owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SEGMINT INC.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Patent number: 11669866
    Abstract: A method of providing a personalized advertisement campaign includes receiving from a financial institution anonymized customer data associated with a plurality of customers of the financial institution, creating key lifestyle indicators, which describe customer attributes, from the anonymized customer data, delivering online a pre-advertisement to at least one selected customer of the plurality of customers, receiving a prospective unique customer identification code from the financial institution when at least one prospective customer accepts the pre-advertisement, matching the prospective unique customer identification code to at least one prospective customer of the plurality of customers, and delivering a financial application associated with the pre-advertisement to the at least one prospective customer with the matched prospective unique customer identification code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SEGMINT INC.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan, Keith Weitz
  • Patent number: 11663631
    Abstract: A method of providing a personalized advertisement campaign purpose includes: receiving from a financial institution anonymized customer data associated with a plurality of customers of the financial institution and a prospective unique customer identification code associated with the plurality of customers of the financial institution; creating key lifestyle indicators, which describe customer attributes, from the anonymized customer data; receiving from the financial institution an authenticated unique customer identification code that is matched to authenticated data from at least one prospective customer of the plurality of customers of the financial institution; matching the prospective unique customer identification code to the authenticated unique customer identification code; matching the authenticated unique customer identification code to at least one key lifestyle indicators of the plurality of customers; and delivering a financial application form associated with the matched key lifestyle indicato
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SEGMINT INC.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan, Keith Weitz
  • Publication number: 20220335479
    Abstract: The subject personalized consumer advertising/ad placement system provides the ability for advertisers, ad agencies, and any other applicable organization to determine and electronically present their “ideal” consumer profile and have their advertisement/promotion placed in front of all consumers who match the profile based on the anonymous mining of the consumers actual spending across a broad base of spending categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: RUSSEL ROBERT HEISER, II, NATHAN W. SHAHAN, JOHN CALE
  • Patent number: 11250474
    Abstract: The subject personalized consumer advertising/ad placement system provides the ability for advertisers, ad agencies, and any other applicable organization to determine and electronically present their “ideal” consumer profile and have their advertisement/promotion placed in front of all consumers who match the profile based on the anonymous mining of the consumers actual spending across a broad base of spending categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Segmint, Inc.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan, John Cale
  • Patent number: 11138632
    Abstract: A method of providing a personalized advertisement campaign includes identifying at least one customer of a financial institution via at least one cookie associated with the at least one customer; matching a prospective unique customer identification code with at least one key lifestyle indicator, which describe customer attributes, associated with the at least one customer; delivering online a pre-advertisement to at least one selected customer that is matched with the key lifestyle indicators; receiving an authentication of at least one selected customer from the financial institution; and delivering a financial application form associated with the pre-advertisement to the at least one authenticated customer who accepts the pre-advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SEGMINT INC.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan, Keith Weitz
  • Patent number: 11120471
    Abstract: A method for providing one way trust via a third party advertisement presenter includes creating one or more advertisement campaigns which are delivered though a third party advertisement presenter's cookies, mapping the third party advertisement presenter's cookies to a demand side platform's cookies, providing the corresponding third party advertisement presenter's cookies via the demand side platform's cookies if the websites accessed by the individual include advertising space the demand side platform is bidding on, and delivering the one or more advertisement campaigns to the individual through the corresponding third party advertisement presenter's cookies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Segmint Inc.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Publication number: 20210118007
    Abstract: A method for creating a customized advertising campaign includes displaying a list of available products and/or services for an advertising campaign, determining a list of consumers to be targeted by the advertising campaign, and selecting a product or service for the advertising campaign. The method further includes inputting advertising campaign detail information wherein the advertising campaign detail information includes at least one of an advertising campaign name, a start date, and an end date. The method also includes providing a list of one or more pre-associated banner templates for the advertising campaign, selecting one or more pre-associated banner templates for the advertising campaign, editing text of the one or more selected pre-associated banner templates, and publishing the one or more selected pre-associated banner templates according to the campaign detail information to one or more delivery websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Segmint Inc.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Publication number: 20210073802
    Abstract: When incentivizing vendors to give greater discounts on items or services offered or advertised to specific customers on a third-party website in exchange for reduced advertisement pricing, a vendor enters offer parameters (e.g., item or service for sale, price or discount amount, terms of the offer, a permitted number of acceptances of the offer, etc.) into a user interface along with target customer criteria (e.g., age, gender, minimum income, etc.). The target criteria is matched to customer profile data, and an advertisement generated using the offer parameter information is presented to customers whose profiles match the target criteria. In return for offering larger discounts, a cost per event (CPE) associated with the advertisement is reduced for the vendor. An invoice is generated and transmitted to the vendor, and upon receipt of payment, the advertisement provider remits a portion of the received payment to the website owner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Segmint, Inc.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Patent number: 10885552
    Abstract: A method for creating a customized advertising campaign includes displaying a list of available products and/or services for an advertising campaign, determining a list of consumers to be targeted by the advertising campaign, and selecting a product or service for the advertising campaign. The method further includes inputting advertising campaign detail information wherein the advertising campaign detail information includes at least one of an advertising campaign name, a start date, and an end date. The method also includes providing a list of one or more pre-associated banner templates for the advertising campaign, selecting one or more pre-associated banner templates for the advertising campaign, editing text of the one or more selected pre-associated banner templates, and publishing the one or more selected pre-associated banner templates according to the campaign detail information to one or more delivery websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SEGMINT, INC.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Publication number: 20200234290
    Abstract: When incentivizing vendors to give greater discounts on items or services offered or advertised to specific customers on a third-party website in exchange for reduced advertisement pricing, a vendor enters offer parameters (e.g., item or service for sale, price or discount amount, terms of the offer, a permitted number of acceptances of the offer, etc.) into a user interface along with target customer criteria (e.g., age, gender, minimum income, etc.). The target criteria is matched to customer profile data, and an advertisement generated using the offer parameter information is presented to customers whose profiles match the target criteria. In return for offering larger discounts, a cost per event (CPE) associated with the advertisement is reduced for the vendor. An invoice is generated and transmitted to the vendor, and upon receipt of payment, the advertisement provider remits a portion of the received payment to the website owner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Segmint, Inc.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Publication number: 20200175541
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for presenting targeted offer advertisements to qualified customers while browsing the Internet. A designated interaction region such as a frame or border is positioned on each advertisement, and when a customer activates the border by clicking on or hovering a cursor there over, a menu of selectable options is displayed, from which the customer may select to perform an action on the offer. For instance, the customer may select an option to save the targeted offer to an offer library for later review. Additionally, the customer may select an option to access the offer library to review details of saved offers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Segmint, Inc.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Patent number: 10614459
    Abstract: When incentivizing vendors to give greater discounts on items or services offered or advertised to specific customers on a third-party website in exchange for reduced advertisement pricing, a vendor enters offer parameters (e.g., item or service for sale, price or discount amount, terms of the offer, a permitted number of acceptances of the offer, etc.) into a user interface along with target customer criteria (e.g., age, gender, minimum income, etc.). The target criteria is matched to customer profile data, and an advertisement generated using the offer parameter information is presented to customers whose profiles match the target criteria. In return for offering larger discounts, a cost per event (CPE) associated with the advertisement is reduced for the vendor. An invoice is generated and transmitted to the vendor, and upon receipt of payment, the advertisement provider remits a portion of the received payment to the website owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEGMINT, INC.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Patent number: 10558994
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for presenting targeted offer advertisements to qualified customers while browsing the Internet. A designated interaction region such as a frame or border is positioned on each advertisement, and when a customer activates the border by clicking on or hovering a cursor there over, a menu of selectable options is displayed, from which the customer may select to perform an action on the offer. For instance, the customer may select an option to save the targeted offer to an offer library for later review. Additionally, the customer may select an option to access the offer library to review details of saved offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SEGMINT INC.
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan
  • Publication number: 20170213246
    Abstract: A method for combining real-time behavior data with previously-modeled data to prioritize media content is provided. The method includes: receiving at least one of a unique customer identification code data and a third party advertisement provider identification code data associated with a user from a content webpage with which the user is interacting; determining if the unique customer identification code or the third party advertisement provider identification code is known by a third party advertisement provider; determining if the content webpage exists with at least one associated key lifestyle indicator data that includes information indicative of the at least one characteristic of the user; obtaining a key lifestyle indicator data list associated with the content webpage; updating the key lifestyle indicator list with the key lifestyle indicators of the content webpage; and presenting updated media content on the content webpage based on the updated key lifestyle indicator list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Segmint Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan W. Shahan
  • Publication number: 20160371732
    Abstract: A method of providing a personalized advertisement campaign includes identifying at least one customer of a financial institution via at least one cookie associated with the at least one customer; matching a prospective unique customer identification code with at least one key lifestyle indicator, which describe customer attributes, associated with the at least one customer; delivering online a pre-advertisement to at least one selected customer that is matched with the key lifestyle indicators; receiving an authentication of at least one selected customer from the financial institution; and delivering a financial application form associated with the pre-advertisement to the at least one authenticated customer who accepts the pre-advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan, Keith Weitz
  • Publication number: 20160371741
    Abstract: A method of providing a personalized advertisement campaign purpose includes: receiving from a financial institution anonymized customer data associated with a plurality of customers of the financial institution and a prospective unique customer identification code associated with the plurality of customers of the financial institution; creating key lifestyle indicators, which describe customer attributes, from the anonymized customer data; receiving from the financial institution an authenticated unique customer identification code that is matched to authenticated data from at least one prospective customer of the plurality of customers of the financial institution; matching the prospective unique customer identification code to the authenticated unique customer identification code; matching the authenticated unique customer identification code to at least one key lifestyle indicators of the plurality of customers; and delivering a financial application form associated with the matched key lifestyle indicato
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan, Keith Weitz
  • Publication number: 20160371740
    Abstract: A method of providing a personalized advertisement campaign includes receiving from a financial institution anonymized customer data associated with a plurality of customers of the financial institution, creating key lifestyle indicators, which describe customer attributes, from the anonymized customer data, delivering online a pre-advertisement to at least one selected customer of the plurality of customers, receiving a prospective unique customer identification code from the financial institution when at least one prospective customer accepts the pre-advertisement, matching the prospective unique customer identification code to at least one prospective customer of the plurality of customers, and delivering a financial application associated with the pre-advertisement to the at least one prospective customer with the matched prospective unique customer identification code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan, Keith Weitz
  • Publication number: 20150112803
    Abstract: A method for providing one way trust via a third party advertisement presenter includes creating one or more advertisement campaigns which are delivered though a third party advertisement presenter's cookies, mapping the third party advertisement presenter's cookies to a demand side platform's cookies, providing the corresponding third party advertisement presenter's cookies via the demand side platform's cookies if the websites accessed by the individual include advertising space the demand side platform is bidding on, and delivering the one or more advertisement campaigns to the individual through the corresponding third party advertisement presenter's cookies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Russel Robert Heiser, II, Nathan W. Shahan