Patents by Inventor Oliver T. Hicks

Oliver T. Hicks 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: 20140337078
    Abstract: The present inventive subject matter is drawn to systems, configurations, and methods that assist salespersons of an organization to conduct in-person sales at a remote location by automatically selecting a subset of products that are available for sales to salespersons at the remote location. In one aspect of the invention, the systems, configurations, and methods detect the location of the in-person sales meeting between the salesperson and a potential customer and automatically display the subset of products that is available for sales based on the location of the sales meeting and a set of rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Scott A. Sylvester, Oliver T. Hicks
  • Publication number: 20140074515
    Abstract: The present inventive subject matter is drawn to a system for managing sales of a set of products that require signatures from at least one party. In one aspect of the invention, the systems, configurations, and methods automatically detect, in an application, any signature that is required to complete the sales and is missing from the application and attempt to obtain signatures from the required signer(s) using different modalities. The different modalities include, but not limited to, e-mail, text messages, telephone call, etc. In some embodiments, the system is also configured to assign a human agent to retrieve the missing signature if the signature is not received within a predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
    Inventors: Scott A. Sylvester, Oliver T. Hicks
  • Publication number: 20140074517
    Abstract: The present inventive subject matter is drawn to apparatus, systems, configurations, and methods of automatically interfacing with different proprietary insurance administration systems. In one aspect of the invention, an insurance management system is configured to automatically receive, convert, and transmit customer data from an intermediary data format to proprietary data formats associated with different insurance administration systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
    Inventors: Scott A. Sylvester, Oliver T. Hicks
  • Publication number: 20140074531
    Abstract: The present inventive subject matter is drawn to systems, configurations, and methods that assist salespersons of an organization to conduct in-person sales at a remote location by automatically selecting a subset of products that are available for sales to salespersons at the remote location. In one aspect of the invention, the systems, configurations, and methods detect the location of the in-person sales meeting between the salesperson and a potential customer and automatically display the subset of products that is available for sales based on the location of the sales meeting and a set of rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Scott A. Sylvester, Oliver T. Hicks