Patents by Inventor Peter L. Thomas

Peter L. Thomas 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: 11928652
    Abstract: A system receives information for a plurality of invoices having invoice amounts owed by a debtor-buyer to a plurality of creditor-suppliers, a cash pool amount for a cash pool available by the debtor-buyer for early payment of at least some of the invoice amounts, and a desired return rate, receives a plurality of offers, each offer from a corresponding creditor-supplier and comprising an offer return rate, determines whether each of the plurality of offers is eligible for acceptance based on each offer return rate from each offer and the desired return rate for the buyer and selects one or more invoices each having an invoice amount, and transmits award information to the debtor-buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: POLLEN, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander C. Kemper, Kevin J. Daniels, Peter L. Thomas, John G. Christopher, Douglas A. Martin
  • Publication number: 20220083991
    Abstract: A system receives information for a plurality of invoices having invoice amounts owed by a debtor-buyer to a plurality of creditor-suppliers, a cash pool amount for a cash pool available by the debtor-buyer for early payment of at least some of the invoice amounts, and a desired return rate, receives a plurality of offers, each offer from a corresponding creditor-supplier and comprising an offer return rate, determines whether each of the plurality of offers is eligible for acceptance based on each offer return rate from each offer and the desired return rate for the buyer and selects one or more invoices each having an invoice amount, and transmits award information to the debtor-buyer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander C. Kemper, Kevin J. Daniels, Peter L. Thomas, John G. Christopher, Douglas A. Martin
  • Patent number: 11100477
    Abstract: A system receives information for a plurality of invoices having invoice amounts owed by a debtor-buyer to a plurality of creditor-suppliers, a cash pool amount for a cash pool available by the debtor-buyer for early payment of at least some of the invoice amounts, and a desired return rate, receives a plurality of offers, each offer from a corresponding creditor-supplier and comprising an offer return rate, determines whether each of the plurality of offers is eligible for acceptance based on each offer return rate from each offer and the desired return rate for the buyer and selects one or more invoices each having an invoice amount, and transmits award information to the debtor-buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Pollen, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander C. Kemper, Kevin J. Daniels, Peter L. Thomas, John G. Christopher, Douglas A. Martin
  • Patent number: 10922024
    Abstract: This disclosure describes performing a pre-activate check of reader nodes prior to deploying a new serialization format at writer nodes in a service provider network. Prior to activating a new serialization format on writer nodes, writer nodes query a metrics service within the service provider network for an aggregated serialization format version metric value for reader nodes, where the aggregated serialization format version metric value corresponds to a percentile of reader nodes that do not currently de-serialize objects using the newest deserialization format, e.g., the percentile of reader nodes that are not configured to recognize serialized objects serialized in the newest serialization format. The aggregated serialization format version metric values are based on a metric indicating the most recent serialization format version that a reader node is configured to de-serialize, which are emitted as reader nodes read serialized objects from a data store of the service provider network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter L. Thomas