Patents by Inventor Rick Surles

Rick Surles 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).

  • Method for facilitating pricing, sale and distribution of fuel to a customer
    Publication number: 20030110140
    Abstract: New and improved systems and methods for facilitating sale and distribution of fuel to a fuel customer. Such systems and methods include and involve a server facility configured to store fuel deal data and to process such fuel deal data to automatically generate pricing data based on the fuel deal data and in accordance with a pre-determined pricing technique. The system and method also include and involve a client facility that is coupled to the server facility via an electronic data network and which is configured to permit a user to enter such fuel deal data and to cause the server facility to store and process the fuel deal data to generate the pricing data. As such, fuel may be sold and distributed to a fuel customer via a fuel distribution system based on the fuel deal data and the automatically generated pricing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Louis Morrison, Scott Williams, Susan Sims, Jamie Dulaney, Leslie Vandagriff, Gail Woody, Shelly Harlan, Al Shields, Rick Surles, Neil Strong, Darin Morse
  • System for facilitating pricing, sale and distribution of fuel to a customer
    Publication number: 20030110043
    Abstract: New and improved systems and methods for facilitating sale and distribution of fuel to a fuel customer. Such systems and methods include and involve a server facility configured to store fuel deal data and to process such fuel deal data to automatically generate pricing data based on the fuel deal data and in accordance with a pre-determined pricing technique. The system and method also include and involve a client facility that is coupled to the server facility via an electronic data network and which is configured to permit a user to enter such fuel deal data and to cause the server facility to store and process the fuel deal data to generate the pricing data. As such, fuel may be sold and distributed to a fuel customer via a fuel distribution system based on the fuel deal data and the automatically generated pricing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Louis Morrison, Scott Williams, Susan Sims, Jamie Dulaney, Leslie Vandagriff, Gail Woody, Shelly Harlan, Al Shields, Rick Surles, Neil Strong, Darin Morse