Patents by Inventor Robert Chapman, JR.

Robert Chapman, JR. 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).

  • Systems and methods for providing location-based gaming rewards
    Patent number: 10354266
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing an offer associated with a merchant to a cardholder engaging in a game is implemented by a gaming rewards computer system in communication with a memory. The method includes storing merchant game data for the merchant within the memory wherein the merchant game data includes data associated with a merchant game a merchant offer and a location of the merchant, receiving a game request message from a cardholder computing device associated with the cardholder wherein the game request message includes a cardholder locator identifying a location of the cardholder, providing the merchant game to the cardholder computing device when the cardholder location is within a pre-defined distance of the merchant location, receiving a game result message for the merchant game, and providing the merchant offer to the cardholder computing device based, at least in part, on the game result message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Robert Chapman, Jr.
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED GAMING REWARDS
    Publication number: 20150161638
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing an offer associated with a merchant to a cardholder engaging in a game is implemented by a gaming rewards computer system in communication with a memory. The method includes storing merchant game data for the merchant within the memory wherein the merchant game data includes data associated with a merchant game a merchant offer and a location of the merchant, receiving a game request message from a cardholder computing device associated with the cardholder wherein the game request message includes a cardholder locator identifying a location of the cardholder, providing the merchant game to the cardholder computing device when the cardholder location is within a pre-defined distance of the merchant location, receiving a game result message for the merchant game, and providing the merchant offer to the cardholder computing device based, at least in part, on the game result message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert Chapman, JR.