Patents by Inventor Robert Erdman

Robert Erdman 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: 12216660
    Abstract: A particular option selection may be provided by an online service platform (OSP) to a client regarding one or more predefined services that the OSP can be configured to perform. These may include automatic activities option selection(s) that may trigger the OSP to automatically start one or more activities upon one or more thresholds being crossed. The OSP may apply digital rules to the dataset(s) of the client to determine whether or not to automatically start or stop activities, including producing respective resources, upon a threshold being crossed, to determine a requested resource and then push, send, or otherwise cause to be transmitted a notification regarding the produced resource or other activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Avalara, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikki Nash, Gregory T. Kavounas, Stefan Kim, Aaron Lee Robles, Robert Erdman, Mark Alan Withers, Tim Diekmann
  • Patent number: 12095881
    Abstract: An online software platform (OSP) electronically receives a selection of a workflow framework of a plurality of workflow frameworks. Each workflow framework includes a configuration to embed software-as-a-service (SaaS) functionality provided by the OSP into an application that uses the SaaS functionality. The OSP electronically provides services for determining respective resources for individual relationship instances between different entities. In response to receiving the selection, the OSP causes a remote system that hosts the application to implement the selected workflow framework. This is performed by transmitting a software package to the remote system, in which the software package exposes a set of pre-defined integration points with the SaaS provided by the OSP to provision the steps in one or more of the workflows of the selected workflow framework or defines a specific set of requests and responses with the SaaS provided by the OSP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Avalara, Inc.
    Inventors: Mac Turner, Robert Erdman, Stefan Kim, Angela Bartz, Scott Seely
  • Patent number: 11853302
    Abstract: A particular option selection may be provided by an online service platform (OSP) to a client regarding one or more predefined services that the OSP can be configured to perform. These may include automatic activities option selection(s) that may trigger the OSP to automatically start one or more activities upon one or more thresholds being crossed. The OSP may apply digital rules to the dataset(s) of the client to determine whether or not to automatically start or stop activities, including producing respective resources, upon a threshold being crossed, to determine a requested resource and then push, send, or otherwise cause to be transmitted a notification regarding the produced resource or other activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Nikki Nash, Gregory T. Kavounas, Stefan Kim, Aaron Lee Robles, Robert Erdman, Mark Alan Withers, Tim Diekmann