Patents by Inventor Robert L. Rowe

Robert L. Rowe 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: 20120239482
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a customer-centric rewards interface configured to communicate to a customer information related to one or more rewards programs associated with one or more customer accounts includes authenticating an identity of the customer, receiving customer input requesting presentation of the rewards interface, and initiating presentation, using a processing device, to the customer of the rewards interface comprising information related to one or more rewards programs associated with the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Mark McInnes, Eric Charles Boyd, Emilie Astrid Cordell, Gary R. Holland, II, Dimitrij A. Lang, Gregory Joseph LIoyd, Daniel C. Maddox, Andrea Robinette, Robert L. Rowe, Burton William Schaen, JR., Stephen Mark Schneeweis
  • Publication number: 20120239465
    Abstract: A method for allocating rewards across a plurality of rewards programs, each associated with one or more accounts owned by a customer, the method includes receiving customer input indicating that one or more rewards associated with a first rewards program should be associated with a second rewards program, determining a conversion factor configured for assisting conversion of the one or more rewards from the first rewards program to the second rewards program, applying, using a processing device, the conversion factor to the one or more rewards, thereby resulting in one or more converted rewards; and associating the one or more converted rewards with the second rewards program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Mark McInnes, Eric Charles Boyd, Emilie Astrid Cordell, Gary R. Holland, II, Dimitrij A. Lang, Gregory Joseph LIoyd, Daniel C. Maddox, Andrea Robinette, Robert L. Rowe, Burton William Schaen, JR., Stephen Mark Schneeweis
  • Publication number: 20120239473
    Abstract: A method for providing a customer-centric rewards platform configured to communicate to a customer information related to one or more rewards programs associated with one or more customer accounts includes initiating presentation, using a processing device, to the customer of the rewards platform comprising information related to one or more rewards programs associated with the customer, wherein each of the rewards programs is associated with at least one customer account, determining a non-account transaction event indicating one or more rewards should be applied to one or more rewards accounts has occurred, each of the one or more rewards accounts associated with one or more customer accounts, and crediting one or more rewards accounts with one or more rewards based at least in part on the occurrence of the non-account transaction event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Mark McInnes, Eric Charles Boyd, Emilie Astrid Cordell, Gary R. Holland, II, Dimitrij A. Lang, Gregory Joseph Lloyd, Daniel C. Maddox, Andrea Robinette, Robert L. Rowe, Burton William Schaen, JR., Stephen Mark Schneeweis
  • Patent number: 4457560
    Abstract: A hubcap comprises an outer plastic hubcap element and an inner metal retention element secured together. The retention element includes retention tabs, circumferentially spaced, which are disposed in apertures of the plastic hubcap element, the apertures matching the pattern of the wheel fasteners. When the hubcap is installed, the wheel fasteners are disposed in the apertures with the retention tabs engaging the wheel fasteners to retain the hubcap in the installed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignees: General Motors Corporation, Robert L. Rowe
    Inventors: Robert L. Rowe, Kenneth W. Christensen