Patents by Inventor Robert von Behren
Robert von Behren 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).
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Publication number: 20240020673Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a digital wallet transaction are described herein. A service provider identifies and recommends the most applicable digital wallets for a user based on various factors, such as user location, type and amount of purchase, type of merchant, and/or mood of the user. The service provider may also rank the recommended digital wallets and/or determine how many should be presented to a user. During merchant checkout, the user is presented with the recommended digital wallets, and the user selects one of the digital wallets to fund the purchase.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: William Ready, Juan Antonio Benitez, II, James Robert von Behren, Andrew Kortina, Benjamin Eroe Mills
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Patent number: 11720875Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a digital wallet transaction are described herein. A service provider identifies and recommends the most applicable digital wallets for a user based on various factors, such as user location, type and amount of purchase, type of merchant, and/or mood of the user. The service provider may also rank the recommended digital wallets and/or determine how many should be presented to a user. During merchant checkout, the user is presented with the recommended digital wallets, and the user selects one of the digital wallets to fund the purchase.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: William Ready, Juan Antonio Benitez, II, James Robert von Behren, Andrew Kortina, Benjamin Eroe Mills
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Publication number: 20220019989Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a digital wallet transaction are described herein. A service provider identifies and recommends the most applicable digital wallets for a user based on various factors, such as user location, type and amount of purchase, type of merchant, and/or mood of the user. The service provider may also rank the recommended digital wallets and/or determine how many should be presented to a user. During merchant checkout, the user is presented with the recommended digital wallets, and the user selects one of the digital wallets to fund the purchase.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: William Ready, Juan Antonio Benitez, James Robert von Behren, Andrew Kortina, Benjamin Eroe Mills
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Patent number: 11144903Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a digital wallet transaction are described herein. A service provider identifies and recommends the most applicable digital wallets for a user based on various factors, such as user location, type and amount of purchase, type of merchant, and/or mood of the user. The service provider may also rank the recommended digital wallets and/or determine how many should be presented to a user. During merchant checkout, the user is presented with the recommended digital wallets, and the user selects one of the digital wallets to fund the purchase.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: William Ready, Juan Antonio Benitez, II, James Robert von Behren, Andrew Kortina, Benjamin Eroe Mills
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Publication number: 20200320501Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a digital wallet transaction are described herein. A service provider identifies and recommends the most applicable digital wallets for a user based on various factors, such as user location, type and amount of purchase, type of merchant, and/or mood of the user. The service provider may also rank the recommended digital wallets and/or determine how many should be presented to a user. During merchant checkout, the user is presented with the recommended digital wallets, and the user selects one of the digital wallets to fund the purchase.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: William Ready, Juan Antonio Benitez, II, James Robert von Behren, Andrew Kortina, Benjamin Eroe Mills
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Patent number: 10552818Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a digital wallet transaction are described herein. A service provider identifies and recommends the most applicable digital wallets for a user based on various factors, such as user location, type and amount of purchase, type of merchant, and/or mood of the user. The service provider may also rank the recommended digital wallets and/or determine how many should be presented to a user. During merchant checkout, the user is presented with the recommended digital wallets, and the user selects one of the digital wallets to fund the purchase.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: William Ready, Juan Antonio Benitez, II, James Robert von Behren, Andrew Kortina, Benjamin Eroe Mills
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Patent number: 10475024Abstract: A method of securely conducting a financial transaction includes receiving, at a card reader, a first plurality of messages from a smart card; identifying, using the reader, one or more sensitive messages in the first plurality of messages, where the first plurality of messages conforms to a protocol of the financial transaction; encrypting, using the reader, the one or more sensitive messages using a cryptographic key of the reader to generate encrypted messages; formatting, using the reader, a second plurality of messages according to the protocol to send to a mobile device, where the second plurality of messages includes the encrypted messages and messages in the first plurality of messages that are not sensitive; determining, using a mobile device, action steps according to the protocol, where the action steps are determined from the second plurality of messages; and executing the action steps.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: SQUARE, INC.Inventors: Robert von Behren, Oliver S. Quigley
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Patent number: 10373149Abstract: A card reader comprising a display configured to optionally graphically display a character; one or more sensors configured to receive user input, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to send one or more signals that modify and select the character; a microcontroller configured to process the user input, wherein the processing comprises modifying or selecting the character based on user input at the one or more sensors; and memory configured to store selected characters based on processing the user input.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: Elliot Sather, Robert von Behren
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Publication number: 20180253713Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a digital wallet transaction are described herein. A service provider identifies and recommends the most applicable digital wallets for a user based on various factors, such as user location, type and amount of purchase, type of merchant, and/or mood of the user. The service provider may also rank the recommended digital wallets and/or determine how many should be presented to a user. During merchant checkout, the user is presented with the recommended digital wallets, and the user selects one of the digital wallets to fund the purchase.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2017Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: William Ready, Juan Antonio Benitez, II, James Robert von Behren, Andrew Kortina, Benjamin Eroe Mills
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Patent number: 9858564Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a digital wallet transaction are described herein. A service provider identifies and recommends the most applicable digital wallets for a user based on various factors, such as user location, type and amount of purchase, type of merchant, and/or mood of the user. The service provider may also rank the recommended digital wallets and/or determine how many should be presented to a user. During merchant checkout, the user is presented with the recommended digital wallets, and the user selects one of the digital wallets to fund the purchase.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: William Ready, Juan Antonio Benitez, II, James Robert von Behren, Andrew Kortina, Benjamin Eroe Mills
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Patent number: 5374004Abstract: The belt of a two-reel tape cartridge is stretchably entrained around the tape packs, a belt driving roller, and a pair of idler rollers, each of which is journalled on a shaft projecting from one end of an arm. The other end of each arm is pivotably mounted in the cartridge so that the idler rollers ride on the belt and are pressed by the belt against the belt and the underlying tape pack.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1992Date of Patent: December 20, 1994Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Robert A. von Behren
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Patent number: 5358193Abstract: A belt driven reel-to-reel tape cartridge includes two tape guides for guiding the tape to and from respective tape reels. The tape guides have a large radius of curvature and are flanged to form a long trough to guide and align the tape to improve tape tracking. This also provides hydrodynamic lift by creating an air film between the tape and the tape guide to reduce the friction between the tape backside and the tape guide. The radius of curvature can be constant or can vary from a larger radius at the ends to a smaller radius in the middle.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1993Date of Patent: October 25, 1994Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: David D. Madsen, David P. Smith, Robert A. von Behren
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Patent number: 4581189Abstract: In a tape which is driven by an elastic pretensioned belt, discontinuities such as embossings in the surface of the belt promote the release of air from between the belt and the underlying tape, thus minimizing variations in tape tension and tape speed.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1984Date of Patent: April 8, 1986Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: David P. Smith, Robert A. von Behren
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Patent number: 4466564Abstract: In a tape which is driven by an elastic pretensioned belt, discontinuities such as embossings in the surface of the belt promote the release of air from between the belt and the underlying tape, thus minimizing variations in tape tension and tape speed.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1981Date of Patent: August 21, 1984Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: David P. Smith, Robert A. von Behren
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Patent number: 4300179Abstract: A composite magnetic head adapted to record and read records to and from a record carrier particularly suited to a multitrack record carrier, and more particularly suited to a multitrack magnetic tape. The composite magnetic head may be moved transversely with respect to the direction of movement of the record carrier so that head alignment with any one of multitracks of the record carrier may be achieved. The record carrier contacts the head assembly defining a scrub surface. A yoke is provided supporting a ferrite core containing an effective gap which permits the head to be physically mounted with respect to the record carrier.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1979Date of Patent: November 10, 1981Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.Inventors: Charles A. Barnes, Robert A. von Behren