Patents by Inventor Rodney Yates

Rodney Yates 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: 11978081
    Abstract: A method for determining customer lifetime value for a cohort of customers using an incentive system to provide for geographically limited rewards earned for transactions includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, instructing a virtual payment card issuer to apply the rewards amount for each rewards eligible transaction to an account, receiving transaction authorization requests from the virtual payment card issuer corresponding to enrolled cardholders requesting to spend rewards within their corresponding account, if the transaction is occurring within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards can be spent, transmitting an authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards, an enrolled payment cardholder attribute database, and applying a matching algorithm to the attribute database resulting in prediction based on similarity between one or more attribut
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Rodney Yates
  • Patent number: 11727431
    Abstract: A method for homogenizing payment transaction data acquisition from disparate merchant points of sale includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, based on the tracked payment card transactions creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, and querying the database of rewards eligible transactions and creating a homogenized transaction database including a specific set of transaction datums retrieved from the database of rewards eligible transactions, wherein the homogenized transaction database includes transaction, information from at least a first transaction involving a first merchant using a first point of sale system and a second transaction involving a second merchant using a second point of sale system, the first point of sale system and the second point of sale system differing from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventor: Rodney Yates
  • Publication number: 20230177556
    Abstract: A method for determining customer lifetime value using an incentive system to provide for geographically limited rewards earned for transactions includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, instructing a virtual payment card issuer to apply the rewards amount for each rewards eligible transaction to an account, receiving transaction authorization requests from the virtual payment card issuer corresponding to enrolled cardholders requesting to spend rewards within their corresponding account, if the transaction is occurring within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards can be spent, transmitting an authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards, establishing a cohort of enrolled payment cardholders and associated transaction data, and calculating a custom lifetime value for the enrolled payment cardholders within the cohort, the calculation based on t
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Rodney YATES
  • Publication number: 20230092175
    Abstract: A method for incentivizing repeat transactions within a prescribed geographic area using payment process network data includes acquiring a first set of transaction data from a payment network, creating a database of a second set of transaction data of transactions by an enrolled cardholder or merchant, identifying rewards eligible transactions and creating a database of rewards eligible transactions by enrolled cardholders at enrolled merchants, calculating rewards by querying the database of rewards eligible transactions and multiplying the amount by a factor, transmitting an instruction to a virtual card issuer to apply the rewards amount to a virtual payment card, receiving an authorization request to make a purchase using rewards, and determining if the transaction of the authorization request occurred within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards may be spent at enrolled merchants and if so authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventor: Rodney YATES
  • Publication number: 20230076398
    Abstract: A method for determining customer lifetime value for a cohort of customers using an incentive system to provide for geographically limited rewards earned for transactions includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, instructing a virtual payment card issuer to apply the rewards amount for each rewards eligible transaction to an account, receiving transaction authorization requests from the virtual payment card issuer corresponding to enrolled cardholders requesting to spend rewards within their corresponding account, if the transaction is occurring within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards can be spent, transmitting an authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards, an enrolled payment cardholder attribute database, and applying a matching algorithm to the attribute database resulting in prediction based on similarity between one or more attribut
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Rodney YATES
  • Patent number: 11580569
    Abstract: A method for determining customer lifetime value using an incentive system to provide for geographically limited rewards earned for transactions includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, instructing a virtual payment card issuer to apply the rewards amount for each rewards eligible transaction to an account, receiving transaction authorization requests from the virtual payment card issuer corresponding to enrolled cardholders requesting to spend rewards within their corresponding account, if the transaction is occurring within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards can be spent, transmitting an authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards, establishing a cohort of enrolled payment cardholders and associated transaction data, and calculating a custom lifetime value for the enrolled payment cardholders within the cohort, the calculation based on t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: Rodney Yates
  • Patent number: 11551251
    Abstract: A method for determining customer lifetime value for a cohort of customers using an incentive system to provide for geographically limited rewards earned for transactions includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, instructing a virtual payment card issuer to apply the rewards amount for each rewards eligible transaction to an account, receiving transaction authorization requests from the virtual payment card issuer corresponding to enrolled cardholders requesting to spend rewards within their corresponding account, if the transaction is occurring within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards can be spent, transmitting an authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards, an enrolled payment cardholder attribute database, and applying a matching algorithm to the attribute database resulting in prediction based on similarity between one or more attribut
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Rodney Yates
  • Publication number: 20220180389
    Abstract: A method for determining customer lifetime value for a cohort of customers using an incentive system to provide for geographically limited rewards earned for transactions includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, instructing a virtual payment card issuer to apply the rewards amount for each rewards eligible transaction to an account, receiving transaction authorization requests from the virtual payment card issuer corresponding to enrolled cardholders requesting to spend rewards within their corresponding account, if the transaction is occurring within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards can be spent, transmitting an authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards, an enrolled payment cardholder attribute database, and applying a matching algorithm to the attribute database resulting in prediction based on similarity between one or more attribut
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Rodney YATES
  • Publication number: 20220108346
    Abstract: A method for determining customer lifetime value using an incentive system to provide for geographically limited rewards earned for transactions includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, instructing a virtual payment card issuer to apply the rewards amount for each rewards eligible transaction to an account, receiving transaction authorization requests from the virtual payment card issuer corresponding to enrolled cardholders requesting to spend rewards within their corresponding account, if the transaction is occurring within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards can be spent, transmitting an authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards, establishing a cohort of enrolled payment cardholders and associated transaction data, and calculating a custom lifetime value for the enrolled payment cardholders within the cohort, the calculation based on t
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: Rodney YATES
  • Publication number: 20220108345
    Abstract: A method for homogenizing payment transaction data acquisition from disparate merchant points of sale includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, based on the tracked payment card transactions creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, and querying the database of rewards eligible transactions and creating a homogenized transaction database including a specific set of transaction datums retrieved from the database of rewards eligible transactions, wherein the homogenized transaction database includes transaction, information from at least a first transaction involving a first merchant using a first point of sale system and a second transaction involving a second merchant using a second point of sale system, the first point of sale system and the second point of sale system differing from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: Rodney YATES
  • Publication number: 20220101365
    Abstract: A method for incentivizing repeat transactions within a prescribed geographic area using payment process network data includes acquiring a first set of transaction data from a payment network, creating a database of a second set of transaction data of transactions by an enrolled cardholder or merchant, identifying rewards eligible transactions and creating a database of rewards eligible transactions by enrolled cardholders at enrolled merchants, calculating rewards by querying the database of rewards eligible transactions and multiplying the amount by a factor, transmitting an instruction to a virtual card issuer to apply the rewards amount to a virtual payment card, receiving an authorization request to make a purchase using rewards, and determining if the transaction of the authorization request occurred within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards may be spent at enrolled merchants and if so authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventor: Rodney YATES
  • Patent number: 11010780
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a warehouse server, flash sale data file from a retail-type server. The method further includes storing, by the warehouse server, the flash sale data file in a database that functions as a virtual warehouse of flash sales. The method further includes interpreting, by the warehouse server, the information of the flash sale data file to determine flash sale parameters. The method further includes determining, by the warehouse server, whether a computing device has customer-device data that corresponds to the flash sale parameters. The method further includes, when the computing device has the customer-device data that corresponds to the flash sale parameters, generating, by the warehouse server, a customer specific coupon regarding the flash sale. The method further includes transmitting, by the warehouse server, the customer specific coupon to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Raise Marketplace Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Robert Spalding, Alven Diaz, Rodney Yates, Milo Todorovich
  • Publication number: 20160189191
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a warehouse server, flash sale data file from a retail-type server. The method further includes storing, by the warehouse server, the flash sale data file in a database that functions as a virtual warehouse of flash sales. The method further includes interpreting, by the warehouse server, the information of the flash sale data file to determine flash sale parameters. The method further includes determining, by the warehouse server, whether a computing device has customer-device data that corresponds to the flash sale parameters. The method further includes, when the computing device has the customer-device data that corresponds to the flash sale parameters, generating, by the warehouse server, a customer specific coupon regarding the flash sale. The method further includes transmitting, by the warehouse server, the customer specific coupon to the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: Raise Marketplace Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Robert Spalding, Alven Diaz, Rodney Yates, Milo Todorovich