Patents by Inventor Roger D. Carroll

Roger D. Carroll 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: 11097937
    Abstract: An ordering app running on a mobile device, one or more central servers, one or more venue servers, one or more ordering apps, plug-ins, kiosks, point of sale systems, beacons, pucks, tents, and automated appliances cooperate to prepare orders for a customer. Methods embodied as software programs running on the venue servers and the central servers advance the customer's order through various modules hosted on the venue server. A final module causes the customer's order to be prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: RESTAURANT TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Michael Burks, Michael Beebe, Laura Ermer, Vijan Bhaumik, Angelo Frigo, Kyle Crouse, Roger D. Carroll, Natalie Muhs, Jeff Pollard, Jeffrey Steres, Kim Wilson
  • Publication number: 20200265501
    Abstract: An ordering app running on a mobile device, one or more central servers, one or more venue servers, one or more ordering apps, plug-ins, kiosks, point of sale systems, beacons, pucks, tents, and automated appliances cooperate to prepare orders for a customer. Methods embodied as software programs running on the venue servers and the central servers advance the customer's order through various modules hosted on the venue server. A final module causes the customer's order to be prepared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Burks, Michael Beebe, Laura Ermer, Vijan Bhaumik, Angelo Frigo, Kyle Crouse, Roger D. Carroll, Natalie Muhs, Jeff Pollard, Jeffrey Steres, Kim Wilson
  • Patent number: 10640357
    Abstract: An ordering app running on a mobile device, one or more central servers, one or more venue servers, one or more ordering apps, plug-ins, kiosks, point of sale systems, beacons, pucks, tents, and automated appliances cooperate to prepare orders for a customer. Methods embodied as software programs running on the venue servers and the central servers advance the customer's order through various modules hosted on the venue server. A final module causes the customer's order to be prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Restaurant Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Burks, Michael Beebe, Laura Ermer, Vijan Bhaumik, Angelo Frigo, Kyle Crouse, Roger D Carroll, Natalie Muhs, Jeff Pollard, Jeffrey Steres, Kim Wilson
  • Patent number: 10373223
    Abstract: A system for enabling the remote ordering of products, primarily for use in a multi-vendor system, is disclosed. Orders are placed remotely, such as through wireless devices connected to a central server. The central server, in turn, is in communication (wireless or otherwise) with a server located at one or more venues within the organization operating the system. The one or more venues provide products or services available for ordering through the system. Where multiple venues are involved, the system is designed to handle differences in the product or service availability at those different venues, and provides for an ability to make corrections to orders that may be or may become necessary on account of those differences. The system provides for multiple options through which users can pay for and receive orders, and also provides methods for synchronizing the remote ordering system with pre-existing, conventional methods of ordering and product/service order fulfillment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Restaurant Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Natalie Muhs, Jeff Pollard, Jeffrey Steres, Kim Wilson
  • Publication number: 20160244311
    Abstract: An ordering app running on a mobile device, one or more central servers, one or more venue servers, one or more ordering apps, plug-ins, kiosks, point of sale systems, beacons, pucks, tents, and automated appliances cooperate to prepare orders for a customer. Methods embodied as software programs running on the venue servers and the central servers advance the customer's order through various modules hosted on the venue server. A final module causes the customer's order to be prepared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Burks, Michael Beebe, Laura Ermer, Vijan Bhaumik, Angelo Frigo, Kyle Crouse, Roger D. Carroll, Natalie Muhs, Jeff Pollard, Jeffrey Steres, Kim Wilson
  • Publication number: 20160063585
    Abstract: A system for enabling the remote ordering of products, primarily for use in a multi-vendor system, is disclosed. Orders are placed remotely, such as through wireless devices connected to a central server. The central server, in turn, is in communication (wireless or otherwise) with a server located at one or more venues within the organization operating the system. The one or more venues provide products or services available for ordering through the system. Where multiple venues are involved, the system is designed to handle differences in the product or service availability at those different venues, and provides for an ability to make corrections to orders that may be or may become necessary on account of those differences. The system provides for multiple options through which users can pay for and receive orders, and also provides methods for synchronizing the remote ordering system with pre-existing, conventional methods of ordering and product/service order fulfillment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Natalie Muhs, Jeff Pollard, Jeffrey Steres, Kim Wilson
  • Publication number: 20140136366
    Abstract: A system for enabling the remote ordering of products, primarily for use in a multi-vendor system, is disclosed. Orders are placed remotely, such as through wireless devices connected to a central server. The central server, in turn is in communication (wireless or otherwise) with a server located at one or more venues within the organization operating the system. The one or more venues provide products or services available for ordering through the system. Where multiple venues are involved, the system is designed to handle differences in the product or service availability at those different venues, and provides for an ability to make corrections to orders that may be or may become necessary on account of those differences. The system provides for multiple options through which users can pay for and receive orders, and also provides methods for synchronizing the remote ordering system with pre-existing, conventional methods of ordering and product/service order fulfillment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Natalie Muhs, Jeff Pollard, Jeffrey Steres, Kim Wilson
  • Publication number: 20140136348
    Abstract: A system for enabling the remote ordering of products, primarily for use in a multi-vendor system, is disclosed. Orders are placed remotely, such as through wireless devices connected to a central server. The central server, in turn, is in communication (wireless or otherwise) with a server located at one or more venues within the organization operating the system. The one or more venues provide produces or services available for ordering through the system. Where multiple venues are involved, the system is designed to handle differences in the product or service availability at those different venues, and provides for an ability to make corrections to orders that may be or may become necessary on account of those differences. The system provides for multiple options through which users can pay for and receive orders, and also provides methods for synchronizing the remote ordering system with pre-existing, conventional methods of ordering and product/service order fulfillment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Natalie Muhs, Jeff Pollard, Jeffrey Steres, Kim Wilson
  • Publication number: 20110258058
    Abstract: A wireless mobile personal computer is provided for enabling a customer to generate a restaurant order on the wireless mobile personal computer. The wireless mobile personal computer includes a restaurant order generating application configured to generate restaurant item selecting interface screens for generating the restaurant order comprising at least one restaurant item, to generate a machine-readable representation of the generated restaurant order, a processor for executing the restaurant order generating application, a memory for storing the restaurant order generating application and selectable restaurant items, and a display for displaying the restaurant item selecting interface screens, and the at least one restaurant item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Aaron Randall Ferber, Kathy Fox, Mark Alexander Jones, Stina Maria Jonsson, Hyun Jin Ko, Eleanor Elizabeth Luna, Jeff Pollard, Carley Rachel Price, Paul Price, Melody Roberts, Jon Vernon Wettersten
  • Patent number: 7944941
    Abstract: A high-speed Ethernet using Thin SONET technology as the physical layer carrier makes use the large embedded base of SONET equipment, and is a step forward in integrating WANs, MANs and LANs. The HS Ethernet also takes advantage or current SONET functionality, such as framing, scrambling, integrity, etc. FEC fields are provided in the TOH for achieving a high level of error correction. The HS Ethernet frame comprises a length-type field generated at the PCS sublayer and a HEC field generated at the PMA layer. The frames are routed within a network using the source address, the destination address and a label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Bottorff, David W. Martin, Ronald J. Gagnon, Roger D. Carroll, Yuet C. Lee
  • Publication number: 20090265247
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying a list of restaurant items within an ordering interface screen, receiving a selection signal indicating one or more of the restaurant items has been selected, displaying one or more of the selected restaurant items within an order cart interface screen and receiving a selection signal indicating a selector box corresponding to the ingredient option has been selected. Each of the selected restaurant items includes at least one selector box representing an ingredient option for the selected restaurant item that the customer can interact with to customize the amount of that ingredient on the selected restaurant item. If the customer elects to remove an ingredient from the restaurant item, the selected ingredient option is highlighted to indicate that it is omitted from the restaurant item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Melody A. Roberts, Iuri Monteiro de Barros, Kalil de Freitas Garcia, Gary D. Gilmer, JR., Erik R. Klimczak, Denis G. Weil, Phil N. Le-Brun, Marlon Smith, Masamichi Udagawa, Sigrid G. Moeslinger, Art Plagens, Paul Llyod Welch
  • Publication number: 20090259553
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying a first and second restaurant menu category selector within an ordering interface screen, receiving a selection signal representing that one of the first or second restaurant menu category selectors has been selected and displaying the restaurant menu that corresponds to the selection signal. The first restaurant menu category selector is representative of a first restaurant menu and the second restaurant menu category selector is representative of a second restaurant menu. Additionally, the first restaurant menu comprises a first set of restaurant item selectors and the second restaurant menu comprises a second set of restaurant item selectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Melody A. Roberts, Marlon Smith, Masamichi Udagawa, Gary D. Gilmer, JR., Erik R. Klimczak, Denis G. Weil, Phil N. Le-Brun, Sigrid G. Moeslinger, Art Plagens, Iuri Monteiro de Barros, Kalil de Freitas Garcia, Paul Lloyd Welch
  • Publication number: 20090259554
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying a first restaurant item category selector within a first ordering interface screen, wherein the first restaurant item category comprises a first background indicia pattern, displaying a second restaurant item category selector within the first ordering interface screen, wherein the second restaurant item category selector comprises a second background indicia pattern that is visually different from the first indicia pattern and displaying a third restaurant item category selector within the first ordering interface screen, wherein the third restaurant item category selector comprises a third background indicia pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Melody A. Roberts, Iuri Monteiro de Barros, Kalil de Freitas Garcia, Sigrid G. Moeslinger, Art Plagens, Denis G. Weil, Phil N. Le-Brun, Gary D. Gilmer, JR., Erik R. Klimczak, Marlon Smith, Masamichi Udagawa, Paul Lloyd Welch
  • Publication number: 20090259556
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying a list of restaurant item selectors within an ordering interface screen, receiving a selection signal indicating that one of the restaurant items has been selected. displaying one or more of the selected restaurant items within an order cart interface screen, wherein each of the selected restaurant items includes a selector box representing dietary options for the selected restaurant items. A dietary option is a predetermined set of ingredients associated and in accordance with a known set of preferences or nutritional restrictions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Iuri Monteiro de Barros, Kalil de Freitas Garcia, Gary D. Gilmer, JR., Erik R. Klimczak, Phil N. Le-Brun, Sigrid G. Moeslinger, Art Plagens, Melody A. Roberts, Marlon Smith, Masamichi Udagawa, Denis G. Weil, Paul Lloyd Welch
  • Publication number: 20090259557
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying an electronic receipt within an ordering interface screen, displaying one or more restaurant items on the electronic receipt corresponding to restaurant items that were selected by the customer for purchase, displaying a restaurant item symbol corresponding to one or more of the restaurant items displayed on the electronic receipt, displaying an edit button for each of the restaurant items and displaying a total cost line item for aggregating the total cost for all of the selected restaurant items. The restaurant item symbol is displayed in close proximity to its respective restaurant item, and customers may modify existing orders by selecting the edit button and causing an edit signal to be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Melody A. Roberts, Sigrid G. Moeslinger, Art Plagens, Gary D. Gilmer, JR., Erik R. Klimczak, Marlon Smith, Masamichi Udagawa, Denis G. Weil, Phil N. Le-Brun, luri Monteiro de Barros, Kalil de Freitas Garcia, Paul Lloyd Welch
  • Publication number: 20090259555
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for efficiently facilitating the selection and purchase of a restaurant item using a customer ordering kiosk comprising displaying a set of restaurant items available for purchase on a first ordering interface screen, receiving a triggering signal, displaying an overlay interface screen and preventing the first ordering interface screen from receiving any input from a customer while the overlay interface screen is displayed. The triggering signal can represent that a restaurant item has been selected, customization of a restaurant item has been completed, the customer has finished selecting restaurant items or a predetermined amount of time has passed without any input signals being received by the kiosk. Additionally, the overlay interface screen can facilitate meal creation, restaurant item customization, payment and kiosk system timeout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Melody A. Roberts, Iuri Monteiro de Barros, Kalil de Freitas Garcia, Gary D. Gilmer, JR., Erik R. Klimczak, Denis G. Weil, Phil N. Le-Brun, Marlon Smith, Masamichi Udagawa, Sigrid G. Moeslinger, Art Plagens, Paul Llyod Welch
  • Publication number: 20090259558
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying a first restaurant item image within a first area of a first ordering interface screen, displaying a second restaurant item image within a second area of the first ordering interface screen and displaying a first restaurant item selector for selecting the first restaurant item, wherein at least a portion of the first restaurant item selector is positioned within the first area of the first ordering interface screen. The first and second restaurant item images represent first and second restaurant items that can be ordered respectively using the customer ordering kiosk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Melody A. Roberts, Iuri Monterio de Barros, Kalil de Freitas Garcia, Gary D. Gilmer, JR., Erik R. Klimczak, Denis G. Weil, Phil N. Le-Brun, Sigrid G. Moeslinger, Art Plagens, Marlon Smith, Masamichi Udagawa, Paul Lloyd Welch
  • Publication number: 20090259559
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for multi-item restaurant item selection through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of receiving a signal representing that a multi-item restaurant item selection has been made, displaying a first indicator representing that a first restaurant item of a predetermined plurality of restaurant items has been selected and displaying a second indicator representing that a second restaurant item of the predetermined plurality of restaurant items still needs to be selected. The multi-item restaurant item selection represents selection of the predetermined plurality of restaurant items comprising the first restaurant item and the second restaurant item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Carroll, Melody A. Roberts, Iuri Monteiro de Barros, Kalil de Freitas Garcia, Gary D. Gilmer, JR., Erik R. Klimczak, Denis G. Weil, Phil N. Le-Brun, Marlon Smith, Masamichi Udagawa, Sigrid G. Moeslinger, Art Plagens, Paul Lloyd Welch
  • Patent number: 6570762
    Abstract: The invention refers to a telecommunications system comprising a module rack that defines a core bay, a service plane and a rack interface plane where the service plane is transverse to the rack interface plane. The core bay is in part bounded by the service plane and the rack interface plane. The telecommunications system also comprises a series of electronics modules each defining an electronics orientation plane where each of the modules includes two opposed cooling surfaces oriented substantially parallel to the electronics orientation plane. Each of the electronics modules is removably secured within the core bay. The series of the electronics modules forms an array such that their electronics orientation planes are substantially perpendicular to both the rack interface plane and the service plane. The array also defines at least one coolant stream passage across each cooling surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Douglas B. Cross, John C. Atkinson, Marko Nicolici, Kalvin W. Korpela, Roger D. Carroll
  • Publication number: 20020051532
    Abstract: The invention refers to a telecommunications system comprising a module rack that defines a core bay, a service plane and a rack interface plane where the service plane is transverse to the rack interface plane. The core bay is in part bounded by the service plane and the rack interface plane. The telecommunications system also comprises a series of electronics modules each defining an electronics orientation plane where each of the modules includes two opposed cooling surfaces oriented substantially parallel to the electronics orientation plane. Each of the electronics modules is removably secured within the core bay. The series of the electronics modules forms an array such that their electronics orientation planes are substantially perpendicular to both the rack interface plane and the service plane. The array also defines at least one coolant stream passage across each cooling surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Douglas B. Cross, John C. Atkinson, Marko Nicolici, Kalvin W. Korpela, Roger D. Carroll