Patents by Inventor Rowland Hayes Thomas

Rowland Hayes Thomas 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: 20140207947
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for determining whether an online event has been completed by a user. A website or other interactive service maintains user activity data reflective of the activities of its users. A failure analysis component analyzes the user activity data to automatically detect likely failure events. An event filtering component intelligently accesses information from unrelated websites, interactive services, and/or offline services to determine whether an event was successfully completed by a user. One or more communications are sent to the user for select failure and successful events, preferably taking into consideration information about the event itself and information about the particular user. Such communications present the user with information about the same event or other possible events that are related to the original event that the user might be interested in completing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: ZDIRECT, INC.
    Inventors: Rowland Hayes THOMAS, Isaac WIEDER, Christopher Shayne PADDOCK, Yadi TANG, Jean-Philippe TORUNSKI
  • Patent number: 8224914
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for creating and generating dynamic mailings which include providing for static and dynamic content to be included in a dynamically generated e-mail; establishing filters for determining dynamic content; establishing a generic e-mail including static and dynamic content; selecting dynamic content using the filters; generating a dynamic e-mail based upon the generic e-mail and the dynamic content selected; and transmitting the dynamically generated e-mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: ZDirect, Inc.
    Inventors: Rowland Hayes Thomas, Isaac Wieder, Shayne Paddock
  • Publication number: 20110093552
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for creating and generating dynamic mailings which include providing for static and dynamic content to be included in a dynamically generated e-mail; establishing filters for determining dynamic content; establishing a generic e-mail including static and dynamic content; selecting dynamic content using the filters; generating a dynamic e-mail based upon the generic e-mail and the dynamic content selected; and transmitting the dynamically generated e-mail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Rowland Hayes THOMAS, Isaac Wieder, Shayne Paddock
  • Patent number: 7882190
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for creating and generating dynamic mailings which include providing for static and dynamic content to be included in a dynamically generated e-mail; establishing filters for determining dynamic content; establishing a generic e-mail including static and dynamic content; selecting dynamic content using the filters; generating a dynamic e-mail based upon the generic e-mail and the dynamic content selected; and transmitting the dynamically generated e-mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: ZDirect, Inc.
    Inventors: Rowland Hayes Thomas, Isaac Wieder, Shayne Paddock
  • Publication number: 20090210505
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for creating and generating dynamic mailings which include providing for static and dynamic content to be included in a dynamically generated e-mail; establishing filters for determining dynamic content; establishing a generic e-mail including static and dynamic content; selecting dynamic content using the filters; generating a dynamic e-mail based upon the generic e-mail and the dynamic content selected; and transmitting the dynamically generated e-mail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Rowland Hayes Thomas, Isaac Wieder, Shayne Paddock
  • Patent number: 7523167
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for creating and generating dynamic mailings which include providing for static and dynamic content to be included in a dynamically generated e-mail; establishing filters for determining dynamic content; establishing a generic e-mail including static and dynamic content; selecting dynamic content using the filters; generating a dynamic e-mail based upon the generic e-mail and the dynamic content selected; and transmitting the dynamically generated e-mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: ZDirect, Inc.
    Inventors: Rowland Hayes Thomas, Isaac Wieder, Shayne Paddock
  • Publication number: 20080319871
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus and computer-readable mediums as discussed herein provide for a method for generating a dynamic electronic book for display in a multimedia player application including receiving information about a purchase by a consumer from a first remote computing device; accessing content associated with the received information; extracting characteristic data associated with the purchase from the received data; selecting content to be included in the electronic book from the accessed content based on the characteristic data; generating a dynamic configuration file including information identifying the selected content, information identifying at least one template page, and at least a portion of the received information; transmitting the generated dynamic configuration file to a remote device; receiving a request for content and the at least one template page identified in the dynamic configuration file; transmitting the content and the at least one template page in response to the request fo
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Rowland Hayes Thomas, Isaac D. Wieder