Patents by Inventor Ryan Bell

Ryan Bell 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: 20070038522
    Abstract: Embodiments consistent with the invention relate to a computer-implemented method for providing an offer for a vehicle desired by a customer at a discounted price. The method may comprise receiving a vehicle request from the customer including characteristics of the vehicle desired by the customer and a location associated with the customer, electronically transmitting contact data associated with the customer to a dealer associated with the vehicle desired by the customer, and electronically sending a confirmation of an offer to provide the desired vehicle at the discounted price to the customer, wherein the confirmation does not include pricing information associated with the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Ryan Bell, Charles Kim
  • Publication number: 20040227960
    Abstract: A user of an electronic printing system in accordance with the invention may create custom print designs locally and provide those custom print designs to a local or remote printer for printing. Upon a user creating a custom print design, the electronic printing system may store the custom design information until an order is placed by the user. Every order may have associated design files and an order file (for example, multiple items in an order). The design file(s) may describe the initial layout of a print design and may reflect updates to the initial layout based upon the custom design created by a user. An imaging engine resident on the remote server(s) of the electronic printing system may convert the information in the design file(s) into an image file for on-screen representation as well as a “ready-to-print” output file that may be retrieved electronically by a remote or local printer facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Royal P. Farros, Ryan Bell, Nickoletta T. Farros, David Hodson, Igor Pozdnyakov, Michael Rubin
  • Patent number: 6717686
    Abstract: A user of an electronic printing system in accordance with the invention may create custom print designs locally and provide those custom print designs to a local or remote printer for printing. Upon a user creating a custom print design, the electronic printing system may store the custom design information until an order is placed by the user. Every order may have associated design files and an order file (for example, multiple items in an order). The design file(s) may describe the initial layout of a print design and may reflect updates to the initial layout based upon the custom design created by a user. An imaging engine resident on the remote server(s) of the electronic printing system may convert the information in the design file(s) into an image file for on-screen representation as well as a “ready-to-print” output file that may be retrieved electronically by a remote or local printer facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: iPrint.com
    Inventors: Royal P. Farros, Ryan Bell, Nickoletta T. Farros, David Hodson, Igor Pozdnyakov, Michael Rubin
  • Publication number: 20020052806
    Abstract: Integrated shopping cart functionality is provided on a first website so that products/services from different affiliated websites can be integrated into the shopping cart at the first website and the e-commerce functionality of the first website can be utilized to purchase the selected products/services. A framework for integrating this functionality enables the first website to integrate with affiliated websites so that an increased number of users may access the first website since the proprietor of the first website may offer various products/services from a multitude of different affiliated websites, for example by providing URL links to the affiliated websites that a user may access in order to select items from the affiliated websites. These items can be integrated into the shopping cart at the first website and purchased with a single transaction. Increased user traffic is expected at the first website since a user's shopping interests can be fulfilled at a single website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: David Hodson, Ryan Bell, Michael Rubin, Karteek Patel