Patents by Inventor Ryan Daniel Hatfield

Ryan Daniel Hatfield 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: 20140136356
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing listing prices in an ecommerce environment includes the steps of receiving information from a user, including price information relating to a listing of the user on a third-party ecommerce web site. Also received from the user is at least one search term that is not a valid UPC, ISBN, EAN, eBay Prodct ID, or ASIN. At least one third-party ecommerce site is search using the search term provided by the user, and at least one item listing relevant to the search term is retrieved from the third-party ecommerce web site. The user's listing on the third-party ecommerce web site is repriced such that the price of the at least one item retrieved from the third-party ecommerce site is utilized to determine a new price for the user's listing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Ryan Daniel Hatfield
  • Patent number: 8396752
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing listing prices in an ecommerce environment. The method includes receiving from a user information, including price information, pertaining to a user's listing on an ecommerce web site, receiving from the user at least one search term that is not a valid UPC, ISBN, EAN, eBay Product ID, or ASIN, searching the ecommerce web site using the search term(s) received from the user and retrieving from the ecommerce web site at least one item listing relevant to the search term(s), and using an algorithm that utilizes the price of the at least one item retrieved from the ecommerce web site to determine a new price for the user's listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Inventor: Ryan Daniel Hatfield
  • Publication number: 20120130772
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing listing prices in an ecommerce environment. The method includes receiving from a user information, including price information, pertaining to a user's listing on an ecommerce web site, receiving from the user at least one search term that is not a valid UPC, ISBN, EAN, eBay Product ID, or ASIN, searching the ecommerce web site using the search term(s) received from the user and retrieving from the ecommerce web site at least one item listing relevant to the search term(s), and using an algorithm that utilizes the price of the at least one item retrieved from the ecommerce web site to determine a new price for the user's listing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventor: Ryan Daniel Hatfield
  • Patent number: 8095936
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an input for a software application that is executing on a controlled device. The method also includes transmitting, over a network, an identification of an event for the software application, that is a result of the input, to a controller device to remotely control execution of the software application. The identification of the event comprises an identification of at least one of a control and the input for the control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus Leo Avery, Ryan Daniel Hatfield, Samuel Cooper Grantham, Marcos Suuru Kajita
  • Publication number: 20110082769
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method for managing the quantity of at least one item on an ecommerce site. The method includes the steps of monitoring an ecommerce site where at least one item of interest is listed, receiving from the ecommerce site a message relating to a quantity of the item of interest, setting a predetermined displayed quantity of the item of interest that is visible to potential buyers using the ecommerce site, and repeating these steps so long as the item is listed on the ecommerce site. The computer-implemented method is performed by at least one computer programmed to perform these various steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventor: Ryan Daniel Hatfield
  • Publication number: 20080184269
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an input for a software application that is executing on a controlled device. The method also includes transmitting, over a network, an identification of an event for the software application, that is a result of the input, to a controller device to remotely control execution of the software application. The identification of the event comprises an identification of at least one of a control and the input for the control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Marcus Leo Avery, Ryan Daniel Hatfield, Samuel Cooper Grantham, Marcos Suuru Kajita