Patents by Inventor Sidney L. Bursten

Sidney L. Bursten 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).

  • System and method for creating customized catalogues
    Patent number: 7249067
    Abstract: A system and method for creating customized publications. Publication content is selected based on rules that associate particular content with customer profiles of individual recipients. In an exemplary embodiment, the customized publication is a product catalogue, the particular content is product information, and the recipients are customers. A rules engine associates the customer profile with a set of products comprising an offering. The rules engine determines which customers are to receive a custom customized catalogue, the size of the customized catalogue a customer is to receive, and the content of the customized catalogue for each recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: VPI Color, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Doerksen, Sidney L. Bursten
  • System and method for creating customized catalogues
    Publication number: 20040133542
    Abstract: A system and method for creating customized publications. Publication content is selected based on rules that associate particular content with customer profiles of individual recipients. In an exemplary embodiment, the customized publication is a product catalogue, the particular content is product information, and the recipients are customers. A rules engine associates the customer profile with a set of products comprising an offering. The rules engine determines which customers are to receive a custom customized catalogue, the size of the customized catalogue a customer is to receive, and the content of the customized catalogue for each recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Lee Doerksen, Sidney L. Bursten