Patents by Inventor Stephen ELDER

Stephen ELDER 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: 20140222559
    Abstract: A method for reporting a consumer profile includes: storing offline financial transaction data involving at least two merchants, each transaction associated with a consumer; receiving an information request, the request including a consumer identifier; identifying browsing information associated with the consumer; analyzing the browsing information and the transactions associated with the consumer to identify a profile; and transmitting the profile to a merchant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Yigit CAGLAYAN, Caroline Haines, Stephen Elder, Guilaume Degrijse, John Jude Allen, Eamon Doyle
  • Publication number: 20140025513
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a touch screen for contactless payments are described. In an embodiment, a process includes detecting the presence of multiple proximity payment devices in contact with a touchable surface of a touch screen, displaying a payment option menu for multiple consumers associated with the proximity payment devices, and detecting selection of payment amounts. The process includes reading payment account data from the multiple proximity payment devices, providing the payment account data to a processor, and transmitting the payment account data and the payment amounts associated with the multiple proximity payment devices to a payment server computer. The process may also include receiving one or more payment authorization messages associated with the proximity payment devices, and displaying the payment authorization message(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Alan Cooke, Stephen Elder, Simon Blythe
  • Publication number: 20130282526
    Abstract: A method for displaying product details on a consumer device includes: preparing digital media for display on the device; detecting whether the digital media includes at least one product available for purchase; receiving a plurality of product data sets, each set associated with a product identifier and product details for an available product, the product details including information to initiate a transaction for the product; identifying an index of products in the digital media, the index including for each product a display location and a product identification number; receiving an indication from a user identifying a selected product in the digital media based on a display location in the digital media of the product and/or selection from a listing of the product in the index; retrieving product details for the product based on the product identification number and the product identifier; and displaying the retrieved product details.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Oran CUMMINS, Gary LYONS, Matthew HOPKINS, Prashant SHARMA, Stephen ELDER, Stephen WHITNEY, Richard BURDETT, Tina DORAN, Michael FRIEDMAN
  • Publication number: 20130066749
    Abstract: A method of initiating a consumer transaction using a human interaction device to read voice or human based gesture actions is disclosed. Video data is transmitted from a processing device to a display device. The video is monitoring for event data corresponding to a plurality of consumer products or services, and monitored event data is received in the processing device. A consumer is notified on the display device of an eligible consumer transaction. Voice or human based gesture actions are read with a human interaction device and are analyzed. If the voice or human based gesture actions conform to a predetermined set of requirements, then a consumer transaction for the plurality of consumer products or services is initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Alan Cooke, Garry Lyons, Oran Cummins, Stephen Elder, Lukas Ekselius
  • Publication number: 20120130790
    Abstract: A method of distributing context based offers to a mobile device based on device location and user transaction history is disclosed. The geographic location of a mobile device associated with a user is disclosed. At least one merchant proximate to the geographic location is identified. A user account associated with the user is analyzed in order to identify at least one previous transaction between the user and the at least one merchant. Upon identifying at least one previous transaction, an offer for goods or services associated with the at least one merchant is distributed to the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Garry LYONS, Stephen ELDER, Alan COOKE
  • Publication number: 20120130889
    Abstract: An electronic financial transaction arrangement using a payer device to read a machine-readable pay code in which transaction details for a specific transaction may be encoded by a pay code provider is disclosed. The machine-readable pay code may be distributed to the payer device through acoustic stimuli, or as a result of voice or human based gesture actions. A user of the payer device may also participate in the financial transaction through the indirect control of a display by reading a unique machine-readable code unique to the display. Additional transaction details for the specific transaction may be received in the payer device through near field communication, or accessed at a later time when there is established connectivity to a mobile network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Garry LYONS, David BROWN, Michael Clay ATKINS, Oran CUMMINS, Daniel MARTIN, Alan COOKE, Stephen ELDER
  • Publication number: 20120131094
    Abstract: A method for indirectly controlling a website using a user communication device is disclosed. A unique machine-readable code is displayed on a display device, the unique machine-readable code being specific to the display device displaying contents from a website through a server. The unique machine-readable code is readable by a user communication device, the user communication device in turn being able to communicate with the server through a communication path not involving an input device associated with the display device. Commands to control content displayed through the server are received from the user communication device. The commands include the identity of the specific display device by the displayed unique machine readable code. The content displayed on the specific display device is then changed accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Garry LYONS, David Brown, Michael Clay Atkins, Oran Cummins, Daniel Martin, Alan Cooke, Stephen Elder
  • Publication number: 20120130866
    Abstract: A method of initiating a consumer transaction using a human interaction device to read voice or human based gesture actions is disclosed. Video data is transmitted from a processing device to a display device. The video is monitoring for event data corresponding to a plurality of consumer products or services, and monitored event data is received in the processing device. A consumer is notified on the display device of an eligible consumer transaction. Voice or human based gesture actions are read with a human interaction device and are analyzed. If the voice or human based gesture actions conform to a predetermined set of requirements, then a consumer transaction for the plurality of consumer products or services is initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alan Cooke, Garry Lyons, Oran Cummins, Stephen Elder
  • Patent number: 7718621
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, having antimicrobial activity, processes for their preparation, compositions containing them and to their use in medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignees: Glaxo Group Ltd., Pliva-Istrazivacki Institut
    Inventors: Desmond John Best, John Stephen Elder, Andrew Keith Forrest, Robert John Sheppard, Andrea Fajdetic
  • Publication number: 20080269146
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) and/or pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, having antimicrobial activity, processes for their preparation, compositions containing them and to their use in medicine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: John Stephen Elder, Andrew Keith Forrest, Eric Hunt
  • Patent number: 7160907
    Abstract: Pleuromutilin compounds of the formula: are of use in anti-bacterial therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham P.L.C.
    Inventors: John Stephen Elder, Andrew Keith Forrest, Richard Lewis Jarvest, Robert John Sheppard
  • Patent number: 6900345
    Abstract: Pleuromutilin compounds of the formula: are of use in anti-bacterial therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham p.l.c.
    Inventors: John Stephen Elder, Andrew Keith Forrest, Richard Lewis Jarvest, Robert John Sheppard
  • Publication number: 20040024059
    Abstract: Pleuromutilin compounds of the formula (A) & (B) are of use in anti-bacterial therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: John Stephen Elder, Andrew Keith Forrest, Richard Lewis Jarvest, Robert John Sheppard
  • Patent number: 6320051
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are inhibitors of the bacterial enzyme S aureus methionyl tRNA synthetase and are of use in treating bacterial infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham plc
    Inventors: John Michael Berge, Pamela Brown, John Stephen Elder, Andrew Keith Forrest, Dieter Wolfgang Hamprecht, Richard Lewis Jarvest, David Jonathan McNair, Robert John Sheppard
  • Patent number: D708629
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy Weindorf, Ahmed Muaydh, Michael Stephen Elder, Brandi Elizabeth Wood