Patents by Inventor Stephen Hollis Lund

Stephen Hollis Lund 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).

  • Automatic sales promotion selection system and method
    Patent number: 7155401
    Abstract: An automated sales promotion selection system uses neural networks to identify promising sales promotions based on recent customer purchases. The system includes a customer information device that receives customer data relating to customer purchases of items from an inventory of items, a central processing unit having a sales promotion neural network and a storage unit containing a plurality of item identifiers comprising potential customer purchases of additional items from the inventory, wherein the sales opportunity neural network responds to customer data received from the customer information device by determining if one or more of the item identifiers in the storage unit corresponds to an item likely to be purchased by one of the customers, and an output device that receives the item identifiers of the likely purchases determined by the sales promotion neural network and produces a sales promotion relating to at least one of the item identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian John Cragun, Todd Mark Kelsey, Stephen Hollis Lund
  • Automatic sales promotion selection system and method
    Patent number: 6622125
    Abstract: An automated sales promotion selection system uses neural networks to identify promising sales promotions based on recent customer purchases. The system includes a customer information device that receives customer data relating to customer purchases of items from an inventory of items, a central processing unit having a sales promotion neural network and a storage unit containing a plurality of item identifiers comprising potential customer purchases of additional items from the inventory, wherein the sales opportunity neural network responds to customer data received from the customer information device by determining if one or more of the item identifiers in the storage unit corresponds to an item likely to be purchased by one of the customers, and an output device that receives the item identifiers of the likely purchases determined by the sales promotion neural network and produces a sales promotion relating to at least one of the item identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian John Cragun, Todd Mark Kelsey, Stephen Hollis Lund
  • Automatic sales promotion selection system and method
    Patent number: 5774868
    Abstract: An automated sales promotion selection system uses neural networks to identify promising sales promotions based on recent customer purchases. The system includes a customer information device that receives customer data relating to customer purchases of items from an inventory of items, a central processing unit having a sales promotion neural network and a storage unit containing a plurality of item identifiers comprising potential customer purchases of additional items from the inventory, wherein the sales opportunity neural network responds to customer data received from the customer information device by determining if one or more of the item identifiers in the storage unit corresponds to an item likely to be purchased by one of the customers, and an output device that receives the item identifiers of the likely purchases determined by the sales promotion neural network and produces a sales promotion relating to at least one of the item identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: International Business and Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian John Cragun, Todd Mark Kelsey, Stephen Hollis Lund