Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Shafer

Thomas J. Shafer 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).

  • Scheduling System and Method
    Publication number: 20100179854
    Abstract: A system for scheduling an appointment between a client and a provider including a monitoring and validation component that includes a transaction database, a validation engine and at least one transaction monitoring rule, and an Internet-based scheduling component the populates the transaction database, wherein the validation engine is configured to apply the transaction monitoring rules to the transaction database to identify the presence of exceptional transactions in the transaction database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Steven L. Shafer, Thomas J. Shafer, Nathan Esquenazi