Patents by Inventor Thomas Thornton

Thomas Thornton 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).

  • Methods and systems for retail customer referral compensation programs
    Patent number: 8805719
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs for using Performance-Driven criteria to award Production Points for determining a Referring Customer's position in a Performance-Driven Floating Matrix compensation and matching bonus plan in a retail marketing organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Motherlode Network
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Methods and systems for retail customer referral compensation programs
    Patent number: 8571927
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to retail customer referral compensation programs for using performance driven criteria to award production points for determining a referring customer's position in a performance driven floating compensation structure and matching bonus plan in a retail marketing organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Motherlode Network
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P. Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Methods and systems for retail customer referral compensation programs
    Patent number: 8571928
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs for using Performance-Driven criteria to award Production Points for determining a Referring Customer's position in a Performance-Driven Floating Matrix compensation and matching bonus plan in a retail marketing organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Motherlode Network
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P. Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Methods and systems for retail customer referral compensation programs
    Patent number: 8515807
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs for using Performance-Driven criteria to award Production Points for creating a Position Changing Point Driven matrix and determining a Referring Customer's position and compensation within that matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Motherlode Network
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P. Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Methods and Systems for Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs
    Publication number: 20120239472
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs for using Performance-Driven criteria to award Production Points for creating a Position Changing Point Driven matrix and determining a Referring Customer's position and compensation within that matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P. Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Methods and Systems for Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs
    Publication number: 20120209675
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to retail customer referral compensation programs for using performance driven criteria to award production points for determining a referring customer's position in a performance driven floating compensation structure and matching bonus plan in a retail marketing organization
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P. Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Methods and Systems for Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs
    Publication number: 20120209676
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs for using Performance-Driven criteria to award Production Points for determining a Referring Customer's position in a Performance-Driven Floating Matrix compensation and matching bonus plan in a retail marketing organization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P. Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Methods and Systems for Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs
    Publication number: 20090150232
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to business methods and systems for retail marketing, and specifically to Retail Customer Referral Compensation Programs for using Performance-Driven criteria to award Production Points for determining a Referring Customer's position in a Performance-Driven Floating Matrix compensation and matching bonus plan in a retail marketing organization
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: J. Benjamin Tyler, Kenneth D. Roland, Thomas Thornton, DelMar P Williams, Kevin F. Baadsgaard
  • Wireless (disposable) fiducial based registration and EM distoration based surface registration
    Publication number: 20050288574
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for performing automatic registration in medical imaging systems. One embodiment relates to a method of performing automatic registration comprising automatically locating at least one sensor having at least one known identifier. A coordinate is then determined for the at least one sensor, thereby performing automatic registration such that a visual model may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Thornton, Peter Anderson
  • Resolving a distributed topology to stream data
    Publication number: 20050021590
    Abstract: A distributed media session is described, which when executed, resolves a distributed topology from a request to stream data from a source device to a client device over a network. The distributed topology references a plurality of software components that, when executed, fulfill the request. At least one of the plurality of software components is executable on each of the source device and the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kirt Debique, Thomas Thornton, Troy Batterberry, Nadim Abdo, Alexandre Grigorovitch, Dale Sather, Roland Ayala, Eduardo Oliveira