Patents by Inventor Timothy L. Coyle

Timothy L. Coyle 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: 20020174036
    Abstract: The invention discloses methods and systems for fundraising through sale of merchandise incorporating images and/or photographs of events hosted or sponsored by a fundraising entity. In a preferred embodiment a method includes registering several fundraising entities, providing a viewable medium for the registered fundraising entities to post images, displaying on the viewable medium a selection of products available to have a selected posted image incorporated, providing an interface that a customer may view the posted images, selected a desired image for transferring, selected an available product to display the desired image and complete a sale. The invention also provides for accounting of profits for sold products and distributing profits to registered fundraising entities of from which images incorporated on sold products were selected. In a preferred implementation, the viewable medium includes a distributed computer environment communicating over the Internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventor: Timothy L. Coyle