Patents by Inventor Tony VAIL

Tony VAIL 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: 20190266668
    Abstract: A server system for providing financial advice, wherein the system is configured to: receive financial advice rules changes thereto to produce a set of updated financial advice rules; run test cases using the updated financial advice rules to produce and output test case results, to test that the updated financial advice rules have been correctly implemented; receive a confirmation in respect of the outputted test case results which indicates that the outputted test case results complies with a corporate certification standard; output financial advice questions, and to receive user input in response to the financial advice questions; use the corporate certification standard-approved set of updated financial advice rules to generate responses to the user input which was received in response to the financial advice questions, and output the responses to the user input which was received in response to the financial advice questions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Tony VAIL
  • Publication number: 20170252650
    Abstract: In an electronic game or other environment, a graphical user interface (GUI) receives and responds to a user's inputs and present data to the user on a display device. A processor executes computer instructions for responding to the user's inputs and manipulating the graphical user interface. The processor is configured to: (a) present two opposing outcomes on the GUI, together with a selection mechanism that extends between or otherwise relates to the two outcomes; and (b) receive an input from the graphical user interface corresponding to an action by the user in controlling the selection mechanism in a way that expresses the user's relative preference for each opposing outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventor: Tony VAIL