Patents by Inventor Tyler Robert Spalding

Tyler Robert Spalding 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).

  • Patent number: 12169826
    Abstract: A method includes initiating, by a first user computing device, a zero click digital asset-based payment with a merchant computing entity. The method further includes obtaining, by the merchant computing entity, at least a portion of user computing device real-time payment information from the first user computing device and sending merchant computing entity real-time payment information and the at least the portion of user computing device real-time payment information to a digital asset payment computing entity. The method further includes sending, by the digital asset payment computing entity, a push notification to a second user computing device requesting authorization. The method further includes authorizing, by the second user computing device, the zero click digital asset-based payment via the push notification. The method further includes locking an amount of network digital asset to back the zero click digital asset-based payment and providing a confirmation to the merchant computing entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 12165116
    Abstract: A method includes sending, by a trader computing device, an amount of a first digital asset to a digital asset exchange device for an exchange of the amount of the first digital asset to an amount of a second digital asset. The trader computing device includes a trader wallet that stores assignable tokens. The method further includes determining to assign conditional access rights to an amount of the assignable tokens to the digital asset exchange device to back the exchange, locking the amount of the assignable tokens, and providing the conditional access rights to the amount of the assignable tokens to the digital asset exchange device. The method further includes exchanging, by the digital asset exchange device, the amount of the first digital asset to the amount of the second digital asset and sending the amount of the second digital asset to the trader computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Robert Leshner, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 12165133
    Abstract: A method includes initiating, by a merchant computing entity, a digital asset-based payment from a user computing device and sending merchant real-time payment information to a digital asset payment computing entity. The method further includes generating, by the digital asset payment computing entity, a scannable charge code and sending the scannable charge code to the merchant computing entity. The method further includes providing, by the merchant computing entity, the scannable charge code to the user computing device. When the scannable charge code is scanned by the user computing device, the method further includes sending, by the user computing device, user computing device real-time payment information to the digital asset payment computing entity, locking, by the digital asset payment computing entity, an amount of network digital assets, and providing, by the digital asset payment computing entity, a confirmation to the merchant computing entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Publication number: 20240378577
    Abstract: A method includes accessing, by a source computing entity, a destination computing entity-presented user interface to initiate a digital asset-based interaction; providing, by the source computing entity, a set of source inputs to the digital asset-based interaction computing entity, via the destination computing entity-presented user interface; generating, by the digital asset-based interaction computing entity, a digital asset-based interaction request having instructions for pulling the digital assets; locking, by the digital asset-based interaction computing entity, an amount of system digital assets as collateral for the digital assets; and sending, by the digital asset-based interaction computing entity, the destination computing entity a notification of a successful digital asset-based interaction based on the generation of the digital asset-based interaction request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 12141790
    Abstract: A method includes initiating, by a user computing device, a digital asset-based payment to a merchant computing entity and sending, by the user computing device, user computing device real-time payment information to a digital asset payment computing entity. The method further includes locking, by the digital asset payment computing entity, an amount of network digital assets, generating a user authorization scannable code, and sending the user authorization scannable code to the user computing device. The method further includes providing, by the user computing device, the user authorization scannable code to the merchant computing entity. When the merchant computing entity scans the user authorization scannable code, the method further includes sending, by the merchant computing entity, merchant computing entity real-time payment information to the digital asset payment computing entity, and providing, by the digital asset payment computing entity, a confirmation to the merchant computing entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 12106342
    Abstract: A marketplace server includes memory, an interface, and a processing module operably coupled to the memory and interface. The processing module is operable to generate static exchange item information for an exchange item, wherein the static exchange item information is not shared with a computing device and includes one or more of a static exchange item serial number, a static issuer identifier (ID), a static owner ID, static conditions, static rules, and static use options. The processing module is operable to generate dynamic exchange item information for utilizing the exchange item, where the dynamic exchange item information includes one or more of a first dynamic exchange item serial number, a first dynamic issuer identifier (ID), a first dynamic owner ID, first dynamic conditions, first dynamic rules, and first dynamic use options. The processing module is operable to send, via the interface, the dynamic exchange item information to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Raise Marketplace, LLC
    Inventors: David S. McGregor, Frank Zhengfan Yang, Tyler Robert Spalding, Trevor Filter
  • Patent number: 12073385
    Abstract: A user computing device of a digital asset payment network includes a display, one or more scanning devices, memory, and a digital asset management unit coupled to the display and the memory. The digital asset management unit includes: a digital wallet, and a scanning interface, where one or more of the digital wallet and the scanning interface are operable to connect to a user digital asset payment interface. The user digital asset payment interface is associated with a digital asset payment computing entity of the digital asset payment network, where the digital asset payment computing entity facilitates a real-time digital asset-based payment from the user computing device paying with a digital asset to a merchant computing entity accepting a desired digital asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 12073285
    Abstract: A multi-part code system includes a network computing device operable to generate a first and second portion of a code for an interaction. The multi-part code system further includes a second computing device including a second network application and a first computing device including a first network application operable to obtain the second portion of the code, receive the first portion of the code, display the second portion of the code, display the first portion of the code on a code display area, instruct a user to drag the first portion of the code from the code display area to the display area to align with the second portion of the code. When the first portion of the code is aligned with the second portion of the code in the display area, produce the code, and send a finalized interaction notification to the network computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 12050963
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a second portion of a code associated with a second computing device. The method further includes displaying the second portion of the code on a display area of an interactive display of the first computing device. The method further includes receiving the first portion of the code from the network computing device. The method further includes displaying the first portion of the code on a code display area of the interactive display. The method further includes instructing a user of the first computing device to drag the first portion of the code from the code display area to the display area to align with the second portion of the code and when the first portion of the code is aligned with the second portion of the code in the display area, producing the code and sending a finalized interaction notification to the network computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Publication number: 20240152887
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a digital asset-based interaction computing entity, digital asset-based interaction information. The digital asset-based interaction involves a source computing entity providing a first amount of digital assets and a destination computing entity accepting a second amount of desired assets. The method further includes performing a real-time digital asset-based interaction process to facilitate the digital asset-based interaction in real-time and performing a nonreal-time digital asset-based interaction process to reconcile the real-time digital asset-based interaction process with a digital asset backing computing entity. The digital asset backing computing entity is associated with a transformer pool of the digital asset-based interaction system. The transformer pool is associated with one or more consensus network computing entity nodes of a digital asset distributed ledger technology (DLT) network associated with the digital assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 11915098
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a first computing device of a multi-part code system, a first portion of a code from a network computing device. The network computing device generated the first portion of the code and a second portion of the code from the code. The method further includes displaying the first portion of the code on a code display area of an interactive display of the first computing device and instructing a user of the first computing device to position the first computing device near the second portion of the code such that the first and second portions of the code align. When the first portion of the code is aligned with the second portion of the code, the method further includes producing the code and sending a finalize interaction notification to the network computing device. The finalize interaction notification includes information from the produced code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 11887081
    Abstract: A method includes storing, by a first computing device, assignable tokens in a first partition of a plurality of partitions of a first address of a first digital asset unit and initiating an interaction with a second computing device including a second digital asset unit. The method further includes determining to assign conditional access rights to an amount of the assignable tokens to the second computing device for the interaction. The assignment of the conditional access rights is a smart contract. The method further includes locking, in accordance with the smart contract, the amount of the assignable tokens stored in the first partition, associating a second partition with the second digital asset unit, and associating the amount of the assignable tokens with the second partition. The second digital asset unit does not store the amount of the assignable tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Robert Leshner, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 11829815
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a first computing device of a multi-part code system, a first portion of a multi-part code from a second computing device. The multi-part code is representative of an interaction between the first and second computing devices. The method further includes obtaining a plurality of multi-part code portion options. A multi-part code portion option of the plurality of multi-part code portion options includes an amount of interaction information. Each of the plurality of multi-part code portion options is generated to align with the first portion of the multi-part code. The method further includes performing an alignment function to align a desired amount of multi-part code portion options with the first portion to produce a multi-part code having a desired amount of interaction information and sending the multi-part code having the desired amount of interaction information to a network computing device to complete the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Publication number: 20230376944
    Abstract: A computing entity of a digital asset-based interaction system includes memory and a smart contract digital asset management unit including a digital asset-based interaction interface. The digital asset-based interaction interface is associated with a digital asset-based interaction computing entity of the digital asset-based interaction system. The digital asset-based interaction interface is operable to interface with the digital asset-based interaction computing entity to execute one or more digital asset-based interactions between the computing entity and one or more other computing entities. The digital asset-based interaction interface is further operable to interface with a self-enforcing smart contract associated with the computing entity and the digital asset-based interaction computing entity to manage one or more digital assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Publication number: 20230376949
    Abstract: A digital asset-based interaction system includes a digital asset-based interaction computing entity that facilitates a digital asset based-interaction. The digital asset-based interaction involves a first computing entity providing digital assets and a second computing entity accepting assets in a desired asset format. The digital asset-based interaction system further includes at least one validation computing entity node associated with an off-main ledger layer of a multi-layer digital asset distributed ledger technology network associated with the digital assets. The at least one validation computing entity node verifies the obtaining the amount of the digital assets. The on-main ledger layer settles the offloaded verification of obtaining the amount of the digital assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 11816531
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a network computing device, interaction information from one or more of: a destination computing device and at least one source computing device of two or more source computing devices. The interaction information is regarding an interaction between the destination computing device and the two or more source computing devices. The method further includes generating a destination portion and two or more source portions of a code representative of the interaction information. The destination portion of the code and the two or more source portions are not individually readable. The method further includes sending the destination portion of the code to the destination computing device, sending the two or more source portions of the code to the corresponding two or more source computing devices, and when an indication that the produced code has been captured is obtained, finalizing the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Publication number: 20230351131
    Abstract: A multi-part code system includes a network computing device operable to generate a first and second portion of a code for an interaction. The multi-part code system further includes a second computing device including a second network application and a first computing device including a first network application operable to obtain the second portion of the code, receive the first portion of the code, display the second portion of the code, display the first portion of the code on a code display area, instruct a user to drag the first portion of the code from the code display area to the display area to align with the second portion of the code. When the first portion of the code is aligned with the second portion of the code in the display area, produce the code, and send a finalized interaction notification to the network computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 11769186
    Abstract: A method for execution by a marketplace server includes receiving a use request regarding an exchange item from a merchant computing device, the exchange item is associated with static exchange item information. The method includes retrieving a verified device identifier associated with the exchange item based on the use request and identifying a user computing device based on the verified device identifier. The method includes generating first dynamic exchange item information based on the static exchange item information and generating a use verification code based on the first dynamic exchange item information and the use request. The method includes sending the use verification code to the identified user computing device and receiving information representing the use verification code from the merchant computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Raise Marketplace Inc.
    Inventors: David S. McGregor, Frank Zhengfan Yang, Tyler Robert Spalding, Trevor Filter
  • Publication number: 20230259731
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a second portion of a code associated with a second computing device. The method further includes displaying the second portion of the code on a display area of an interactive display of the first computing device. The method further includes receiving the first portion of the code from the network computing device. The method further includes displaying the first portion of the code on a code display area of the interactive display. The method further includes instructing a user of the first computing device to drag the first portion of the code from the code display area to the display area to align with the second portion of the code and when the first portion of the code is aligned with the second portion of the code in the display area, producing the code and sending a finalized interaction notification to the network computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Flexa Network Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 11694049
    Abstract: A first computing device of a multi-part code system includes one or more optical scanners and a network application associated with a network computing device of the multi-part code system. The network application is operable to obtain a second portion of a code associated with a second computing device. The network computing device generated the code for an interaction between the first and second computing device. The network application is further operable to display the second portion of the code on a display area of an interactive display, receive a first portion of the code, and instruct a user to drag the first portion of the code to the display area to align with the second portion of the code. When the first and second portions of the code are aligned, the network application produces the code and sends a finalized interaction notification to the network computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Flexa Network Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Tyler Robert Spalding