IP Library Granted Patent US 10,719,862
Granted Patent B2
US 10,719,862 · App. 13/598,544 · Granted Jul 21, 2020

System and method for intake of manufacturing patterns and applying them to the automated production of interactive, customizable product

Inventors: Young Harvill (Half Moon Bay, CA); Robert I. Beaver, III (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.
G06Q30/0621G06Q30/06G06Q30/0601G06Q50/04Y02P90/30
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,719,862
App. No.
13/598,544
Granted
Jul 21, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system and method for acquisition, characterization, and application of Manufacturing patterns to the automated production of the digital representation of these patterns as interactive media that gathers a customer's input, and subsequently produces physical product is described.

Claims (17)

1. A system for acquisition, characterization, and application of one or more manufacturing patterns to the automated production of the digital representation of these patterns for a product, comprising:

a computer having a processor that has a manufacturing unit, the manufacturing unit that automatically transmits a set of design area markups to a manufacturer that returns a reference product with mark-ups to the manufacturing unit;

wherein the manufacturing unit automatically generates, based on the one or more manufacturing patterns, one or more interactive assets for the product about the manufacturing of the product;

wherein the manufacturing unit uses the one or more interactive assets to allow a user to interactively customize the product and displays an image of the customized product to a user;

wherein the manufacturing unit transmits one of the one or more interactive assets to the manufacturer that produces the customized product.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more interactive assets is one of a design view that is a view of each design area with visible regions and a print view that is a view of the one or more patterns with a user design placed onto the one or more patterns.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the manufacturing unit transmits the print view to the manufacturer to produce the customized product.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the manufacturing unit gathers a set of product information based on an analysis of the product and generates the one or more manufacturing patterns and generates manufacturing output files.

5. A method for acquisition, characterization, and application of one or more manufacturing patterns to the automated production of the digital representation of these patterns for a product, the method comprising:

automatically transmitting, using a computer having a processor that has a manufacturing unit, a set of design area markups to a manufacturer that returns a reference product with mark-ups to the manufacturing unit;

generating, by the manufacturing unit, based on the one or more manufacturing patterns, one or more interactive assets for the product about the manufacturing of the product;

using, by the manufacturing unit, the one or more interactive assets to allow a user to interactively customize the product;

displaying an image of the user customized product to the user; and

transmitting, by the manufacturing unit, one of the one or more interactive assets to the manufacturer that produces the customized product.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more interactive assets is one of a design view that is a view of each design area with visible regions and a print view that is a view of the one or more patterns with a user design placed onto the one or more patterns.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising transmitting, by the manufacturing unit, the print view to the manufacturer to produce the customized product.

8. The method of claim 5 further comprising gathering, by the manufacturing unit, a set of product information based on an analysis of the product and generates the one or more manufacturing patterns and generates manufacturing output files.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 30, 2024
From: ZAZZLE HOLDINGS INC.
To: ZAZZLE INC.
Reel/Frame 067571/0589 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 21, 2024
From: ZAZZLE INC.
To: ZAZZLE HOLDINGS INC.
Reel/Frame 067476/0820 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 13, 2012
From: HARVILL, YOUNG; BEAVER III, ROBERT I.
To: ZAZZLE INC.
Reel/Frame 029290/0932 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation In Part 12511910 · Jul 29, 2009
Provisional Application 61084576 · Jul 29, 2008
Provisional Application 61529234 · Aug 30, 2011
Related Publication 20130060654A1 · Mar 7, 2013
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