Patents Assigned to Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20200043103
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed that determine proactive offers to send to individuals of interest. The proactive offers may be determined based on a scanning of user comments on social networks, a determination of identities associated with the users, a determination of individuals related to the identities and a level of interest associated with the related individuals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Bogdan Sheptunov
  • Patent number: 10528545
    Abstract: A data processing system is disclosed for accessing databases and updated data items and triggering event notifications. The data processing system may comprise a first database including a plurality of records, and a second database including a plurality of trigger indicators. The database system may further include a hardware processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions in order to: receive an update data item; identify a record corresponding to the update data item; cause an update to the record based on information included with the update data item; identify a trigger indicator corresponding to the update to the record; determine that a type of the trigger indicator matches a type of the update to the record; and generate an event notification including information included in the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Rollin M. Girulat, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10445152
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are disclosed for accessing and traversing disparate, complex, and multi-dimensional data structures to dynamically and interactively generate reports based on automated modeling of complex and non-uniformly formatted data. Automated analysis of probabilistic functions and temporal-based data records enable non-technical users to quickly and dynamically act on time-sensitive information. In response to various user inputs, the system automatically accesses and traverses complex data structures (including, for example, frequency distribution models) calculates complex data based on the traversals, displays the calculated complex data to the user, and enters the calculated complex data into the reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Lingyun Zhang, Mason L. Carpenter, Gregor Bonin, Shanji Xiong, Christer DiChiara, David Zaleta, Yaqi Tao
  • Patent number: 10409867
    Abstract: One aspect of the subject matter described herein comprises a database management system. The database management system comprises a communication circuit, an interface, and a processor. The communication circuit receives information from databases via a communication network. The interface allows user operation and interaction via the communication network and the database management system. The processor provides data to and receives data from the interface, including a plurality of alphanumeric records comprising at least one unique identifier, obtains database records from other databases for each unique identifier, identifies a number of alphanumeric records in the plurality having events in their histories, determines a percentage of alphanumeric records in the plurality having negative events in their histories, generates a report including the determined percentages, and conveys the report to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirsten Marie Von Busch, Ryan B. Cain, Dominic Edward DeGuiseppe, Wen Zhang, Erik Peter Hjermstad
  • Patent number: 10402901
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Magali Courbage, Richard Rodenbusch, Jean-Dominique Morani
  • Patent number: 10380654
    Abstract: One embodiment of the system and method described herein provides a score generator system that generates an automated vehicle specific valuation of a used car based on the physical and historical attributes of that vehicle. This score may indicate the likelihood that the vehicle will be on the road in a specific period of time. The score may give an absolute percentage of such likelihood or it may give a value relative to all other used vehicles in a database, all other used vehicles of the same make/model/year, or a certain subset of the vehicles in a database. In one embodiment, the score generator system includes a data link module for linking vehicle data and filter module for applying a multi-level filters that process the linked vehicle data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Edith Hirtenstein, David Nemtuda
  • Patent number: 10339527
    Abstract: Embodiments of an electronic fraud analysis platform system are disclosed which may be used to analyze tax returns for potential fraud. Analysis of tax return data using the tax return analysis platform computing systems and methods discussed herein may provide insight into whether a tax return may be fraudulent based on, for example, an initial screening component configured to filter tax returns which appear fraudulent due to missing or inaccurate information provided with the return; a device activity analysis component configured to identify whether a device used to submit a tax return or to provide further authentication information needed to complete processing of the return may have been used in other fraudulent activities; and a knowledge-based authentication component configured to identify potential fraudsters using dynamically generated questions for which fraudsters typically do not know the answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Neli Coleman, Lloyd Laudorn, Raymond Martin Boileau
  • Patent number: 10311466
    Abstract: Embodiments of system are disclosed in which selection strategies for a direct marketing campaign that identify consumers from a credit bureau or other consumer database can be planned, tested, and/or refined on a stable subset of the credit database. In some embodiments, once refined, consumer selection criteria may be used to execute the direct marketing campaign on the full consumer/credit database, which is preferably updated approximately twice weekly. In one preferred embodiment, the data for the test database represents a random sampling of approximately 10% of the full database and the sampling is regenerated approximately weekly in order to provide a stable set of data on which campaign developers may test their campaign. For each consumer in the sampling, the environment may allow a client to access and use both attributes calculated by the credit bureau and proprietary attributes and data owned by the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura J. DeSoto, Michele M. Pearson, Kristi Ann Adkinson, Venkat R. Achanta, Felicia Peng
  • Patent number: 10262362
    Abstract: One embodiment of a system for automatically generating code for attributes includes a credit bureau data that store stores credit bureau convention information and an attribute generation system that communicates with the credit data store to detect rules associated with respective credit bureaus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Hua Hu, Luz M. Torrez
  • Patent number: 10121194
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method are described for generating a finance attribute. In one embodiment, the systems and methods retrieve raw tradeline data from a plurality of credit bureaus, retrieve industry code data related to each of the plurality of credit bureaus, determine one or more tradeline leveling characteristics that meet at least one pre-determined threshold, and generate a finance attribute using the selected leveling characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Luz M. Torrez, Adam Thomas Kornegay
  • Patent number: 10115155
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein allow consumers to lock or unlock their credit files at multiple credit bureaus in real-time or near real-time. The service may allow a consumer to provide identifying information, such as a personal identifier to lock or unlock credit files at a plurality of credit bureaus over a network. Upon receiving the personal identifier, the system may use the personal identifier to translate the identifier into a plurality of access codes for respective credit bureaus, for example by accessing a data structure, such as a database or table, that stores a personal identifier and access codes that are associated with a consumer. The system may then use the access codes to automatically initiate locking or unlocking of credit files for the consumer at the respective credit bureaus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTION, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Haller, Kelly Kent
  • Patent number: 10102536
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for automatically rolling-up data associated with one or more geographic units, such as ZIP+4 codes, such that the rollup comprises a minimum number of households to protect anonymity and ensure compliance with privacy regulations, while preserving variance of the underlying data associated with the geographic regions. Data attributes may include demographic data, socio-economic data, lifestyle segmentation, psychographic data, behavioral data, credit data, and other data. The rollup process may involve identifying one or more geographic units with a number of households below a minimum or threshold amount, applying filters to find candidate geographic units for rollup, scoring candidate geographic units to select best pairings for rollup, and repeating until the rollup group has at least the minimum number of households. The process may make trades off between granularity (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew John Hickman, Alan Tsang, Yaqi Tao, Shengjun Pan
  • Patent number: 10078868
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Magali Courbage, Richard Rodenbusch, Jean-Dominique Morani
  • Patent number: 10019593
    Abstract: A digital targeting system is configured to access data to determine users that satisfy content factors, such as pre-validation criteria, based on user information stored in a database having restrictions on sharing of user data, such as government regulations on sharing of the user information. The digital targeting system may then generate a pre-validated user ID list indicating those users that match the content factors. Users on the pre-validated user ID list may then be matched to users in other databases, such as a digital ID database, to identify digital IDs for the users that are usable by a digital display entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Rakesh Patel, Mara Nicholl, Lindsey Greenwell Harju
  • Patent number: 9916596
    Abstract: Embodiments of system are disclosed in which selection strategies for a direct marketing campaign that identify consumers from a credit bureau or other consumer database can be planned, tested, and/or refined on a stable subset of the credit database. In some embodiments, once refined, consumer selection criteria may be used to execute the direct marketing campaign on the full consumer/credit database, which is preferably updated approximately twice weekly. In one preferred embodiment, the data for the test database represents a random sampling of approximately 10% of the full database and the sampling is regenerated approximately weekly in order to provide a stable set of data on which campaign developers may test their campaign. For each consumer in the sampling, the environment may allow a client to access and use both attributes calculated by the credit bureau and proprietary attributes and data owned by the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura J. DeSoto, Michele M. Pearson, Kristi Ann Adkinson, Venkat R. Achanta, Felicia Peng
  • Patent number: 9792648
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein allow consumers to lock or unlock their credit files at multiple credit bureaus in real-time or near real-time. The service may allow a consumer to provide identifying information, such as a personal identifier to lock or unlock credit files at a plurality of credit bureaus over a network. Upon receiving the personal identifier, the system may use the personal identifier to translate the identifier into a plurality of access codes for respective credit bureaus, for example by accessing a data structure, such as a database or table, that stores a personal identifier and access codes that are associated with a consumer. The system may then use the access codes to automatically initiate locking or unlocking of credit files for the consumer at the respective credit bureaus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Haller, Kelly Kent
  • Patent number: 9767309
    Abstract: A digital targeting system is configured to access data to determine users that satisfy content factors, such as pre-validation criteria, based on user information stored in a database having restrictions on sharing of user data, such as government regulations on sharing of the user information. The digital targeting system may then generate a pre-validated user ID list indicating those users that match the content factors. Users on the pre-validated user ID list may then be matched to users in other databases, such as a digital ID database, to identify digital IDs for the users that are usable by a digital display entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Rakesh Patel, Mara Nicholl, Lindsey Harju
  • Patent number: 9697263
    Abstract: A consumer data request fulfillment system enables a client to easily and speedily obtain consumer contact data that the client does not already possess. The consumer data request fulfillment system provides bulk consumer data to a client upon request. The bulk data may include, for example, encrypted consumer identifiers (IDs), and/or a partial subset of consumer contact information for a particular specified segment of consumers. The client may then request from the system a full set of consumer contact information. For example, the client may send a request for consumer contact information by identifying particular consumers by their consumer IDs. The consumer data request fulfillment system will then provide the full set of consumer contact information to the client. The requests and request fulfillments are advantageously accomplished automatically by the consumer data request fulfillment system, enabling the client to obtain consumer contact information conveniently and rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Rollin M. Girulat, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9690820
    Abstract: A data processing system is disclosed for accessing databases and updated data items and triggering event notifications. The data processing system may comprise a first database including a plurality of records, and a second database including a plurality of trigger indicators. The database system may further include a hardware processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions in order to: receive an update data item; identify a record corresponding to the update data item; cause an update to the record based on information included with the update data item; identify a trigger indicator corresponding to the update to the record; determine that a type of the trigger indicator matches a type of the update to the record; and generate an event notification including information included in the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Rollin M. Girulat, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9684905
    Abstract: Systems and methods for verifying data including income and employment, assets, healthcare claims, clinical data, and other types of data subject to various regulatory and/or privacy restrictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Haller, Mark Hirn, Christer Dichiara