Citigroup Patents Granted
Patents granted to Citigroup by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8548909Abstract: A method and system for building an Internet portal provides a portal toolkit platform consisting at least in part of a portal application server and a web server associated with the portal toolkit platform that is accessible by at least one end user. A business is allowed to access the portal application server and fill one or more content management templates from a selection of content management templates governing content elements to be presented to end users via the website server. When an end user accesses the website server, content governed by the template is presented for the end user by the portal application server via the web server. The business can populate a database with content and populate the web server, for example, with a set of images, HTML files, and other assets such as PDF files and build an Internet portal on top of the toolkit as an approach to integrating transaction systems.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2002Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Harvey Snow, Patrick Law
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Patent number: 8548929Abstract: A method and system for managing employment candidate data utilizes a pre-screen application to enable pre-screening of employment candidates who log on to a website and are prompted to enter additional information and schedule pre-employment tests via the website. The method and system for managing employment candidate data also uses a tracking and testing application to handle screening of candidates' paper-based applications, administration of interviews, hiring pool management, job offer support, and scheduling of training, and is integrated with an applicant tracking system. A resume tracking application of the method and system for managing employment candidate data automatically identifies and merges duplicate resume information to create a single unique resume in the tracking system.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Goodwin, Andrew L. Anderson, Stefan Zander, Narciso Tauler, William J. Brannen, Candice B. Morris
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Patent number: 8543506Abstract: A delivery system and method allow a financial institution to provide financial services to a plurality of remote devices. The system is comprised of a set of re-usable global components which are modular and are organized into services sets. The system and method operate in sessions and, for instance, employ a dialog component for gathering information from a customer, a rule broker component for providing answers to the various legal and regulatory rules in a particular country, a language man component for selecting appropriate language, a transaction executor component for performing transactions, and a presentation manager component for formatting outputs to the customer. The system and method provide state-of-the art interfaces that can be configured and delivered to the customer in a globally consistent format that is based on the customer's account profile, various languages, various currencies, different legal regulatory requirements, as well as, different sets of business products.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Citibank Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Michael L. Grandcolas, Nancy Bryant, Howard A. Schechtman, Dilip J. Parekh
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Patent number: 8543982Abstract: A financial institution can provide financial services to a plurality of remote devices, such as personal computers, personal data assistants, screen phones, automatic teller machines, external service providers, and internally to staff terminals and individual branches. By separating the components of the system into independent components, the system and method can be developed and tested on a component level rather than the entire system level, thereby reducing the development and maintenance cycle time. The system and method operate in sessions and can employ a dialog component for gathering information from a customer, a rule broker component for providing answers to the various legal and regulatory rules in a particular country, a language man component for selecting appropriate language, a transaction executor component for performing transactions, and a presentation manager component for formatting outputs to the customer.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2007Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: James Zeanah, Charles Abbott, Nik Boyd, Albert Cohen, James Cook, Michael Grandcolas, Sikun Lan, Bonnie Lindsley, Grigor Markarian, Leslie Moss
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Patent number: 8504453Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for offering mandatorily convertible securities (e.g., DECS) with associated forward purchase contracts and call options. Each mandatorily convertible security combines a forward purchase contract, a mandatory portable remarketable security, and a call option to form a single investment unit. The call option provides additional capital to the issuer of the investment unit and profits to the remarketing agent handling the mandatory portable remarketable security.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.Inventors: John Dickey, Adam Dohrenwend, Peter Jurdjevic, Daniel Khouri, Stanley Louie, Vincent Vignale
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Patent number: 8498898Abstract: A system and method that allows a group of organizations, e.g. a group of transit agencies, to provide their users with a stored value smart card payment method that rewards them for actual use. The system and method include a card interface device and a smart card for storing respective reward applications, wherein the card interface device reward application retrieves transaction and reward data from the smart card and processes the data within the card interface device in order to determine a transaction reward.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2000Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Mark F. Kogen, Ramiro Munoz
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Patent number: 8498902Abstract: A method and system for the clearing and settlement of funds among a plurality of participants facilitates the integration of a “closed” special purpose industry sector, such as the transit industry, within an open financial payment system. A method for clearing and settling funds among a plurality of participants comprises receiving data relating to transactions from the plurality of participants, organizing the data into groups associated with each of the plurality of participants, summing the data in the groups to determine a total funds due to and from each of the plurality of participants, and settling the difference among the plurality of participants by transferring funds to the participants owed funds and collecting funds from the participants who owe funds.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2000Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Mark F. Kogen, Ramiro M. Munoz
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Patent number: 8489483Abstract: A method performed by a transfer instrument issuer involves issuing, to a recipient, a certificate which is linked to a national card account obtained by the transfer instrument issuer from an account issuer different from the transfer instrument issuer, without both issuing and providing a physical card for the national card account to the recipient of the certificate, the certificate having been purchased by a purchaser, who is not also the recipient, and containing all information necessary for the purchase of goods or services from any merchant who is capable of processing economic transactions involving one of the plurality national card accounts for which a physical card has issued, but without presentment of the physical card.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Matthew J. Gillin, Roger Korfmann, Paul L. Raden
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Patent number: 8463703Abstract: Methods and systems for generating customer incentive awards involve receiving, using a processor coupled to memory, information regarding a balance of a deposit account, such as a savings account, of at least one customer for determination of an award amount related to a loan account of the customer. Using the processor, the award amount may be computed based on at least in part on the balance of the deposit account and at least in part on an interest rate of the loan account of the customer. Thereafter, likewise using the processor, the award amount may be applied to an account designated by the customer, such as a mortgage loan account of the customer.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Eric William Bloomquist, Brian Dennis Brown
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Patent number: 8458126Abstract: A method for updating web pages on a web server without republishing the web pages involves providing a live version on a production database and a quality assurance version on a quality assurance web server. A maker at a business workstation can access the quality assurance database server and enter a change to data on the quality assurance version of the business data tables, and a checker at the business workstation accesses the quality assurance database server to review and approve or reject changes to the data on the quality assurance version of the business data tables, and if the checker approves the changes, the changes to the data on the quality assurance version of the business data tables are replicated from the quality assurance database server to the live version on the production database server.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Roy Sykes, Joseph Zusman, Sikun Lan, Kent Frazier, Tyler Young, Yong Huang, Stanislav Solari
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Patent number: 8452704Abstract: A method and system for making on-line payments makes use of computer hardware and software and utilizes, for example, a payment engine that facilitates the making of payments via the Internet. A user enrolls for the on-line payments service, designates a source account for the on-line payments, and is provided a transaction account as a money deposit account with an account number that the user can use as a source and a destination of funds and with one or more service levels. The user can make, for example, on-line payments, on-line and/or off-line purchases, cash withdrawals at an ATM, credit card account payments, bill payments, and/or international payments with funds in the transaction account and/or a line of credit associated with the transaction account.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2001Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventors: Ellen Barbara, Antony Jenkins
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Patent number: 8447693Abstract: Methods and systems for routing payment transactions electronically involve interrogating by computer logic each payment transaction received by a payments interface processor to identify a payment destination and a payment source and to determine, according to pre-defined parameters, whether the payment transaction is eligible for processing via an internal payment transaction processor of the financial institution that minimizes processing costs. Eligible payment transactions may be routed, for example, to an internal debit or credit card processor or ACH processor, and ineligible payment transactions may be routed to external card processing networks.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventors: Sean T. Lynch, Dickson Chu
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Patent number: 8412623Abstract: The present invention relates particularly to a method and system for consolidating a plurality of a consumer's payment and non-payment source accounts into a consolidated platform with a customer identification or available proxy account numbers that can be assigned to source accounts. The source accounts can be, for example, credit card accounts, ATM accounts, debit card accounts, demand deposit accounts, stored-value accounts, merchant-loyalty card accounts, membership accounts, and identification card numbers. The consumer can access and modify any of the source accounts and manage funds across the source accounts by accessing the consolidated platform with a single access device or mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2003Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventors: Susan Moon, Hugh Aller, Eric Yellin, Kellie Knox, Jeff Schumacher
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Patent number: 8392306Abstract: A method performed by a transfer instrument issuer involves issuing, to a recipient, a certificate which is linked to a national card account obtained by the transfer instrument issuer from an account issuer different from the transfer instrument issuer, without both issuing and providing a physical card for the national card account to the recipient of the certificate, the certificate having been purchased by a purchaser, who is not also the recipient, and containing all information necessary for the purchase of goods or services from any merchant who is capable of processing economic transactions involving one of the plurality national card accounts for which a physical card has issued, but without presentment of the physical card.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Matthew J. Gillin, Roger Korfmann, Paul L. Raden
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Patent number: 8364589Abstract: A method and system for performing a cash transaction with a self-service financial transaction terminal makes use of computer hardware and software that allows a financial institution cardholder to authorize a recipient to withdraw a specified amount of cash at an ATM of the particular financial institution. The cardholder can set up the transaction, for example, from any telephone using an interactive voice response (IVR) system, or by utilizing the application at a financial institution ATM, or by using an Internet website application. The originator can set up the recipient's ATM transaction to be either cardless or card-initiated.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Carol J. Rizzo, Phoebe Rin-Rin Hsu, Michael L. Sears
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Patent number: 8346678Abstract: Described herein is an enabling product that facilitates implementation of an m-commerce business solution. According to an embodiment of the present invention an m-commerce solution includes: a content provider or merchant site that provides products and goods to be purchased; a payment system allowing online authorization of funds to purchase the goods; and a wireless network for all customer interactions. Embodiments described herein perform at least one of the following three functions: 1) protocol conversions; 2) customer information reposing, and 3) payment authorization system interfacing.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Grigor Markarian, Ramadurai Vaidyanathan, Arun Ahuja, Albert Cohen, Anand Tata
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Patent number: 8346663Abstract: A method and system of smart card banking utilizes a contactless communication interface, such as infrared or a wireless or radio frequency interface, including, for example, a proximity interface. A contactless communication is initiated for a smart card user between a smart card application and the on-line system of a financial institution, such as a bank, the system verifies authorization for the communication, the information is communicated for the user to the on-line system. The contactless communication is initiated, and the information is communicated, for example, between a contactless interface transceiver of a personal data assistant, into which the smart card is inserted, and the contactless interface transceiver of an on-line terminal. Alternatively, the contactless communication is initiated, and the information is communicated between a contactless interface transceiver of the smart card and the contactless interface transceiver of the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1999Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventor: Joseph C. Kawan
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Patent number: 8347086Abstract: A system and method of guaranteeing the presence of secure and tamper-proof remote files over a distributed communication medium, such as the Internet, is provided. The system and method automatically detects, and then self-repairs corrupt, modified or non-existent remote files. The method first performs an integrity check on a remote file and then determines whether the integrity check passed. If the integrity check passed, then the user goes through the authentication process as normal. If the integrity check fails, then the present invention redirects to an install module in order to prepare to reinstall the remote file. Via the install module, the present invention then reinstalls the remote file and the user is then taken through the authentication process as normal.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2001Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Steve Vlcan, Bikram S Bakshi
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Patent number: 8346677Abstract: Described herein is an enabling product that facilitates implementation of an m-commerce business solution. According to an embodiment of the present invention an m-commerce solution includes: a content provider or merchant site that provides products and goods to be purchased; a payment system allowing online authorization of funds to purchase the goods; and a wireless network for all customer interactions. Embodiments described herein perform at least one of the following three functions: 1) protocol conversions; 2) customer information reposing, and 3) payment authorization system interfacing.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2001Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Grigor Markarian, Ramadurai Vaidyanathan, Arun Ahuja, Albert Cohen, Anand Tata
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Patent number: 8341075Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for assessing the risks and/or exposures associated with financial transactions using various statistical and probabilistic techniques. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method and system for identifying plausible sources of error in data used as input to financial risk assessment systems using Bayesian belief networks as a normative diagnostic tool to model relationships between and among inputs/outputs of the risk assessment system and other external factors.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventor: Ronald Coleman
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Patent number: 8327429Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for centralizing and standardizing implementation of security tokens so as to provide one token per one user for accessing business applications across an enterprise, providing scalability to support authentication of as many enterprise users as desired or needed, and providing a standardized token management interface that supports both pre-binding and post-binding user registration processes and different types of security token.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Jerry Speyer, Sandeep Nair, Ricky Lou
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Patent number: 8311909Abstract: A method and system for managing legal fees and minimizing costs of an organization involves periodically receiving case budget information consisting at least in part of identification, billing rate, and hours for each person projected to work on a legal project for the organization. The case budget information is received by internal counsel for the organization from external counsel via entry of the information on a template provided by internal counsel and uploaded to an internal matter management system of the organization if approved by internal counsel. At the end of each billing cycle, current bill data from external counsel is also uploaded to the internal matter management system of the organization, and the current bill data is compared with the case budget information. A report is generated flagging any discrepancies between the current bill data and the case budget information.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Michael Helfer, Michael T. Heyrich, Maria M. Zulaica
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Patent number: 8302172Abstract: A method and system for securely logging onto a banking system authentication server so that a user credential never appears in the clear during interaction with the system in which a user's credential is DES encrypted, and the DES key is PKI encrypted with the public key of an application server by an encryption applet before being transmitted to the application server. Within the HSM of the application server, the HSM decrypts and re-encrypts the credential under a new DES key known to the authentication server, the re-encrypted credential is forwarded to the authentication server, decrypted with the new DES key known to the authentication server, and verified by the authentication server.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Citibank Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Michael Grandcolas, Marc Guzman, Thomas Yee, Dilip Parekh, Yonggiang Chen
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Patent number: 8301525Abstract: A method and system of managing communication of information to a destination utilizes computer hardware and software and a client-server architecture. The system receives information in file form, such as ASCII file form, via a file transfer service and/or in message-based form, such as SWIFT and/or ISITC messages, via a message network. The information that is received in message-based form is converted to file form by a message to file converter and translated by a message format library to an intermediary file format, and the information that is received in file form is also translated to the intermediary format by a message format library. The intermediary file format information can be aggregated and sorted, and is then translated to a preferred file format of the destination and sent to the destination.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventor: Adrian Gilmore Bray
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Patent number: 8296229Abstract: A system and method for associating consumers with their purchases so that consumer transactions can be tied back to a particular consumer is described. More particularly, a central transaction entity as part of a larger network collects, aggregates, manages and mines consumer transaction data from at least consumer and merchant members of the network for the purpose of routing electronic purchase history to consumers and allowing merchant analysis of consumer behavior in order to create consumer profiles to better service consumers and provide more personalized offers.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventors: Eric Yellin, Susan Moon, Ntiedo Etuk
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Patent number: 8280810Abstract: A method and system automatically harmonizes access to a given software application program via different access devices. Through use of the method and system, a financial institution can provide access to a given application (such as, for example, automatic bill payment services) to customers using different access devices such web browsers, screen phones and personal computers. A single application program is all that needs to be written and maintained by the financial institution. Also, the method and system enables financial institutions to “leverage” existing programs because now the institution can automatically “project” its existing stock of program services unto new access devices—devices which may not have even existed at the time the program was created. By receiving information from the user via the user's access device, including information identifying the type of device being used and the application program the user wishes to access, the present invention solves these problems.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Michael L. Grandcolas, Wendell W. Anthony, Patrick Law, Leslie Moss, Teresa A. Petach, Peter Tompkins
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Patent number: 8266025Abstract: A method and system is provided for assuring the integrity of data used to evaluate financial risk or exposure in trading portfolios such as portfolios of derivative contracts by looking for sweeping changes or statistically significant trends suggestive of possible errors. The method and system uses Content Analysis to measure the changes in the information content or entropy of data to detect abnormal changes that may require human intervention. A graphical user interface can also be provided that provides a mechanism for alerting users of possible errors and also gives an indication of the severity of the detected abnormality.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2000Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Ronald Coleman, Richard Renzetti
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Patent number: 8260704Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems for managing consumer transactional accounts provides a temporary line of credit with an installment option that a consumer can use for specific occasions or life events. The account remains open for only a limited period of time during which interest does not accrue. Thereafter, the account automatically expires, interest begins to accrue on the amount charged on the account, and an invoice is sent to the consumer with a number of payment options.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventors: Kevin K. Hung, Susan R. Moon, Eric H. Yellin, Alice C. Yu
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Patent number: 8204830Abstract: A global customer activated terminal (CAT) primarily serves traveling customers who require access to their accounts when they are away from their home financial institution and beyond their local regional financial area. The system provides applications that permit users to access their accounts and utilize account profiles and transaction journals within a generic global system approach, and each transaction set provides access to the user's full account profile. The traveling customer is also provided with access to all their accounts linked (as they would locally) to a specific card. The hardware employed in the system supports encryption key downloading, unscrambling and PIN encryption, so that security is instituted at the hardware level. To provide the maximum flexibility at each regional level for product and services offered, regional front end processors and Hosts are the arbitrators of each transaction acceptance and fulfillment, rather than the CAT.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Nancy Bryant, Howard A. Schechtman, Lucilla Warren, Wigberto Yu, Netty Meiroff
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Patent number: 8181232Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for secure user authentication in electronic commerce involves maintaining electronic information having a first aspect that is accessible over a first electronic communication channel in response to entry of a first credential known to the user and a second aspect that is accessible by the user over the first electronic communication channel in response to entry of a second credential provided to the user at a pre-registered delivery address on a second electronic communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Michael Grandcolas, Irina Koryakovtseva, Jennifer Vos, Robert A. Herrig
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Patent number: 8157166Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for managing transaction card accounts involves enabling a transaction card account by a card issuer for use with pre-defined categories of providers of goods/services and goods/services sold and issuing a transaction card and establishing an associated pre-qualified category card account. Upon receiving data for a transaction with the transaction card at a transaction terminal by a processing platform of the card issuer via a card association processing network, the category of the provider and goods/services is interrogated to determine whether or not the transaction can be posted on the pre-qualified category card account of the cardholder, and the transaction is approved and posted to the pre-qualified category card account if the transaction falls within the pre-qualified category of the cardholder.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventor: William Johnson
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Patent number: 8156039Abstract: A method and system of managing a mortgage rebate transaction card account in which a transaction card provider computes a mortgage rebate amount based on the amount of charges incurred against the account and periodically arranges for application of the mortgage rebate amount against a mortgage loan balance for the cardholder. The account is provided by the transaction card provider in connection with either a pre-existing mortgage loan of the cardholder or a prospective mortgage loan of the cardholder. Further, the account can be provided in connection with a mortgage loan from any mortgage lender regardless of the existence or non-existence of an affiliation or association between the transaction card provider and the mortgage lender.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventor: Gina Doynow
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Patent number: 8145566Abstract: A standalone notification system, including a notification server which generates electronic messages for alerting customers of potentially fraudulent activity on one or more of their financial accounts. Alternatively, or in addition thereto, the notification system may be used to forward transaction code(s) to customers for verification of a request for high risk transaction(s) with respect to a customer's financial account. The transaction code is generated in response to a high risk transaction request and sent to through an identified customer notification means, e.g., e-mail, short message service (“SMS”), facsimile, mobile phone, telephone, etc. The customer must enter the transaction code within a predetermined amount of time in order to verify the high-risk transaction request.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Arun Ahuja, Ramadurai Vaidyanathan, Anand Tata, Grigor Markarian, Joe Pan, Peter Tompkins
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Patent number: 8146141Abstract: A method and system for securely logging onto a banking system authentication server so that a user credential never appears in the clear during interaction with the system in which during a log on process, an encryption applet and the public key of a public/private key pair of a banking application server, the private key for which is known by a hardware security module (HSM) of the banking application, are downloaded by a user's browser. The applet contains code for generating a DES key and performing DES and PKI encryption. A user's credential is DES encrypted, and the DES key is PKI encrypted with the public key of the application server by the applet before being transmitted to the application server.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Citibank Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Michael Grandcolas, Marc Guzman, Thomas Yee, Dilip Parekh, Yongqiang Chen
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Patent number: 8132226Abstract: A system, method and computer program product that utilizes measurements for the authentication of users to enterprise resources. The system includes an authentication server that stores the engine and collections of data required by the system to authenticate users. The collections of data include templates, policies, groups, device IDS, user IDS, computer IDS and application IDS. In the present invention, it is the policies that determine the way or method in which a user is to be authenticated by the system. The pre-defined polices include an OR policy, an AND policy, a CONTINGENT policy, a RANDOM policy and a THRESHOLD policy, a multi-user policy, a multi-location policy, a multi-template policy, a user dependent policy, a location restriction policy, and a computer/device specific policy.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2007Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Peter Garrett Bianco, William Taylor Boon, Anthony C. Rochon, Marc A. Sherman, Robert Brewster Sterling, Karl Roger Ware
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Patent number: 8117122Abstract: Methods and systems for managing transaction card accounts in which cardholders are permitted to incur transaction charge balances on existing transaction card accounts and substituting the existing transaction card for each of at least a portion of the plurality of cardholders with a different transaction card product upon an occurrence of one of termination of a private label or co-branded agreement and a predetermined level of inactivity on the transaction card account which has significant additional features and benefits absent from the existing transaction card product.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventors: William Johnson, Craig Vallorano
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Patent number: 8117125Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling certificate-based open payment transactions involving a merchant and a customer utilizing various types of networks and terminals. Prior to accessing a merchant POS terminal or, for example, a merchant website, a customer obtains a certificate from a service provider (SP), such as a bank, certifying his identification (ID) and his relevant financial information, in a form that is understandable by the SP. The SP is capable of performing multiple functions. For example, the SP is capable of acting as a certificate authority when it issues the customer's certificates, an authenticator when it receives private-key encrypted certificates from the customers to be decrypted using the corresponding public-key, and an authorizing authority when it checks the value available in a customer' chosen payment account against the requested purchase or transfer amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2000Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Developement Center, Inc.Inventors: Joseph C. Kawan, Ronald King-Hang Chu, Charles Golvin, Peter Tompkins
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Patent number: 8112330Abstract: A delivery system and method allow a financial institution to provide financial services to a plurality of remote devices and internally within the financial institution to staff terminals using a set of re-usable global components which are modular and are organized into services sets. The system and method operate in sessions and, for instance, employ a dialog component for gathering information from a customer, a rule broker component for providing answers to the various legal and regulatory rules in a particular country, a language man component for selecting appropriate language, a transaction executor component for performing transactions, and a presentation manager component for formatting outputs to the customer.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2000Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Citibank Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Michael L. Grandcolas, Nancy Bryant, Howard A. Schechtman, Dilip J. Parekh
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Patent number: 8108307Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for exchanging value using a smart card in a financial transaction is disclosed. The system includes a smart card having a contact interface and a contactless interface interactive with a closed purse application and an open purse application controlled by a microprocessor. The closed purse application contains application-specific value, while the open purse contains general value. The application-specific value and general value are each compatible within the system of the invention to perform and settle the financial transaction. The financial transaction may include the smart card communicating with a load terminal or a transaction terminal to add or change the amount of value on the smart card. Further, the present invention include auto-load functionality for adding an amount of value to the smart card. Finally, applications such as a transportation application and a loyalty application are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1999Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Joseph C. Kawan, Ramiro Munoz, Mark Kogen
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Patent number: 8103626Abstract: A method for updating web pages on a web server without republishing the web pages involves providing on a production database server a live version of one or more business data tables containing information used to populate web pages on a production web server and storing in a quality assurance database server a quality assurance version of the business data tables that can be used to populate pages on a quality assurance web server. A maker at a business workstation can access the quality assurance database server from time to time and enter a change to data on the quality assurance version of the business data tables.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Roy Sykes, Joseph Zusman, Sikun Lan, Kent Frazier, Tyler Young, Yong Huang, Stanislav Solari
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Patent number: 8065226Abstract: A method and system for performing a cash transaction with a self-service financial transaction terminal makes use of computer hardware and software that allows a financial institution cardholder to authorize a recipient to withdraw a specified amount of cash at an ATM of the particular financial institution. The cardholder can set up the transaction, for example, from any telephone using an interactive voice response (IVR) system, or by utilizing the application at a financial institution ATM, or by using an Internet website application. The originator can set up the recipient's ATM transaction to be either cardless or card-initiated.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2001Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Carol J. Rizzo, Phoebe Rin-Rin Hsu, Michael L. Sears
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Patent number: 8057556Abstract: A method for producing a combustion product that involves dewatering raw paint sludge from spray paint booth operations. The resulting material can provide significant and economical fuel value to combustion processes such as for power plants while also obviating the need to dispose of waste paint sludge in landfills. Additionally the process is inexpensive, safe and free of most problems associated with paint sludge drying.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Joe McCarty, Christopher Hubb, Kenneth O. Peebles
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Patent number: 8060426Abstract: A method performed by a transfer instrument issuer involves issuing, to a recipient, a certificate which is linked to a national card account obtained by the transfer instrument issuer from an account issuer different from the transfer instrument issuer, without both issuing and providing a physical card for the national card account to the recipient of the certificate, the certificate having been purchased by a purchaser, who is not also the recipient, and containing all information necessary for the purchase of goods or services from any merchant who is capable of processing economic transactions involving one of the plurality national card accounts for which a physical card has issued, but without presentment of the physical card.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Matthew J. Gillin, Roger Korfmann, Paul L. Raden
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Patent number: 8041632Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for assessing the risks and/or exposures associated with financial transactions using various statistical and probabilistic techniques. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method and system for identifying plausible sources of error in data used as input to financial risk assessment systems using Bayesian belief networks as a normative diagnostic tool to model relationships between and among inputs/outputs of the risk assessment system and other external factors.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2000Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventor: Ronald Coleman
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Patent number: 8032932Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for centralizing and standardizing implementation of security tokens so as to provide one token per one user for accessing business applications across an enterprise, providing scalability to support authentication of as many enterprise users as desired or needed, and providing a standardized token management interface that supports both pre-binding and post-binding user registration processes and different types of security token.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Jerry Speyer, Sandeep Nair, Ricky Luo
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Patent number: 8010786Abstract: A system for providing interoperability between PKI networks is provided in which a identity management server converts PKI requests received in a client-specific format into a generic format, identifies an appropriate certificate authority for handling the request, converts the request into a format specific to the format used by the identified certificate authority, and forwards the request to the identified certificate authority for processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.Inventor: Hilary Ward
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Patent number: 7970686Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for communicating information between a securities customer and a trader. The system includes a computer which has three class components for completing the communications between the customer and the trader. A first component manages trading functions, a second component manages customer log-in and password, and the third component manages communication between the first two components and a trading system.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2000Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.Inventors: Fred Irwin, Mark Johnson, Neil D. Potter, Peter E. Raynor, Maria Torremante
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Patent number: 7966226Abstract: A method and system for purchased-based segmentation of potential customers employs the use of actual, observed purchases instead of presumptions and correlations to improve the accuracy of segmentation and involves collecting empirical data for a client on actual purchasing behavior of a group of customers and applying statistical modeling techniques to the empirical purchasing behavior data to identify segments or clusters of the customers that exhibit similar purchasing propensity characteristics. Thereafter, the segments or clusters are further differentiated from one another according to other factors having a tendency to directly affect actual purchasing behavior of the customers within the segments or clusters, and potential customers are then identified according to a correlation with the segments or clusters for customized marketing.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Temares, Alan B. Newman, Noor A. Menai
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Patent number: 7953662Abstract: A global customer activated terminal (CAT) primarily serves traveling customers who require access to their accounts when they are away from their home financial institution and beyond their local regional financial area. The system provides applications that permit users to access their accounts and utilize account profiles and transaction journals within a generic global system approach, and each transaction set provides access to the user's full account profile. The traveling customer is also provided with access to all their accounts linked (as they would locally) to a specific card. The hardware employed in the system supports encryption key downloading, unscrambling and PIN encryption, so that security is instituted at the hardware level. To provide the maximum flexibility at each regional level for product and services offered, regional front end processors and Hosts are the arbitrators of each transaction acceptance and fulfillment, rather than the CAT.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2010Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.Inventors: Nancy Bryant, Howard A. Schechtman, Lucilla Warren, Wigberto Yu, Netty Meiroff
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Patent number: D672786Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Citigroup Technology, Inc.Inventors: Christopher E. Kay, Tim Kobe, Sam Lising, Raul Paredes, Sanjeev Mehra