Patents Examined by Hao Fu
  • Patent number: 11055714
    Abstract: A method and a system for fingerprinting signatures and enhanced signature capturing for charge card transactions on mobile communication devices identify and transform a signature into a normalized representation such as a bytestream including coordinate data and combine the normalized representation with some transaction information into combined data. The combined data is further transformed into fixed length data stored for further analyses or uses. Upon the receipt of a dispute, the stored representation(s) of the signature and some of the stored transaction information of the transaction in dispute may be transformed into a first fixed length data. The first fixed length data may be further compared with the stored fixed length data obtained at the time of the transaction to resolve the dispute. The representations of signatures of multiple transactions may be used to determine whether these multiple transactions belong to the same category or to different categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Kolupaev, Sergey Aldoukhov, Alexander V. Chumikov, Eugene O. Bochkarev, Timofey Beschastnov
  • Patent number: 11037244
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to providing portfolio management tools. For example, a system may generate a portfolio management user interface comprising a first table and a first rebalancing button. The first table may comprise an asset class name column; a model portfolio column indicating asset class weights in a model portfolio; a test portfolio column indicating asset class weights in a test portfolio; a modification column indicating modifications to asset class weights; a modified portfolio column indicating asset class weights in a modified portfolio; and a plurality of rows comprising a first row for a first asset class of the asset classes and a second row for a second asset class of the asset classes. The system may receive an indication that the user selected the rebalancing button and generate a first set of modifications to asset class weights to reduce a difference between the test portfolio and the model portfolio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Justin Morris Krieger, Sae Lee, Zar John Toolan, Gaurav Bhagat, Sooyoung Moon Cho
  • Patent number: 11030703
    Abstract: A system and method for processing and administering insurance policy premium discounts for mobile device disabling technology to promote safer driver is disclosed. An insurance policy premium discount is determined based on the level of disabling technology implemented by a user on a user's mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: James A. Russo, Kelly J. McLaughlin, Lawrence J. Opena, Cindy S. DeLeón
  • Patent number: 11023976
    Abstract: An enhanced system and method for handling, matching and executing a diverse group of limit-priced orders in an electronic options environment is disclosed. Most of the order types disclosed are automatically repriced and reposted as the NBBO changes to increase their execution opportunities. Market maker entitlements are integrated with the order processing, so that the market maker is guaranteed an allocation of the trade if the market maker is at the NBBO when an order priced at or better than the NBBO is received. Once posted to the order book, the displayed price of an order may be eligible for preferential execution in a market maker entitlement process, regardless of whether the displayed price is original or has been automatically repriced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NYSE Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Adcock, Michael A. Cormack, Amy Farnstrom, Robert A. Hill
  • Patent number: 11004057
    Abstract: A method for providing a gift includes receiving gift information from a first computing device. The gift information includes a maximum gift amount, a gift recipient, and a gifter financial account and gift redemption information. The method includes generating a tokenized PAN associated with the gifter financial account, identifying a second computing device associated with the gift recipient, determining one or more gift redemption locations and receiving gift recipient location data. The method includes determining that the second computing device has entered a gift-eligible location based on the gift recipient location data and the one or more redemption locations and transmitting data indicative of a gift for display by the second computing device. The method further includes outputting an instruction to debit the gifter financial account with an amount of money in response to determining that a transaction has been executed using the tokenized PAN at the gift-eligible location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Taurean Butler, Christine Berglund, Adam Vukich, Jessica Greenberg, Colin Hart, Mykhaylo Bulgakov, Jason Ji, Kaylyn Gibilterra
  • Patent number: 10984406
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, processes, computer program code, and means for employing the wireless or near field communication (“NFC”) functionality of mobile devices and payment terminals for use in payment, loyalty, and offer and coupon transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin Laracey
  • Patent number: 10977741
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring use and determining risk associated with operation of autonomous vehicles are provided. According to certain aspects, autonomous operation features associated with a vehicle may be determined, and operating data regarding vehicle operation may be obtained. The operating data may include information regarding use levels or settings associated with use of the autonomous operation features. Risk levels associated with the features may be determined from test data or actual loss data. The risk levels and operating data may be used to determine a total risk level associated with operation of the vehicle with expected use levels of the autonomous operation features. The total risk level may further be used to determine or adjust aspects of an insurance policy associated with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Blake Konrardy, Scott T. Christensen, Gregory Hayward, Scott Farris
  • Patent number: 10949845
    Abstract: A transaction message processing server is configured to receive an authorization request message from a sender computing device, the authorization request message associated with a transaction. The server is also configured to detect a decision data element in an authentication outcome data field of the authorization request message, and interpret the decision data element as an indicator that the transaction is highly authenticated. The server is further configured to retrieve a reason code that identifies the transaction as a highly authenticated transaction, and embed the reason code into the authorization request message to form an enhanced authorization request message. The server is still further configured to transmit the enhanced authorization request message including the reason code to an issuer computing device, wherein the enhanced authorization request message is configured to enable the issuer computing device to bypass at least one issuer authentication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Peter Goldenberg, Johan Gerber, Richard Smith
  • Patent number: 10943413
    Abstract: A computer-based method for maintaining an autonomous or self-driving vehicle is provided. The method is implemented using a vehicle controlling (“VC”) computer device installed on the vehicle. The method may include determining that a maintenance operation is required for the self-driving vehicle, retrieving an operator schedule for an operator of the self-driving vehicle, retrieving a facility schedule for a facility, determining a time for performing the maintenance operation based upon the operator schedule, the facility schedule, and an amount of time required to (i) complete the maintenance operation, (ii) drive the self-driving vehicle from a first location to the facility to arrive at the determined time, and (iii) drive the self-driving vehicle to a second location, instructing the self-driving vehicle to drive from the first location to the facility to arrive at the determined time; and/or instructing the self-driving vehicle to drive from the facility a second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Brian N. Harvey, Nathan L. Tofte
  • Patent number: 10929923
    Abstract: Session management, security scoring, and friction management are provided herein. Sessions may be monitored for commonalities or other attributes or aspects and closed, terminated, or a freeze placed on additional sessions from being initiated. A security score may be provided which is indicative of how secure a user is with respect to one or more ways the user interacts with a resource. One or more suggested actions or score improvement strategies may be suggested to facilitate improvement of a security score for a user. The security score may be used to affect business decisions made by an institution or financial entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Traci H. Nguyen, Michael Chang, Nairobi N. Kim, Ian Jensen, Samuel Martin, Cheung Li
  • Patent number: 10896422
    Abstract: A collusion analytics (CA) computing device including a processor and a memory in communication with the processor is provided. The processor receives transaction data associated with a candidate transaction of a candidate merchant and a candidate cardholder, retrieves merchant data associated with the candidate merchant from a database, generates collusion analytics data based at least partially on the merchant data, detects potential collusion between the candidate merchant and the candidate cardholder based on the generated collusion analytics data, and transmits a collusion alert to an user computing device when potential collusion is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Manoneet Kohli
  • Patent number: 10891620
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for accessing data across networks and from mobile devices for providing fraud detection and risk management and that maintains anonymity of users. More particularly, a system and method implemented inside a payment server is provided that can access data across networks and from mobile devices, including encoded personally identifiable information (PII) data, and aggregate and analyze such data from multiple payment networks to generate a risk score that is sent to one or more payment networks for fraud detection and risk management, while maintaining anonymity of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunsong Meng, Aneesh Ali Nainamvalappil Cheriyakath, Manan Kapadia, Minseok Park, Chung Liu
  • Patent number: 10872378
    Abstract: An enhanced system and method for handling, matching and executing a diverse group of limit-priced orders in an electronic options environment is disclosed. Most of the order types disclosed are automatically repriced and reposted as the NBBO changes to increase their execution opportunities. Market maker entitlements are integrated with the order processing, so that the market maker is guaranteed an allocation of the trade if the market maker is at the NBBO when an order priced at or better than the NBBO is received. Once posted to the order book, the displayed price of an order may be eligible for preferential execution in a market maker entitlement process, regardless of whether the displayed price is original or has been automatically repriced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: NYSE Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Adcock, Michael A. Cormack, Amy Farnstrom, Robert A. Hill
  • Patent number: 10861005
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a payment transaction for a user in a virtual reality (VR) environment are described herein. Based on detecting a first interaction of the user with a physical payment card in the physical environment, a virtual payment card corresponding to the physical payment card is generated in the VR environment. The virtual payment card may have a different serial number than the physical payment card. In response to detecting a second interaction of the user with the physical payment card in the physical environment, a transaction using the virtual payment card in the VR environment is processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Braden Ericson
  • Patent number: 10846707
    Abstract: A method and system for deploying and customizing advertisement selection logic without requiring a shutdown and/or restart of system resources. A first arrangement of advertisement logic may include filters to be executed in a pipeline model. A second arrangement of advertisement selection logic may be determined based at least in part on information received. Alternatively, the second arrangement of advertisement selection logic may be automatic based at least in part on statistics or defined hints. The second arrangement of advertisement selection logic may be implemented using different filters or rearranged filters in an updated pipeline model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Provenance Asset Group LLC
    Inventor: Yekesa Kosuru
  • Patent number: 10824207
    Abstract: A server computer determines, based on interaction data, that the first device and the second device are to be paired with each other. After pairing the first device and the second device, communications may be initiated between the devices. Communications may include customer-provided information (e.g., shopping lists) and merchant-provided information (e.g., items in stock or on sale from the consumer's shopping list).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Patrick Faith, Mark Carlson, Ayman Hammad, Ben Rewis, Krishna Prasad Koganti
  • Patent number: 10817948
    Abstract: This technology optimizes management of third party insurance claim processing includes retrieving third party claim data associated with a selected third party claim and from an automatic integration with at least one additional insurance claim application initiated based on the selection of the third party claim. One or more customized claim management operations are executed based on the selected third party claim and at least a portion of the retrieved third party claim data. At least a portion of a customized hierarchical claim management graphical user interface system is generated based on at least a portion of the retrieved third party claim data and the executed one or more customized claim management operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Mitchell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Vidya Dinamani, Ajit Viswanathan, William Walker
  • Patent number: 10810675
    Abstract: Performance parameters of a vehicle can be measured by an on-board performance parameter measuring device. The performance parameters can be measured while the vehicle is being used. The measured performance parameters of the vehicle can be transmitted to a computing device. The computing device can be configured to generate a user cost that reflects a cost for insuring the vehicle based on the measured performance parameters of the vehicle. A graphical user interface can be generated by the computing device for presentation to a user via a display device, that graphical user interface can include the user cost. An alternative transportation route for the journey and an alternative transportation cost for the journey can be determined and presented to the user through the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Esurance Insurance Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Andrew Erickson, Eric Anthony Madia
  • Patent number: 10789647
    Abstract: Systems, methods and user interfaces are provided for order matrix management and highlighting. Market data may be arranged in a matrix where the market data may be highlighted and/or otherwise presented to provide further information to a user. In some cases a computer system may include a computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a computing device to receive market data for a financial instrument. The computer system may further process instructions to identify pending orders that may result in a cross trade, such as with trades entered by a trader or between members of a same business organization. The computer system may further process instructions that cause the computer system to generate a user interface that highlights which of the pending orders that may result in a cross trade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventor: James David Russell Barry
  • Patent number: 10771287
    Abstract: A public cloud can host a multi-network service for transceiving common requests and responses for multiple networks. The public cloud can receive requests from the networks to join the service via an application programming interface (API). The public cloud can receive a request from a client device for information from one of the networks via the service, and the public cloud can transmit the request to that network and corresponding request(s) to one or more other networks joined to the service. The public cloud provider can receive multiple responses to the request and corresponding request(s), and transmit the responses to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Franco Travostino