Patents Examined by Yin Y Choi
  • Patent number: 11416853
    Abstract: A system and method to conduct secure electronic financial transactions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Dmitriy Kolchin
  • Patent number: 11403633
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for sending digital information from a computer server SMa to a first connected device EAU1. The method including initial steps for registering a server SMA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TAKELANE
    Inventor: Pascal Baisnee
  • Patent number: 11379844
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for quantifying degrees of association between blockchain addresses in a weighted-linked database. The method may include: obtaining a node data set comprising one or more nodes and edges; associating a first node of the node data set with a first weight factor; identifying a first edge of the node data set, wherein the first edge comprises data indicating a source node address corresponding to the first node, a target node address corresponding to a second node of the one or more nodes in the node data set, and a first edge weight; determining a source value for the second node based on the first weight factor and the first edge weight; generating, a risk value for the second node based on the source value; and presenting, on a GUI, graphical depictions of the first node, the second node, and the first edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Elementus Inc.
    Inventor: Maxwell David Galka
  • Patent number: 11361302
    Abstract: Example embodiments of systems and methods for touch screen interface interaction using a card overlay are provided. In an embodiment, a body may include a first main side and a second main side opposite the first main side, wherein the body is positionable with respect to a touch screen interface. The transaction card may further include indicia on the body, the indicia identifying a plurality of apertures through the body, wherein a user input provided through the plurality of apertures actuates corresponding touch locations on the touch screen interface to authenticate a transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Rule, Kevin Osborn
  • Patent number: 11354666
    Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate authenticating a user making a payment using microelectromechanical systems (MEMs) devices (i.e., smart dust). The MEMs devices may have sensors that collect data and transfer it to a base station device. The MEMs devices can collect sensor data, including biometric data and/or capture images of the person. The MEMs can also collect sensor data such as audio data, optical data, temperature data, pressure data, and motion data and compare it to data associated with a user profile to determine that the person making the payment is the same person associated with the user profile. Once the person's identity has been confirmed, and thus authenticated, the payment request can be confirmed and payment made, via either the mobile device or credit card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Rameshchandra Bhaskar Ketharaju, Sarath Chava, Prasad N. Sivalanka, Madhu V. Vempati
  • Patent number: 11328298
    Abstract: A network gateway includes a gateway authenticator, a first network interface for interfacing the network gateway with a first computer network, and a second network interface for interfacing the network gateway with a second computer network that is distinct from the first computer network. The gateway authenticator receives from a pin-pad terminal, via the first computer network, an activation credential request that includes a first administrator credential. The pin-pad terminal receives the first administrator credential from a hardware token that is interfaced with the pin-pad terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Bryan Michael Gleeson, John Henry Dunstan
  • Patent number: 11328291
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for processing electronic payments for retail services and goods delivered by a retail establishment. In embodiments, a mobile wallet application is installed in the automobile. The automobile wallet application can receive and/or send transaction and payment information over a near field communication system to a retailer and on to an authorizing authority. The authorizing authority receives the payment and transaction information, authorizes or declines the payment of the transaction, and forwards the authorization or declination to the automobile wallet application. If authorized, the retailer provides the retail good or service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FIRST DATA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Hurt, Shaun Worley
  • Patent number: 11321709
    Abstract: A system and method to conduct secure electronic financial transactions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventor: Dmitriy Kolchin
  • Patent number: 11250156
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to enhance the security of physically delivered packages, items, or products, including postal mail. An article of manufacture associated with the enhanced security of one or more embodiments of the present disclosure can include: a container with a postage, a physical medium in the container, wherein the physical medium contains a sender message embodied on the surface of the physical medium, and wherein the sender message comprises: an unencrypted message, and two or more encrypted portions of a plurality of terms of service, where each of the two or more encrypted portions of the plurality of terms of service are associated with a distinct barcode corresponding to each of the two or more encrypted portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Edward Goodsitt, Austin Grant Walters, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Vincent Pham, Anh Truong, Kenneth Taylor
  • Patent number: 11227268
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing user data across multiple applications and devices are disclosed. An example method includes: detecting a user is conducting a transaction using a first application installed on a user device; determining that the user is requesting one or more payment options from a first merchant associated with the first application; determining that a global payment method is selected by the user; determining that the user device is a trusted device associated with the user; and in response to determining that the user device is a trusted device, providing the global payment method to the user in the first application on that same device or a different device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Aravindan Ranganathan, Srivathsan Narasimhan, Srinivasan Rangaraj
  • Patent number: 11210663
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein comprise hardware and software improvements in blockchain-asset exchange technology, whereby one or more servers automatically, based on a set of predetermined rules, executes a mechanism allowing blockchain-asset exchange customers to place standing-limit or market orders for blockchain-based digital assets (e.g., cryptocurrencies) with a counter-party, but without counter-party risk. The counter-party will not receive the payment until the customer's exchange order has executed, and the customer has taken possession and ownership of the desired asset. The customer cannot reverse payment or otherwise rescind the payment from the counter-party once the customer receives the desired asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHAPESHIFT AG
    Inventor: Erik Voorhees
  • Patent number: 11182851
    Abstract: Operating conditions of a blockchain configuration may be dynamic and change automatically under certain circumstances. One example method of operation may include receiving a blockchain transaction sent from a first blockchain to a second blockchain, identifying an inter-ledger contract between the first blockchain and the second blockchain, receiving an inter-ledger message at the second blockchain from the first blockchain, and determining whether to log the blockchain transaction in the first blockchain or the second blockchain based on the inter-ledger message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anna D. Derbakova, Nitin Gaur, Praveen Jayachandran, Srinivasan Muralidharan
  • Patent number: 11176548
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to off-line generation, storage, and usage of digital assets, such as cryptocurrency. In particular, methods and systems are disclosed for a system for cold payment of digital assets. In one example, a method for usage of digital assets, such as cryptocurrency, includes receiving at least one public key corresponding to at least one off-line cryptographic key pair, receiving a digital asset, determining a set of amounts for the digital asset corresponding to a user selection, assigning an amount of the digital asset to the at least one public key determined by the set of amounts, and transmitting a payment amount to a payee address corresponding to the user selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: MFE CAPITAL, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Francis Ettensohn, Jordan Daniel Brown, Benjamin Joseph Shepley
  • Patent number: 11176506
    Abstract: A blockchain configuration may require constant and large amounts of resources to maintain a growing structure. One example method of operation may include receiving blockchain transactions and creating a blockchain block, identifying miner devices to process the blockchain block, identifying expenses associated with each of the miner devices, selecting an optimal cost miner device among the miner devices based on the identified expenses associated with each of the miner devices, and assigning the optimal cost miner device to solve the blockchain block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rafal P. Konik, Roger A. Mittelstadt, Brian R. Muras, Chad A. Olstad
  • Patent number: 11170346
    Abstract: A credentials verification network utilizes blockchain technology to track/verify credentials for candidates that can later be used in the hiring verification process. As implemented by nodes of a distributed network, a candidate receives from a first network node a secure credential generated by a credentialing source from an original credential document. The first node processes the secure credential according to a security feature (e.g., hash function) to create a transaction, and assigns an identifier to the transaction. The first node signs the transaction with a private key to create a transaction signature. The first node sends the signed transaction to a central server that broadcasts the transaction to the blockchain network. Once the network has accepted the transaction, the candidate will be notified and handed over the raw text document and transaction receipt ID. The candidate can forward the information to a recruiter or potential employer running a second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Nethaji Tummuru, Surbhi Sheth-Shah, Michael Kunzmann, Sanjay Shirole, Jun Meng
  • Patent number: 11170363
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for secure purchasing using a mobile wallet. A first mobile wallet may receive secure purchasing data related to an product from a server system associated with a merchant. The secure purchasing data (e.g., stored on a QR code) may include product information and merchant information allowing the mobile wallet to obtain a public key of the merchant. The mobile wallet may determine whether the purchase of the product requires processing by a second mobile wallet based on transaction rules and at least some of the purchasing data. Based on the determination, the first mobile wallet may either send payment data for purchasing the product to the server system of the merchant, without requesting processing by the second mobile wallet or send a request for processing to the second mobile wallet so that the second mobile wallet can approve or purchase the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Joon Maeng, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Thomas Hayes
  • Patent number: 11151228
    Abstract: The present application discloses a blockchain-based image transaction system, method, and apparatus. An exemplary method comprises: receiving a target image uploaded from a transaction node in a blockchain, wherein the target image is provided to the transaction node by a user; authenticating, based on image content of the target image, copyright of the target image; if the authentication is successful: generating a copyright certificate of the target image; sending the copyright certificate to the transaction node for the transaction node to display the copyright certificate and a preset prompt window to the user, wherein the preset prompt window inquires the user whether to make the target image as an image available for transaction; and if confirmation information is received, adding the target image into an image transaction pool, wherein the confirmation information indicates the user has determined the target image as an image available for transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xueqing Zou
  • Patent number: 11144923
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed for progressive authorization of information. One of the methods includes obtaining information from a user device indicating a user identity of a user operating the user device, the user device being in communication with a content server. A confidence associated with the user identity of the user is determined. Requests from the content server for profile information associated with the user identity are responded to, such that authorization levels of requested profile information are determined to be satisfied based on the confidence. Upon a positive determination, use of the requested profile information is granted. Upon a negative determination, prompts for additional identifying information are provided on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Griffith, Richard Koehler, Lakshmi Saligram
  • Patent number: 11144918
    Abstract: A method comprises: selecting one or more blockchain assets from a remitter's blockchain account according to a transaction amount of a transaction to be remitted from the remitter's blockchain account into a receiver's blockchain account, wherein a total asset amount represented by the selected one or more blockchain assets is not less than the transaction amount, and a commitment of an individual asset amount represented by each of the selected one or more blockchain assets is recorded in a blockchain; generating a commitment of the transaction amount; and submitting to the blockchain the transaction comprising information of the selected one or more blockchain assets and the commitment of the transaction amount, for the selected one or more blockchain assets to be removed from the remitter's blockchain account and one or more blockchain assets corresponding to the commitment of the transaction amount to be added to the receiver's blockchain account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbin Zhang, Lichun Li, Baoli Ma, Zheng Liu, Shan Yin
  • Patent number: 11144914
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to receive token context data from a token request, determine parameters of a custom token, and generate and communicate the custom token. Tokens may be generated that are compatible with one or more payment providers from a plurality of possible payment providers. Data related to current and future conditions of the payment providers, merchant preferences, customer preferences, locations of the merchant, customer, and/or the transaction, and regulatory rules may be used to select the payment provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Dinesh Agnello Gomes, Ashwini Vishwanath, Vyomesh Sharma, Nitin Prabhu