Patents by Inventor Anthony E. Rita

Anthony E. Rita has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7480631
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting and processing fraud and credit abuse is disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a method for detecting and processing fraud and credit abuse. The method may comprise: receiving a telephone call from a caller concerning a credit account; identifying one or more potential fraud-related problems by searching the credit account data for conditions that match one or more predetermined qualifiers and quantifiers; presenting the caller with a series of questions and soliciting, from the caller, responses to the series of questions, wherein each question in the series is generated based on the one or more potential fraud-related problems and further based on the caller's responses to earlier questions in the series; and determining a fraud status associated with the credit account based on a computerized analysis of the solicited responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Angel Merced, Timothy A. Webb, SueAnne Senz, Chakravarthi S. Bathula, Lou Ann Hoffman, Anthony E. Rita, Kevin D. Buckner