Patents by Inventor David Anthony Fink

David Anthony Fink 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).

  • Instantaneous merchant information retrieval for financial transactions
    Patent number: 8738493
    Abstract: A solution to resolve ambiguous merchant data in connection with processing a cashless transaction request in a real-time manner. Provided according to the present disclosure are a system and method including a binary-searchable non-transitory computer-readable medium is configure to store a first set of unambiguous merchant identification data having plural data entries therein, each entry corresponding to a merchant. A binary search of the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data is carried out using search keys based upon the ambiguous merchant identification data to determine whether one or more entries of the first set satisfies at least one of a second set of partial match criteria for comparing the ambiguous merchant identification data with the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Kimberly Ann Martin, Richard Thomas Flynn, Gary Randall Horn, David Anthony Fink, Thomas Joseph Sellner
  • INSTANTANEOUS MERCHANT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
    Publication number: 20130262313
    Abstract: A solution to resolve ambiguous merchant data in connection with processing a cashless transaction request in a real-time manner. Provided according to the present disclosure are a system and method including a binary-searchable non-transitory computer-readable medium is configure to store a first set of unambiguous merchant identification data having plural data entries therein, each entry corresponding to a merchant. A binary search of the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data is carried out using search keys based upon the ambiguous merchant identification data to determine whether one or more entries of the first set satisfies at least one of a second set of partial match criteria for comparing the ambiguous merchant identification data with the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Kimberly Ann Martin, Richard Thomas Flynn, Gary Randall Horn, David Anthony Fink, Thomas Joseph Sellner
  • Instantaneous merchant information retrieval for financial transactions
    Patent number: 8458071
    Abstract: A solution to disambiguate ambiguous merchant data in connection with processing a cashless transaction request in a real-time manner. Provided according to the present disclosure are a system and method including a binary-searchable non-transitory computer-readable medium is configure to store a first set of unambiguous merchant identification data having plural data entries therein, each entry corresponding to a merchant. A binary search of the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data is carried out using search keys based upon the ambiguous merchant identification data to determine whether one or more entries of the first set satisfies at least one of a hierarchical second set of partial match criteria for comparing the ambiguous merchant identification data with the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Kimberly Ann Martin, Richard Thomas Flynn, Gary Randall Horn, David Anthony Fink, Thomas Joseph Sellner
  • INSTANTANEOUS MERCHANT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
    Publication number: 20130060696
    Abstract: A solution to disambiguate ambiguous merchant data in connection with processing a cashless transaction request in a real-time manner. Provided according to the present disclosure are a system and method including a binary-searchable non-transitory computer-readable medium is configure to store a first set of unambiguous merchant identification data having plural data entries therein, each entry corresponding to a merchant. A binary search of the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data is carried out using search keys based upon the ambiguous merchant identification data to determine whether one or more entries of the first set satisfies at least one of a hierarchical second set of partial match criteria for comparing the ambiguous merchant identification data with the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ann Martin, Richard Thomas Flynn, Gary Randall Horn, David Anthony Fink, Thomas Joseph Sellner