Patents by Inventor Eric Charles McConnell

Eric Charles McConnell 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: 8745698
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to apparatuses and methods for identity verification. For example, in one embodiment, a financial institution has a system to generate authentication questions to be used when authenticating a customer when the customer is trying to access and/or use the customer's account. The authentication system is configured to ask one or more authentication questions each time the customer tries to access or use the account, where the authentication questions are generally out-of-wallet questions that constantly change from one authentication attempt to the next. For example, in one embodiment, the questions include behavioral, historical, and transaction based questions generated from information available about a customer's financial account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: James M. Ashfield, David C. Shroyer, Eric Charles McConnell