Patents by Inventor Gary Eugene Baalman

Gary Eugene Baalman 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: 11115410
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first audio input from a user requesting access to information or a service, sending a request for the information or service to an authentication server, where the request includes first authentication information based on the first audio input and further includes a user identifier associated with the user, receiving a second audio input from a client system of the user, where the second audio input includes a first authentication code to be compared to a second authentication code generated by the authentication server, sending second authentication information based on the second audio input and the user identifier to the authentication server for verification, receiving, from the authentication server, an indication of whether the user is successfully authenticated based on the second authentication information, and providing, to the user, access to the information or service when the user is successfully authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Robert Hanson, Lloyd Hilaiel, Jinsong Yu, Heidi Young, Gary Eugene Baalman, Rachel Jordan Engel
  • Publication number: 20190147515
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable storage media are disclosed for facilitating a payment transaction between a user and a merchant. In particular, one or more embodiments call a third-party tokenization system in response to a request to initiate the payment transaction to obtain a payment token representing a payment authorization number. Additionally, one or more embodiments wrap the payment token within a transaction token to send to a merchant system associated with the merchant. One or more embodiments receive the transaction token in connection with a request to process the payment transaction and then extract the payment token based on receiving the transaction token. One or more embodiments then initiate the payment transaction based on receiving the transaction token by sending the payment token to a payment network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Kevin Patrick Hurley, Yegnashankar Parasuram, Gary Eugene Baalman, Vladislav Perelman