Patents by Inventor Paul Vittimberga
Paul Vittimberga 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).
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Publication number: 20240078627Abstract: A method includes acquiring information regarding a user; generating one or more indicators of a data breach for an entity that stores one of transactional behavior data regarding the user or an indication of a transaction with the user in a past predefined time period; generating a first notification; providing the first notification to the user during a log-in process; receiving an indication from the user to exercise an option to scan transaction information of the user for suspected fraudulent activity at the entity; scanning the transaction information; determining a suspected fraudulent transaction; generating a second notification specific to the user and the suspected fraudulent transaction; deactivating a payment card associated with the suspected fraudulent transaction; and providing a supplemental notification to the user regarding the suspected fraudulent transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Daina DeBeaune, Chirstiane Evans, Bryan Kroll, Jill Bagalso McNulty, Gary Schilling, Paul Vittimberga
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Patent number: 11915211Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for pre-approving onboarding to a payment platform, executing on a processing device are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: access a node network; determine a first entity associated with a first node of the plurality of nodes is not a member of a payment platform; determine a total strength of connections of the first node to one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes exceeds a predetermined threshold value; and flag the first node of the plurality of nodes for an offer of onboarding to the payment platform consequent to determining the total strength of connections of the first node to the one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes exceeds the predetermined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Andrew J. Garner, IV, Lisa G. Hukari, Timothy R. Knowlton, Laura Lee Orcutt, Paul Vittimberga, Lolita Wang
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Publication number: 20240048552Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating a token associated with a user-level profile, receiving via a computing system a transaction message associated with a transaction where the transaction message includes a first data portion and a second data portion and where the token is part of at least one of the first data portion or the second data portion, obtaining via a network the token from the received transaction message, validating the token responsive to receiving a validation confirmation from a service provider, and transmitting an identity verification to the computing system responsive to validating the token.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Nikolai Stroke, Paul Vittimberga, Young M. Yang
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Patent number: 11880891Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for providing an interactive computer simulation of a life of a user via a user device operated by the user by determining a goal of the user, accessing a transaction history of the user, determining an initial state of the user based on the transaction history of the user, determining a virtual path to the goal, the initial state of the user being a starting point of the virtual path to the goal, configuring the user device to display the virtual path of the goal, determining that the user has selected at least one of selectable in-simulation decisions, updating the virtual path to generate an updated virtual path based on the selected at least one of the plurality of selectable in-simulation decisions, and configuring the user device to display the updated virtual path.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Marjorie S. Anzalone, Darius A. Miranda, Wairnola Marria Rhodriquez, Samundra Timilsina, Paul Vittimberga
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Publication number: 20240015362Abstract: Examples described herein relate to determining an actual, updated goal of a user based on emotional response data captured while an initial goal is visualized or otherwise perceived by the user, including determining an initial goal of a user, displaying an initial video depicting the initial goal, tracking, with an emotion-tracking device, emotions of the user while the video is displayed by the output circuit by determining emotional response data captured by the emotion-tracking device, updating the initial goal based on the emotional response data to determine an updated goal, and displaying the updated goal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Marjorie S. Anzalone, Darius A. Miranda, Wairnola Marria Rhodriquez, Samundra Timilsina, Paul Vittimberga
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Patent number: 11861593Abstract: A method of updating a payment card includes receiving a payment card having an existing payment part. The method includes removing the existing payment part from the payment card and installing a new payment part with the payment card for subsequent use of the payment card.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Marina M. Chin, Kristine Ing Kushner, Paul Vittimberga, John Wright
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Patent number: 11854107Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes acquiring information regarding the user and generating one or more indicators of a data breach for an entity that stores one of data regarding the user or an indication of a transaction with the user in a past predefined time period. The computer-implemented method further includes determining that the one or more indicators meet a threshold level for notifying the user of the data breach; in response to determining that the one or more indicators meet the threshold, generating a notification specific to the user regarding the data breach; and providing the notification to the user during a log-in process associated with the provider computing system.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Daina DeBeaune, Chirstiane Evans, Bryan Kroll, Jill Bagalso McNulty, Gary Schilling, Paul Vittimberga
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Patent number: 11799851Abstract: A computer implemented method performed by an identity verification computing system includes generating a user-level token associated with a user-level profile. The method further includes receiving a card-based transaction message associated with a card-based transaction. The card-based transaction message includes a card information portion and a point-of-sale data portion. The user-level token is inserted into at least one of the card information portion or the point-of-sale data portion. The method further includes obtaining the user-level token from the received card-based transaction message, validating the user-level token responsive to receiving a validation confirmation from a token service provider, and transmitting an identity verification to the entity computing system responsive to validating the user-level token.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Nikolai Stroke, Paul Vittimberga, Young M. Yang
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Patent number: 11770586Abstract: Examples described herein relate to determining an actual, updated goal of a user based on emotional response data captured while an initial goal is visualized or otherwise perceived by the user, including determining an initial goal of a user, displaying an initial video depicting the initial goal, tracking, with an emotion-tracking device, emotions of the user while the video is displayed by the output circuit by determining emotional response data captured by the emotion-tracking device, updating the initial goal based on the emotional response data to determine an updated goal, and displaying the updated goal.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Marjorie S. Anzalone, Darius A. Miranda, Wairnola Marria Rhodriquez, Samundra Timilsina, Paul Vittimberga
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Patent number: 11763303Abstract: A method includes verifying the identity of an individual. The method further includes receiving non-financial data from the individual and generating a user-level profile. The user-level profiles include the non-financial data received from the individual. The method further includes generating a user-level token unique to the individual. The user-level token is associated with the generated user-level profile. The method also includes provisioning the user-level token to a device associated with the individual. The method further includes receiving an identity verification request comprising the user-level token, wherein the identity verification request is structured as a financial transaction card-originated message, validating the user-level token, and analyzing a context of the received user-level token to determine a relevant non-financial data element included in the non-financial information within the user-level profile.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Nikolai Stroke, Paul Vittimberga, Young M. Yang
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Publication number: 20230274277Abstract: A computing system includes an interface configured to communicate with an entity computing system associated with a merchant via a network, an identity database storing verified personal identifying information, a memory, and at least one processor configured to: determine whether an individual is associated with an existing user account; prompt the individual to create a user account; verify an identity of the individual using personal identifying information associated with the individual; receive non-financial information associated with the individual; generate a user-level profile having the non-financial information; generate a user-level token unique to the individual; transmit the user-level token to a device associated with the individual; receive an identity verification request having the user-level token; validate the user-level token; determine that the identity verification request includes contextual data; determine the non-financial information that is relevant to the contextual data; and traType: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Nikolai Stroke, Paul Vittimberga, Young M. Yang
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Patent number: 11574529Abstract: A system for monitoring financial threats includes: at least one central processing unit and system memory that causes the system to: receive information about a threat associated with a financial services device; identify a type of the threat; identify a location associated with the threat; and notify one or more customers associated with the financial services device based upon the type or the location of the threat.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Jennifer Stacey Borchardt, Adam Clifford Christensen, Charles Cowell, Eduardo DeLa Torre, Darren M. Goetz, Eric David Greene, Robert Glenn Hamchuk, Miranda C. Hill, Pey-Ning Huang, Orsolya Oldroyd, Paul Vittimberga
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Publication number: 20230012269Abstract: Various examples describe interfacing at least one computing device to a plurality of human users. An interface system may receive goal data describing a shared goal shared by a plurality of users and transaction data describing a first transaction made by a first user of the plurality of users. The interface system may also receive, from a user computing device, audio data describing speech of the first user and of a second user. The interface system may extract a first word from the audio data and detect a conflict between at least two of the plurality of users based at least in part on the goal data, the transaction data, and the first word. The interface system may further determine a mediation routine for the conflict based at least in part on the goal data, the transaction data, and the first word, and execute the mediation routine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2017Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Michelle M. Young, Paul Vittimberga, Wayne Barakat, David Newman, Vincent Le Chevalier, Brian P. McMahon
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Publication number: 20220414627Abstract: A financial institution computing system includes a customer account database configured to retrievably store information pertaining to a plurality of financial accounts held by a plurality customers of the financial institution and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to transfer a first amount of funds from a plurality customer financial accounts associated with a plurality of customers a pooling account, wherein the plurality of customers belong to a predetermined pooling group associated with the pooling account, identify a financial account associated with a paying customer, the paying customer having insufficient funds for a payment amount to a third party, and transfer a second amount of funds from the pooling account based on the payment amount to the financial account associated with the paying customer , wherein the paying customer belongs to the predetermined pooling group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2017Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Eric Greene, Simone Harvey, Adnan Khan, Evelyn Ujanen, Ajit Limaye, Paul Vittimberga
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Patent number: 11514540Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving an indicator of enrollment of a user in a breach notification service; acquiring information regarding the user; and generating one or more indicators of a data breach for an entity that stores one of data regarding the user or an indication of a transaction with the user in a past predefined time period. The computer-implemented method further includes determining that the one or more indicators meet a threshold level for notifying the user of the data breach; in response to determining that the one or more indicators meet the threshold, generating a notification specific to the user regarding the data breach; and providing the notification to the user during a log-in process for a product or service associated with the provider computing system.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Daina DeBeaune, Chirstiane Evans, Bryan Kroll, Jill Bagalso McNulty, Gary Schilling, Paul Vittimberga
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Patent number: 11470079Abstract: A computer implemented method performed by an identity verification computing system includes generating a user-level token associated with a user-level profile. The user-level profile is associated with a user and is unique to the user. The method includes receiving a request to provide an identity verification of a user via an entity computing system, the request comprising a card-based transaction message associated with a card-based transaction, the card-based transaction message comprising the user-level token. The method further includes accessing the user-level profile associated with the user-level token, obtaining the user-level token from the card-based transaction message, validating the user-level token, and transmitting an identity verification approval to the entity computing system.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Nikolai Stroke, Paul Vittimberga, Young M. Yang
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Patent number: 11449875Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for an intelligent dashboard that allows interested parties to verify and validate relevant information on enterprises and their representatives. A servicing entity may provide an enterprise with a dashboard that includes select fields corresponding to information predicted to be useful to clients of the enterprise based on commercial characteristics of the enterprise and its client base. Fields may be populated with information previously available to the servicing entity, and with supplemental information acquired (manually or automatically) from the enterprise or from third party data sources. The enterprise may impose restrictions on which information is to be available to which clients, and the servicing entity may generate a code for use by clients to access the dashboard or certain information. The dashboard can allow clients to track the location of a representative and help validate the identify of a representative arriving at a client's location.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ryan S. Alexander, Kristine Ing Kushner, Katherine Guse Jagoe, Steven E. Puffer, Eric E. Thompson, Paul Vittimberga
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Patent number: 11412298Abstract: Examples described herein relate to determining an actual, updated goal of a user based on emotional response data captured while an initial goal is visualized or otherwise perceived by the user, including determining an initial goal of a user, displaying an initial video depicting the initial goal, tracking, with an emotion-tracking device, emotions of the user while the video is displayed by the output circuit by determining emotional response data captured by the emotion-tracking device, updating the initial goal based on the emotional response data to determine an updated goal, and displaying the updated goal.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Marjorie S. Anzalone, Darius A. Miranda, Wairnola Marria Rhodriquez, Samundra Timilsina, Paul Vittimberga
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Patent number: 11386171Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure can help improve the functionality of virtual assistant (VA) systems by determining filtering criteria that applies to inputs received by the system, and storing information associated with the inputs (and controlling access to such information by different users of the VA system) in accordance with the filtering criteria.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Michelle M. Young, Paul Vittimberga, Wayne Barakat, David Newman, Vincent Le Chevalier, Brian P. McMahon
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Patent number: 11379863Abstract: A financial institution computing system includes an account database configured to store a plurality of transaction statistics with respect to a financial account of a customer, a social media database configured to store a plurality of social media activities of the customer, and a customer metric management circuit. At least one of the plurality of transaction statistics is indicative of a first transaction between the customer and a merchant. The customer metric management circuit is configured to determine a probability model of the customer based on the plurality of transaction statistics and the plurality of social media activities of the customer. The probability model indicates a probability that the customer will conduct a second transaction with the merchant in the future. The customer metric management circuit is further configured to provide the probability model of the customer to a device associated with the merchant.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Anthony Burton, Chris Kalaboukis, Orsolya Oldroyd, Margot Lockwood-Stein, Paul Vittimberga